Privacy Policy | Verein Carbon Copy

12.10.2022

Carbon Copy – Privacy & User Policy

General

The Verein Carbon Copy(CC) takes the protection of your data seriously. We want you to feel secure when using our Carbon Copy online services. Here we explain what data we collect and how we use it.

Personal data that you provide to CC when using online services is processed in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) and other legal provisions. The term online offers refers to a the website (www.carbon-copy.org) and the App Carbon Copy ZH.

CC is committed to the following principles:

Civic Transparency: We want to help citizens voice their opinions, and get clarity on other opinions, this is why we process opinions and personal data.
relevance: knowledge of audience expectations is central to the continuous improvement of our program quality. That is why we process personal data.
transparency: data protection is our top priority. Therefore, we inform our users about the purpose of the processing. Where necessary, we obtain the users' consent.
security: data security is our top priority. We take all necessary technical and organizational measures. In addition, we do not sell any data.
freedom of choice: users have the option of using the fee-financed content and services without providing personal data.

Responsible body

The responsible body (responsible party) is Verein Carbon Copy, Oescherstrasse 26, CH-8702.

General

CC considers it important that its users are informed about when, for what purposes and which personal data is processed.

CC reserves the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time. You should therefore read this privacy statement regularly. You will find the respective update date (status) at the beginning of this data protection declaration.

What is personal data?

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g. name, address, telephone number, date of birth or e-mail address).

The use of certain online offers may require the disclosure of personal data, for example, the registration for a newsletter, comments, or participation in a contest.

Personal data is therefore not processed in principle, but only under certain circumstances and for certain purposes.

When is personal data processed for CC Online offerings?

For the provision of CC Online offerings, CC or third parties process personal data within the scope of:

A. Websites: Personal data is processed via log files, cookies, analysis tools, contact forms and plugins of social media and other providers.

B. User-generated content: Personal data is collected via forums, chats and blogs and processed in the form of user-generated content.

C. Newsletters: personal data is processed on the basis of your consent when registering for newsletters.

D. Contact forms: Personal data is processed via contact forms in the context of suggestions and questions regarding our offer.

E. Competitions: Personal data is processed via contact forms in the context of participation in competitions.

F. Apps: Location use from the Carbon Copy ZH app: we use your location data in the background to display on the Carbon Copy user map.

For what purposes is personal data processed?

Provision of the online offer for users
Optimization of the online offer (e.g. market research and coverage measurement)
Personalization of the online offer for the users of the online offer
Dispatch of e-mail newsletters
Implementation of competitions
Data security for the users of the online offer

On what legal basis does CC process personal data?

If we obtain your consent for the processing of personal data, this serves as the legal basis. This is the case, for example, with newsletters, comments or competitions.

We also process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest. This includes processing for the purpose of providing and optimizing the online offer.

If personal data is processed on the basis of a legal obligation, this serves as the legal basis. This may be the case, for example, with the transfer of personal data to third parties, the storage period or retention periods.

Disclosure of personal data to third parties

Is personal data passed on to third parties?

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if you have given your consent or if we have a legitimate interest in doing so.

In addition, data may be transferred to third parties if we are required to do so by law or by enforceable official or court order.

Are third parties used for the processing of data?

We use service providers for the processing of data. Service providers are usually involved as so-called order processors who may only process the personal data of users of our online service in accordance with our instructions. For example, your e-mail address may be passed on to a service provider so that they can send you a newsletter that you have ordered.

Is personal data transferred to recipients in a third country (outside CH/EU/EEA)?

We also disclose personal data to third parties or order processors that are not based in Switzerland and in non-EU/EEA countries. In this case, we ensure before the transfer that either an adequate level of data protection exists at the recipient (e.g. based on an adequacy decision for the respective country of use of standard contractual clauses of the European Union or the model contract of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC)) or that our users have given their consent.

Duration of storage and retention periods. How long does CC retain personal data?

We store your data for as long as is necessary to provide our online offering and the associated services or for as long as we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it. In all other cases, we will delete your personal data with the exception of data that we need to fulfil legal obligations (e.g. storage obligations).

