Privacy policy

Data controller responsible for data processing

SK-AESTHETICS – Dermatology Center
Bühlstrasse 13
8645 Rapperswil-Jona

Phone 055 224 10 60
Fax 055 224 10 68

You can contact our data protection officer at the above address or at sk@sk-aesthetics.ch

Purposes and legal bases of data processing

We process your personal data in accordance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act and all other relevant laws.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1c) and (4) Recital (47) GDPR. If special categories of personal data are required for this, we will obtain your prior consent in accordance with Art. 9 (2a) in conjunction with Art. 7 GDPR. If we compile statistics with these data categories, and this is done on the basis of Art. 9 para. 2j) GDPR in conjunction with Section 27 of the Federal Data Protection Act.

We also process your data if this is necessary pursuant to Art. 6 (1f) GDPR in order to protect our legitimate interests or those of third parties.

This may be the case in particular:

to ensure the security of our systems,
for advertising our own projects and for market and opinion surveys,
for the prevention and investigation of criminal offenses, in particular through data analysis to detect processes that could indicate misuse.
In addition, we process your personal data to fulfill legal obligations (e.g. regulatory requirements, and commercial and tax-related retention obligations). The legal basis for this in these cases is the respective statutory regulation in conjunction with Art. 6 (1c) GDPR. If we wish to process your personal data for a purpose not mentioned above, we will inform you in advance.

Profiling does not take place.

Recipients of your data

Data processing in the practice: enquiries and requests for information
Lawyers: legal services
Tax consultant: payroll and financial accounting
Disposal company: commissioned for the disposal of files and data carriers

Duration of data storage

We delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes and any existing statutory retention periods have expired.

Verification and retention obligations arise from the relevant Swiss regulations such as the Swiss Code of Obligations, the Swiss tax code, and the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act. The storage periods are then up to ten years. If claims can be asserted against us, we will retain the data until the statutory limitation period has expired. We retain personal data that is relevant to an existing legal dispute until the legal dispute has been concluded.

Your rights

You can request information about your data stored by us at any time using the contact details given above. You also have the right to demand the correction of incorrect data or, if the legal requirements are met, the amendment, restriction or deletion of your data. You can informally object to the use of your data for the purposes of direct advertising or market research at any time. Upon request, we will send you your data stored by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format that you can use for further processing.

What data do we collect?

Access data generated by accessing our pages
Contact data that you enter yourself, e.g. in forms (email, newsletter, enquiries)
Pseudonymised tracking data with the help of cookies
What do we use the data for?
For the provision and secure operation of our website
To send information requested by you (by email, by newsletter)
To optimise the content and usability of our website
For processing all business transactions
How do we protect your data?

To protect your data, we take effective, state-of-the-art security measures to ensure confidentiality. Data exchange with our website is encrypted. You can recognise this by the abbreviation HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) in the address bar of your browser. Our employees are expressly obligated to handle personal data confidentially.

Who can I contact?

You can contact us at any time with data protection concerns by email at .

Cookies and tracking

When our website is accessed, the IP address of the accessing system, the accessing page, the accessed page, date, time, transferred data volume, status data (error code) as well as the browser and operating system of the accessing system are stored in log files on our systems. We use this data for operational monitoring and the creation of anonymous access statistics. We do not analyse this date on the personal level, e.g. for the creation of user profiles.

We use cookies on some pages of our website in order to provide you with a more personalised service. You can set your browser so that it informs you about the use of cookies or does not allow them to be stored. You will still be able to use our website, but it may be less convenient.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics from the US company Google Inc. to carry out usage analyses of our website.

A cookie containing usage information is set on your computer. The cookie is transferred to a server belonging to the service provider, possibly in the USA, and stored there. You can find information on its use in Google’s privacy policy here

We also commission Google to shorten IP addresses using the AnonymizeIP() function in order to exclude any direct personal tracking. The data collected is provided to us by Google so that we can statistically evaluate and analyse relevant website activities. The abbreviated IP address transmitted through the use of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage and processing of cookies in three ways:

Links to third-party websites and external services

We link to websites of other providers on our web pages if we wish to draw your attention to their content. We also link to our Facebook and Instagram pages. Links can also include videos from YouTube, for example, which we make available there ourselves. When you access such third-party websites, we have no influence on how the provider handles your data. Please refer to their privacy policy for more information.

We also integrate useful services from other providers on our website that we consider useful. If data about you is collected, processed or used when you use the website, this only happens if you enter data yourself. The contact person for this (“data controller”) is the respective provider. The privacy policy of the respective provider applies to the use and processing of your data in this case.

Our contact forms

If you send us an enquiry using the contact form, we will only store your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling your request, e.g. to answer your enquiry, send you the requested material or process your other request. Your data will only be transmitted in encrypted form. You can recognise this by the addition of HTTPS in the address line of the respective contact forms.

If you have given us your consent, we will also use your data to inform you about promotions, services, offers and events at the practice.

If you order one of our newsletters, you will be sent a confirmation email with a link. Only by clicking on this link will you be added to the list of recipients of the newsletter you have ordered (double opt-in procedure). The link is valid for 30 days and then expires. If the order has not been confirmed by clicking on it during this period, all data will be automatically deleted. If the order was successful, we store your email address, your IP address(es), the date and time of the order or unsubscription and, if you have entered them, your first name and surname. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the link at the end of each newsletter email.

Photos

The images used on the website come from our own stock or from paid sources for which we have paid a usage fee. The images are marked accordingly with a source note (if necessary).

As a matter of principle, photos or videos of persons that are published in the context of events or campaigns are duly checked by us for the copyright exceptions. However, if you do not agree with the publication of a photo on the website, please let us know at sk@sk-aesthetics.ch. We will check the situation immediately