Privacy policy
The protection and confidential handling of your personal data are of the utmost importance to us. We collect, process and use your personal data exclusively in accordance with this privacy policy and in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”) as well as the national data protection laws of the Member States and of Switzerland.
Under no circumstances will we transfer your personal data to third parties for advertising or marketing purposes or without authorisation.
This privacy policy, together with our Terms of Use for our career portal CareerPeakr, forms the basis on which we process and use all personal data collected from you or provided by you.
Please read the following policy carefully.
Controller
Your personal data is collected, processed and used by Peakr Group AG, Küsnachterstrasse 57, CH 8126 Zumikon (Switzerland). Peakr Group AG is therefore the controller within the meaning of the GDPR. Further contact details can be found below.
As its representative within the European Union, Peakr Group AG has designated its wholly owned subsidiary, Career Peakr Deutschland GmbH, Urbanstrasse 116, 10967 Berlin (Germany), a leading specialist in recruitment and personnel placement. Further contact details can be found below.
Purpose of data processing
CareerPeakr has made it its mission to develop and offer services in the fields of careers and of further education and training for people interested in their careers and for job seekers (hereinafter also “prospective users”).
The basis for this is the career portal CareerPeakr, which offers registered prospective users precisely matching job offers as well as further education and training courses or personality tests by means of an anonymous 360° matching. The brand “CareerPeakr” stands for individual, needs-based career services.
Our services are provided exclusively by us or, on our behalf, by our own wholly owned subsidiaries – Career Peakr Deutschland GmbH, Urbanstrasse 116 in 10967 Berlin (Germany) and Career Peakr Schweiz AG, Küsnachterstrasse 57, CH 8126 Zumikon (Switzerland). All CareerPeakr companies work according to the same strict principles set out in this privacy policy.
Personal data and legal basis of data processing
Personal data means individual details about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person.
If you use our career portal and wish to enter into a corresponding user agreement with us, you must first register with your registration data, such as first and last name, your e-mail address and your gender, and accept our Terms of Use.
After successful registration and acceptance of our Terms of Use, you can enter further content data in our career portal – i.e. data that you provide voluntarily when creating your career profile in order to use the respective CareerPeakr services. There is no obligation to provide this data. This further data is processed in order to perform the user agreement to the extent requested by you. The provision of your data is necessary in order to offer you suitable job or training offers in accordance with our Terms of Use.
Content data comprises in particular your education and qualifications, your professional background (including the name of your current and previous employer(s) and your respective position), your skills, any periods spent abroad, any requirements you have regarding desired job offers, your contact details and your application photo. You can continuously update, supplement and delete this voluntary information at any time.
You are also free to attach a CV and supplementary files (references, certificates, diplomas, etc.) to your career profile. Depending on their content, these may contain further personal data.
The legal basis for the processing of the personal data listed here is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR; we therefore use your data exclusively for the purpose of taking pre-contractual steps (registration) and of performing the user agreement subsequently concluded.
Further information can be found in our Terms of Use.
Where you have given us your consent to data processing, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of the data processing carried out before the withdrawal.
Usage data and cookies
Furthermore, when you visit our website, we collect general technical information exclusively in order to provide user-friendly functions, such as the browser type/version used, the operating system used, the URL of the previously visited website, the amount of data sent, your IP address, the internet service provider of the accessing system and the date and time of access to our website. This so-called usage data is stored exclusively for technical reasons and is at no time attributed to a specific person or to your profile.
We collect this data by means of cookies. Cookies are small files that enable us to store specific information relating to you on your PC or other device while you use the CareerPeakr services. After you log in (with e-mail address and password), CareerPeakr uses so-called “session cookies”, which allow you to be identified for the duration of your visit. Session cookies expire automatically at the end of the session.
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, as the operator of this website, in providing a technically error-free and smoothly functioning service.
You can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain websites or set your browser to notify you as soon as a cookie is sent. You can also delete cookies from your PC’s hard drive at any time.
Retention periods
We process and store your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil our contractual and statutory obligations.
If the data is no longer required to fulfil contractual or statutory obligations, it is regularly deleted, unless its – temporary – further processing is necessary for the following purposes:
- Compliance with retention periods under commercial or tax law: these arise in particular from the Handelsgesetzbuch (German Commercial Code) and the Abgabenordnung (German Fiscal Code). The retention periods specified there are up to 10 years.