Rights of users: What are your data subject rights?

Right of access: users have the right to request confirmation from the data controller as to what personal data is being processed about them and whether this data is being transferred to a third country.
Right to rectification: Users have the right to request that the data controller correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data concerning them.
Right to deletion: users have the right to demand that the data be deleted immediately if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, and other legal provisions do not prevent its deletion.
Right to restriction of processing: users have the right to demand that the data controller restrict processing.
Right of withdrawal of consent: Users have the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data concerning them for one or more specific purposes at any time, if the processing is based on their explicit consent. Despite revocation, the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of their consent until revocation is not affected.
Right of objection: Users have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to them, if the processing is carried out on the basis of the legitimate interest of the controller or a third party, or is carried out for the purpose of direct marketing.

How can you exercise your rights?

To exercise your right, please contact: hi@carbon-copy.org, link opens in a new window in your browser. You can find further information in the footer of the website: (www.carbon-copy.org

Contact data protection

For information and suggestions on the subject of data protection, we or our CC data protection advisors are at your disposal at the e-mail hi@carbon-copy.org, The link will open in a new window in your browser.

If you would like to contact us, you can reach us as follows:

Verein Carbon Copy

Oescherstrasse 26

CH-8702 Zollikon

E-mail: hi@carbon-copy.org, The link will open in a new windowin your browser

Content rights

Property of CC: The content of CC's Internet platforms, APPS and its online offering is protected by copyright. The content, in particular videos, texts, text excerpts, interactive applications, or image material, may not be modified, transmitted, disseminated, stored, copied, recompiled or republished - not even in part - without the prior written consent of CC.

The use of the material provided is permitted exclusively for private, non-commercial purposes; in particular, the videos may not be sold or used for advertising purposes. Embedding any CC content in a context that violates legal provisions or morality, in particular in a context that is defamatory, glorifies violence, racist, defamatory, pornographic or harmful to minors, is not permitted.

Rights of use to CC content:

CC grants the user a simple, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to all software, directories, data and their content of the CC website that is expressly made available for downloading, which is limited to one-time downloading and storage. All further rights remain with CC. In particular, sale and any commercial use are prohibited.

User Generated Content

Upload of data (videos, audios, texts, images): If the user uploads content to the interactive offerings, CC is thereby granted a right of use to the uploaded content that is unlimited in terms of time, space and subject matter. The content can also be embedded and played as a link on third-party sites or made available for retrieval by means of uploads on third-party sites (in particular social media pages). The rights of use are provided free of charge. Even if the content is not published, the user agrees to such promotion.

The user warrants that he or she has all rights to upload the content. In this regard, the user indemnifies CC against any recourse, legal disputes, claims for damages and other actions and claims that third parties may initiate and assert with regard to the publication of his or her videos, audios and images.

Indemnification

The user shall indemnify CC against all claims which third parties may assert following the use of user-generated content. All costs, in particular due to legally valid claims for damages against CC, shall be borne by the user.

Liability

CC is not liable - to the extent permitted by law - for data and information disseminated on CC's Internet platforms, nor for any damage arising therefrom. This applies to all types of damage, in particular damage that may be caused by errors, delays, or interruptions in transmission, in the event of infrastructure faults, incorrect content, loss or deletion of data, viruses or in any other way when using the CC Internet platforms.

CC may link to third-party sites for information purposes. In this case, CC accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy, legality, or functionality of third-party websites to which reference is made by means of links or tools from CC's Internet platforms. Page views via links are at the user's own risk.

CC does not guarantee uninterrupted access to its Internet platforms or to its online offerings, nor does it guarantee uninterrupted quality of access; in particular, it does not guarantee the failure of communication networks and gateways. With regard to accessibility and the scope of functions, CC is free to determine the time periods in which the websites and content are not available for technical reasons, for reasons of improving the services offered or optimizing their handling. CC does not guarantee that its Internet platforms, apps and other applications will function without interruption or error and that any errors will be corrected.