Data protection

General notice

Based on Art. 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DPA) and other provisions of data protection law which may be applicable, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), every person has the right to protection of their privacy as well as protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of the website Personality World “www.personality-world.com” (the “Website”) take 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 data protection declaration.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or falsificati.

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

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data as described below. This website can generally be visited without registration. In the process, data such as pages called up or the name of the file called up, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

The German version shall be authoritative in the interpretation of the data protection declaration.

Who we are

PersonalityClub GmbH, CH-8808 Pfäffikon SZ, is responsible for your personal data. References in this privacy statement (the “Statement”) to “Personality Club”, “we” or “us” are references to PersonalityClub GmbH.

For questions regarding data protection, we can be reached as follows:

contact@personality-world.com

Hosting

We host the website with the following provider:

PlanetHoster, 4416 Louis B. Mayer, H7P 0G1 Canada Laval (Québec) +33 1 76 60 41 43

The server is located in Switzerland.

Webmaster: Joris Gaigne – www.jorisgaigne.fr

Personal data that we process

Personal data that we process about you includes:

• your name and contact details (for example, name, address, telephone number or email address), information about the company you work for, your position or title and/or your relationship with a person, and other basic information);
• identification and background information that you provide to us or that is collected from you as part of opening a customer account;
• financial information, such as payment information;
• information disclosed to us by or on behalf of our users or created by us in the course of providing our services to users.
• Information relating to documents and communications that we send to you electronically, for example your use of promotional emails.
• Any other information relating to you which you provide to us..

We collect and record this information when you interact with us, for example when you communicate with our staff, register on the website with a customer account to receive information by email or use the website and our services. We also collect or create personal information as part of our offering on the website and when we obtain personal information from other sources, for example, by consulting publicly available sources to update your details.

How we process your personal data

We process your personal data:

• to communicate with you;
• to provide and improve our services to you, including personal data from third parties that is disclosed to us or that we collect on behalf of our clients, for example, data as part of our administrative and marketing processes/work;
• to manage our business relationship with you;
• to maintain, provide and improve our website, including monitoring and evaluating its use;
• to promote our services, including sending you publications, alerts, updates, invitations to events, etc.; and
• to comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including the assertion, enforcement and defence of legal claims.

We process personal data for these purposes on the following basis: when it is necessary for us to perform a contract, such as contacting an individual to provide services, to assert, enforce or defend legal claims or (in) legal proceedings; to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, to protect legitimate interests including those mentioned and listed above; and/or based on consent.

Use of our website, communication

When you access and use our website, we automatically collect and store relevant log data and device-specific information for a limited period of time. This information includes, but is not limited to, specific information about how you use our website, IP address, access dates and times, hardware and software information as well as device-specific and other similar information. We process this information on the basis that and to the extent necessary for us to operate, maintain and improve our website.

We may use your name and email address(es) to send you publications, alerts, updates, invitations to events and other information by email and will ask for your consent before doing so, unless we have received your contact details as part of our services and you have not opted out of receiving such promotional communications. If you no longer wish to receive promotional communications from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the relevant email. Please note that we use personal data to track whether you read our e-mails or whether you click on the corresponding links contained therein.

Opening a customer or membership account and placing orders

When you open a customer or membership account on our website and place orders, we collect a user name or email address and a password. Once your account registration has been created, you can update your profile with further personal details such as first name, last name and delivery or billing address..

We need this information to provide you with an overview of your orders and the contracts concluded with you in this context and to process the orders or deliver the requested products/services.

Use of cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific information related to the user on the user’s terminal device while the user is using the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine the frequency of use and number of users of the pages, to analyse behaviour patterns of page use, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be retrieved when you visit the site again. If you do not wish this to happen, you should set your internet browser so that it refuses to accept cookies..

A general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that not all functions of this online offer can then be used.

Use of SSL/TLS encryption

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. 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.

