In order to comply with Europe’s privacy policies (GDPR) and Switzerland’s Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP), we offer the following disclosure about what data is collected by this website and how it is used. With this data protection declaration we inform you which personal data we process for what purpose, how and where, in particular in connection with our website and our other offers. With this data protection declaration, we also inform you about the rights of persons whose data we process.
Special, supplementary or further data protection declarations as well as other legal documents such as general terms and conditions (GTC), terms of use or conditions of participation may apply to individual or additional offers and services.
Our offer is subject to Swiss data protection law and any applicable foreign data protection law, in particular that of the European Union (EU) with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Commission recognizes that Swiss data protection law ensures adequate data protection.
1. Who we are
Our website address is: https://barbaramieg.com.
This website is run on WordPress and hosted by Hostpoint.ch
This website is owned and operated by:
Barbara Mieg
+41 79 151 73 25 | coaching@barbaramieg.com
Zihlweg18 | 8712 Stäfa | Kanton Zürich | Schweiz
2. Processing of personal data
2.1 Terms
Personal data is all information that relates to a specific or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, collection, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data.
The European Economic Area (EEA) comprises the European Union (EU) as well as the Principality of Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) describes the processing of personal data as processing of personal data.
2.2 Legal Bases
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (DSG) and the Ordinance on the Federal Data Protection Act (VDSG).
If and to the extent that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable, we process personal data in accordance with at least one of the following legal bases:
- Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data to fulfill a contract with the data subject and to carry out pre-contractual measures.
- Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data in order to protect our legitimate interests or those of third parties, provided that the fundamental freedoms and fundamental rights and interests of the data subject do not prevail. Legitimate interests are in particular our interest in being able to provide our offer in a permanent, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner and to be able to advertise it if necessary, information security and protection against misuse and unauthorized use, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with Swiss law.
- Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable law of member states in the European Economic Area (EEA).
- Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. e GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data to perform a task that is in the public interest.
- Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. a GDPR for the processing of personal data with the consent of the person concerned.
- Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. d GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
2.3 Nature, Scope and Purpose
We process the personal data that is necessary to be able to provide our offer permanently, user-friendly, securely and reliably. Such personal data can fall into the categories of inventory and contact data, browser and device data, content data, meta or marginal data and usage data, location data, sales, contract and payment data.
We process personal data for the period that is required for the respective purpose or purposes or by law. Personal data that no longer needs to be processed will be made anonymous or deleted. Persons whose data we process have a fundamental right to erasure.
In principle, we only process personal data with the consent of the person concerned, unless the processing is permissible for other legal reasons, for example to fulfill a contract with the person concerned and for corresponding pre-contractual measures to protect our overriding legitimate interests, because the processing is apparent from the circumstances or after prior information.
In this context, we process in particular information that a person concerned voluntarily and himself transmits to us when contacting us – for example by post, e-mail, contact form, social media or telephone – or when registering for a user account. We can store such information, for example, in an address book or with comparable tools. If you transmit personal data to us via third parties, you are obliged to ensure data protection against such third parties and to ensure the accuracy of such personal data.
We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, procure from publicly accessible sources or collect when providing our offer, if and to the extent that such processing is permitted for legal reasons.
2.4 Processing of personal data by third parties, also abroad
We can have personal data processed by commissioned third parties or process it together with third parties and with the help of third parties or transmit it to third parties. Such third parties are in particular providers whose services we use. We also guarantee appropriate data protection for such third parties.
Such third parties are may be located in Switzerland, in the European Economic Area (EEA) or other countries and territories on earth as well as elsewhere in the universe, provided that their data protection law is in the opinion of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and – insofar as and to the extent that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable – in accordance with the assessment the European Commission adequate data protection is guaranteed, or if adequate data protection is guaranteed for other reasons, such as by a corresponding contractual agreement, in particular on the basis of standard contractual clauses, or by a corresponding certification. In exceptional cases, such a third party may be located in a country without adequate data protection, provided that the data protection requirements, such as the express consent of the person concerned, are met.
3. Rights of data subjects
Affected persons whose personal data we process have the rights under Swiss data protection law. This includes the right to information as well as the right to correction, deletion or blocking of the processed personal data.
