The website www.swisstypefaces.com (“Website”) is owned and operated by the company Swiss Typefaces Sàrl (“Swiss Typefaces”) whose head office is located in Vevey (Quai Perdonnet 19, 1800 Vevey, Switzerland) and which may be contacted by email at [email protected].
A. Description of the Website
A1. Swiss Typefaces is a type design company which creates and distributes fonts. Clients can purchase font files directly on the Website by creating a client account (“User/s”). Should clients want a tailored made service, they can contact directly [email protected].
B. Acceptance of Terms & Conditions
B1. These Terms & Conditions, the Privacy Notice and any other applicable documents, including all the modifications that may be done by Swiss Typefaces, constitute the complete agreement between the Users and Swiss Typefaces in relation with the Website. The conditions of the licenses are provided in separated documents (Free Trial End User License Agreement and Font Software End User License Agreement). By accessing the Website, Users recognise that they have read and understood these Terms & Conditions and that they accept to be bound by them and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
B2. Swiss Typefaces reserves the right to change these Terms & Conditions from time to time as it sees fit. Users are informed beforehand by email of any substantial change. The continued use of the Website will signify the acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. Users are therefore advised to re-read this statement on a regular basis.
C. Registration
C1. Users shall create an account before downloading fonts. The creation of an account and the access to the Website are free.
C2. If the User’s account has been blocked by Swiss Typefaces or has been terminated, for whatever reason, the User can create a new account only with Swiss Typefaces’ written agreement.
C3. Users shall ensure that the personal data which has been given during the registration process is correct, complete and fully complies with these Terms & Conditions. Users shall keep their information up-to-date.
C4. The email address chosen for the registration process will be used by Swiss Typefaces to communicate with the User in all cases where it considers it useful. Any email sent by Swiss Typefaces on this address will be considered as duly received.
D. Ordering process
D1. The User makes his/her choice via the Website and his/her choice is displayed in the shopping basket. Then, the User shall confirm definitely the order. After the conclusion of the ordering process, the User receives an order confirmation by email.
D2. The purchase price (VAT excluded) is indicated on the Website. Students may apply for and enjoy a special discount, as indicated on the dedicated page of the Website.
E. Font files & Updates
E1. The purchased files can be downloaded directly via the User’s account and remain available as long as the Website is online and the User has a valid account.
E2. The purchased files are automatically replaced by newer files when updates are available.
E3. If the User decides to download and install the files again, please take note the files might be an updated version and therefore have slight differences. It is the User’s responsibility to archive and backup original content.
E4. Each file contains a version number that can be accessed using a font manager.
E5. Swiss Typefaces takes no responsibility and gives no warranty when replacing a file with a newer file, except the ones stipulated in our Retail Font Software License.
F. Privacy
F1. By using the Website, Users and visitors agree that Swiss Typefaces can collect and process their personal data. Such data will only be used in accordance with the Privacy Notice available at swisstypefaces.com and which terms are an integral and binding part of these Terms & Conditions.
G. Payment Methods
G1. Payment can be made using Stripe.
G2. Transactions with Stripe are under their responsibility and their own Terms & Conditions.
G3. At its discretion, Swiss Typefaces may accept payment by bank transfer. If you want to pay with bank transfer, please contact Swiss Typefaces by email at [email protected]. Some additional charges may apply. The order will be delivered only after the full amount is paid and notified on the bank account.
H. Cancellation Policy
H1. Swiss Typefaces does not guarantee the right to cancel and refund an order if the digital files have already been made available to the User. Exceptions may apply if the font software is not valid (please refer to Retail Font Software License).
I. Obligations
I1. Users commit not to:
Use or try to use the Website in another purpose than the one to buy fonts;
Use or try to use the account or the system of another person or to create a false or distorted identity;
Copy, modify or distribute the rights or contents of the Website, whatever way;
Use any content or information of the Website in order to compete with Swiss Typefaces;
Commercialise any code or information or software associated with the Website;
Use the Website in any way which, in the sole discretion of Swiss Typefaces, is undesirable, illegal, inappropriate or which restricts or limits the possibility for any other person to use the Website, or which may harm or engage the liability of Swiss Typefaces or of other Users.
J. Security
J.1. Users know the risks linked to the use of the Internet. Swiss Typefaces takes standard security measures in this regard.
