Terms of Use

1. Scope of application

The General Terms and Conditions of Use (GTCU) apply to all use of the LifeSci Consulting SA platform (hereinafter "Provider").

The platform works independently of the operating system. You can access the data using the browser on your end device, whether you are using Mac OSX or Windows.

If the purpose requires it, the operator will set up 2-factor authentication. It is recommended that users use a password manager.

The data (surname, first name, addresses, contact details such as e-mail addresses and telephone numbers) are primarily used in the context of providing the platform.

2. Use of services of Provider

The Provider is a recruitment company in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device sector and offers its users who are looking for employment the opportunity to view job adverts and use other functions of the Provider's website. The specific services offered on the platform include:

• - Access and view specific job vacancies, general information about individual clients;
• - Access to a network, which may be used for professional and personal purposes;
• - Creation of a user profile for the provider's platforms by entering personal data (e.g. address, education) and uploading documents;
• - Submitting applications directly via the profile;
• - Possibility of using personalised search and push services to receive tailored offers (e.g. job alerts, personalised search requests and job recommendations);
• - Use of tools to store and visualise relevant documents and information of the employee (e.g. CV) that can be viewed by potential employers. The user can change this setting at any time.
• - Activation of the CV database: If the user makes their profile visible, it can be viewed by potential employers and/or clients. The user can change this setting at any time.
• - The Provider reserves the right to add new services and innovations at any time and to change, further develop or partially or completely discontinue existing services.

3. Duties of the commissioning deployment companies

3.1 General

Employing organisations assume sole responsibility for their job advertisements on the provider's platform. The Provider is not regarded as an employer in relation to your use of the website. For this reason, the Provider is not responsible for the employment decisions made by the client companies that publish the position on the Provider's platform.

When your client account is cancelled, all client account information including saved CVs, network contacts and email lists will be deleted from the database by the provider. Due to delays in deletion, the information may remain temporarily available on the provider's web servers.

In order to protect users from commercial advertising or unwanted enquiries, the Provider reserves the right to limit the number of e-mails that a Client can send to users.

The use of the provider's networks and profiles must comply with all applicable data protection and security regulations.

3.2 Specific duties

Prohibited content of a job advertisement:

• - All links, unless they have been explicitly authorised by the provider;
• - Misleading or false, obvious or hidden keywords that are used once or repeatedly and, at the discretion of the provider, have no meaning for the position;
• - Names, trademarks or logos of independent companies that do not belong to your company, unless the provider has explicitly authorised this;
• - Names of universities, cities or countries that are not related to the job advert;
• - Posting multiple jobs or job descriptions, multiple locations or job categories, unless the product allows this;
• - False, inaccurate or misleading information;
• - Content or links to content that exploits people sexually, violently or otherwise, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 16.

3.2.1 Prohibited use

The use of job adverts on the provider's platform is also prohibited, as is the use of profiles in order to:

• - Publish jobs in a way that violates applicable law, in particular labour law, equality law, data protection law or intellectual property law;
• - The employer may not advertise positions that require a specific nationality or legal permanent residence in a specific country. An exception to this principle is only permitted if the relevant law stipulates this as a recruitment condition for this position
• - To publish jobs that contain requirements that do not correspond to the actual or legal recruitment conditions of the advertised position;
• - Placing job adverts, advertising or other content with links to other competitors on the provider's platform is prohibited;
• - Offer, support or advertise other services;
• - Publish positions or business ideas where only commission is paid. Unless the job advert makes it clear that only commission is paid and the product or service that the applicant is to sell is clearly described;
• - To place a job advert even though no contractual relationship is available
• - Surrogacy, organ trading, the use of human body parts or parts thereof, in particular in the area of reproductive services such as surrogacy and egg donation
• - The employer is not obliged to publish any information relating to the employee's ethnic origin, political, philosophical or religious beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual orientation or age. An exception to this is only to be made if the applicable law so provides.

The Provider reserves the right to delete all job advertisements or content that do not fulfil the above requirements or otherwise violate the interests of the Provider. If you have provided false or misleading information to the Provider in the course of using the Platform, provider reserves the right to prevent you from using the Platform.

3.2.2 Prohibitions on the use of the CV database

It is prohibited to use the provider's CV database for the following purposes:

• a) Use for any purpose other than the search for employees by a client, in particular not for the advertising of promotions, products or services;
• b) Send unsolicited advertising, telephone calls or newsletters or emails (also known as "spam") to the owner of a CV or contact them in any other way. An exception is made in cases where the person has consented, provided that consent is required. If no explicit consent is required, he/she must inform the client that he/she wishes to be contacted;
• c) The collection of candidate profiles or the search for contacts in relation to job fairs as well as business opportunities with users, which are prohibited in accordance with section 3.

To ensure a secure and efficient user experience for all employees, the Provider reserves the right to restrict access to data (including CVs) at any time. These restrictions may be changed by the Provider at any time.

