Who we are
Who we are
This website and it’s contents are provided by a private person without commercial interests.
Responsible for all queries realted to data privacy, specifically with respect to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:
Albis Language School GmbH
Ms Ashleigh Jeannot
Zürichstrasse 128
8910 Affoltern am Albis
044 760 03 30
info@albislang.ch
Data
Data
When do we collect personal data
When you access this website information, information of a generall nature is automatically collected. This information is stored in server log files and contains the type of browser, the operating system, the domain name of your service provider, your IP address and similar information.
This is necessary to enable:
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Ensuring the establishment of a problem-free connection to the website
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Ensuring smooth use of our website
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Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
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additional adminitrative uses
Your data is not used to draw conclusions about your person. Information is only evaluated for statistical purposes in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.
Duration of Storage
Data is deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the declared purposes. In general this will be the case for data used to provide the website as soon as the respective session has ended.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect in addition to the data shown in the comments formthe visitor’s IP address and user agent string (used to identify the browser) to help spam detection.
An anonymized character string (also known as a hash) can be created from your e-mail address and passed to Gravatar to check whether you are subscribed to their service. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website may download photos stored on this website and extract location information from them.
Contact Formulas
The data you enter will be stored to enable personalised communication with you. This requires you to provide a valid email address and your name. This is used to evaluate the request and answer it. Providing further information is optional.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that when you write another comment you don’t have to re-enter all of this data. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
If you log in, we will set some cookies to save your login information and viewing options. Login cookies expire after two days and display options cookies after one year. If you select “Keep me signed in” when registering, your signing in will be kept active for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after one day.
Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)
In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across multiple browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereafter “Google”) on this website to display fonts.
The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles etc.). mbedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking services, and record your interaction with that embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, however, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
The purpose of the data processing is to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further related services are then to be provided.
Use of Google Maps
This website makes use of Google Maps. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). This enables us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function.
For more information about data processing by Google, you can
How long we store your data
If you write a comment, it will be stored indefinitely, including associated metadata. This way we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
What rights you have to your data
If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including any data that you have shared with us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security reasons.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Information
For data protection-related concerns, please contact the person named in the impressum
How we protect your data
SSL Encryption
In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS
Changes
We may adjust this data protection declaration at any time without prior notice. The current published version on our website is valid.
Questions to the person responsible for data protection
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization listed at the beginning of the data protection declaration.
Affoltern am Albis, 16.01.2022