Disclaimer | Data Privacy

By contacting us, you agree to the following rules. We strive for a high data protection. 

 

Information Purposes

Our website is exclusively intended for information purposes, only. We reserve the right to modify or update the content of this website without prior notice. Although care is taken to ensure the published information's accuracy and validity, no guarantee is given as to accuracy, precision, reliability or entirety of this information. Advokatur shall not be liable for the use of any information on this website.

 

Mandate

The search for information on this website or the entering into contact by email, contact form, phone or otherwise does not already constitute a mandate with Advokatur Villiger.

We do not provide services to individuals in the EU

 

Data Privacy 

We handle your personal data and protect them in line with the applicable laws. The personal data we receive from you when you communicate with Advokatur Villiger by phone, email, contact form or in personal meetings will be recorded by us and by our external IT-provider. The data will be used to take steps at your request prior to entering into or for executing a mandate and will be recorded by us as long as it is required to fulfil the purpose and/or as settled by the Swiss law (normally 10 years).  

Our Email and Webhosting Providers are Swiss firms with its servers located within Switzerland. Our Email Provider is ISO 27001 certified.

This website is encrypted. Upon your request in writing the email communication (only) between you and Advokatur Villiger may also be encrypted. In this case, installations on your computer are required. However, encryption is not possible regarding the name of the sender, of the recipient, the subject heading as well as for the email communication with third parties. The not-encrypted email communication is not secure and it is possible that the email providers of third parties or the storage are located in countries without any adequate data protection laws. 

The use of video communication or internet telephony tools (Skype, Zoom etc.) need to be prior agreed for exceptional cases, only. Probably there are risks regarding data protection and the professional secret, for which we disclaim any liability.

No tracking software (such as google analytics etc.) is installed on this website. We record log files such as your IP-address, time, date, browser request, referrer, browser's version, system's software or other general browser information in order to meet the requirements of Swiss law or to debugging in case of fault. For the contact form the Google-captcha software is installed which stores temporary cookies in order to reload your data entered in the contact form in case of fault or to prevent spam. The data entered in the contact form may be delivered to USA. You may deactivate cookies entirely or partly in your browser settings. However, this may impair some functions of this website. 

We link our website to third party websites such as Google Maps. Please consult the Data Privacy Statement of Google LLC to learn about the use of your data by Google LLC. Please also consult the data privacy statements of other third parties. We disclaim any liability regarding the data handling by such third parties and the content of third party websites. 

In spite of our measures to protect your private data, we cannot exclude the unauthorised access, interception, saving, misuse, manipulation or deletion of personal data, especially due to cybercrime (hacking, virus, malware, phishing etc.) We assume that you are aware of these risks and accept these when communicating, especially by electronic communications tools including the contact form. 

Your payment data may be sent by the bank or any payment service provider (such as “Sumup”) to parties outside of Switzerland (e.g. for keeping records etc).

As far as legally permitted, we disclaim any liability for material or immaterial damages of any kind related to the violation of data protection law or of the business secret arisen by the conduct of us, by our auxiliary persons or of third parties.

For any questions regarding the data handling by us please contact Tonia Villiger: villiger(at)ad-voca.ch. See also below address.

 

Copyrights

Copyrights and any other rights to contents, pictures, photographs or other files on this website belong exclusively to Advokatur Villiger. Any utilization of any of this website's content, except for your personal use, is forbidden in the absence of prior written consent of Advokatur Villiger.

 

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Swiss law including Swiss civil procedure law is applicable for any disputes arising in connection with this website or with the services of Adovkatur Villiger. The court of the place of business of Advokatur Villiger will have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate any disputes arising in connection with this website or the services of Advokatur Villiger.