Privacy policy

Your name and contact details (for example, name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), information about the company you work for, your position or title and/or your relationship with an individual and other basic information);

Identification and background information that you provide to us or that is collected from you as part of our onboarding process or in the course of the client relationship;

Financial information, such as payment information;

Information disclosed to us by or on behalf of our clients or which we create as part of our services to clients;

Information disclosed to us on the occasion of or for participation in meetings, seminars or events;

Information in connection with documents and communications that we send to you electronically, such as your use of promotional emails;

Data in connection with the use of our website, such as IP address, information about the operating system and settings of your terminal device, the region, the time and type of use;

All other information relating to you that you make available to us;

Communication: We process personal data so that we can communicate with you as well as with third parties, such as parties to proceedings, courts, or authorities, by e-mail, telephone, letter, or other means (e.g., to answer inquiries, in the context of legal advice and representation as well as pre-contractual measures or execution of contracts). This also includes sending information about events, legal changes, news about our law firm, or similar information to our clients, contractual partners, and other interested parties. This may, e.g., take the form of newsletters and other regular communication (especially electronically, via mail, and via telephone). You have the option to refuse or withdraw your consent to such communications at any time. In the context of communication, we process in particular the content and metadata of the communication as well as your contact data, but also image and audio recordings of video or phone calls. In the event of an audio or video recording of the communication, we will inform you separately, and you are free to inform us if you do not wish to be recorded or to terminate the communication. If we need or wish to confirm your identity, we may collect additional data (e.g., a copy of an ID).

Pre-contractual measures and conclusion of contracts: With regard to the conclusion of a contract, such as, in particular, a contract for the establishment of an attorney-client relationship with you or your mandator or employer, which also includes checks for any conflicts of interest, we may in particular process your name, contact details, powers of attorney, declarations of consent, information about third parties (e.g., contact persons, family details, as well as counterparties), contract contents, date of conclusion, creditworthiness data, as well as all other data that you provide to us or that we collect from public sources or third parties (e.g., commercial register, credit agencies, sanctions lists, media, legal protection insurance companies, or the Internet).

Administration and performance of contracts: We process personal data in order to comply with our contractual obligations to our clients and other contractual partners (e.g., suppliers, service providers, correspondent law firms, project partners) and, in particular, to provide and claim contractual services. This also includes data processing for the management of mandates (e.g., legal advice to our clients, representation of our clients in court and before authorities, and correspondence) as well as data processing for the enforcement of contracts (debt collection, court proceedings, etc.), accounting and public communication. For this purpose, we process in particular the data that we receive or have collected in the course of initiating and concluding the contract, as well as data that we create in the course of our contractual services or that we collect from public sources or other third parties (e.g., courts, authorities, counterparties, information services, media, detective agencies or the Internet). Such data may include, in particular, minutes of conversations and consultations, notes, internal and external correspondence, contractual documents, documents that we create and receive in the course of proceedings in courts and before authorities (e.g., legal documents, judgments and decisions), background information about you, counterparties or other persons, image and audio recordings, as well as other mandate-related information, documents, transcripts of records, invoices, and financial and payment information. In this context, we may also process sensitive personal data.

Operation of our websites: In order to operate our website in a secure and stable manner, we collect technical data, such as IP address, information about the operating system and settings of your end device, region, time and type of use. Additionally, we use cookies and similar technologies. More information about this can be found in Section 9.

Security purposes and access controls: We collect and process personal data in order to ensure and continuously improve the appropriate security of our IT and other infrastructure (e.g. buildings). This includes, for example, monitoring and controlling electronic access to our IT systems and physical access to our premises, analyzing and testing our IT infrastructures, system and error checks and creating backup copies.

Compliance with laws, directives and recommendations of authorities as well as internal regulations (“Compliance”): We process personal data to comply with applicable domestic and foreign law (e.g., to combat money laundering or to comply with tax or professional obligations), self-regulations, certifications, industry standards, our “corporate governance” and for internal and external investigations in which we are a party (e.g., by a law enforcement or supervisory authority or an appointed private body).

