General

By accessing the website www.risingstar.ch (hereinafter referred to as ‘Rising STAR website’), you declare that you have understood and accepted the terms of use and the legal information relating to this website. If you do not agree with the following provisions, or if you have not understood them, please refrain from accessing the Rising STAR website.

Property rights/copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all material on the Rising STAR website belongs exclusively and in its entirety to the Rising STAR Group. This includes all industrial property rights, including but not limited to copyrights and trademark rights, as well as the content and structure of the Rising STAR website. Individual pages and/or sections of the Rising STAR website may be downloaded or printed exclusively for private use, provided that neither the copyright notices nor other legally protected designations are removed. However, under no circumstances does this imply the granting of a licence or right to use an image, a registered trademark or a logo. Moreover, the downloading or copying of the Rising STAR website does not transfer to you any rights of any kind with respect to the software or other material on the Rising STAR website. The written consent of the Rising STAR Group is required for anything other than private use (reproduction, use for public or commercial purposes, etc.).


No offer and no advice

The content published on the Rising STAR website is intended for information purposes only. The information constitutes neither an invitation nor a recommendation or offer to buy or sell financial or investment products of any kind or to execute any transactions.

The Rising STAR Group explicitly refrains from providing advice (e.g. investment advice) via the Rising STAR website. The opinions and other information contained in this website should not be used for the purpose of making decisions with regard to legal or tax issues or other matters.


Limited access and geographical restrictions

The Rising STAR website is not intended for legal entities or natural persons who, by virtue of their nationality, business location, domicile or for any other reason, are subject to a legal system that prohibits or restricts in particular the publication of the content, access to the Rising STAR website, the activities of a foreign financial services provider or the approval of products (e.g. investment funds). Persons to whom these restrictions apply are prohibited from accessing the Rising STAR website.

This applies in particular to citizens of the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, China and Singapore and persons residing in these countries. Please check the appropriate legal regulations in the country in which you live.


Links to other websites

The Rising STAR Group has not reviewed the third-party websites that are linked to the Rising STAR website. The Rising STAR Group has no control over these websites and therefore assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the accuracy, completeness or legality of the content and offers contained in these websites. If you access these websites, you do so at your own risk.

Any third party that wishes to link a third-party website to a Rising STAR website must obtain prior permission from the Rising STAR Group.


No guarantee and exclusion of liability

The Rising STAR Group takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the information presented is up to date, accurate, true and complete at the time of publication on the Rising STAR website. However, the Group offers no guarantee in respect of the information, content, services, offers or products published by it or by third parties.

The Rising STAR Group assumes no liability for any direct or indirect loss or consequential loss that could be suffered by users or third parties in connection with the use of the Rising STAR website. The Rising STAR Group also assumes no responsibility with respect to the functions on the Rising STAR website, and offers no guarantee that they will be uninterrupted, or that they are error-free or free from harmful components (e.g. viruses).

The Rising STAR Group may change the data, information and the like published on the Rising STAR website at any time and without advance notice.


Future performance (risk notice)

Past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future performance of an investment product, meaning that the value of an investment may go down as well as up. Past performance is therefore no guarantee of future results. Due to fluctuations in the value of investments, there is no guarantee that any capital invested will maintain its value or even increase in value. With certain investment products, the entire invested capital may be lost in extreme cases. In addition, fluctuations in currency exchange rates may also reduce or increase the value of an investment.


Data security

Accessing the Rising STAR website or establishing electronic contact or communication usually involves the transmission of user data via a public, universally accessible network. In addition, data may be transmitted across national boundaries, even if both the sender and recipient are located in the same country. Although individual data packets may be transmitted in encrypted form, the identities of both sender and recipient remain unencrypted. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility that third parties may be able to view data sent in this way, and that it may be possible to deduce that contact has been made with Rising STAR.

The use of electronic media (Internet, email, etc.) carries with it the risk of viruses and targeted attacks by hackers. Therefore, to combat viruses you should always use a current browser version and ensure that you have continuously updated anti-virus software installed. As a basic principle, you should not open emails of unknown origin or attachments that you are not expecting.


Personal information

Accessing the Rising STAR website may involve the use of specific cookies or Web bugs to obtain non-personal data about the use of this website. In addition, for data security reasons, the following access data is saved in a log file: IP address, date and time of access, name of the file accessed, access status (OK, partial content, document not found, etc.), page from which it was accessed, top-level domain (*.ch, *.fr, *.com, etc.), Web browser used, operating system used. This data is protected against access by unauthorised persons and is not disclosed to third parties outside the Rising STAR Group. The Rising STAR Group only analyses data anonymously and solely for statistical purposes; for example, in order to establish how many times the site is accessed on certain days. No analysis is performed on any individual user’s information, unless the data is expressly and knowingly made available by the user themselves.

Personal data is transmitted and stored within the Rising STAR Group in a protected environment (e.g. protected by firewalls). The Rising STAR Group takes all reasonable steps to ensure that personal data cannot be viewed by third parties. An exception is made for partners that provide services for users on behalf of Rising STAR. The Rising STAR Group ensures that such partners operate a privacy and security policy that is equivalent to that of the Rising STAR Group.

The Rising STAR Group discloses personal data to other third parties only if it is required to do so by legal or regulatory provisions.


Place of jurisdiction

To the extent that a legal relationship has actually been established between members of the Rising STAR Group and the users of the Rising STAR website, this relationship is subject to Swiss law. The exclusive place of jurisdiction is Zurich, Switzerland.