Privacy Policy

Expert Magazine owned by Expert International GmbH 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 privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

The data controller

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

  • Expert International GmbH
    Baarerstrasse 22
    CH-6300 Zug

E-mail: editorial@expert-magazine.org

The data controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Our principles

Expert International GmbH respects your right to privacy and is committed to the following key principles:

  • We protect your privacy and aim to provide you with a service that is tailored to your needs.
  • Personal data is collected for specific purposes based on your consent or a legitimate interest when you contact us.
  • You have the right to information and access to your personal data at any time and may request its correction or deletion.
  • We do not sell your personal data to third parties. However, if necessary and if explicitly mentioned afterwards or if you have consented, we may share your data with group companies, brand licensees, partners and other service providers. In this case, their own privacy policies may also apply.
  • We take all reasonable measures to ensure the security and protection of your data from misuse.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing activities are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent you have already given at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal e-mail. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. We kindly ask you to address any question and concern you might have in regard to our services before you approach the competent supervisory authority.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise 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 or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, the right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time with regard to this and other questions on the subject of personal data.

Rights of users and persons concerned

With regard to the data processing described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right:

  • to confirmation as to whether data relating to them is being processed,
  • to information about the data processed, to further information about the data processing and to copies of the data;
  • to correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete data;
  • to immediate erasure of the data concerning them;
  • to receive the data concerning them and provided by them and to transfer this data to other providers/controllers;
  • to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if they are of the opinion that the data concerning them is being processed by the provider in breach of data protection provisions.

In addition, the provider is obliged to inform all recipients to whom data has been disclosed by the provider of any correction or deletion of data or restriction of processing that takes place. However, this obligation does not apply if such notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Notwithstanding this, the user has a right to information about these recipients.

Likewise, users and data subjects have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning them, insofar as the data is processed by the provider. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.

The above rights may be limited in some circumstances, for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal personal information about another person, if you ask us to delete information which we are required to have by law, or if we have compelling legitimate interests to keep it. We will let you know if that is the case and will then only use your information for these purposes. You may also be unable to continue using our services if you want us to stop processing your personal information.

We encourage you to get in touch if you have any concerns with how we collect or use your personal information.

Lawfulness of processing

The processing of personal data is only lawful if there is a legal basis for the processing. Pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit. a – f GDPR, the legal basis for processing may in particular be:

  • The data subject has given consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for one or more specific purposes;
  • The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the data subject’s request;
  • Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
  • Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
  • Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Server log files and General Collection of Data on our website

In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e., if you do not otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the access of the request
  • Content of the request (concrete page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

In addition, we process the following personal data if a contractual relationship exists between you and us or you have otherwise transmitted the data to us:

  • Personal master data (name, address)
  • Communication data (telephone number, e-mail address)
  • Contract master data (contractual relationship, product or order interest, order history)
  • Comments, contributions, etc.

In principle, we collect the data from the person concerned. In certain cases, we also receive data because you have consented to its transfer to us. Personal data from publicly available sources (via direct data research) are collected while safeguarding the legitimate interests of the data controller, if there is no reason to assume that the data subject’s legitimate interest in the exclusion of processing or use outweighs this interest.

We store personal data only as long as we are entitled to do so, and the purpose of processing has not ceased to apply. The respective statutory retention period applies to the duration of the storage of personal data. After expiry of this period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfilment or initiation of a contract.

Contacting us

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data transmitted in the course of contacting us is our legitimate interest. If the contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the performance of a contract is an additional legal basis for the processing of your personal data. The processing of your personal data in the event of a contact serves us solely to process your request. Your personal data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. This is the case for the personal data sent in the course of contacting us when your request has been processed and legal retention periods do not prevent deletion. You have the option at any time to object to the processing of your personal data in the context of contacting us for the future. In this case, however, we will not be able to process your request any further. All personal data stored in the course of contacting you will be deleted in this case, unless legal retention periods prevent deletion.

Direct marketing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the context of direct marketing measures is either your consent or our legitimate interest in marketing and promoting our courses and services. The purpose of processing your personal data in the context of direct marketing measures is to send information, offers and, if applicable, to promote sales through the sale of goods or services. Your personal data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected; this is the case in particular upon receipt of the revocation or objection. You can revoke your consent at any time for the future or object to the processing of your personal data in the context of direct marketing measures at any time for the future.

