Data Protection and Legal Note

General information

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to the protection of his or her privacy and protection against the misuse of his or her data. Hence, the operators of these pages take the protection of your data very seriously. We treat your data confidentially and following the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

 

Moreover, and in cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavour to protect the databases as best as possible against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or falsification.

 

Data Transmission

We want to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

 

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data following the following description. You can visit this website without registration. Data such as pages accessed or names of files located, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address are collected as far as possible voluntarily. The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

 

Processing of personal data

Personal data is all information that refers to an identified 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, deletion, storage, alteration, destruction and use of personal data.

 

Swiss Data Protection Law

We process personal data in accordance with the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (revFADP / revDSG), in force since 1 September 2023, and the Ordinance on Data Protection (DPO / DSV). In all other respects, we process personal data – insofar and insofar as the EU Data Protection Ordinance is applicable – following the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 para. 1 Data Protection Ordinance:

 

  • lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
  • lit. b) Processing of personal data for the fulfilment of a contract with the data subject and the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.
    c) Processing of personal data to fulfil a legal obligation. Meaning to which we are subject under any applicable EU law or under any applicable law of a country in which the DSGVO is applicable in whole or in part.
    The processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person is subject to the provisions of subsection d) above.
  • lit. f) Processing of personal data to protect the legitimate interests of us or third parties, unless the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject prevail. Legitimate interests are, in particular, our economic interest in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our legal claims and compliance with Swiss law.

We process personal data for the duration necessary for the purpose or purposes in question. In the case of longer-term storage obligations due to legal and other necessities to which we are subject, we restrict the processing accordingly.

 

Privacy policy for cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific, user-related information on the user’s terminal device while he or she is using the website. Moreover, Cookies make it possible in particular to determine the frequency of use and number of users of the pages. Furthermore, analyse how you use our page, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored after the end of a browser session. They can be called up again when a new page visit s made. If you do not wish this to happen, you should set your Internet browser so that it refuses to accept cookies.

 

Hence, a general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be explained for a large number of services. This is especially the case, in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

Besides, cookies can get preventing them by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case, not all functions of this online offer are available.

 

Privacy Policy for SSL Encryption

This website uses SSL encryption for reasons of security and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot get read by third parties.

 

Data transmission security (without SSL)

Please note that anyone can view data transmitted via an open network such as the Internet or an e-mail service without SSL encryption. You can recognise an unencrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser displays “http://”. Moreover, no lock symbol shows up in your browser line. Information transmitted over the Internet and content received online may be transmitted over third-party networks. Furthermore, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of communications or documents transmitted over such open networks or third-party networks.

 

Third-Party Network

If you disclose personally identifiable information through an open network or third-party networks, you should be aware that your data may be lost. Hence, third parties may potentially access such information and consequently collect and use the data without your consent. Although in many cases the individual data packets are transmitted in encrypted form, the names of the sender and recipient are not. Even if the sender and the recipient live in the same country, data gets often transmitted via such networks without controls. Moreover, this might even involve third countries, i.e. also via countries that do not offer the same level of data protection as your country of domicile.

We assume no responsibility for the security of your data during transmission via the Internet. Additionally, we accept no liability for direct or indirect losses. We ask you to use other means of communication if you consider this necessary or reasonable for security reasons.

 

Data Loss

Despite extensive technical and organisational security precautions, data may be lost or intercepted and/or manipulated by unauthorised persons. As far as possible, we take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent this within our system. However, your computer is outside our controlled security area. It is your responsibility as a user to inform yourself about the necessary security precautions and to take appropriate measures in this regard. As a website operator, we are in no way liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of loss or manipulation of data.

Hence, data which you enter in online forms can be passed on. Meaning to commissioned third parties for order processing and can get viewed and, if necessary, processed by these third parties.

 

Privacy policy for server log files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

 

  • Browser type and browser version
  • used operating system
  • Referrer URL
  • The hostname of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request

These data cannot get assigned to specific persons. On top of that, the data gets merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently check this data if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use.

 

Privacy policy for the contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form including the contact data you provided we will store there to process the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions.

Finally, these data will not be passed on without your consent.

 

Third-party services

This website might use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam and YouTube for embedding videos.

These services of American Google LLC use, among other things, cookies. As a result, data gets transferred to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that in this context, no person-related Tracking takes place alone by the use of our website.

