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Data protection

1. General

Yay Kids GmbH is the operator of the website www.yaykids.ch and provider of the services offered on this website. Yay Kids GmbH is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of your data and must ensure compatibility with Swiss law. The protection of your personal data is very important to Yay Kids GmbH. Here we inform you about what data is collected on www.yaykids.ch and how it is used. You will also learn how you can check the accuracy of this information and request that we delete this data. Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We therefore recommend that you read this data protection declaration regularly to ensure that you are always familiar with the latest version.

2. Collection, use and processing of personal and company-related data

When you visit www.yaykids.ch, certain data is automatically stored on our servers for system administration, statistical or backup purposes. These are:

  • the name of your internet service provider
  • Your IP address (possibly)
  • the version of your browser software
  • the operating system of the computer used to access www.yaykids.ch
  • the date
  • the time
  • the website from which you visit www.yaykids.ch 
  • the search words you used to find www.yaykids.ch

This data may under certain circumstances allow conclusions to be drawn about a specific visitor. However, personal data will not be used in this context. The use of such data is exclusively anonymous.

By registering as a user and entering your data on www.yaykids.ch, you agree that the data you have entered will be used for service-related purposes.

Furthermore, you agree that your data can be used for advertising measures. If you do not agree to the use of the data for advertising purposes, you can prohibit this at any time by writing an email to hello@yaykids.ch.

3. Information, deletion and correction

You can request information about your data stored by us at any time. We ask you to send a request for information by email to the address below. Along with the request, proof of identity must be sent to the same address.

You have the option to request the deletion or correction of your data at any time. You are of course also entitled at any time to revoke your consent to the use or processing of personal data with future effect. We ask that you write to us by email at hello@yaykids.ch.

We will delete stored data when it is no longer needed for the stated purpose.

With regard to the deletion of data, it should be noted that we are subject to certain legal obligations which require retention of certain data. We have to fulfill this obligation. If you wish to delete data that is subject to the statutory retention requirement, the data will be blocked in our system and only used to fulfill the statutory retention requirements. After the retention period has expired, your request for deletion will be complied with.

4. Data security

We will keep your data secure and therefore take all reasonable measures to protect your data from loss, access, misuse or alteration. Our employees and contractual partners who have access to your data are contractually obliged to maintain confidentiality and comply with data protection regulations. In some cases it will be necessary for us to pass on your requests to companies affiliated with us. Even in these cases, your data will be treated confidentially.

5. Cookies

To make it easier to use our www.yaykids.ch we use so-called cookies. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are temporarily stored on your computer’s hard drive by your browser and are necessary for the use of our www.yaykids.ch. The information contained in the cookies is used to control sessions, in particular to improve navigation and enable a high level of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies we use do not store any personal information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can avoid this by changing your browser settings. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary Internet files (browser bar “Extras Internet Options”).

Deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all of the functions of our portal.

Here you will also find instructions for deleting cookies for Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/278835 and Mozilla https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen

6. Plug-Ins

6.1. Facebook-Plugins

Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated into our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button or “Share” button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, the plug-in establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by Facebook and integrated into the website. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. The information about your interaction is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. We would like to point out that as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

Facebook can use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and needs-based design of the Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. B. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements shown to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services related to the use of Facebook.

Further information can be found in Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account before using our website.

6.2. Pinterest

We use the pinterest.com service on our website. Pinterest.com is a service of Pinterest, Inc., 808 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Through the integrated “Pin it” button on our site, Pinterest receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page on our website. If you are logged in to Pinterest, Pinterest can assign this visit to our site to your Pinterest account and thus link the data. The data transmitted by clicking the “Pin it” button is stored by Pinterest. You can find further information about the purpose and scope of data collection, its processing and use as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy in the Pinterest data protection information, which you can access via http://pinterest.com/about/privacy/ can retrieve.

In order to prevent Pinterest from assigning your visit to our pages to your Pinterest account, you must log out of your Pinterest account before visiting our pages.

6.3. Instagram

Our website uses so-called social plugins from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. You can find an overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges

If you access a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram's servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by Instagram and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Instagram” button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Instagram account and shown to your contacts there.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Instagram's data protection information: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

If you do not want Instagram to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the Instagram plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. B. with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

6.4. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL of previously visited website, IP address, time of server request) about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all of the functions of this website. By using this website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above.

Further information about the web analysis service used can be found on the Google Analytics website. Instructions on how you can prevent the processing of your data by the web analysis service can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

7. Changes

Changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. This way you can find out at any time what data we store, how we collect it and use it.