Privacy Policy

This version of our Privacy Policy takes effect on 18 May 2022. If you have any questions or comments about our legal notices or privacy, please contact us at [email protected].

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using www.tiranetwork.com (hereafter "the Site") or any of our services and features that we provide on our Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Please remember that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of sites that are operated or owned by third parties.

TIRA, an association formed in accordance with art. 60 & seq. of the Swiss Civil Code (CCS), is the operator of the Site www.tiranetwork.com and therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of information about you and the compatibility of that data processing with Swiss law.

That means that we observe the statutory provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesgesetzes über den Datenschutz DSG), the Federal Data Protection Ordinance (Verordnung zum Bundesgesetz über den Datenschutz VDSG), the Telecommunications Act (Fernmeldegesetzes FMG) and, if applicable, other data protection provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (EU-GDPR).

When you visit www.tiranetwork.com

When you visit our Site, our servers temporarily store every form of access in a log file. The following data will be collected without your intervention and stored by us until its automatic deletion no later than twelve months after your visit:

• the IP address of the computer making the access request
• the date and time of your visit
• the name and URL of the retrieved file
• the site from where the access request was made
• the operating system of your computer and the browser you use
• the country from which you accessed our Site and the language settings in your browser
• the name of your internet access provider

The collection and processing of this information is for the purpose of enabling the use of our Site (establishment of connection), to ensure the long-term security and stability of the system, to optimize our Site, and for internal statistical purposes. It is our legitimate interest to process this information in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU-GDPR.

When using our contact form

When you visit our Site, you have the option to use a contact form to contact us. Entering the following personal data is mandatory:

• Title
• First and Last Name
• Company
• Email address
• The topic you wish to address

We only use this data to answer your contact request as best as possible and in a personalized way. Processing your contact request is in our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU-GDPR. You can object to this data processing at any time.

When registering for our email newsletter

You can subscribe to our email newsletter on our Site. This requires a registration. As part of the registration, the following data must be provided: Title, First and Last Name, and Email address. We process this data exclusively to personalize the information and offers you will receive and to better align our newsletter with your interests.

By registering, you give us your consent to process your information such that we can send you our regular email newsletter — as well as for the statistical evaluation of your user activity and the optimization of the newsletter. This consent constitutes our legal basis for the processing of your email address in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU-GDPR.

When contracting, ordering or consulting with third parties

On our Site there are various ways for you to place orders or enter into contracts, as well as to request informational materials or other services. In almost every case, the corresponding services are provided by our network of business partners, who are third parties to the brand. You will be informed accordingly if we will be forwarding your information to our partners.

To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature

We occasionally operate contests, promotions, surveys and similar activities. If you choose to participate, we process the data you provide exclusively to personalize any information and offers you may agree to receive, and to better align it with your interests.

On registration as a registered site user

TIRA offers the possibility to create a user account. When you register as a registered site user, you will access site features that are not available to unregistered users. These features include saving your personal data, a personalized guidance tool, and providing you with personalized recommendations. This information will not be visible to any other users, registered or not.

Pseudonymized usage profiles

In order to provide you with personalized services and information on our Site, we use and analyze the information we collect about you when you visit the Site. The analysis of your user activity can lead to the creation of a so-called usage profile. A merge of the usage data only takes place with pseudonymous personal data, and never with non-pseudonymous personal data.

To enable personalized marketing in social networks, we embed a Remarketing Pixel from Facebook and Google on the Site. If you have an account with one of the social networks involved and are logged in at the time of the web-page visit, this pixel links the page visit to your account. To block this connection, log out of your account before visiting the Site.

Re-Targeting

We use re-targeting technologies on the Site. Your user behavior will be analyzed on our Site in order to be able to offer you customized advertising on partner sites. Your user behavior is recorded as a pseudonym. Most re-targeting technologies use cookies.

This Site uses Google AdWords Remarketing and Doubleclick by Google to display ads based on the use of previously visited sites. We also use Google Tag Manager to manage usage-based advertising services. You can prevent re-targeting at any time by rejecting or deactivating the relevant cookies in the menu bar of your web browser.

Facebook Analytics

For statistical purposes, we use the conversion tracking pixel from Facebook Inc. on our Site. The pixel allows us to track behavior of users who have been redirected to our site by clicking on a Facebook ad. The data collected does not allow us to make any conclusion as to the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the profile of each user is possible.

We will only disclose your personal information if you have expressly provided consent, if a legal obligation exists, or if it is necessary to enforce our rights. In addition, we will share your information with third parties if this is required to provide the services you request and/or to analyze your user activity.

