Cookie and Privacy policy

 

SilentTeaching.com („we“) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
As a rule, it is possible to use our website without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (for example name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. This data is partly passed on to third parties in accordance with this data protection declaration.
We point out that data transmission over the Internet (eg communication by e-mail) security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Controller of the data processing

SilentTeaching is the controller of the data processing described in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions or would like to exercise your statutory data protection rights, please contact us at: admin@silentteaching.com or write to: SilentTeaching, Rieterstrasse 51, 8002 Zurich, Switzerland.

Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
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.
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.

Browser Plugin

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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie 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. 
For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

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.

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.

SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Personal data processed when communicating or providing services

When you use the contact form on the Website, register for our events or newsletters, or inquire about our services by email or telephone, we collect the information you provide.
We also process personal data that we receive from third parties. This regularly includes personal data that we receive in correspondence or in meetings with customers or business partners, e.g. your name and details of your activity as an employee of the customer or business partner.
To the extent necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, we also collect general personal data from publicly accessible registers, Websites or platforms (e.g. to verify your authorization to sign) or by obtaining information from third parties (e.g. for reference purposes in the application process if you consent to this).

Making available and using our Website

Informative use:
You can visit the Website and find out about our services without telling us who you are. As with any connection to a web server, however, the server of our web hosting provider logs and automatically stores certain technical data.
This data includes the IP address and operating system of your device, the date and time of use, and the type of browser you use to access the Website.

Web analysis

We use Google Analytics, an analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to evaluate the use of our Website and to obtain information for its optimization. Google Analytics collects and stores user data using cookies. Prior to their transmission to a server in the USA, Google truncates the requesting IP addresses. Thus, in the context of our use of Google Analytics, no personal data is transmitted to the USA.

Order data processing

We have concluded an order data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements when using Google Analytics.

Demographic characteristics with Google Analytics

This website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to data collection”.

Google Fonts

Google Fonts are used on this website. To our knowledge, no personal data is stored by Google.
However, for technical reasons, your IP address must be transmitted to Google so that the fonts can be transferred to your browser.
More information from Google about Google Fonts can be found here.

Google Maps

On this website, the map service Google Maps is used via an API. The provider is Google LLC (“Google”).
To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have no influence on this data transmission.
More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Font Awesome

On this website, so-called web fonts provided by Fonticons, Inc. are used for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the servers of Fonticons, Inc. This enables Fonticons, Inc. to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address.
You can find more information about Font Awesome at https://fontawesome.com/help and in the privacy policy of Fonticons, Inc.: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Social Plug-ins

The social plug-ins (share buttons) used on the Website enable you to recommend and share our content on social networks. You can recognize the social plug-ins on the Website by the logos of the respective social network. When you interact with the social plugin, data is sent to the respective provider of the social network. This is done using cookies. Please refer to the data protection information of the respective provider.

Advertising technologies

We use advertising technologies from Google, Facebook and other providers. This enables us, for example, to target users of our Website with relevant advertising (e.g., about events that might interest you) when they visit other Websites. The advertising materials are displayed on the Websites you visit based on an analysis of your previous use of our Website. For this purpose, the providers of the advertising technologies set cookies when you visit our Website.

Use of cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies on the Website to provide you with the best possible user experience, to help us improve our services, and to promote our services. Cookies are text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use an app.
Some of the cookies used are necessary in order to make available certain features of the Website (e.g. the contact form, the integration of YouTube videos and features that facilitate the sharing of our content on social media). We also use cookies to analyze the use of the Website, to optimize our services and to enable the use of advertising technologies.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies or to ask each time before storing a cookie. You can also delete cookies on your device by using the corresponding function of your browser.

Use of our social media company pages

On our company pages on social media (currently Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and WeChat) you will find news from SilentTeaching and about our services and events. The social media platforms collect and analyze usage data such as the number of visitors and demographic information about visitors to our company page.
We receive evaluations generated by the social media platforms based on this analysis. These only contain aggregated or otherwise sufficiently anonymized data. Only the respective social media platform can identify you based on the usage data collected.

For what purposes we process your personal data and on which basis

We process your personal data as part of the activities described in this Privacy Policy primarily in order to inform you about our services and events and to provide, document and bill our services in accordance with our contractual and legal obligations. This includes the following purposes:

  • answering your inquiries and communicating with you
  • processing registrations for events
  • carrying out events

In addition, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • making the Website available
  • analysis and optimization of the use of the Website
  • optimization of our posts on social media
  • analysis and optimization of the use of our newsletter
  • marketing and advertising
  • informing you about new developments in SilentTeaching and about new services (e.g. in our newsletter)
  • processing of job applications
  • complying with legal obligations
  • enforcing legal claims.

We or third parties have a legitimate interest corresponding to the aforementioned purposes in processing your personal data. Some processing is also necessary for us to comply with contractual obligations to you (e.g. when carrying out events) or with our legal obligations (e.g. data retention obligations). On this basis, we process your personal data if and to the extent that the applicable data protection law requires a legal basis or justification for the lawfulness of the data processing in general or for specific processing activities.

How we store and protect your personal data

We store your personal data only to the extent and for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or to comply with legal obligations.
In the interest of the confidentiality and integrity of personal data, we take appropriate technical and organizational measures. In particular, we implement physical and logical access controls and procedures for the regular review, assessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of the measures in accordance with our risk assessment.

How long we retain your data

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.

With whom we share your personal data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
In order to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, it may be necessary for us to share your personal data with other companies or organizations. The categories of recipients are as follows:

  • external service providers
  • other customers
  • suppliers and business partners with whom we may need to coordinate in the course of processing your inquiry or registration for events
  • authorities and courts (if applicable)

Place of processing

We store and process your personal data primarily in Switzerland and the EU. In order to achieve some of the purposes described above, it may also be necessary for us to process your personal data in countries outside Switzerland and the EU or to transfer it to such countries. We transfer data to countries without adequate data protection on the basis of standard data protection clauses or legal exceptions (necessity for performance of a contract).

Your rights in relation to your personal data

You have the following rights in relation to personal data relating to you:

  • the right to obtain information about what personal data we hold about you and how we process it
  • the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a commonly used format, or to have such copy transferred to another organization
  • the right to have your personal data rectified
  • the right to deletion of your personal data (or restriction of its processing)
  • the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

Please note that you are entitled to these rights to different extents depending on the applicable data protection law, and that exceptions apply. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may therefore refuse your request to exercise these rights. However, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.

How we can change this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time, in particular if we change our data processing practices or if new legal obligations become applicable. The version published on our Website is the applicable version.

 

Last updated: January 31, 2024