Privacy Policy

GOJOBZZ PRIVACY POLICY

(Last update: 24.02.2021)

  1. General information

Users of the website and/or the app should note that, when they use the website or the app, user data is transmitted via a publicly accessible network. Although GoJobZZ and its users are located exclusively in Switzerland, GoJobZZ may use data outside of Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA). However, this use of data will only ever occur in compliance with this privacy policy (For further explanation, see section 5. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU ). It is not possible to guarantee that data transmitted over the Internet or via the website or the app is protected against attack. Communication between GoJobZZ and its users via email, SMS etc. is not encrypted. There is a risk of virus attacks and attacks by hackers. However, we do take such physical, electronic and procedural measures as are commercially justifiable in order to protect your personal data in accordance with data protection legislation.

GoJobZZ recommends the use of anti-virus software and the latest browser versions at all times. Emails from unknown sources or unexpected email attachments should never be opened.

  1. Protection of the internal data transfer

Within GoJobZZ, personal data is transmitted and stored in a protected format. GoJobZZ takes all appropriate steps to prevent personal data being viewed by unauthorised third parties. The disclosure of data based on legal provisions remains reserved.

  1. Data collection for statistical purposes

GoJobZZ collects statistical data for the constant optimization of the service. For example, data is collected on the number of hours worked per profession and industry, about the relationship between the number of working hours in relation to the number of providers and the number of jobs not carried out due to lack of workers. The data collected by GoJobZZ does not allow any conclusions to be drawn with regard to the individual user and is therefore not subject to the privacy policy

By law, GoJobZZ may only collect statistical data in anonymised form for the purposes of labour market analysis (Art. 18, para 2 Recruitment and Hiring of Services Act (Arbeitsvermittlungsgesetz, AVG).

 

  1. Privacy policy

This privacy policy governs the collection and transfer of personal data on our website www.gojobzz.com (hereinafter “website”) or the GoJobZZ app (hereinafter “app”) and explains your rights as a user of the platform or as a worker regarding your personal data.

We are entitled to use the data that you have provided to us for the purposes of providing the recruitment and/or temporary employment services you have requested. 

This includes the inspection and provision of this data on behalf of potential and actual client companies and/or workers. We process some of your confidential personal data, including information on your nationality, your physical and mental health and any criminal offences that you have committed or are suspected of having committed.

GoJobZZ (England) PLC undertakes, together with other Group members (hereinafter (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’), to abide by data protection legislation.

By transmitting your data to us, you agree that it may be processed in accordance with this privacy policy. It is possible that, when collecting your personal data, we may provide you with further information on the specific intended use of this personal data and give you the opportunity to agree to, or to refuse, individual types of use.

This website and the app contain links to other third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third-party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal information. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to such third party websites.

This Privacy Policy is intended to explain our privacy practices and covers the following areas:

  • INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU
  • USES MADE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF USES
  • UPLOADING CONTENT
  • DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES AND JUSTIFICATION OF USES
  • TRANSMISSION, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
  • YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTACTING US
  • COOKIES
  • CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND/OR COOKIES POLICY
  • INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

 

A.1 We may collect and process the following SENSITIVE personal information about you:

Where you are a provider and where circumstances justify it, details about your nationality, your photograph, physical and mental health, [race, religion, trade union membership] and information regarding the commission or alleged commission by you of any offence.

 

A.2 We may collect and process the following other personal information about you

  1. Where you are a provider, as part of the on -boarding/registration process, your biographical details (including name, date of birth, gender), contact details including your postal and email address, telephone number and mobile serial number, personal details, your photograph (where you have uploaded one), your identification and eligibility to work in Switzerland such as your national social insurance number, passport and/or visa details, your rating data, interview details, mobility options, driving license category information, information about your tattoos and/or piercings, recommendations by former employers (where you have chosen to provide these), details regarding your qualifications as required by the service or as volunteered by you;
  2. Where you are a provider and where circumstances such as the type of role applied for or a client company that we are working with justify it, the results of criminal records or financial probity checks or other independent searches;
  3. Where you are a provider your bank details;
  4. Where you are a provider details relevant to any benefits that we may administer on your behalf for that purpose (such as statutory or contractual sick pay);
  5. Where you are the designated contact of the client company, as part of the on-boarding/registration process, your name, gender and contact details including email address;
  6. Information that you provide by filling in forms on the website or the app. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our website and/or the app, using the services from the website or the app, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website or the app;
  7. If you participate in our referral scheme and a new person registers to use Our services using your unique referral link, We will be able to match the unique referral link used to your user profile;
  8. If you contact Us, We may keep a record of that correspondence;
  9. We may also ask you to complete surveys that We use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them; and
  10. Details of your visits to the website or the app and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies including, but not limited to, your IP address and domain name, your browser version and operating system also that of your smartphone, traffic data, location data, web logs, your screen content when using the app, such as your browsing and click – stream activity, session heatmaps as well as scrolls, and other communication data, and the resources that you access.
  11. Where you are a worker, We may also collect details relating to your next of kin in order to contact them in case of emergency. Please inform your nominated next of kin that we hold those details for this purpose.



