Privacy Policy

Estoppey Value Investments AG is the owner of this website and is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of personal data. We are subject to Swiss data protection law in accordance with the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the Ordinance to the FADP (OFADP) and comply with the guidelines of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We attach great importance to the protection and proper handling of your personal data and collect, process and use it exclusively in accordance with the principles described below and in compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

You can visit our website without providing any personal data. If a service is used via our website, personal data may be collected and processed. Below we explain what data we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to us with regard to the use of your data.

1) Your personal data

Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, your address, your e-mail address or your IP address. Your personal data is used for the purpose of processing the services we offer or the contractual relationship we have with you. We need your name and address in order to know who our contractual partner is, i.e. to whom we provide and invoice our services. We need your contact details (address, e-mail address and telephone number) in order to communicate with you.

2) Legal basis

Our registered office is in Switzerland and we are therefore primarily subject to the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the Ordinance to the FADP (OFADP) when handling personal data, in particular of persons resident in Switzerland. Furthermore, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis for the handling of personal data of citizens of the European Union.

3) Collection, processing and use of personal data

EVI AG primarily processes personal data that it receives in the context of customer relationships and contractual relationships with business partners from these or other persons involved (collectively the “business partners”). EVI AG also processes personal data that it collects from users when operating the website www.valueinvestments.ch. If business partners transmit personal data of other persons, such as family members, work colleagues or employees, to EVI AG, they shall ensure that these persons are aware of this data protection declaration.

In addition to the data that is disclosed to EVI AG, EVI AG also processes data that it receives from authorities or other third parties, publicly accessible data or data that becomes known to it as a result of the use of a service. The categories of personal data that EVI AG obtains from third parties include, in particular, information from public registers, information in connection with professional activities or functions of business partners, information about business partners in correspondence and meetings with them and with third parties, information about business partners that is disclosed to us by persons in their environment, information to comply with legal requirements such as the fight against money laundering, information from banks, insurance companies and other contractual partners of EVI AG on the use or provision of services for business partners and third parties, information in the media and on the Internet. Furthermore, data may be collected, processed and used in connection with the use of the EVI AG website:

a) When visiting our website

You can visit our website without revealing your identity. When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store every access in a log file. The following information is recorded without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted: anonymized IP address, date and time of access, name and URL of the file accessed, website from which the access was made, operating system of your computer, browser used, name of your Internet access provider.

This data is collected and processed for the purpose of enabling the use of our website (establishing a connection), ensuring permanent system security, enabling the technical administration of the network infrastructure and the optimization of our website, as well as for internal statistical purposes. We also use cookies and tracking tools when you visit our website. You will find explanations in the relevant sections of this privacy policy.

b) Contact forms

If you contact us using a contact form, certain fields may be mandatory, for example first and last name, telephone number or e-mail address. Such mandatory fields are marked accordingly, for example with an asterisk (*), and may request personal data. Which other personal data is collected is determined by the additional information you provide to us via the contact form. If you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data you provide will be stored automatically. We use this data to process your request and to contact you. This personal data will not be passed on to third parties.

c) Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small text files that are stored permanently or temporarily on your computer’s hard disk when you visit our website. These cookies do not damage your computer’s hard disk, nor do they contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.

The purpose of these cookies is in particular the statistical analysis of the use of our website. Data collected through the setting of cookies is pseudonymized by technical precautions. It is no longer possible to assign the data to the accessing user. The data is not stored or linked with other personal data.

You can deactivate all or some of the cookies on our website in your browser at any time. If cookies are deactivated, you may no longer be able to use all the functions of our website.

d) Google Ads

We use the online web program “Google Ads” on our website, a service of Google Inc. based in the USA, and the conversion tracking option contained in this program. If you reach our website via a Google ad, Google Ads places a conversion cookie in your browser, which enables us to compile statistics on the use of our website. This conversion cookie loses its validity after 90 days at the latest and is not used to identify the user.

Further information on conversion tracking, in particular how you can prevent the collection of data by the cookie set by Google, can be found at the following link:http://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

You can deactivate the setting of cookies by our website in your browser in whole or in part at any time. If cookies are deactivated, you may no longer be able to use all the functions of our website.

e) Google Analytics

We use “Google Analytics” on our website, a web analysis service of Google Inc. based in the USA. Google Analytics also uses the cookies described above. The information generated about your use of the website (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (previously visited website), anonymized IP address and time of the server request) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there. Based on this stored data, no conclusions can be drawn about your person. This information may be transferred to third parties if they process the data on behalf of Google.

