This English translation is provided for information only. In the event of any discrepancy, the German version shall prevail.
The protection of your personal data is important to us. You can expect us to handle your data sensitively and carefully and to ensure a high level of data security.
We collect and use your personal data exclusively within the framework of the applicable data protection provisions.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data that we have received from natural persons through various sources (websites, mobile apps, social media, customers, suppliers, business partners).
The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the EU Member States as well as other data protection provisions is:
CT Academy AG
Fabrikweg 2
CH-8306 Wangen-Brüttisellen
E-mail: info@ct-academy.ch
Website: www.ct-academy.ch
SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA
YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store the following data in a log file, the so-called server log files.
We consider legitimate interests to be the legal basis for the temporary storage of the personal data and the log files. The legitimate interest exists in order to
These data are not stored together with any of your other personal data. The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. Where your personal data are collected for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.
When you complete our contact form or use our chat, our Learning Management System or other learning content, we store the information you provide so that we can grant you authorisation to access our resources and further process your enquiries. The following information is (*mandatory) required. All other information is voluntary:
The mandatory information is required in order to process your request. In order to provide you with even more targeted information, we also collect and process information provided on a voluntary basis.
The personal data you submit are not combined with other data.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest in this service. If the purpose of the contact is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, this constitutes an additional legal basis for the processing of your personal data.
You have the option of writing comments on our website. For this purpose, we require your name or a pseudonym. You may optionally provide your website. We request this voluntary information in order to promote more transparent and individual communication between authors and commentators.
In addition, your IP address and e-mail address are recorded or requested. This information is stored in order to prevent spam. We delete these data once a month.
The data you submit are not combined with other data.
You have the option of subscribing to our blog via our website. For this purpose, we require your e-mail address and your declaration that you agree to receive the blog.
For registration, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that, after you have provided your e-mail address, we send a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to subscribe. Confirmation is given by clicking on an activation link contained in the confirmation e-mail.
We store your data until you unsubscribe from the blog. You may unsubscribe from the blog and revoke the consent you have given at any time. To do so, please click on the corresponding button in the blog or on our website, or send your revocation to the following e-mail address: info@ct-academy.ch
For the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations and providing our services, we process master data (e.g. your names and addresses as well as your contact details) and contract data (e.g. services used, names of contact persons, payment information and your online access data).
The legal basis for the processing of your data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, or our legitimate interest in providing you with our services.
Where we store your data on the basis of a contractual relationship, these data remain stored at least for as long as the contractual relationship exists and at most for as long as limitation periods for possible claims on our part are running or statutory or contractual retention obligations exist.
We offer you the option of registering on our website for the purpose of opening a customer account. By opening a customer account, you receive password-protected direct access to the master data stored with us (e.g. name and address).
To open a customer account, you must provide the following information (*mandatory). All other information is voluntary:
If you close your user account, the associated data will be deleted, subject to statutory retention obligations. It is your responsibility to back up these data before the end of the contract once notice of termination has been given. We are entitled to irretrievably delete all data stored during the term of the contract.
In the context of registration and subsequent logins as well as the use of our online services, we store the IP address and the time of the respective user action. This storage is based on our legitimate interests as well as those of the users in protection against misuse and other unauthorised use. As a matter of principle, these data are not passed on to third parties unless this is necessary for the pursuit of our claims or there is a legal obligation to do so.
If you apply for a position with us, we process your information in order to process your application. During the application process, in addition to your title, last name, first name, date of birth and nationality, the usual correspondence data such as postal address, e-mail address and telephone numbers are stored in the applicant database. In addition, all documents submitted by you in connection with the application are recorded. These data are stored, evaluated, processed or forwarded internally exclusively in the context of your application. The data may be processed for statistical purposes (e.g. reporting). In this case, no conclusions can be drawn about individual persons.
Processing may also be carried out electronically. This is in particular the case if you submit the relevant application documents to us electronically, for example by e-mail.
The legal basis for the processing is the mutual interest in processing your application or pre-contractual measures taken at your request.
If we conclude an employment contract with you, the data submitted will be stored for the purpose of administering the employment relationship in compliance with the applicable regulations. If the application process ends without employment, your personal data will be stored for a further six months for documentation purposes and deleted thereafter, unless you have given us your consent to use your information for further application processes with us.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may have your electronic data deleted at any time. You may send your deletion request to the person named as the contact person in the job advertisement or to .
We process and store your personal data only for the period required to achieve the purpose of storage or insofar as this is provided for in laws or regulations to which we are subject. If the purpose of storage no longer applies or if a prescribed retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted routinely and in accordance with the applicable regulations.
