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Women in Web3 Switzerland („WiW3CH”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a non-for-profit organization that is committed to protecting your personal data. In this privacy policy (Privacy Policy), we provide you with comprehensive information about how we handle your personal data. Your personal data will be collected, processed, and used exclusively in accordance with legal requirements and in good faith.

This Privacy Policy specifies the handling of personal data in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection ("FADP"). For a copy of this Privacy Policy, please download the document here.
 

CONTACT DETAILS

WiW3CH is responsible for the processing of personal data for the purposes listed below. If you have any questions, we are available to answer your data protection concerns at the following address:

Women in Web3 Switzerland (WiW3CH)
c/o Rennweg 57
CH - 8001 Zürich
wiw3ch@gmail.com

 

A. GENERAL
1. Scope of processing

We collect your personal data for the following purposes:

• Fulfilling our legal obligations

• Honoring our agreement with you

• Visiting our website

• Organizing activities (e.g., events, workshops, communication with you, etc.).
  The purposes of data processing primarily depend on the specific activity you chose to engage with. When we receive your consent, we may evaluate the personal data provided for marketing purposes.
  In case you decide to contact us or to enter into an agreement with us, we may process your contact details: your first and last name, e-mail address, address, telephone numbers, position, associated company/office.
  In case you decide to become a member of WiW3CH, we may process the contact information provided such as name, email address, phone number, payment information. To be able to process your payment we use the payment services provided by WIX. For more information on their data privacy policy, please visit https://www.wix.com/about/privacy.
  As part of the organizing activities, we may process your image by taking photographs. With the registration for any of our events you agree to the recording of images of your person as well as to the publication of the images for the mentioned purposes described in this paragraph. These will be used to document the event, i.e., subsequently on our websites, blogs, and social media channels, as well as in brochures, if applicable. You can revoke the consent given with the registration for the creation of images and their publication at any time until the beginning of the event to the responsible persons.

• Speaker inquiries, and event / conference ticket lotteries

 

In case you respond to our speaker inquiries or ticket lotteries, we may process your contact details: your first and last name, e-mail address, Telegram handle, LinkedIn profile, position, associated company/office.

 

• Newsletter
   

By subscribing to our newsletter, you consent to the collection, storage, and processing of your personal data, including your email address and preferences, for the purpose of delivering tailored content, event invitations and updates from Women in Web3 Switzerland. You can cancel your newsletter subscription at any time by clicking the link at the end of the newsletter.
 

2. Transfer of data to third parties

We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if you expressly consent to this, if there is a legal obligation or permission to do so, if the disclosure is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or if the disclosure of data is necessary for the management of contractual relationships with you.

Service providers that we engage with are mentioned below in this Privacy Policy.

3. Cross border data transfer

The transfer of personal data to countries outside of Switzerland may be based on the respective adequacy decisions of the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ("FDPIC").

We have taken appropriate measures to ensure that the relevant personal data is available in Switzerland at all times.
 

Under special circumstances, your personal data may be transferred abroad, when you allow us to share your personal data with Eventbrite, Luma, Membership Spreadsheets or other third party event sites, you decide to make membership payments through our Website.
 

4. Storage periods

We retain your personal information for as long as we deem it necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws or as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. We delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer needed and in any case after the expiry of the maximum retention period of five or ten years, respectively, as required by law. Personal data that is no longer necessary and for which there is no legal obligation to retain it will be destroyed once the purpose and justification for doing so no longer apply.
 

5. Security

We take reasonable measures to ensure that your personal data cannot be accessed or stolen by unauthorized third parties. We use SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator.
 

6. Your rights

Upon request, we can provide you at any time with information about which personal data about you is being processed. Subsequently, in certain cases, you have a right to data portability and thus to the release of your personal data in a structured, common, and machine-readable format. Under certain conditions, you may object to the data processing and request its restriction as well as the correction and/or deletion of your personal data. In addition, you have a right to lodge a complaint in relation to the processing of your personal data to the Swiss data protection authority: Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Feldeggweg 1, CH - 3003 Bern, Tel. +41 58 462 43 95, Website:https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/der-edoeb/kontakt/kontaktformular.html

7. Automated decision making and profiling

We generally do not use fully automated decision-making. Should we use these procedures in individual cases, we will inform you about this separately if this is required by law.
 

