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Privacy Notice of the Mesh AG

  1. What is this Privacy Notice about?
  2. Who is the controller for processing your data?
  3. What data do we process?
  4. For what purposes do we process your data?
  5. On what basis do we process your data?
  6. What applies in case of profiling and automated individual decisions?
  7. With whom do we share your data?
  8. Is your personal data disclosed abroad?
  9. How long do we process your data?
  10. How do we protect your data?
  11. What are your rights?
  12. Do we use online tracking and online advertising techniques? 
  13. What data do we process on our social network pages? 
  14. Can we update this Privacy Notice? 

  1. What is this Privacy Notice about?
    The Mesh AG (also «we», «us») collects and processes personal data that concern you but also other individuals («third parties»). We use the word «data» here interchangeably with «personal data». In this Privacy Notice, we describe what we do with your data when you use mesh.ch («website»), obtain services or products from us, interact with us in relation to a con-tract, communicate with us or otherwise deal with us. When appropriate we will provide a just-in-time notice to cover any additional processing activities not mentioned in this Privacy Notice. If you disclose data to us or share data with us about other individuals, we assume that you are authorized to do so and that the relevant data is accurate. When you share data about others with us, you confirm that. Please make sure that these individuals have been informed about this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is aligned with the EU General Data Protection Regulation («GDPR»), the Swiss Data Protection Act («DPA») and the revised Swiss Data Protection («revDPA». However, the application of these laws depends on each individual case.
  2. Who is the controller for processing your data?
    The Mesh AG, registered in Zurich (the «company») is the controller for the company’s processing under this Privacy Notice, unless we tell you otherwise in an individual case. You may contact us for data protection concerns and to exercise your rights under Section 11 as follows: Mesh AG c/o ETH Zurich Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1 CH-8093 Zurich info@mesh.ch
  3. What data do we process?
    We process various categories of data about you. The main categories of data are the following: • Technical data: When you use our website or other online offerings, we collect the IP address of your terminal device and other technical data in order to ensure the functionality and security of these offerings. This data includes logs with records of the use of our systems. We generally keep technical data for 6 months. In order to ensure the functionality of these offerings, we may also assign an individual code to you or your terminal device (for example as a cookie, see Section 12). Technical data as such does not permit us to draw conclusions about your identity. However, technical data may be linked with other categories of data (and poten-tially with your person) in relation to user accounts, registrations, access controls or the performance of a contract. • Registration data: Certain offerings, for example competitions, and services (such as login areas of our website, newsletters, free WLAN access, etc.) can only be used with a user account or registration, which can happen directly with us or through our third-party login service providers. In this regard you must provide us with certain data, and we collect data about the use of the offering or service. Registration data may be required in relation to access control to certain facilities, potentially including biometric data, depending on the control system. We gener-ally keep registration data for 12 months from the date the use of the service ceases or the user account is closed. • Communication data: When you are in contact with us via the contact form, by e-mail, telephone or chat, or by letter or other means of communication, we collect the data exchanged between you and us, including your contact details and the metadata of the communication. If we record or listen in on telephone conversa-tions or video conferences, for example for training and quality assurance purpos-es, we will tell you specifically. Such recordings may only be made and used in ac-cordance with our internal policies. You will be informed if and when such record-ings take place, for example by an indication during the video conference in ques-tion. If you do not want to be recorded, please notify us or leave the (video) con-ference. If you simply do not want your image to be recorded, please turn off your camera. If we have to determine your identity, for example in relation to a request for information, a request for press access, etc., we collect data to identify you (for example a copy of an ID document). We generally keep this data for 12 months from the last exchange between us. This period may be longer where required for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. E-mails in personal mailboxes and written correspondence are generally kept for at least 10 years. • Master data: With master data we mean the basic data that we need, in addition to contract data (see below), for the performance of our contractual and other business relationships or for marketing and promotional purposes, such as name and contact details, and information about, for example, your role and function, your bank details, your date of birth, customer history, powers of attorney, signa-ture authorizations and declarations of consent. We process your master data if you are a customer or other business contact or work for one (for example as a