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Terms of Use & Data Privacy Policy

This is the official website of MEYRAT & PARTNER.

By using the website, you accept our terms of use and data protection. Therefore, please read the following terms of use and data protection before using our website.

 

 

A) Terms of use

 

1. Content of the online offer

MEYRAT & PARTNER assumes no liability whatsoever for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against MEYRAT & PARTNER relating to material, immaterial or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect and incomplete information are excluded within the legally permissible framework.

All offers are free and non-binding. MEYRAT & PARTNER expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without prior notice or to temporarily or permanently cease publication.

 

2. No recommendation and no advice

The information on this website is for informational purposes only and in no case constitutes professional advice or recommendations.

 

3. References and Links

Any liability is excluded for direct or indirect references to third-party websites (hyperlinks) for which MEYRAT & PARTNER is not responsible.

Nevertheless, MEYRAT & PARTNER declares that at the time the link was set, no illegal content was discernible on the linked pages. MEYRAT & PARTNER has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, the content or the authorship of the linked/connected pages. MEYRAT & PARTNER therefore hereby expressly distances itself from all content on all linked/connected pages that were changed after the link was created. This statement applies to all links and references set within our own website as well as to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and all other forms of databases set up by MEYRAT & PARTNER, the content of which can be accessed externally.

 

4. Copyright and trademark law

MEYRAT & PARTNER endeavors to observe the copyrights of the graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts used in all publications, to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts created by MEYRAT & PARTNER itself or to use license-free graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts.

All brands and trademarks mentioned within the website and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the property rights of the respective registered owner. The conclusion that trademarks are not protected by the rights of third parties should not be drawn solely from the mere mentioning of them.

The copyright for published objects created by MEYRAT & PARTNER remains exclusively with MEYRAT & PARTNER. Reproduction or use of such graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the express consent of MEYRAT & PARTNER.

 

5. Disclaimer

This disclaimer of liability is to be regarded as part of the website from which reference was made to this page. If parts or individual formulations of this text do not, no longer or not completely correspond to the applicable legal situation, the remaining parts of the document remain unaffected in their content and validity. Insofar as a legal relationship has been established at all between MEYRAT & PARTNER and the users of the website, this is subject to Swiss law. Zurich/Switzerland is the exclusive place of jurisdiction.

 

 

B) Data Privacy Policy

 

The collection and processing of personal data by MEYRAT & PARTNER is the subject of the following data protection declaration. Personal data is all information that relates to a specific or identifiable person.

If you provide us with the personal data of other people (e.g. family members, employees, close associates, etc.), please ensure that these people are aware of this data protection declaration and only provide us with their personal data if you are permitted to do so and if this personal data is correct .

In principle, we are subject to the rules of the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG). This data protection declaration is nevertheless based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although the GDPR is a regulation of the European Union (EU), it also matters to us. The GDPR is heavily influenced by EU law, and companies outside the European Union/European Economic Area (EEA) have to comply with the GDPR in certain circumstances. We have therefore aligned this data protection declaration to their standard. It meets both the requirements of the DSG and the GDPR.

 

1. Responsibility

Thomas Aurèle Meyrat, MEYRAT & PARTNER, is responsible for the data processing in question here. You can contact him at kanzlei@meyratpartner.ch with any data protection concerns you may have.

 

2. Collection and processing of personal data

We primarily process the personal data that we receive from our clients and other contractual relationships with business partners in the context of our client relationships and other contractual relationships with business partners, or that we collect from users when operating our website and other applications.

As far as permissible, we also take specific data from publicly accessible sources (such as debt collection registers, land registers, commercial registers, press, etc.) or receive such data from our clients, their employees, authorities, courts and third parties (e.g. counterparties, business and contractual partners of our clients ).

