Last updated: 12 May 2025

With this privacy policy, we explain how we process personal data in connection with our activities and operations, including our website macieza.ch. In particular, we describe why, how and where we process which personal data, and we inform you about the rights of individuals whose data we process.

Additional or separate privacy notices may apply to specific activities or services.

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1. Contact Details
Controller for the processing of personal data

MACIEZA GmbH
Pilgerweg 10
CH-8800 Thalwil
E-mail: m.guedes@bluewin.ch

In individual cases, third parties may act as controllers or we may share joint responsibility with third parties.

2. Terms and Legal Bases

2.1 Definitions

• Data subject – A natural person whose personal data we process.

• Personal data – Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

• Sensitive personal data – Data revealing trade-union membership; political, religious or philosophical beliefs; health; intimate sphere; ethnic or racial origin; genetic or biometric data uniquely identifying a person; data on criminal or administrative sanctions; data on social-assistance measures.

• Processing – Any operation performed on personal data, regardless of the means or procedures used (e.g. collection, storage, use, disclosure, deletion, destruction).

2.2 Legal Bases
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data-protection law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP/DSG) and the Data Protection Ordinance (DPO/DSV).

3. Nature, Scope and Purpose of Processing

We process the personal data necessary to carry out our activities on a permanent, user-friendly, secure and reliable basis. Categories of data we process may include:

• Browser and device data

• Content data

• Communication data

• Metadata and usage data

• Master data (incl. contact details)

• Location data

• Transaction, contract and payment data

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We also process personal data obtained from third parties, public sources or generated in the course of our activities, where permitted by law.

Where required, we obtain the consent of data subjects. In many cases we may process data without consent, e.g. to comply with legal obligations or to protect overriding interests.

We store personal data only as long as necessary for the respective purpose and delete or anonymise it in line with statutory retention and limitation periods.

4. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties or process it jointly with third parties, notably specialised service providers whose services we use. Recipients may include:

Banks, authorities, educational and research institutions, consultants, IT providers, logistics companies, marketing agencies, media, industry associations, telecom providers, insurers, etc.

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5. Communication

We process personal data to communicate with third parties (e.g. by post or e-mail). Such data may be stored in an address book or similar tool.

Third parties who transmit personal data about others must ensure accuracy and compliance with data-protection requirements.

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6. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, safeguarding confidentiality, availability, traceability and integrity of personal data—though absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

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Access to our website and online presence is protected by TLS/SSL encryption (HTTPS). Note that digital communications can be subject to mass surveillance by security authorities in Switzerland, Europe, the USA and elsewhere; we have no direct influence over such processing.

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7. Personal Data Abroad

We generally process personal data in Switzerland but may transfer it to other countries for processing. We disclose data only to:

• Countries recognised by the Swiss Federal Council as providing an adequate level of protection, or

• Countries without adequate protection if appropriate safeguards (e.g. standard contractual clauses) are in place, or if a legal exception applies (e.g. explicit consent, contract fulfilment).

Copies of such safeguards are available on request.

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8. Rights of Data Subjects

8.1 Data-Protection Rights
Data subjects have, in particular, the right to:

• Access – Know whether we process their personal data and obtain information about such data, processing purposes, retention, transfers, etc.

• Rectification / Restriction – Correct inaccurate data, complete incomplete data, or limit processing.

• Erasure / Objection – Have data deleted (“right to be forgotten”) or object to future processing.

• Data Portability – Receive or have their data transmitted to another controller.

We may defer, restrict or refuse these rights where legally permissible (e.g. to protect business secrets or comply with retention duties). We may charge reasonable fees in exceptional cases and must verify the identity of the requester.

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8.2 Legal Remedies
Data subjects may enforce their rights in court or lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

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9. Use of the Website

9.1 Cookies
We may use first-party and third-party cookies. Cookies can be session cookies (deleted when the browser closes) or persistent cookies (stored for a set period). They help recognise browsers, measure reach and support online marketing. Cookies can be disabled or deleted in browser settings; however, parts of our site may no longer function fully. Where required, we obtain explicit consent for cookies.

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9.2 Logging
For each access to our website we may log: date/time (with time zone), IP address, HTTP status, operating system, browser (language/version), viewed pages, data volume transferred and referring URL. These logs help ensure security and reliable operation.

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9.3 Web Beacons (Tracking Pixels)
We may incorporate web beacons that collect similar information as log files for analytics and security purposes.

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10. Social Media

We maintain a presence on social-media and other platforms to communicate and inform. Personal data may be processed outside Switzerland. The terms, conditions and privacy policies of each platform apply, including users’ rights (e.g. access).

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11. Third-Party Services

We use specialised third-party services to operate our activities securely and reliably, for example to embed content. These services unavoidably process users’ IP addresses and may process aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised data for security, statistics and technical purposes.

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11.1 Digital Infrastructure

• Hostpoint AG (Switzerland) – Hosting

• Wix.com Ltd. (Israel / USA / Luxembourg) – Website builder & infrastructure

11.2 Audio & Video Conferencing

• Google Meet (Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd.)

11.3 Maps

• Google Maps (Google)

11.4 Fonts

• Google Fonts (Google)

11.5 E-Commerce

• Wix eCommerce (Wix)

12. Final Provisions
We may amend this privacy policy at any time and will publish the latest version on our website.