Privacy policy
Your privacy matters to us
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All contents on www.libertas-treuhand.ch (hereinafter "Website") are for informational purposes only. They are therefore not legally binding.
The operators of the Website is:
www.libertas-treuhand.ch: LIBERTAS Treuhand GmbH;
If the Website refers to third-party websites, no warranty is assumed for their content and accuracy.
I. General Information
LIBERTAS Treuhand GmbH (hereinafter also "LIBERTAS Treuhand", "we", "us") is pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our products and services. The protection of your personal data is an important concern for us. In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect your personal data, what we do with it, for which purposes and on which legal bases this is done, and which rights and claims arise for you in connection therewith. Where necessary, we will inform you in a timely written notice about additional processing activities not mentioned in this privacy policy. Additionally, we may inform you separately about the processing of your data, e.g. in consent declarations, contractual terms, additional privacy policies, forms and notices. We use the term "Data" here synonymously with "Personal Data" or "Personal Information".
§ With "Personal Data" we mean data that relates to a specific or identifiable person, i.e. conclusions about their identity can be drawn from the data itself or with corresponding additional data. "Special Categories of Personal Data" are a category of personal data that applicable data protection law protects particularly. Special categories of personal data include, for example, data revealing racial and ethnic origin, as well as health data, information about religious or philosophical beliefs, biometric data for identification purposes and information about trade union membership.
§ "Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
If you transmit or disclose data about other persons such as family members, colleagues etc. to us, we assume that you are authorized to do so and that this data is correct. By transmitting data about third parties, you confirm this. Please also ensure that these third parties have been informed about this privacy policy.
This privacy policy is designed to meet the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the Swiss Data Protection Act ("DSG"). Whether and to what extent these laws apply, however, depends on the individual case.
II. Name and Address of the Controller
The respective LIBERTAS Treuhand companies are each independently responsible under data protection law and decide on the purposes and means of processing personal data. For inquiries regarding data protection, you can contact:
LIBERTAS Treuhand GmbH, Wartstrasse 1c, CH-6331 Hünenberg, info@libertas-treuhand.ch
III. Categories of Data We Process
The processing of your personal data is limited to data that is necessary for the operation of functional Website and for the provision of our contents, products and services. The processing of personal data of our users takes place on the basis of the agreed purposes or a legal basis. We only collect such personal data as is necessary for the performance and execution of our tasks and services or which you voluntarily provide to us. Depending on the occasion and purpose of the processing, we process different data about you:
Technical Data
When you use our Website or other electronic offerings, we collect the IP address of your device and other technical data to ensure the functionality and security of these offerings. These data also include protocols in which the use of our systems is recorded. We generally retain technical data for 12 months. To ensure the functionality of these offerings, we may also assign you or your device an individual code (e.g. in the form of a cookie, see Section XIV). Technical data alone generally do not allow conclusions to be drawn about your identity. However, in the context of user accounts, registrations, access controls or the execution of contracts, they may be linked to other data categories (and thus possibly to your person).
Technical data include, among others:
§ the IP address and information about the operating system of your device
§ name and URL of the requested Website
§ the date, region and time of use, GMT time zone difference
§ notification whether the call was successful (access status/HTTP status code)
§ amount of data transferred
§ Website accessed via our Website
§ website from which access was made (so-called referrer URL)
§ the type of browser you use to access our online offering
§ name of your internet service provider
§ type and version of the browser used and other information provided by the user (such as geographical origin, language setting, add-ons used, screen resolution, etc.)
§ protocols created in our systems (e.g. the protocol of user logins on our Website).
This can help us design the Website accordingly or, for example, display a subpage for your region. We know which provider you use to access our offering (and thus also the region) based on the IP address, but generally we do not learn who you are from this. This changes, for example, if you create a user account, because then personal data can be linked to technical data (e.g. we can know which browser you use to access an account via our Website).
Registration Data
Certain offerings and services can only be used with a registration or a user account, which can take place directly with us or via our external login service providers. In doing so, you must provide us with certain data, and we collect data about the use of the offering or service. We generally retain registration data for 12 months after the end of the use of the service or the dissolution of the user account.