contact person of the business partner), or because we wish to address you for our own purposes or for the purposes of a contractual partner (for example as part of marketing and advertising, with invitations to events, with newsletters, etc.). We receive master data from you (for example when you make a purchase or as part of a registration), from parties you work for, or from third parties such as contrac-tual partners, associations and address brokers, and from public sources such as public registers or the internet (websites, social media, etc.). We may also pro-cess health data and information about third parties as part of master data. We may also collect master data from our shareholders and investors. We generally keep master data for 10 years from the last exchange between us or from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if required for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. For con-tacts used only for marketing and advertising, the retention period is usually much shorter, usually no more than 2 years from the last contact. • Contract data: This means data that is collected in relation to the conclusion or performance of a contract, for example information about the contracts and the services provided or to be provided, as well as data from the period leading up to the conclusion of a contract, information required or used for performing a con-tract, and information about feedback (for example complaints, feedback about satisfaction, etc.). This includes health data and information about third parties, for example about hereditary diseases in a family. We generally collect this data from you, from contractual partners and from third parties involved in the perfor-mance of the contract, but also from third-party sources (for example credit in-formation providers) and from public sources. We generally keep this data for 10 years from the last contract activity or from the end of the contract. This period may be longer where necessary for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. • Behavioral and preference data: Depending on our relationship with you, we try to get to know you better and to tailor our products, services and offers to you. For this purpose, we collect and process data about your behavior and preferences. We do so by evaluating information about your behavior in our domain, and we may also supplement this information with third-party information, including from public sources. Based on this data, we can for example determine the likelihood that you will use certain services or behave in a certain way. The data processed for this purpose is already known to us (for example where and when you use our services), or we collect it by recording your behavior (for example how you navi-gate our website or for example by detecting your motion profile through your use of your cell phone). We anonymize or delete this data when it is no longer rele-vant for the purposes pursued, which may be – depending on the nature of the da-ta – between 2-3 weeks (for motion profiles) and 24 months (for product and ser-vice preferences). This period may be longer where necessary for evidentiary pur-poses, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. We describe how tracking works on our website in Section 12. • Other data: We also collect data from you in other situations. For example, data that may relate to you (such as files, evidence, etc.) is processed in relation to administrative or judicial proceedings. We may also collect data for health protec-tion (for example as part of health protection concepts). We may obtain or create photos, videos and sound recordings in which you may be identifiable (for exam-ple at events, with security cameras, etc.). We may also collect data about who enters certain buildings, and when or who has access rights (including in relation to access controls, based on registration data or lists of visitors, etc.), who partic-ipates in events or campaigns (for example competitions) and who uses our infra-structure and systems and when. Moreover, we collect and process data about our shareholders and other investors, in addition to master data, including infor-mation for registers, in relation to the exercise of their rights and events (for ex-ample general meetings). The retention period for this data depends on the pro-cessing purpose and is limited to what is necessary. This ranges from a few days for many security cameras, to a few weeks for contact tracing and visitor data, which is usually kept for 3 months, to several years or more for reports about events with images. Data relating to you as a shareholder or investor is kept in accordance with corporate law, but in any case for as long as you are invested. Much of the data set out in this Section 3 is provided to us by you (through forms, when you communicate with us, in relation to contracts, when you use the website, etc.). You are not obliged or required to disclose data to us except in certain cases, for example within the framework of binding health protection concepts (legal obligations). If you wish to enter into contracts with us or use our services, you must also provide us with certain data, in particular master data, contract data and registration data, as part of your contractual obligation under the relevant contract. When using our website, the pro-cessing of technical data cannot be avoided. If you wish to gain access to certain systems or buildings, you must also provide us with registration data. As far as it is not unlawful we also collect data from public sources or receive data, from public authorities and from other third parties (such as credit agencies, address brokers, associations, contractual partners, internet analytics services, etc.).