J.2. Users must never disclose their login information to a third party and/or give access to their account to a third party. Users are solely responsible for any use of their login information, including by a third party. In case of an abusive use or of any doubt on an abusive use, the User must immediately inform Swiss Typefaces. The User is responsible to disconnect his/her account at the end of each use.
K. Availability
K.1. Swiss Typefaces does not warrant that the service from the Website will be uninterrupted, timely or error free, although it is provided to the best ability.
K.2. The fonts available for sale may be withdrawn from sale without notice.
K.3. The client accounts cannot be removed or closed by the User.
K.4. Client accounts and their contents can be removed or made inaccessible without prior notice. It is the User’s responsibility to archive and backup content.
L. Disclaimer
L.1. Swiss Typefaces excludes all representations and warranties relating to the Website and its contents or which is or may be provided by any affiliates or any other third party, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in the Website and/or Swiss Typefaces’ literature.
L.2. Swiss Typefaces excludes all liability for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or User has advised Swiss Typefaces of the possibility of such potential loss), damage caused to the User’s computer, computer software, systems and programs and the data thereon or any other direct or indirect, consequential and incidental damages.
L.3. In any cases and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Swiss Typefaces will not be liable for any claim relating to the use of the Website that would be higher than the value of the amounts paid by the User in the previous 12 months.
M. Third parties' websites
M.1. Swiss Typefaces does not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked to from this Website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Swiss Typefaces and should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that Swiss Typefaces is not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites.
M.2. Swiss Typefaces encourages the Users to be aware when they leave the Website and to read the privacy statements of these sites. The User should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to the Website, before disclosing any personal information to them. Swiss Typefaces will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from the User’s disclosure to third parties of personal information.
N. Termination of Services
N1. Swiss Typefaces has the right to terminate any services agreement at any time and without notice for any reason, including the closing of User’s account and the ending of services that are already underway. No refunds shall be offered, where a service is deemed to have begun and is, for all intents and purposes, underway.
O. Final Provisions
O1. These Terms & Conditions and any question arising from them or linked to them, and to the use of the Website, are subject to Swiss law, excluding its conflict of law rules.
O2. All disputes arising from these Terms & Conditions or linked to them are subject to the exclusive competence of courts of the head office of Swiss Typefaces.
[January 6th, 2026 version]
1. What is this Privacy Notice about?
This Privacy Notice explains how Swiss Typefaces Sàrl ("Swiss Typefaces" or "we") processes personal data, primarily in relation with our business and with our website www.swisstypefaces.com ("Website"). This includes the various ways in which you interact with us, whether personally, by email or by phone, and/or through our Website.
"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural or legal person, and "processing" means any handling of personal data, such as collecting, using, and sharing it.
If you would like more information about our data processing, please feel free to contact us (see section 2).
2. Who is the controller for the data processing?
For each data processing activity, there is a party that is primarily responsible for ensuring compliance, the "controller". For the processing described in this Privacy Notice, the controller (also referred to as "we") is:
Swiss Typefaces Sàrl
Quai Perdonnet 19
1800 Vevey
Switzerland
If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact us by email at [email protected].
3. How do we process data in relation with our products and services?
Swiss Typefaces is a type design company which creates and distributes fonts. Clients can purchase font files on the Website by creating a client account. When you use our products and services (collectively, "services"), we process data for onboarding, concluding agreements, and their performance and management:
When you contact us: When you contact us or communicate with us, we process the personal data you exchange with us as well as data about the communication. This includes any information you may share with us, such as your full name, postal and email addresses, etc. This data is collected in order to provide you with the service you need and ask for.
When you create an account: When you create an account on our Website, we process the personal data that you share with us, such as your user name (email address) and password, name, contact information, and additional information such as your company name), as well as technical information such as IP address, device type, unique device identifiers; information regarding payment methods; and time and location data. This processing is necessary to allow you to purchase fonts and manage your orders. Client accounts cannot be deleted or closed by their owners. These accounts contain essential information related to the licenses you have accepted.
When we enter into an agreement: We process the data from onboarding and information on the agreement (e.g. the date and content of the agreement).
During and after the agreement: We process details on service purchases, payments, customer service interactions, claims, complaints, access data and logins, agreement terminations, and any related disputes or proceedings. These processing activities are necessary for the performance of the agreement.