Under no circumstances will the IP address be associated with other data relating to the user. This website uses an add-on for Google Analytics, with which the IP address of the Internet connection is shortened and anonymized by Google.

We also use remarketing lists from Google Analytics. With remarketing lists, visitors to our website can be addressed again through targeted advertising on the pages of the Google partner network and the Google search network. The advertising is also displayed using cookies.

Furthermore, the data collected is used to create user profiles using pseudonyms. These are used to analyze visitor behavior and are evaluated to improve and tailor our offer. The pseudonymized user profiles are not merged with personal data of the provider.

You can object to the collection by Google Analytics at any time. To do this, you must install a browser add-on under the linkhttps://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=deherunterladen. This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about visits to websites may be transmitted to Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or deactivated, it can be reinstalled or reactivated.

Further information on data protection at Google can be found at the following link:https://policies.google.com/privacy

4) Purposes of data processing

EVI AG always processes personal data for a specific purpose. This is primarily the conclusion and fulfillment of contracts with business partners, in particular in the context of the provision of services to customers and the purchase of products and services from suppliers, as well as to comply with EVI AG’s legal obligations. In addition, EVI AG also processes personal data for the following purposes:

Offering and developing the services and the website;
Communication with third parties;
Customer care and marketing (insofar as the use of the data of business partners has not been explicitly objected to;
Assertion of legal claims and defense in the context of legal disputes and official proceedings;
Ensuring the operation, in particular of IT and the website;
Compliance with applicable legal and professional regulations and contractual agreements;

If a business partner grants consent for the processing of their personal data for specific purposes, such as receiving newsletters, EVI AG will only process the personal data within the scope of and based on this consent. The consent given can be revoked at any time.

5) Data transfer to third parties and data transfer abroad

The personal data processed by EVI AG will be transferred to third parties, if necessary or reasonable from EVI AG’s point of view, for the provision of services or fulfillment of other purposes defined in this privacy policy. These recipients of personal data can be assigned to the following categories:

Customers and their affiliated companies;
Suppliers, their subcontractors and other external service providers (e.g. banks, insurance companies, accountants) and processors (e.g. IT providers);
Domestic and foreign authorities, official bodies and courts, mediation bodies and arbitration tribunals
Parties or interested parties to corporate transactions;
Other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings.

The aforementioned recipients of personal data may be located in Switzerland or abroad. Accordingly, business partners must expect their personal data to be processed in Switzerland and abroad.

6) Data security

EVI AG takes appropriate technical and organizational security precautions to protect the personal data of business partners from unauthorized access and misuse.

7) Rights of the data subject (withdrawal of consent, information & authorization)

According to the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the GDPR, you have the right to free information about your stored data and the right to rectification. In addition, you can request that your data be deleted if it is no longer required to process the contract. You can also request that your data be blocked. Requests for information and requests for blocking or erasure can be submitted to us in writing (by post, by e-mail or via our contact form).

Citizens of the European Union are entitled to all rights under the GDPR. These are in particular:

Right to confirmation of personal data;
Right to information, in particular about existing personal data;
Right to rectification of personal data;
Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) of personal data;
Right to restriction of processing of personal data;
Right to disclosure and data portability of personal data;
Right to object to the processing of personal data;
Right to future-oriented revocation of consent granted under data protection law.

Business partners also have the right to enforce their claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. EVI AG draws attention to the fact that EVI AG reserves the right to assert the restrictions provided for by law, such as statutory retention or processing obligations or the existence of an overriding interest in data processing. The assertion of rights to which the business partners are entitled may result in EVI AG no longer being able to provide the agreed services and may result in the termination of the contract.

8) Responsible person, contact

For information about your personal data, to have incorrect data corrected or to have it blocked or deleted, and for further questions about the use of your personal data, please contact us:

Estoppey Value Investments AG

Steinentorberg 18, 4051 Basel

Tel: +41 61 511 50 17

E-mail: hc.stnemtsevnieulavobfsctd-130967@ofni

Responsible: Olivier Estoppey

9) Changes

EVI AG reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The version published on the website https://www.valueinvestments.ch/ is the currently valid version.

10) Up-to-dateness of the privacy policy

This privacy policy is valid until revoked and is dated 31.10.2023. You can access it at any time on our website.