Where the Site contains links to third-party sites, after clicking on these links TIRA will no longer have any influence on the collection, processing, storage or use of personal data by third parties and assumes no responsibility for it.

TIRA is entitled to transfer your personal data to third parties (appointed service providers) abroad if this is necessary for the data processing described in this Privacy Policy. These providers are obliged to protect data to the same extent as we are. If the level of data protection in a country does not correspond to that of Switzerland or Europe, we will ensure that at all times the protection of your personal data corresponds to that in Switzerland or in the EU.

We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the information that we store about you against manipulation, partial or complete loss and against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with developments in technology.

You should always keep your payment information confidential and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you share the computer with others. Our employees and the service companies commissioned by us have been obliged by us to secrecy and to comply with data protection regulations.

Cookies help in many ways to make your visit to our Site easier, more enjoyable and more meaningful. Cookies are information files that your web browser automatically saves to your computer's hard drive when you visit our Site. Cookies neither damage the hard disk of your computer nor are personal data of the user transmitted to us by these cookies.

For example, we use cookies to better tailor information, offers and advertising to your individual interests. Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a note always appears when you receive a new cookie. Disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use all features of our Site.

On our Site we use various so-called tracking tools. These tracking tools will monitor your browsing behavior on our Site. This monitoring is undertaken for the purpose of continuous optimization and needs-based design of our Site. In this context, pseudonymized usage profiles are created and small text files stored on your computer ("cookies") are used.

The Site uses social media plug-ins. If these plug-ins are activated, your browser will establish a direct connection with the servers of the respective social network as soon as you access our Site. The content of the plug-in is transmitted by the social network directly to your browser and incorporated by your browser into the Site.

On this Site, social plug-ins from Facebook are used to make our Site more personal. By integrating the plug-ins, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our Site, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are currently not logged in to Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to attribute the data collected via our Site to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our Site.

To send our newsletter, we use third party email marketing services. Our newsletter contains a so-called Web Beacon (counting pixel, tracking pixel) or similar technical means. The use of this Web Beacon enables the evaluation of whether the emails carrying our newsletter have been opened. In addition, the click behavior of the newsletter recipients can also be recorded and evaluated.

We use this data for statistical purposes and to optimize the content and structure of the newsletter. To stop tracking pixels in our newsletter, please set your mail program so that no HTML is displayed in messages.

For the sake of completeness, we would like to point out to users resident or domiciled in Switzerland that in the US there are surveillance measures by US authorities which generally allow the storage of all personal data of all persons whose data has been transferred from Switzerland to the USA.

Furthermore, we would like to point out that in the USA there are no legal remedies available for the persons concerned from Switzerland which allow them to obtain access to the data concerning them and to obtain their rectification or deletion, nor is there effective judicial protection against general access rights of US authorities.

For users residing in EU Member States, please note that, from the point of view of the European Union, the US does not have sufficient data protection levels. To the extent that we have explained in this privacy policy that recipients of data (such as Google and Facebook) are located in the US, we will either be governed by contractual arrangements with these companies or by securing certification of these companies under the EU-US Privacy Shield to ensure that your data is protected at a reasonable level by our partners.

You have the right to receive information about the personal data that we store about you free of charge upon request. In addition, you have the right to correct inaccurate data and the right to delete your personal data, as far as there is no statutory storage obligation or an authorization requirement that allows us to process the data.

According to Articles 18 and 21 EU-GDPR, you have the right to demand a restriction of data processing and to oppose data processing. You also have the right to reclaim from us the data you have given us (right to data portability). On request, we can also pass the data on to a third party of your choice. You have the right to receive the data in a common file format.

You can contact us for the above purposes via [email protected]. We may, at our sole discretion, require proof of identity to process your requests.

If you live in an EU country, you have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority at any time.

We only store personal information for as long as it is necessary:

• to use the above tracking, advertising and analysis services within the scope of our legitimate interest;
• to carry out services that you have requested or to which you have given your consent;
• to comply with our legal obligations.

Contract data is kept longer by us, as this is required by statutory storage requirements. Retention requirements that oblige us to keep data arise from accounting and tax regulations. According to these regulations, business communication, contracts and accounting documents must be kept for up to 10 years. As far as we no longer need this data to carry out the services for you, the data will be blocked for accounting and tax purposes only.

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TIRA is an association formed in accordance with art. 60 & seq. of the Swiss Civil Code (CCS).

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