PRIVACY POLICY

WE The Collaboration Group AG attaches great importance to the protection of privacy and observes the statutory data protection regulations. In the following, we would like to explain how we handle your personal data.

Responsible for data processing

The responsible person within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German “Datenschutzgrundverordnung” (DSGVO) and the Swiss “Datenschutzgesetz” (DSG), is

WE The Collaboration Group AG

Dietmar Neumann
Johannesgasse 6
8005 Zurich

Tel: +417 76 748 4554 
E-Mail: dietmar.neumann@we-tcg.com

 

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided:

• Information about your data stored by us and its processing,

• Correction of incorrect personal data,

• Deletion of your data stored by us,

• Restriction of data processing if we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,

• Objection to the processing of your data by us and

• Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future. You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on your place of residence, your work or the alleged infringement.

 

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

• you have given your express consent,

• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,

• the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,

• the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data.

 

Deletion or blocking of the data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or for the various storage periods stipulated by law. Once the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

 

Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of cookies. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,

• Ensuring the smooth use of our website,

• Evaluation of system security and stability and

• for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the controller and, if applicable, processors. Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

 

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

 

 Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy

In addition to this Data Protection Policy, WE The Collaboration Group AG hereby refers to our detailed Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. By visiting our Websites -already existing or upcoming in the future- and / or any of our tools, apps or applications -existing today or in the future- , you hereby accept and agree automatically to any of our policies related to Data privacy and other related topics. 

 

Contact form

If you contact us with questions of any kind by e-mail or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. This requires you to provide a valid e-mail address. This is used to assign the request and subsequently answer it. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail: dietmar.neumann@we-tcg.com

Effective on January 2025

1. Privacy Policy

 

Your Privacy Matters

Our mission is to connect project professionals across the world to enable them being more successful and effective in what they do when working in and around projects. Our service should enable our community to share expertise and experience within as well as across industry sectors or current and upcoming project challenges. With that we enable our community members to connect, to learn and help others with existing expertise and experience, to enable opportunities and support to increase collaboration, and to enable decision makers in identifying the best partner possible for their next business challenge.

Therefore, it is central for our mission to be transparent what data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom we share it. We are committed to protect and use your data solely in a way being helpful for you and the community.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use our services. We provide to our Contributors and Visitors and other not explicitly named users selection choices about the information we collect, use, and share as described in this Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Settings, and our Support Center. 

Table of Contents

1. Data WE are collecting

2. How WE is using your data

3. How WE share Information

4. Your Personal Obligations & Choices

5. Other Important Information

1. Introduction

WE The Collaboration Group AG provide with ARETEA, an online platform dedicated to being used by business professionals and organizations. People use our services to find and exchange reliable information on competences, capabilities and expertise around projects being performed, external support performance from external support companies (Consulting Organizations, IT-Service Provider etc.), connect with others, search, find support, advise or experts to collaborate, information or help for current or future challenges, being supported in the selection process regarding possible external support partners, and to find information on and around improving collaboration within the existing organization and/or in collaboration with external partners. Our privacy policy applies to every Community Member (Contributor) and Visitor of our platform and every user, using one or more of our services.

Our registered users ("Contributor") share their professional identities, engage within their professional network as well as with other Contributor, share knowledge, expertise and experience, post and view relevant insights, knowledge and helpful information, learn and develop further knowledge based on input from their community and additional service offerings, and find support and help on existing or upcoming challenges and projects they are focusing on. Content and data on some of our services may be viewed by non-members ("Visitors").

 

Services

This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy applies to your use of any of our Services.

This Privacy Policy applies to we-tcg.com, WE The Collaboration Group AG-branded apps, WE The Collaboration Group AG Education and other already existing or upcoming WE The Collaboration Group AG-related sites, apps, communications, and services (“Services”), including any existing or upcoming off-site Services, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy. 

