Privacy Notice

We collect the information you provide to us when you contact us, use the registration form, when you register on the Website, or when you register or attend an event.

This includes the collection of general personal data such as your name and contact information, and, where relevant, details of your position or role within the organization you represent or serve.

When you register for an event, as a member or sponsor, we might also request your financial information, such as your preferred payment method and billing address.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties. This regularly includes personal data that we receive in correspondence or meetings with partners, members, suppliers, event partners, or other business partners, e.g. your name and details of your activity as an employee with the respective customer, supplier or business partner.

To the extent necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, we also collect general personal data from publicly accessible registers, websites or platforms (e.g. to verify your authorization to sign), by obtaining information from third parties, or information from the CSA global.

Use for information

You can find out about CSA Swiss Chapter and our activities on the Website without telling us who you are.

As with any connection to a web server, the server on which we have the Website provides automatically logs and stores certain technical data for a short time. This includes the IP address and operating system of your device, the date and time of use, and the type of browser you use to access the Website.

Web analytics

We use web analysis services (currently Google Analytics) to evaluate the use of the website and to obtain information for its optimization. The web analytics services we use collect and store user data using cookies. Before they are transmitted to a server outside Switzerland/EU/EEA, the requesting IP addresses are shortened. We therefore do not transmit any personal data to the providers of the web analytics services abroad.

Advertising Technologies

We use advertising technologies (e.g. Facebook Ads and Google Ads) on the Website and on the. This allows us to target users of our Website with advertising that is relevant to them when they visit other websites or online platforms and to analyze the success of such advertising campaigns (e.g., reach or impression measurement). The advertising materials are displayed on the websites you visit based on an analysis of your previous use of our Website. For this purpose, the providers of the advertising technologies set cookies when you visit our Website.

Social Plug-ins

The social plug-ins used on the Website allow you to recommend and share our content on social networks. You can recognize the social plug-ins on the Website by the logos of the respective social network. When you interact with the social plug-in, data is sent to the respective provider of the social network.

Resources from external websites

We include resources from external servers on our Website. These contain visible content as well as technical resources.

The technical resources are used to improve the performance or security of our Website. When retrieving these resources, the operator of the external servers learns your IP address and/or certain traffic data that are necessary for the use of the servers of the external operator.

Note on the use of cookies

We use cookies, tags, and similar technologies on the Website to provide you with the best possible user experience and to help us improve the Website. Cookies are text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use an app.

Some of the cookies we use are necessary to provide certain functions or content of the Website (e.g. the integration of videos or map functions)

You can instruct your browser not to accept cookies or to prompt you each time before a cookie is set. You can also delete cookies on your device by using the corresponding function of your browser.

Use of our social media pages

On our Swiss Chapter groups/pages in social media you will find posts about current developments at CSA Swiss Chapter as well as our range of services.

The social media providers collect and analyze usage data such as the number of visitors and demographic information about the visitors to our social media pages. We receive evaluations from the social media providers based on this data. These contain only aggregated or otherwise sufficiently anonymized data. Only the respective provider can identify you based on the usage data collected. Therefore, please observe the data protection information of the respective provider.

Use and optimization of our newsletter

When you sign up for or become a subscriber through the attendance of an event to our newsletter, we collect the information you provide to us. This includes general personal data such as first name, last name and email address.

You can inform us at any time that you do not wish to receive our newsletter in the future. Please use the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter.

Photo, video and sound recordings

We create photo, video or audio recordings of chapter events and other events (though you can tell us you don't want any close-ups of yourself).

For what purposes we process your personal data

We process your personal data primarily to inform you about our range of activities and to provide, document and invoice regarding membership and sponsoring in accordance with our statutes, our contractual and legal obligations.

In addition, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Responding to your inquiries and communicating with you;
• making available and optimizing the Website;
• marketing and advertising;
• optimization of our posts on our chapter pages in social media;
• information about new developments at CSA Swiss Chapter, CSA global and about new activities;
• organizing and carrying out events in which you participate;
• compliance with legal obligations; and
• enforcement of legal claims.

We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data in accordance with the aforementioned purposes. Some processing is also necessary for us to comply with our contractual obligations to you or with our legal obligations (e.g., retention obligations). 

How we store and protect your personal data

We store your personal data only to the extent and for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or to comply with legal obligations.

In the interest of the integrity and confidentiality of personal data, we take appropriate technical and organizational measures. In particular, we implement physical and logical access controls, and procedures to regularly review, assess, and evaluate the effectiveness of the measures in accordance with our risk assessment.

To whom we disclose your personal data

In order to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, it may be necessary for us to disclose your personal data to other organizations. These are the following categories of recipients:

• other CSA Swiss Chapters and/or the CSA global;
• external service providers;
• event partners;
• suppliers and other business partners (in the context of communication and service provision); and
• authorities and courts (if applicable).

Place of processing

We store and process your personal data primarily in Switzerland and the EU.

However, we may also transfer your personal data to recipients in countries outside Switzerland or the EU (worldwide). We transfer data to countries without adequate data protection on the basis of Standard Contractual Clauses or legal exceptions (e.g. necessity for contract performance).

Your rights in relation to your personal data

You have the following rights in relation to personal data relating to you:

• the right to obtain information about what personal data we hold about you and how we process it;
• the right to receive or transfer a copy of your personal data in a common format;
• the right to have your personal data rectified;
• the right to have your personal data deleted; and
• the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

Please note that legal requirements and exceptions apply to these rights. To the extent permitted by law, we may refuse your request to exercise these rights. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).