Registration data include, among others:
§ information you provide when creating an account on our Website (e.g. username, password, name, email, contact information, account data)
§ IP address
§ user ID (see technical data)
Communication Data
When you contact us via the contact form, by email, telephone, chat, letter or other means of communication, we record the data exchanged between you and us, including your contact data and the metadata of the communication. If we record telephone conversations or video conferences, we will inform you of this separately. If we want or need to verify your identity, e.g. in the case of an information request submitted by you, we collect data to identify you (e.g. a copy of an ID). We generally retain this data for 12 months from the last exchange with you. This period may be longer if this is necessary for evidentiary reasons or to comply with legal or contractual requirements or is technically required. Emails in personal mailboxes and written correspondence are generally retained for at least 10 years. Chats are generally retained for 2 years.
Communication data include, among others:
§ your name and your contact details
§ the manner, place and time of communication and usually also its content (i.e. the content of emails, letters, chats etc.). This data may also contain information about third parties. For identification purposes, we may also retain your ID number or a password specified by you.
Master Data
We refer to master data as the basic data that we need, in addition to contract data (see below), for the execution of our contractual and other business relationships or for marketing and advertising purposes, such as name, contact data and information e.g. about your role and function, your bank details, your date of birth, customer history, powers of attorney, signature authorizations and consent declarations. We process your master data if you are a customer or other business contact or are active for such (e.g. as a contact person of the business partner), or because we want to address you for our own purposes or the purposes of a contractual partner (e.g. in the context of marketing and advertising, with newsletters etc.). We receive master data from you (e.g. during service provision, a purchase or in the context of a registration), from entities for which you are active, or from third parties such as our contractual partners, associations and address dealers and from publicly accessible sources such as public registers or the internet (Website, social media etc.). We generally retain this data for 10 years from the last exchange with you, but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if this is necessary for evidentiary reasons or to comply with legal or contractual requirements or is technically required. For pure marketing and advertising contacts, the period is usually significantly shorter, usually no more than 2 years since the last contact.
Master data are not collected across the board for every contact. Rather, the collection of master data depends on the individual case and the purpose of the processing. In general, they may include:
§ your name
§ address
§ email address
§ telephone number and other contact details
§ gender
§ date of birth
§ nationality
§ data about related persons
§ Website
§ social media profiles
§ photos and videos
§ copies of identity documents
§ information about your relationship with us (e.g. customer, supplier, visitor, service provider or recipient of services, etc.)
§ information about your status, your assignments, classifications and mailing lists
§ details of interactions with you
§ reports
§ official documents (e.g. commercial register extracts, permits)
§ payment information (e.g. bank details, account number and credit card data)
§ consent declarations and opt-out information
§ For customers, suppliers and partners, master data also include information about the role or function in the company, qualifications and information about superiors, employees and information about interactions with these persons.
Contract Data
We collect contract data in connection with the conclusion or execution of a contract, e.g. information about the products and the services provided or to be provided as well as data from the time before the conclusion of the contract, information that is necessary or used for the execution of a contract, and information about feedback (e.g. complaints, feedback on satisfaction etc.). We generally collect this data from you, from contractual partners and from third parties involved in the execution of the contract, but also from third-party sources and from publicly accessible sources. We generally retain this data for 10 years from the last contract activity, but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if this is necessary for evidentiary reasons or to comply with legal or contractual requirements or is technically required.
Contract data include, among others:
§ information about the conclusion of the contract, about your contracts, e.g. the type and date of conclusion and its duration
§ the execution and administration of the contracts, e.g. information in connection with invoicing, customer service, technical support and the enforcement of contractual claims
§ information about defects, complaints and contract amendments as well as information about customer satisfaction, which we can collect e.g. through surveys
§ financial data, such as creditworthiness information (i.e. information that allows conclusions to be drawn about the probability of payment of claims), information about reminders and debt collection.
We receive this data partly from you (e.g. when you make payments), but also from credit agencies and debt collection companies as well as from public sources (e.g. commercial register).
Behavioral and Preference Data
Depending on the relationship we have with you, we try to get to know you and better tailor our products, services and offerings to you. To this end, we collect and use data about your behavior and your preferences. We do this by evaluating information about your behavior in our area, and we can also supplement this information with information from third parties – including from publicly accessible sources. Based on this, we can, for example, calculate the probability that you will use certain services or behave in a certain way. The data processed for this purpose is partly already known to us (e.g. when you use our services), or we obtain this data by recording your behavior (e.g. how you navigate on our Website). We anonymize or delete this data when it is no longer meaningful for the purposes pursued, which can be the case between 2-3 weeks and 24 months (for product and service preferences) depending on the type of data. This period may be longer if this is necessary for evidentiary reasons or to comply with legal or contractual requirements or is technically required. How tracking works on our Website is described in Section XVI.
