DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT
§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data
Below, we provide information regarding the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to all data that can be linked to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.
PLATH AG has been a member of the PLATH Group, headquartered in Hamburg, since 2006. The companies within this group not only collaborate in the economic sphere, but also share a common understanding of the protection of personal data. In Germany, the companies operate in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); in Switzerland, the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) must be observed. Both laws share many similarities. This privacy policy complies with both the GDPR and the FADP.
PLATH AG, Güterstrasse 5, 3072 Ostermundigen, Switzerland, Managing Director Dr Franz Gumpitsch, email:info@plath-ag.ch , VAT No. CHE-113.190.407. The controller pursuant to Article 4(7) (GDPR) is PLATH Corporation GmbH, Gotenstraße 18, 20097 Hamburg (Germany). You can contact the Data Protection Officer of PLATH Corporation GmbH at datenschutz@plath.de or at the postal address with the addition ‘Data Protection Officer’. A data protection agreement has been concluded between the two companies in accordance with [Article 4(8) and Article 28 of the GDPR] and [Section 2 of Article 10a of the DSG]. You may contact either company to exercise your rights as a data subject.
Contact form: If you have any questions, we offer you the option of contacting us via a form provided on the website. You must provide a valid email address so that we know who the enquiry is from and can respond to it. Further details may be provided voluntarily.
Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out in accordance with
[Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR] and [Section 2, Art. 4(5) DSG] on the basis of your voluntary consent. The personal data we collect when you use the contact form will be automatically deleted once your enquiry has been dealt with.If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our service or wish to use your data for marketing purposes, we will provide you with detailed information on the respective processes below. In doing so, we will also specify the criteria for the storage period.
§ 2 Your rights
You have the following rights in relation to us regarding your personal data:
Right of access,
Right to rectification or erasure,
Right to restriction of processing,
Right to object to processing,
- Right to data portability.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data. To do so, you may contact the supervisory authority for your usual place of residence, place of work or our registered office.
§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website
When you use the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR):
IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Content of the request (specific page)
Access status / HTTP status code
Amount of data transferred
Website from which the request originates
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.
This data is stored only temporarily and is automatically deleted after a short time.
In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and associated with the browser you are using, and through which certain information is sent to the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:
Transient cookies. Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which allows various requests from your browser to be associated with the same session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
When you visit our website, we only use technically necessary cookies. The user data collected in this way is not used to create user profiles. These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in the processing of personal data pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
On our website, you will find videos stored on the social media platform YouTube. When these videos are played, cookies are stored by YouTube. These videos are embedded in enhanced privacy mode. When the videos are played, there is no personalisation of your browsing on YouTube and no personalisation of advertising displayed to you outside our website.
You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.
§ 4 Collection of personal data when using the careers portal
If you wish to apply via our website for a position in our company or in a company within the PLATH Group, you can access the PLATH Group’s career portal via the ‘Careers’ link.
Here, you will be required to provide and submit certain personal data via the relevant contact form.
If you apply for an advertised vacancy, your data will be processed solely for the purpose of applying for that specific position. Once the position has been filled and a period of 6 months has elapsed, this data will be deleted.
If you send us a speculative application or a quick application via the career portal, your data may be viewed by HR managers who have vacancies to fill, as well as by HR advisors. We will contact you and invite you for an interview if your profile matches a vacant position. This data will also be deleted after a period of 6 months, unless you have specified otherwise in your application.
The data you enter is temporarily stored in a database on the web server. Once this data has been retrieved by staff in our HR department (usually on the following working day), it is deleted from this database.
We use the services of an external company to ensure the career portal functions properly. A data processing agreement in accordance with Article 28(3) of the GDPR has been concluded with this company. The collection, storage and processing of data take place in Germany. The above-mentioned retention periods apply.
Data processing for the purpose of job applications is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent to the collection and processing of data.
§ 5 Collection of personal data when registering to receive newsletters
from PLATH or other companies within the PLATH Group
On our website, there is an option in the menu to register to receive newsletters. We use an external service provider, rapidmail, to send newsletters. We have entered into a contract with this service provider for the processing of personal data on our behalf in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR.
We collect the following personal data: gender, first name, surname and email address.
This data is processed for the specific purpose of sending the newsletters. The legal basis for the processing is your consent.
You may withdraw your consent to receive newsletters at your email address at any time. Following withdrawal, your data will be deleted immediately and you will no longer receive newsletters from us
§ 6 Objection or withdrawal of consent to the processing of your data
If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. Such a withdrawal affects the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data from the moment you have notified us of it.
Where we base the processing of your personal data on a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case where the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you, as we will explain in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such an objection, we ask you to state the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of a justified objection, we will review the situation and either cease or adjust the data processing, or explain to you our compelling legitimate grounds on which we continue the processing.
You may, of course, object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You may inform us of your objection to advertising using the following contact details: PLATH Corporation GmbH, Gotenstraße 18, 20097 Hamburg, or PLATH AG, Güterstrasse 5, 3072 Ostermundigen, Switzerland, by email at datenschutz@plath.de.
§7 Data security
During your visit to the website, we use the widely used SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol in conjunction with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. This is usually 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we will use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether a particular page of our website is being transmitted in encrypted form by the closed representation of the key or padlock symbol in the status bar at the bottom of your browser.
We also employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
§ 8 Web Analytics
We use the web analytics service Matomo to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics gathered enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. The Matomo software and the data collected via Matomo are operated, stored and processed exclusively on our own servers. We use Matomo with an extension to anonymise IP addresses. This ensures that IP addresses are processed in a truncated form, thereby ruling out any direct personal identification. Your IP address, collected in this way, is neither combined with other data we collect nor passed on to third parties.
If you do not agree to the anonymous storage and analysis of the data, you can object at any time with a single click. An opt-out cookie will then be set in your browser, with the result that Matomo will no longer collect session data.
To do this, follow this link to our cookie consent banner
https://www.plath-ag.ch/#cmpscreen, click the "Change settings" button and, under "Measurement", set the slider for Matomo at the bottom to inactive. Finally, click "Save & Exit" at the bottom.
§ 9 Social Networks
Our website does not use social media plugins. Social media plugins, such as the ‘Like’ button, are small buttons (e.g. below articles) that allow users to share content with others in a convenient way without leaving the website.
If you do find buttons with links to social networks, please note the privacy policies of these providers when using these links.
§ 10 Data portability
You have a right to data portability provided that the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR) or on a contract to which you are a party and the processing is carried out by automated means. In this case, the right to data portability includes the following rights, provided that this does not infringe upon the rights and freedoms of others:
You may request that we provide you with the personal data you have supplied to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
You have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us.
Where technically feasible, you may request that we transmit your personal data directly to another controller.
§ 11 Validity
Up-to-date status and amendments to this privacy policy. This privacy policy is currently valid and is dated March 2026. Due to the further development of our website and the services offered on it, or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this privacy policy. You can access and print the current version of the privacy policy at any time on the website at https://www.plath-ag.ch/datenschutz.
Hamburg/ Ostermundingen, April 2026
