Data protection

Terms and conditions and data protection

Terms and conditions

About your online donation

We will not store your credit card number. The data remains property of Brava/TERRE DES FEMMES Switzerland and will be treated confidentially. We do not rent out or sell addresses.

Transparency and attributed donations

We use your donations conscientiously and according to the purpose you have determined. You can find more information on the activities of Brava/TERRE DES FEMMES Switzerland in our detailed annual report including our annual financial statements.

Questions?

Please contact us.

Data protection

This privacy policy explains how Brava/TERRE DES FEMMES Switzerland (hereafter Brava/TDF or we) collects and processes personal data. This is not an exhaustive description; other data protection declarations, general terms and conditions or conditions of participation may govern specific matters. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. If you provide us with personal data of other persons (e.g. family members or friends), make sure that these persons are aware of this privacy policy. Only share their personal data with us if you are allowed to do so and if this personal data is correct.

1. Person responsible / data protection officer / representative 

Brava/TDF, Standstrasse 42, 3014 Bern, is responsible for the data processing described here. If you have any data protection concerns, please let us know at the following contact address: info@brava-ngo.ch. For concerns related to fundraising activities and data, please contact simon.geiser@brava-ngo.ch.

2. Collection and processing of personal data 

Brava/TDF primarily processes personal data that we receive from:

• donors and members,

• donors and business partners in the course of our business relations with them and other persons involved with them,

• users in the course of operating our website and other applications.

Where permitted, we also take certain data from publicly accessible sources (e.g. debt collection registers, land registers, commercial registers, press, Internet, etc.) or from other third parties (e.g. list brokers).

In addition to the data you give us directly, this may also include information about you from the media and the Internet (if this is appropriate in the specific case, e.g. as part of an application, press review, marketing/sales, etc.):

• Your addresses and, if applicable, interests and other socio-demographic data.

• Data in connection with the use of the website (e.g. IP address, MAC address of the smartphone or computer, details of your device and settings, cookies and other user and usage data)

3. Purposes of data processing and legal basis 

We use the personal data we collect primarily to enter into and implement our contracts with our members, donors and business partners. Personal data is also used to purchase products and services from our suppliers and subcontractors and to comply with our domestic legal obligations. If you work for such a business partner, your personal data may also be affected in this capacity. 

In addition, we process personal data of you and other persons, to the extent permitted by law, for the following purposes in which we (and sometimes also third parties) have a legitimate interest corresponding to the purpose:

• Providing and further developing our offers, services, websites and other platforms on which we are present,

• Communicating with third parties and processing their enquiries (e.g. applications, media enquiries),

• Fundraising, advertising and marketing (including the organisation of events), provided you have not objected to the use of your data (if we send you advertising as a supporter and/or existing donor or member, you can object to this at any time without giving any reasons. We will then delete your address);

• Market and opinion research, media monitoring,

• Assertion of legal claims and defence in connection with legal disputes and official proceedings,

• Prevention and investigation of criminal offences and other misconduct (e.g. conducting internal investigations, data analysis to combat fraud),

• Ensuring our operations, especially IT, our website and other platforms;

• Corporate transactions and restructurings and the related transfer of personal data, as well as business management measures and to the extent necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and internal regulations of Brava/TERRE DES FEMMES Switzerland.

Insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (for example, when you register to receive newsletters), we process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent, if we have no other legal basis and require such a basis. You can revoke your consent at any time, but this will not affect any data processing that has already taken place.

4. Cookies / tracking and other technologies related to the use of our website 

We use "cookies" and similar technologies on our website to identify your browser or device. A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer or automatically stored on your computer or mobile device by the web browser you use when you visit our website. This allows us to recognise you when you return to this website, even if we do not know who you are. In addition to cookies that are only used during a session and deleted after your visit to the website ("session cookies"), cookies can also be used to store user settings and other information for a certain period of time ("permanent cookies"). However, you can set your browser to reject cookies, store them for one session only or otherwise delete them prematurely. Most browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. We use permanent cookies so that they remember user preferences (e.g. language) to help us better understand how you use our services and content. If you block cookies, certain functionalities (such as language selection, ordering processes) may no longer work.

