Data privacy policy

1. General information

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DPA), every person is entitled to protection of his or her privacy as well as protection against misuse of his or her personal data. We comply with these regulations. Personal data will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold or given to third parties.

Data Controller within the meaning of the Swiss Federal Law on Data Protection (No. 235.1) or within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”):

Linda & Sandro Howald, with seat in c/o Alpenweg 21 3672 Oberdiessbach, Switzerland
E-Mail: howisontour@gmail.com
Internet presence in the sense of this privacy policy means the domain www.howis-web.ch and all its subordinate websites.
Hosting-Provider: cyon

2. what exactly is personal data?

Personal data is information that can be used to find out personal or factual circumstances about you. Information for which we cannot (or can only with disproportionate effort) establish a link to your person, e.g. by pseudonymization or anonymization of the information, is not personal data.

3. What data is collected and stored?

When you access our web pages, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and general. transmitted information about the operating system resp. Browser.

When using this general data and information, no personal evaluation takes place, i.e. we do not draw any conclusions about you or your person. Rather, we use this information, on the one hand, to improve our website and its content as well as the advertising for it, and, on the other hand, to be able to ensure the functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website in the long term as well as to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Therefore, the anonymously collected data and information is, on the one hand, evaluated statistically and, on the other hand, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our website so as to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process.

SSL encryption

Our website uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for the transmission of data from your browser to our server and to servers that provide files that we embed on our website. With SSL, data is transmitted in encrypted form. The data cannot be changed and the sender can be identified. You can recognize the presence of SSL encryption by the prefixed text “https” in front of the address of the web page that you call in the browser.

4. Cookies

Like many websites and servers, we use cookies on all of our websites. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters by which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. Thus, a specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified via the unique cookie ID. Through the use of cookies, we can optimize the information and offerings on our website for you, and thus provide you, the user of our website, with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

As mentioned above, cookies allow us to recognize the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies does not have to re-enter his or her access data each time he or she visits the website, because this is handled by the website and the cookie stored on the user’s computer system.

If you wish, you can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of an appropriate setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. In addition, you can delete cookies that have already been set at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common Internet browsers. If you actually deactivate the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

5. contact form

You have the possibility to contact us via a contact form on our website. In this case, we collect your first name, last name and e-mail address in order to contact you and provide the respective services. The personal data you enter is collected and stored exclusively for internal use and for our own purposes. By filling out the contact form, you also agree to receive the newsletter. As a matter of principle, this data will not be passed on to third parties unless there is a legal obligation to pass it on or the passing on serves criminal or legal prosecution. However, if you order products via our website, for example, this data may be passed on to one or more processors, such as a parcel service provider, which also uses the personal data exclusively for an internal use attributable to the controller. Any further use of personal data does not take place or only with your prior consent. Personal data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored.

6. Newsletter

Newsletter notices and consents

The following information explains the contents of our newsletter, the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation process and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and to the procedures described.

Use of the mailing service provider Sendinblue

The collection of our newsletter subscribers as well as the dispatch of our newsletter is carried out by Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin (hereinafter: Sendinblue).

The e-mail addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in the context of this notice, are stored on the servers of Sendinblue.

Sendinblue uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. However, Sendinblue does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass them on to third parties.

We trust in the reliability and IT and data security of Sendinblue. Sendinblue Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy – Personal Data Protection – Sendinblue

We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications with promotional information (hereinafter “newsletter”) only with the consent of the recipients or a legal permission. You give your consent by subscribing to the newsletter or by filling out the contact form.

How to cancel/cancel the newsletter

You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consents.
You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.

7. use of external tools

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. on our website. („Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies, which as already mentioned are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address, which is, however, anonymized using the _anonymizeIp() method so that you can no longer be assigned to a connection) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. As already explained, you can prevent the installation of cookies by setting the browser software accordingly. However, we would like to point out once again that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You can object to the collection of data by Google Analytics with effect for the future by installing a deactivation add-on for your browser.

