General remark
Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the federal data protection regulations (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to the protection of their privacy and protection from misuse of their personal data. As the operator of this website, thomaspatrick-photo.com takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. Your personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

In cooperation with the hosting provider, thomaspatrick-photo.com endeavors to protect the databases as well as possible from unauthorized access, loss, misuse or falsification. It should be noted that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

With this declaration you will be informed about which of your personal data is recorded in relation to your visit to this website and for what purposes it is used.

Responsible within the meaning of the Data Protection Act, in particular the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) is:

THOMAS PATRICK PHOTO
Thomas Patrick Huber
7270 Davos Platz
Switzerland
thomaspatrick@mac.com

The address of the website is: https://thomaspatrick-photo.com.

The thomaspatrick-photo.com website can generally be used without providing personal data. However, without the IP address and the cookie ID, the service and functionality of our website cannot be fully guaranteed. Insofar as personal data (e.g. company, name, address, telephone, email address) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible.

Personal data are only processed in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition, personal data are processed in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG):

  • lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
  • lit. b) Processing of personal data to fulfillfulfill a contract with the data subject and to carry out corresponding pre-contractual measures.
  • lit. c) Processing of personal data to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject under Swiss law.
  • lit. Processing of personal data in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
  • lit. f) Processing of personal data in order to protect the legitimate interests of us or of third parties, provided that the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the person concerned do not prevail. Legitimate interests are in particular our business interests in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with Swiss law.

The personal data will only be processed for the duration that is necessary for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer storage obligations due to legal and other obligations to which the operator of the website is subject, we limit the processing accordingly.

In close cooperation with the hosting provider, the website operator tries to protect the databases as well as possible from unauthorized access, loss, misuse or falsification. The provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits. These are: Information about the browser type and the version used. The user’s operating system. The user’s internet service provider. The user’s IP address. Date and time of access. Websites from which the user’s system reached this website. Websites that are accessed by the user’s system via this website.
It is information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. The data is stored by the hosting provider METANET AG, Josefstrasse 218, 8005 Zurich. You can find their data protection declaration here: https://www.metanet.ch/files/rechtliches/Datenschutzerklaerung_v1_0_a.pdf

The website thomaspatrick-photo.com uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to save specific, user-related information on the user’s device while he is using the website. Cookies make it possible in particular to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the pages, to analyze the behavior of the page usage, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Only IDs are saved in the cookies. This does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the person, so cookies are pseudonymised. Cookies are stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be called up again when you visit the site again. If you do not want this, you should set your internet browser so that it refuses to accept cookies. If the cookies are deactivated, the functionality of the website may be restricted.

Contact forms are available on this website thomaspatrick-photo.com, which can be used to contact us electronically. If you send us inquiries or registrations using an electronic form, your details from the input mask (including IP address) will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry or registration and in the event of follow-up questions.

Your data will only be processed for the purpose for which you gave it to us. In addition, you agree that the data you provide via the website may be used for marketing purposes by thomaspatrick-photo.com, so that thomaspatrick-photo.com can send you advertising that you may be interested in, for example.

Google
The website thomaspatrick-photo.com uses Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Web Fonts for displaying fonts, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam and the website analysis service from Google Analytics and YouTube for embedding videos.

These services from the American Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.) use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transmitted to Google in the USA. Google is committed to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the American-European and American-Swiss Privacy Shields. This happens regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.

If you do not want the assignment in your Google profile, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google saves your data as a usage profile and uses it for advertising, market research and / or needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the provider’s privacy policy. There you will also find information about your rights and the setting options to protect your privacy https://policies.google.com/privacy

Instagram
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on this website. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the contents of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This enables Instagram to assign your visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Instagram. You can find more information on this in Instagram’s privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/ http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Links to other websites
The thomaspatrick-photo.com website contains links to third-party websites on which cookies may be used and personal data may be collected and processed. We have no influence on this and cannot point it out to you beforehand. We have no influence on this and cannot point it out to you beforehand.

External payment service providers
This website uses external payment service providers, through whose platforms the user and we can carry out payment transactions. For example about

As part of the fulfillment of contracts, the payment service providers are based on the Swiss data protection ordinance and, if necessary, Article 6 (1) lit. 1 lit. b. EU GDPR used. In addition, external payment service providers are used on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Regulation and, if necessary, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f. EU GDPR to provide our users with effective and secure payment options.

The data processed by the payment service provider includes inventory data, such as the name and address, bank data such as account numbers or credit card numbers, passwords, TANs and checksums as well as contract, sums and recipient-related information. The information is required to carry out the transactions. However, the data entered will only be processed and stored by the payment service providers. As the operator, we do not receive any information about your (bank) account or credit card, only information to confirm (accept) or reject the payment. The data may be transmitted to credit agencies by the payment service provider. The purpose of this transmission is to check your identity and creditworthiness. For this we refer to the terms and conditions and data protection information of the payment service providers.

For payment transactions, the terms and conditions and the data protection information of the respective payment service provider apply, which can be accessed on the respective website or transaction applications. We refer to this also for the purpose of further information and assertion of revocation and information.

Visitors to the thomaspatrick-photo.com website and other persons about whom we process personal data can request information about our processing of their personal data free of charge, have the processing of their personal data restricted and have their personal data corrected, deleted or blocked. You can contact the operator of the website at any time if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

The website operator can adjust this data protection declaration at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies.

The exclusive place of jurisdiction is Davos (Switzerland). Only Swiss law is applicable to the present legal relationship.