Skillbrowser Privacy Notice
1. General Information
a) Introduction
Thank you for your interest in our website and our online services. Data is the basis for us to provide an excellent service. However, our most important asset is the trust of our customers. Protecting customer data and using it only in the way our customers expect from us is our highest priority. Thus, the following data protection notices are designed to inform you about the processing of your personal data and your rights regarding this processing according to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and additional data protection laws.
b) Controller
We, as Skillbrowser are the controller according to the GDPR and therefore responsible for the data processing explained herein.
c) Data Protection Responsible
You can contact our data protection responsible at any time by using the following contact details: info@skillbrowser.com
2. Processing of Personal Data During Your Use of Our Website
Your visit to our website and/or use of our online services will be logged. The IP address currently used by your device, date and time, the browser type and operating system of your terminal device and the pages accessed may be recorded. This data is collected for the purposes of data security and to optimize and to improve our online services. The processing is legally based on legitimate interest as it is in our legitimate interest to protect our website and to improve the quality of our services. Additionally, your personal data is only stored if you provide it to us of your own account, e.g. as part of a registration, a survey, an online application or for the performance of a contract. We have taken appropriate measures to ensure that the data is encrypted during the login process for registration or other services.
a) Newsletter Registration
If you wish, you can subscribe for our newsletter on our website by filling out the registration form provided there. The personal data that are collected in the registration form will only be processed for sending newsletters to your e-mail address and only if you have given your consent to this data processing. Your personal data will only be stored until you delete your account. If you delete your account, your personal data will be deleted without undue delay. Please note that you will not receive newsletters from us anymore, after your personal data have been deleted. You can unsubscribe from newsletters at any point.
b) Contact Form
You can use the contact form on our website to contact us for any request. The personal data that you typed into the contact form will only be processed for answering your request and only if you have given your consent to the data processing. The processing is legally based on your consent.
d) Account Registration
If you wish, you can create a customer account on our website. The personal data that you provide in the registration form will only be processed for creating and maintaining your customer account and only if you have given your consent to the data processing. If you do not provide your personal data to us, this will not result in any consequences for you, except that we will not be able to register a customer account for you. If you delete your account, your personal data will be deleted without undue delay. Please note that you will not be able to use your customer account anymore, after it has been deleted.
e) Cookies
To make your visit to our website more pleasant and to enable the use of certain functions, we may use “cookies” on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session. Other cookies remain on your terminal and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit. You can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies separately and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. For more information, see the help function of your Internet browser. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited
To find out more about how we use cookies you can access our “Cookie Policy”.
f) Data Recipients
We may use third party service providers to process your personal data. These service providers are in countries within and outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). We ensure that these service providers process personal data in accordance with European data protection law to guarantee an adequate data protection level, even if personal data are transferred into a country outside the EEA for which no adequacy decision of the EU Commission exists. Another transfer of personal data to other recipients is not performed, except where we are obliged to do so by law. For more information about appropriate safeguards for the international data transfer or a copy of them, please contact our data protection responsible .
g) Retention Period
Personal data provided to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which they were processed has been fulfilled. Insofar as retention periods under commercial and tax law have to be observed, the storage period for certain data can be up to 10 years. Deviating storage periods may also arise due to our legitimate interest (e.g. to guarantee data security, to prevent misuse or to prosecute criminal offenders).
3. Your Rights
As a data subject, you can contact our data protection officer/responsible at any time with a formless notification under the contact dates mentioned above under Section 1 to make use of your rights according to the GDPR. These rights are the following:
• The right to receive information about the data processing and a copy of the processed data;
• The right to demand the rectification of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data;
• The right to demand the erasure of personal data;
• The right to demand the restriction of the data processing;
• The right to receive the personal data concerning the data subject in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request the transmittance of these data to another controller;
• The right to object to the data processing;
• The right to withdraw a given consent at any time to stop a data processing that is based on your consent;
• The right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority of the GDPR.