Use of Server-Log-Files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• browser type and browser version;
• operating system used;
• referrer;
• Host name of the accessing computer;
• Time of the server request.

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use.

Tracking and Analytic Tools

Burst statistics

We use Burst statistics, a web analytics service provided by Burst Statistics B.V., Kalmarweg 14-5, 9723JG Groningen, Neatherlands. Burst statistics is a privacy-friendly tool that collects anonymised data and compiles visitor statistics..

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland or Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. Google Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of the use of the website, such as cookies. These generate information about your use of the website, such as.

• Navigation path that a visitor follows on the website;
• Time spent on the website and subpages;
• The sub-page on which the website is left;
• The country, region or city from which access is made;
• End device (type, version, colour depth, resolution, width and height of the browser window);
• Returning or new visitor;
• Browser provider/version;
• The operating system used;
• The referrer URL (previously visited website);
• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address);
• Time of the server request.

This information is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The IP address is shortened by activating IP anonymization (“anonymizeIP”) on our website before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, such as in Switzerland. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. In these cases, we ensure through contractual guarantees, in particular through the agreement of the EU standard contract clauses and additional measures, that Google maintains an adequate level of data protection

Social Media Plugins

We have integrated social media plugins from various social networks on our website. These social media plugins can be, for example, the “Like button” or other functionalities, e.g. sharing website content on social networks. You can recognize the social media plugins by the logos of the relevant social networks.

In order to ensure data protection on our website, we only use these plugins together with the so-called “Shariff” solution. This application prevents the plugins integrated on our website from transferring data to the respective provider the first time you visit the website. A direct connection to the provider’s server is only established (consent) when you activate the respective plugin by clicking on the associated button. As soon as you activate the plugin, the respective provider receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you are logged into your respective social media account (e.g. Facebook) at the same time, the respective provider can assign the visit to our website to your user account. If you want to prevent this, you should log out before clicking on the plugin. An assignment takes place in any case if you log into the corresponding network after clicking on the plugin.

Activating the plugin represents consent to data processing. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

We have integrated plugins from the following social networks into the website:

• Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
• Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
• LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy&trk=hb_ft_priv

Who we share your personal information with

We may share your personal information with trusted third parties, including to:

• Vendors to whom we have outsourced certain support services;
• IT service provider;
• Third parties who are also involved in the provision of our services, such as payment service providers or credit card issuers.

 For the purposes set out in this statement and where deemed necessary, we may disclose personal information to courts, law enforcement, regulatory, governmental, law enforcement and enforcement agencies. We may also be required to share your personal information to comply with legal and regulatory requirements

Countries to which we transfer your personal data

We can transmit your personal data to recipients abroad, including countries that do not guarantee an equivalent level of data protection as Swiss law (especially the USA). We will normally make such a transfer if this is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject(s), for a contract with a data subject, or for the performance of a contract which is entered into in their interests and for asserting, enforcement or defense of legal claims is necessary. If we transfer data to a country without adequate legal data protection, we ensure an adequate level of protection as required by law by using appropriate contracts (specifically on the basis of the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission) or so-called binding corporate rules or rely on the statutory Exceptions to the consent, the execution of the contract, the determination, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, overriding public interests, the published personal data or because it is necessary to protect the integrity of the persons concerned. You can obtain a copy of the mentioned contractual guarantees from us at any time. However, we reserve the right to black out copies or only deliver excerpts for reasons of data protection or secrecy. Some of the third-party service providers mentioned in this data protection declaration are based in the USA. For the sake of completeness, we would like to point out to users who are domiciled or domiciled in Switzerland or the EU that there are surveillance measures by US authorities in the USA, which generally prohibit the storage of all personal data of all persons whose data are from Switzerland or the EU were transmitted to the USA. This is done without differentiation, limitation or exception based on the objective pursued and without an objective criterion that allows the US authorities to access the data and their subsequent use to be limited to very specific, strictly limited purposes that are consistent with both the able to justify access to this data as well as the interference associated with its use. In addition, we would like to point out that there are no legal remedies in the USA for data subjects from Switzerland or the EU that allow them to access the data concerning them and to obtain their correction or deletion, or no effective one legal protection against general access rights by US authorities. We explicitly point out this legal and factual situation to those affected so that they can make an informed decision to consent to the use of their data. We would like to point out to users residing in Switzerland or a member state of the EU that the USA does not have an adequate level of data protection from the point of view of the European Union and Switzerland – among other things due to the topics mentioned in this section. Insofar as we have explained in this data protection declaration that recipients of data (such as Google) are based in the USA, we will ensure through contractual arrangements with these companies and any additional necessary suitable guarantees that your data will be stored with our partners with an appropriate level are protected.

