Data protection declaration by CONTACT groups.ch

Area of application
CONTACT groups.ch respects and protects your privacy. This data protection declaration describes the treatment of the specific personal information we collect on the website of CONTACT groups.ch during your session. This data protection declaration refers to the complete content of CONTACT groups.ch in the Internet. CONTACT groups.ch cannot guarantee for links to other Internet pages from CONTACT groups.ch and therefore cannot be held responsible for their compliance with this declaration.

Use of your personal data
You can visit our website without providing information about yourself. In some areas of the CONTACT groups.ch website you are requested to add your personal data. We need these to be able to offer you the required service. Your personal data will neither be sold nor shared with a third party outside the agency of CONTACT groups.ch. The collected data will be treated confidentially and in good faith. (Fed-eral law about data protection DSG Art. 4.2)
However, we wish to call your attention to the fact that by visiting our website and reading the Newsletter you automatically provide us with information which enables us to determine how visitors use our website and Newsletter and which information and offers meet with particular interest.
CONTACT groups.ch uses the client data internally to guarantee a high service quality, the care and development of its relationship with its clientele and is dedicated to achieve both a customer-friendly service and website.
Within the ratio of the agency the client data is saved and used for the mediation of suitable offers. This also includes the transmission of client data required for the accommodation services to the partner agencies of CONTACT groups.ch.
Your client data can thereby be seen and dealt with by the partners (landlords) for the requested services (depending on your search criteria and your mediation wishes). (DSG Art. 4.3)
The landlords of the CONTACT houses listed in our website are members of CONTACT groups.ch and are bound by contract to treat the requests confidentially. They are likewise bound to data protection. It is therefore guaranteed that all parties receiving our data comply with the requirements of data protection and data security (DSG Art. 4.1), even in the case of an agency being located abroad.
(Note: some interconnecting agencies are located abroad. However all of them only mediate accommodations in Switzerland (DSG Art. 6.2)).
CONTACT groups.ch also takes great care to protect client data from unauthorized access, misuse or loss.
 
Tracking data
For site optimization and statistics purposes we collect tracking data, which give information about our website users. Such tracking data does not permit a conclusion on individual users. The generated information on the use of the website (including your IP-address) are transmitted to servers of different service providers such as Google and are being saved there. Those service providers will use this information to analyse the use of the website, to generate reports on activities on the website for website owners and to provide other services connected to the use of Internet and websites.

Correction of your personal data
You can require information from CONTACT groups.ch about your personal data and that they be corrected or deleted if you so wish. (DSG Art. 8)

Cookies
In order to align best with the needs of the clients, CONTACT groups.ch sometimes applies cookies. A cookie is a small document which is sent by the web server to the Internet browser of the client and saved in the computer of the client. Due to the application of cookies, CONTACT groups.ch is able to recognize their clients the next time they visit our website. Therefore clients e.g. do not have to re-enter information again. Cookies are also applied by CONTACT groups.ch to implement certain actions, services and transactions. (E.g. search screens, note pads). CONTACT groups.ch applies cookies as far as technically necessary and the application makes sense.

Your consent
By using our website or our services you agree to the use of your data in the way described above.

Changes to this declaration of data protection
Should CONTACT groups.ch decide to change the principles of its privacy and data protection, the changes will be published in the website. The declaration of data protection published in the website of CONTACT groups.ch is affective.
 
This data protection declaration was last updated January 19th, 2009.