  1. USES MADE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF USES

 

B.1 We may use your personal information in the following ways listed below. Use of personal information under the Swiss and EU data protection laws must be justified under one of a number of legal “grounds” and We are required to set out the ground in respect of each use in this policy.

These are the principal grounds that justify Our use of your information:

  1. Consent: where you have consented to Our use of your information (you are providing your explicit, informed and freely given consent, in relation to any such use and may withdraw your consent in the circumstances detailed below by notifying Us);
  2. Contract performance: where your information is necessary to enter into or perform our contract with you;
  3. Legal obligation: where We need to use your information to comply with Our legal obligations;
  4. Legitimate interests: where We use your information to achieve a legitimate interest and Our reasons for using it outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights; and
  5. Legal claims: where your information is necessary for Us to defend, prosecute or make a claim against you or a third party.

We may use your personal information in the following ways. For each use, We note the grounds We use to justify each Use of your personal information:

  1. To connect you with workers or client companies (as applicable). This will be conducted via a largely automated matching process facilitated by an algorithm on the website or the app (hereinafter “the Application”). The Application seek to match you with workers or client companies (as applicable) by reference to the data you have provided to Us along with any criteria specified by the worker or client company (as applicable). This may result in decisions being made automatically.  For example, decisions as to which client companies receive your profile in response to a job application. We ensure there are safeguards in place to protect your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests and you have the right to obtain human intervention and to contest any automated decisions made using the Application.

Use justification: contract performance, (to enable us to provide Our services to you);

  1. Where you are a worker, to assess your suitability for job roles and where appropriate, We may check your Right to Work statuses, criminal records o r financial probity, employment reference and other qualifications through enquiries to former employers, educational and professional bodies, public or private references or other sources. You will be asked to consent to such enquiries before We or our agents undertake the search where your consent is necessary for Us to make such enquiries.

Use justification: legal obligation (to assess your right to work status) , legitimate interests (to assess your suitability to work for us) ;

  1. Where you are a worker, to administer any relevant benefits on your behalf for (such as Statutory Sick Pay);

Use justification: contract performance, legal obligation;

  1. Where you are a client company to conduct credit checks on you. We may disclose such information to third party credit reference agencies for the purposes of credit analysis (please see 8 below for further information)

Use justification: legal obligations, legitimate interests (to enable us to manage our risks)

  1. to carry out Our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Us such as to make payments to you (where applicable)

Use justification: contract performance;

  1. to provide you with secure areas to post and modify your submissions to the website or the app and to enable you to share content with other users;

Use justification: contract performance, (to enable us to provide Our services to you);

to provide you with promotional details of our services and/or details of discounts and special offers from our partners, where you have chosen to receive these (please see the section titled “Marketing” below)

Use justification: legitimate interests; consent where marketing relates to third party goods or services;

  1. to operate and manage our referral scheme including to administer incentives/commission to you

Use justification: legitimate interests (to enable us to provide Our services to you);

  1. to analyse it to develop Our services and systems and to understand Our users requirements;

Use justification: legitimate interests (to allow us to improve our services);

  1. to allow you to participate in interactive features of the website or the app;

Use justification: legitimate interests (to enable us to provide Our services to you); and

  1. to notify you about changes to our service.

Use justification: legitimate interests (to enable us to manage Our services).

  1. In order to send you important information by text message on your employment, such as information on the commencement of your employment, the exact date on which your salary will be paid and notification when the salary statement for your tax return will be sent out, etc.

Use justification : legal obligation (employer’s duty to inform ; transfer of the salary statement), legitimate interests (to enable us to provide Our services).

  1. Marketing

5.2. We may use your information for marketing our own services to you such as by regularly sending you our newsletter by email or offers of employment by text message and, where required by law, We will ask for your consent at the time We collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing.

