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The rules that govern your use of business-in-switzerland.com. These terms do not govern a professional engagement, which is covered by a separately signed engagement letter.

Last updated: 2026-05-07 · Version: v1.0

Scope of these terms

What these terms cover

These terms form a contract between you, as a visitor to the website business-in-switzerland.com, and the legal entity that publishes the website (see the imprint for the publisher identity). The contract covers the manner in which you may use the website, the intellectual-property regime that applies to the material we publish, the limitations on our liability and the governing law.

What these terms do not cover

These terms are not an engagement letter. Nothing on the website, in a form submission, or in a reply from us creates an advisor-client relationship by itself. A professional engagement is created only by a separately negotiated and signed engagement letter. See the engagement process for how a retainer begins in practice, and the disclaimer for the advice-scope limits on site content.

Acceptance

By visiting or otherwise using business-in-switzerland.com, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please stop using the website. We may update the terms as set out below under "Changes to these terms"; continued use after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated version.

Permitted and prohibited use

Permitted use

You may read the website, share links to its pages, cite its content in good faith with appropriate attribution, and use the contact form to reach us about professional services.

Prohibited use

  • Automated scraping or crawling beyond what our robots rules permit.
  • Reverse engineering of the contact-form flow, the Cloudflare Turnstile challenge, or any security control.
  • Any attempt to compromise the edge infrastructure, load the site with denial-of-service traffic, or otherwise interfere with availability.
  • Defamation, harassment, impersonation, or the publication of unlawful content through the contact form.
  • Circumvention of access controls or authentication mechanisms.

Intellectual property

Site content

All original text, layouts, data tables, compilations, graphics, and source code published on this website are owned by the publisher entity or used under licence. All rights are reserved except where expressly licensed. You may quote short extracts with attribution; any other re-use requires our prior written consent.

Third-party materials

  • Iconography uses the Lucide icon library under the ISC licence.
  • Photography, where used, is sourced from Pexels under the Pexels License.
  • Typography uses Inter by Rasmus Andersson and JetBrains Mono, both under the SIL Open Font License.

Each of these licences is acknowledged in the website's source code, and the respective upstream projects retain ownership of their work. Nothing on this website grants you a licence to the underlying trademarks of the publisher entity or of these third parties.

Links to external sites

We link to external sites, including government and regulatory resources such as admin.ch, fedlex.admin.ch, zefix.ch, finma.ch, estv.admin.ch and edoeb.admin.ch, as well as to processor pages for Cloudflare, Resend and Telegram. External links are provided for convenience and do not constitute an endorsement. We do not control the content of third- party sites and do not accept responsibility for it.

No warranty

The website and its content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, to the maximum extent permitted by Swiss law. We do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the information is current at any specific moment. The advice-scope limits set out in the disclaimer apply in full.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by Swiss law, liability for damages arising out of or in connection with your use of the website is limited as follows. Liability for ordinary negligence is excluded. Liability for gross negligence and wilful misconduct cannot be excluded and is expressly preserved in line with the mandatory rule of OR art. 100. Liability for auxiliary persons is excluded to the extent permitted by OR art. 101.

Indemnity

If your use of the website breaches these terms and that breach causes a third-party claim against us, you will indemnify us for the reasonable costs of defending that claim, including legal fees, save where the claim arises from our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

Force majeure

Neither party is liable for a failure or delay in performance caused by circumstances beyond reasonable control, in line with OR art. 119. Performance obligations are suspended during the event and resume when the event ends.

Severability

If any clause of these terms is or becomes unenforceable, the remaining clauses stay in force, and the unenforceable clause is replaced by an enforceable clause that most closely reflects the original intent.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Swiss substantive law, to the exclusion of its conflict-of- laws rules and to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) where otherwise applicable.

Jurisdiction and forum

The exclusive forum for disputes arising out of or in connection with these terms is the competent court at the publisher's registered seat in Zug, Switzerland. This exclusive- forum clause is subject to the mandatory consumer-forum rules under the Lugano Convention where a visitor qualifies as a consumer domiciled in a contracting state.

Language

The English version of these terms is authoritative. Any translation provided for convenience is non-binding; in case of discrepancy, the English text prevails.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes are announced through the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance. Prior versions are retained internally and available on request.

Questions

Email info@business-in-switzerland.com or use the contact form.

Frequently asked questions about these terms

Which law applies to disputes with me?

Swiss substantive law governs the site-use terms. Forum is the publisher's registered seat in Zug, subject to mandatory Lugano Convention consumer-forum rules for EU-domiciled consumer disputes.

Where do I find the imprint and legal notices?

All five legal pages — Imprint, Privacy, Terms, Cookies, Disclaimer — are linked at the bottom of every page. Entry point: /legal/, or use the footer.

Do these terms govern a client engagement?

No. These terms govern visitor use of the website only. A professional engagement is governed by a separately executed engagement letter between the client and the publisher entity.