Privacy policy

What is it about? Who are we?

This is the privacy statement (“Statement”) of VISTA Concept AG, c/o SPIE Schweiz AG, Alte Winterthurerstrasse 14b,
8304 Wallisellen (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are the responsible party for the purposes of this statement. We will publish any changes we make to our declarations on this website. The statement currently in force is dated 16/08/2023.

This Statement, together with our Terms of Use, forms the basis on which we process any personal data we receive in connection with your use of and interaction with this website or any other online presence managed by us, including our social media presences and our apps (together referred to as the “Website”).

Our website is primarily a platform on which businesses can place their enquiry as potential sellers of IT hardware so that we can connect potential sellers with potential buyers regarding their enquiry. As this website is primarily aimed at companies and therefore legal entities, we use the feminine form.

This website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to one of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies, and we cannot be held liable or responsible for those policies. Please read the relevant privacy policy before storing any personal data on these websites.

When you visit our website

When you visit our website, the servers at Metanet AG in Switzerland temporarily store every access in a log file. The following technical data is recorded without your intervention, as is generally the case with every connection to a web server, and is stored by us until it is automatically deleted after 12 months at the latest:

  • the IP address of the requesting computer,
  • the name of the owner of the IP address range (usually your Internet access provider),
  • the date and time of access,
  • the website from which the access was made (referrer URL), if applicable with the search word used,
  • the name and URL of the file accessed,
  • the status code (e.g. error message),
  • the operating system of your computer
  • the browser you use (type, version and language),
  • the transmission protocol used (e.g. HTTP/1.1).

In order to optimize the navigation of our visitors on our website, we work with Hotjar.com, a provider of so-called “heatmap” technology based in the USA, with whom we have concluded the necessary contractual EU standard data protection clauses, as stipulated by the data protection authority (FDPIC) and which you can view on request.

The collection and processing of this data is carried out for the purpose of enabling the use of our website (connection establishment), to permanently guarantee system security and stability and to enable the optimization of our internet offer as well as for internal statistical purposes.

When you contact us

This website allows you to contact us via the contact form or via email. If you choose to contact us in this way, you consent to us processing your email address, name, organization, and telephone number, if any, and your proposed appointment and the content of our conversation with you until we are satisfied that you are happy.

Communication with us via email is made possible by us using the following platforms: website server, email server as well as email client. These are operated by our partners in Switzerland/Europe (in particular Microsoft 365 Business Standard), who are themselves subject to data protection regulations, who we have carefully selected and who are contractually obliged to comply with them, in particular with regard to data security.

Communication with us via written enquiry or appointment is handled by us via the following platforms: Jotform.com (contact form solution), Calendly.com (appointment scheduling solution), Zapier.com (solution for integrating appointments into our CRM), Airtable.com (platform for creating and sharing relational databases) and Pipedrive.com (CRM solution); all service providers based in the USA with whom we have concluded the necessary contractual EU standard data protection clauses, as stipulated by the data protection authority (FDPIC). and which you can inspect on request.

When you place a request as a potential seller

To place a request on our platform as a potential seller, you can fill in our corresponding form. The information and personal data contained therein will be processed by us via the same platform as if you send us a written request (contact) (see above).

We will subsequently check your enquiry, if necessary, contact you to clarify any questions, possibly enrich it with additional information and finally share it with potential buyers to enable you to conclude a purchase contract with a potential buyer.

This data will be processed by us until either you withdraw your request, or you have found a buyer and then archived for as long as we are legally or contractually obliged to do so. Components of the data that we are not obliged to archive are anonymized or deleted for statistical evaluation purposes.

When you are registered as a potential buyer

We contact you as a potential buyer via email or telephone with a specific request in order to identify you as such and to discuss the request.

For this purpose, we process data such as contact person, contact possibility, and contact details as well as name of the organization in addition to the content of the exchange with regard to a concrete offer. We process this data in our CRM (see above) based on our contract with you.

We process this data for as long as you are our contractual partner and then archive it for as long as we are legally or contractually obliged to do so. Components of the data that we are not obliged to archive are anonymized or deleted for statistical evaluation purposes.

What are your rights?

You have the right to:

  • request information from us about the correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • request us to restrict the processing of your personal data, in particular to object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes; and
  • request that we provide you or a natural or legal person appointed by you with a digital file of your personal data (data portability).

