Data protection regulations

1. General information

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and otherwise process personal data in connection with our efforts for town planning and good urban development. This is not an exhaustive description; other privacy policies or general terms and conditions, terms and conditions of participation and similar documents may govern specific matters.

If you provide us with the personal data of other persons, please make sure that these persons are aware of this Privacy Policy and only provide us with their personal data if you are permitted to do so and if the personal data in question is correct. You are also obligated to ensure that the Swiss Data Protection Act is complied with in relation to these persons.

This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), the Swiss Data Protection Act ("DSG") and the revised Swiss Data Protection Act ("revDSG"). However, whether and to what extent these laws are applicable depends on the individual case.

By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description. This website can generally be accessed without prior registration. When you access the website, data such as the accessed pages, the name of the retrieved file, or the date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without referring directly to you personally. Personal data, in particular your name, address or e-mail address, is as far as possible collected on a voluntary basis. Data is not transmitted to third parties without your consent.

2. Contact addresses

The company responsible for the processing of personal data that we operate here is:

URBANISTICA

Vereinigung für guten Städtebau
P.O. Box
8000 Zurich
Switzerland
info@urbanistica.ch

3. Processing of personal data

Personal data is understood to be all information relating to a identified or identifiable person. Processing refers to any handling of personal data regardless of the methods and procedures used, but in particular the retaining, announcement, obtaining, collection, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data

We mainly process the personal data that we receive or collect from our co-signatories, authors and newsletter subscribers or other advocates and supporters of the purpose of Urbanistica in connection with the operation of our websites, apps, LinkedIn, etc. and other applications as part of our efforts for town planning and good urban development.

We process personal data for any period that is required for the respective purpose(s) or by law. Personal data for which processing is no longer necessary will be anonymised or deleted. Persons whose data we process have a fundamental right to deletion. Personal data that is no longer required will be deleted within 36 months at the latest.

In principle, we only process personal data with the consent of the data subject, unless the processing is permissible for other legal reasons, such as for the fulfilment of a contract with the data subject and for corresponding pre-contractual measures in order to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests, because the processing is apparent from the circumstances or after prior information.

In this context, we process, in particular, the information that a data subject voluntarily and independently transmits to us when contacting us – for example by letter, e-mail, contact form, social media or telephone – or when registering for a user account. We may store such information, for example in an address book, in a Customer Relationship Management system (CRM system) or with similar tools.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly available sources or collect when providing our offer, insofar as such processing is permitted for legal reasons.

We may have personal data processed by commissioned third parties or process it jointly with and with the help of third parties, or transmit it to third parties. Such third parties are, in particular, providers whose services we use. We also guarantee appropriate data protection for such third parties.

Such third parties are in principle located in Switzerland and in the European Economic Area (EEA). However, such third parties may also be located in other states and territories on the Earth, as well as elsewhere in the universe, provided that their data protection laws guarantee adequate data protection according to the assessment of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), or if adequate data protection is guaranteed for other reasons, such as an appropriate contractual agreement, in particular on the basis of standard contractual clauses, or an appropriate certification. In exceptional cases, such a third party may be in a country without adequate data protection, provided that the data protection requirements, such as the express consent of the data subject, are met.

4. Purpose of data processing

We use the personal data to fulfil our ambitions for town planning and good urban development. In addition, we also process personal data about you and other persons, to the extent permitted and deemed appropriate to us, for the following purposes in which we have an interest commensurate with the purpose, in particular:

- Communication with third parties

- Advertising (including the sending of newsletters) and marketing, including the holding of events, unless you have objected to the use of your data for this purpose,

- Market and opinion surveys

5. Data security

We take appropriate and suitable technical and organisational measures to ensure data protection and, in particular, data security. However, despite such measures, the processing of personal data on the Internet can always have security gaps. We cannot therefore guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our online offerings is provided by means of transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS for short). Most browsers label transport encryption with a padlock in the address bar.

Access to our online offerings is – as is in principle the case for all Internet use – subject to mass unfounded surveillance, irrespective of suspicion, and other monitoring by security authorities in Switzerland, the European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA) and other countries. We cannot directly influence the processing of personal data by intelligence services, police services and other security authorities.