Behavioral and preference data include, among others:
§ information about certain actions, such as your reaction to electronic messages (e.g. whether and when you opened an email) or your stay as well as your interaction with our social media profiles and your participation in raffles, competitions and similar events.
§ For example, we can capture your location data wirelessly via unique codes that your mobile phone transmits, or when you use our Website. We will inform you at the relevant locations by means of signs about the collection of such anonymous movement profiles and will only create personalized movement profiles with your consent.
Preference data gives us information about what needs you have, which products or services might be of interest to you or when and how you are likely to react to messages from us. We obtain this information from the analysis of existing data such as behavioral data so that we can get to know you better, tailor our advice and offerings more precisely to you and generally improve our offerings. To improve the quality of our analyses, we can link this data with further data that we also obtain from third parties or public sources (e.g. the internet).
Behavioral and preference data can be evaluated on a personal basis (e.g. to show you personalized advertising) but also on a non-personal basis (e.g. for market research or product development). Behavioral and preference data can also be combined with other data (e.g. movement data can be used in the context of a health protection concept for contact tracing).
Other Data
We also collect data from you in other situations. In connection with official or judicial proceedings, for example, data arises (such as files, evidence etc.) that may also relate to you. For reasons of health protection, we may also collect data (e.g. in the context of protection concepts). We may receive or produce photos, videos and audio recordings in which you may be identifiable (e.g. at events, through security cameras etc.). We may also collect data about who enters certain buildings when and who has corresponding access rights (including during access controls, based on registration data or visitor lists etc.), who participates in events and actions when and who uses our infrastructure and systems when. The retention period for this data depends on the purpose and is limited to what is necessary. This ranges from a few days for many of the security cameras and usually a few weeks for data for contact tracing, via visitor data which is generally retained for 3 months, to reports about events with images which can be retained for several years or longer.
Many of the data mentioned in this Section III are provided by you (e.g. via forms, in the context of communication with us, in connection with contracts, when using the Website etc.). You are not obliged to do so, subject to individual cases, e.g. in the context of binding protection concepts (legal obligations). If you want to conclude contracts with us or claim services, you must also provide us with data within the scope of your contractual obligation according to the relevant contract, in particular master, contract and guest access or registration data. When using our Website, the processing of technical data is unavoidable. If you want to gain access to certain systems or buildings, you must provide us with registration data. However, with regard to behavioral and preference data, you generally have the option to object or not to give consent.
We only provide you with certain services if you transmit registration data to us, because we or our contractual partners want to know who uses our services, because it is technically necessary or because we want to communicate with you. If you or a person you represent (e.g. your employer) want to conclude or fulfill a contract with us, we must collect corresponding master, contract and communication data from you, and we process technical data if you want to use our Website or other electronic offerings for this purpose. If you do not provide us with the data necessary for the conclusion and execution of the contract, you must expect that we will reject the conclusion of the contract, that you will breach the contract or that we will not fulfill the contract. Likewise, we can only send you a response to an inquiry from you if we process the corresponding communication data and – if you communicate with us online – possibly also technical data. The use of our Website is also not possible without us receiving technical data.
Insofar as this is not impermissible, we also obtain data from publicly accessible sources (e.g. debt collection register, land registers, commercial register, media or the internet including social media) or receive data from other companies within our group, from authorities and from other third parties (such as credit agencies, address dealers, associations, contractual partners, internet analysis services etc.).
The categories of personal data that we receive about you from third parties include in particular information from public registers, information that we learn in connection with official and judicial proceedings, information in connection with their professional functions and activities (so that we can, for example, conclude and execute business with your employer with your help), information about you in correspondence and meetings with third parties, credit information (insofar as we conduct business with you personally), information about you that persons from your environment (family, advisors, legal representatives etc.) provide so that we can conclude or execute contracts with you or involving you (e.g. references, your address for deliveries, powers of attorney, information on compliance with legal requirements such as fraud, money laundering and terrorism prevention and export restrictions, information from banks, insurance companies and distribution and other contractual partners of ours regarding the use or provision of services by you (e.g. payments, purchases etc.), information from media and the internet about your person (insofar as this is indicated in the specific case. Your address and possibly interests and other socio-demographic data (especially for marketing and research) and data in connection with the use of third-party Website and online offerings where this use can be attributed to you.
