Source: https://www.swisscommunity.org/en/swisscommunity/privacy-policy
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 11:34:56+00:00

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To the extent applicable, we shall, however, also adhere to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) of 27 April 2016, which also brings about certain external effects for companies and institutions in the non-EU country of Switzerland. With respect to the upcoming revision of the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG), which will in part draw on the EU regulations, we will inform you below in accordance with Art. 13 of DSGVO regarding the collection and processing of personal data by us.
The OSA operates the websites www.aso.ch, www.swisscommunity.org and www.revue.ch (hereinafter referred to as: Websites).
The purpose of processing this data is to permit the use of our websites, optimise the content and the offering as well as to maintain the functions of the websites. We analyse the data, including in particular the IP addresses, statistically in order to be able to also optimise our offering regionally. We have a legitimate interest in this respect and, with respect to this collection of data, draw on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
In this context, cookies (cf. VII below) and web analytical services (cf. VIII below) are used in this context.
You can contact us using the contact form on www.swisscommunity.org. You provide us with the required information for contacting you (last name, first name, street, house number, post code, city and e-mail address). The purpose of the collection of this information is to process your request; the legal basis is in our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. You have the rights in this respect as per the following X.
If you register as a member on www.swisscommunity.org, a communication platform, which Swiss citizens living abroad can use to interact with one another and gain access to information, you disclose the information required for registration to us (basic profile) and therefore consent to the processing of this data for the purpose of registration and the provision of information reserved for members. This basic information consists of the e-mail address, first name, last name, gender, date of birth, mother tongue, language of correspondence, canton of origin and address (street, no., post code, city, country, region). You are free to provide us with further optional information for the creation of an extended user profile, which you can also make available to other members. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.
You have the possibility of entering your own posts in the forums on www.swisscommunity.org and disclosing information about yourself. In publishing such information, you consent to its publication on www.swisscommunity.org.
Registering on www.swisscommunity.org requires that you accept our General Business Terms – this privacy statement forms an integral part of these GBT.
You have the possibility of subscribing to one or more newsletters on www.swisscommunity.org. Your consent to the delivery of newsletters occurs during the registration process. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a respectively f DSGVO.
We process this data for the purpose of delivering the newsletter of your choice. You can revoke this consent at any time. A corresponding notice with an unsubscribe link is contained in every newsletter. You are furthermore free to adapt (registration and deregistration) your user profile at any time under "Settings".
Your data is only passed on to third parties if you provide us with your express consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO); we are required by law (Art. 6 para. 1 lit c DSGVO) to do so or this is necessary in order to uphold our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Furthermore, forwarding can occur if this is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d DSGVO).
In this context, please also refer to VIII (Web Analysis) and IX (Social Media).
Forwarding of your information to third parties can also occur if we engage third parties as contract processors in order to fulfil our obligations. Such third parties process data exclusively on the basis of our order and may not perform any data processing, which does not occur in connection with this privacy statement, in particular the processing of personal data for its own purposes.
Transfer to third countries can occur in connection with IV above. If the level of data protection of this third country does not correspond to the Swiss or European level of data protection, we will ensure compliance with the Swiss or European level of data protection contractually. If data processing is performed by third parties, who are privacy shield certified, this shall be deemed an appropriate level of protection.
Cookies are small text files, which are saved on your computer and serve to track the behaviour of users of our websites or save settings. These cookies serve to track the number and type of visits to the web pages and its sub-pages, to save user preferences for layouts as well as country and language settings. Furthermore, we collect statistical data in order to optimise the content of our web pages and increase their level of user friendliness. A session cookie is created when you use www.swisscommunity.org. It allows different page views to be assigned to you.
You can change the cookie settings in your browser yourself or restrict or deactivate them. Deactivating cookies may result in you not being able to use all functions of our website.
For third-party cookies, see VIII and IX below.
This information is generally transferred to a server of Google in the USA and saved there. For our order, Google will use this information to analyse the use of the website to compile reports on website activities on our behalf and in order to provide further services associated with the use of the website and Internet. An IP address transferred by your browser will not be combined with other data from Google.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by configuring your browser software accordingly (cf. VII).
On our websites, Google Analytics is supplemented with the extension "anonymizeIP". As a result, the IP addresses are not sent to Google with reference to persons, instead the last three numbers are anonymized.
You can furthermore prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie (including the IP address of the accessing computer) by Google with respect to your use of the websites as well as the processing of this data by downloading and installing the following browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Furthermore, you have the possibility of creating an opt-out cookie, which prevents the subsequent collection of your data when surfing on our websites. This cookie is valid for the browser used and only for the website used; it is saved on your computer. If cookies are deleted in the settings of the browser used, the opt-out cookie must be recreated.
