Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice describes how your personal data is processed when you visit and use this website.

This Privacy Policy has been machine-translated. In case of doubt, the original German version shall prevail.

This privacy policy provides information about the processing of personal data in connection with our activities and operations, including our website under the domain name act-4-children.org. In particular, we provide information on why, how and where we process which personal data. We also provide information about the rights of persons whose data we process.

We may publish further data protection declarations or other information on data protection for individual or additional activities and operations.

We are subject to Swiss law and any applicable foreign law, in particular that of the European Union (EU) with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In its decision of 26 July 2000, the European Commission recognised that Swiss data protection law ensures adequate data protection. In its report of 15 January 2024, the European Commission confirmed this adequacy decision.

1. Contact addresses

Responsible in the sense of data protection law is

ACT for Children Foundation
Mühlebachstrasse 2
8024 Zurich
Switzerland

info@act-4-children.org

In individual cases, third parties may be responsible for the processing of personal data or there may be joint responsibility with third parties. We are happy to provide data subjects with information about the respective responsibility on request.

2. Terms and legal bases

2.1 Terms

Data subject: Natural person about whom we process personal data.

Personal data: All information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Particularly sensitive personal data: Data about trade union, political, religious or ideological views and activities, data about health, privacy or membership of an ethnic or racial group, genetic data, biometric data that uniquely identifies a natural person, data about criminal and administrative sanctions or prosecutions, and data about social assistance measures.

Processing: Any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, such as the retrieval, comparison, adaptation, archiving, storage, reading, disclosure, procurement, collection, recording, erasure, disclosure, organisation, storage, modification, dissemination, linking, destruction and use of personal data.

European Economic Area (EEA): Member States of the European Union (EU) as well as the Principality of Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway.

2.2 Legal basis

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, DPA) and the Ordinance on Data Protection (Data Protection Ordinance, DPO).

If and insofar as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable, we process personal data in accordance with at least one of the following legal bases:

Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data for the fulfilment of a contract with the data subject and for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data in order to safeguard legitimate interests – including the legitimate interests of third parties – unless the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject prevail. Such interests are, in particular, the permanent, humane, secure and reliable performance of our activities and operations, the guarantee of information security, protection against misuse, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with Swiss law.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable law of Member States in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR for the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR for the processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
Art. 9 para. 2 ff. GDPR for the processing of special categories of personal data, in particular with the consent of the data subject.

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) characterises the processing of personal data as the processing of personal data and the processing of particularly sensitive personal data as the processing of special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR).

3. Type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data

We process the personal data required to carry out our activities and operations in a sustainable, humane, secure and reliable manner. The processed personal data may fall into the categories of browser and device data, content data, communication data, metadata, usage data, master data including inventory and contact data, location data, transaction data, contract data and payment data. The personal data may also constitute particularly sensitive personal data.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly accessible sources or collect in the course of our activities and operations, insofar as such processing is permitted.

Where necessary, we process personal data with the consent of the data subjects. In many cases, we may process personal data without consent, for example to fulfil legal obligations or to protect overriding interests. We may also ask data subjects for their consent if their consent is not required.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose. We anonymise or delete personal data in particular depending on statutory retention and limitation periods.

4. Automation and artificial intelligence (AI)

We may process personal data by automated means or use artificial intelligence for the processing of personal data.

We may use profiling to automatically evaluate certain personal aspects relating to data subjects. Profiling is used, for example, to analyse or predict interests, behaviour or personal preferences.

In individual cases, we provide information about decisions that are based exclusively on the automated processing of personal data and are associated with legal consequences for the data subjects or significantly affect them (automated individual decisions).

5. Disclosure of personal data

We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties or process it jointly with third parties. Such third parties are, in particular, specialised providers whose services we use.

For example, we may disclose personal data to banks and other financial service providers, authorities, educational and research institutions, consultants and lawyers, interest groups, IT service providers, cooperation partners, credit and business information agencies, logistics and shipping companies, marketing and advertising agencies, media, organisations and associations, social institutions, telecommunications companies, insurance companies and payment service providers.

6. communication

We process personal data in order to be able to communicate with individuals as well as with authorities, organisations and companies. In particular, we process data that a data subject transmits to us when contacting us, for example by post or e-mail. We may store such data in an address book or with comparable tools.

Third parties who transmit data about other persons to us are obliged to independently ensure the data protection of these data subjects. In particular, they must ensure that such data is correct and may be transmitted.

7. Data security

We take suitable technical and organisational measures to ensure data security appropriate to the respective risk. With our measures, we guarantee in particular the confidentiality, availability, traceability and integrity of the processed personal data, without being able to guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our website and our other digital presence takes place using transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated to HTTPS). Most browsers warn against visiting a website without transport encryption.

Our digital communication – like all digital communication – is subject to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA) and other countries. We cannot directly influence the corresponding processing of personal data by secret services, police forces and other security authorities. We also cannot rule out the possibility that a data subject may be subject to targeted surveillance.

