This text was assembled from what this website actually does and from the details you entered. It is a starting point, not legal advice: whether it is complete for your business depends on your business. Read it once, change what does not fit, and have it checked if something is at stake.

You can delete this note once you have done that.

Responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is The English Show, Basel, Switzerland.

Questions about data protection go to the address above.

The website is hosted by a service provider who processes the data described here on our behalf and is bound by contract to use it for nothing else.

Every call of a page leaves an entry in the server log: the address of the page, the date and time, the browser and operating system, and the IP address of the visitor. The entries are needed to run the site securely and to find faults.

They are not merged with other data and are deleted after a short period.

We count visits on our own server. No cookie is set, no identifier is stored in the browser, and nothing is sent to a third party. The IP address is shortened and turned into a value that cannot be traced back; from it we see how many people visited a page, which page they came from and roughly which device they used.

A single visitor cannot be recognised again from this, and the data is not used for advertising.

If you comment on an article, we store the comment, the name and the email address you give, and the IP address from which it was sent. The comment stays visible until it is deleted; the address is never published.

If you create an account, we store what you enter — at least an email address and a password, which is stored only as a value it cannot be read back from. The account keeps what belongs to it: your orders, your messages to us, and what you have set for yourself. You can have the account deleted at any time; what the law requires us to keep, such as invoices, stays until that period has run out.

For an order we need your name, your address and your email address, and we store what you ordered, what it cost and how it was paid. Invoices are kept for as long as the law requires — ten years in most cases.

The payment itself is handled by the payment provider you choose. The card number and the like are entered there, not here; we learn only whether the payment succeeded and under which reference. The provider is responsible for that part and has its own privacy policy.

You only receive our newsletter if you ask for it and confirm the request by clicking a link in an email we send you. We store the address, the day of the confirmation and the address you confirmed from, so that we can prove the consent.

We see whether a letter was opened and which links were clicked; it helps us write letters worth reading. Every letter carries a link that ends the subscription in one click, and after that the address is removed.

For a membership we store what it consists of, when it began and how it is paid. In a course we store how far you have come, which lessons you have finished and how a test turned out — you see the same, and nobody else does.

The fonts of this website are delivered by this website. Your browser does not contact Google or any other font service, and none of them learns of your visit.

This website sets no cookie for advertising and none for measuring. A cookie is set only where it is technically needed: while you are signed in, and while something is in the basket. Such a cookie needs no consent, which is why this website shows no banner.

You may ask us what data about you we hold, have it corrected, and in most cases have it deleted. You may object to a processing, and you may ask for the data you gave us in a form you can take elsewhere.

A message to the address above is enough; we answer without charging for it.

These rights follow from the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection. If you believe we handle your data wrongly, you may address the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.