Privacy policy

Legal basis

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled to protection of their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we make every effort to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or falsification.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description. This website can generally be visited without registration. Data such as pages accessed or names of files accessed, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. If personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

In certain situations, special data protection provisions may apply instead of this Privacy Policy or in addition to this Privacy Policy, for example for form data.

Person responsible

The person responsible for data processing on this website and the contact person for data protection matters is

Rocket GmbH
Neuweg 10
CH-6003 Lucerne
Phone +41 41 500 10 10

info@rocket.ch
www.rocket.ch

Processing of personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, erasure, retention, modification, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. If and insofar as the EU GDPR is applicable, we also process personal data on the following legal bases in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) GDPR:

• lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
• lit. b) Processing of personal data for the performance of a contract with the data subject and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.
• lit. c) Processing of personal data for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject under applicable EU law or under applicable law of a country in which the GDPR is applicable in whole or in part.
• lit. d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
• lit. f) Processing of personal data for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject. The legitimate interests include, in particular, our business interest in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with Swiss law.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer-term retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

Server log files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Newsletter

If you have expressly given us your consent, we will use your e-mail address to regularly send you our electronic newsletter or have it sent to you on our behalf. In order for you to receive the electronic newsletter, we only need your e-mail address and, if applicable, your first name and surname.

The registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registering, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no-one can register with other people's e-mail addresses.

Subscriptions to the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with legal requirements. This includes storing the time of registration and confirmation as well as the IP address. Changes to your data stored with MailChimp are also logged.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via a link at the end of each newsletter. Alternatively, you can also send an e-mail to info@rocket.ch if you no longer wish to receive newsletters.

Other purposes

We reserve the right to process your personal data for other purposes. However, we will inform you accordingly and, if necessary, obtain your consent.

Disclosure of data

When providing our services, we use external service providers who collect or process your personal data on our behalf. These come from the following categories:

• IT service provider for data hosting services
• Marketing service providers (e.g. media agencies, ad networks, publishers, data clean room providers, Google, social media platforms) in the area of marketing activities (e.g. competitions, marketing campaigns, analytics cookies)
• Service provider for customer communication
• Market research institutes
• E-commerce (e.g. retailer platforms, own platforms and other third-party providers)

Insofar as service providers process personal data as processors, they are obliged to process personal data exclusively in accordance with our instructions and to take measures to ensure data security.

Data may also be disclosed to other recipients, e.g. to courts and authorities in the context of proceedings and statutory information and cooperation obligations, to buyers of companies and assets, to financing companies in the case of securitizations and to debt collection companies.

In individual cases, we may also pass on personal data to other third parties for their own purposes, e.g. if you have given us your consent to do so or if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so.

In addition, we only pass on your personal data within Rocket GmbH and/or to third parties if:

• you have given your express consent,
• it is necessary for the performance of a contractual relationship with you,
• the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,
• The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest to the contrary.

Transfer of personal data to third countries

Tools from companies based in the USA are integrated on our website. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country within the meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to disclose personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. secret services) may process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence on these processing operations.

Use of cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific information relating to the user on the user's terminal device while the user is using the website. Cookies make it possible in particular to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the pages, to analyze patterns of page use, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be retrieved when you visit the site again. If you do not wish this to happen, you should set your Internet browser to refuse to accept cookies.

A general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. In addition, the storage of cookies can be achieved by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case not all functions of this online service can be used.

External services

We use various third-party services on our website. Below we explain in detail which services are involved, what we use them for and what data is collected.

Google services

This website may use Google Maps to embed maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA to protect against bots and spam and YouTube to embed videos.

These services of the American Google LLC use, among other things, cookies, whereby data is transferred to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that no personal tracking takes place in this context solely through the use of our website.

Google has undertaken to guarantee appropriate data protection in accordance with the US-European and US-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy.

Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps. This enables us to display interactive maps directly on the website and allows you to conveniently use the map function. When you visit the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This happens regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Google, as well as further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, please visit: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Recaptcha

This website uses the reCAPTCHA service from Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland "Google"). The query is used to distinguish whether the input is made by a human or by automated, machine processing. The query includes the transmission of the IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and used there. However, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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 shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCaptcha will not be merged with other Google data. Your data may also be transferred to the USA. For data transfers to the USA, there is an adequacy decision by the European Commission, the "Privacy Shield". Google participates in the "Privacy Shield" and has submitted to the requirements. By activating the query, you consent to the processing of your data. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Further information on Google reCAPTCHA and the associated data protection provisions can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Google Tag Manager

The Google Tag Manager is a solution with which we can manage so-called website tags via an interface and thus, for example, integrate Google Analytics and other Google marketing services into our online offering. The Tag Manager itself, which implements the tags, does not process any personal user data. With regard to the processing of users' personal data, we refer to the following

Information about Google services. Usage guidelines: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the controller responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the data processing of Google Analytics is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google".

The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your use in the settings there under "My data", "Personal data".

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "_anonymizeIp();" to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses. This means that IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form so that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you can be assigned to a person, this is immediately ruled out and the personal data is deleted immediately.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. 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. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics.

Meta Ads via Meta Pixel

Our website uses Meta Ads, an online advertising service provided by Meta Platforms, Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.). With the help of Meta Ads, we can place targeted advertisements to draw users' attention to our products or services.

When you visit our website, Meta Ads may place a cookie on your device that enables your use of the website to be analyzed. In addition, Meta can use this cookie to track your usage behavior across different websites and devices and place personalized advertisements on this basis.

