Privacy Policy

We appreciate your interest in Wijp GmbH and would like you to feel secure when visiting our website, also with regard to the protection of your personal data. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. It goes without saying that we comply with the relevant legal regulations on data protection, such as the Swiss Data Protection Regulation (Datenschutzgesetz, “DSG”).

We want you to know when we collect which data and how we use it. We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed by us, our subsidiaries and external service providers.

1. Responsible Person

The responsible person for data processing on this website is:

Wijp GmbH
Pei Angela Willimann
willimann@wijp.ch 
https://www.wijp.ch/impressum

2. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of its use

2.1 When visiting the website
When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a log file. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:

  • IP address of the requesting computer,

  • Date and time of access,

  • Name and URL of the retrieved file,

  • the website from which the access was made (referrer URL),

  • browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider.

We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,

  • Ensuring a comfortable use of our website,

  • evaluation of system security and stability and

  • for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is DSG Art. 13 para. 2 lit. a.

2.2 When using our contact form
If you have questions of any kind, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using a form provided on the website. It is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address so that we know who sent the request and can respond to it. Further information can be provided voluntarily. 

Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out in accordance with DSG Art. 13 para. 1 on the basis of your voluntarily given consent.

3. Forwarding of data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. 

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent to this,

  • The disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims pursuant to DSG Art. 13 para. 1 and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,

  • In the event that there is a legal obligation to disclose the data in accordance with DSG Art. 13 para. 1, and

  • this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with DSG Art. 13 para. 2.

4. Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware. 

Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more convenient for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

For information on how to view the cookies placed on your device, see “About the cookies used by Squarespace”:

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses#toc-check-your-cookies 

The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with DSG Art. 13 para. 1.

 

5. Analysis tools 

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of DSG Art. 13 para. 1. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the continuous optimization of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you.

5.1 Squarspace Analytics
This website collects personal data that serves as the basis for our website analytics. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Websites that you have accessed before visiting this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn more about the traffic and activity on this website.

5.2 Google Analytics
We use the analytics services Google Analytics from Google LL.C. (“Google”) to analyze the use of the online platform and to obtain information to improve our services.

Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of the online platform, to compile reports on the activities of users on the online platform and to provide us with other services related to the use of the online platform. We have a legitimate interest in this. Google only stores the information collected via cookies in anonymized form and processes it in aggregated form.

We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that your IP address is truncated in Switzerland, the EU or the EEA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Accordingly, Google only stores the information collected via cookies in anonymized form and processes it in aggregated form. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by downloading and installing a browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Further information on how Google handles personal data and your options in connection with Google Analytics can be found here:

Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy

Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 

6. Fonts

This website provides font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts and displays these fonts. In order to properly display this website to you, they may receive personal data about you from third parties, including:

  • Information about your browser, network or device

  • Information about this website and the page you visit on the website

  • Your IP address

 

7. social media

We offer sharing links on the online platform for sharing content on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook, Twitter and other providers. We have a legitimate interest in this.

Such links can be recognized on the online platform by the logo of the respective social network. All sharing links used are set up script-free. For this purpose, we set a “coded” link to the respective social network, which specifies the page to be shared by parameter. Beyond this, no user data is passed on to the respective social network. The respective providers are responsible for the data protection-compliant operation of the social networks and their respective data protection declarations apply. We have neither influence nor access to cookies that social network providers set after clicking on the sharing link.

 

8. Rights of data subjects

You have the right:

  • To request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with DSG Art. 8. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;

  • In accordance with DSG Art. 5, to demand the immediate rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;

  • To request the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with DSG Art. 15, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;

  • To demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with DSG Art. 13 if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with DSG Art. 21;

  • To receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller in accordance with DSG Art. 13;

  • In accordance with DSG Art. 13, to revoke your consent to us at any time. The consequence of this is that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future and;

  • To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with DSG Art. 77. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.

 

9. Data security

We use the widespread SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser when you visit our website. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

10. Topicality and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in April 2025.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time. The version published on the online platform shall apply.

April 2025