8. Personal data abroad

We generally process personal data in Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we may also export or transfer personal data to other countries, in particular in order to process it or have it processed there.

We may export personal data to all countries on earth and elsewhere in the universe, provided that the local law guarantees adequate data protection in accordance with the decision of the Swiss Federal Council and – if and insofar as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable – also in accordance with the decision of the European Commission.

We may transfer personal data to countries whose laws do not guarantee adequate data protection, provided that data protection is guaranteed for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or with other suitable guarantees. Exceptionally, we may export personal data to countries without adequate or appropriate data protection if the special requirements under data protection law are met, for example the express consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract. Upon request, we will be happy to provide data subjects with information about any guarantees or provide a copy of any guarantees.

9. Rights of data subjects

9.1 Claims under data protection law

We grant data subjects all rights in accordance with the applicable law. Data subjects have the following rights in particular:

Information: Data subjects can request information as to whether we process personal data about them and, if so, what personal data is involved. Data subjects also receive the information required to assert their data protection claims and ensure transparency. This includes the processed personal data as such, but also information on the purpose of processing, the duration of storage, any disclosure or export of data to other countries and the origin of the personal data.
Correction and restriction: Data subjects can have incorrect personal data corrected, incomplete data completed and the processing of their data restricted.
Possibility for own point of view and human review: In the case of decisions based exclusively on the automated processing of personal data that have legal consequences for them or significantly affect them (automated individual decisions), data subjects can present their own point of view and request a review by a human being.
Erasure and objection: Data subjects can have their personal data erased (‘right to be forgotten’) and object to the processing of their data with effect for the future.
Data disclosure and data transfer: Data subjects may request the surrender of personal data or the transfer of their data to another controller.

We may defer, restrict or refuse the exercise of data subjects’ rights to the extent permitted by law. We may inform data subjects of any requirements that must be met in order to exercise their rights under data protection law. For example, we may refuse to provide information in whole or in part with reference to confidentiality obligations, overriding interests or the protection of other persons. For example, we may also refuse to delete personal data in whole or in part, in particular with reference to statutory retention obligations.

In exceptional cases, we may charge costs for the exercise of rights. We will inform data subjects of any costs in advance.

We are obliged to take appropriate measures to identify data subjects who request information or assert other rights. Data subjects are obliged to co-operate.

9.2 Legal protection

Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection claims through legal action or to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

The data protection supervisory authority for private controllers and federal bodies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

European data protection supervisory authorities are organised as members of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). In some member states of the European Economic Area (EEA), the data protection supervisory authorities are organised on a federal level, particularly in Germany.

10. Use of the website
10.1 Cookies

We may use cookies. Cookies – our own cookies (first-party cookies) as well as cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) – are data that are stored in the browser. Such stored data need not be limited to traditional cookies in text form.

Cookies can be stored in the browser temporarily as ‘session cookies’ or for a certain period of time as so-called permanent cookies. ‘Session cookies’ are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies have a specific storage period. In particular, cookies make it possible to recognise a browser the next time it visits our website and thus, for example, to measure the reach of our website. However, permanent cookies can also be used for online marketing, for example.

Cookies can be completely or partially deactivated, restricted or deleted at any time in the browser settings. The browser settings often also allow automated deletion and other management of cookies. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We actively request your express consent to the use of cookies – at least if and to the extent required by applicable law.

10.2 Logging

We may log at least the following information for each access to our website and our other digital presence, insofar as this information is transmitted to our digital infrastructure during such accesses: Date and time including time zone, IP address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, individual subpage of our website accessed including amount of data transferred, last website accessed in the same browser window (referrer).

We record such information, which may also constitute personal data, in log files. The information is required to provide our digital presence in a permanent, user-friendly and reliable manner. The information is also required to ensure data security – also by third parties or with the help of third parties.

10.3 Tracking pixels

We can integrate tracking pixels into our digital presence. Tracking pixels are also known as web beacons. Tracking pixels – including those from third parties whose services we use – are usually small, invisible images or scripts written in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when our digital presence is accessed. Tracking pixels can be used to record at least the same information as is recorded in log files.

11. Services from third parties

We use the services of specialised third parties in order to be able to carry out our activities and operations in a sustainable, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. Among other things, we can use such services to embed functions and content in our website. In the case of such embedding, the services used collect the IP addresses of users at least temporarily for technically compelling reasons.

For necessary security-related, statistical and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data in connection with our activities and operations in aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised form. This is, for example, performance or usage data in order to be able to offer the respective service.

11.1 Digital infrastructure

We use the services of specialised third parties in order to be able to use the necessary digital infrastructure in connection with our activities and operations. This includes, for example, hosting and storage services from selected providers.

We use in particular:

Hostpoint: Hosting; Provider: Hostpoint AG (Switzerland); Data protection information: Privacy policy.

11.2 Digital content

We use services from specialised third parties to integrate digital content into our website. Digital content includes, in particular, image and video material, music and podcasts.