Last updated May 22, 2024.

This privacy policy for Expertisia (“we”, “us”, or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”) such as when you:

  • Visit or use our website at https://expertisia.ch
  • Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events.

Reading this privacy policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policy, please do not use our Services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at info@expertisia.ch.

What information do we collect

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our Services, when you participate in activities on our website, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal information provided by you. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

We collect or use the following information to provide Services:

  • Names
  • Phone numbers.
  • Email addresses.

We collect or use the following information for recruitment purposes:

  • Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)
  • Date of birth
  • Employment history (eg job application, employment references or secondary employment)
  • Education history (eg qualifications)
  • Right to work information

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Sensitive information

We do not process sensitive information.

Lawful bases

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide Services, or for recruitment purposes are:

  • Consent: we may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
  • Contract: we may process your information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services, or at your request, prior to entering into a contract with you.

How do we process your information

We process your information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with us or our Services, including:

  • To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts.
  • To provide you with the requested Services.
  • To communicate with you.

Who we share your data with

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers (“third parties”) who perform services for us and require access to that information to do that work. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

  • Cloud computing Services
  • Communication and collaboration tools
  • User account registration and authentication services
  • Website hosting service provider
  • Data storage service providers

With your consent, we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy.  Affiliates include joint venture partners.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How long we retain your data

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless otherwise required by law.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Is your Information transferred internationally?

We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own. Please be aware that your personal information may be transferred, stored, and processed by those third parties with whom we may share your information, in the United States and Germany.

Do we use cookies or other tracking technologies

We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your personal information.

How do we keep your information safe

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be fully secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

Do we collect information from minors

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, your represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

What rights you have over your data

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.

You don’t usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.

To make a data protection rights request, or to complain, please contact us using the following contact details:

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How to complain

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to: