Privacy policy
The Precious Forests Foundation respects your privacy
The operators of this website www.precious-forests.foundation (“Website”) take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. This definition includes, where applicable, the definitions of the Swiss Data Protection Act (as amended) (“DPA”) and/or the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The collection, processing, and use of your data is carried out within the framework of the legal regulations and this data protection declaration.
In the following, we explain what information is collected during your visit to this website and how it is used. The responsible party within the meaning of the data protection laws is the Precious Forests Foundation, Hermetschloostrasse 70/4.1, 8048 Zurich, Switzerland, Tel. ++41/ 44/ 562 44 80.
Please read this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) carefully and make sure you understand it. Your acceptance of the Statement is deemed to occur upon your first use of the Website and/or upon submission of an application. If you do not accept and agree with this Statement, you must immediately stop using the Website and/or not provide us with any personal information when submitting an application.
Scope of application
This declaration applies to your use of the website as well as to the processing of personal data that you provide to us in the context of submitting an application.
The website may contain links to other internet sites. Please note that we have no control over how such websites collect, store or use your data. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of each website before submitting your information.
Data security
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Your rights to information, correction, blocking, deletion, restriction, data transfer, and objection.
You have the right to request a copy of your personal data stored by us (if any). Please contact us for further information at info@precious-forests.foundation.
You have the right to obtain information at any time about your personal data stored by us and the purpose for which it is stored. Likewise, you have the right to correction, blocking, restriction, data transfer or, apart from the mandatory data storage for business processing, deletion of your personal data.
If you have given your consent to the use of data, you can change or revoke it at any time.
If you have reason to object to the use of your personal data, please contact us using the details above and we will do our best to resolve the issue for you. If we cannot help, you also have the right to file a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”) and/or a competent EU supervisory authority (depending on the jurisdiction).
Purpose of use of personal data
Insofar as we collect personal data, it will only be processed and stored for as long as is necessary based on the purpose for which it was collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the DSG and/or the DSG-VO at all times.
We will use your personal data that you provide to us via this website or in the context of an application submission to send you emails as well as invitations to events or surveys, for the review of the application as well as for the monitoring and evaluation of funding projects.
You have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time and to request its deletion. We will perform the deletion upon receipt of your deletion request, unless a longer retention period is required by law or necessary to protect our legitimate interests.
We do not share your personal data with third parties.
Storage of personal data
We store your personal data only for as long as we need it to use it as described above and/or as long as there is a justification reason for longer retention. Justification reason may be your consent, a longer retention period required by law or justified by our legitimate interests.
Your data will only be stored within Switzerland and/or the European Economic Area (“EEA”). The EEA consists of all EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Collection of general information
With every access to this website, information is automatically collected by us or the provider. This information, also referred to as server log files, is of a general nature and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
The information collected includes: Name of the website, file, date, data volume, web browser and web browser version, operating system, the domain name of your Internet provider, the so-called referrer URL (the page from which you accessed our offer) and the IP address.
Without this data, it would not be technically possible to deliver and display the contents of the website. In this respect, the collection of the data is mandatory. In addition, we use the anonymous information for statistical purposes. They help us to optimize the offer and the technology. We also reserve the right to subsequently check the log files if we suspect illegal use of our offer.
Cookies
This website uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer from the server. Cookies fulfill two tasks in particular. They help us to make it easier for you to navigate through our offer and enable the correct display of the website. We do not pass on the data to third parties or link them to personal data.
Users have the option of accessing our offer without cookies. To do this, the appropriate settings must be changed in the browser. Please use the help function of your browser to find out how to deactivate cookies. However, we would like to point out that this may impair some of the functions of this website and limit user comfort.
Third-party services
We use services of third parties – also abroad, including the United States of America (USA) – in order to be able to provide our offer effectively, user-friendly as well as permanently, securely and reliably. Such services require your Internet Protocol (IP) address, otherwise the corresponding content cannot be delivered.
Third-party services used on this website:
- SSL encryption certificate
- Vimeo (for embedding video examples)
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- LinkedIn (button)
- Mailchimp (for the newsletter)
- Various cookies
Newsletter via Mailchimp
The dispatch of our newsletter is carried out using the dispatch service provider “MailChimp”, a newsletter dispatch platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
You can view the privacy policy of the mailing service provider here. The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with the European level of data protection. The shipping service provider is used on the basis of our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO and a contract processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 para. 3 p. 1 DSGVO.
The dispatch service provider may use the data of the recipients in pseudonymous form, i.e. without assignment to a user, to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. to technically optimize the dispatch and presentation of the newsletters or for statistical purposes. However, the dispatch service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass the data on to third parties.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the website or this statement, please contact us by email at info@precious-forests.foundation. Please make sure your request is clear, especially if it is a request for information about the data we hold about you.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
