Privacy Policy
Status: July 2026
- Controller
The controller responsible for processing personal data under Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), is:
HK Management Partners GmbH
CHE-349.620.754
Roosstrasse 53
CH-8832 Wollerau
Switzerland
Email: info@hk-mp.com
- General Information
The protection of your personal data is important to us. We process personal data carefully, confidentially, and exclusively in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
This Privacy Policy informs you about which personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use it, and the rights you have regarding your data.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
- Collection of Personal Data When Visiting the Website
When our website is accessed, information is automatically collected by the hosting provider and technical systems and stored in server log files.
In particular, the following data may be processed:
- IP address
- Date and time of access
- Name of the accessed file or page
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system
- Referrer URL
- Amount of data transferred
- Access status
This data is used for the technical provision of the website, ensuring system security, and error analysis.
The processing is based on our legitimate interest in the secure and stable operation of our website.
- Contact
If you contact us by email or via contact forms, we process the personal data you provide in order to handle your inquiry and for further business communication.
This may include in particular:
- Name
- Email address
- Company
- Telephone number
- Content of your message
- Other voluntarily provided information
The data is stored only for as long as necessary to process your inquiry or as required by statutory retention obligations.
- Contract Initiation and Business Communication
If you request or use our services, we process personal data in particular for:
- Providing our website
- Responding to inquiries
- Carrying out pre-contractual measures
- Concluding and performing consulting mandates
- Customer support
- Applicant management
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Invoicing
- Risk management
- IT and system security
- Establishing or defending legal claims
- Microsoft 365
We use Microsoft 365 from Microsoft Corporation for business communication and collaboration.
Personal data may be processed in connection with the use of email, document management, appointment scheduling, or other communication services.
Microsoft may also process data outside Switzerland, the European Economic Area (EEA), or the United Kingdom. Where required, such data transfers are based on appropriate safeguards, in particular standard contractual clauses recognized by the competent authorities or comparable protection mechanisms.
Further information is available at:
https://www.microsoft.com/privacy
- Hosting
Our website is hosted by:
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 4–6
32339 Espelkamp
Germany
For the operation of the website, the hosting provider processes technical access data, in particular server log files, on our behalf. Processing takes place on servers within the European Union.
A data processing agreement exists with the hosting provider in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
Further information:
https://www.mittwald.de/datenschutz
- Cookies and Consent Management
Our website uses the consent management tool Borlabs Cookie to manage and document legally required data protection consents.
When visiting the website, a technically necessary cookie is set to store your cookie preferences. In particular, the following information may be processed:
- Your consent decision or refusal
- Time of the decision
- Browser information
- Anonymized technical identification data
This data is used exclusively to provide evidence of granted or refused consents and is not used for marketing or analytics purposes.
You can change or withdraw your cookie settings at any time using the respective functions on the website.
Currently, only technically necessary cookies are used.
- Analytics and Tracking Technologies
We currently do not use web analytics or marketing tracking services such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, or comparable technologies.
If such services are introduced in the future, their use and the associated data processing will take place exclusively in compliance with applicable data protection regulations and, where required, based on your prior consent. This Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly in such case.
- Download of Specialist Information and Whitepapers
On our website, we offer specialist information, whitepapers, studies, insights, or comparable content for download.
For the delivery of certain content, providing an email address may be required. The data you provide is used to:
- Provide the requested content
- Process your inquiry
- Document the use of our content
- Where applicable, maintain business contact
The legal basis for processing is the implementation of pre-contractual measures, our legitimate interest in providing specialist information, and, where applicable, your consent.
Data collected in connection with requests for such content is currently stored on our systems and is not transferred to external newsletter or email marketing service providers.
- Newsletter and Marketing Communication
If you have expressly consented, we may use your email address in the future to inform you about specialist publications, market analyses, events, services, and further information from HK Management Partners GmbH.
Consent is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawal may be made in particular by email to:
info@hk-mp.com
Currently, no external email marketing service provider is used for sending communications. If such a service is used in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.
- Disclosure of Data
We disclose personal data only if:
- You have expressly consented
- This is necessary to fulfill contractual or pre-contractual obligations
- We are legally obliged to do so
- This is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests and no overriding interests of the data subject conflict with this
Recipients may include, in particular, IT service providers, hosting providers, communication service providers, advisors, or other processors.
- International Business Operations and Data Transfers
As we offer our services worldwide, personal data may also be processed across borders in connection with business initiation or contract performance.
If data is transferred to countries whose level of data protection is not recognized by an adequacy decision, we ensure an adequate level of data protection through appropriate contractual, organizational, or legal measures.
- Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Despite all security measures, complete security during data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed.
- Retention Period
We store personal data only for as long as necessary for the respective purposes or as required by statutory retention obligations.
Once the processing purpose no longer applies, the data is deleted or anonymized, unless statutory or contractual retention obligations prevent this.
- Rights of Data Subjects
Where the legal requirements are met, data subjects have in particular the following rights:
- Right of access
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to object to processing
- Right to data portability, where legally provided
- Right to withdraw consent granted with effect for the future
To exercise your rights, you may contact us at any time:
info@hk-mp.com
- Right to Lodge a Complaint
Data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
Competent authority in Switzerland:
Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC)
Feldeggweg 1
CH-3003 Bern
https://www.edoeb.admin.ch
Persons within the European Union or the United Kingdom may additionally contact the competent data protection supervisory authority in their country of residence.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time, in particular in the event of changes to legal requirements, technical developments, or the expansion of our website and services.
The current version published on this website applies.