Contractual Relationship

In order to establish or implement the contractual relationship with our customers, it is regularly necessary to process the personal master, contract, and payment data provided to us. We also process customer and prospect data for evaluation and marketing purposes. This processing is carried out on the legal basis of our legitimate interest and serves our interest in further developing our offer and informing you specifically about our offers. Further data processing may take place if you have consented or if this serves the fulfilment of a legal obligation.

Commercial and business services

We process data of our contractual and business partners, e.g., customers and interested parties in the context of contractual and comparable legal relationships as well as related measures and in the context of communication with contractual partners (or pre-contractual), e.g., to answer enquiries.

We process this data to fulfil our contractual obligations, to secure our rights and for the purposes of the administrative tasks associated with this information as well as for business organisation. We only disclose the data of the contractual partners to third parties within the scope of the applicable law to the extent that this is necessary for the aforementioned purposes or for the fulfilment of legal obligations or with the consent of the contractual partners (e.g., to participating telecommunications, transport, and other auxiliary services as well as subcontractors, banks, tax and legal advisers, payment service providers or tax authorities).

Unless otherwise specified the purposes of processing are Contractual performance and service, contact requests and communication, office and organisational procedures, administration, and response to requests, visit action evaluation, interest-based and behavioural marketing. And, the Legal bases are Contractual performance and pre-contractual enquiries, Legal obligation, and our Legitimate interests.

When you send a data subject access request

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the context of handling your data subject access request is our legal obligation and the legal basis for the subsequent documentation of t data subject access request is both our legitimate interest and our legal obligation.

The purpose of processing your personal data in the context of processing data when you send a data subject access request is to respond to your request. The subsequent documentation of the data subject access request serves to fulfil the legally required accountability.

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of the processing of a data subject access request, this is three years after the end of the respective process.

You have the possibility at any time to object to the processing of your personal data in the context of the processing of a data subject access request for the future. In this case, however, we will not be able to further process your request. The documentation of the legally compliant processing of the respective data subject access request is mandatory. Consequently, there is no possibility for you to object.

Legal defense and enforcement of our rights

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the context of legal defence and enforcement of our rights is our legitimate interest.

The purpose of processing your personal data in the context of legal defence and enforcement of our rights is the defence against unjustified claims and the legal enforcement and assertion of claims and rights. Your personal data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected.

The processing of your personal data in the context of legal defence and enforcement is mandatory for legal defence and enforcement of our rights. Consequently, there is no possibility for you to object.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you have provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal communication by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g., after we have completed processing your request). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Cookies

Some of the Internet pages 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, effective and secure. 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 at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise 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 generally and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping basket function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. For further information on cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. For more information on the cookies we use on our website, please refer to our Cookie policy.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising. For more information on the cookies we use on our website, please refer to our Cookie policy.

AddThis Plugins

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) of the bookmarking service AddThis, which is operated by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA (“AddThis”). For more information on the cookies we use on our website, please refer to our Cookie policy.

Facebook Pixel, Facebook Custom Audiences and Facebook Conversion

Within our website, the so-called “Facebook Pixel” of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are a resident of the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”), is used. For more information on the cookies, we use on our website, please refer to our Cookie policy.

Transfer of your data to third parties

We only transfer your personal data to third parties if the transfer is necessary in order to fulfill our contractual obligations to you and this is obviously done with or together with another provider (e.g., in the case of cooperation), we are otherwise legally entitled or obliged to transfer the data, or you have given us your consent to do so.

In order to provide our services, selected personal data may be communicated to certain departments or companies within the group of companies. This includes employees of the accounting, product management, marketing and IT departments.

In certain cases, we also use external service providers or affiliated companies that are commissioned by us to process data for us in accordance with instructions. Such service providers are contractually obligated by us as processors and are not allowed to further use your data for any other purposes.

The transfer of data to processors takes place on the basis of a contractual service, or alternatively on the basis of our legitimate interest in the economic and technical benefits associated with the use of specialized processors.

If we are legally obliged to do so or if this is permitted under data protection law, we transmit personal data to authorities, for example the police or public prosecutor’s office. The transfer of this data is based on our legitimate interest in combating abuse, prosecuting criminal offenses and securing, asserting and enforcing claims and that your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data are not overridden.