Our website uses social network plugins (Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube). Integration occurs on one hand by means of links; in this case, after the corresponding link has been clicked, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data that is transferred to third parties by clicking the links.
On the other hand, the content of our pages can be directly integrated on social networks in individual cases (e.g. Twitter, Youtube). Cf. the details below.
If we use the LIKE or SHARE button on our websites in the future, the social plugins of Facebook, the US company Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, are used. We currently do not use these buttons – if this changes, we will inform you accordingly.
We currently only integrate the Facebook timeline of the OSA service for young people on the page with youth offers. Through the integration of the plugins, Facebook is informed that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) will be transferred by your browser directly to a server of Facebook in the USA and saved there.
If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can attribute the visit to our website to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, the corresponding information will also be transferred to a server of Facebook and saved there. The information is also saved on Facebook and shown to your Facebook friends.
Facebook can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and needs-based design of the Facebook pages. For this, Facebook creates profiles regarding usage, interests and relationships e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the ads shown to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users of your activities on our website and to perform services associated with the use of Facebook.
If you would not like Facebook to attribute the data collected on our website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our website.
You can learn about the purpose and scope of data collection, the further processing and usage of data by Facebook as well as your rights in this respect and configuration possibilities for the protection of your private sphere here Facebook privacy notice.
Plugins from the short message network Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA are integrated in our website. You can recognise the Twitter plugins (tweet button) by the Twitter logo on our page.
We currently only integrate the Twitter timeline of the Canton of Waadt on the pages of the Canton of Waadt. If you have activated social plugins, a direct connection will be created between your browser and the Twitter server. Twitter will therefore be informed that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you click Twitter's "tweet button" while you are logged into your Twitter account, you can link the content of our pages to your Twitter profile. As a result, Twitter is able to attribute the visit to our pages to your user account. Please note that as a provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data that is transferred nor its use by Twitter. If you do not wish for Twitter to attribute your visit to our pages, please log out of your Twitter user account.
You can find more information in the privacy statement of Twitter.
Youtube videos are embedded in the "Videos" section on our websites. As a result, plugins from the Youtube page operated by Google are used. The operator is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you access the web pages of our websites provided with such a plug, a connection is established to the servers of YouTube. At the same time, the YouTube server will be informed that you have visited our pages.
If you are logged into YouTube as a member, YouTube will attribute this information to your personal user account. If the plugin is used e.g. by clicking the start button for a video, this information will also be attributed to your user account. You can prevent such attributing by logging out of your YouTube user account and other user accounts of the companies YouTube LLC and Google Inc. before using our website and delete the corresponding cookies of the companies.
You can find more information on data processing and notes on data protection by YouTube at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
You have the right to demand information regarding your personal data we save at any time. This information is generally provided free of charge (Art. 15 DSGVO).
You have the right to demand the correction and completion of incorrect personal data concerning your person (Art. 16 DSGVO).
You have the right to demand the restriction of data processing and/or to object to data processing (Art. 18 DSGVO).
You have the right to demand the deletion of personal data if the data was collected for purposes, for which it is no longer necessary to the extent you revoke your consent or, to the extent the data processing is not based on a legal obligation, to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or in other cases allowed by law in accordance with Art. 6 DSGVO. Art. 17 DSGVO forms the legal basis.
You have the right to demand that your personal data be issued (right to data portability) or the forwarding of your data to a third party you designate (Art. 20 DSGVO).
Based on Art. 21 DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct advertising or profiling in connection with direct advertising.
Furthermore, you have the right, for reasons attributed to your particular situation, to object to the processing of data, which is based on para. 6 para. 1 lit. e (public interest) or lit. f (legitimate interest).
If you assert an interest, which outweighs our legitimate interests in an individual case, we will no longer process your data.
Based on Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO, you have the right to revoke consent to data processing that you have given. This shall not affect the legitimacy of the processing of the data that occurred on the basis of consent up to revocation.
We do not use any automated individual decision-making in the sense of Art. 22 DSGVO. If we use such methods in individual cases in the future, we will inform you separately.
Furthermore, we do not perform any profiling. We merely determine the countries from which access operations originate and which parts of our websites are visited as well as the frequency of visits in order to optimise the websites (cf. VIII).
We save the data you provided to us as long as necessary for the aforementioned purposes (for example, as long as you use the member area of www.swisscommunity.org), or as long as, on our part, there is a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO or – to the extent data processing is based on your consent - as long as you have not revoked your express consent in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. Any statutory retention regulations shall remain expressly reserved.

References: Art. 13
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 Art. 17
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