Facebook use

On our website, functions and content of the service Facebook may be integrated, offered by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. This may include, for example, content such as images, videos or texts and buttons with which users can make known their liking regarding the content, the authors of the content or subscribe to our posts. If the users are members of the Facebook platform, Facebook can assign the call of the above-mentioned content and functions to the profiles of the users there. Privacy policy of Facebook: Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Instagram use

On our website, functions and content of the service Instagram may be integrated, offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. This may include, for example, content such as images, videos or texts and buttons with which users can make known their liking of the content, the authors of the content or subscribe to our posts. If the users are members of the Instagram platform, Instagram can assign the call of the above-mentioned content and functions to the profiles of the users there. Privacy policy of Instagram: Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Use of YouTube

We integrate the videos of the platform “YouTube” of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,
Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Use of Google Maps

We integrate the maps of the service “Google Maps” of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,
Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Use of Affiliate Links

Our website may contain automated affiliate marketing links. This means that we receive commissions on sales generated by links to products or services we write about. However, our editorial content is not influenced by merchants, nor by affiliate partnerships.

8. transmission of data for orders and bookings

We transmit personal data to third parties only if this is necessary for the processing of the contract, for example, to the credit institution entrusted with the processing of payments. A further transmission of your data, for example for advertising purposes, does not take place. You can object to the use of the e-mail address stored as part of the order at any time free of charge. To do so, simply send an e-mail to howisontour@gmail.com

Encrypted payment transactions on this website

Payment transactions via the common means of payment (Visa/Mastercard, direct debit) are made exclusively via an encrypted SSL connection. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser bar. With encrypted communication, your payment data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

9. deletion of data

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. Data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need to continue storing the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

10. user rights

right to information

You may request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed by us. If such processing exists, you can request information from us about the following:

• the processing purposes
• the categories of personal data that are processed
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries or international organizations
• if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration
• the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing
• the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority
• if the personal data are not collected from the data subject: All available information about the origin of the data
• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

You have the right to request information on whether personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case and there is no adequacy decision, we are further obligated to inform you about the appropriate safeguards according to. Art. 46 DS-GVO in connection with the transfer.

Right to rectification

You have a right to rectification and/or completion towards us, insofar as the processed personal data concerning you are inaccurate or incomplete. We shall make the correction without undue delay as soon as you have informed us how correctly this data should be recorded.

Right to restriction of processing

Under the following conditions, you may request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you:

• if you dispute the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
• the processing is unlawful and you object to the erasure of the personal data and request instead the restriction of the use of the personal data;
• we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need them for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
• if you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 DS-GVO and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate reasons on our part outweigh your reasons.

Where the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, such data may be processed, with the exception of their storage, only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State. If the restriction of processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by us before the restriction is lifted.

Right to deletion

If the legal conditions are met, you may request that we delete the personal data relating to you without delay, and we are then obliged to delete this data without delay. If we have made public the personal data concerning you and we are legally obliged to erase it, we shall take reasonable measures, including technical measures, having regard to the available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform data controllers which process the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested that they erase all links to or copies or replications of such personal data. Please note that there are also legal reasons for which we are not obliged to comply with a request for deletion. If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.

Right to data portability

Under the conditions set out in the law, the user has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her that he or she has provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and, if necessary, to transmit it to another person responsible without hindrance from us to whom the personal data has been provided. In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transferred directly from us to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible. Freedoms and rights of other persons must not be affected by this. The right to data portability does not apply to processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Right to object

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f DS-GVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

We will no longer process the personal data concerning you unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes. You have the possibility, in connection with the use of information society services, to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.

Right to complain to a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes data protection law applicable to us.

Right of revocation

The user has the possibility at any time to revoke without cause any consent given by him/her in connection with the use of the Internet presence for the processing of personal data. If the user contacts us by email, he or she can object to the storage of his or her personal data, for which the legal basis of the processing was exclusively the user’s consent, at any time by sending an email to howisontour@gmail.com. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued. If, as a result of the communication that has already taken place, an action has been taken that triggers legally binding consequences for us or the person concerned, or if we are entitled or obliged to archive the data for legal reasons, we are entitled to refuse a request for deletion. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.