Data Protection Declaration of Ecole d'Humanité Hasliberg AG

Based on the data protection regulations of the Data Protection Act, DSG, every person has the right to protection of their privacy as well as protection against misuse of their personal data. Ecole d'Humanité Hasliberg AG [Ecole] takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentiality and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

In cooperation with our hosting provider, we strive to protect our databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or falsification.

Data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, transmission, processing and use of data in accordance with the following policy. This website can be visited without registration. Data such as pages accessed or names of files accessed, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address are collected as far as possible on a voluntary basis. No data will be passed on to third parties without your consent.

Insofar as we use third-party providers or platforms to provide our services, the terms and conditions and data protection information of the respective third-party providers or platforms shall apply in the relationship between the users and the providers.

Security measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, in order to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

The measures include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as access to, input of, disclosure of, assurance of availability of and segregation of the data. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, the deletion of data, and responses to data compromise. 

Collection of personal data 

When you visit our website, we collect personal data such as IP address or pages visited. 

In addition, we collect your contact data such as name and address if this is necessary to process your request (e.g. for sending information material or newsletters or when filling out a contact or inquiry form). 

More personal data will be collected during the contract initiation phase and for contract fulfilment. 

Processing of personal data

Basically, we only process personal data that is necessary for the performance of services such as, but not limited to:

• Verification of student’s academic and other information.

• Administration and operation of the Ecole

• Organization, management and implementation of extracurricular activities, including but not limited to the purchase of insurance, medical assistance

• Mailing of notices, newsletters and circulars to parents and students

• statistical and research purposes

• other school-related purposes 

• alumni activities.

In order to continually improve our website, we evaluate our website log files for statistical purposes; individual visitors remain anonymous.

Personal data may be stored in our database systems and online portals, and is part of students' official student records. Personal data may also be stored in online student resources such as the Global Classroom.

Transfer of personal data

Personal data may be transferred to third parties. Recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers contracted to perform IT tasks or providers of services and content embedded in a website.

With the consent of the students, parents, guardians and/or if permitted or required by law, data may be transferred to third parties (such as government agencies, insurance companies, health services, organizers of school and extracurricular activities). 

Storage of personal data

We process and store your personal data as long as this is necessary for the provision of our contractual services and/or in accordance with legal requirements. 

Privacy policy for newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on our website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time.

Cookies - data collection technologies

Cookies are text files that are stored on your hard drive when you visit a website. 

Cookies cannot run programs or infect your computer with viruses. Essentially, we use cookies to make navigation on our website more efficient and to be able to statistically evaluate visits to the website. Without the consent of the users, no personal data can be assigned to users by means of cookies. 

Some of the cookies are managed by us (first-party cookies), while others are managed by third parties over which we have no control (third-party cookies). 

Personal data may also be collected through the use of other data collection technologies (such as web beacons, pixels or tags) that embed graphic files in our websites and online services. 

Please note that restricting the use of cookies may affect the functionality of the Website and may cause Website functionality to be limited. 

You can control the use of certain cookies and similar technologies by making a change to the settings in your Internet browser. In this way, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically.

Privacy policy for SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests, SSL/TLS encryption is activated. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data transmitted to Ecole cannot be read by third parties.

Privacy policy for server log files

The operator of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to the Ecole. These are among others:

Browser type, browser version, operating system used, referrer URL, time of server request.

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. A combination of this data with other data sources is not made. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.

Third party services

1. Google

This website uses, among others, Google Analytics (web analysis service), Google Ads, Google Remarketing, Google Tag Manager Google Maps for embedding maps, Google AdSense (display program), Google Web Fonts (display fonts), Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam as well as YouTube and Vimeo for embedding videos.

The services of the American Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transferred to Google in the USA. 

If you are registered with a Google service, Google can also assign your visit to our website to your account. 

You can avoid the storage of cookies and limit the connection to your Google account by making the appropriate settings in your browser software. 

Google is committed to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the U.S.-European Privacy Shield and the U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy.

1. Newsletter - Constant Contact

The newsletter is sent using the dispatch service provider Constant Contact, a newsletter dispatch platform of the US Constant Contact, Inc, Delaware, USA. 

Constant Contact may use the data of the recipients in pseudonymous form to optimize or improve its own services. Constant Contact may not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass on their data to third parties.

We refer to the privacy policy of Constant Contact, Massachusetts – Headquarters, Waltham, MA 02451 United States. 

1. Vimeo

Plugins of the video portal Vimeo of Vimeo, LLC, New York, USA are integrated on our website. Each time you visit a website that offers one or more Vimeo video clips or interact with Vimeo plugins (e.g. by clicking the start button), a direct connection is established between your browser and a Vimeo server in the USA. Vimeo stores information about your visit and your IP address. 

The privacy policy for Vimeo with more detailed information on the collection and use of your data by Vimeo can be found in the privacy policy of Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/privacy

If you have a Vimeo user account and are not logged out of your Vimeo account, Vimeo may link the collected data to your membership data stored with Vimeo.