Data Controllers and Contracting Parties

WE The Collaboration Group AG AG (“WE The Collaboration Group AG”), based in Switzerland, will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.

As a Visitor or Member of any of our Websites and / or  Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.

Change

Changes to our Privacy Policy will get in force after the “effective date” to your use of any of our Services. 

WE The Collaboration Group AG ("WE" or "us") may change this Privacy Policy at any given time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice through our Services or otherwise to give you an opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. You may close your account if you object to the changes.

You acknowledge that the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information will be governed by the updated Privacy Policy as of its effective date if you continue to use our Services after we post or send notice of changes to this Privacy Policy.

 

1.  Data WE are collecting

2.1 Data You Provide to Us

You start providing data to when you start creating an account with us.

Registration

To create an account, you will be required to provide information such as your name, e-mail address and/or mobile phone number, and a password. You may be required to provide payment information (such as a credit card) and billing information when you sign up for a premium service.

You need to create your WE The Collaboration Group AG profile to benefit most from our Services.

Profile

You can choose the information you include in your profile, such as current employer, work experience, skills, photo, city/area, etc. You don't have to include additional information in your profile. However, profile information helps you get more out of our services, including being found by community members searching for dedicated expertise and/or experience. Please make sure, to not post or add personal information to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.

You may share additional information with us, such as by syncing your address book or calendar.

Posting and Uploading

We collect Personal Information from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services and / or our websites, such as when you fill out a form (e.g., demographics), respond to a survey, or submit feedback or create/respond a personal recommendation within our Services. We receive your contacts (including contact information that your service provider(s) or application automatically adds to your address book when you communicate with addresses or numbers not already in your list) if you choose to import your address book.

In case one or more of our services allow you to synchronize your contacts or calendar with us, we may collect your address book and calendar meeting data to suggest helpful community member connections for you and others and provide you (if these services are available) with enriched meeting details such as time, location, attendees, and available contact information.

There is no requirement to post or upload personal information, but doing so may limit your ability to grow and interact within the community through our service.

2.2 Data from Others

Other community members and/or visitors or any other persons or a company might publish information about you and/or name you in a post or comment.

News and Content 

You and/or others may post information and/or content including information personal information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services. We may also collect public information about you, such as experience and expertise related news and achievements and make it available as part of our Service, including, if permitted by your settings, in news alerts to others, to enable other members in the community to contact you and participate from your expertise and experience if you gave us permission in your personal settings.

Community members (Contributor) may be able to sync their personal contacts or calendar entries with our Services.

Contact and Calendar Information

When someone (either an individual and/or a juristic person, company or any other not here explicitly maned organization or individual) imports or synchronizes their contacts or calendars with our Services, associate their contacts with Contributor or Visitor Profiles, scan and upload business cards, or send messages (including invitations or connection requests) through our Services, we receive personal information (including contact information) about you. In addition, if you or others choose to synchronize email accounts with our Services, we will also collect "email header" information that we may be able to associate with Contributor or Visitor Profiles.

Companies, Customer and Partner of WE The Collaboration Group AG may provide data to us.

Affiliated companies and other services

When you use some of the other services provided by us or our affiliates, we receive information about you. For example, you may choose to send us information about your contacts in messaging or mailing applications and services, to enhance your community activities on our services.

Partners

When you use the services of our customers and partners, we may receive personal information about you (such as your job title and work email address) and applicant tracking systems helping us to providing and tailor information being potentially interesting for you.

2.3 Service Use

We will log your visits and use of our websites and / or Services e.g., to enhance and optimize our service offerings and its performance for you and our community.

We collect usage information when you visit or otherwise use our services, including our websites, applications and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., blog articles, forum entries etc.) or advertisements (on or off our websites and applications), perform a search, install or update already existing or future our mobile applications, share articles, or reach out to community members and use the forum functionalities. To identify you and track your usage, we will use logins, cookies, device information and Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses.