In addition, we delete your data if you request us to do so at and we have no statutory or contractual retention obligation or other obligation to preserve these data.
We only disclose your personal data if you have expressly consented to this, if we are legally obliged to do so or insofar as this is necessary in the context of the use of the website or for the provision of any services requested by you. The use of the disclosed data by the third parties is strictly limited to the contractually agreed purposes.
In addition to the recipients already mentioned, we disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:
Furthermore, we are entitled to transfer your personal data to third-party companies (commissioned service providers) abroad, insofar as this is expedient for the data processing described in this Privacy Policy. In doing so, the applicable regulations on the disclosure of personal data to third parties are, of course, complied with. These companies are obliged to protect data to the same extent as we are. If the level of data protection in a country does not correspond to Swiss or EU data protection law, we ensure by contractual means that the protection of your personal data corresponds at all times to that in Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA).
Where we use subcontractors to provide our services, we take appropriate
legal precautions as well as corresponding technical and organisational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data in accordance with the relevant regulations.
On the basis of legitimate interests, we use so-called cookies on our website. These are small text files that are stored on your device by means of the browser. When you access a website, a cookie may be stored on your operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is accessed again.
By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimised in your interest. Cookies enable us to recognise visitors. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for you to use our website.
Only pseudonymous data are stored in the cookies we use. When the cookie is activated, an identification number is assigned to it. Your personal data are not linked to this identification number. Your name, your IP address or similar data that would allow the cookie to be directly attributed to you are not stored in the cookie. On the basis of cookie technology, we receive only pseudonymised information.
We use temporary cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to the website. We use this type of cookie to ensure the operation and functionality of our website.
We use security cookies to identify and prevent security risks. For example, we may use these cookies to store information about your web session. This enables us to prevent others from changing your password without your username and password.
Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your browsing behaviour) are stored, these are dealt with separately in this Privacy Policy.
Accepting cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our websites.
Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not wish this, you can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only 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. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. On the website http://www.aboutcookies.org you can find step-by-step instructions on how to control and delete cookies in most browsers.
On the basis of our legitimate interests, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google uses cookies.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thereby provides a guarantee that it complies with European data protection law.
Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with further services relating to website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.
We use Google Analytics only with IP anonymisation activated. This means that the IP address of users is truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other States Parties 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 truncated there.
You can prevent the collection and transmission to Google of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website. However, we would point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
Further information on the terms of use and data protection can be found at www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
You may object at any time to the future processing of your personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions.
Likewise, you may revoke consent to certain data processing at any time with effect for the future.
In addition, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability with regard to your personal data. If you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes data protection law or that your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in any way, you may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. In Switzerland, this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
For this purpose, and for any questions, suggestions and requests, please contact CT Academy AG, Fabrikweg 2, CH-8306 Wangen-Brüttisellen.
The website is aimed at an adult audience. Minors, in particular children under the age of 16, are prohibited from transmitting personal data about themselves to us or registering for a service without the consent or approval of their parents or legal guardians. If we discover that such data have been transmitted to us, they will be deleted. The parents (or legal representative) of the child may contact us and request deletion or deregistration.
We take technical and organisational security precautions to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons, and to ensure the protection of your rights and compliance with the applicable data protection provisions.
The measures taken are intended to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data and to ensure the long-term availability and resilience of our systems and services when processing your data. They are also intended to ensure the rapid restoration of the availability of your data and access to them in the event of a physical or technical incident.
Our security measures also include the encryption of your data. When your data are transmitted to us, they are encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) / HTTPS encryption. All information that you enter online is transmitted via an encrypted transmission channel. As a result, this information cannot be viewed by unauthorised third parties at any time.
Our data processing and our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
If you register with us as a user, access to your user account is only possible after entering your personal password. You should always treat payment and access information as confidential and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you share the computer with others.
We also take internal data protection within our company seriously. Our employees and the service providers commissioned by us are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data protection provisions. Moreover, they are granted access to personal data only to the extent necessary.
Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers to which this Privacy Policy does not extend. Once you have clicked on the link, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data transmitted to the third party by clicking on the link (such as the IP address or the URL on which the link is located), as the conduct of third parties is by its nature beyond our control. We therefore cannot accept any responsibility for the processing of your data by third parties. Insofar as the use of other providers’ websites involves the collection, processing or use of personal data, please refer to the privacy notices of the respective providers.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy as required. This version is dated 1 July 2023.