In addition to the data you give us directly, the categories of personal data that we receive from third parties about you, in particular information from public registers, information that we learn in connection with official and judicial proceedings, information in connection with your professional functions and activities, information about you in correspondence and meetings with third parties, credit reports (insofar as we conduct business with you personally), information about you that people from your environment (such as family, consultants, other legal representatives) give us so that we can enter into contracts conclude or process with you or with your involvement (such as references, your address for deliveries, powers of attorney), information on compliance with legal requirements such as combating money laundering and export restrictions, information from banks, insurance companies, sales and other contractual partners from us on claims or Provision of services by you (such as payments made, purchases made), information from the media and the internet about you (insofar as this is indicated in a specific case, for example as part of an application, press review, marketing and sales), your addresses and any interests and other socio-demographic data for any marketing , data related to the use of the website (such as IP address, MAC address of the smartphone or computer, information about your device and settings, cookies, date and time of the visit, pages and content accessed, functions used, referring website, location information ).

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3. Purposes of data processing and legal bases

We use the personal data we collect primarily to conclude and process our contracts with our clients and business partners, in particular in the context of providing legal services to our clients and purchasing products and services from our suppliers and auxiliary persons (such as in particular Lawyers and law firms or professionals at home and abroad), as well as to comply with our legal obligations at home and abroad. If you work for such a client or business partner, your personal data may also be affected in this function.

If you have given us consent to process your personal data for specific purposes, we will process your personal data within the framework of and based on this consent, unless we have another legal basis and we need one. A given consent can be revoked at any time, but this has no effect on data processing that has already taken place.

 

4. Data transfer and data transfer abroad

As part of our business activities and for the purposes set out in Section 3, we also disclose data to third parties, to the extent permitted and deemed appropriate, either because they process it for us or because they want to use it for their own purposes . In particular, this concerns the following positions:

  • service providers (such as banks, insurance companies, IT providers);

  • Dealers, suppliers, auxiliary persons (such as consulted lawyers and law firms and specialists in Germany and abroad) and other business partners;

  • Clients and their affiliated companies and their domestic and foreign counterparties;

  • domestic and foreign authorities, official offices or courts and arbitral tribunals;

  • media, public, including website and social media visitors;

  • Competitors, industry organizations, associations, organizations and other bodies;

  • Any counterparties or interested parties in the context of corporate transactions;

  • other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings.

These recipients are mostly domestic, but can be in any country in the world. In particular, the data can be transmitted to those countries in which our clients, their affiliated companies, counterparties or business partners as well as called-in service providers or experts are located or in which our clients and their group companies are involved in proceedings.

If we transfer data to a country without adequate legal data protection, we ensure an adequate level of protection as required by law by using appropriate contracts (specifically on the basis of the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission) or so-called binding corporate rules or rely on the statutory Exceptions to the consent, the execution of the contract, the determination, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, overriding public interests, the published personal data or because it is necessary to protect the integrity of the persons concerned. You can obtain a copy of the contractual guarantees mentioned at any time from the contact person named under point 1. However, we reserve the right to black out copies or only deliver excerpts for reasons of data protection or secrecy.

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5. Duration and retention of personal data

We process and store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfill our contractual and legal obligations or otherwise for the purposes pursued with the processing, i.e. usually for the duration of the entire business relationship (from the initiation, processing to the termination of a contract) as well as in accordance with the statutory retention and documentation obligations. It is possible that personal data will be stored for the time in which claims can be asserted against our company (in particular during the statutory limitation period) and insofar as we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or legitimate business interests require this (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes ). As soon as your personal data are no longer required for the above purposes, they will be deleted or made anonymous as far as possible. In principle, shorter retention periods of twelve months or less apply to operational data.

 

6. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse, such as issuing instructions, training courses, IT and network security solutions, access controls and restrictions, encryption of data carriers and pseudonymization.

 

7. Obligation to provide personal data

As part of our business relationship, you must provide the personal data required to establish and conduct a business relationship and to fulfill the associated contractual obligations (as a rule, you do not have a legal obligation to provide us with data). Without this data, we will generally not be able to conclude or process a contract with you (or the body or person you represent). The website cannot be used either if certain information to ensure data traffic (such as the IP address) is not disclosed.

 

8. Rights of the data subject

Within the framework of the data protection law applicable to you and to the extent provided for therein (e.g. in the case of the DSGVO), you have the right to information, correction, deletion, the right to restrict data processing and to object to our data processing as well as to the release of certain personal data for the purpose of transmission another place.