2.4 Cookies and Similar Technologies

We are collecting data and information through cookies and other, similar technologies.

As described in more detail in our Privacy Statement, we use cookies and may use similar technologies (e.g., such as pixels and ad tags) to collect information (such as a device ID) to recognize you and your device when you log in, log out, and across the various sites and devices where you interact with our service. We may permit some third parties to use cookies as described in our Privacy Statement. We may also collect (or rely on others to collect) information about your device on which you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system, and browser information) so that we are able to serve relevant ads to the community and better understand their effectiveness.  You can disable cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on other sites for ad targeting and other advertising-related purposes.

2.5 Your Device and Location

We are collecting data and information through cookies and other, similar technologies.

When you access or leave our site (including some plug-ins and our cookies or similar technology on third party sites), we may collect information about where you came from, where you are going, and when you arrived at our site. We may also obtain information about your network and device, such as IP Address, Proxy, OS, web browser and extensions, device ID and characteristics, and/or your mobile operator. If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device may send us information about your location based on your phone settings. Before we use GPS or other tools to determine your exact location, we will ask you to opt-in.

2.6 Messages

If you communicate through our Services, we may use this information to learn to further enhance our service offerings to you

When you send, receive, or interact with messages in connection with our Services, we will collect information about you. For example, if you request to be connected to a WE The Collaboration Group AG invite you to connect, we may track whether you have acted on it and might send you reminders. In order to support and protect our site, we also might use automatic scanning technology on messages. This technology may be used to provide potential responses to posts, and to manage or block content in violation of our terms of use or the guidelines of our community.

2.7 Workplace and Organizational provided Information

When your current organization (e.g., employer or school) is ordering a premium Service for you to use on their behalf, they will provide us required information about you for the duration of the service used on behalf of your current organization.

If you are an employee of a registered organizational, you may provide us with personal information regarding yourself and the rights you have to use our products. For example, we will obtain contact information for administrators of a "Company Page" and for the authorization of users of our premium services.

2.8 Sites and Services of Others

When you visit sites that include our ads, cookies or existing or future planned plugins from us, or when you log-in to others’ services with your WE The Collaboration Group AG account, you will share information with us.

We may receive information about your visits to and interactions with the services provided by others when you sign up for, WE The Collaboration Group AG or other services that include some of our ads, cookies, or similar technologies.

2.9 Other

To improve our Services, we may get additional and/or new information and establish new ways to use information on you.

Our offerings are evolving, with new functionality being introduced frequently, requiring additional and/or new information to be collected by us to further improve our service offerings for you and the community. If we collect substantially different personal information or substantially change the way we collect, use or share your information, we will notify you and may also change this Privacy Policy.

 

1. How WE is using your data

We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.

The way in which we use your personal information depends on the services you are using, how you are using those services, and the choices you make in your preferences. We use the information we have about you to make our services (including advertising) more relevant and useful to you and others, and to provide and personalize our services, including through automated systems and inferences we make.

3.1 Services

We help you connect with our community, find expertise and experience from others on project challenges you might need support, potential new ideas and opportunities and get information, tools and educational training to potentially improve collaboration within team, organization and/or cross organizational to increase success rate and productivity.

We use your information to authorize access to our services and to respect your preferences.

Stay tuned to the community!

We keep you connected and informed with colleagues, partners, customers, and other professionals. For this purpose, you may "connect" with other community members of your choice who also wish "connect" with you. When you connect with other Contributors, you may be able to search each other's connections to share professional opportunities, subject to your and their settings.

We use information about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed, or data provided through address book uploads or partner integrations) to help others find your profile, to suggest connections for you and others, and to allow you to invite others to become Community Members (Contributor) and connect with you. You can also opt-in to allow us to use your precise location or proximity for certain tasks (e.g., suggesting nearby Contributor to connect with, calculating distance of potential external support organizations and other potentially available services. If we add a service where tracking of your position might be possible or an additional advance for you, we will inform you about that so that you are able to check and adjust your personal settings.

