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Privacy policy

This application collects personal data from its users.

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Provider and responsible person

KOMUNIQUE GMBH
St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10
CH-4056 Basel

E-mail address of the provider: hello@taxlawblog.ch

Types of data collected

Personal data that this application processes independently or through third parties include: Cookie; Usage Data; First Name; Last Name; Email.

Full details of each type of personal data processed are provided in the designated sections of this Privacy Policy or selectively through explanatory texts displayed prior to data collection.
Personal data may be provided voluntarily by the user or, in the case of usage data, may be collected automatically when using this application.
Unless otherwise specified, the provision of all data requested by this application is mandatory. If the user refuses to provide the data, this may result in this application being unable to provide its services to the user. In cases where this application expressly states that the provision of personal data is voluntary, users may choose not to provide such data without any consequences for the availability or functioning of the service.
Users who are unclear about which personal data is mandatory may contact the provider.
Any use of cookies - or other tracking tools - by this application or third-party service providers used by this application is for the purpose of providing the service requested by the user and any other purposes described in this document and in the Cookie Policy.

Users are responsible for all third party personal data obtained through this application.

Type and place of data processing

Processing methods

The provider processes the user data in a proper manner and takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access and unauthorised forwarding, modification or destruction of data.
Data processing is carried out by means of computers or IT-based systems in accordance with organisational procedures and practices that are specifically geared to the stated purposes. In addition to the data controller, other persons, either internal (human resources management, sales, marketing, legal department, system administrators) or external - and, where necessary, designated by the data controller as processors (such as technical service providers, delivery companies, hosting providers, IT companies or communication agencies) - may also operate this application and thus have access to the data. An up-to-date list of these parties can be requested from the provider at any time.

Place

The data are processed at the provider's premises and at all other places where the parties involved in the data processing are located.

Depending on the location of the users, data transfers may involve the transfer of the user's data to a country other than the user's own. To find out more about the place where the data transmitted are processed, Users may consult the section containing detailed information on the processing of personal data.

Storage duration

Unless otherwise specified in this document, personal data will be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose for which it was collected, and may be kept longer if necessary due to a legal obligation to be fulfilled or based on the user's consent.

Purpose of processing

Personal data about the User is collected in order for the Provider to provide the Service and further to comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of Users or third parties), detect malicious or fraudulent activities. In addition, data is collected for the following purposes: Analytics, displaying content from external platforms, tag management, platform services and hosting, managing contacts and sending messages and contacting the user.

Users can find more detailed information on these processing purposes and on the personal data used for the purpose in question in the 'Detailed information on the processing of personal data' section of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of personal data

Personal data is collected for the following purposes using the following services:

Analytics

With the services listed in this section, the provider can monitor and analyze traffic and track user behavior.

Google Analytics (Google LLC)

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC ("Google"). Google uses the data collected to track and study how this application is used, report on its activity, and share it with other Google services.
Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Processed personal data: cookie; usage data.

Place of Processing: United States - Privacy Policy - Opt Out.

Displaying content from external platforms

This type of service allows users to view and interact with content hosted on external platforms directly through this application.
This type of service may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even if users do not use it.

Google Fonts (Google LLC)

Google Fonts is a font visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this application to embed appropriate content on its pages.

Processed personal data: Usage data; various types of data as described in the Service's Privacy Policy.

Place of processing: United States - Privacy policy.

Contacting the user

Contact form (this application)

By filling out the contact form with their information, users authorize this application to use their information to respond to requests for information, quotes, or other inquiries indicated in the header of the form.

Personal data processed: Email; Last name; First name.

Mailing list or newsletter (this application)

By subscribing to the mailing list or newsletter, the user's email address is added to the contact list of people who may receive email messages with commercial or promotional information related to this application. In addition, your email address may be added to this list when you sign up for this application or after you make a purchase.

Personal data processed: Email; Last name; First name.

Platform services and hosting

The purpose of these services is to host and operate main components of the application for this application, so that this application can be offered from a unified platform. Such platforms provide the provider with a whole range of tools - for example, analytics and commenting functions, user and database management, e-commerce and payment processing - which involve the processing of personal data.
Some of these services operate with geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the location where the personal data is stored.

Webflow (Webflow, Inc.)

Webflow is a platform provided by Webflow, Inc. that allows the owner to build, host and operate this application. Webflow is highly customizable and can host websites with content ranging from simple blogs to complex e-commerce platforms.