The data collected by the cookie is transmitted to Meta and stored there. Meta can link this data to your Meta account (formerly Facebook account) and use it for its own advertising purposes.

To generally object to the use of cookies on your computer, you can set your Internet browser so that cookies can no longer be stored on your computer in the future or cookies that have already been stored are deleted. However, disabling cookies may result in some functions of our website no longer working properly.

Further information on how Meta Ads handles user data can be found in Meta's privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/. If you do not want Meta to use data for advertising purposes, you can adjust the corresponding settings in your Meta account.

LinkedIn Insight Tag

We have integrated the LinkedIn Insight Tag on our website, a tool from LinkedIn, a service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn").

The LinkedIn Insight Tag allows us to collect information about visitors to our website, in particular about the types of LinkedIn features that visitors to our website use and how they interact with these features. This tool helps us to create targeted advertisements within the LinkedIn platform and to measure the effectiveness of these advertisements.

By using the LinkedIn Insight Tag, cookies are set on your device that enable the collection of pseudonymized data, such as the URL of the page visited, the referrer URL, IP address (in abbreviated form), device and browser properties and timestamps.

The data collected by the LinkedIn Insight Tag is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not receive any personal data about individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by LinkedIn so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and LinkedIn can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the LinkedIn Privacy Policy.

If you are a member of LinkedIn and are logged into your LinkedIn account while visiting our website, the data collected by the LinkedIn Insight Tag will be linked to your LinkedIn account.

The purpose of using the LinkedIn Insight Tag is to analyze and optimize the effectiveness of our advertising measures. Data processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in targeted advertising and analyzing the impact and efficiency of this advertising.

Hotjar

This website uses Hotjar, an analysis software from Hotjar Ltd (Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta, Europe; "Hotjar"). Hotjar makes it possible to measure and evaluate usage behavior (clicks, mouse movements, scroll heights, etc.) on our website. The information generated about your visit to our website is transmitted to the Hotjar servers in the EU and stored there. Hotjar will use this information to provide us with reports on the use of our website, as well as other services relating to website use and internet analysis of the website. You can object to the collection of data by Hotjar by clicking on the following link and following the instructions there: https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out. Further information on data protection at Hotjar can be found here: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy.

Video service provider

Youtube

Functions of the "YouTube" service may be integrated on this website. "YouTube" is the property of Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which operates the services in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

Your legal agreement with "YouTube" consists of the terms and conditions, which you can find at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=de&template=terms&hl=de. These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and "YouTube" regarding your use of the services. Google's privacy policy explains how "YouTube" handles and protects your personal data when you use the service.

Font bindings

Fontawesome

We use Font Awesome from the American company Fonticons (307 S. Main St., Suite 202, Bentonville, AR 72712, USA) on our website. When you call up one of our websites, the Font Awesome web font (in particular icons) is loaded via the Font Awesome Content Delivery Network (CDN).

If you would like to find out more about Font Awesome and how it handles data, we recommend that you read the privacy policy at https://fontawesome.com/privacy and the help page at https://fontawesome.com/support.

Google WebFonts

This website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Mailchimp

The newsletter is sent via the mailing service provider 'MailChimp', a newsletter mailing platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. You can view the privacy policy of the mailing service provider here. The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee of compliance with the European level of data protection (Privacy Shield). The use of the mailing service provider is based on our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and an order processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 para. 3 P. 1 GDPR.

The mailing service provider may use the data of the recipients in pseudonymous form, i.e. without allocation to a user, to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of the mailing and presentation of the newsletter or for statistical purposes. However, the mailing service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or pass it on to third parties.

CookieYes

Our website uses CookieYes, a cookie consent and compliance service provided by CookieYes Limited. CookieYes helps us to obtain and manage our users' consent for cookies and online tracking in accordance with legal requirements.

When you visit our website, CookieYes may collect information about your consent choices and your interaction with the consent pop-up. This information is used to ensure that only the cookies and tracking technologies you have authorized are activated on your device.

Further information about CookieYes can be found in CookieYes' privacy policy, which you can access here: https://www.cookieyes.com/privacy-policy

Links

On our website you will find links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content and data protection precautions on external websites that you can reach via the links. Please inform yourself about data protection directly on the respective websites.

Your rights

To the extent provided for by the data protection law applicable to you, you may request information free of charge about the data stored about you, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing. You also have the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of or objection to processing and, if the GDPR applies, to the disclosure of this data for transfer to another body, subject to the statutory requirements.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. All you need to do is send us an informal message by e-mail.

Please note that the above rights are subject to legal restrictions and may impair or prevent the provision of our services.

You are entitled to enforce your claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner is responsible for Switzerland(http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

Data security

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

In addition, we use appropriate 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. However, security risks cannot generally be completely ruled out; residual risks are unavoidable.

Disclaimer

All information on our website has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we provide is up-to-date, correct and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, so that we cannot assume any liability for the completeness, correctness and topicality of the information, including journalistic and editorial information. Liability claims relating to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are fundamentally excluded.

The publisher may change or delete texts at its own discretion and without prior notice and is not obliged to update the contents of this website. The use of or access to this website is at the visitor's own risk. The publisher, its customers or partners are not responsible for any damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages, allegedly caused by visiting this website and consequently assume no liability for such damages.

The publisher also accepts no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links from this website. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content. The publisher therefore expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or offend common decency.

Update

We may change or adapt this privacy policy at any time. The current privacy policy can be accessed on the current domain.