This privacy policy declaration applies to the company ALFA Klebstoffe AG.

The protection of your personal data is important to us. Therefore, this privacy policy informs you about our processing of your personal data within our company and the offers and content provided.

In this privacy policy, we refer to the GDPR and the Swiss Data Protection Act. Whether and which data protection law is applied depends on the individual case of the person.

1 Which data do we store from customers, business partners and interested parties?

We store the following personal data of our customers, business partners and interested parties, provided that this data has been made available to us or is publicly retrievable:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Gender
  • Business email address
  • Business phone numbers
  • Date of birth
  • Company affiliation

The storage takes place on Swiss servers.

2 What data do we store from applicants

The applicant decides for himself/herself which data he/she makes available to us. In the event of insufficient data, the application may not be considered.

The applicant data will be stored exclusively within the scope of your application and used internally for this purpose. After the application procedure has been completed, your data will be deleted. This is not the case if employment occurs or if you have given us permission to take your details into account for further application procedures (so-called talent pool).

The storage takes place on Swiss servers.

3 Safety measures

We take organizational, contractual and technical security measures in accordance with the state of the art to ensure that your personal data is protected against loss or access by unauthorized persons.

4 Contact

When contacting us (electronically, by post, in person or by telephone), the user’s details are stored for the purpose of processing the contact enquiry and handling it.

5 Newsletter

We only send newsletters with the consent of the recipients or with legal permission. Our newsletters contain information about our products, offers, promotions, trade fairs and our company.

5.1 Double-Opt-In

Registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in process. This means that after registration you will receive an email asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can register with other people’s email addresses. The registrations for the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with the legal requirements.

The data is stored on Swiss and US servers. Due to the data transfer to the USA, an data processing agreement exists.

5.2 Registration data

To subscribe to the newsletter, all you need to do is enter your email address and the topics you wish to receive. All other information is voluntary and helps us to customise your subscribed news.

5.3 Termination/Revocation

You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.

6 Cookies

The following types of cookies can be created when you visit our websites:

Essential cookies
Stores the selection of accepted cookies and selected page language of the visitor (storage period 1 year).

Statistics cookies
Generates statistical data about how the visitor uses the website. This allows us to improve the user and communication experience (storage period 2 years).

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by the third-party provider Google Inc. Google Analytics has been enhanced with IP anonymisation to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Statistics cookies are only set after your permission.

External media cookies
Used to display the following content (storage period 6 months).

  • Maps of the “Google Maps” service of the third-party provider Google Inc.
  • Videos from the “YouTube” platform of the third-party provider Google Inc.

External media cookies are only set after your permission.

6.1 Deactivate/delete cookies

If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer, you can deactivate the corresponding options in the system settings of your browser or delete cookies stored there. The exclusion of cookies may lead to functional limitations of the website.

7 Your rights

You can exercise your right to information to obtain information free of charge about the personal data we have stored about you.

In addition, you may exercise your right to rectification of inaccurate data, restriction of processing, erasure of your personal data and, where applicable, data portability. In the event that unlawful data processing is suspected, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can also exercise your right to revoke consent, in principle with effect for the future.

The following e-mail address is available for this purpose: privacy@alfa.swiss

Postal address of the Data Protection Officer:

ALFA Klebstoffe AG
Data Protection Officer
Vor Eiche 10
CH-8197 Rafz

8 Data deletion

The data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

9 Amendment of the privacy policy

We reserve the right to change the privacy policy in order to adapt it to changed legal situations or in the event of changes to the service and data processing.

10 Translations

In case of discrepancies between different translations, the German text shall be binding.

V 2.0 | 31.08.2023