Legal notice& privacypolicy.

The brand Shili & Partners is operated by The Site Publisher, a Swiss company in the course of incorporation at the Commercial Register of the canton of Vaud. This page will be updated upon effective registration, with publication of the Swiss Business Identification Number (UID), the full legal form and the precise registered office. The commitment to register is firm and underway.

Registered office: Nyon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Shili & Partners and Vonbuild are trade names operated by The Site Publisher. This legal notice page concerns the shilipartners.com Site; the legal notices specific to the Vonbuild site, when published, will be specific to it.

The Site Publisher is not subject to value added tax (VAT) as long as its annual turnover remains below the legal threshold set by the Swiss Federal Act governing VAT (art. 10 LTVA). The VAT number will be added in the event of subjection.

Director of publication: the legal representative of The Site Publisher.

General contact: [email protected]

Data protection contact: [email protected]

The Site is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany (hetzner.com). The host does not intervene in content drafting; its responsibility is limited to providing technical infrastructure.

Data is stored on servers located in Germany, under the regime of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and covered by the adequacy decision recognised between Switzerland and the European Union. The Switzerland → Germany transfer therefore requires no additional mechanism. Applicable technical safeguards (encryption in transit and at rest, logical isolation, access control) complement this base.

All elements of the Site — texts, editorial structures, methodologies described, diagrams, illustrations, graphic identities, typographic charter, source code and interfaces — are protected by Swiss copyright law (LDA, RS 231.1), trademark law (LPM, RS 232.11) and applicable international conventions.

The names Shili & Partners and Vonbuild are distinctive signs owned by The Site Publisher; their use by a third party requires prior written authorisation. Trademark filings are being processed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI); protection is also claimed under the LCD (RS 241) for unauthorised commercial use of the signs.

Any reproduction, representation, adaptation, translation, extraction or reuse, in whole or in part, by any means and on any medium, requires the prior written authorisation of the publisher.

The following are expressly prohibited without prior written authorisation: automated content collection by scraping, indexing for commercial reuse, training or fine-tuning of artificial intelligence models, creation of derivative databases, and any form of commercial exploitation of the methodologies, analyses or editorial formulations published on the Site.

Third-party trademarks, trade names and distinctive signs cited for documentary purposes remain the exclusive property of their respective owners.

Content published on the Site arises from an editorial and documentary practice on the state of the art in building envelope, facade engineering and corporate advisory. It is provided for general information.

The content does not constitute individualised engineering counsel, nor legal, financial, tax, technical or regulatory advice addressed to a specific situation. It cannot replace a formalised mandate, a specific diagnostic or a contradictory analysis carried out by a mandated practitioner.

Consultation of the Site, sending a message via the contact form or exchanging preliminary correspondence does not create any contractual engagement, client–provider relationship or advisory obligation. The contractual relationship with The Site Publisher is formed only upon signature of an engagement letter or dedicated written contract.

Within the limits authorised by Swiss law, the publisher declines all liability for: (i) decisions taken on the basis of the Site's content; (ii) errors, inaccuracies or omissions that such content may contain notwithstanding the care taken in its preparation; (iii) technical unavailability, service interruptions or data losses attributable to the host or the network supply chain; (iv) third-party site content to which the Site refers via hyperlinks, over which the publisher exercises no control.

Liability exclusion clauses are without effect in cases of gross negligence or fraud attributable to the publisher, in accordance with article 100 CO.

Personal data processing carried out within the Site is governed by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (revised FADP, RS 235.1) in force since 1 September 2023, its implementing ordinance (OFADP, RS 235.11), and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) to the extent the Site addresses data subjects located in the European Union.

The data controller, within the meaning of art. 5 let. j FADP and art. 4(7) GDPR, is The Site Publisher (trade name Shili & Partners), identified in section 1.

Any correspondence regarding data protection is addressed to: [email protected]. The Site Publisher is not obliged to designate a data protection officer in the strict sense of FADP or GDPR; the aforementioned address constitutes the unique and operational point of contact.

§ 6.1Via the contact form

The contact form collects the following data: name; affiliated organisation; role or function; declared context type; free-form message content; explicit indication of NDA-covered handling request.

To these declarative data are added technical data logged by the hosting infrastructure for the sole purposes of security, abuse detection and fraud prevention: IP address, timestamp, session identifier and minimal terminal signature.

§ 6.2Purposes

Data transmitted via the form is exclusively processed to: qualify the received enquiry; prepare a qualification interview and a mandate proposal; ensure internal traceability of pre-contractual exchanges; prevent abuse and fulfil legal obligations.

No data is used for automated commercial prospecting, advertising profiling, resale, or transmission to brokers or third-party platforms.

§ 6.3Legal bases

Processing rests on: the execution of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject (art. 31 al. 2 let. a FADP; art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); the publisher's legitimate interest in managing professional relations, preserving confidentiality of sensitive mandates and preventing abuse (art. 31 al. 1 FADP; art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); where applicable, compliance with legal obligations (art. 31 al. 1 FADP; art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).

