Preamble

With the following privacy statement, we wish to inform you about the types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as „data“) that we process, for what purposes, and to what extent. This privacy policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both in the context of providing our services and especially on our websites, in mobile applications, and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (collectively referred to as „online services“).

The terms used are not gender-specific.

Date: April 30, 2024

Contents

1. Preamble
2. Responsible Party
3. Overview of Processing Operations
4. Relevant Legal Bases
5. Security Measures
6. General Information on Data Storage and Deletion
7. Rights of Data Subjects
8. Provision of Online Services and Web Hosting
9. Use of Cookies
10. Blogs and Publication Media
11. Contact and Inquiry Management
12. Presence in Social Networks (Social Media)
13. Plug-ins and Embedded Functions and Content

Responsible Party

Daniel Schilling
Seestrasse 121
9326 Horn

Email: d.schilling@cutting-tool-academy.com
Phone: +41-78-675-0073
Imprint: [cutting-tool-academy.de/imprint](http://cutting-tool-academy.de/imprint)

**Overview of Processing Operations**

The following overview summarizes the types of data processed, the purposes of their processing, and refers to the data subjects.

Types of Processed Data

– Inventory data.
– Employment data.
– Location data.
– Contact data.
– Content data.
– Usage data.
– Meta/communication and procedural data.
– Log data.

Categories of Data Subjects

– Employees.
– Communication partners.
– Users.

Purposes of Processing

– Communication.
– Security measures.
– Organizational and administrative processes.
– Feedback.
– Provision of our online services and usability.
– Establishment and execution of employment relationships.
– Information technology infrastructure.
– Public relations.
– Business processes and management procedures.

Relevant Legal Bases

According to the Swiss Data Protection Act: If you are located in Switzerland, we process your data on the basis of the Federal Act on Data Protection („Swiss DPA“). Unlike the GDPR, the Swiss DPA does not require that a legal basis for the processing of personal data be specified, and that the processing of personal data is carried out in good faith, lawfully and proportionately (Art. 6 paras 1 and 2 of the Swiss DPA). Moreover, personal data is only collected for a specific purpose recognizable to the data subject and processed only as compatible with this purpose (Art. 6 para 3 of the Swiss DPA).

Security Measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with legal requirements, considering the state of the art, the costs of implementation, and the nature, scope, circumstances, and purposes of processing as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.

These measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as access to, input, transfer, securing availability, and its separation. Further, we have procedures in place to ensure the exercise of data subjects‘ rights, data deletion, and responses to data compromise. Moreover, we consider the protection of personal data already in the development or selection of hardware, software, and procedures, according to the principle of privacy by design and by default.

Securing online connections using TLS/SSL encryption technology (HTTPS): To protect the data transmitted via our online services from unauthorized access, we rely on TLS/SSL encryption technology. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the cornerstones of secure data transmission on the Internet. These technologies encrypt the information transmitted between the website or app and the user’s browser (or between two servers), thereby protecting the data from unauthorized access. TLS, as the more advanced and secure version of SSL, ensures that all data transmissions meet the highest security standards. When a website is secured with an SSL/TLS certificate, this is indicated by the display of HTTPS in the URL, serving as an indicator to users that their data is securely and encryptedly transmitted.