It is up to you to decide whether you want to invite someone to use our Services, request to connect, or allow another Community members to connect with you. When inviting someone to join, your invitation contains your network and basic profile information. We will send invitation reminders to the person you invited. You can decide if you want to share your own list of friends with your friends.

Visitors can choose how we use the information we collect from them.

Stay Informed

Our offerings allow you to keep up with news, events, and ideas about professional, project and collaboration related topics you might be interested in from other Contributors you respect. Our services may also enable you to improve your professional skills or to learn new ones. The information you provide to us via our services (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Services, and inferences we make from the data we have about you) will be used to improve and further personalize our Services for you, such as by recommending or ranking relevant content and conversations regarding our Services and/or other useful information. Your data may also be used to enable us in suggesting interesting expertise and experience which might be relevant for you to be added to your profile and/or being relevant for a current or an upcoming challenge you might face. We use your content, activity, and other information, including your name and photo, to provide communications to your network and others. For example, depending on your settings, we may notify others that you have updated your profile, posted content, taken a social action, used a feature, made new connections, or been mentioned in the news.

Productivity

Our services allow you to collaborate with colleagues, search for potential clients, customers, partners and others to collaborate with in a professional manner and potentially enable new business opportunities and connections. Our services allow you to communicate with other members.

3.2 Premium Services

Our premium Services help paying users with additional benefits and service offerings to leverage the benefits of the platform. Premium users can see more detailed information on project feedback and also get better support functionalities within the “Engage” services.

As part of our offerings and service solutions, we sell premium services that provide our customers and subscribers with customized search functionality and tools (including messaging and activity alerts). Customers may export limited information from your profile, such as name, headline, current company, current title, and general location for business related purposes, unless you opt-out. We do not provide contact information to customers as part of these premium services without your consent. Premium Services customers may store information they have about you in our Premium Services, such as a personal expertise and/or experience or contact information. The information that these customers store about you is subject to the policies of those customers.

3.3 Communications

We are in contact with you and will facilitate communication between our Contributors. For some types of messages, we provide you with preferences to control what messages you receive and how often you receive them.

We may contact you by email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or applications, messages to your WE and other methods, including SMS messages and push alerts. We may send you messages about the availability of our Services, about security, or about other issues related to our Services. We may also send you messages about how to use our Services, network updates, reminders, job postings, and promotional messages from us and our partners. At any time, you can change your communication preferences. Note that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages, including safety and legal messages.

We also facilitate communications between you and others through our Services, including, e.g., invitations and messages between connections.

3.4 Marketing

We are promoting our Services to you and others.

In addition to promoting our Services, we use Community information and content for invitations and communications that will promote community membership and increase of your /others personal network, engagement of Contributors, and our Services, such as showing your connections that you have used.

3.5 Developing Services and Research

We may use information to further develop our Services and conduct insights and deep research.

 

Service Improvement and Development of new Functionalities and Services

We use data, such as public feedback, to research and develop our offerings, to make them better, more intuitive, and more personal for you and for everyone, to increase member growth and engagement with our offerings, and to help connect professionals with one another and with economic opportunities.

Research

We want to create possibilities to improve the success rate of our Contributors globally to become more productive and successful. We use personal information to research on different trends and dimensions (e.g. social, economic, collaborative, digital impact, expertise and experience needed for specific challenges and/or projects, and strategies and/or methodologies bridging gaps across industries, geographies and collaboration styles and methods when working with external support. In some cases, under controls designed to protect your privacy, we might work with trusted third parties to conduct such research. We publish, or allow others to publish, economic insights presented as aggregate data. Any use of personal information of our community members will not be shared or used as by our policies regulated.

Surveys

We might perform Polls and/or surveys through our Services and/or use others external third-party provider to do so. It is not mandatory to respond to polls or surveys, and you always have choices about the information you may provide. You can opt-out of survey invitations.