Personal data processed: different types of data, as described in the Service's Privacy Policy.

Place of processing: United States - Privacy policy - Opt out.

Tag management

These types of services help the provider centrally manage the tags or scripts needed for that application.
This results in the user's data flowing through these services and possibly being stored.

Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)

Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.

Processed personal data: usage data.

Place of processing: United States - Privacy policy.

Manage contacts and send messages

These types of services allow managing a database of email contacts, phone numbers or any other contact information to communicate with the user.
The services may also collect data on what date and time message was read by the user, as well as when the user interacts with incoming messages, for example, by clicking on links contained therein.

MailerLite (UAB "Mailerlite")

MailerLite is a service provided by UAB "Mailerlite" for managing e-mail addresses and sending messages.

Processed personal data: Last name; first name.

Place of processing: Lithuania - Privacy policy.

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by websites you visit. Websites use cookies to allow users to navigate efficiently and to help perform certain functions. Cookies that are necessary for the proper operation of the website may be set without your consent. All other cookies must be approved before they can be set in the browser.

• Strictly necessary cookies: Strictly necessary cookies enable essential core functions of the website such as user login and account management. Without the absolutely necessary cookies, the website cannot be used properly.
• Performance cookies: Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, such as analytics cookies. These cookies cannot be used to directly identify a specific visitor.
• Targeting cookies: Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, e.g. content partners, banner networks. These cookies can be used by companies to profile visitor interests or serve relevant ads on other websites.
• Functional cookies: Functional cookies are used to store visitor information on the website, e.g. language, time zone, advanced content.
• Unclassified cookies: Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any of the other categories or are in the process of being classified.

You can change your consent to cookie use below.

Further information on the collection and processing of data

Legal measures

The User's personal data may be processed by the Provider for the purposes of law enforcement within or in preparation of legal proceedings arising from the improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User declares that he/she is aware that the Provider may be required by the authorities to disclose personal data.

Further information about the personal data of the user

In addition to the information listed in this privacy policy, this application may provide the user, upon request, with other contextual information relating to specific services or to the collection and processing of personal data.

System logs and maintenance

This application and third party services may, for operational and maintenance purposes, collect files that record the interaction that takes place through this application (system logs) or use other personal data (e.g. IP address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this privacy policy

Further information on the collection or processing of personal data can be requested from the provider at any time via the contact details listed.

Changes to this privacy policy

The provider reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by informing users on this site and, if applicable, about this application and/or - as far as technically and legally possible - by sending a message about the provider's existing contact data of the users. Users are therefore advised to call up this page regularly and in particular to check the date of the last change stated at the bottom of the page.

If changes affect the use of data based on the user's consent, the provider will - if necessary - obtain a new consent.

Definitions and legal references

Personal data (or data)

All information by which, directly or in connection with further information, the identity of a natural person is or can be determined.

Usage data

Information that this application (or third party services that this application uses) automatically collects, such as: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers of users who use this application, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the response file received, the numeric code indicating the status of the server response (successful result, error, etc.), the date and time of the request, the type of service requested, the type of service requested, the type of service requested, the type of service provided, the type of service provided, and so on.the country of origin, the functions of the browser and operating system used by the user, the various time data per call (e.g. how much time was spent on each page of the application) and information on the path followed within an application, in particular the order of the pages visited, as well as other information on the operating system of the device and/or the user's IT environment.

User

The person using this application, who, unless otherwise specified, is the same as the data subject.

Person concerned

The natural person to whom the personal data refer.

Processor (or order processor)

Natural or legal person, authority, body or other entity that processes personal data on behalf of the controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Responsible (or provider, partly also owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data and the means by which it is to be carried out, including the security measures concerning the operation and use related thereto. Unless otherwise specified, the controller is the natural or legal person through whom this application is offered.

This application

The hardware or software tool used to collect and process the user's personal data.

Service

The service provided through this application as described in the relevant T&Cs (if any) and on this website/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise indicated, all references in this document to the European Union refer to all current Member States of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).

Cookie

Cookies are trackers that consist of a small data set stored in the user's browser.

Tracker

The term tracker refers to any technology - such as cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags, or fingerprinting - that enables users to track, for example, by providing access to or storing information on the user's device.

Legal notice

This privacy statement applies solely to this application, unless otherwise stated in this document.

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Last updated: September 1, 2023