 

Google LLC is certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its Swiss extension. Where this framework does not apply, data transfers are safeguarded by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Hence, you can read more on Google’s privacy policy.

 

Data protection explanation for right on information, deletion, blockage

You have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data. This includes, their origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing. Moreover, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

 

You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal note for this and other questions on the subject of personal data.

 

Data protection declaration for objection to advertising mails

We, as a result of this object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the legal note obligation to send unsolicited advertising and information material.

The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action against unsolicited mailing or e-mailing of spam and other similar advertising materials.

 

Use of Google reCAPTCHA

This website uses the service reCAPTCHA of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). The purpose of the query is to differentiate whether the input is made by a human being or by automated, mechanical processing. The query includes sending the IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input will be transmitted to Google and used there. However, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

 

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCaptcha does not get merged with other data from Google. Your data may also get forwarded to the USA. For transfers of personal data to the USA, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) on 10 July 2023; the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework has been recognised by the Swiss Federal Council since 15 September 2024. Google LLC is certified under this framework. Where the framework does not apply, transfers are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. By activating the query, you consent to the processing of your data.

 

The processing takes place based on Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent up to the revocation.

Access further information on Google reCAPTCHA and the corresponding data protection declaration at https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

 

Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (for users in the EEA and Switzerland) and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The measurement ID used is G-GM6GPXSSTM.

Google Analytics is only loaded with tracking enabled once you have given your consent for the “analytics” category in our cookie banner. Until then, Google Consent Mode v2 is set to denied, which means no analytics or advertising cookies are written and no identifiers are stored on your device. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time via the cookie settings icon at the bottom of every page.

Where consent has been given, Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how visitors use our website. IP addresses are shortened (IP anonymisation) before any further processing, so no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. The information generated is used to evaluate website usage and to compile reports on website activity for us.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Art. 31 revFADP). Data may be transferred to the USA; Google LLC is certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its Swiss extension, and additional transfers are covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Analytics data is retained for a maximum of 14 months.

You can additionally prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by installing the browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Facebook Privacy Policy

This WebSite might use features of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you access our pages with Facebook plug-ins, a connection gets established between your browser and the Facebook servers. Data gets already transferred to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, this data links to it. If you do not wish this data to get assigned to your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our page. Interactions, in particular using a comment function or clicking a “Like” or “Share” button, are also passed on to Facebook. You can find out more at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy.

 

Privacy policy for Twitter

This WebSite might use features from Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you access our pages with Twitter plug-ins, a connection gets established between your browser and the Twitter servers your data gets transferred to Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, this data can get linked to it. If you do not wish this data to get assigned to your Twitter account, please log out of Twitter before visiting our site. Interactions, in particular clicking on a “Re-Tweet” button, are also forwarded to Twitter. You can find out more at https://twitter.com/privacy.

 

Privacy policy for LinkedIn

This website might use functions of the network LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit one of our pages that contains LinkedIn features, you will get connected to LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn will get notified that you have visited our web pages with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend” button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn will be able to associate your visit to our site with you and your user account. We want to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we do not know the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

Further information on this can get found in LinkedIn’s data protection declaration at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube page. YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA operates this service.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection gets established to YouTube’s servers. This will tell the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

When you are logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your surfing behaviour with your profile directly. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube gets used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

 

Other add-ons/plugins 

Please be aware that there are more add-ons/plugins used on our website. Similar rules apply and for further information, kindly visit the site of the respective website owner to read their data protection rules.

 

Online shop, orders and customer accounts

This website is operated as an online shop using WooCommerce. When you place an order we process the data you enter in the checkout: first and last name, billing and delivery address, e-mail address, telephone number, the items ordered, the order amount, the payment method and the order and payment status. This data is required to conclude and perform the purchase contract with you (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and Art. 31 para. 2 lit. a revFADP).

If you create a customer account, we additionally store your login data and your order history so that you can view earlier orders and re-use your address details. You can delete your customer account at any time by writing to us.

Order and invoicing data is retained for ten years in order to comply with Swiss commercial and accounting retention obligations (Art. 958f Swiss Code of Obligations). After that period the data is deleted or anonymised.

