LEGAL INFORMATION

Application: By accessing this website, you agree to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to the following terms and conditions, do not access this website.

WISLaw reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. Changes become effective upon publication on the website.

Intellectual Property: The copyright and all other rights (including trademark and/or design and colour rights) to this website, the layout and design of this website and the information and data contained on this website, such as texts, illustrations, images, photos, graphics, logos, symbols, etc., belong exclusively to WISLaw or the corresponding artists. Visitors to the website do not acquire any rights to the website and the information and data contained on it and have only the non-exclusive and non-transferable personal rights of use granted to them in accordance with these terms and conditions. Visitors to the website are permitted, within the scope of using the website, to view this website and the information and data displayed on it on the screen and, in addition, to perform only those acts of use which are described as permissible on the website, such as, for example, if the visitor is given the opportunity to print out content contained on the website and it is necessary for this purpose to download and temporarily store the content. For any further use, in particular for any commercial use and exploitation of any elements of this website, the written consent of WISLaw must be obtained in advance. It is not permitted to make additions or changes to the content. If you make content available to third parties, you must ensure that such third parties are aware of these terms of use. We ask you not to link or refer to our website, name or logo without first asking us for permission in advance. 

No warranty: WISLaw strives to keep the information and data published on the website correct and up-to-date. However, it makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the correctness of the content, accuracy, up-to-dateness, reliability and completeness of the information and data published on this website. 

In particular, WISLaw does not verify members’ qualifications mentioned in the WISLaw members’ directory. WISLaw takes no responsibility for any inaccuracies. 

WISLaw does not warrant undisturbed and uninterrupted access to and use of the website or its functions, or undisturbed and uninterrupted transmission of data. WISLaw reserves the right to change, supplement, restructure, delete or temporarily not publish information and data in whole or in part at any time without prior notice.

Data protection and data transmission: WISLaw takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, it handles your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with art. 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution, the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). WISLaw shall comply with these provisions and apply the principle according to which every natural person is entitled to the protection of his or her privacy and to protection against the misuse of his or her personal data.

Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. 

If you provide us with personal data, we collect such data in our contact database in order to maintain our professional network and to send advertising messages, newsletters, invitations to events and the like.

We collect and store personal data that you provide to us with the utmost care. We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect all data collected from manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorised access.

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR or art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if special categories of data are processed according to art. 9 (1) GDPR. In the case of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing is also based on art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to the access to information in your end device (e.g., via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally based on §25 (1) TTDSG (Act regulating data protection and privacy in telecommunications and telemedia). The consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the fulfilment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, if your data is required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, we process it on the basis of art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Furthermore, the data processing may be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest according to art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. 

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients, and purposes of your archived personal data at any time. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified or eradicated. If you have consented to data processing, you have the option to revoke this consent at any time, which shall affect all future data processing. Moreover, you have the right to demand that the processing of your data be restricted under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervising agency. Any queries or requests in relation to the handling of your personal data by WISLaw can be sent to: info@wislaw.ch or WISLaw, Steinwiesstrasse 7, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

WISLaw wishes to point out that by visiting this website information about the access (date, time, page viewed) can be stored. This data does not belong to the personal data but is anonymised. They are evaluated exclusively for statistical purposes. A transfer to third parties, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, does not take place. 

Since the transmission of data via the internet may be prone to security gaps, it cannot be ruled out that data transmitted by website visitors may be read and possibly falsified by unauthorised third parties. The transmission of messages, documents and other information or data by e-mail is therefore considered less reliable, secure and confidential than the transmission by postal mail. 

If WISLaw is contacted by e-mail, this will be understood as agreement to continue to communicate by e-mail in the absence of express agreements to the contrary. Although incoming e-mails are checked regularly, there is no guarantee that they will be processed in a timely manner. 

WISLaw therefore recommends sending time-critical or important messages by postal mail or courier service. The sending of e-mails does not have any effect on the compliance with deadlines. If you want to be sure that your e-mail has been received correctly, please request confirmation of receipt from the addressee.

Applicable law and jurisdiction: The relationship between WISLaw and the visitors in connection with the use of this website is governed exclusively by Swiss law. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for any disputes in connection with the website www.wislaw.ch shall be the ordinary courts of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. 

CH-Zurich, March 2^nd, 2026
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