Privacy Policy ARGUSspot for Microsoft Teams

Please read the following information on how we use your personal data while providing the required level of data protection.

1. Responsible Body

The responsible body for the processing of your personal data is ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS, Rüdigerstrasse 15, 8045 Zurich, Switzerland („ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS“ or „we“ or „us“). Additional information about us can be found in the Legal Notice on our Website. If you are concerned about the processing of your personal data and wish to object thereto in accordance with this Privacy Policy as a whole, or to individual measures within the process, you may send your objection by e-mail to mail@argusdatainsights.ch or by letter to the above-mentioned address.

2. The collection and processing of data as part of push notifications via Microsoft Teams

If our client is using the Microsoft Teams service and has also registered you as an employee on the app, you can receive information about media content via push notifications in a Microsoft Teams chat. For online media content, a link takes you directly to the original source of the content and thus to third-party websites that will process your personal data under their own responsibility and in accordance with their own privacy policy. For print media content, you are taken directly to the app (see section 0).

In providing these push notifications, we process your email address and name to ensure that the content provided can only be accessed by people who have been authorised by our client. This processing is in the legitimate interest of lawfully providing our services, and for the performance of our contract with our client.

To improve our services and make them even more attractive, and to ensure the security and stability of Microsoft Teams and prevent abuse, we collect personal data (e.g. what media content you view) using cookies and similar technologies with the help of the provider Microsoft. For the use of cookies and similar technologies, Microsoft can be considered our processor. Your personal data is pseudonymised by Microsoft using a hash value before we gain access to it in order to conduct aggregated and/or statistical analyses in our legitimate interest for the purposes stated. In order to fulfil our contract with our client and in the legitimate interest of our offering client-oriented services, we also provide our clients with statistical analyses regarding the usage behaviour of the people authorised by them.

If your personal data is transferred to Microsoft in the USA under our responsibility as part of this process, we ensure an adequate level of data protection in accordance with the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

Our client and Microsoft collect and process your personal data for their own purposes during your use of Microsoft Teams. Further information on Microsoft’s processing can be accessed by clicking ‘About’ in Microsoft Teams and then clicking ‘Privacy and Cookies’. Please contact our client (generally your employer who has provided you with Microsoft Teams) to find out more about the purposes for which your personal data is processed as part of using Microsoft Teams.

You can delete the cookies and similar technologies used by Microsoft from your device at any time. Microsoft’s own privacy statement also provides information about how you can refuse cookies and similar technologies.

3. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties

ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS will only disclose your personal data to third parties within Germany, Switzerland and abroad under the following conditions in accordance with the applicable provisions of the law: if legally required or ordered by an authority or a court or if there is an overriding private or public interest in such transfer or if this is necessary for the performance of a contract. Moreover, personal data may be transferred to third parties if this is necessary for account purposes and the enforcement of claims or if you have separately agreed to such transfer. Please note that you may withdraw such separate agreement at any time with future effect.

4. Deletion of Personal Data

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as such data is no longer required for the purposes intended with the storage and after the expiry of the legally prescribed storage period, this, however, being subject to the storage of personal data for the implementation of overriding interests of ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS or any third parties.

5. Right to Information

Upon your request by postal or electronic mail, we are happy to inform you about your stored personal data. You may also be entitled to have your stored data rectified, blocked and deleted. Due to legal and data security reasons, please understand that this information may only be provided upon written request. In individual cases, the response to your access request may be subject to proof of your identity.

If you wish to exercise the above-mentioned rights and/or receive more detailed information about such rights, please send an e-mail to mail@argusdatainsights.ch or use the contact details mentioned in our Legal Notice.

6. Amendments of this Privacy Policy

Please note that ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS is entitled to supplement or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be published here. Please always take note of the most current version of this Privacy Policy.

7. Security Note

We have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful access to the personal data you have provided to us. As complete data security cannot be guaranteed for communication via e-mails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication, we would recommend sending any confidential information by postal mail.

Updated: January 2024