Privacy policy

1. Controller

Lorenz Minks Media & Consulting (Research Gardens), Im Wiesengrund 8, 8700 Küsnacht, Switzerland — Email: lorenz@research-gardens.com

This privacy policy follows the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Hosting

This website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you visit the site, Cloudflare processes technically necessary data (e.g. IP address, time, requested URL, browser information) to deliver the website and protect it against attacks (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

3. Cookies and tracking

This website does not set tracking or marketing cookies and does not use analytics tools. On your first visit we show you the matching language version (German or English) based on your browser’s language setting and store this language in a technically necessary cookie (rg_lang, valid for 12 months). If you choose another language via the language switcher, this choice is stored in the same cookie. Fonts are served locally; no data is transferred to Google Fonts or other CDNs.

4. Contact form

If you contact us via the contact form, we process your details (name, email address, optionally company and subject, message) to handle your inquiry (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR). Emails are sent via the email service Resend (Resend, Inc., USA). The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required and no statutory retention obligations apply.

5. Booking a meeting

For booking meetings we link to Microsoft Bookings (Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd.). Data is only transferred to Microsoft once you click the link; Microsoft’s privacy policy applies there.

6. Embedded content

Some articles may contain embedded videos (e.g. YouTube). When played, data may be transferred to the respective provider.

7. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR), as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.