3.6 Customer Support

We may use data to help you and fix problems.

We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).

3.7 Insights That Do Not Identify You

We use information to generate insights not being able to identify you.

We may use personal information to create and share insights that do not enable others to personally identify you. For example, we may use your information to compile statistics about our community members, their profession or industry, to calculate number of ad impressions served or clicked on, to publish demographic information about user of a dedicated service, or to create demographic insights about project, business, and collaboration related topics.

3.8 Safety, Security, and Investigations

We are using information to enhance security, prevent fraud and perform safety, security, and fraud related investigations.

We may use your information (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm any of our Community Members (Contributor), Visitors and/or any other professional and senseful and professional purpose driven user of our platform.

1. How WE share Information

4.1 Information sharing via our services

The information we collect about you, the content you post, and the social activities you engage in through our services, such as liking, following, commenting, and sharing, are shared with others in accordance with our privacy practices.

Profile

Your profile is fully visible to all Contributor and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). As detailed in our Support Center, your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their Service usage, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) may impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile. You might also have the possibility to switch your profile to private. By doing so you might limit the full benefit of services offered by WE The Collaboration Group AG and any of our partners as well as getting relevant insights and potential help from other Community Members.

Postings, Likes, Following, Commenting, Other Message Types

Our Services allow viewing and sharing information and enable new personal connections to other Contributor via different techniques and communication possibilities such as posts, likes, follows and comments.

• When you publicly share an item or post (such as an update, picture, video, forum entry, questions, and articles), it can be seen by anyone and re-shared anywhere (subject to your settings). Contributor, visitors, and others will be able to find and view your publicly shared content, including your name (and photo, if you have provided one).

• In a public group, posts may be visible to others in this group. Your membership in public groups is available for the entire Community and may be part of your personal profile. Nevertheless, you may change visibility in your settings.

• Any information you share through business or organizational pages on our Services might be visible to them and others who may visit those pages.

• By following a person or organization, you are visible as a follower to others and to the "page owner".

• Subject to your settings, we will notify senders when you respond to their message.

• Subject to your settings, we may notify a member when you view their profile.

• If you like, re-share or comment on someone else's content (including advertisements), others may be able to see these "social actions" and associate them with you (e.g., your name, profile, and photo, if you have provided one).

Your employer may be able to see how you are using Services they provided for your profession (e.g., as a consultant answering and posting content on the platform and/or in the forum) and related information. We do not -at any time- enable them access to personal and/or confident information and/or personal messages from an aggregated perspective. Within your settings you always can enable and/or opt out regarding the amount of shared information. If it is a premium service provided to you on behalf of your company, you might potentially not be able to opt out from sharing all or parts of the information around the services being paid by your employer.

Enterprise Accounts

Your employer may offer you access to our enterprise offerings or being able to administer parts or entire company pages and access to corporate relevant information. Your employer may have control over your use of such enterprise services.

Depending on the Enterprise Service, we may ask for your permission to share relevant data from your profile or use of our non-Enterprise Service with your employer before you use such service.  We understand that certain activities, such as personal messaging or job offerings, are sensitive, and we will not share them with your employer unless you choose to share them with them through one of our Services.

Depending on your settings, when using e.g. workplace tools and existing or upcoming new service offerings (e.g., interactive employee directory tools), some of your data may also be made available to your employer or may be combined with information we receive from your employer to enable such tools and services. in Case of any upcoming service, we will inform you and enable you to choose if you want to use them or not (including describing to you the impact on shared information.

4.2 Communication Archival

There might be a need for regulated Community Members to store communications outside of our Service.

Some Community Member (or their employers) may need to archive all or parts of their communications and social media activity for legal or compliance purposes and will use the services of others to provide these archiving services. We will enable archiving of communication by and to these Members by enabling a possibility to do so outside of our Services.