Payment processing via PayPal

Payments are processed by PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. If you choose PayPal, the data required for the payment (in particular name, address, e-mail address, order number and amount) is transmitted to PayPal so that the payment can be executed. PayPal is an independent controller for this processing; please also refer to PayPal’s own privacy statement. Payment card details are entered exclusively on PayPal’s systems and are never stored by us.

The legal basis is the performance of the contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and Art. 31 para. 2 lit. a revFADP).

Shipping

In order to deliver your order we pass your name and delivery address to the shipping service provider commissioned with the delivery. This is necessary to perform the contract.

WhatsApp contact button

Our website contains a button that opens a WhatsApp chat with us. The button itself is a simple link and does not load any content from WhatsApp before you click it. If you click it, you leave our website and are forwarded to WhatsApp. From that moment on the privacy statement of WhatsApp Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, Ireland applies. If you write to us via WhatsApp, we process your telephone number and the content of your message in order to answer your enquiry.

Cookie banner and consent management

We use a consent management tool to obtain, document and manage your cookie consent. The tool stores a consent cookie on your device containing your consent ID and the categories you have accepted or rejected, so that we can prove your choice and so that you are not asked again on every page. This cookie is strictly necessary for the operation of the consent mechanism. You can change or withdraw your decision at any time using the cookie settings icon displayed at the bottom of every page.

Web hosting, CDN and performance optimisation

Our website is delivered through NitroPack Inc. and its content delivery network, which caches and optimises the pages of this website. When you access the website, technical connection data such as your IP address, the requested file and the time of the request is processed for this purpose. This serves our legitimate interest in a fast, stable and secure website (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and Art. 31 para. 1 revFADP).

Google Fonts

This website uses web fonts. Some of these fonts are loaded from Google servers (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com), which means your IP address is transmitted to Google when a page is loaded. Google states that no cookies are set for this purpose. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a consistent presentation of our website (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and Art. 31 para. 1 revFADP).

Website security and spam protection

To protect this website against attacks, brute-force login attempts and spam, we use a security plugin which logs IP addresses, login attempts and suspicious requests. This data serves our legitimate interest in the security and integrity of our website (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and Art. 31 para. 1 revFADP) and is deleted after a short period.

Your rights

Within the limits of applicable data protection law you have the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing, the right to object to processing and the right to data portability. You may withdraw a consent you have given at any time with effect for the future.

To exercise these rights, please write to us at the contact address given in the legal note below or by e-mail to kate@katekingdom.com. Please note that we may need to ask you for proof of identity.

If you believe that the processing of your data infringes data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern) or, if you are resident in the EEA, with the supervisory authority of your country.

Services we do not use

For the avoidance of doubt: at the time of the last update of this statement this website does not embed Google Maps, YouTube videos, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter) or LinkedIn plugins. The social media icons on this website are plain links; no data is transmitted to those networks until you actively click on them. Should we introduce such services in the future, this statement will be updated beforehand.

Alterations 

We may change this privacy statement at any time without notice. The current version published on our website applies.

If the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.

 

Legal Note

Contact address:
Hefti Collections
Oberfeldstrasse 29
8173 Neerach

kate@katekingdom.com

 

Disclaimer

Kate Kingdom assumes no liability for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.

Consequently, liability claims against Kate Kingdom are excluded. This relates to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information.

 

All offers are subject to confirmation and non-binding. Kate Kingdom expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without prior notice or to cease publication temporarily or permanently.

 

Liability for links

References and links to third-party websites are outside our area of responsibility. Therefore, we reject any responsibility for such sites. To summarise, access to and use of such websites is at the user’s own risk.

 

Copyright and trademark law

Kate Kingdom endeavours to observe the copyrights of the images, graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts used in all publications, to use images, graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts created by Kate Kingdom itself. This also includes the use of license-free graphics, images, audio, documents, video sequences and texts.

 

All brands and trademarks mentioned within the Internet offer and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners. The mere fact that a trademark gets mentioned should not lead to the conclusion that the rights of third parties do not protect it!

 

The copyright for published objects created by Kate Kingdom remains solely with Kate Kingdom. Keep in mind that any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, audio or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the Kate Kingdom agreement.

 

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an e-mail using the contact form.

 

Image and Video Sources

Images/Video: Pexels.com and Unsplash.com or respective media kits. Full list see below.

Neerach, 12 August 2026 (last updated). Template source: SwissAnwalt