Please note, however, that we reserve the right to assert the statutory restrictions on our part, for example if we are obliged to store or process certain data, have an overriding interest in this (to the extent that we can invoke this) or you need them for the assertion of require claims. If you incur any costs, we will inform you in advance. We have already informed you about the possibility of revoking your consent in Section 3. Please note that the exercise of these rights can conflict with contractual agreements and this can have consequences such as the premature termination of the contract or financial consequences. We will inform you in advance if this is not already contractually agreed.

Exercising such rights generally requires that you provide clear evidence of your identity (by providing a copy of your ID if your identity is otherwise unclear or cannot be verified). To assert your rights, you can contact us at the address given in Section 1.

Each data subject also has the right to enforce their claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The responsible data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

 

9. Site-Specific Privacy Policy

When you use our website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This data protection declaration explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

This declaration applies to the website www.meyratpartner.ch. It should be noted that references to other websites for which different data protection rules may apply are possible.

This data protection declaration is subject to Swiss law. Where applicable, provisions of the European Union (EU), in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), are taken into account.

 

a) Processed Data

When collecting and processing personal data, we comply with the legal requirements of the applicable data protection laws. The legal basis is Article 13 (1) of the Federal Data Protection Act (FADP) or, where applicable, Article 6 (1) lit. b and f GDPR.

 

aa) General registration

Our website collects a series of general data with each visit. This general data and information is stored in the log files of the server. The following data is recorded:

  • IP address

  • Date and time of the request

  • Time zone difference to the GMT time zone

  • content of the request

  • Access status/http status code

  • Amount of data transferred in each case

  • Internet page from which the request originated

  • Browser (including language and version)

  • operating system

 

When using this general data, there is no assignment to a specific person. The collection of this data is technically necessary in order to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security.

 

bb) Contact

If you contact us via the e-mail addresses provided, we always treat the data you transmit in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The data you provide will only be used to process your request.

 

b) Cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your computer and can be accessed there again. Cookies are used to enable you to register for our services and to personalize the website for you. For this purpose, our website is supported by cookies, which collect information about your IP address, the time and duration of your visit, the number of visits, the use of forms, your search settings, your display view, your settings for favorites on our website. The storage period of the cookies varies.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the person concerned deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

 

c) Web Tracking

Our website may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by the US company Google LLC ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, which enable an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transmitted anonymously to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Thanks to the anonymization, this data cannot be assigned to a specific person. Google will process this information in order to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on user activities and to provide other services related to website and internet use. Google may transfer this information to third parties.

You can prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) being sent to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link .

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with a data protection level equivalent to European data protection law. Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google's corresponding data protection declaration.

 

d) Data transmission

We can pass on personal data for processing or involve third parties for order processing. These are subject to the same strict data protection regulations.

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e) Your rights

You have the following rights towards us with regard to your personal data:

  • right to information,

  • right to rectification or erasure,

  • right to restriction of processing,

  • Right to object to processing.

 

If data processing on our website is based on your consent, you can revoke this at any time for the future without giving reasons. The revocation must be sent to the contact details given in the imprint. In order to be able to process your requests to exercise your rights, it may be necessary for you to identify yourself so that we can clearly identify you.

In Switzerland there is no right of appeal to a supervisory authority. If the EU General Data Protection Regulation applies, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.

 

4. Data Security

Numerous technical and organizational measures have been implemented to protect your data in order to ensure that the personal data processed via this website is protected as completely as possible. Please note that communication via e-mail, fax, mobile phone or internet applications involves risks such as the possibility of viewing the content of the communication, its alteration or loss. MEYRAT & PARTNER accepts no liability for this.

 

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owner/operator

 

MEYRAT & PARTNERS

Hohlstrasse 186/188

CH-8004 Zurich

 

Phone:  +41 79 729 15 80

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Email:    kanzlei@meyratpartner.ch

 

Domain: www.meyratpartner.ch

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Authorized persons

 

Thomas Aurèle Meyrat, Attorney at Law

 

 

Conception, design, web development

 

SOE Design, Zurich

PHM PhoArt

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