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Friends of African Wildlife – Privacy Policy
Friends of African Wildlife, Dufourstrasse 93, 8008 Zurich (“FoAW“/“we“/“us“/“our“) attaches great importance to your privacy. This Privacy Policy demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of personal data that you share with us (“Personal Data“).
By accessing our website, contacting us via the contact form on the website or subscribing to our newsletter, you accept the current version of this privacy policy as published on our website. If you do not agree with all or part of the privacy policy, you may not access our website, contact us or request newsletters from us.
Personal data collected by us
We only collect the personal data that you provide to us when using the website, when contacting us via the contact form on our website or when registering for the newsletter (e.g. name, function, (e-mail) address, telephone number or other information required to answer your inquiry). This Privacy Policy also applies to the processing of personal data of other persons that you provide to us in connection with your contact (e.g. if you make a donation on behalf of another person). You are responsible for informing such persons of this Privacy Policy or ensuring that a copy of this Privacy Policy has been provided to such persons. You warrant that the other persons about whom you have provided personal data to FoAW have consented to this Privacy Policy and to the processing of their personal data as described herein.
Purposes of the processing of your personal data
We process your personal data as part of your use of our website, to answer your contact requests, to process donations and donation requests and to send you our newsletter.
Your personal data will only be processed by us and our IT providers, who are obliged to protect your personal data to the same extent.
We do not sell your personal data and only pass it on to third parties if this is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes or if this is required by applicable law.
Basis for the processing of your personal data
When processing your personal data for the purposes described herein, we rely on our legitimate interest in maintaining communication with you, communicating about our activities and projects or processing your donation, your consent or any other basis for lawful processing of your personal data under applicable law.
Protection of your personal data
The processing of or access to your personal data is restricted to those persons who absolutely need it. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data. All personal data is stored exclusively in a secure hosting environment in Switzerland and we ensure compliance with the applicable data protection legislation.
Your personal data will be transferred to South Africa and the USA. Any transfer of your personal data to countries that do not guarantee an adequate standard of data protection from a Swiss perspective is based on the standard data protection clauses of the EU (supplemented to meet the requirements of Swiss law).
Your rights
You have the right to know what personal data we process about you and to receive a copy of it in order to verify the lawfulness of the processing(right of access). If your personal data is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that it be corrected or completed(right to rectification). You can request the erasure of your personal data(right to erasure) or, in certain cases, a temporary restriction of processing(right to restriction of processing). You may also object to the processing of your personal data(right to object) and have the right to receive your personal data in machine-readable form and to transfer it to another provider if this is technically possible(right to data portability).
If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you also have the right to withdraw your consent. The processing prior to the revocation remains unaffected.
Storage of your personal data
We only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to respond to your inquiries, send newsletters and/or as required by applicable law or best practice.
Cookies
Our website partly uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
Contact us
If you are not satisfied with how we process your personal data, we would like to understand how we can address this. Please contact us at info@friends-of-african-wildlife.ch.
You also have the right to contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner or the data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence.