Use justification: legitimate interests (to communicate to you any other of our services or products which may be of interest to you).

 

5.3 We may also use your information to send you details about special offers and discounts which are being provided by our selected business partners, and, where required by law, We will ask for your consent at the time We collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing.

Use justification: consent (which can be withdrawn at any time- please see please see 10).

5.4 We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting Us as set out in paragraph please see 10 below.

 

  1. UPLOADING CONTENT

As part of the registration, you are required to upload your information onto the website or the app. Any information that you upload into your profile section of the website or the app will be visible to other registered users of the website or the app who may contact you via the contact details you provide. Therefore please do not upload any information that you do not want to be viewed by other users. We are not responsible for the use of that information by other users.

 

  1. DISCLOSURES TO THIRD PARTIES AND JUSTIFICATION OF USES

7.1 Where you are a worker and have been matched to a client company, We will provide the client company with your personal information including your identity and suitability for the role for the purposes of providing you with work. The client company will be a data controller in its own right and shall ensure it processes any personal information relating to a worker in accordance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations. We shall not be liable for the acts and omissions of the client company in respect of their processing of such personal information. Workers should review any client companies’ privacy policies to understand the ways in which client companies will process personal information. Where you are the designated contact of a client company which has been matched to a worker, We will provide the worker with your personal information such as your identity and contact information. We may also permit selected third parties and agents to use your personal information, solely for the purposes set out in para. 6 above, who will be subject to obligations to process such information in compliance with the same safeguards that We deploy. This includes our group companies, cloud service providers and subcontractors which We use for the operation of our services. A list of such third parties and agents can be reviewed on our website or the app.

 

Use justification: contract performance, legal obligation, legitimate interests (to enable Us to provide our services).

7.2 In the event that We (or a part thereof) are (i) subject to negotiations for the sale of its business or (ii) is sold to a third party or (iii) undergoes a reorganisation, you agree that any of your personal information which We hold may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party and used for the same purposes as set out in this policy or for the purpose of analysing any proposed sale or re -organisation. We will ensure that no more of your information is transferred than necessary.

 

Use justification: legal obligation, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities).

7.3 We may disclose your personal information to third parties, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with proceedings or investigations anywhere in the world where compelled to do so. Where permitted, We will direct any such request to you or notify you before responding unless to do so would prejudice the prevention or detection of a crime.

 

Use justification: legal obligation, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities).

7.4 Fraud Prevention and other checks. We and other organisations may also access and use your personal information to conduct credit checks and checks to prevent fraud. If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified or suspected, details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies.

 

Use justification: legal obligation, legal claims, legitimate interests (to assist with the prevention of fraud and to assess your risk profile).

7.5 Law enforcement agencies may access and use this information.

Use justification: legal obligation, legal claims, legitimate interests (to assist with the prevention of fraud)

 

  1. TRANSMISSION, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Security over the internet

8.1 No data transmission over the Internet, the website or the app can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, We maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information in accordance with the data protection legislative requirements

8.2 All information you provide to Us is stored on our or our subcontractors/business partners (only as necessary for Us to perform our services and in accordance with 9. above) secure servers and accessed and used subject to our security policies and standards. Where We have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures that We notify you of. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Any damage suffered as a result of the loss of a username or password, or from its becoming known to third parties, must be borne exclusively by the user. Any liability on the part of GoJobZZ is excluded.

Cross-border Disclosure

8.3 Employees of GoJobZZ or client companies outside of Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA) are permitted to access your personal data. Your personal data may be transferred outside of Switzerland or the EEA and/or stored at a location outside of Switzerland and/or the EEA, in which the applicable data protection standards may be lower than those in Switzerland and/or the EEA. However, we will apply the same data protection measures as applied within Switzerland or the EEA, irrespective of location and of whether the individual concerned is a worker of GoJobZZ or a client company.

The European Commission has recognised that Switzerland, where our parent company is based, guarantees the same protective measures as those set out in EEA data protection legislation at all times, meaning that no further measures are necessary when exporting personal data to or from the country. In countries that are not recognised in this way, we will ask for your permission to transfer your data, or we will transfer your data in accordance with the contractual conditions approved by the European Commission, which impose equivalent data protection obligations upon the recipient himself, unless we are entitled to make such transmissions without the relevant formalities according to applicable data protection legislation.

