Privacy policy

1. General information

TheSign by Hauswirth is the operator of the thesign.world website and provider of the services offered on this website. TheSign by Hauswirth is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of your data and must ensure compliance with Swiss law. The protection of your personal data is a top priority at TheSign by Hauswirth. We hereby inform you about which data is collected on thesign.world and how it is used. You will also learn how you can check the accuracy of this information and request that we delete this data. Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We therefore recommend that you read this privacy policy regularly to ensure that you are always familiar with the latest version.

2. Collection, use and processing of personal and company-related data

When you visit thesign.world, certain data is automatically stored on our servers for system administration, statistical or security purposes. These are:

The name of your internet service provider
Your IP address (under certain circumstances)
The operating system
Information about the browser type and version used – the date
The time
the website from which you visit thesign.world
the search terms you used to find thesign.world

Under certain circumstances, this data may allow conclusions to be drawn about a specific visitor. However, personal data is not utilised in this context. The utilisation of such data is exclusively anonymous.
By registering as a user and entering your data on thesign.world, you consent to your data being used for service-related purposes.
Furthermore, you agree that your data may be used for advertising measures / advertising purposes of third parties. If you do not agree to the use of your data for advertising purposes, you can object to this at any time by sending an e-mail to info@thesign.world.

3. Website Hosting

The website of TheSign by Hauswirth is hosted in Germany.
The customer is aware that data may be processed or stored on servers in the territory of the European Union (EU) for various applications offered by TheSign by Hauswirth or required for the provision of services.

4. Disclosure to third parties

Your data will be transferred to our partners (third parties) to the extent necessary for order processing, storage or retention. These partners may be located or provide their services in Switzerland or in the European Union (EU). If we pass on data to external service providers, technical and organisational measures are taken to ensure that the data is passed on in accordance with the legal provisions of the respective data protection regulations. If you provide us with personal or company-related data of your own accord, we will not use, process or pass on this data beyond the scope permitted by law or specified by you in a declaration of consent. In addition, we will only pass on your data to external service providers if this is necessary for contract processing and they have agreed to the corresponding confidentiality and due diligence provisions. In addition, we only pass on your data if we are obliged to do so by law or by official or court orders.

5. Information, deletion and correction

You can request information about your data stored by us at any time. To do so, please send a request for information by e-mail to the address below. Together with the request, proof of identity must be sent to the same address.
You have the option of requesting the deletion or correction of your data at any time. You are of course also entitled to withdraw your consent to the use or processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please send an e-mail to info@thesign.world.

Stored data will be deleted by us if it is no longer required for the stated purpose.
With regard to the deletion of data, it should be noted that we are subject to certain legal obligations, which stipulate a retention obligation for certain data. We must fulfil this obligation. If you request the deletion of data that is subject to the statutory retention obligation, the data will be blocked in our system and only used to fulfil the statutory retention obligations. After the retention period has expired, your request for deletion will be complied with.

6. Data security

We will keep your data secure and therefore take all reasonable measures to protect your data from loss, access, misuse or alteration. Our employees and contractual partners who have access to your data are contractually obliged to maintain confidentiality and comply with data protection regulations.

7. Cookies

We use so-called cookies to facilitate the use of thesign.world. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are temporarily stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and are necessary for the use of thesign.world. The information contained in the cookies is used for session control, in particular to improve navigation and enable a high degree of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies we use do not store any personal information. Cookies are automatically accepted by most web browsers. You can prevent this by changing your browser settings. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary internet files (browser bar “Extras-Internet Options”).

Deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our portal.
Here you will also find instructions on how to delete cookies for Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/278835 and Mozilla https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen

8. Plug-Ins

8.1. Facebook-Plugins

Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” or “Share” button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plug-in. The content of the plug-in is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. The information about your interaction is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and the customised design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to analyse your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook.

You can find more information on this in Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account before using our website.

8.2. Twitter

Plugins of the short message network Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognise the Twitter plugins (Tweet button) by the Twitter logo on our site. You can find an overview of the Tweet button at https://dev.twitter.com/.
When you access a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Twitter server. Twitter then receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the “Tweet button” while you are logged into your Twitter account, you can link the content of our pages to your Twitter profile. This allows Twitter to associate your visit to our website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. Further information on this can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy.

If you do not want Twitter to be able to associate your visit to our pages, please log out of your Twitter user account.

8.3. LinkedIn

Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “LinkedIn”) are integrated on our website. You can recognise the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the “Recommend” button on our site. When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the LinkedIn server via the plug-in. LinkedIn receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the LinkedIn “Recommend” button while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages to your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

You can find this information at: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

8.4. YouTube

Our Internet pages contain at least one plug-in from YouTube, belonging to Google Inc, located at LLC 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. As soon as you visit a page on our website equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which specific page of our website you have visited. If you are also logged into your YouTube account, you would enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your account beforehand. Further information on the collection and use of your data by YouTube can be found in the privacy policy at http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy.

8.5. Instagram

Our website uses social plugins from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). The plugins are labelled with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. An overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-instagram-badges-for-webpage-embedding
When you access a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram’s servers. The content of the plug-in is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.
If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly associate your visit to our website with your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Instagram” button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts there.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Instagram’s data protection information: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

If you do not want Instagram to assign the data collected via our website directly to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the Instagram plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

8.6. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL of previously visited website, IP address, time of server request) about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on our website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the 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. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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.
Further information about the web analysis service used can be found on the Google Analytics website. You can find instructions on how to prevent the processing of your data by the web analysis service at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

8.7. Google Webfonts

Google web fonts (http://www.google.com/webfonts/) are used to improve the visual presentation of various information on this website. The web fonts are transferred to the browser cache when the page is called up so that they can be used for the display. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or prevents access, the text is displayed in a standard font.

No cookies are stored when the website visitor accesses the page. Data that is transmitted in connection with the page view is sent to resource-specific domains such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com. They are not associated with data that may be collected or used in connection with the parallel use of authenticated Google services such as Gmail.

You can set your browser so that the fonts are not loaded from the Google servers (e.g. by installing add-ons such as NoScript or Ghostery for Firefox). If your browser does not support Google Fonts or you prevent access to the Google servers, the text will be displayed in the system’s default font.

Information on the data protection conditions of Google Webfonts can be found at: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#Privacy
General information on data protection can be found in the Google Privacy Centre at: http://www.google.com/intl/de-DE/privacy/

9. Amendments

Changes to this privacy policy will be published on this page. In this way, you can find out at any time what data we store and how we collect and use it. You can save and/or print out the privacy policy here.

Changes to our privacy policy

If we need to amend the privacy policy due to changes to our services or new requirements, the latest available version will apply.

Our company operates both in Switzerland and in the EU/EEA. The information provided here refers to the EU General Data Protection Regulation while at the same time taking into account the Swiss Data Protection Act. Should deviations or additions be necessary in this regard, these will be incorporated into the information provided here.

Last amended 15.01.2024