4. Obligations of the contractor

4.1 General

As a user of the provider's platform, you are prohibited from:

• a) To collect, store, edit or delete the provider's content in violation of applicable law (in particular data protection law) and/or the privacy policy. Reproduction or publication is also prohibited. This also applies to expired job adverts;
• b) Perform actions that require an inappropriate or disproportionate amount of platform resources;
• c) Use tools for data mining, robots or comparable methods for data collection and analysis;
• d) Reverse engineering or decompilation of the provider's website;
• e) Send content that contains viruses (Trojans) or other malware;
• f) Publish content that contains false or misleading information, promotes, encourages or supports illegal activities;
• g) Publish or submit incomplete, false or biographically inaccurate information that is not your own. This applies in particular to your CV;
• h) Request passwords or personally identifiable information from other users;
• i) Use the provider's services for unlawful purposes or illegal activities;
• j) All content, CVs or the submission or publication of job advertisements that are offensive, hurtful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, distasteful, abusive, hateful, discriminatory, racist or of a threatening nature or that contain pornographic, revealing or inappropriate material of any kind or in any other way violates the personal rights of the individual;
• k) Insert, save or send hyperlinks or objects for which you do not have the rights of use, especially if the hyperlinks or objects violate the confidentiality provisions or are illegal;
• l) To distribute unsolicited advertising or e-mails (also known as "spam") or false virus reports and to participate in money games, snowball systems, chain letters, pyramid schemes or similar.

The Provider reserves the right to block access to the Platform at any time, in particular in the event of a breach of the obligations arising from these Terms and Conditions or if a User leaves the Platform by cancelling the mission contract.

The platform provides a temporary opportunity to view advertisements in a secure environment with other authorised employees and clients.

As soon as you cancel or the provider cancels the mission contract, the user's authorisations will be withdrawn immediately. The user bears the responsibility to fulfil any retention obligations. The platform is not intended to serve as a backup system for users. If you have any questions, please contact the provider's support team.

4.2 Further obligations for freelancers

When registering on the Provider's platform, you as a Freelancer are required to create an account and provide the Provider with access to certain information, in particular a valid e-mail address. 3 The profiles you create must be accurate and reflect you as an individual. To do this, you must complete all standard fields. These do not include telephone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses or other contact details. You alone are responsible for the form and content of the CV and the accuracy of the information on the provider's platform. The provider reserves the right to submit offers to you. The basis for this is the preferences you stated when registering or at a later date, or your declaration of consent to receive job offers. Further information can be found in the provider's privacy policy. You do not have any ownership rights to your account. If you cancel your account or if it is cancelled by the provider on its platform, all account information on the platform - including your profile, CVs, cover letters, saved job advertisements and questionnaires - will be marked as deleted. These can be deleted from the database as well as removed from the public area of the platform. Due to delays in deletion actions, the information may still be available on the platform's web servers for a limited time. It is also possible for third parties to retain saved copies of your information. The provider's platform reserves the right to delete your account and your information after a longer period of inactivity.

5. User responsibility

As a user, you are solely responsible for your technical access to the platform. The provider is neither responsible for the internet provider nor for the hardware and software required to use the platform.

The provider takes technical and organisational measures to secure the data that it makes available to you. Nevertheless, inadequate security measures on your end device may result in unauthorised access to your data. It cannot be ruled out that a third party may access your end device unnoticed while you are connected to the platform. The provider therefore recommends that you equip your end devices with up-to-date protection programmes and protect them with a password when using a WLAN. The end device (computer, telephone, smartphone, etc.) and/or the network used are outside the provider's control and may represent a weak point. As a user, you accept the associated risks. You are responsible for informing yourself about the necessary security equipment in accordance with the current state of the art and for taking appropriate protective measures.

The user name, password and access code for connecting to the platform must be kept secret and protected against misuse by unauthorised third parties. Although the Provider shall take the necessary organisational and technical measures within the framework of the statutory provisions to protect your data from unauthorised processing, you shall be responsible for the consequences arising from the misuse of your identification keys by unauthorised persons, subject to gross negligence on the part of the Provider. If there is a suspicion that unauthorised third parties have gained knowledge of the identification keys, you must change them immediately. If you download documents from the provider's platform to your own end device, you are responsible for the security of the data contained therein. The Provider declines all responsibility as soon as a document has left the IT system of the Provider or one of its service providers.

6. Intellectual property

The content of the provider's platform is the intellectual property of the provider. It is protected by copyright and other laws and agreements on intellectual property, subject to the rights of third parties. Where applicable, you are obliged to observe these rights. In addition, the content of the provider's platform may not be reproduced, passed on, distributed or transferred in any form, modified or used for public or commercial purposes, either in whole or in part, unless this is expressly mentioned and does not infringe the copyright of the user. Content protected by copyright may only be used with the consent of the respective user who holds the rights. For example, copies may therefore only be used with reference to the copyrights. Where applicable, you are obliged to comply with the laws on intellectual property, copyright or other property rights. You are not granted any rights, in particular to company names, industrial property rights such as patents, templates or trademarks.

Accordingly, you are not authorised to share certain content from the provider's platform via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn or via email without the consent of the rights holder. For data protection issues in connection with these functionalities, you can consult the data protection information (see below)

If you submit ideas or communicate suggestions for improving the platform, the provider has the right to use these free of charge to develop, improve and sell the products in its portfolio. All suggestions and ideas become the property of the Provider. The Provider shall not obtain any ownership rights to the content shared by the Users.