Data recipients and international data transfers

In the course of our business, including in connection with some client services, and personal data collected on the Websites may be transferred from time to time to our third-party service providers located around the world, including to countries where local laws may give you fewer rights than you have in your own country. In addition, we and our third-party providers’ websites may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world. To the extent required by law, we have put in place legal measures designed to ensure that your personal data processed by third-party providers is adequately protected, such as when your personal data is transferred to countries other than your country of residence. By using the Sites and providing information thereon, you consent to such cross-border transfer and hosting of such data.

We will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure) your personal information to third parties without your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except in the following circumstances. We may provide access to your personal information to third parties engaged by us to provide services in connection with the Sites, and in connection with our business activities, including with respect to certain services, as agreed in our service contracts. We maintain procedures to ensure that any processing of personal data by external service providers is carried out in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.

We may also share your personal data with third-party service providers who perform services and tasks on our behalf in support of our interactions with you, such as, but not limited to, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.

In addition, we may share information about you:

  • if we are required to do so by law or by legal process;
  • to police and regulatory authorities or other public administration bodies;
  • if we believe that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in the course of an investigation into suspected or actual unlawful activity;
  • where disclosure is necessary to protect an individual’s vital interests;
  • to enforce our terms of use;
  • to protect our property, services, and rights;
  • to prevent fraud against Current Lab, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or business partners;
  • to support the internal audit, compliance, and corporate governance functions; or
  • to comply with all applicable laws.

In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal information in the event of a reorganization, business combination, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or part of our business.

Place of processing

We ourselves do not transfer your personal data to countries outside Switzerland and the EEA, except in cases where it is permitted under applicable data protection law.

Existence of automated decision making

We do not use automated decision making or profiling.

Social Media

The data you enter on our social media pages, such as comments, videos, pictures, likes, public messages, etc. are published by the social media platform and are not used or processed by us for any other purpose at any time. We only reserve the right to delete content if this should be necessary. Where applicable, we share your content on our site if this is a function of the social media platform and communicate with you via the social media platform. The legal basis is our legitimate interest. The data processing is carried out in the interest of our public relations and communication.

If you wish to object to certain data processing over which we have an influence, please contact us. We will then examine your objection. If you send us a request on the social media platform, we may also refer you to other secure communication channels that guarantee confidentiality, depending on the response required. You always have the option of sending us confidential enquiries to our address stated in the imprint.

As already stated, where the social media platform provider gives us the opportunity, we take care to design our social media pages to be as data protection compliant as possible. With regard to statistics that the provider of the social media platform makes available to us, we can only influence these to a limited extent and cannot switch them off. However, we make sure that no additional optional statistics are made available to us.

Data processing by the operator of the social media platform

The operator of the social media platform uses web tracking methods. The web tracking can also take place regardless of whether you are logged in or registered with the social media platform. As already explained, we can unfortunately hardly influence the web tracking methods of the social media platform. We cannot, for example, switch this off.

Please be aware: It cannot be ruled out that the provider of the social media platform uses your profile and behavioural data, for example to evaluate your habits, personal relationships, preferences, etc. We have no influence on this. In this respect, we have no influence on the processing of your data by the provider of the social media platform.

Security

We have implemented generally accepted technical and organizational security standards to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized Current Lab employees and our third-party vendors are granted access to personal information, and these employees and third-party vendors are required to keep this information confidential. Despite these safeguards, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not gain access to your personal information.

Data storage

We store personal data as required for the duration of the relevant business relationship. We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship if we need to retain it to defend ourselves against legal claims, for analytical or historical data retention purposes, or to comply with our information management policies and plans. If you make a request for deletion of your personal information, we will make reasonable efforts to completely delete all units of information. For information about accessing, correcting or deleting personal information, please see the ” Rights of users and persons concerned” section of this Privacy Policy.

Am I obliged to provide data?

The processing of your data is necessary for the conclusion or fulfilment of the contract you have entered into with us. If you do not provide us with this data, we will usually have to refuse to conclude the contract or will no longer be able to perform an existing contract and consequently have to terminate it. However, you are not obliged to give your consent to data processing with regard to data that is not relevant for the fulfilment of the contract or that is not required by law.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell information that directly identifies you, like your name, address or phone records.

Accuracy

It is important that the data we hold about you is accurate and current, therefore please keep us informed of any changes to your personal data.

Closing

By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use and storage of your personal information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of such changes by posting an updated version of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that expand our rights to use the personal information, we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either by sending an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting a notice of the changes on our websites.

Contact us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, or if you would like to contact us you can reach us using editorial@expert-magazine.org

Read also about our Cookie Policy.