Affected persons whose personal data we process can – if and to the extent that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable – receive confirmation free of charge as to whether we are processing their personal data and, if so, request information about the processing of their personal data, restrict the processing of their personal data exercise their right to data transferability and have their personal data corrected, deleted (“right to be forgotten”), blocked or completed.
Affected persons whose personal data we process can – if and to the extent that the GDPR is applicable – revoke a given consent at any time with effect for the future and object to the processing of their personal data at any time.
To request the deletion of your personal data, send an request via to coaching(at)barbaramieg.com.
Affected persons whose personal data we process have a right of appeal to a competent supervisory authority. The supervisory authority for data protection in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
4. Data Security
We take appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational measures to ensure data protection and, in particular, data security. However, despite such measures, the processing of personal data on the Internet can always have security gaps. We can therefore not guarantee absolute data security.
Our online offer is accessed using transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated as HTTPS). Most browsers mark transport encryption with a padlock in the address bar.
Access to our online offering is subject – like basically any internet use – to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion, as well as other surveillance by security authorities in Switzerland, the European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA) and others states. We have no direct influence on the corresponding processing of personal data by secret services, police stations and other security authorities.
5. Use of Website
5.1 Cookies
We may use cookies for our website. Cookies – our own cookies (first-party cookies) as well as cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies or third-party cookies) – are data that are stored in your browser. Such stored data need not be limited to traditional text-form cookies. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit malware such as Trojans and viruses.
When you access this website, you are asked to accept our cookie policy before viewing any content. You may refuse our cookie policy and choose to not view content on our website.
When you visit our website, cookies can be stored in your browser temporarily as “session cookies” or for a certain period of time as so-called permanent cookies. “Session cookies” are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Permanent cookies have a certain storage period. In particular, they make it possible to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website and thus, for example, to measure the range of our website. However, permanent cookies can also be used for online marketing, for example.
You can completely or partially deactivate or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. If and to the extent necessary, we actively ask for your express consent to the use of cookies.
In the case of cookies used to measure success and reach or for advertising, a general objection (“opt-out”) via the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), YourAdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance) or Your Online Choices ( European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, EDAA) possible.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
You can turn off the use of cookies and delete cookies at anytime through your specific browser settings.
5.2 Contact form
We have a contact form, which allows visitors to submit their personal data in order to be contacted. Any information that users enter in the contact form (including name, email address, and free-form text) will be stored and viewed by the owner of the website. By submitting the contact form, you agree to this use of this data. Form data may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
When visitors submit a contact form on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you submit a form, the submitted data and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
If you have submitted a form on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
5.3 Server Log Files
We can record the following information for each access to our website, provided that this is transmitted from your browser to our server infrastructure or can be determined by our web server: Date and time including time zone, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, individual sub-pages of our website accessed including amount of data transferred, website last accessed in the same browser window (referrer).
We store such information, which may also represent personal data, in server log files. The information is required in order to provide our online offer in a permanent, user-friendly and reliable manner and to be able to ensure data security and thus in particular the protection of personal data – also by third parties or with the help of third parties.
5.4 Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5.5 Republished content
We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission. In our content, we link to many other websites, for which we are not responsible; we encourage you to review the privacy policies of those websites separately.
Notifications and Notices
We send notifications and communications such as newsletters via email and other communication channels such as instant messaging.
6.1 Consent and Objection
In principle , you must expressly consent to the use of your e-mail address and your other contact addresses, unless the use is permitted for other legal reasons. If possible, we use the “double opt-in” procedure for any consent to receive e-mails, i.e. you will receive an e-mail with a web link that you must click to confirm, so that no misuse by unauthorized third parties can be done. We may log such consents, including Internet Protocol (IP) address and date and time, for evidentiary and security reasons.
You can always unsubscribe from notifications and communications such as newsletters. By unsubscribing, you can, in particular, object to the statistical recording of use for measuring success and reach. We reserve the right to notifications and communications that are absolutely necessary for our offer.