In some cases, and where permitted, we include visible and invisible image elements in our newsletters. By retrieving these from our servers we can determine if and when you have opened an email so that we can measure and better understand how you use our offers and tailor them to you. You can block this in your email program; most are pre-set to do this.

By using our websites and agreeing to receive newsletters, you consent to the use of these techniques. If you do not want this, you must set your browser or email programme accordingly.

We sometimes use Matomo on our websites (Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you and your business 100% data ownership and user privacy protection: matomo.org), with which we can measure and evaluate the use of the website (not personalised). For this we use permanent cookies set by the service provider. The service provider does not receive any personal data from us (and does not keep any IP addresses), but can track your use of the website, combine this information with data from other websites you have visited that are also tracked by service providers, and use these findings for its own purposes (e.g. to control advertising).

We also use plug-ins from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ or Instagram and plug-ins from other providers on our websites. This is apparent to you in each case (typically via corresponding symbols). The operators of the respective plug-ins register that you are on the Brava website and can use this information for their purposes.

5. Data sharing

We disclose information in the course of our business activities and for the purposes set out in section 3, insofar as this is permitted and seems to us to be appropriate. In particular, the following bodies (all recipients) are concerned:

• Service providers, including order processors (e.g. print shops);

• Partner organisations;

• Distributors, suppliers, subcontractors and other business partners

• Domestic and foreign authorities, official agencies or courts;

• Media;

• The public, including visitors to websites and social media;

• Competitors, industry organisations, associations, organisations and other bodies;

• Other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings;

Some of these recipients are in country, but they can be anywhere in the world. You must expect your data to be transferred to all countries where the service providers we use are located. You can obtain a copy of the contractual guarantees referred to at any time from the contact mentioned in section 1, if they are not available at the link provided above. However, we reserve the right to black out copies for reasons of data protection or confidentiality or to supply only excerpts.

6. Duration of the storage of personal data

We process and store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations or for the purposes pursued with the processing, as well as beyond that in accordance with the statutory retention and documentation obligations. It is possible that personal data will be retained for the time during which claims can be asserted against our association and if we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or legitimate business interests require this (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes). As soon as your personal data is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, it will be deleted or made anonymous as far as possible. For operational data (e.g. system logs, logs), generally shorter retention periods of twelve months or less apply.

7. Data protection

To protect your personal data from unauthorised access and misuse, we take appropriate technical and organisational security precautions such as issuing instructions, training, IT and network security solutions, access controls and restrictions, encryption of data carriers and transmissions, pseudonymisation and controls.

8. Providing personal data

Without personal data, we will normally not be able to advise you, enter into or perform a contract with you (or the entity or person you represent). Also, the website cannot be used if certain traffic security details (such as IP address) are not disclosed.

9. Rights of the data subject

You have the right to information, correction, deletion, the right to restrict data processing and otherwise to object to our data processing, as well as to the release of certain personal data for the purpose of transferring it to another body (so-called data portability) within the framework of the data protection law applicable to you and if provided for therein (such as in the case of the EU General Data Protection Regulation DSGVO). Please note that we reserve the right to enforce the restrictions provided for by law, for example if we are obliged to retain or process certain data, have an overriding interest in doing so (if we are entitled to do this) or require it for the assertion of claims. In section 3 we have already explained the possibility of revoking your consent. Please note that the exercise of these rights may conflict with contractual arrangements and may have consequences such as early termination of the contract or cost consequences. We will inform you in advance if this is not already contractually regulated.

Exercising such rights usually requires that you clearly prove your identity (e.g. by a copy of your identity card, where your identity is otherwise not clear or cannot be verified). To exercise your rights, you can contact us at the addresses given in section 1.

In addition, every data subject has the right to enforce his or her claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

10. Modifications

We may amend this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. Where the Privacy Policy forms part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the change by email or other appropriate means in the event of an update.

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