Risk management and corporate governance: We process personal data as part of risk management (e.g., to protect against criminal activities) and corporate governance. This includes, among other things, our operational organization (e.g., resource planning) and corporate development (e.g., acquisition and sale of parts of businesses or companies).

Job application: If you apply for a job with us, we process the relevant data for the purposes of reviewing and assessing the application, carrying out the application process, and, in the case of successful applications, preparing and concluding a contract. For this purpose, in addition to your contact data and the information from the corresponding communication, we also process in particular the data contained in your application documents, possibly also criminal record extracts, and the data that we can additionally collect about you, for example from job-related social networks, the Internet, the media and references (if you consent to obtaining references).

Other purposes: Other purposes include, for example, training and education purposes as well as administrative purposes (e.g. accounting). We may listen to or record telephone or video conferences for training, evidence and quality assurance purposes. In such cases, we will inform you separately (e.g. by displaying a message during the video conference in question) and you are free to inform us if you do not wish to be recorded or to terminate the communication (if you simply do not wish your image to be recorded, please turn off your camera). In addition, we may process personal data for the organization, implementation and follow-up of events, in particular participant lists and the content of presentations and discussions, as well as image and audio recordings made during these events. The protection of other legitimate interests is also one of the other purposes, which cannot be listed exhaustively.

Service providers: We work with service providers in Switzerland and abroad who (i) process data on our behalf (e.g. IT providers), (ii) on our joint responsibility or (iii) on their own responsibility, which they have received from us or collected for us. (These service providers include, for example, IT providers, banks, insurance companies, debt collection agencies, credit reference agencies, address auditors, other law firms or consulting firms). We generally agree contracts with these third parties on the use and protection of personal data.

Clients and other contractual partners: This initially refers to clients and other contractual partners of ours for whom the transfer of your data arises from the contract (e.g. because you work for a contractual partner or they provide services for you). This category of recipients also includes bodies with which we cooperate, such as legal expenses insurers. The recipients generally process the data under their own responsibility.

Authorities and courts: We may pass on personal data to offices, courts and other authorities in Switzerland and abroad if this is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and in particular for the performance of our mandate, or if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so or if this appears necessary to protect our interests. These recipients process the data under their own responsibility.

Counterparties and persons involved: Insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations, in particular for the management of the mandate, we also pass on your personal data to counterparties and other persons involved (e.g. guarantors, financiers, affiliated companies, other law firms, persons providing information or experts, etc.).

Other persons: This refers to other cases where the inclusion of third parties results from the purposes in accordance with section 5 of this data protection declaration. This applies, for example, to delivery recipients or payment recipients specified by you, third parties in the context of representation relationships (e.g. your lawyer or your bank) or persons involved in official or judicial proceedings. We may also pass on your personal data to our supervisory authority, in particular if this is necessary in individual cases to release you from our professional confidentiality obligation. If we collaborate with the media and transmit material to them (e.g. photos), you may also be affected. As part of our corporate development, we may sell or acquire businesses, parts of businesses, assets or companies or enter into partnerships, which may also result in the disclosure of data (including your data, e.g. as a client or supplier or as their representative) to the persons involved in these transactions. In the course of communication with our competitors, industry organizations, associations and other bodies, data relating to you may also be exchanged.

All these categories of recipients may in turn involve third parties, so that your data may also become accessible to them. We can restrict the processing by certain third parties (e.g. IT providers), but not by other third parties (e.g. authorities, banks, etc.).

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it is necessary as described in Section 5 for the initiation and conclusion of contracts and their administration and enforcement (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR);

it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by third parties as described in para. 5, in particular for communication with you or third parties, to operate our website, to improve our electronic offers and registration for certain offers and services, for security purposes, for compliance with Swiss law and internal regulations for our risk management and corporate governance and for other purposes such as training and education, administration, evidence and quality assurance, organization, implementation and follow-up of events and to safeguard other legitimate interests (see section 5 of this data protection declaration) (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR);

it is required or permitted by law on the basis of our mandate or our position under the law of the EEA or a member state (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR) or is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of other natural persons (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR);

you have consented to the processing separately, e.g. via a corresponding declaration on our website or by concluding a mandate agreement (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR).