Who we are

Our website address is: https://chromacon.com

General Information about the Privacy Policy

Your trust is important to us, which is why we take the issue of data protection seriously and ensure the appropriate level of security. We of course abide by the statutory provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection (OFADP), the Telecommunications Act (TCA) and, if applicable, other data protection provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR).

The following privacy policy informs you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data on our website chromacon.com (hereinafter “Website”) by ChromaCon AG (hereinafter “we” or “us”), and provides information about your rights. These rights are based on the applicable data protection laws.

Responsible Party for Data Protection

ChromaCon AG, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland a company specializing in chromatography technology (CHE-113.328.657), represented by Dr. Thomas Müller-Späth (Managing Director), operates the website chromacon.com and is therefore responsible for the collection, processing, and use of your personal data, as well as ensuring the compatibility of data processing with Swiss law.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of Our Contact Form

You have the option of using a contact form to get in touch with us. Doing so requires that you enter personal data.

We only use this data in order to answer your queries in an optimum manner and in a way that is tailored to you. The processing of your contact request constitutes our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object to this data processing at any time.

Contacting Us via Email

If you contact us by e-mail regarding questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address. This serves the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

We only use this data to provide the best possible and personalized response to your contact inquiry.

The processing of your contact request constitutes our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object to this data processing at any time.

Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

When you visit our website, our servers make a temporary record of each access and store it in a log file. The following data is collected and stored, without any action on your part, until it is automatically deleted by us after 12 months at the latest:

  • IP address of the accessing computer
  • time and date of access
  • name and URL of the file called up
  • website from which access is made
  • operating system of your computer and the browser used
  • country from which access is made
  • language settings of your browser
  • name of your Internet access provider

The said data is collected and processed for the purpose of allowing you to use our website (establishing a connection), ensuring system security and stability in the long term and allowing our Internet offering to be optimised, as well as for internal statistical purposes. This is our legitimate interest in the processing of data within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The IP address in particular is used in order to determine the country of residence of the visitor to the website and set the language of the website accordingly. The IP address is also analysed in the event of attacks on the network infrastructure of chromacon.com as well as for statistical purposes.

Data collection when you register for our newsletter

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter through our website. Registration is required in order to do so. As part of the registration, the following data must be provided:

  • E-mail address


By registering, you give your agreement to the data provided being processed for regular dispatch of the newsletter to the address you provided, for the statistical analysis of user behaviour and optimisation of the newsletter. Your consent constitutes our legal basis for the processing of your e-mail address in the sense of art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.We are entitled to commission third parties with the technical processing of advertising measures and to pass your data on for this purpose.
At the end of each newsletter is a link which you can use to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. Once you have unsubscribed, your personal data will be deleted. Further processing shall take place only in anonymised form for the purpose of optimising our newsletter.

Cookies

Details see Cookie Policy

On our travel portal we use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. Through this, we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can disable or delete the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Further information on cookies can be found at the following link: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie

Links

This website may contain hyperlinks to other websites that are not operated or monitored by us. These third-party websites are not subject to these data protection regulations, and we are not responsible for their content or for their policies regarding the handling of personal data. We recommend that you read the policy of the respective websites and check in what way they protect your personal data and whether they are trustworthy.

Embedded YouTube videos

On some of sites of our travel portal, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells Youtube which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your Youtube account, Youtube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account beforehand.

If a Youtube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to deal with such cookies when watching Youtube videos. However, Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.

For more information on data protection at “Youtube”, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Right to information, correction, erasure and restriction of processing

You have the right to receive information about the personal data that we store about you free of charge upon request. In addition, you have the right to correct inaccurate data and the right to delete your personal data, as far as there is no statutory storage obligation or another legal basis for the processing in the sense of art. 6 GDPR that allows us to continue processing the data. You also have the right to reclaim from us the data you have given us (right to data portability). On request, we also pass the data on to a third party of your choice. You have the right to receive the data in a common file format.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

California Residents Notice

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, customers and users of ChromaCon (a wholly owned subsidiary of YMC Japan since 2019) who are California residents are permitted to request a listing of certain categories of personal information ChromaCon has disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, and the identity of those third parties. To obtain this information, please send an email to .

EU Representative (GDPR Art. 77)


For complaints relating to perceived infringement of the processing of your personal data under Article 77 of the GDPR, you may contact ChromaCon’s EU Representative:
VGS Datenschutzpartner UG, Am Kaiserkai 69, 20457 Hamburg, Germany | https://datenschutzpartner.eu/
ChromaCon kindly requests that you also copy your correspondence to .

Corporate Structure & Data Controller


ChromaCon AG is a wholly owned subsidiary of YMC Co., Ltd. (YMC Japan). References to “ChromaCon” throughout this notice refer to ChromaCon AG operating under the ultimate ownership of YMC Co., Ltd. For questions regarding data controller responsibilities at the group level, please contact .

Investor Services


We may use personal information to provide investor services, including in connection with our parent company, YMC Co., Ltd. (YMC Japan).

YMC Group Affiliates

Personal data may be shared with affiliated entities within the YMC Group, including but not limited to YMC Co., Ltd. (Japan) and YMC America (USA), for purposes related to the provision of products and services, business operations, and customer support. All intra-group data transfers are conducted in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR where relevant.