4.3 Others’ Services

You may link your account with others’ services to increase your personal benefit by using such platforms. This might help you and others to look up your contacts’ profiles, post your shares on such platforms, or enable you to start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your profile may also appear on the services of others.

Depending on your settings, other services may be able to see your profile. If you choose to link your account with other services, personal information may be available to those services. The sharing and use of this personal information is described in or linked to a consent screen when you choose to link the accounts. For example, your email provider may give you the option to add your WE The Collaboration Group AG contacts to their own service. Third-party services have their own privacy policies, and you may be giving them permission to use your information in ways that we would not. You may revoke your association with such accounts.

Depending on your settings, snippets of your profile will appear on third party services (e.g., search engine results, and/or applications that show a user limited profile data of a person). "Old" profile information will remain on these services until they update their data cache with changes you have made to your profile.

4.4 Related Services

We may share information of you across our different Services and WE The Collaboration Group AG affiliated entities.

To provide and develop our services, we will share your personal information with our affiliates. We may combine information internally across the different services covered by this Privacy Policy to make our services more relevant and useful to you and others.

4.5 Additional Third Parties and Service Providers

We may use others to help us with our Services.

We use others to help us provide our services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, auditing, payments, fraud detection, marketing, and development). They are permitted to access your Information as it is reasonably necessary to perform these functions on our behalf and are required not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

4.6 Legal Disclosures

We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, WE The Collaboration Company, any of our affiliates and/or others.

We may need to disclose information about you if required to do so by law, subpoena or other legal process, or if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist governmental authorities; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend against claims or allegations made by third parties; (4) protect the security or integrity of our services (e.g., by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of WE The Collaboration Group AG, our Community Members, personnel, or others. We will attempt to notify members of lawful requests for their personal information when, in our judgment, it is appropriate to do so, unless prohibited by law or court order or the request is an emergency. We may challenge such requests if we believe, in our sole discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every request.

4.7 Change in Control or Sale

We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us, or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.

1. Your Personal Obligations & Choices

5.1 Data Retention

We keep most of your personal information as long as your account is open.

In general, we will keep your personal information for as long as you have an account with us or for as long as is necessary to provide you with the Services. This includes information that you or others provide to us and information that is generated or derived from your use of our services. Even if you only use our services to search for a new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open unless you close your account. In some cases, we may choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights into the use of the Services) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.

5.2 Access and Control of Your Personal Information

You may access or delete your personal information. You have numerous options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information.

We provide you with many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your information, from deleting or correcting information you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to opting out of advertising and communication controls. We provide you with settings to control and manage the information we have about you.

With your personal information that we have about you, you can:

• Delete Data: You may ask us to delete or erase all or some of your personal information (e.g., if it is no longer needed to provide services to you).

• Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal information through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or correct your information in certain cases, particularly if it's inaccurate.

• Object to or Limit or Restrict Use of Information: You may ask us to stop using all or some of your personal information (e.g., if we have no legal right to continue using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal information is inaccurate or unlawfully held).

• Right to access and/or rectify your information: You may ask us for a copy of your personal data and you may ask us for a copy of the personal data you have provided in a machine-readable form.

You can at any time contact us using the contact information on our page, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

5.3 Account Closure

Even after closing your account, we keep some of your data.

Upon termination of your WE The Collaboration Group AG account, your personally identifiable information will generally no longer be visible to other users of our services within 24 hours. Except as noted below, we generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure.

We may retain your personal information after you close your account if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), comply with regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have suspended your account for violation of our Professional Community Guidelines), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further communications from us. After your account is closed, we will retain non-personally identifiable information.

Information that you have shared with others (e.g., feedback created, forum entries, articles etc.) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other members have copied from our services. An unknown user will be credited as the source of group content and ratings or reviews associated with closed accounts. Until others update their cache, your profile may continue to be displayed on their services (e.g., search engine results).