IV. Purposes of Processing
We process your data for the purposes we explain below. Further information for the online area can be found in Sections XIII ff. These purposes or the underlying objectives represent legitimate interests of ours and possibly of third parties. You will find further information on the legal bases of our processing in Section V.
Communication
We process your data for purposes in connection with communication with you, in particular to respond to inquiries and to assert your rights (Section XI) and to contact you in case of queries. For this purpose, we use in particular communication data and master data and, in connection with offerings and services used by you, also registration data. We retain this data to document our communication with you, for training purposes, for quality assurance and for queries.
Contract Performance
We process your data to conclude, execute and manage a contract with you. In particular, we process communication data, master data, registration data and contract data about you. This may also include data about third parties, e.g. if you order products or services for the benefit of a third party. This also includes data about potential customers that we receive from communication with you, at a trade fair or other business event. In the context of contacting, we use this data to check your creditworthiness and to enter into a business relationship with you. To manage and fulfill the contract with you, we may involve third parties, e.g. logistics companies, advertising service providers, banks, insurance companies or providers of credit information, to offer you our products and services.
Marketing and Relationship Management
We process your data for marketing and relationship management purposes. For example, we send personalized newsletters for products and services of ours and possibly of selected third parties (e.g. advertising partners). Marketing and relationship management may include contacting you by email, telephone or other channels for which we have your contact information. We and possibly selected third parties only show you content or advertising tailored to your usage behavior or send emails for marketing purposes (e.g. newsletters) if and to the extent that you have given us your consent, insofar as this is required under applicable law. You can object to such marketing activities at any time or withdraw your consent (Sections XI and XII).
With regard to relationship management, we use a customer relationship management system to store and process your data as described in this privacy policy (e.g. about contact persons, products and services offered to you, interactions, interests, marketing measures, newsletters, event invitations and other information). In order to be able to offer you the best products and services and to use our resources as effectively as possible, we use the CRM together with the corporate group. The corporate group includes the companies listed in Section II above.
Product/Service Improvement and Innovation
We also process your data for market research, to improve our services and our operations and for product development.
AI-Supported Mandate Processing and Client Optimization
To increase efficiency, verify the correctness of calculations, tax returns, financial statements and other documents, and to optimize outcomes for our clients (e.g. identification of potential tax savings or structural improvements), we may use the artificial intelligence tool Grok provided by xAI. When using Grok, only the minimum data necessary for the specific task is transmitted.
Data shared with Grok is processed by xAI in accordance with its Privacy Policy and Consumer FAQs (available at https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy and https://x.ai/legal/faq). LIBERTAS configures its use of these tools to minimize data usage for model training.
Clients should be aware that interactions with such third-party AI tools are subject to the provider’s own terms and data processing practices.
Security Reasons
We process your data to protect our IT and other infrastructure (e.g. buildings). For example, we process data for monitoring, analysis and testing of our networks and IT infrastructures, including access controls. We may also use monitoring systems, e.g. cameras, for security purposes. In such a case, we will inform you separately at the relevant locations.
Compliance with Laws
We process your data to comply with legal requirements, e.g. health safety concepts, money laundering and terrorism financing, tax obligations etc., and it may be that we need to request further information from you to comply with such requirements ("Know Your Customer", "KYC") or as otherwise legally required by the authorities.
Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Business Development
We process your data in the context of our risk management and our corporate governance to protect ourselves against criminal or abusive activities. In the context of our business development, we may sell businesses, parts of businesses or companies to others or acquire them from others or enter into partnerships, which may lead to the exchange and processing of data on the basis of your consent.
V. Legal Basis for the Processing of Your Data
Insofar as we ask you for your consent for certain processing operations (e.g. for receiving newsletters and for personalized content or advertising based on your usage behavior or for the processing of sensitive data), we process your data on the basis of this consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by written notice (email is sufficient) to us, see our contact details in Section II. If you wish to withdraw your consent to online tracking, please note Section XIV. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing we carried out before your withdrawal, nor the processing of your data on the basis of other processing grounds.
