Privacy policy

1. General

teamscout AG is the operator of the website www.teamscout.ch and provider of the services offered on this website. Thus teamscout AG is responsible for the collection, processing and use of your data and must ensure compatibility with Swiss law. The protection of your personal data is a top priority at teamscout AG. Here we inform you about which data is collected on www.teamscout.ch and how it is used. You will also learn how to verify the accuracy of this information and how to request that we delete this data. Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We therefore recommend that you regularly read this privacy policy to ensure that you are always familiar with the latest version.

2. Collection, use and processing of personal and company-related data

When you visit www.teamscout.ch, certain data is automatically stored on our servers for system administration, statistical or backup purposes. These are:

  • the name of your internet service provider
  • your IP address (under certain circumstances)
  • The operating system
  • Information about the browser type and version used- the date
  • the time
  • the website from which you visit www.teamscout.ch
  • the search words you used to find www.teamscout.ch

Under certain circumstances, this data may allow conclusions to be drawn about a specific visitor. However, personal data is not utilized in this context. The use of such data is exclusively anonymous.
By registering as a user and entering your data on www.teamscout.ch, you consent to the use of your entered data for service-related purposes.
Furthermore, you agree that their data can be used for advertising measures / advertising purposes of third parties. If you do not agree with the use of the data for advertising purposes, you can prohibit this at any time by writing an e-mail to dataprotection@teamscout.ch.

3. Website Hosting

The teamscout AG website is hosted in Germany.
The Customer is aware that in the case of various applications offered by teamscout AG or required for the provision of services, data may be processed or stored on servers in the territory of the European Union (EU).

4. Disclosure to third parties

Your data will be transferred to our partners (third parties) as far as the order processing, storage or the storage makes it necessary. These partners can be located in Switzerland, but also in the territory of the European Union (EU) or provide their services. If we pass on data to external service providers, technical and organizational measures are taken to ensure that the transfer is carried out in accordance with the legal provisions of the respective data protection regulations. If you provide us with personal or company-related data of your own accord, we will not use, process or pass on this data beyond the scope permitted by law or specified by you in a declaration of consent. Furthermore, we only pass on your data to external service providers insofar as this is necessary for the processing of the contract and they have agreed to the corresponding confidentiality and due diligence provisions. In addition, we will only pass on your data if we are obliged to do so by law or by official or court orders.

5. Information, deletion and correction

You can request information about your data stored by us at any time. For this purpose, we ask you to send a request for information by e-mail to the address below. Together with the request, proof of identity to the same address is required.
You have the possibility to request the deletion or correction of your data at any time. Of course, you are also entitled at any time to revoke any consent you have given to the use or processing of personal data with effect for the future. For this purpose, we ask you to write to us by e-mail at dataprotection@teamscout.ch.

Stored data will be deleted by us when it is no longer needed for the specified purpose.
Regarding the deletion of data, it is important to note that we are subject to certain legal obligations that require us to retain certain data. We have to fulfill this obligation. If you wish to delete data that is subject to the legal obligation to retain data, the data will be blocked in our system and only used to fulfill the legal obligation to retain data. After expiry of the retention period, your request for deletion will be complied with.

6. Data security

We will keep your information secure and therefore take all reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, access, misuse or alteration. Our employees and contractual partners who have access to your data are contractually bound to secrecy and compliance with data protection regulations.

7. Cookies

To facilitate the use of www.teamscout.ch we use so-called cookies. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are temporarily stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and are necessary for you to use www.teamscout.ch. Thus, the information contained in the cookies is used to control the session, in particular to improve navigation and enable a high degree of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies we use do not store any person-specific information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can avoid this by changing the settings of your browser. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary Internet files (browser bar “Tools-Internet Options”).

Deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our portal.
Here you can also find the instructions for deleting cookies for Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/278835 and Mozilla https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen

8. Plug-Ins

8.1. Facebook-Plugins

Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” (“Like”) or “Share” (“Share”) button on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plug-in. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which then integrates it into the website. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign the visit to our pages to your user account. This allows Facebook to assign the visita of our pages to your user account. The information will also be published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. 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 Facebook.

Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research, and customization of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook.

For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account before using our website.

8.2. Twitter

Plugins of the short message network Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Twitter plugins (Tweet button) by the Twitter logo on our site. You can find an overview of the Tweet button at https://dev.twitter.com/.
When you call up a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Twitter server. Twitter thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the “Tweet button” while logged into your Twitter account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Twitter profile. This allows Twitter to assign the visit to our pages 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 Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter’s privacy policy.

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

8.3. LinkedIn

Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “LinkedIn”) are integrated on our Internet pages. You can recognize the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the “Recommend” button on our site. When you visit our pages, a direct connection between your browser and the LinkedIn server is established via the plug-in. LinkedIn thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend Button” while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages on your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to assign the visit to our pages 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. Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and settings options can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

These notes can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

8.4. YouTube

Our Internet pages contain at least one plug-in from YouTube, belonging to Google Inc. located LLC 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. As soon as you visit a page of our website that is equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. In doing so, the YouTube server is informed which specific page of our website you have visited. If, on top of this, you are logged into your YouTube account, you would enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can negate this possibility of association if you log out of your account beforehand. For more information on the collection and use of your data by YouTube, please refer to the privacy notices there at Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy.

8.5. Instagram

So-called social plugins from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”), are used on our websites. The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. An overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-instagram-badges-for-webpage-embedding
When you access a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.
If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Instagram” button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Instagram account and shown to your contacts there.

For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

If you do not want Instagram to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Instagram plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (https://noscript.net/).

8.6. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. („Google“). This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. The information generated by the cookie (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL previously visited website, IP address, time of server request) about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on our website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
For more information about the web analytics service used, please visit the Google Analytics website. Instructions on how to prevent the processing of their data by the web analytics service can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

8.7. Google Webfonts

Instructions on how to prevent the processing of their data by the web analytics service can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. The web fonts are transferred to the browser’s cache when the page is called up so that they can be used for display. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, the text is displayed in a standard font.

When the page is called up, the website visitor does not receive cookies. Data transmitted in connection with page views is sent to resource-specific domains such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com. They are not associated with data that may be collected or used in connection with the parallel use of authenticated Google services such as Gmail.

You can set your browser so that the fonts are not loaded from the Google servers (for example, by installing add-ons such as NoScript or Ghostery for Firefox). If your browser does not support Google Fonts or you disable access to Google servers, the text will be displayed in the system’s default font.

For information about Google Web Fonts’ privacy policy, please visit: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#Privacy
General information on data protection is available in the Google Privacy Center at: https://www.google.com/intl/de-DE/privacy/

9. Changes

Changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. In this way, you can inform yourself at any time about what data we store, how we collect it and how we use it. You can save and / or print the privacy policy here.

Change of our privacy policy

If we have to adapt the privacy policy due to adapted services or due to new requirements, the latest available version will apply.

Our group of companies is active in Switzerland as well as in the EU-EEA area z. The information provided here refers to the EU General Data Protection Regulation while taking into account the Swiss Data Protection Act. Should deviations or additions be necessary in this regard, these will be incorporated into the information presented here.

Last modified 3.6.2019