WOMEN4CYBERSWITZERLAND.CH Privacy Notice
Thank you for showing interest in the Women4Cyber Switzerland (“W4C Switzerland”).
Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of Women4Cyber Switzerland.
This notice relates to the processing of your personal data by W4C Switzerland through the general Women4Cyber Switzerland website (the “Website”) in accordance with the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act.
1. Name and Address of the controller
Data Controller, for the purposes of the FDPA and other data protection laws applicable in Member States of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:
Women4Cyber Switzerland
1200 Geneva
Switzerland
Email: info@women4cyberswitzerland.ch
Website: www.women4cyberswitzerland.ch
2. Purpose and data processed
The purpose of the processing activity is to:
- enable the subscriptions to Women4Cyber’s newsletters.
- process necessary technical information relating to the Website’s visitors through log files, in order to support the Website’s security, on the basis of standard information security practices;
- enable the Website’s technical functioning by collecting and processing cookies (see below the relevant section to learn about the cookies).
The following personal data are being processed:
- Contact information for the subscription to the W4C Switzerland newsletter
- Personal information for becoming a members of the W4C Switzerland association
- Personal information for applying as a sponsor / partner of the W4C Switzerland association
- Information about your activity on our Website, including technical information for security purposes, such as log files, and cookies
3. Cookies
Women4Cyber Switzerland Website uses cookies. Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet, or phone) by a website. These can be used for the technical functioning of a website or for other purposes, such as providing a user with more personalised experience. Through the use of cookies, the Women4Cyber Switzerland can provide the users of this Website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting. By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our Website can be optimised with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognise our Website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilise our Website. The Website user that uses cookies, does not have to enter access data each time the Website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our Website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If you deactivate the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
4. Social Media
W4C Switzerland is active on one social media platforms.
Our presence in LinkedIn communities strengthens our online presence and visibility. By clicking on the LinkedIn buttons on W4C Switzerland website, you will be redirected to the selected site, which has its own cookie and privacy policies over which W4C Switzerland has no control. The W4C Switzerland Website does not set cookies when displaying links to our social media channels when you browse our Website. Each Social Media channel has its own policy on the way it processes your personal data when you access its website. For example, if you look at our LinkedIn activity on LinkedIn, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept LinkedIn cookies.
5. Existence of automated decision-making
The Women4Cyber Switzerland does not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
6. How long will the data be processed
The period for which personal data will be processed and stored depends on the purpose(s) of the processing. The data processed on the basis of the consent granted will be processed, stored until the consent is withdrawn or an objection is raised.
7. Data subject’s rights and verification
You have the right of access to your personal data and to relevant information concerning how W4C Switzerland uses it. You have the right to rectify your personal data. Under certain conditions, you have the right to ask that we delete your personal data or restrict its use. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time. W4C Switzerland will consider your request, take a decision and communicate it to you.
If you have any queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you may address them to Women4Cyber Switzerland at info@women4cyberswitzerland.ch
At any moment, you are able to contact the Women4Cyber Switzerland to have more information about this policy and our Website. To do this, please contact info@women4cyberswitzerland.ch
You have the right of recourse at any time to the FFPDT.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Notice and agree to its terms.