  4. For what purposes do we process your data?
    We process your data for the purposes explained below. Further information is set out in Sections 12 and 13 for online services. These purposes and their objectives represent in-terests of us and potentially of third parties. You can find further information on the legal basis of our processing in Section 5. We process your data for purposes related to communication with you, in particular in relation to responding to inquiries and the exercise of your rights (Section 11) and to en-able us to contact you in case of queries. For this purpose, we use in particular communi-cation data and master data, and registration data in relation to offers and services that you use. We keep this data to document our communication with you, for training pur-poses, for quality assurance and for follow-up inquiries. We process data for the conclusion, administration and performance of contractual rela-tionships. We process data for marketing purposes and relationship management, for example to send our customers and other contractual partners personalized advertising for products and services from us and from third parties (for example from advertising partners). This may happen in the form of newsletters and other regular contacts (electronically, by e-mail or by telephone), through other channels for which we have contact information from you, but also as part of marketing campaigns (for example events, contests, etc.) and may also include free services (for example invitations, etc.). You can object to such contacts at any time (see at the end of this Section 4) or refuse or withdraw consent to be contacted for marketing purposes. With your consent, we can target our online adver-tising on the internet more specifically to you (see Section 12). Finally, we also wish to enable our contractual partners to contact our customers and other contractual partners for marketing purposes (see Section 7). We further process your data for market research, to improve our services and opera-tions, and for product development. We may also process your data for security and access control purposes. We process personal data to comply with laws, directives and recommendations from authorities and internal regulations («Compliance»). We also process data for the purposes of our risk management and as part of our corpo-rate governance, including business organization and development. We may process your data for further purposes, for example as part of our internal pro-cesses and administration.
  5. On what basis do we process your data?
    Where we ask for your consent for certain processing activities (for example for the pro-cessing of sensitive personal data, for marketing mailings, for personalized motion pro-files and for advertising management and behavior analysis on the website), we will in-form you separately about the relevant processing purposes. You may withdraw your con-sent at any time with effect for the future by providing us written notice (by mail) or, un-less otherwise noted or agreed, by sending an e-mail to us; see our contact details in Section 2. For withdrawing consent for online tracking, see Section 12. Where you have a user account, you may also withdraw consent or contact us also through the relevant website or other service, as applicable. Once we have received notification of withdrawal of consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose(s) you consented to, unless we have another legal basis to do so. Withdrawal of consent does not, however, affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent prior to withdrawal. Where we do not ask for consent for processing, the processing of your personal data re-lies on the requirement of the processing for initiating or performing a contract with you (or the entity you represent) or on our or a third-party legitimate interest in the particular processing, in particular in pursuing the purposes and objectives set out in Section 4 and in implementing related measures. Our legitimate interests also include compliance with legal regulations, insofar as this is not already recognized as a legal basis by applicable data protection law (for example in the case of the GDPR, the laws in the EEA and in the case of the DPA, Swiss law). This also includes the marketing of our products and ser-vices, the interest in better understanding our markets and in managing and further de-veloping our company, including its operations, safely and efficiently. Where we receive sensitive personal data (for example health data, data about political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, and biometric data for identification purpos-es), we may process your data on other legal basis, for example, in the event of a dispute, as required in relation to a potential litigation or for the enforcement or defense of legal claims. In some cases, other legal basis may apply, which we will communicate to you separately as necessary.
  6. What applies in case of profiling and automated individual decisions?
    We may automatically evaluate personal aspects relating to you («profiling») based on your data (Section 3) for the purposes set out in Section 4, where we wish to determine preference data, but also in order to detect misuse and security risks, to perform statisti-cal analysis or for operational planning. We may also create profiles for these purposes, i.e. we may combine behavioral and preference data, but also master data, contract data and technical data relating to you in order to better understand you as a person with your various interests and other characteristics. In both cases, we pay attention to the proportionality and reliability of the results and take measures against misuse of these profiles or profiling. Where these can produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you, we generally ensure hu-man review.
  7. With whom do we share your data?
    In relation to our contracts, the website, our services and products, our legal obligations or otherwise with protecting our legitimate interests and the other purposes set out in Section 4, we may disclose your personal data to third parties, in particular to the follow-ing categories of recipients: • Service providers: We work with service providers in Switzerland and abroad who process your data on our behalf or as joint controllers with us or who receive data about you from us as separate controllers. • Contractual partners including customers: This refers to customers (for example service recipients) and our other contractual partners as this data disclosure re-sults from these contracts. For example, they receive registration data in relation to issued and redeemed vouchers, invitations, etc. If you work for one of these contractual partners, we may also disclose data about you to that partner in this regard. This may include health data. These recipients also include contractual partners with whom we cooperate. • Authorities: We may disclose personal data to agencies, courts and other authori-ties in Switzerland and abroad if we are legally obliged or entitled to make such disclosures or if it appears necessary to protect our interests. • Other persons: This means other cases where interactions with third parties fol-lows from the purposes set out in Section 4, for example service recipients, the media and associations in which we participate or if you are included in one of our publications. All these categories of recipients may involve third parties, so that your data may also be disclosed to them. We can restrict the processing by certain third parties (for example IT providers), but not by others (for example authorities, banks, etc.).