Use of processors

For the processing, the persons responsible can arrange for the data to be passed on to one or more processors (e.g. zahls.ch, etc.), who also use the personal data exclusively for internal use attributable to the persons responsible. The following processors process personal data in third countries of those responsible (partly outside of Switzerland and outside of the European Union):

Zahls.ch
The payment is processed via the payment service provider Zahls.ch, operated by Siebenberge gmbh, Toggenburgerstrasse 29, 9652 Neu St. Johann SG, Switzerland, to whom we pass on information about your order (invoice amount, currency and transaction number) as part of the ordering process. Your data will only be passed on for the purpose of payment processing. You can find more information on data protection at zahls.ch at

https://www.zahls.ch/privacy-policy/

WooCommerce

We have integrated the open-source shop system WooCommerce as a plugin on our website. This plugin is owned by a subsidiary of Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA). The data that you actively enter in a text field is saved and collected. This applies in particular to e-mail addresses, names and addresses, but also credit cards and billing information. Automattic Inc. is entitled to use this information in connection with marketing campaigns.

The server log files are also automatically collected from you:

• IP address
• Browser information
• Default language setting
• Date and time of web access

This data is used by Automattic Inc. to analyze the traffic on your website and is deleted again after about 30 days.

WooCommerce uses so-called pixel tags (web beacons) and cookies so that, for example, your shopping cart is retained even when you leave the web shop. You are free to activate or deactivate cookies in your browser settings. However, this can lead to problems with the online shop.

Automattic Inc. is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, see

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbqcAAC.

You can find more information about data protection at Automattic Inc at

https://automattic.com/privacy/  https://woocommerce.com/.

MailPoet

This website uses the MailPoet service to send newsletters. The provider is Wysija SARL, 6 rue Dieudé in 13006, Marseille, France.

This service analyzes whether the newsletters are read. By opening the e-mail or clicking on links contained in it, a file contained in the e-mail connects to the server in France. This is only used to analyze the newsletter and helps us to improve it in the future. It is not possible to track individual newsletter recipients. If you do not wish to be analyzed by MailPoet, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter using the link contained in the e-mail or on the website.

You can find more information on data protection at Wysija SARL at

https://www.mailpoet.com/privacy-notice.

How we store your personal data

We store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and as long as we have a legitimate interest in storing personal data, for example to exercise or defend legal claims or for archiving purposes and IT security. We also store your personal data if and for as long as this is required by a statutory retention obligation.

Your rights

You are entitled to request detailed information about what personal data we have about you and how we process it, as well as a copy of your personal data and the release of certain personal data for the purpose of transmission to another location (so-called data portability). You can also have your data corrected or deleted, limit our processing activities relating to this information and object to the processing of your personal data. You can also choose to withdraw your consent. Please note that even if you have decided to withdraw your consent, we can still process your personal data to the extent that it is legally required or permitted. You can also lodge a complaint with a local supervisory authority, in Switzerland with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Changes

We can adjust this data protection declaration at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies. Insofar as the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, in the event of an update we will inform you of the change by e-mail or by other suitable means.

Questions about data protection

If you have any questions about data protection, please email us or contact the responsible person in our organization listed at the beginning of the data protection declaration (who we are) directly.

Status: June 2023