Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Heimat Treuhand collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data when you access or use our website gmbhforsale.com. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG) and, where applicable, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By using our website or services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our practices, please do not use our website or provide us with your personal information.

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

Heimat Treuhand
Dreikönigstrasse 31a
8001 Zurich
Switzerland

Telephone: +41 44 854 45 55
Email: [email protected]
Office hours: 9:30–16:30

2. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

• Identity and contact information: Your name, email address, telephone number, postal address, and any other information you provide when contacting us or registering an account.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, time zone setting, geolocation data, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
• Usage data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited, time spent on pages, links clicked, and other analytical data.
• Transaction and KYC data: Documents and information submitted as part of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures, including identification documents, proof of address, corporate documents, source of funds documentation, and banking information.
• Communication data: Records of correspondence and communications with us via email, telephone, or other channels.

3. Purpose of Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Responding to enquiries: To answer questions, provide information about our services, and communicate with prospective and existing clients.
• Processing transactions: To facilitate the purchase of ready-made GmbH companies, coordinate transfers of ownership, and deliver related services.
• KYC and AML compliance: To verify your identity and comply with Swiss and international anti-money laundering regulations and other legal obligations.
• Contract performance: To fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including coordinating with banking partners for account introductions and liaising with authorities for company registration matters.
• Website operation and improvement: To operate, maintain, and improve our website, ensure security, diagnose technical problems, and analyse usage patterns.
• Legal compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and enforceable governmental requests.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: Where you have given explicit consent for us to process your personal data for specific purposes.
• Contractual necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
• Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as improving our services, ensuring website security, and conducting business development activities, provided such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.
• Legal obligation: Where processing is required to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, particularly Swiss AML legislation and fiduciary duties.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Banking partners: Financial institutions in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein for the purpose of facilitating bank account introductions and ongoing banking relationships.
• Professional advisers: Lawyers, auditors, notaries, and other professional service providers who assist us in delivering our services.
• Technology service providers: Website hosting providers, analytics platforms, email service providers, and other technical service providers who support our operations.
• Regulatory authorities: Swiss authorities, including the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS), and other competent authorities when required by law.
• Corporate transaction parties: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets, your data may be transferred to the relevant third parties, subject to confidentiality obligations.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with legal, accounting, and regulatory requirements.

Specific retention periods include:

• KYC and AML documentation: Retained for a minimum of ten years following the termination of the business relationship, in accordance with Swiss anti-money laundering regulations.
• Contractual and transactional records: Retained for ten years in accordance with Swiss commercial law obligations.
• General enquiry data: Retained for up to three years unless you request earlier deletion or we have a legitimate reason to retain it longer.
• Technical and analytics data: Typically retained for up to two years or until no longer needed for analytical purposes.

Following the applicable retention period, we will securely delete or anonymise your personal data.

7. Your Rights

Under Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, the GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right of access: You may request confirmation of whether we process your personal data and obtain a copy of such data.
• Right to rectification: You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Right to erasure: You may request deletion of your personal data where it is no longer necessary for the purposes collected, where you withdraw consent, or where there is no overriding legal basis for processing.
• Right to restriction: You may request that we restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability: You may request to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
• Right to object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) or, where applicable, with a supervisory authority in an EU member state.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in section 11 below. We will respond to your request within one month, or inform you if we require an extension.

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and analyse website usage.

Types of cookies we use:

• Essential cookies: Necessary for the operation of our website, enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas.
• Analytics cookies: Used to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies, delete existing cookies, and set preferences for certain websites. Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

9. Analytics

We use Umami, a privacy-focused web analytics platform, to collect aggregated and anonymised information about website usage. Umami does not track personal data, does not use cookies that identify individual users, and does not share data with third parties. All analytics data is collected in compliance with Swiss and European data protection standards.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the bottom of this policy and, where appropriate, notify you by email or by means of a notice on our website.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your personal data.

11. Contact for Data Protection Matters

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, please contact us at:

Heimat Treuhand
Dreikönigstrasse 31a
8001 Zurich
Switzerland

Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 44 854 45 55

Last updated: 15 April 2025