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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 8 October 2026

This privacy policy explains how Skaaltec AG ("Skaaltec", "we", "us") processes personal data when you visit skaaltec.com, contact us, or subscribe to our newsletter. We process personal data in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who is responsible

The controller responsible for processing your personal data is:

Skaaltec AG
Weyermannsstrasse 36
3008 Bern, Switzerland
Email: info@skaaltec.com
Phone: +41 76 645 61 80

For any privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us at the address above.

2. What data we collect and why

Visiting our website

When you visit our website, our hosting provider automatically processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the pages you request and the date and time of access. This is necessary to deliver the website securely and reliably. These server logs are retained only for a short period and are not used to identify you.

Contact form

If you use our contact form, we collect your first and last name, email address, optional phone number and your message. We use this information only to respond to your enquiry. Form submissions are delivered to us by email via the service FormSubmit (formsubmit.co). We keep your enquiry for as long as needed to handle it and any follow-up correspondence.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address in order to send you occasional updates about Skaaltec. Our newsletter is managed through Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France), which stores your address and may record whether emails are opened or links are clicked so we can understand what content is useful. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email, or by contacting us. We delete your address from our mailing list after you unsubscribe.

Website analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Ltd. / Google LLC) to understand in aggregate how our website is used. We have configured Google Analytics so that, by default, no analytics or advertising cookies are stored on your device. In this mode, Google receives limited, cookieless signals about page visits (such as the page viewed, browser type and an IP address that Google truncates), which we use only for anonymous statistics. We do not use Google Analytics for advertising or to build personal profiles.

3. Cookies

Our public website does not set any cookies for tracking, analytics or advertising. Only strictly technical storage required for the website to function may be used. If we introduce optional cookies in the future, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.

4. Legal basis

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:

  • Responding to enquiries: our legitimate interest in communicating with you, or steps prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(f) and (b) GDPR).
  • Newsletter: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
  • Hosting and cookieless analytics: our legitimate interest in operating a secure website and understanding how it is used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

5. Sharing and international transfers

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with the service providers named in this policy, who process it on our behalf. Some of these providers (in particular Google and FormSubmit) may process data in the United States or other countries that may not offer the same level of data protection as Switzerland or the EU. Where this is the case, transfers are based on recognised safeguards such as the Swiss-U.S. and EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

6. How long we keep data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above, or as required by law. Contact enquiries are deleted once they are no longer needed; newsletter data is deleted after you unsubscribe.

7. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to:

  • request information about the personal data we hold about you;
  • have inaccurate data corrected;
  • have your data deleted or its processing restricted;
  • object to processing or withdraw your consent at any time;
  • receive your data in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please email info@skaaltec.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority — in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, edoeb.admin.ch), or the supervisory authority in your EU country of residence.

8. Health information

Please do not send us sensitive health or medical information through the contact form or by email. This website is not intended to collect patient data.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The current version is always available on this page, with the date of the latest update shown at the top.