The protection of your personal data is of utmost importance to the operator (WHEREABOUT-ONLINE GmbH, hereinafter referred to as the “operator”) of the www.whereaboutonline.com website (hereinafter referred to as the “website”). This data-protection policy has been drawn up to enable the operator to provide information on how data of a personal nature is collected, processed and utilised in conjunction with the use of the website. This data-protection policy forms an integral part of the "General terms and conditions for the use of www.whereaboutonline.com".
The operator agrees to be bound by the following principles in protecting your personal data:
In collecting, processing and using your personal data, the operator complies fully with Swiss data-protection legislation.
The operator uses your personal data to facilitate your use of those internet services on the website that require compulsory registration.
The operator sends you a newsletter, whose delivery you can cancel at any time. The newsletter contains information on subjects concerning all aspects of the website’s services as well as on topics related to them.
Under no circumstances will the operator disclose your personal data to third parties for advertising, marketing or PR purposes or hand it over to third parties in any other way. The operator’s representatives and contractual partners are granted access to your data solely to the extent necessary for handling the website’s services.
The operator does not transfer your data to any other country. Your data is processed on a server located in Switzerland.
For the website and its services to function, the operator needs to record and process the following personal data as part of your registration:
Your last name, first name, e-mail address and telephone number, as well as indications of your whereabouts and professional activity, are published on the website, but are only visible to registered editors.
When you register, you are given a password. The operator saves this password in an encoded form and does not pass it on to any third party or make any third party aware of it in any other way.
You cannot register unless you accept the "General Terms and Conditions for the use of www.whereaboutonline.com".
For the website and its services to function, the operator needs to record and process the following personal data as part of your registration:
The only item of data published on the website as part of a membership list is the name of your company. The operator expressly refrains from publishing any other data about editors (such as e-mail addresses or telephone numbers) either in the protected members’ section or in the open section not requiring registration.
When you register, you are given a password. The operator saves this password in an encoded form and does not pass it on to any third party or make any third party aware of it in any other way.
You cannot register unless you accept the "General Terms and Conditions for use of www.whereaboutonline.com".
You are welcome to recommend to others that they register with the website too. The operator processes any personal data collected for this purpose solely for issuing the invitation to register and for no other purpose whatsoever.
The operator sends you a regular newsletter. The newsletter contains information on subjects concerning all aspects of the website’s services as well as on topics related to them.
If at any point in time you do not wish to receive any further newsletters from the operator, you have the right to cancel its delivery whenever you want to.
The editor has a duty to supply only information that is true and not in any way misleading as regards their identity.
Every time you call up a page, the access data is recorded in a file known as the server log.
The operator renders this log data anonymous for the purpose of generating statistical reports (i.e. there is no association with or indication of your person). Such statistics enable the operator to establish, for example, on which days and at what times the services offered on the website are particularly popular and what data volume is generated by the website. The operator does not link the pages called and the user data recorded in the server log with individuals. The operator does, however, retain the right to inspect the log files using the latest known IP address of any users whom they suspect, on the basis of certain facts, of using the website and/or the services in a manner that infringes the law or breaches the contract. This provision is intended to protect the other users and the security of the user data as well as the website and its services.
The operator retains the right to amend this data-protection policy at any time, should amendments become necessary on account of gaps subsequently detected in this policy or with regard to new services provided by the operator.
You can call up this data-protection policy and print it by using the "Data-protection policy" link.
WHEREABOUT-ONLINE GmbH, March 2010