Last Updated: June 27, 2025
Checkmate GmbH is committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our website.
1. Data Controller
Checkmate GmbH
Via Daro 8
CH-6500 Bellinzona
info@checkmate.ch
2. Types of Personal Data Collected
We process the following types of data, depending on your interaction with our website:
- Contact form: name, email address, and any information you provide in your message.
- Questionnaires: responses and any personal data you choose to provide.
- Website usage: anonymous data collected via analytics tools (see below).
3. Purposes and Legal Basis for Processing
- Contact form: to respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
- Questionnaires: to collect information for statistical purposes and to offer personalized consulting services.
- Website analytics: to analyze website usage and improve our online services.
4. Data Storage and Hosting
- Website hosting: our website is hosted in Germany by Hetzner.
- Contact form data: data submitted through our contact form is stored and processed on servers owned by Hetzner, in Germany.
- Questionnaire data: it is stored in Switzerland by provider Infomaniak.
- Analytics: anonymous website analytics are collected using the open-source software Plausible, hosted on Infomaniak’s infrastructure, in Switzerland.
5. Data Transfers and Recipients
- No third-party sharing: we do not share or sell your personal data with third parties.
- Service providers: data may be processed by Hetzner (Germany) and Infomaniak (Switzerland) as hosting and analytics providers, acting exclusively on our instructions.
6. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
7. Data Retention
- Contact form: data is retained as long as necessary to process your request, and for a reasonable period thereafter for legal and administrative purposes.
- Questionnaire data: retained as long as needed for statistical analysis and to provide personalized consulting services.
- Analytics: anonymous data is retained in accordance with analytics provider policies.
8. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access your personal data.
- Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Request deletion of your data, subject to legal obligations.
- Object to or restrict certain data processing.
- Withdraw consent (where applicable).
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided above.
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies only to the extent necessary for website functionality and anonymous analytics of website usage. You may adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, but this may affect some functionality of the website.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, indicating the date of update.