PRIVACY

We look forward to your visit to our website and your interest in our services. When dealing with your data, we strive for maximum security.

It is a matter of great importance to us that your personal data are protected. The use of the internet pages is basically possible without any indication of personal data.We aim to record personal data only with your knowledge and consent, and we would therefore like to make you aware of the information we may record and the purposes for which it may be used.

Collection of general data

Your access to this website will result in certain information required for the purposes of data security (eg host name, IP address of the requesting computer, date and time of access, name and URL of the retrieved data, access status (file transfer, file not found etc .), web browser and operating system used, website used to access our homepage, amount of data transferred) are temporarily stored automatically in a log file and used exclusively for security purposes until deletion. The usage data stored by the servers are anonymous and cannot be assigned to a natural person.

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES will treat the personal data disclosed by you when you visit our website in accordance with the applicable provisions of the data protection laws.

When sending an e-mail, we process your personal data there only for correspondence with you, or to send the requested information. We collect and process (in particular store) only personal data that is necessary for the provision of services and their processing. There is no disclosure of personal information to third parties, unless we are required by law or you have given us prior to your express consent to the forwarding.

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES employs appropriate, state-of-the-art technical and organizational security measures to protect data against accidental or willful manipulation, loss or destruction, and against unauthorized access.

Data protection in applications and in the application process

The person in charge collects and processes the personal data of applicants for the purpose of processing the application process. The processing can also be done electronically. This is particularly the case if an applicant submits corresponding application documents by electronic means, for example by e-mail, to the person in charge. If the person in charge concludes a contract of employment with an applicant, the data transmitted will be stored for the purposes of the employment relationship in accordance with the law. If no employment contract is concluded with the candidate by the person in charge, the application documents will be automatically deleted six months after the rejection decision has been announced, unless deletion precludes other legitimate interests of the person in charge. Other legitimate interest in this sense, for example, a burden of proof in a procedure under the General Equal Treatment Act.     

Webanalysis

In order to improve our website, we also record statistical information (e.g. number of visitors, ISPs, browser types) which cannot be traced back to any individual person and are used exclusively for internal purposes.

Information about google analytics

We use 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. 
In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by "gat._anonymizeIp();" to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking). On behalf of the website provider 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 to the website provider. 
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. 
Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, see Google Privacy Policy or Google Policies. We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp" to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).

Cookies generally

To make the website more user-friendly, effective and secure, so-called cookies are used. Cookies are small text files. These are stored for technical session control in the temporary memory of the web browser or on the hard disk of the visitor of the website.

Among other things, so-called session cookies are stored on your hard drive, which are only valid for the duration of your visit to the website. At the end of your visit, these cookies are automatically deleted from your hard drive.

Saving cookies can prevent visitors to Internet pages through certain browser settings. In general, the web browser can also be set so that it asks the visitor to the website before setting cookies, if he agrees. Furthermore, once set cookies can be deleted at any time again by the visitor of the website. The product descriptions / instructions of the respective browser manufacturer contain information about the required settings.

Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Social Bookmarks

Our website contains so-called Social Bookmarks (e.g.,  Xing, LinkedIn, Google, Google Maps) that you can recognize with the corresponding icon. Social bookmarks are to be understood as links or Internet bookmarks. After clicking the appropriate button you will be redirected to the page of the selected tenderer/the social media platform. From this point, user information to the provider/the social media platform are sent. By using these tools, your personal information may be collected, processed and used by the social media applications. The collection, processing and use of personal data in this case is based exclusively on the privacy policy of the respective social media provider.

The relevant data protection regulations of the respective provider/the social media platform will give you information about how your personal information/data when using the website.

Information, correction, blocking, deletion and contradiction of the data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as provided for by the various storage periods provided for by law. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiration of these deadlines, the corresponding data will be routinely and in accordance with the statutory provisions blocked or deleted.

You have the right to receive information about your saved data free of charge upon request. You also have the right to confirm, rectify incorrect data, limit processing, objection to the particular situation of a data subject, data portability, blocking if appropriate and, with the exception of legally required data storage, on deletion.

Contact data: Mario Greifzu, E-Mail: mario.greifzu(at)greifzuassociates.com, Phone: 089/210202-0, Address: GREIFZU ASSOCIATES management consultants GmbH, Maximiliansplatz 12, 80333 Munich

Protection of minors

Children and persons under the age of 18 should not submit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or guardians. We do not solicit personal information from children, do not collect them and do not share them with third parties.

The further development of our Internet pages, or new legal requirements sometimes require adjustments to this privacy policy. We therefore kindly request you to note the latest current version.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES management consultants GmbH (GREIFZU ASSOCIATES) has made every effort to compile these websites and updates them regularly. The information is for general information purposes only and is not binding. They do not replace individual advice.

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES therefore accepts no liability for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information on these websites, including own files for downloading and for any damage resulting from the use of information therefrom.

As GREIFZU ASSOCIATES has no influence on the design and content of the linked pages, GREIFZU ASSOCIATES expressly dissociates itself from all contents of all linked / linked pages. This statement applies to all within the own Internet offer set links and references including the files for the download. Therefore, any responsibility for the contents of GREIFZU ASSOCIATES is excluded. GREIFZU ASSOCIATES assumes no liability for the use of the information reproduced there and the observance.

All rights reserved. All text, images, charts, sound, animation and videos, as well as their arrangement on the GREIFZU ASSOCIATES management consultants GmbH website, are protected by copyright and other industrial property protection laws. The content of this website is not permitted to be copied, distributed, altered or made available to third parties for commercial purposes. Some website pages also contain images copyrighted by third parties.

Gathering of general information
If you access our website, general information is automatically detected. This information (server log files) contain about the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and alike. This is exclusively information which does not allow conclusions to your person. This information is necessary for technical reasons, to deliver your requested web page content correctly and accumulate mandatory in the use of the Internet. Anonymous information shall be evaluated statistically by us to improve our website and the technology behind it.

We may provide links to third-party Web sites. GREIFZU ASSOCIATES assumes no liability or responsibility of any kind whatsoever for these third-party Web sites, which are governed by the terms of use and privacy policies, if any, of the applicable third-party content providers. 

 

DATA PROTECTION Switzerland

Below you will find supplementary explanations to the data protection information Switzerland. The foregoing general data protection provisions shall apply mutatis mutandis to Switzerland.

Processing of personal data

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

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. If and to the extent that the EU GDPR is applicable, we also process personal data on the following legal bases in connection 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 as well as 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 the applicable law of a country in which the GDPR applies in whole or in part.
lit. f) Processing of personal data to protect the legitimate interests of us or of third parties, unless the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject override these. 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.

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES takes appropriate technical and organizational security precautions in accordance with the respective state of the art in order to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons.

Server log files

When you access this website, certain information required for data security purposes (e.g. host name, IP address of the requesting computer, date and time of access, name and URL of the retrieved data, access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.), web browser and operating system used, website from which our homepage was accessed, amount of data transferred) is automatically stored temporarily in a log file and used exclusively for security purposes until deleted. The usage data stored by the servers is anonymized and cannot be assigned to any natural person.

Contact form

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

Transfer to third countries

As a matter of principle, we treat your personal data as confidential and only pass it on if you have consented to this, if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so, or if this is necessary to enforce our rights, in particular to enforce claims arising from the contractual relationship.

Furthermore, we only pass on your personal data to third parties within the company (GREIFZU ASSOCIATES management consultants GmbH, Munich, Germany) to the extent that this is necessary or expedient within the framework of the use of the website or for the possible provision of the services requested by you (also outside the website).

Your personal data will only be processed within Switzerland and the EU in accordance with the requirements of Art. 44 et seq. DSGVO and Art. 6 DSG respectively.

Rights of the data subject

As a data subject, you have the following rights (if applicable) under the GDPR and/or the FADP with respect to personal data concerning you          

Right of access

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive information about the data stored about him or her and a copy of this information free of charge at any time. In addition, information may be provided about the following, if applicable:

Purposes of processing,

categories of personal data processed recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be  disclosed,

If possible, the planned duration of the storage of the personal data or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration

The existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing.

The existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority if the personal data are not collected from the data subject. Any available information about the origin of the data.

In addition, the data subject has the right to be informed whether personal data have been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject has the right to obtain information about the appropriate safeguards in connection with the transfer.

If you wish to exercise this right to information, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

Right to rectification

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand that inaccurate personal data concerning him or her be corrected without delay. In addition, the data subject has the right, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to request that incomplete personal data be completed, including by means of a supplementary declaration.

If you wish to exercise this right to rectification, you may contact our data protection officer at any time.

Right to erasure

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain from the controller of this website the erasure without delay of personal data concerning him or her, where one of the following reasons applies and the processing is no longer necessary:

The personal data were collected or otherwise processed for purposes for which they are no longer necessary.

The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing

The data subject objects to the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in the case of direct marketing and related profiling

The personal data have been processed unlawfully

The erasure of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject

The personal data has been collected in relation to information society services offered directly to a child

If one of the above reasons applies and you wish to arrange for the erasure of personal data, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at any time. The data protection officer will arrange for the deletion request to be complied with immediately.

Right to restriction of processing

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain from the controller of this website the restriction of processing if one of the following conditions is met:

The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period enabling the data controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data

The processing is unlawful, the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of the use of the personal data

The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs it for assertion.

The data subject has objected to the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate interests of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, you may at any time contact our Data Protection Officer to request the restriction of the processing of personal data. The data protection officer of this website will arrange the restriction of the processing.

Right to data portability

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain the personal data concerning him or her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. In addition, the data subject has the right to obtain that the personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another controller, where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other individuals.

To exercise the right to data portability, you can always contact our designated data protection officer.

Right of objection

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning him or her.

GREIFZU ASSOCIATES shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

To exercise your right to object, you may contact the Data Protection Officer directly.

Right to revoke consent under data protection law

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to revoke a given consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If you wish to exercise your right to withdraw consent, you may contact our data protection officer at any time.

Contact details
GREIFZU ASSOCIATES management consultants GmbH, Löwenstrasse 66, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland

Contact for data protection Switzerland: Martin Schneckenburger
E-Mail: martin.schneckenburger(at)greifzuassociates.com