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EQUAL SALARY

Data Protection Charter for Data Subjects

For all employees of candidate organisations applying for the EQUAL-SALARY certification

 

Our commitment to protecting your personal data

 

Information shared with the EQUAL-SALARY Foundation is personal and must be protected. As a result, employees of candidate organisations must know where the information is stored, who can access it, and how it is used. By drawing up this charter, the EQUAL-SALARY Foundation reiterates its commitment to protecting your personal data.

  1. EQUAL-SALARY is a not-for-profit foundation which carries out statistical analyses and audits to verify equal pay in candidate organisations applying for the EQUAL-SALARY certification. Your personal data is not used for any other purpose than the one mentioned above. We do not use your personal data to advertise or sell services and the EQUAL-SALARY Foundation does not have any commercial activity.
  2. We comply with Swiss and European requirements on the protection of personal data, in particular the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
  3. We host your personal data exclusively in Switzerland. The EQUAL-SALARY platform, which serves as a platform for the exchange of information between candidate organisations and service providers, is hosted in a TIER IV-certified data center, the highest level of security in terms of data centers.
  4. We make all necessary efforts to ensure the security of your personal data. We are in the process of acquiring ISO27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, which define good practice in terms of information security and data protection. In addition, we perform periodic security tests on our platform with third-party expert companies to ensure that the measures we take are effective.
  5. Your personal data is pseudonymised on the platform and stored in encrypted form.
  6. Your personal data is confidential: access to this data is limited to what is strictly necessary according to the “Least Privilege” principles. EQUAL-SALARY’s subcontractors and employees who have access to your data are detailed in the EQUAL-SALARY Confidentiality Centre land are subject to verification.
  7. We are committed to deleting your personal data no later than two months after the end of the validity of the certificate in force in your company.
  8. You can find more information about our data protection practices, such as our privacy policy, in the EQUAL-SALARY Privacy Centre.

 

Vevey, 31.05.2023