Privacy Policy

FORTEC Switzerland AG take the protection of your personal data very seriously. The following data security explanation gives you an overview of how we ensure this protection in connection with our website. However it does not apply to websites of companies to which we refer by hyperlink.

Processing and use of personal data

Personal data is raised on this website only on voluntary basis (see "registration", "newsletter/product enquiry “). We do not identify individual visitors on our website, unless they disclose their contact data or further information voluntarily via one of the web forms or by other contact (e.g. by e-mail). We use your voluntarily communicated data only for the purposes, for which you sent them. By no means the communicated data will not be sold or passed on to third parties for any reason, unless we are legally obligated or you gave us your agreement.

Data processing on our website

Upon each visit by a user to the FORTEC Switzerland AG web site our server log files automatically and stores the information conveyed by your browser.

This includes:

Browser type
Version
Operating system
Referral URL
IP address
Date and time of visit

If you use our Download service, there will additionally be stored:

Quantity of downloaded data
Information stating whether the download was successful

FORTEC Switzerland AG may not assign this data to an individual. A combination of this data with other data sources, in particular the cookies, newsletter data or product enquiries will not be made and the data will be deleted after statistic evaluation.

Cookies

In several places our web pages use so called cookies, e.g. in the context of the above mentioned statistic evaluation. They make our website more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files, which are filed on your computer and stored by your Browser. Most of the Cookies we use are so called "session Cookies", which means that they are deleted automatically after you have left our website.

Any Cookies not deleted will help us recognise whether our web pages have previously been accessed from your computer. Cookies do not cause damage on your computer and do not contain viruses. Should Cookies be used, e.g. in the context of the above mentioned statistic evaluation, the data is raised, used and stored exclusively pseudonymously. This data will not be used to identify the individual user visiting our web pages (e.g. by combination or comparison with other data conveyed to us).

You can influence the handling of cookies using the appropriate settings on your browser, eg. by accepting Cookies generally, or just from case to case or by rejecting them generally.

When using some of our services you are asked to indicate your e-mail address and some further contact data and/or information about yourself or your organisation. This data is voluntary. We always indicate the purpose for which we ask you to transmit the data and we also indicate which of the desired information is necessary for the relevant purpose and which is optional. Necessary information is marked by a star.

If you register yourselves for our newsletter distribution list, your data will be stored on our Constant Contact profile. Our Constant Contact profile can only be accessed by FORTEC Switzerland AG and your data will be only used for newsletter purposes.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie in regards to use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymisation, Google will truncate/anonymise the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymised collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Social Media

This website uses links to Twitter and LinkedIn social networking sites. When you access pages that contain features from a third party your browser will establish a direct connection with their servers. FORTEC Switzerland AG has no influence on the amount of data collected and processed.

SSL Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential data, such as enquiries you sent to us as the provider, this website uses an SSL encryption. You recognise an encrypted transmission by the change of the address line of the browser from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock-symbol in your browser address line.

If the SSL encryption is active, the data you have transmitted to us cannot be accessed by third parties.

Further information

Your confidence is very important to us. Therefore we will gladly answer your questions concerning the processing of your personal data. If you have questions which this data security explanation could not answer, or if you need more information to a certain paragraph, please do not hesitate to contact us (info@fortec.ch)