Please contact Us as set out in paragraph 9. below if you would like to see a copy of the specific safeguards applied to the export of your personal information.

Restrictions regarding data storage

 

8.4 It should be noted that, from the moment that you accept an offer of employment and have completed an assignment for GoJobZZ, GoJobZZ is required by law to save and store the data associated with this assignment, including your personal data, and to retain this data for at least five years. We will also retain your data for other related and permitted purposes (for example, certain transaction data and correspondence may be stored until such time as the retention period applicable to the transaction has expired, or for as long as is necessary to fulfil regulatory obligations regarding the storage of such data). In the event that data is used for more than one purpose, we will retain this data until such time as the longest retention period expires, although we will no longer use this data for the purposes associated with shorter retention periods once these periods have expired.

We restrict access to your personal information to those persons who need to use it for the relevant purpose(s). Our retention periods are based on business needs and your information that is no longer needed is either irreversibly anonymised (and anonymised information may be retained) or securely destroyed.

 

  1. YOUR RIGHTS & CONTACTING US

 

Under the Federal Act on Data Protection and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 you have the following rights in relation to your personal data. All of these rights can be exercised by contacting us at info@gojobzz.com.

Whilst We encourage our customers to engage with Us in the event they have any concerns or complaints, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the Swiss supervisory authority such as the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner:

https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home.html .



Marketing

 

9.1 You have the right to ask Us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you if We intend to use your data for such purposes or if We intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms We use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting Us as set out in paragraph 10. below or by un-checking the relevant boxes on your user profile setting page on the website or change the notification settings in the app .

 

Right of Access

9.2 You have the right to request that We provide you with a copy of your personal data free of charge. Whilst your account is active, you have access to all of your profile data which can be accessed at any time. The first copy you request of the personal data undergoing processing will be provided free of charge, but We may charge you an administration fee for any further copies. Repeated, excessive or manifestly unfounded requests will be subject to a reasonable fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the personal information We hold about you, or we may refuse to act on such requests.

 

Right of Rectification

9.3 We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal information is accurate. In order to assist Us with this, you should notify Us of any changes to the personal information that you have provided to Us by updating your details on your user profile settings page on the website or the app.

 

Right to deletion

9.4 In certain circumstances you have the right to request that we delete all of your personal data, such as if the processing of your data is based solely on agreement and there is no other legal basis, as described below, for such data processing on our part. It should be noted that, from the moment that you accept an offer of employment and have completed an assignment for GoJobZZ, GoJobZZ is required by law to save and store the data associated with this assignment, including your personal data, and to retain this data for at least five years.

You can deactivate your profile at any time either via the Application or via our support desk.

 

Right to Restrict Processing

9.5 You have the right to ask us to restrict processing of your personal data in certain situations, for example during the period where We are verifying the accuracy of your personal data

 

Right to Data Portability

9.6 You have the right to receive your personal data which you have provided to Us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit such data to another data controller in certain circumstances and where technically feasible. You can access all the profile information provided by you via the Application and download such information in [csv file format].

9.7 Asking us to stop processing your personal data or deleting your personal data will likely mean that you are no longer able to use Our services, or at least those aspects of Our services which require the processing of the types of personal data you have asked us to delete. This may lead to you being unable to seek work using Our services.

9.8 Where you request We rectify or erase your personal data or restrict any processing of such personal data, We may notify third parties to whom such personal data has been disclosed of such request. However, such third party may have the right to retain and continue to process such personal data in its own right, for example, any client companies which have received your personal data may need to retain it on lawful grounds without your consent .

Contacting Us

9.9 GoJobZZ AG with company registration number CH-020.3.049.615-0 and with a registered address at Bahnhofstrasse 10, 8001 Zürich,  is responsible for and is the data controller in respect of your personal information processed by Us under this Privacy Policy.

Our data protection officer is:.

9.10 We can be contacted in relation to your rights or any questions or complaints you may have in respect of this Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal information at the following addresses:

By email: info@gojobzz.com | By phone: +41 

  1. COOKIES

 

Our website and app use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website or the app. This allows Us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website or use the app and also allows Us to improve our website and the app. For detailed information on the cookies We use and the purposes for which We use them, please see our Cookies Policy (Part C).

 

  1. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND/OR COOKIES POLICY

 

We may change the content of the website or the app or services without notice, and consequently this Privacy Policy and/or Cookies Policy may change at any time in the future. We therefore encourage you to review it from time to time to stay informed of how We are using personal information.