Legal & Privacy
Last updated: 19 August 2026
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Site Operator
Maurice Willen
Email: [email protected]
This is a personal website. Nothing is sold here and no contract can be concluded through it. Business activities are conducted through W89 GmbH, Cham ZG.
Data Protection
This privacy policy explains how personal data is collected, processed, and stored when you visit mauricewillen.com. It is based on the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG), effective 1 September 2023, and its implementing ordinance (DSV).
The responsible person for data processing on this website is Maurice Willen (see Site Operator above).
Data Collected
This website uses no analytics, no tracking and no advertising technology. There is no contact form, no newsletter, no login and no comment function. The only data that arises from visiting a page is what any web server records in order to deliver it:
Server logs: IP address, browser user agent, requested URL, referrer, and timestamp. These are recorded by the hosting provider for security and operational purposes. They are not accessed or evaluated for this website, and they are not used for tracking or profiling.
Nothing else is collected when you visit a page. No third-party scripts, pixels, embeds, maps or videos are loaded on any page of this site. Fonts are served from this site's own domain, so visiting a page discloses your IP address to no font provider. The booking page at mauricewillen.com/meet links to a calendar held elsewhere and embeds nothing; see the section on appointment booking below. If you write to the email address given above, see the section on contact by email.
Contact by Email
If you write to the address given above, your message, your email address and any details you choose to include are received in a mailbox held with Proton AG, Route de la Galaise 32, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland (UID CHE-354.686.492). Proton AG acts as processor on the basis of its Data Processing Agreement, which is governed by Swiss law. The mailbox is administered by W89 GmbH, which provides it on my behalf and does not use its contents for any purposes of its own.
Your message is used solely to answer your enquiry and is kept for as long as the matter requires. There is no contact form; no data is collected unless you send an email.
Appointment Booking
The page at mauricewillen.com/meet links to booking calendars held with Proton AG, Route de la Galaise 32, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland (UID CHE-354.686.492). Those calendars are not embedded in this site. Nothing on this site loads from Proton, and until you press one of the buttons no connection to Proton exists.
Clicking a button takes you away from this site and opens calendar.proton.me. As with any website you visit, Proton AG then learns your IP address as well as browser and device information. Proton AG is itself responsible for the operation of that page, and its own privacy policy applies there.
If you book an appointment, the details you provide are processed, in particular your name, your email address and the time slot you choose. Proton AG acts as a processor for that, on the basis of its Data Processing Agreement, which is governed by Swiss law with Geneva as the place of jurisdiction. The legal basis is the performance of pre-contractual measures and the legitimate interest in straightforward scheduling.
The sub-processors engaged by Proton AG are published in its privacy policy at proton.me. If you would rather not use the calendar, writing to the email address given under Site Operator is enough to arrange a meeting.
Google Search Console
Search Console is used to review how this site appears in Google Search results, for example which queries lead to it and how often its pages are shown. It is a reporting tool on Google's side. It places nothing in your browser, runs no code on this website and collects no data from your visit.
Hosting & CDN
This site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, and delivered via Cloudflare's global network. Standard server logs, including IP address, user agent, and request timestamp, are recorded by Cloudflare for security and operational purposes. Their retention is determined by Cloudflare in accordance with its privacy policy. This site keeps no copy of these logs and does not access them.
The hosting contract is held by W89 GmbH, Zugerstrasse 6, 6330 Cham, Switzerland, which administers the account on my behalf. W89 GmbH processes data only on instruction and for no purposes of its own. The controller for data processing on this site remains Maurice Willen.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies at all and writes nothing to your browser's local storage or session storage. There is therefore no cookie banner and nothing for you to consent to or withdraw. To be distinguished from this: if you follow a link from mauricewillen.com/meet to the booking calendar at Proton AG, Proton may store data in your browser on its own page. That is decided by Proton AG, not here, and this site has no access to it.
International Data Transfers
One of the service providers involved in operating this site is based in the United States, and one in Switzerland:
Cloudflare, Inc. (USA): Website hosting and content delivery. Cloudflare states that it is certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Switzerland recognises the United States as providing an adequate level of data protection for organisations certified under that framework (Annex 1 no. 44 of the Swiss Data Protection Ordinance, DSV), so the transfer rests on that recognition.
Proton AG (Switzerland): Email hosting for the contact address given above, and the booking calendars linked from mauricewillen.com/meet. Proton AG is seated in Geneva, so this processing takes place in Switzerland and is not a disclosure abroad at all. According to its own statements Proton AG also operates data centres in other European countries; where data reaches those, they are countries listed in Annex 1 DSV as providing an adequate level of data protection, namely Germany (no. 1) and Norway (no. 32), so no additional safeguards such as standard data protection clauses are required. Proton's Data Processing Agreement further provides for transfers only to Switzerland, the EU, or countries covered by an adequacy decision.