1. Other Important Information

6.1. Security

We monitor and attempt to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available on our services.

We use security measures to protect your information, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. There is no guarantee that data will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed through a breach of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards..

6.2. Cross-Border Data Transfers

We may store and use your data outside your country.

We are processing data in the U.S. and may process data abroad, and we use mechanisms established by law for the legitimate transfer of data internationally. Countries where we process data may have laws that differ from, and may not be as protective as, your own laws..

6.3 Lawful Basis for Processing

We have lawful bases for collecting, using and disclosing information about you. You have choices about how we use your information. You can withdraw your consent at any time by going to Settings.

We will only collect and process your personal information based on regulatory principles and in accordance with applicable law. This may include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the WE The Collaboration Group AG Services you have requested) and any other “legitimate interests. 

If your consent is required for us to process your personal information, you may withdraw or refuse your consent at any time. If you have any questions about the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer here.

6.4. Direct Marketing and Do Not Track Signals

Following reflects how we approach direct marketing and “do not track” signals.

We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. 

6.5. Contact Information

You can contact us at any time or use other provided options to resolve any complaints.

If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy or any other topic as well as  questions regarding our services and us, please first contact WE The Collaboration Group AG online. You can also reach us by physical mail. If you feel you haven’t received a timely or satisfactory response from us to your question or complaint, you have the right to contact your local supervisory authority.

At WE The Collaboration Group AG, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use your personal information. This Cookie Policy applies to any WE The Collaboration Group AG product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference. We use cookies and may use similar technologies such as pixels, local storage and mobile ad IDs (collectively referred to in this policy as “cookies”) to collect and use information as part of our Services, as defined in our Privacy Policy (“Services”) and which includes our sites, communications, mobile applications and off-site Services. In the spirit of transparency, this policy provides detailed information about how and when we use these technologies. 

By continuing to visit or use our Services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes described in this policy.

What technologies are used?

 

Type of Technologies we are using

Cookies

Pixels

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Cookies

A cookie is a small file placed onto your device that enables WE The Collaboration Group AG features and functionality. Any browser visiting our sites may receive cookies from us or cookies from third parties such as our customers, partners or service providers. We or third parties may also place cookies in your browser when you visit non-WE The Collaboration Group AG sites that display ads or that host our plugins or tags.

 

We are using two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. A persistent cookie lasts beyond the current session and is used for many purposes, such as recognizing you as an existing user, so it’s easier to return to WE The Collaboration Group AG and interact with our Services without signing in again. Since a persistent cookie stays in your browser, it will be read by WE The Collaboration Group AG when you return to one of our sites or visit a third-party site that uses our Services. Session cookies last only as long as the session (usually the current visit to a website or a browser session).

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Pixels

A pixel is a tiny image that may be embedded within web pages and emails, requiring a call (which provides device and visit information) to our servers in order for the pixel to be rendered in those web pages and emails. We use pixels to learn more about your interactions with email content or web content, such as whether you interacted with ads or posts. Pixels can also enable us and third parties to place cookies on your browser.

Local storage

Local storage enables a website or application to store information locally on your device(s). Local storage may be used to improve the WE The Collaboration Group AG experience, for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences and speeding up site functionality.

Other similar technologies

We also use other tracking technologies, such as mobile advertising IDs and tags for similar purposes as described in this Cookie Policy. References to similar technologies in this policy includes pixels, local storage, and other tracking technologies.

 

What are these technologies used for?

Below we describe the purposes for which we use these technologies.

Authentication

Security

Preferences, features and services

Customized content

Advertising

Analytics and research

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Authentication

We use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Services.

 

If you're a member of WE The Collaboration Group AG, these technologies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience based on your preferences. For example, cookies allow WE The Collaboration Group AG to identify you and verify your account. 

 

Security

We use cookies and similar technologies to make your interactions with our Services faster and more secure.

 

For example, we use cookies to enable and support our security features, keep your account safe and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our User Agreement.