- Preservation of evidence within the framework of the statutory limitation provisions. Under Sections 195 et seq. of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB, German Civil Code), these limitation periods can be up to 30 years, the regular limitation period being three years.
Use of data, confidentiality and disclosure of data to third parties
Within the career portal CareerPeakr, we use your personal data in accordance with the user agreement concluded with us in order to carry out our 360° matching and to show you suitable job offers or new career paths by means of appropriate further education and training.
The 360° matching takes into account your education and qualifications, your professional background, your skills, any periods spent abroad, and also your requirements regarding desired job offers, insofar as you have disclosed these to us in your career profile. If there is a match, experienced HR experts at CareerPeakr review your career profile and approach you exclusively about job offers tailored to you.
The confidentiality of your data and of your person is our top priority. Unlike networks or applicant databases, the personal data collected from you on our career portal is not publicly visible anywhere, and as a matter of principle we do not disclose it to third parties.
Your data only becomes visible to third parties if you have expressly asked us to do so, for example for an application to a specific employer that you have previously authorised us to submit. In this case, however, only that one employer receives your data, and only for the purpose of an application procedure in compliance with the statutory provisions applicable to it.
The personal data collected by us about you or provided by you is stored within the European Union. Only in isolated cases do we engage third parties established in the Netherlands as processors to provide the respective technical services. They process the data exclusively in accordance with our instructions and are contractually bound accordingly, in particular to comply with the statutory requirements and with this strict privacy policy.
In addition, we enforce compliance with the strictest technical and organisational measures to protect your data. In particular, we never pass your personal data on to other third parties such as address brokers.
Right of access, rectification, erasure, data portability and complaint
You have the right to obtain, at any time and free of charge, information about the personal data we hold about you, as well as a machine-readable copy of this information. Before we respond to your request, we may ask you for further details in order to verify your identity. We will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within the statutory time limit. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us by e-mail at datenschutz@careerpeakr.com.
Alternatively, you can access the personal data we hold about you via your account in order to rectify, update or delete individual items of information. In addition, you can also delete your career profile completely at any time and thereby delete all personal data without undue delay.
You also have the right to data portability.
Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority or to seek a judicial remedy if you consider that your rights set out here have been infringed.
Mail service, consent and withdrawal
When registering with CareerPeakr, you consent to our personal mail service, which informs you about suitable job offers or other CareerPeakr offers in the fields of further education and training. We recommend the mail service to you, as it is the only way for you to be informed promptly about suitable job offers.
You can withdraw this consent at any time in your account. In this case, we will of course no longer send you e-mail notifications about suitable career opportunities. In this case, we recommend that you regularly check your CareerPeakr account for up-to-date information about new career opportunities.
We assure you that we will not misuse the mail service for useless advertising or general information unrelated to the use of our career portal.
Links to other websites and social networks, sign-up via Xing or Linkedin
Our website contains links to other websites (Xing, LinkedIn, Facebook). If you follow a link to one of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for these policies.
If you register or log in to our portal via Xing or LinkedIn, Xing or LinkedIn, as the case may be, transmits certain details from the account you hold there to us: first name and surname, verified e-mail address, your photo and your current position. We use this information to pre-fill your profile. After successful registration, you also have the option of transferring further content data via Xing or LinkedIn. This comprises in particular your education and qualifications, your professional background (including the name of your current and previous employer(s) and your respective position), your skills, any periods spent abroad and your contact details. You can continuously update, supplement and delete this voluntary information at any time.
When you register or log in via Xing or LinkedIn, your IP address and other device-related information are forwarded to Xing or LinkedIn, as the case may be. A cookie may also be installed on your computer, but it is deleted again when you close the browser. You can specify in your browser settings whether or not you wish to allow cookies.
Profiling, automated individual decision-making
With the exception of the anonymised 360° matching in the career portal, which is necessary to provide the service you have requested, no profiling and no automated individual decision-making takes place.
Changes to our privacy policy
All future changes to our privacy policy will always be published on our website. In addition, we will inform you by e-mail before any change.
Version of 4 May 2023
Contact
Peakr Group AG
Küsnachterstrasse 57 - CH 8126 Zumikon (ZH)
E-mail: kontakt@peakrgroup.com
Authorised representative: Tobias Trevisan, Chairman of the Board of Directors