Imprint

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The Canton of St.Gallen offers this website as a free way to get information. It assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. The information is not legally binding. If you do make decisions based on this information, you do so at your own risk.

The Canton of St.Gallen is not liable for the functions on this website to be error-free, for errors to be corrected or for the security of the website. This website refers to links or connections to other websites that have been set up and are operated by third parties under their own responsibility.

The Canton of St.Gallen accepts no responsibility for damages caused by the use of this website or by the use of information on this website or on other websites. Such damage can be of a material or non-material nature.

The contents of this website may be transmitted incorrectly or incompletely. The Canton of St.Gallen cannot guarantee that the data exchanged via this website is confidential and secure, nor that the content of the website will be available anytime and anywhere. The Canton of St.Gallen reserves the right to change or delete the content at any time without justification or prior notice.

The content and structure of this website are protected by copyright; all rights reserved. For objects published on this website and created directly by the Canton of St.Gallen, the copyright remains solely with the Canton of St.Gallen.

You may reuse the content for personal use as long as you credit the source. You may not use the texts, graphics, sound documents and video sequences of the Canton of St.Gallen and use them as your own, unless you have written permission from the Canton of St.Gallen.

Contact:  Department of Integration and Equality, Office of Social Affairs,  integration@sg.ch

General

The www.hallo.sg.ch website (including subpages), hereinafter referred to as the "Website") is an information portal of the Canton of St.Gallen on the subject of integration. The following legal notice applies to the entire website.

Notes on legally binding nature

The information provided on the website is intended to provide the public with an overview of the tasks and activities of the administration, the cantonal parliament and the courts. We refrain from presenting detailed legal analyses in the interest of easy accessibility of the information. The information provided is therefore not a substitute for a case-by-case assessment.

The information published on the website is not binding on the administrative authorities applying the law in the interpretation and application of the applicable law in a specific individual case. Exceptions to this are instructions on official forms and leaflets that specifically inform those affected about the application of legal provisions by the cantonal administration or specify legal requirements.

Cantonal and federal courts are not bound by the information provided on the website.

Availability

We make every effort to keep the website available. On the other hand, we cannot guarantee that the website is available without interruption and always without disruption.

Predictable maintenance work is carried out at off-peak times whenever possible. In the event of prolonged outages or disruptions, we will endeavour to inform users in an appropriate form about the expected duration of the outage or disruption. If your request is urgent (e.g. in the case of ongoing deadlines), we ask you to choose alternative ways of communicating with the responsible organisational unit of the Canton of St.Gallen.

Additional offers

On the website, you sometimes have the option of downloading forms, registrations and applications for the processing of official business. You can also submit certain requests or registrations digitally directly on the website. Such digital counter services are intended as a supplementary service.  They can also carry out official business traditionally on site at the respective organisational unit of the cantonal administration or on the postal web. We therefore reserve the right to modify, redesign or remove such offers or functionalities without notice.

Rights to content

We or our licensors hold the copyright in the website or in the text, images or other content provided therein. You may download and save or print the content for your own use. Some content, such as legal texts and court rulings, is then exempt from copyright protection. Apart from such legal limitations and exceptions, you may only use the content provided with the consent of the respective rights holder (integration@sg.ch).

Please also note that some of the documents or images provided on the website contain trademarks that are protected by trademark law or heraldic protection law. The legal restrictions on use apply.