{"id":23195,"date":"2025-05-15T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/faq\/do-i-need-a-privacy-policy-and-an-imprint\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:51:19","slug":"do-i-need-a-privacy-policy-and-an-imprint","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/faq\/do-i-need-a-privacy-policy-and-an-imprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need a privacy policy and legal notice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A privacy policy is recommended as soon as Google services or other third-party services are used.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>You can find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissanwalt.ch\/datenschutz-generator.aspx.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privacy policy generator<\/a> here. Since 2012, every business website in Switzerland that offers goods or services or is financed through advertising basically requires a legal notice with at least the following information: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your full name or the name of your company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your address or the registered office of your company (NO P.O. box)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email address (NO contact form; the email address must also not be &#8220;disguised&#8221; as an image.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>A legal notice is not required for purely private websites, although a lawyer would generally recommend one in this case as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A privacy policy is recommended as soon as Google services or other third-party services are used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"FaqCategories":[392],"FaqTags":[415,277],"class_list":["post-23195","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","FaqCategories-privacy","FaqTags-new-data-protection-act","FaqTags-starter-en"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","post-thumbnail":"","aiv_480w":"","woocommerce_thumbnail":"","woocommerce_single":"","woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>A privacy policy is recommended as soon as Google services or other third-party services are used. You can find a privacy policy generator here. Since 2012, every business website in Switzerland that offers goods or services or is financed through advertising basically requires a legal notice with at least the following information: Your full name or the name of your company Your address or the registered office of your company (NO P.O. box) Email address (NO contact form; the email address must also not be &#8220;disguised&#8221; as an image.) A legal notice is not required for purely private websites, although&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"","url":""},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/23195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/23195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27248,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/23195\/revisions\/27248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"FaqCategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/FaqCategories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"FaqTags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aivie.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/FaqTags?post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}