7. Warranty exclusion

The Provider shall ensure as far as possible that the content published on its platform is reliable, correct and complete. However, the Provider does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness or appropriateness of the content for any purpose. Furthermore, no guarantee is given that submitted application documents will be received, read or answered or that a successful job placement will be made. The contents are subject to change at any time and without prior notice. They are for information purposes only and are in no way to be construed as advice or otherwise binding on the provider.

8. Disclaimer

Subject to mandatory law, the Provider excludes all liability, including that of its officers, employees, suppliers and auxiliary staff, for your loss or damage of any kind in connection with access to the Provider's platform and the use of its content. The provider accepts no liability for direct or indirect damage caused by transmission errors, technical defects, technical faults, breakdowns, system overloads and interruptions or other problems, subject to gross negligence. The Provider shall also not be liable for direct or indirect losses resulting from the Account Holder's failure to fulfil his contractual obligations. Under no circumstances can the provider be held liable for direct or indirect damage, in particular loss of earnings or damage to its image

9. Third Party Websites

The provider's platform may contain links to other websites controlled or provided by third parties. The Provider does not provide any guarantee for the information or materials provided on the websites. By linking to the websites of third parties, the Provider does not assume or accept any liability for products or services offered on these websites

10. Data protection information

10.1 Data protection information

This data protection and data use information applies to data processing in connection with the website and the platform. The information applies to the processing of your personal data that you have transmitted to the provider or that the provider has collected about you via this platform.

The provider reserves the right to amend this data protection information at any time and without prior notice. In this case, it will be published on the corresponding platform and replace the previous version.

By accessing, using and entering your data on the platform, you expressly agree to the respective valid version of the information and the processing of your personal data transmitted in this way.

10.2 Categories of data collected

The Provider collects data in connection with your access to and use of the Platform. Your personal data collected and processed by the Provider consists of any information that identifies you or enables you to be identified. This includes the following data: personal identification number, first name, surname, address, billing information, email address, IP address, cookies and location data.

10.3 Safety measures

The Provider processes your personal data in accordance with data protection legislation and takes all necessary organisational and technical security measures to prevent the breach, unauthorised access and unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction of your data in general and your personal data in particular. The Provider recommends that you be aware of the potential risk of data being intercepted and viewed by unauthorised third parties. The Provider accepts no responsibility for this risk to the extent permitted by law, subject to gross negligence.

10.4 Place of processing

Subject to the following provisions, your personal data will be stored in Switzerland and the EU and processed exclusively by the provider and its contractors.

10.5 Storage period and recipient

Subject to any statutory retention obligations, the provider shall retain the personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected.

10.6 Purpose of the processing

If you are an employee of the Provider or if you transmit personal data via the Platform in order to find employees, the Provider may use the data transmitted in this way to establish and/or manage this contractual relationship. In addition, the Provider may use the personal data, in particular contact details and other data transmitted via the Platform, for internal analyses and statistics and to improve its products and services.

In order to provide you with information on products and services of the Provider and/or its partners, the contact preferences apply, which you can adjust at any time via your customer portal.

In order to improve the provider's products and services, you as a user of the platform agree that the provider may provide, collect, process and evaluate anonymised data in order to optimise the platform and for statistical purposes when using the platform. The data does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person and is only used to provide general information about usage behaviour (e.g. frequency of use of the platform). Insofar as this is done, this data forms the basis for anonymised statistical evaluations and serves to improve the platform.

10.7 Updating and accuracy of your data

If your data (e-mail address) changes, you have the option of informing the provider accordingly at any time via its platform or communication channels and requesting the correction of this data. The provider shall take appropriate measures to correct incomplete or incorrect data with regard to the purposes for which it is processed.

10.8 Transmissions and awarding of contracts

The provider may transfer your personal data to commissioned third-party service providers (contractors) who support the provider in its activities. The contractors may be based in Switzerland or in the European Union and process your personal data there. If necessary, the provider may also transfer your personal data to third-party service providers based abroad in countries for which an adequacy decision exists or to third parties whose level of protection is not equivalent to that in Switzerland. In such a case, you expressly authorise the provider to transfer your personal data to these service providers. The provider will take the necessary measures and offer suitable guarantees to cover such transfers.

10.9 Your rights

You have the right to view your personal data, to have this data corrected, to have it deleted within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, to have processing restricted, to obtain the portability of your data and finally to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data, subject in particular to the processing necessary for the fulfilment of a contract. You can also contact the competent supervisory authority. However, the provider recommends that you contact its departments beforehand. You can contact us as follows if you have any questions or concerns in connection with the processing of your personal data by the provider:

In all other respects, the applicable statutory provisions shall apply.

11. Applicable law and place of jurisdiction

The General Terms and Conditions of Use and the use of the Provider's Platform are subject to substantive Swiss law, with the exception of conflicts of law, subject to mandatory law. All disputes relating to the Provider's Platform or in connection with the Platform or its use shall be subject exclusively to the jurisdiction of the courts in accordance with the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure, subject to any mandatory place of jurisdiction.