Vimeo calls the tracker Google Analytics via an iFrame in which the video is called. Ecole d'Humanité does not have access to Vimeo's own tracking. You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics by using the deactivation tools that Google offers for some Internet browsers. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by Google Analytics and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

1. Squarespace

We host our website with Squarespace Ireland Ltd, Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, Ireland [Squarespace]. 

Squarespace is a tool for creating and hosting websites. When you visit our website, your data is processed on Squarespace's servers. In the process, personal data may also be transmitted to Squarespace Inc, New York, NY 10014, USA. Squarespace also stores cookies that are necessary for the presentation of the site and to ensure security (necessary cookies). 

By default, when visiting our website, non-personal usage data is registered, such as pages and files accessed, IP address of the requesting computer, time and duration of the visit, operating system and browser type. Visits to the website may be linked to personal data if such data has been provided to us. This allows us to provide relevant and targeted information.

You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use our web services. Squarespace currently doesn't respond to DNT:1 signals from browsers visiting Squarespace services. You can also opt out of receiving interest-based ads from certain ad networks here.

Data is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to gain more information about traffic and activity on this website. 

Details can be found at: https://support.squarespace.com

Social Media

1. Facebook

This website uses functions from Facebook Inc, California, USA. When you call up our pages with Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and Facebook's servers. In the process, data is already transmitted to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. Interactions, in particular the use of a comment function or the clicking of a "Like" or "Share" button are also passed on to Facebook. 

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our websites with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

We would like to point out that we, as Ecole, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

For more information on this topic, please see Facebook's privacy policy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy 

1. Twitter

This website uses functions of Twitter, Inc, San Francisco, USA. When calling up our pages with Twitter plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the servers of Twitter. In the process, data is already transferred to Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not want this data to be associated with your Twitter account, please log out of Twitter before visiting our site. Interactions, in particular the clicking of a "re-tweet" button, are also passed on to Twitter. 

We would like to point out that we as Ecole have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as its use by Twitter.

You can learn more at https://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings for Twitter in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

1. Instagram

On the website of the Ecole, functions of the service Instagram are integrated. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, Menlo Park, CA, USA integrated. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. The Ecole as the provider of the pages does not receive any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by Instagram.

For more information, please see the privacy policy of Instagram: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

1. LinkedIn

The Ecole website has integrated functions of the LinkedIn service. 

If you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our web pages to your LinkedIn account by clicking on the LinkedIn button. LinkedIn can then assign the visit to our websites to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

For more information, please refer to the LinkedIn privacy policy: https://legal.linkedin.com/plugin-terms-of-use

1. Pinterest

Our website uses social plugins of the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc, San Francisco, CA, USA. When you call up a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Pinterest servers. The plugin transmits log data to the Pinterest server in the USA. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the visited websites that also contain Pinterest functions, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, your usage of Pinterest as well as cookies.

The Ecole receives no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by Pinterest.

For more information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the Pinterest privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

1. YouTube

The Ecole uses functions of the service "YouTube". "YouTube" is owned by Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under the laws of Ireland with its registered office in Gordon House.

We refer here to the privacy policy https://www.youtube.com.

Audio and Video Conferencing

We use audio and video conferencing services to communicate with our users and other persons. In particular, we may use them to conduct audio and video conferences, virtual meetings, and training such as webinars.

We only use services for which appropriate data protection is guaranteed. In addition to this privacy policy, any terms and conditions of the services used, such as terms of use or privacy statements, also apply.

We use Zoom, a service of the American Zoom Video Communications Inc. Further information about the type, scope and purpose of data processing can be found in the data protection guidelines and on the "Legal Provisions and Data Protection" page of Zoom in each case.

In particular, we also use Google Meet, a service of Google LLC.  Further information on the type, scope and purpose of data processing can be found in the data protection guidelines: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9852160?hl=en

Privacy policy for objection advertising mails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending advertising and information material that has not been expressly requested. The Ecole expressly reserves the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited promotional information, such as spam e-mails.

Chargeable services

For the provision of fee-based services, we ask for additional data (e.g. payment details) in order to be able to execute your order or your order. We store this data in our EDP systems for as long as required by law.

Data protection officer

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an e-mail to ecole@ecole.ch; subject line data protection officer. 

Copyrights

The copyright and all other rights to the content, images, photos or other files on the website belong exclusively to Ecole d'Humanité Hasliberg AG or to our Licensers. For the reproduction of any files, the written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance.

Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective copyright holder may be liable to prosecution and possibly to damages.

Other notes

1. Rights

You have the right to receive, upon request and free of charge, information about the personal data that has been stored about you. In addition, you have a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing and to the portability of this personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions.

You also have a right of appeal to a data protection supervisory authority. This is usually located at your place of residence.

1. Revocation of consent

You may revoke any consent you have given us (e.g. when seeking information material about the Ecole or subscribing to the newsletter) at any time by notifying us with effect for the future.

1. Data transfer to the USA

The Ecole website also includes tools from companies based in the USA. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country in the sense of the DSG or EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. Therefore, it cannot be excluded that US authorities process, evaluate and permanently store your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. Ecole has no influence on these processing activities.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may amend this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. To the extent that the Privacy Policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the change by email or other appropriate means in the event of an update.

Hasliberg 01.01.2022