You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data for the specified purposes at any time with effect for the future.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions about this statement or how to exercise your rights, please contact us in writing.

Cookies

Cookies help in many ways to make your visit to our website easier, more enjoyable, and more meaningful. Cookies are information files that your web browser automatically stores on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our website.

Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a message always appears when you receive a new cookie.

We use so-called tracking links, e.g. for Google Analytics, for the purpose of demand-oriented design and continuous optimization of our website, as well as for the control of advertising measures on external platforms.

You have the option of blocking all tracking links under this link. Please note that a cookie is set for this purpose.

The following tracking links are used:

Web Analytics Tools

We use the web analytics service of Google Analytics for the purpose of demand-oriented design and continuous optimization of our website. In this context, pseudonymized user profiles are created and small text files stored on your computer (“cookies”) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to the servers of the providers of these services, stored there and processed for us. In addition to the data listed above, we may also receive the following information:

  • Navigation path that visitors take on the website,
  • the time spent on the website or sub-page,
  • the sub-page on which the website is left,
  • the country, region or city from which the website is accessed,
  • End device (type, version, colour depth, resolution, width and height of the browser window) and
  • Returning or new visitors.

The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and tailoring this website to your needs. This information may also be transferred to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on our behalf.

Google Analytics

The provider of Google Analytics is Google Inc, a company of the holding company Alphabet Inc, based in the USA. Before the data is transmitted to the provider, the IP address is shortened by activating IP anonymisation (“anonymizeIP”) on this website within the Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The anonymised IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. In these cases, Google Inc. ensures a sufficient level of data protection. According to Google Inc., in no case will the IP address be associated with other relevant user data.

Further information about the web analysis service used can be found on the Google Analytics website. Instructions on how to prevent the processing of your data by the web analysis service can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Google Ads

We use the Google Ads customer match (Google Customer Match). It is a function within Google Ads that helps prospective and existing customers to be reached more effectively and addressed in a personalised manner in Google Search, the Google Shopping tab, Gmail, YouTube and Google Networks for advertisements. Google Ads customer matching is used in particular for remarketing, optimising campaigns and increasing conversion rates.

The personalisation of Google advertising is based on the assignment to a target group and is carried out by Google using the information from your Google account as well as on the basis of the activities and interests that take place when you use Google products and Google advertising partners. As a Google user, the use of Google Ads Customer Matching enables us to target you more precisely and ensures, for example, that the advertising played via Google Ads is more precisely tailored to the target group-specific interests that follow from your use of our website. Google Ads customer matching does not require any separate cookies for this purpose. Google requires a list of customer data from us in order to understand whether you are already known to Google as a user. However, no profiles are created or expanded in the process. Google does not receive your actual data (e.g. email address, telephone number), but only so-called hashed codes that are created using one-way encryption. Google matches these hashed codes with its own user database. Google cannot decrypt these codes again unless the corresponding data is already available in its own user database. As a result, Google does not receive the customer data uploaded during the upload, but can only determine whether the data is already available at Google or not. If the data is not available at Google, the hashed codes created on the basis of the customer data cannot be decrypted again. Otherwise, the codes already known to Google and the hashed codes match and an assignment for the creation of target groups is possible. After the target groups have been created, the uploaded data is deleted.

Hotjar

We use the Hotjar software (http://www.hotjar.com, 3 Lyons Range, 20 Bisazza Street, Sliema SLM 1640, Malta, Europe) to improve the user experience on our websites. Hotjar allows us to measure and analyse user behaviour (mouse movements, clicks, scroll height, etc.) on our websites. For this purpose, Hotjar sets cookies on users’ end devices and can store user data such as browser information, operating system, length of time spent on the page, etc. You can find out more about data processing by Hotjar at www.hotjar.com/privacy.

Leadinfo

We use the lead generation service provided by Leadinfo B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, which recognizes visits of companies to our website based on IP-addresses and shows us related publicly available information, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo places two first-party cookies for providing transparency on how our visitors use our website and the tool processes domains from provided form inputs (e.g. “leadinfo.com”) to correlate IP addresses with companies and to enhance its services. For additional information, please visit www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out you have an opt-out option. In the event of an opt-out, your data will no longer be used by Leadinfo”.

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