If we have not asked for your consent, we process your data on other legal grounds, such as:
§ a contractual obligation
§ a legal obligation
§ a vital interest of the data subject or another natural person
§ for the performance of a public task
§ a legitimate interest that includes compliance with applicable law and the marketing of our products and services, the interest in better understanding our markets and managing and further developing our company, including its activities, safely and efficiently.
VI. Profiling and Automated Decision-Making
We may automatically evaluate certain of your personal characteristics for the purposes mentioned in Section IV on the basis of your data (Section III) ("profiling"), if we want to determine preference data, but also to identify misuse and security risks, carry out statistical evaluations or for operational planning purposes. For the same purposes, we may also create profiles, i.e. we may combine behavioral and preference data, but also master and contract data and technical data assigned to you, to better understand you as a person with your different interests and other characteristics. We may also use profiling to assess your creditworthiness. We do not use profiling that can have legal effects on you or significantly impairs you in a similar way without human review.
In certain situations, it may be necessary for reasons of efficiency and uniformity of decision-making processes that we automate discretionary decisions concerning you with legal effects or possibly significant disadvantages ("automated individual decisions"). In this case, we will inform you accordingly and take the measures required under applicable law.
VII. Disclosure of Data to Third Parties and Social Plug-ins
In connection with our contracts, the website, our services and products, our legal obligations or otherwise to protect our legitimate interests and the other purposes listed in Section IV, we also transmit your personal data to third parties, in particular to the following categories of recipients:
Third-Party Offerings
Our Website may also contain third-party offerings. If you click on such an offering, we transmit data to the respective provider to the extent necessary (e.g. the information that you found this offering with us and possibly further information that you have provided on our Website for this purpose).
Service Providers
We may work with service providers in Switzerland and abroad who process data about you on our behalf or in joint responsibility with us or who receive data about you from us in their own responsibility (e.g. IT providers, shipping companies, advertising service providers, login service providers, cleaning companies, security companies, banks, insurance companies, telecommunications companies, credit agencies, providers of address verification, lawyers) or whom we commission to process personal data for one of the above-mentioned purposes on our behalf and only in accordance with our instructions.
We may work with Artificial intelligence tool Grok by xAI, which we use for efficiency, plausibility checks and optimization support within mandates. Data is processed by xAI according to its published Privacy Policy and data controls. We only transmit the data strictly necessary for the respective task and configure settings to limit use for model training.
Contractual Partners including Customers
If the respective contract requires it, we pass on your data to other contractual partners. If we sell or purchase a business or assets, we may pass on your data to the potential seller or buyer of such a business or assets, to whom we assign or transfer our rights and obligations.
Authorities
We may disclose personal data to offices, courts and other authorities in Switzerland or abroad if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so or if this appears necessary to protect our interests. The authorities process data about you in their own responsibility that they receive from us.
Social Plug-ins
We do not use social media plug-ins on our Website. If our Website contain symbols of social media providers (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Xing), we use them only for passive linking to the pages of the respective providers.
Our Appearances on Social Networks
We have various appearances on social media platforms. We operate the appearances with the following providers: Meta, LinkedIn and X and collect there the data described in Section III and below about you.
We receive this data from you and the platforms when you come into contact with us via our online presence (e.g. when you communicate with us, comment on our content or visit our presence). At the same time, the platforms evaluate your use of our online presences and link this data with further data known to the platforms about you (e.g. about your behavior and your preferences). They also process this data for their own purposes in their own responsibility, in particular for marketing and market research purposes (e.g. to personalize advertising) and to control their platforms (e.g. which content they show you).
This also happens if you do not have a profile on the social media platform yourself. We process this data for the purposes described in Section IV, in particular for communication, for marketing purposes and for market research. You will find information on the corresponding legal bases in Section V.
We point out that you use our appearances on social media platforms and their functions at your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, rating).
The individual data processing operations and their scope differ depending on the operator of the respective social network. Details about the collection and storage of your personal data as well as about the type, scope and purpose of their use by the operator of the respective social media platform can be found in the privacy policies of the respective operator:
– The privacy policy for the social network Meta, operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update?ref=old_policy.
– The privacy policy for the social network LinkedIn, operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Attn: Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement), Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, can be viewed at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
– The privacy policy for the social network X, operated by X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, can be viewed at https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy.
The data collected about you in this context is processed by the platforms and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union, in particular the USA, which from the perspective of Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA) may not guarantee an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss/EU standards. In such a case, we have agreed so-called Standard Contractual Clauses with the providers, the purpose of which is to ensure an adequate level of data protection in the third country.
