Privacy policy | GAWEL Legal

Responsible for your data

Rechtsanwalt
Dr. iur. Claus Gawel, LLM
Clarastrasse 2
4058 Basel, Switzerland

Website visits

Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) hosts and protects this website. It processes connection data, including your IP address, requested page, browser information and access time. The practice keeps no visitor access log. Technical error logs may be kept to diagnose faults.

Cloudflare may process data in the USA and in other countries identified in its service-specific subprocessor list (opens in new tab). Transfers covered by the applicable EU-U.S. or Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework rely on that framework; otherwise its data processing terms (opens in new tab) provide for standard contractual clauses. Connection, security and error data are retained only as needed to provide, protect and troubleshoot the service under those terms.

Enquiries

Your contact details, your message and the other information you give in the form are used to answer your enquiry and, where agreed, provide legal services. The form passes through Cloudflare to the practice's email provider, which stores the mailbox on its own servers in Switzerland, Germany or Norway. Submissions are not stored on the website or used for marketing.

Correspondence is deleted when no longer needed for the enquiry, an engagement, legal claims or applicable retention duties. Information marked as required in the form is needed to process and answer it.

Where the GDPR applies, the legal bases are steps taken at your request towards, or performance of, a contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and legitimate interests in answering business enquiries, operating and securing the website, and handling legal claims (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Browser settings and access counts

Your theme, saved articles, keyboard-shortcut setting and focus-mode choice stay in your browser, as do copies of site files and recently visited pages that let the site open offline. You can remove them by clearing its site data. Apart from the access count described below, the website does not use advertising trackers or analytics.

On Insights articles and the regulatory tracker, ProLitteris (Switzerland) and its measurement provider, Kantar Deutschland GmbH (Germany), count accesses for copyright remuneration. The measurement code is served only when Cloudflare identifies the connecting IP address as being in Switzerland.

The measurement receives the page URL, IP address and browser information and may use a session cookie or a signature derived from browser information. To prevent it, block ptag.prolitteris.ch and pl02.owen.prolitteris.ch in your browser or content blocker. Disabling cookies alone may not prevent the signature. The website remains usable without the measurement.

Your rights

Under the Swiss DSG and, where applicable, the GDPR, you may request access, correction, deletion or transfer of your data, subject to the legal conditions. Where the GDPR applies, you may also request restriction and object to processing based on legitimate interests for reasons relating to your situation.

Send requests to contact@gawel.ch. You may report concerns to the EDÖB (opens in new tab) or, where the GDPR applies, complain to the competent EU or EEA data protection authority.