  8. Is your personal data disclosed abroad?
    As explained in section 7, we disclose data to other parties. These are not all located in Switzerland. Your data may therefore be processed in Europe and; in exceptional cases, in any country in the world. If a recipient is located in a country without adequate statutory data protection, we re-quire the recipient to undertake to comply with data protection (for this purpose, we use the revised European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, which can be accessed here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?), unless the recipient is sub-ject to a legally accepted set of rules to ensure data protection and unless we cannot rely on an exception. An exception may apply for example in case of legal proceedings abroad, but also in cases of overriding public interest or if the performance of a contract requires disclosure, if you have consented or if data has been made available generally by you and you have not objected against the processing.
  9. How long do we process your data?
    We process your data for as long as our processing purposes, the legal retention periods and our legitimate interests in documentation and keeping evidence require it or storage is a technical requirement. You will find further information on the respective storage and processing periods for the individual data categories in Section 3, and for cookies in Sec-tion 12. If there are no contrary legal or contractual obligations, we will delete or anony-mize your data once the storage or processing period has expired as part of our usual processes.
  10. How do we protect your data?
    We take appropriate security measures in order to maintain the required security of your personal data and ensure its confidentiality, integrity and availability, and to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing, and to mitigate the risk of loss, accidental alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access.
  11. What are your rights?
    Applicable data protection laws grant you the right to object to the processing of your data in some circumstances, in particular for direct marketing purposes, for profiling car-ried out for direct marketing purposes and for other legitimate interests in processing. To help you control the processing of your personal data, you have the following rights in relation to our data processing, depending on the applicable data protection law: – The right to request information from us as to whether and what data we process from you; – The right to have us correct data if it is inaccurate; – The right to request erasure of data; – The right to request that we provide certain personal data in a commonly used electronic format or transfer it to another controller; – The right to withdraw consent, where our processing is based on your consent; – The right to receive, upon request, further information that is helpful for the exer-cise of these rights; If you wish to exercise the above-mentioned rights in relation to, please contact us in writing, at our premises or, unless otherwise specified or agreed, by e-mail; you will find our contact details in Section 2. In order for us to be able to prevent misuse, we need to identify you (for example by means of a copy of your ID card, unless identification is not possible otherwise). Please note that conditions, exceptions or restrictions apply to these rights under appli-cable data protection law (for example to protect third parties or trade secrets). We will inform you accordingly where applicable. If you do not agree with the way we handle your rights or with our data protection prac-tices, please let us know. If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom or in Switzer-land, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority in your country. You can find a list of authorities in the EEA here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. You can reach the UK superviso-ry authority here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. You can reach the Swiss supervi-sory authority here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html.
  12. Do we use online tracking and online advertising techniques?
    We use various techniques on our website that allow us and third parties engaged by us to recognize you during your use of our website, and possibly to track you across several visits. This Section informs you about this. In essence, we wish to distinguish access by you (through your system) from access by other users, so that we can ensure the functionality of the website and carry out analysis and personalization. We do not intend to determine your identity, even if that is possible where we or third parties engaged by us can identify you by combination with registration data. However, even without registration data, the technologies we use are designed in such a way that you are recognized as an individual visitor each time you access the web-site, for example by our server (or third-party servers ) that assign a specific identification number to you or your browser (so-called «cookie»). We use these technologies on our website and may allow certain third parties to do so as well. You can also set your browser to block or deceive certain types of cookies or alterna-tive technologies, or to delete existing cookies. You can also add software to your browser that blocks certain third-party tracking. You can find more information on the help pages of your browser (usually with the keyword «Privacy») or on the websites of the third par-ties set out below. We distinguish the following categories of «cookies» (including other technologies such as fingerprinting): – Necessary cookies: Some cookies are necessary for the functioning of the website or for certain features. For example, they ensure that you can move between pages without losing information that was entered in a form. They also ensure that you stay logged in. These cookies exist temporarily only («session cookies»). If you block them, the website may not work properly. Other cookies are necessary for the serv-er to store options or information (which you have entered) beyond a session (i.e. a visit to the website) if you use this function (for example language settings, con-sents, automatic login functionality, etc.). These cookies have an expiration date of up to 24 months. – Performance cookies: In order to optimize our website and related offers and to better adapt them to the needs of the