 

Preferences, features and services

We are using cookies and similar technologies to enable the functionality of our services, such as helping you complete forms on our services and providing features, insights and customized content with our plugins. We also use these technologies to remember your browser and preferences.

 

For example, cookies can tell us what your language preference is and what your communication preferences are. We may also use local storage to speed up the functionality of the Site.

 

Customized content

We use cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on our Services.

 

For example, we may use cookies to remember previous searches so that when you return to our services, we can offer additional information that relates to your previous search.

Advertising

Cookies and similar technologies help us showing relevant advertising to you more effectively, both on and off our Services and to measure the performance of such ads. We use these technologies to learn whether content has been shown to you or whether someone who was presented with an ad later came back and took an action (e.g., downloaded a white paper or made a purchase) on another site. Similarly, our partners or service providers may use these technologies to determine whether we've shown an ad or a post and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with ads.

 

We may also work with our customers and partners to show you an ad on or off WE The Collaboration Group AG, such as after you’ve visited a customer’s or partner’s site or application. These technologies help us provide aggregated information to our customers and partners.

Analytics and research

Cookies and similar technologies help us learn more about how well our Services and offerings as well as used technologies perform in different locations.

 

We and/or our service providers use these technologies to understand, improve and research products, features and services, including when you navigate our sites or when you access, WE The Collaboration Group AG from other sites, applications or devices. We, or our service providers, may use these technologies to determine and measure the performance of any advertisement or post on or outside of WE The Collaboration Group AG and to determine whether you have interacted with any of our web sites, content or e-mails and to provide analytics based on those interactions.

 

As part of our services, we may also use these technologies to provide aggregated information to our customers and partners.

 

If you are a Community Member (Contributor) of the WE The Collaboration Group AG platform but have logged out of your account on a browser, WE The Collaboration Group AG may continue to log your interaction with our Services on that browser until the cookie expires in order to generate usage analytics for our Services. We may share these analytics in aggregate with our clients.

Third parties’ usage of technologies in connection with our Services?

Third parties such as our customers, partners and service providers may use cookies in connection with our Services.

For example, third parties may use cookies in their WE The Collaboration Group AG company pages and their advertisements on and off WE The Collaboration Group AG for their own marketing purposes. 

Third parties may use cookies to help us to provide our Services. We may also work with third parties for our own marketing purposes and to enable us to analyze and research our Services.

Your Choices

You can choose on how WE The Collaboration Group AG uses cookies and similar technologies. Please note that if you limit the ability of WE The Collaboration Group AG to set cookies and similar technologies, you may decrease your user experience, as it may no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information and might also stop you from getting the most benefit out of our services.

Opt out of targeted advertising

As described in our Privacy Policy Section above, you have choices regarding the personalized ads you may see.

Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings, which may be adapted to reflect your consent to the use of cookies. Further, most browsers also enable you to review and erase cookies, including WE The Collaboration Group AG cookies. To learn more about browser controls, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.

What is Do Not Track (DNT)?

DNT is a concept that has been promoted by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites by using browser settings. As such, WE The Collaboration Group AG does not generally respond to “do not track” signals.

 

Complaints Regarding Content

Contact information for complaint about content provided by our Contributor.

that information posted by Contributors is accurate and not infringe or violate the intellectual property or other rights of any third party. We provide a procedure for complaints regarding content posted by our Contributors. In any of such cases, please contact our Customer Support.

 

Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of Switzerland.

 

How To Contact Us

Our Contact information. Our Support Center also provides additional information about any of our Services.

For general inquiries, you may contact us via email at Support@WE-Collaborationgroup.com. For legal notices or service of process, you may write us at this address:

WE The Collaboration Group AG 

Johannesgasse 6

CH-8005 Zürich

Switzerland

we-tcg.com

Tel. +417 76 748 4554

Alexander.Faktorovitch@we-tcg.com