Data protection

We process personal data (data that directly or indirectly identifies natural persons) that we receive from you or involved third parties within the scope of the client relationship or that we collect ourselves. Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG, Stockerstrasse 38, 8002 Zurich, is responsible for the processing of personal data described in this privacy policy.

Some of the personal data is provided by you or the data subjects themselves when you or they contact us by email or telephone and request our services. This includes, for example, name and contact details and information about the data subject's role with the company or organisation for which you or the relevant contacts work or on whose behalf you or they contact us. We also process personal data that we receive in our correspondence with third parties (namely clients, counterparties, authorities and courts and their employees or other contact persons) in the context of the attorney-client relationship (e.g., name, contact details, date of birth). We also collect some personal data ourselves, e.g., from public registers or websites.

We process the aforementioned types of personal data primarily in order to provide, document and bill our legal services.

We also process the contact details of clients or their employees or other contacts for marketing purposes (using any means of communication such as email, social media, post or telephone) to provide information about publications, events, news, services or products that may be of interest.

In order to achieve the purposes described in this privacy declaration, it may be necessary for us to disclose personal data to the following categories of recipients: external service providers, clients, counterparties and their legal representatives, business partners with whom we may need to coordinate the provision of legal services, and public authorities and courts.

We process personal data in our area of responsibility in Switzerland. However, we may transfer the personal data to recipients (namely clients, counterparties or authorities) who process the personal data in other countries, including those that do not guarantee a level of data protection comparable to that under Swiss law. We will do the latter based on consent or standard contractual clauses or if it is necessary for the performance of a contract or the enforcement of legal claims.

We only store personal data for as long as is necessary to perform our services, for as long as there is a legal obligation to retain and document the data or for as long as we have an overriding private or public interest in doing so. We take reasonable and proportionate precautions to protect personal data from loss, unauthorised modification or unauthorised access by third parties. If you provide us with personal data through a third party (e.g., through your employees or other contacts), it is up to you to inform them in a general way about the processing by legal service providers (such as us) or other external service providers (e.g., in a privacy statement for employees).

We would like to point out that we use external IT service providers and cloud providers with servers in Switzerland to perform our services. We then use certain IT services and means of communication which may be associated with data security risks (e.g., e-mail, video conferencing). It is your responsibility to inform us of your request for special security measures.

We have a legitimate interest in processing personal data for the purposes stated. Some processing is also necessary so that we can fulfil our contractual obligations to you or our legal obligations (e.g., data storage obligations).

In particular, data subjects have the right to information about the personal data stored about them and the purpose of the data processing, the right to rectification as well as to deletion or restriction of the processing of their personal data, the right to object to the processing, the right to take legal action before a competent supervisory authority as well as to data transmission/transferability. However, please note that conditions and exceptions apply to these rights. Where legally permitted or required, we may refuse requests to exercise these rights. For example, we may or must retain or otherwise continue to process personal data despite a request to delete the personal data or restrict processing for legal reasons.

No consent to the privacy policy is required from the client, its employees or other contact persons. The data protection declaration is merely information about the type, scope and purpose of the use of personal data by Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG. Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG reserves the right to unilaterally change the content of the aforementioned privacy policy at any time and without notice.

If you have any questions or if you or your employees or other contact persons would like to exercise your or their data protection rights, please contact us at info@ndlegal.ch or write to Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG, Stockerstrasse 38, 8002 Zurich.

Zurich, September 2023 / Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG

General privacy policy

We take the protection of your data seriously and treat your information confidentially. In this privacy policy you will find information regarding the processing of your data.

Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG is responsible for the processing of personal data described in this privacy declaration. If you have any questions, you can contact us either by e-mail (info@ndlegal.ch) or by post (Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG, Stockerstrasse 38, 8002 Zurich).

What personal data do we process?

We process personal data that we receive directly from you when you contact us by e-mail or telephone. This includes information such as your surname, first name, telephone number and e-mail address.

When our website is accessed, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date and time of the browser request and general information transmitted about the operating system and browser.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties. In particular, personal data is provided to us by counterparties and by courts and authorities in the course of representing our clients. This includes information such as your surname, first name, telephone number and e-mail address.

Finally, we collect certain personal data from publicly accessible registers (e.g., commercial register).

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

We process your data primarily to provide our legal services. For this purpose, we also use IT resources that can be managed by third parties.

Furthermore, we process your data within the scope of job application procedures and for the purpose of answering your enquiries.

We also process some of your data for marketing purposes (using any means of communication such as e-mail etc.).

Finally, we process data in order to provide you with an error-free website.

Do we share your personal information?

We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if you have consented to the disclosure, if we are required to do so by regulatory or business requirements, or if it is necessary for the fulfilment of one of the purposes set out in this declaration. In particular, these may be the following recipients: external service providers, counterparties, authorities, courts.

Some of the recipients mentioned are located in countries that do not offer a level of data protection comparable to that under Swiss law. In such cases, your data is passed on for the fulfilment of a contract, for the enforcement of legal claims or based on your consent or on standard contractual clauses.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored in the browser directories of your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. When you visit this website again, you will be recognised. There are both permanent and session cookies. Session cookies store your entries as you navigate from page to page within the website. The cookies are deleted again after a short time, at the latest when you close your browser. With permanent cookies, the website remembers your preferences and settings so that they are available again the next time you visit the website. Permanent cookies are deleted after a certain period of time.

Why do we use cookies?

We may use cookies to provide you with more targeted information. Through cookies, we may collect certain personal information from you, such as domain name, user preferences (e.g., language preferences), your unique session ID, authentication data and your visitor time (timestamp) and other metadata.

How can we use cookies?

- Google Analytics

We may use Google Analytics. This is a service operated by Google LLC in the USA. It conveys information about how visitors use our website. Google uses cookies to collect anonymous information, for example the number of visitors to the website, where visitors log in from, which pages they view and how long they stay on our website. As a matter of principle, we do not transmit any personal data to Google (including IP addresses). However, Google may track your use of the website, combine this information with data from other websites you have visited that are also tracked by Google, and use this information for its own purposes (e.g., advertising). If you have registered yourself with Google, Google knows you. Google will then process your personal data under its responsibility and in accordance with its privacy policy.

- Marketing communication

As part of our marketing communications, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to monitor whether updates sent by email are opened and responded to and whether links contained within them are clicked.

- LinkedIn

We may use a plugin for the social network LinkedIn. You will recognise this if we have placed a LinkedIn logo on our website. Whenever you become active on this social network, the relevant information is forwarded and your visit is registered on LinkedIn.

- Managing your personal cookie settings

You can set your browser to block cookies or warn you when cookies are being sent to your computer. If you disable the receipt of cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website and our marketing communications.

How do we protect your personal data?

We take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to keep your personal data safe in electronic or physical form and to protect it from unauthorised access by third parties.

How long do we keep your preferences?

We keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed. We also retain your personal data for as long as we are required to do so for regulatory reasons.

What rights do you have?

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

- right to information regarding the processing of your personal data;

- right to rectification or deletion of your personal data;

- right to object to the processing of your personal data;

- right to disclosure or transfer of your personal data;

- Right to seek redress from the competent supervisory authority.

We will comply with the law when processing your requests to exercise the above rights. Please note that we may refuse your request to the extent permitted by law.

Zurich, September 2023 / Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG