Alerting before ice avalanches

With geophones and Doppler radar we detect ice avalanches and close traffic routes.

Avalanche detection

With our systems, we have been reliably detecting avalanches for over twenty years and triggering road closures and alarms.

Agricultural meteorology

We carry out microclimatic measurements in vineyards and orchards to warn of pest infestations.

Snow measurements

Automatic measuring stations are an important source for knowing how much snow there is at what altitude!

Glacier monitoring

Automatic camera systems are used to monitor the movement of glaciers in the high mountains.

Measurement of snow drifting

A FlowCapt snow drift station after a storm with intense snow loading.

Permafrost Monitoring

Precise borehole measurements and climate stations are used to collect data for long-term permafrost monitoring.

Privacy policy

Responsible body in the sense of the data protection laws is:

SensAlpin GmbH Promenade 119A CH-7270 Davos Platz Switzerland

Your data protection rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
  • Correction of incorrect personal data,
  • deletion of your data stored by us,
  • Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
  • objection to the processing of your data by us and
  • Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.

You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint.

Purposes of data processing by the data controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent to do so,
  • the processing is necessary for the execution of a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the contents of web pages requested by you and is compulsory when using the Internet. In particular, it is processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • evaluation of system security and stability as well as
  • for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, order processors.

Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimise our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also 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. The information contained in cookies enables us to facilitate your navigation and to display our web pages correctly.

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

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

Essential cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to navigate our websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services such as shopping carts and e-billing are not possible.

Performance and analytics cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for example which pages you visit most often. This data may be used to optimize our websites and make it easier for you to navigate. These cookies are also used to allow affiliated companies to identify whether you have come from another affiliated company's website and your visit has been completed with the use or purchase of a product or service, including information about the products or services purchased.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you have made while browsing. For example, we may store your geographic location in a cookie to ensure that we display the version of the website appropriate for your location. We may also remember preferences such as text size, font, and other customizable elements of the website. The cookies may also be used to keep a record of which products or videos you have seen on offer, so that you are not offered the same thing twice. The information collected by these cookies does not identify you and they may also track your navigation activity on websites not operated by us.

Use of third party cookies

We may also load other third-party cookies that also use cookies, web beacons/counting pixels and other similar technologies to collect information about your online activities, either through our Services or across the Internet. These companies may also display ads and track user behavior in other ways.

Controlling Cookies

You can generally view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. Generally, you can disable or delete the use of cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies. Users can disable the receipt of cookies by clicking here: www.youronlinechoices.eu.

SSL Encryption

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

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 this privacy policy and we are neither responsible for their content nor for their policies regarding the handling of personal data. We recommend that you read the policy of the respective websites and check how they protect your personal data and whether they are trustworthy.

Contact form

If you contact us by e-mail or contact form 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 allocation of the inquiry and the subsequent answer of 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.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these web pages, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purpose of the data processing is to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activities. Based on the use of the website and the internet, other related services shall then be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Use of Fonts.com

This website uses "fonts.com", a font service provided by Monotype GmbH, Werner-Reimers-Straße 2-4, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany. Each time you visit this website, files are loaded from a fonts.com server to display text in a particular font. Your IP address may be transferred to a fonts.com server and stored in the usual server log. Further processing of this information is the responsibility of fonts.com. For information on conditions and settings, please refer to the privacy policy of fonts.com.

Use of Google Web Fonts

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script and font libraries such as Google Webfonts(https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website.

Google Webfonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Calling up script or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible - but currently also unclear whether and for what purposes - that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about visitors' use of the map features. You can find more information about data processing by Google in the Google privacy policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

Detailed instructions on how to manage your own data in connection with Google products can be found here https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on some of our websites. 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 behaviour 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 behaviour.

If you have deactivated the saving of cookies for the Google ad program, you will not have to expect any such cookies when watching Youtube videos. However, Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at "Youtube" can be found in the provider's data protection declaration at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .

Embedded Vimeo videos

On some of our websites, we embed Vimeo videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is Vimeo, LLC with headquarters at 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011.

When you call up the Internet pages of our website that are provided with such a plugin - for example, our media library - a connection is established to the Vimeo servers and the plugin is displayed. This transmits to the Vimeo server which of our Internet pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Vimeo, Vimeo assigns this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin, such as clicking on the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your Vimeo user account before using our website and deleting the corresponding cookies from Vimeo.

Further information on data processing and notes on data protection by Vimeo can be found in the data protection declaration of the provider https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Use of Google Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The function is used to present website visitors with interest-based advertisements within the Google advertising network. A so-called "cookie" is stored in the browser of the website visitor, which makes it possible to recognize the visitor when he or she visits websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, the visitor can be presented with advertisements that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google's remarketing function.

According to its own information, Google does not collect any personal data during this process. However, if you do not wish to use Google's remarketing function, you can deactivate it in principle by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the advertising network initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit.

Status: 03.02.2020