§ 6.4Enhanced NDA handling

When the "NDA-covered handling" box is ticked or the message signals a sensitive situation (turnaround, M&A in preparation, dispute, strategic situation not yet disclosed internally), the enquiry is routed in restricted circuit. Access is limited to a named circle of studio practitioners, under personal confidentiality obligation. The content is not posted to standard collaborative tools.

In the absence of mandate engagement at the end of qualification, correspondence and items communicated under confidentiality are destroyed by a secure process within sixty (60) days following file closure, except contrary legal retention obligation.

Data transmitted via the form is delivered to the inbox [email protected], access to which is restricted to authorised studio practitioners. No data is communicated to a commercial third party, an advertising agency or a social network platform.

Technical processors strictly necessary for Site operation are: the host (Hetzner Online GmbH, see section 2); the email routing provider; the audience analytics tool Plausible Analytics (see section 9). Each acts as a processor within the meaning of art. 9 FADP and art. 28 GDPR, on the basis of contractual confidentiality, security and purpose limitation commitments.

The Site's hosting infrastructure is located in Germany (Hetzner Online GmbH). Germany is a member state of the European Union and the European Economic Area, fully subject to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

Data transfer from Switzerland to Germany falls within the framework of the adequacy decision recognised between Switzerland and the European Union within the meaning of art. 16 al. 1 FADP and the current guide of the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). No additional mechanism is required for this transfer. The flow is supplemented by a Data Processing Agreement concluded with Hetzner Online GmbH in accordance with art. 28 GDPR and art. 9 FADP.

When the data subject is established outside Switzerland and the European Union, their data may be processed in their jurisdiction for the sole purposes of mandate execution, under equivalent contractual safeguards.

Any evolution of the legal framework or technical processors will be reflected on this page.

§ 9.1Strictly necessary cookies

The Site uses exclusively cookies strictly necessary for its operation: user session maintenance, language preference memorisation, technical security measures. These trackers do not require prior consent within the meaning of art. 45c LTC, art. 6 al. 3 FADP and the European Data Protection Board guidelines.

§ 9.2Plausible Analytics

Audience measurement is provided by Plausible Analytics, a service hosted in the European Union. Plausible does not use cookies, does not collect personal data within the meaning of GDPR, performs no cross-site tracking and uses no fingerprinting technique. The data produced is aggregated and anonymised at source.

§ 9.3Absence of advertising or social trackers

The Site integrates no advertising cookie, no retargeting pixel, no third-party data-consuming reader, no actively-loaded social media share button. No data is transferred to an advertising or social platform.

The periods below apply from the last useful exchange with the data subject:

• Enquiries without commercial continuation: three (3) years.
• NDA-flagged enquiries not followed by engagement: sixty (60) days, then secure destruction.
• Active mandates: duration of the contractual relationship, extended by ten (10) years from closure, under accounting obligations (art. 958f CO) and applicable civil and professional limitation periods (art. 127 and 128 CO).
• Technical security logs: twelve (12) months maximum.
• Correspondence linked to ongoing dispute: duration of the obligation or dispute, plus appeal periods.

In accordance with FADP and GDPR, every data subject may exercise the following rights: right of access (art. 25 FADP; art. 15 GDPR); right of rectification (art. 32 al. 1 FADP; art. 16 GDPR); right of erasure (art. 32 al. 2 let. c FADP; art. 17 GDPR); right of opposition and restriction (art. 30 FADP; art. 18 and 21 GDPR); right of portability (art. 28 FADP; art. 20 GDPR); right to withdraw consent (art. 7(3) GDPR).

Any rights request is addressed by email to [email protected], accompanied by any element allowing the requester's identity to be verified. The publisher responds within a reasonable time, in principle less than thirty (30) days.

§ 11.1Complaint to a supervisory authority

In Switzerland, a complaint may be addressed to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern — edoeb.admin.ch.

In the European Union, the complaint falls within the competent supervisory authority of the member state of residence, work or place of presumed infringement.

§ 12.1Applicable law and jurisdiction

These notices and any relationship arising from access to the Site are governed by Swiss law, to the exclusion of conflict-of-laws rules and the Vienna Convention of 11 April 1980 on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

The exclusive jurisdiction is attributed to the competent courts of the canton of Vaud, district of Nyon, Switzerland. Mandatory jurisdictions provided by consumer law or data protection legislation remain expressly reserved.

§ 12.2Amendments

The publisher reserves the right to amend these notices at any time, notably to reflect the evolution of the legal framework, technical processors or corporate structure. The applicable version is the one published at the top of this page at the date of access.

§ 12.3Partial nullity

If a clause of this document is declared null, inapplicable or unenforceable, the other clauses remain fully in force.

Any question regarding this document or personal data processing may be addressed to [email protected]. Formal rights exercise requests (access, rectification, erasure, opposition, portability) should be sent to this same address, with useful identification elements.