Legal Information and Privacy Statement

Our website is SSL-encrypted

The security of your data is important to us. For that reason we secure the transfer of your data with a certified SSL connection (Secure Socket Layer) that guarantees that your personal data can be transferred securely over the internet. An encrypted page can be recognised by the small closed lock symbol in your browser's address bar (often shown in green) and also by the start of the URL being "https" instead of "http". SSL encryption ensures that the data exchanged between our website and the visitor cannot be read by third parties (e.g. in a public WLAN network) or manipulated through interference.

 

Important legal information

Persons who access information on the website of TELSONIC AG or other companies of the TELSONIC Group ("TELSONIC website") agree to the following terms and conditions:

The information published and opinions expressed are provided by TELSONIC for personal use and for information purposes only and are subject to change without notice. TELSONIC makes no representation (either express or implied) that the information and opinions expressed on the TELSONIC website are accurate, complete or up to date. In particular, nothing contained on the TELSONIC website constitutes financial, legal, tax or other advice. In particular, any third party information published on the TELSONIC website has not been approved by TELSONIC and may differ from TELSONIC's own point of view.

No information published on the TELSONIC website constitutes a solicitation or offer, or recommendation to buy any products, to effect any transactions or to conclude any legal act of any kind whatsoever.

TELSONIC disclaims, without limitation, all liability for any loss or damage of any kind, including any direct, indirect or consequential damages, which might be incurred through the use of or access to the TELSONIC website, or any links to third-party websites.

Some links on the TELSONIC website lead to third party websites. TELSONIC does not assume any responsibility or the accuracy, completeness and legality of the contents of such websites.

The entire content of this TELSONIC website is subject to copyright with all rights reserved. All property rights shall remain with TELSONIC. With any saving or otherwise copying from the TELSONIC website the terms and conditions for use shall be deemed to be accepted.

 

Privacy statement of TELSONIC AG

Information about our Organisation and Web site

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like TELSONIC AG. The internationally-active and independently-managed TELSONIC Group is based in Switzerland. 

This privacy policy covers the Web site of TELSONIC AG including all divisions that form the TELSONIC Group. The above mentioned Web site may include hyperlinks to other Web sites that are not operated or controlled by TELSONIC ("Third Party Sites"). This Policy only applies to the Web sites operated and controlled by TELSONIC AG in Switzerland. TELSONIC is not responsible for the content or the privacy practices of Third Party Sites.

 

The services and links of our Web site

Our Web site does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.

 

Automatic Collection of Information

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 analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. 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. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 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.

Incidentally we do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We do not use cookies to store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.

 

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

If you request information on products and services through TELSONIC's Web site, you will be asked to provide personal information. For example, you need to register with us if you want to access information reserved to closed user groups (Product catalog). When you register, TELSONIC will ask for your name and contact details, and will provide you with username and password that you will use to log in during future visits.

TELSONIC may decide to use your account information and transaction history to generate statistics and reports for internal use as well as to offer you products and services by telephone, regular mail, or e-mail. 

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than indicated in this privacy statement.

 

Data collected for staff recruitment

We also collect the personal data that you may volunteer while applying for a job vacancy published on our Web sites. TELSONIC undertakes to use the personal data for staff recruitment purposes only. By transmitting the data to TELSONIC, the candidate declares himself/herself willing to allow TELSONIC to store and process this data.

TELSONIC accepts no liability whatsoever for any damage which might be incurred by the candidate as a result, either direct or indirect, of transmitting personal data over the Internet.

The candidate agrees that in the event that he/she does not take up employment with TELSONIC, the data may be stored by TELSONIC for a period of up to two months after the decision not to employ/not to accept employment has been officially notified. Subsequently the data will be destroyed (erased). The candidate will not be informed about the destruction /erasure of the data.

 

Disclosure and Visitor Choice

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations.

 

 

Cookies

Our website makes use of so-called cookies in order to recognize repeat use of our website by the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. They are used to improve our website and services. In most cases these are so-called "session cookies" that are deleted once you leave our website.

To an extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automatically recognize you. Recognition occurs through an IP address saved to the cookies. The information thereby obtained is used to improve our services and to expedite your access to the website.

You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

 

 

Newsletter

Our website offers you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. The newsletter provides you periodically with information about our services. To receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address. We will review the email address you provide for the purpose of determining whether you are in fact the owner of the email address provided or whether the actual owner of said address is authorized to receive the newsletter. When subscribing to our newsletter, we will store your IP address as well as the date and time you subscribed. This serves to protect us in the event a third party improperly and without your knowledge makes use of your email address to subscribe to our newsletter. We will not collect any other data. The data thereby collected is used solely for the purpose of receiving our newsletter. No data is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that other components of our website may collect. You may cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. You will find additional details in the email confirming your subscription as well as in each newsletter.

 

 

Contacting Us

On our website we offer you the opportunity to contact us, either by email and/or by using a contact form. In such event, information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of facilitating communications with the user. No data is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that may be collected by other components of our website.

 

 

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies“, text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site.

The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization feature on our website. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from member states of the European Union or signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services related to website- and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or to the extent this data is processed by third parties on Google´s behalf.

Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Google also offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data which is collected and processed by Google. If you enable this option, no information regarding your website visit is transmitted to Google Analytics. However, the activation does not prevent the transmission of information to us or to any other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the disabling option provided by Google, and how to enable this option, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

 

 

Use of Google Maps

We use the “Google Maps” component of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google.”

Google sets a cookie in order to process the user configuration and data when the page with the integrated “Google Maps” component is displayed. As a general rule, this cookie is not deleted by closing the browser, but rather expires after a certain time, as long as it is not previously manually deleted by you.

If you do not agree with this processing of your data, you may choose to deactivate the “Google Maps” service and thereby prevent the transfer of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use “Google Maps” or at least only to a limited extent.

The use of “Google Maps” and the information obtained through “Google Maps” is according to Google’s Terms of Use 

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html

as well as the additional Terms and Conditions for "Google Maps"

https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html

 

 

Use of Facebook components

Our website employs components provided by facebook.com. Facebook is a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Facebook component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this Facebook component. Through this process, Facebook is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited. 

When you access our site while logged into Facebook, Facebook uses information gathered by this component to identify the precise page you are viewing and associates this information to your personal account on Facebook. Whenever you click on the “Like“ button, for example, or enter a comment, this information is transmitted to your personal account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, Facebook is informed of your visit to our website. This occurs regardless of whether you click on a component or not.

If you wish to prevent the transfer to and storage of data by Facebook about you and your interaction with our website, you must first log out of Facebook before visiting our website. The data protection policies of Facebook provide additional information, in particular about the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard as well as the options available to you for protecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/

You can find an overview of Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

 

 

Use of Twitter recommendation components

Our website employs components provided by Twitter. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Twitter component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited. We have no control over the data that Twitter collects in the process, or over the extent of the data that Twitter collects. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of each website accessed as well as the IP address of the user, but does so solely for the purpose of displaying Twitter components. Additional information may be obtained from the Twitter data privacy policy, at: twitter.com/privacy.

You may change your data privacy settings in your account settings, at http://twitter.com/account/settings

 

 

Use of Xing recommendation components

Our website employs components provided by the network XING.com. These components are a service of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a XING component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from XING. 

To the best of our knowledge, XING does not store any personal information from the user obtained through accessing our website. XING also does not store IP addresses. In addition, no analysis of user activity occurs through the use of cookies in connection with the “XING Share-Button”. Additional information may be found in the data privacy provisions relating to the XING Share-Button, at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

 

 

Use of LinkedIn recommendation components

Our website employs components provided by the network LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a LinkedIn component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from LinkedIn. Through this process, LinkedIn is informed exactly which page of our website is being accessed. By clicking the LinkedIn “recommend button“ while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link content from our website to your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to our site with your LinkedIn account. 

We have no control over the data that LinkedIn collects thereby, nor over the extent of the data that LinkedIn collects. Nor do we have any knowledge of the content of data transferred to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights in this regard and your browser setting options may be obtained from the LinkedIn data privacy policy, which may be accessed at: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

 

Use of Vimeo components

We use Vimeo components on our site.  Vimeo is a service of Vimeo LCC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. Whenever you visit our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding display of the Vimeo component. When you visit our site and are at the same time logged into Vimeo, Vimeo recognizes by means of the information collected by the component, which specific page you are visiting and assigns this information to your personal account at Vimeo. If, for example, you click on the “Play” button or make comments, this information will be conveyed to your personal user account at Vimeo and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site will be passed on to Vimeo. This is done regardless of whether you click on the component/comment or not.

If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data by Vimeo about you and your behaviour on our website, you must log out of Vimeo before you visit our site. Vimeo’s Privacy Policy provides more detailed information concerning this, in particular regarding the collection and use of data by Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/privacy

 

 

 

Permaleads technology

Telsonic's website uses the permaleads.ch service to analyse user behaviour and identify the IP address for marketing purposes. The use of this service requires that data on user behaviour (e.g. IP address, time of access, user behaviour, browser enquiry, etc.) are transmitted directly to the permaleads.ch servers and are made available for the exclusive use of (your domain). The data collected is treated in strict confidence and is neither sold nor passed on to third parties. If you no longer wish to be identified in the future, please email optout(at)permaleads.ch.

 

Analysis of user behaviour


The internet offerings at www.telsonic.com are tracked for the analysis of user behaviour and the identification of IP addresses of companies for marketing purposes. The use of this service entails the direct transfer of data pertaining to user behaviour (e.g. IP address, time of access, browser searches etc.) to the servers maintained by the service provider and being made available for use exclusively on www.telsonic.com. The data collected are treated as strictly confidential and neither sold nor conveyed to third parties. If in future you do not wish to be identified, please send an e-mail to optout@permagroup.ch.

Confidentiality / Security

We do not give visitors to our Web site the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: 

  • unauthorized access
  • improper use or disclosure
  • unauthorized modification
  • unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data. 

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

 

 

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us, by sending an email to info@TELSONIC.com whether we are keeping personal data about you. Upon request, which you can indicate by sending an email to info@TELSONIC.com, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week, although we may before require proof of your identity.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

  • erased
  • rectified or amended
  • completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

 

Privacy Compliance

Self-regulatory schemes are not applicable to our web-site or organisation.

There are no global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organisation.

Privacy Support

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact info(at)telsonic.com