B. WEBSITE

Visiting our website
 

When you visit our website, we only collect the personal data that your browser sends to the server (e.g., your IP address, the website which you are visiting us from, the date and time of access, the name and URL of the file accessed). If you decide to contact us, we may collect your name, your email address, and any other information which you choose to give us. In no case do we use the collected data to draw conclusions about your person or to create user profiles with the help of this data.
 

For the creation of our website, we have used WIX, a company with its headquarter in Tel Aviv, having their address at 40 Namal Tel Aviv St., Tel Aviv, Israel. WIX’s privacy policy is available at https://www.wix.com/about/privacy. Their servers’ locations are in Europe and US.
 

The website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
 

Visiting the ticket shop on Luma

Luma, Inc. We are organizing multiple events to which you have the opportunity to register for participation. In doing so, you must provide us with your first and last name, and valid e-mail address. By using Luma, you agree to the collection and use of information by Luma.  More information about the handling of user data at Luma can be found at https://lu.ma/privacy-policy
 

C. COOKIES

We use cookies on our website to optimize our services. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of the use of our website. You can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer, or a notification always appears before a cookie is installed. Complete deactivation of cookies may result in the website not working or not working fully. The data processed by cookies is necessary for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests. Furthermore, we only process technically unnecessary cookies if we have voluntarily given your consent.
 

Before cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown our Privacy Policy section C in a bottom bar requesting your consent to set those cookies.
 

The following cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
 

ESSENTIAL COOKIES:

These cookies are strictly necessary for the Website to properly function, and therefore cannot be disabled by users.

• Name: fedops.logger.defaultOverrides Provider: WIX
  Purpose: Used for stability/effectiveness measurement

• Name: hs Provider: WIX
  Purpose: Used for security reasons

• Name: svSession Provider: WIX
  Purpose: Used in connection with user login

• Name: rc::a
  Provider: reCAPTCHA
   

  Purpose: Used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software.

PERFORMANCE AND FUNCTIONALITY
 

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website, but are not essential to its use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

• Name: XSRF-TOKEN
  Provider: Advertiser's website domain
  Purpose: This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

• Name: fedops.logger.defaultOverrides Provider: Wix
  Purpose: Used for stability/effectiveness measurement

• Name: TS#
  Provider: Typescript
  Purpose: Increases website security. It is also a session cookie.
   

D. SOCIAL MEDIA PLUGINS

We use social media plugins from LinkedIn, X (formerlyTwitter and Instagram on our website which are identified by the buttons of the same name. We use these services to make ourselves better known and to be able to get in touch with you.
 

Responsibility for data protection-compliant operation lies with the respective providers. Data is only transmitted to the aforementioned providers if you are logged into the corresponding platform with your profile. We have no influence on the processing of your personal data on their websites and therefore decline any liability. 

Further information on LinkedIn can be found https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and about X (formerly Twitter) on https://twitter.com/de/privacy and about Instagram on https://help.instagram.com/196883487377501

 

E. TELEGRAM

Telegram is a communication service. Telegram Group Inc, is located in the British Virgin Islands.

We use Telegram for communication and organization purposes. Joining our Telegram chat is your own free choice and in no circumstance, it is a pre-condition for your membership. We do not process your personal data from Telegram, unless you decide to share with us personal data. Please be aware that responsibility for data protection-compliant operation lies with Telegram. We have no influence on the processing of your personal data on their platform and therefore decline any liability. Further information on Telegram can be found: https://telegram.org/privacy?setln=fa#1-4-eea-representative
 

F. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about the website or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at wiw3ch@gmail.com.
 

G. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be immediately posted on the website, and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of the website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up to date.

Last update: August 2024