No other transfer takes place. No analytics and no advertising are loaded on this site, and no third-party content is embedded on any page.
Your Rights
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG, SR 235.1), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right of access (Art. 25 nDSG): You may ask whether personal data about you is being processed and, if so, receive the information you need in order to exercise your rights, including the purpose of the processing, the retention period, and the recipients.
Right to rectification (Art. 32 para. 1 nDSG): You may request that inaccurate personal data be corrected, unless a statutory provision prohibits the change or the data is processed for archiving purposes in the public interest.
Right to erasure or destruction (Art. 32 para. 2 lit. c nDSG): You may request that your personal data be deleted or destroyed. Swiss law frames this as a claim for the protection of personality that can ultimately be enforced in court, not as an unconditional right comparable to Art. 17 GDPR.
Right to object (Art. 30 para. 2 lit. b nDSG): You may declare that you object to the processing of your data. Processing carried out against your express declaration constitutes an infringement of personality unless it is justified.
Swiss law does not provide a general right to data portability comparable to Art. 20 GDPR. The right to data disclosure or transfer under Art. 28 nDSG applies only to data you have actively provided and which is processed on the basis of your consent or in direct connection with a contract. No such processing takes place on this site, so that right does not arise here.
The scope of these rights in relation to this site is limited by what is processed here. This site holds no user accounts, no mailing list and no analytics profiles. The only records relating to your visit are the hosting provider's server logs described above.
To exercise any of these rights, please write to the email address given under Site Operator at the top of this page.
Supervisory Authority
The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC / EDÖB):
Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)
Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, Switzerland
www.edoeb.admin.ch
Accessibility
This site aims to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. No claim of full conformance is made, and no formal third-party evaluation has been carried out.
The following have been tested and measured: keyboard operation with a visible focus indicator on every interactive element, a skip link to the main content, colour contrast calculated against WCAG thresholds, support for reduced motion, semantic landmarks and heading order, and usability at 200 percent zoom and at a viewport width of 320 pixels.
Known limitation: this site is available in English only.
Known limitation: without JavaScript, the email address on this site is not readable. The hosting provider inserts it in obfuscated form to protect it from automated harvesting and restores it only in the browser. If you have JavaScript switched off, you see the placeholder "[email protected]" instead of the address, and the link goes nowhere. This site publishes no postal address and no telephone number, so with JavaScript switched off there is no way to contact the operator from this page. Enabling JavaScript for this page makes the address readable.
Known limitation: the booking page at mauricewillen.com/meet links to calendars held with a third-party provider. The buttons are ordinary links, reachable by keyboard, labelled, and usable without JavaScript. Following one takes you away from this site. Operability of the calendar page then rests with that provider and can neither be tested nor guaranteed here, so the statements above do not extend beyond the link. Writing an email is always sufficient to arrange a meeting.
If you encounter a barrier, please write to the email address given under Site Operator at the top of this page, with the page address and a short description. You will receive a reply within 10 working days, including how and by when the issue can be addressed.
External Links
This site contains links to external websites, including willen.org and w89.ch. These are separate sites with their own privacy policies and terms. This privacy policy does not cover those sites, and no responsibility is assumed for their content or data practices.
Disclaimer
The content of this website is provided for general informational purposes only. While every effort is made to keep the information accurate and up to date, no warranty is given as to its completeness, accuracy, reliability or fitness for any particular purpose, and no guarantee is given that the site will be available without interruption. Any reliance you place on the information is at your own risk.
This site links to external websites. The operator has no influence over their content and assumes no responsibility for it. To the extent permitted by law, liability for damage arising from access to, use of, or inability to use this website or any linked site is excluded. This exclusion does not apply to liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence, which cannot be excluded in advance under Art. 100 para. 1 of the Swiss Code of Obligations.
Copyright
Unless stated otherwise, the text, images, graphics and design of this website are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, distributed or made publicly available without prior written consent. Statutory limitations under Swiss copyright law, in particular private use (Art. 19 URG) and quotation (Art. 25 URG), remain unaffected.
The typefaces used on this site, Raleway and IBM Plex Mono, are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and are not covered by this notice.
Changes
This legal notice and privacy policy may be updated at any time without prior notice. The current version published on this website is the applicable version.
Last updated: 19 August 2026 · Proof of this version