We are not aware of the manner in which the social media platforms use the data from your visit to our account and interaction with our posts for their own purposes, how long this data is stored and whether data is passed on to third parties. The data processing may differ depending on whether you are registered and logged in to the social network or visit the page as a non-registered and/or non-logged-in user. When accessing a post or the account, the IP address assigned to your device is transmitted to the provider of the social media platform. If you are currently logged in as a user, a cookie on your device can be used to track how you have moved on the net. Through buttons embedded in Website, the platforms can record your visits to these Website and assign them to your respective profile. Based on this data, content or advertising tailored to you can be offered. If you want to avoid this, you should log out or deactivate the "stay logged in" function, delete the cookies present on your device and restart your browser.
To exercise your data subject rights, you can contact both us and the provider of the social media platform. Insofar as one party is not responsible for the response or the information must be obtained from the other party, we or the provider will then forward your request to the respective partner. Please contact the operator of the social media platform directly for questions about profile formation and processing of your data when using the website. For questions about the processing of your interaction with us on our page, write to the contact details given above by us.
What information the social media platform receives and how it is used is described by the providers in their privacy policies (link see above). There you will also find information about contact options as well as setting options for advertising.
VIII. Transfer of Data Abroad
As explained in Section VII, we may also disclose data to other entities. These may not necessarily be located in Switzerland. Your data may therefore be processed both in Europe and outside Europe.
We only transfer data to countries without adequate statutory data protection if this is necessary for the performance of a contract or for the assertion or defense of legal claims, or if such a transfer is based on your express consent or is subject to guarantees that ensure the protection of your data, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
IX. How Long We Retain Your Personal Data
We process your data only as long as it is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which we collected it, including compliance with statutory retention obligations and, insofar as this is necessary for the assertion or defense of legal claims, until the end of the respective retention period or until the settlement of the relevant claims. After expiry of the respective retention period, we will securely destroy your data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
X. Security of Your Personal Data
We take appropriate security measures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data, to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing and to counteract the risks of loss, unintentional alteration, unwanted disclosure or unauthorized access.
Nevertheless, we and your personal data can become victims of cyber attacks, cybercrime, brute-force methods, hacker attacks and other fraudulent and malicious activities, including but not limited to viruses, forgeries, malfunctions and interruptions, which are beyond our control and responsibility.
We have also established procedures for dealing with suspected breaches of the protection of personal data and will notify you and all competent supervisory authorities of a breach if we are legally obliged to do so.
XI. Your Rights
Depending on applicable data protection law, you have various rights in relation to the processing of your personal data by us:
Right to Information
You have the right to request information from us as to whether and what data we process about you.
Right to Rectification
We endeavor to keep your personal data correct, up-to-date and complete. We encourage you to contact us and inform us if your personal data is not correct or changes so that we can keep your personal data up to date.
Right to Erasure
You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data from us if the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or if your personal data has been unlawfully processed, among other things.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to request that we provide certain personal data in a common electronic format or transfer it to another controller.
Right to Withdraw Consent
If we process data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your data for the purpose(s) to which you originally consented, unless there is another legal basis for the processing.
Complaint
If you believe that your data protection rights may have been violated, please let us know and contact the competent supervisory authority.
If you wish to exercise the above rights, please contact info@libertas-treuhand.ch. Please note that we must identify you to prevent misuse, e.g. by means of a copy of your identity card or passport, unless identification is possible in another way.
XII. Right to Object
Under applicable data protection law, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, in particular if your data is processed in the public interest, on the basis of a balancing of interests or for direct marketing purposes.
XIII. Newsletter
If you subscribe to one of our offered newsletters, you can cancel the subscription at any time by using the unsubscribe option contained in the newsletter.
XIV. Cookies
We use cookies on our Website and may also allow certain third parties to do so. Cookies are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our Website.
Depending on the purpose of these cookies, however, we may ask for your express prior consent before using them. You can access your current settings by clicking on the "Change cookie settings" button below, and you can withdraw your consent under the same link at any time. You can also set your browser to block certain types of cookies or alternative technologies or to delete existing cookies. You can also equip your browser with software that blocks tracking by third parties. Further information can be found on the help pages of your browser (usually under the keyword "Privacy").
Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the functioning of the Website as such or certain functions. They ensure, for example, that you can switch between pages without losing information entered in a form. They also ensure that you remain logged in. These cookies are only temporary ("session cookies"). The session cookies are automatically deleted after leaving our pages. If you block them, the Website may not function properly. Other cookies are necessary for the server to store options or information (that you have entered) beyond a session (i.e. a visit to the website) if you use this function (e.g. language settings, consents, automatic login functions, etc.). These cookies have an expiration period of up to 12 months. The legal basis for these cookies is our legitimate interest in providing you with all functions of our Website. A list of all necessary cookies can be found in our Consent Management Tool.
Performance Cookies
To optimize our Website and the associated offerings and better adapt them to the needs of users, we use cookies to record and analyze the use of our Website, possibly also beyond a session. For this purpose, we use analysis services from third-party providers, which are listed below (see Section XV "Monitoring Tools"). For example, we analyze which page a user most frequently accesses and whether error messages are displayed. These cookies do not store any information beyond that. They serve exclusively to increase user-friendliness and to tailor Website more specifically to the user. Before we use such cookies, we ask for your express prior consent. You can withdraw this consent at any time via the cookie settings. Performance cookies also have an expiration period of up to 12 months. Details can be found on the Website of the third-party providers.
Marketing Cookies
We and our advertising partners have an interest in targeting advertising as precisely as possible, i.e. only showing it to those we also want to address. For this purpose, we and our advertising partners – provided you consent – use cookies that can record the content accessed or the contracts concluded. This enables us to optimize our content (see Section XV "Monitoring Tools") and to show you and our advertising partners advertising on our Website, but also on other Website that show advertising from us or our advertising partners, that we believe interests you (see Section XVI "Tracking Tools"). If you consent to the use of these cookies, corresponding advertising will be shown to you. If you do not consent, you will not see less advertising, but simply different advertising. You can withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings. Marketing cookies have an expiration period of a few days to 12 months, depending on the circumstances.
XV. Monitoring Tools
We may use social media monitoring tools that help us identify and monitor content on third-party Website, e.g. in posts, tweets, blogs, news, forum posts and social media platforms. This gives us a detailed insight into the opinions of our customers and into all topics on the internet in which our company name(s) are mentioned or our brand(s) are discussed. So-called crawlers search available online sources to find the relevant hits. Some monitoring tools search both publicly accessible data on the internet and closed networks of third parties with which you have directly concluded contracts in order to access their data.
Our use of monitoring tools is based on our legitimate interests in market and opinion research for marketing and PR purposes. The data processing by such monitoring tools takes place externally and separately from our web and social media pages. For this reason, we are not responsible for the data processing by such monitoring tools.
If you wish to object to the use of your data by such monitoring tools or need information about the data stored about you or wish to exercise another right to which you are entitled, please contact the respective monitoring tool.
XVI. Tracking Tools
On the basis of your consent, we use tracking tools where necessary to ensure demand-oriented design and continuous optimization of our Website. Furthermore, we use the tracking tools to statistically record the use of our Website and to evaluate them for the purpose of optimizing the content we show you.
We use Google Analytics on the basis of your consent.
Google Analytics: Google Ireland (based in Ireland) is the provider of the "Google Analytics" service and acts as our processor. Google Ireland relies on Google LLC (based in the USA) as its processor (both "Google"). Google tracks the behavior of visitors on our Website (duration, frequency of pages accessed, geographical origin of access, etc.) via performance cookies (see above) and creates reports for us on this basis about the use of our Website. We have configured the service so that the IP addresses of visitors are shortened by Google in Europe before forwarding to the USA and thus cannot be traced back. We have disabled the "Data sharing" and "Signals" settings. Although we can assume that the information we share with Google is not personal data for Google, it is possible that Google may draw conclusions about the identity of visitors from this data for its own purposes, create personal profiles and link this data to the Google accounts of these persons. If you consent to the use of Google Analytics, you explicitly consent to such processing, which also includes the transfer of personal data (in particular usage data on the website, device information and individual IDs) to the USA and other countries. Information on data protection for Google Analytics can be found here support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 and if you have a Google account, you will find further information on processing by Google here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
XVII. Updating and Amending this Privacy Policy
Due to the continuous further development of our Website and their contents as well as due to changes in legislation or official requirements, it may be necessary for us to amend this privacy policy from time to time. The version published on these Website is the current version in each case.
Last updated: 01.06.2026