Statistical purposes: We also process the above data for statistical purposes, such as analyzing which products sell best, in which regions and at what times, and which customer groups purchase specific products. These statistics help improve and develop products and inform business strategy.
We process less personal data when we deal with businesses as data protection law applies only for data about individuals. However, we still process data of individuals we interact with, such as names, contact details, professional information, communication details, and information about management personnel, as part of the general data on companies we work with.
We may collect some of the data used from public sources (e.g., debt collection registers, commercial registers, media, or the internet) or receive it from authorities, your employer who has a business relationship with us (for instance when we enter into a contract with a business), as well as from other third parties.
You are not required to disclose your data, but with certain exceptions (e.g., as necessary to comply with legal and contractual obligations). Using our websites is also impossible without data processing.
4. How do we process data in relation with marketing?
We process personal data in order to advertise our services:
Newsletter: You have the option to subscribe to our Newsletter. We will ask for your email address and possibly additional information. We process this personal data in order to keep you informed in a relevant and personalized way, with information that is tailored to your interests. Upon subscription, you authorize us to process the aforementioned personal data to send you our Newsletter regularly. We may also use contact information for marketing purposes that we collect when you enter into an agreement with us. You may object to this use at any time. A link allowing you to unsubscribe at any time is included at the bottom of every Newsletter.
Market research: We process data to improve and develop new services, such as information on purchases, reactions to newsletters, customer surveys, polls, social media, media monitoring services, and public sources.
5. On what basis do we process personal data?
Depending on applicable law, data processing is permitted only if explicitly authorised (based on "legal grounds"). This does not apply under Swiss data protection regulation but under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), where it applies. In such cases, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR for processing necessary to perform a contract with the data subject or to take pre-contractual measures (see sec. 2).
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (and Art. 9 para. 2 lit. f GDPR for special-category data, if applicable) for processing necessary to protect our or third parties’ legitimate interests, unless overridden by the data subject's fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes compliance with Swiss law, ensuring sustainable, user-friendly, secure, and reliable operations, and the purposes set out in Section 4.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR for processing necessary to comply with a legal obligation under the laws of an EEA Member State.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (and Art. 9 para. 2 lit. b GDPR for special-category data, if applicable) for processing based on your separate consent.
6. How do we disclose personal data?
We may disclose personal data to various entities. These include the following categories:
Service providers: We may share your personal data with those who provide services to us, such as analysis and monitoring, newsletter edition and distribution, website and hosting, maintenance and security, banking, insurance and advisory, legal advice and representation, and other services. These providers are subject to obligations of confidentiality and restrictions on their use of data.
Payment providers: We may share your personal data with payment providers. Payment can currently be made using Stripe. Transactions with these providers are under their responsibility and their own terms and conditions.
Authorities: Offices, authorities and courts within the scope of our legal rights and obligations and in connection with proceedings in which we are a party or a related third party.
Other third parties: When allowed or required by law, we may share your personal data according to the conditions provided for by applicable laws.
7. Can we disclose data abroad?
Your personal data will be processed in Switzerland but, depending on the circumstances, your personal data may be processed in the EEA and outside, potentially in any country in the world, for instance through service providers we use as well as their subcontractors or in proceedings before foreign courts or authorities. Not all countries offer adequate data protection. To address this, we implement appropriate safeguards, particularly the EU standard contractual clauses, available here. In some cases, data may be shared abroad without such safeguards as allowed by applicable law, for instance with your consent or if necessary to perform a contract, assert or defend legal claims, or serve overriding public interests.
8. How do we process data in relation with our Website?
8.1. Data collected automatically
When you use our Website, we may automatically collect the data about the use of our Website, including technical information such as IP addresses used to connect your device to the internet, the type of mobile device you use, a unique device identifier, and time and location data, as well as information you may share with us or enter on our Website. This data may not be personally identifiable for us.
8.2. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information sent by a web server to a web browser, allowing the server to uniquely identify a browser on each web page. We may also use other, similar technologies such as invisible pixels (also known as transparent GIFs or web beacons) and tracking URLs. These technologies are collectively referred to as "Cookies" in this Privacy Notice. Cookies let you navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences, and generally improve your user experience. They can also help ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Cookies in themselves do not identify you individually, but just the computer or mobile device you are using via a randomly generated identifying tag.