6. Use of the website

6.1 Cookies

We typically use ‘cookies’ and similar techniques on our websites and apps in order to identify your browser or device. A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer or automatically saved on your computer or mobile device by the web browser you use when you visit our website or install an app. If you visit this website or use our app again, we can recognise you even if we don’t know who you are. In addition to cookies that are only used during a session and deleted after your visit to the website (‘session cookies’), cookies may also be used to store user preferences and other information for a certain period of time (e.g. two years) ("permanent cookies"). However, you can set your browser so that it rejects cookies, only saves them for one session or otherwise deletes them at an earlier point. Most browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. We use permanent cookies to better understand how you use our offerings and content, and to show you offers and advertisements tailored to you (which can also happen on websites of other companies; however, they will not find out who you are from us (if we indeed know this information ourselves), as they will only see that their website is being accessed by the same user who was on a particular web page with us). If you block cookies, certain functionalities (such as language selection) may no longer work.

By using our websites and apps and by agreeing to receive newsletters and other marketing e-mails, you consent to the use of these techniques. If you do not wish for these techniques to be used, you will need to set your browser or e-mail program accordingly or uninstall the app, unless this can be changed via the settings.

We also use plug-ins from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest or Instagram on our websites. You can always see where these are being used (typically via the corresponding symbols). We have configured these elements to be disabled by default. If you activate them (by clicking on them), the operators of the respective social networks can register that you are on our website and where, and can use this information for their purposes. The processing of your personal data is then carried out under the responsibility of this operator in accordance with its data protection regulations. We do not receive any information about you from the operator.

6.2 Google Ads, Remarketing and Analytics

This website may use Google Conversion Tracking. In this case: If you have accessed our website via an ad placed by Google, Google Ads sets a cookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can detect that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of Ads customers. The information collected with the help of the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they will not receive any information that identifies users personally.

If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie for this purpose – by adjusting the appropriate setting in your browser, for example, which generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies, or by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain googleleadservices.com.

Please note that you must not delete the opt-out cookies if you do not want measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all your cookies in your browser, you will need to set the respective opt-out cookie again.

This website may use the Remarketing function of Google Inc. The function serves to present interest-based ads to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A "cookie" is stored in the browser of the website visitor, which makes it possible to recognise the visitor when he or she visits websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, the visitor may be presented with ads that refer to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.

According to its own information, Google does not collect any personal data during this process. If you do not want the Google Remarketing feature to be used, you can in principle disable it by selecting the appropriate settings here. Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the Advertising Network Initiative by following the Instructions.

This website may use Google Analytics.

6.3 Contact form

If you send us any enquiries via our contact form, we will save your details from this form, including the contact details you entered, for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for any follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

7. Social media

We are present on social media platforms and other online platforms in order to communicate with interested persons and provide information about our offerings. Personal data may also be processed outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA).

The general terms and conditions (T&Cs) and usage conditions as well as privacy policies and other provisions of the individual operators of such online platforms also apply in each case. In particular, these provisions provide information on the rights of data subjects, including in particular the right of access.

8. Rights of data subjects

Within the scope of the data protection law applicable to you and to the extent provided for therein, you have the right to access, rectification and deletion, the right to restrict data processing and otherwise to object to our data processing, in particular those for the purposes of direct marketing, profiling carried out for direct marketing and other legitimate interests in the processing as well as the disclosure of certain personal data for the purpose of transferring it to another body (so-called data portability). Please note, however, that we reserve the right to impose the restrictions provided by law, for example if we are obligated to store or process certain data, have an overriding interest in it (as far as we are entitled to rely on it) or need it for the assertion of claims. If you incur any costs, we will inform you in advance.

The exercise of such rights usually requires that you clearly prove your identity (e.g. by means of a copy of your ID if your identity is otherwise unclear or cannot be verified). To assert your rights, you can contact us at the address indicated in Section 1.

Any data subject also has the right to enforce his or her claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent Swiss data protection authority is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

Requests for information and release should be sent to: info@urbanistica.ch