6.2 Success and Reach Measurement
Notifications and communications may contain web links or web beacons that record whether an individual communication was opened and which web links were clicked on. Such web links and tracking pixels can also record the use of notifications and communications on a personal basis. We need this statistical recording of usage to measure success and reach in order to be able to offer notifications and messages based on the needs and reading habits of the recipients in an effective, user-friendly, permanent, secure and reliable manner.
6.4 Notification and Communication Service Providers
We send notifications and communications through third party services or with the help of service providers. Cookies can also be used for this. We also guarantee appropriate data protection for such services.
In particular, we use Flodesk – communication platform based in San Fransisco, CA, USA. Data Protection Declaration and Data Processing Addendum.
Users may subscribe to our email newsletter by using a form on our website, which collects their email address. We use Flodesk to store and manage this email list but these emails are not used by Flodesk for their own purposes. Users may opt-out of the email list at any time, which will remove their email from our sending list but continue to store the email with a “do not contact” flag. If you wish your email to be permanently deleted from our Flodesk database, please contact us.
We occasionally run promotions offering free content in exchange for signing up for our newsletter. If you wish to have the free content without subscribing, please contact us. We never share email address from our list with third-party companies.
7. Social Media
We are present on social media platforms and other online platforms in order to be able to communicate with interested persons and to be able to provide information about our offer. Personal data can also be processed outside of Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA).
The general terms and conditions (GTC) and terms of use as well as data protection declarations and other provisions of the individual operators of such online platforms also apply. These provisions provide information in particular about the rights of data subjects, including in particular the right to information.
We are jointly responsible with Facebook Ireland Limited in Ireland for our social media presence on Facebook, including the so-called page insights, if and to the extent that the GDPR is applicable. The page insights provide information about how visitors interact with our Facebook presence. We use page insights to provide our social media presence on Facebook in an effective and user-friendly manner.
Further information on the type, scope and purpose of data processing, information on the rights of data subjects and the contact details of Facebook and Facebook’s data protection officer can be found in Facebook’s data protection declaration (“Data Protection Policy”) . We have concluded the so-called “Supplement for those responsible” with Facebook and, in particular, have agreed that Facebook is responsible for guaranteeing the rights of data subjects. For the so-called page insights, the corresponding information can be found on the pages “Information on page insights” , including “Page Insights supplement regarding the person responsible” and “Information on page insights data” , each from Facebook.
8. Success and range measurement
We use services and programs to determine how our online offering is used. In this context, we can, for example, measure the success and reach of our online offer as well as the effect of third-party links on our website. In particular, we use:
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics collects anonymous information about your visit to our website, including where users are located (country, city) and demographic information such as age and gender. This information cannot identify you personally. Google Analytics is used for success and range measurement; Providers: Google LLC (USA) / Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland; Information on data protection: Measurement also across different browsers and devices (cross-device tracking) as well as with pseudonymised Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are only transmitted in full to Google in the USA in exceptional cases , “Principles of data protection and security” , data protection declaration , «Guide to data protection in Google products» (including Google Analytics) ,“How we use data from websites or apps on which our services are used” (information from Google) , “How Google uses cookies” , “Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics” , “Personalized advertising” (activation / deactivation / settings) .
- Google Tag Manager: integration and management of services for success and range measurement as well as other services from Google and third parties; Providers: Google LLC (USA) / Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland; Information on data protection can be found in connection with the integrated and managed services.
Third Party Services
We use third-party services in order to be able to provide our offer permanently, user-friendly, securely and reliably. Such services are also used to embed content in our website. Such services – for example hosting and storage services, video services and payment services – require your Internet Protocol (IP) address, otherwise such services cannot transmit the corresponding content. Such services may be located outside of Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA), provided that adequate data protection is guaranteed.
For their own security-relevant, statistical and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use can also process data in connection with our offer and from other sources – including cookies, log files and tracking pixels – in an aggregated, anonymous or pseudonymised form.
9.1 Digital Infrastructure
We use third-party services in order to be able to use the digital infrastructure required for our offer. These include, for example, hosting and storage services from specialized providers.
10. Final Provisions
This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 24 Oct 2022 . If you have any questions about this policy, please contact me directly here: coaching (at) barbarmieg.com
We can adapt and supplement this data protection declaration at any time. We will inform you about such adjustments and additions in a suitable form, in particular by publishing the current data protection declaration on our website.