8.3. Types of Cookies we use
We use the following categories of Cookies on our Website:
Necessary cookies: These Cookies are essential to enable you to move around our Website and use its features. Without them, some elements of our Website may be blocked or not function correctly.
Performance cookies: These cookies collect information on the pages visited, for instance which pages you go to more often, and if you get error messages from web pages. Most of the time, these cookies do not collect information that identifies you.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or region) and may also be used to provide the services you have asked for.
Targeting/advertising cookies: These cookies are used to better understand our Website's users, to adapt its content, to keep statistics about our Website's use and to deliver more relevant adverts on third parties' websites. You can refuse these cookies through your browser's settings.
8.4. Third-party Cookies
We use Google Analytics to keep an anonymous track of the use and activity of our Website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC ("Google"). Google Analytics uses Cookies to analyze how you use the Website. You may consult Google's privacy policy to determine how your personal data is collected and used by Google. You may refuse the use of these Cookies by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at Google Analytics Opt-out.
9. How do we process data via social media?
We maintain pages on third-party social networks and platforms and may process data about you. We receive data you provide (e.g., communications, comments) and data the platforms share (e.g., usage statistics). Platform providers process this data with other information they hold about you for their own purposes (e.g., marketing, research, platform management) and act as separate data controllers. For more information, consult the respective platforms' privacy notices. We are entitled, but not obliged, to check content before or after publication on our platforms, delete it without notice, and report it to the platform provider. Some platform operators may be located outside Switzerland; see Section 7 regarding cross-border data transfers.
10. Are there other processing purposes?
Yes. Typical though not necessarily frequent cases include:
Communication: When we are in contact with you, we process the content as well as information about the nature, time, and location of the communication. For identification purposes, we may also process information about proof of identity.
Compliance with legal requirements: We may disclose data to authorities as required by law or to meet internal regulations.
Prevention: Data is processed to detect or prevent crime or misuse including breach of license terms and infringements of intellectual property.
Legal proceedings: If involved in legal proceedings (e.g., court or administrative), we process and disclose data about parties, witnesses, and others involved to courts, authorities, or other relevant entities, including abroad.
IT security: We process data to monitor, control, analyze, secure, and assess IT infrastructure and manage backups and archives.
Job applications: When you apply for a job with us, we process your contact data, application documents, communications, criminal record extracts (if applicable), and data from professional networks, the Internet, media, and references (with your consent) to review your application, conduct the hiring process, and prepare employment contracts. Employment-related data processing is governed separately.
Other purposes: Data is processed for administration (e.g., contract management, accounting, claims management, process improvement), anonymous statistics, or securing other legitimate interests.
11. How do we protect your data?
We have put in place appropriate security measures pursuant to the acknowledged rules of the art. This includes in particular access limitations and security and organizational measures. Please note however that we cannot guarantee absolute security for your personal data, to the extent that personal data retention and electronic transmission involve certain risks.
12. How long do we process personal data?
We process your personal data as long as necessary for the relevant purpose (e.g., for contracts, typically the duration of the contractual relationship), as long as we have a legitimate interest in its retention (e.g., to enforce legal claims, for archiving, or IT security), or as required by statutory retention obligations (e.g., a ten-year retention period for certain data). Once these periods expire, we delete or anonymize your data.
13. What are your rights?
You have certain rights, subject to conditions and restrictions under applicable law:
You can request a copy of your personal data and further information about our data processing.
You can object to our data processing.
You can have incorrect or incomplete personal data corrected or completed or supplemented by a note of dispute.
You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format, insofar as the corresponding data processing is based on your consent or is necessary for the performance of the contract.
To the extent that we process data based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal is only valid for the future, and we reserve the right to continue to process data based on another basis in the event of a withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise such a right, please feel free to contact us (section 2). We will usually have to verify your identity (e.g. by means of a copy of an ID). You are also free to file a complaint against our processing of your data with the competent supervisory authority, in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
Please note that client accounts cannot be deleted or closed by their owners.
These accounts contain essential information related to the licenses you have accepted. As stated in our Terms & Conditions, we are not obligated to remove client accounts, even upon request. We appreciate your understanding.