users, we use cookies to record and analyze the use of our website, potentially beyond one session. We use third-party analytics services for this purpose. We have listed them below. Performance cookies also have an expiration date of up to 24 months. Details can be found on the websites of the third-party providers. – Marketing Cookies: We and our advertising partners have an interest in targeting advertising as precisely as possible, i.e. only showing it to those we wish to ad-dress. We have listed our advertising partners below. For this purpose, we and our advertising partners – if you consent – use cookies that can record the content that has been accessed or the contracts that have been concluded. This allows us and our advertising partners to display advertisements that we think will interest you on our website, but also on other websites that display advertisements from us or our advertising partners. These cookies have an expiration period of a few days to 12 months, depending on the circumstances. If you consent to the use of these cook-ies, you will be shown related advertisements. If you do not consent to them, you will not see less advertisements, but simply any other advertisement. In addition to marketing cookies, we use other technologies to control online advertising on other websites and thereby reduce advertising wastage. For example, we may trans-mit the e-mail addresses of our users, customers and other persons to whom we wish to display advertisements to operators of advertising platforms (for example social media). If these persons are registered with them with the same e-mail address (which the ad-vertising platforms determine by a matching process), the providers display our adver-tisements specifically to these persons. The providers do not receive personal e-mail ad-dresses of persons who are not already known to them. In case of known e-mail address-es, however, they learn that these persons are in contact with us and the content they have accessed. We may also integrate additional third-party offers on our website, in particular from social media providers. These offers are deactivated by default. As soon as you activate them (for example by clicking a button), these providers can determine that you are using our website. If you have an account with that social media provider, it can assign this in-formation to you and thereby track your use of online offers. These social media providers process this data as separate controllers. We currently use offers from the following service providers and advertising partners (where they use data from you or cookies set on your computer for advertising purposes): – Google Analytics: Google Ireland Ltd. (located in Ireland) is the provider of the ser-vice «Google Analytics» and acts as our processor. Google Ireland relies on Google LLC (located in the United States) as its sub-processor (both «Google»). Google col-lects information about the behavior of visitors to our website (duration, page views, geographic region of access, etc.) through performance cookies (see above) and on this basis creates reports for us about the use of our website. We have con-figured the service so that the IP addresses of visitors are truncated by Google in Europe before forwarding them to the United States and then cannot be traced back. We have turned off the «Data sharing» option and the «Signals option». Alt-hough we can assume that the information we share with Google is not personal data for Google, it may be possible that Google may be able to draw conclusions about the identity of visitors based on the data collected, create personal profiles and link this data with the Google accounts of these individuals for its own purpos-es. In any event, if you consent to the use of Google Analytics, you expressly con-sent to any such processing, including the transfer of your personal data (in particu-lar website and app usage, device information and unique IDs) to the United States and other countries. Information about data protection with Google Analytics can be found here https://support. google. com/analytics/answer/6004245 and if you have a Google account, you can find more details about Google's processing here https://policies. google. com/technologies/partner-sites? hl=en.
  13. What data do we process on our social network pages?
    We may operate pages and other online presences («fan pages», «channels», «profiles», etc.) on social networks and other platforms operated by third parties and collect the data about you described in Section 3 and below. We receive this data from you and from the platforms when you interact with us through our online presence (for example when you communicate with us, comment on our content or visit our online presence). At the same time, the platforms analyze your use of our online presences and combine this data with other data they have about you (for example about your behavior and preferences). They also process this data for their own purposes, in particular for marketing and market re-search purposes (for example to personalize advertising) and to manage their platforms (for example what content they show you) and, to that end, they act as separate control-lers. We process this data for the purposes set out in Section 4, in particular for communica-tion, for marketing purposes (including advertising on these platforms, see Section 12) and for market research. You will find information about the applicable legal basis in Sec-tion 5. We may disseminate content published by you (for example comments on an an-nouncement), for example as part of our advertising on the platform or elsewhere. We or the operators of the platforms may also delete or restrict content from or about you in accordance with their terms of use (for example inappropriate comments). For further information on the processing of the platform operators, please refer to the privacy information of the relevant platforms. There you can also find out about the coun-tries where they process your data, your rights of access and erasure of data and other data subjects rights and how you can exercise them or obtain further information. We currently use the following platforms: – LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube

  14. Can we update this Privacy Notice ?
    This Privacy Notice is not part of a contract with you. We can change this Privacy Notice at any time. The version published on this website is the current version. Last updated: 14.06.2022