Data Protection
PETA Schweiz takes the protection of personal data very seriously. Therefore, we want to inform you, the user, about the nature, extent, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the responsible providers.
Responsible for data processing:
PETA Schweiz
Represented by Harald Ullmann
Hauptstrasse 72
8280 Kreuzlingen
+41 71 588 03 84
Info@peta-schweiz.ch
PETA Schweiz has appointed a data protection officer who may be contacted at the following address:
PETA Deutschland e.V.
Attn: Data protection officer
Hauptstrasse 72
8280 Kreuzlingen
datenschutz@peta.de
PETA Schweiz processes personal data in accordance with the DSG and the more specific regulations of the VDSG; furthermore PETA Schweiz also acts in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
I. Access Data and Server Log Files
PETA-named affiliates, such as PETA Germany, provide certain support services to PETA Schweiz. In order to provide those services, such affiliates may have access to personal data. The affiliates may also have access to personal data if it is necessary to optimise PETA Schweiz’s operational or campaigning activities or we have another legitimate interest in sharing it with them. The affiliates are only provided with the data that is necessary in order to fulfil the relevant service, and we have an agreement in place with each that requires them to operate with the same care regarding data protection as we do.
If you are using our website only to access information, we will not save any of your personal data and will use it only to assess and continuously improve our product in-house.
For example, PETA Schweiz, or the relevant internet service provider, gathers data – known as server log files – every time the website is accessed, which your browser transfers to PETA Deutschland, which provides PETA Schweiz with server support. This access data includes the following:
IP address
Time of website access
Website accessed
Server status code (e.g. defect note)
Size of the delivered object or transferred data, as relevant
Referrer URL (the website from which you came to our website)
Browser/system software
This data is stored for 365 days.
PETA Schweiz is entitled to gather, process, store, and use personal user data if this is necessary in order to enable the user to make use of our online services. We are furthermore entitled to access this data to maintain our websites' operability. In particular, we reserve the right to undertake subsequent protocol data checks if specific activity provides reasonable grounds for suspicion of illegal use.
II. Handling and Processing Personal Data
According to GDPR article 4(1), "personal data" are particulars regarding the personal or factual circumstances of a defined or definable natural person; therefore, this includes practically all data providing information about a person, such as the person's name, e-mail address, or phone number, and possibly also about hobbies, interests, or website use. According to GDPR article 4(2), data "processing" includes all processes related to personal data, such as, in particular, collecting, gathering, storing, adapting or editing, requesting, retrieving, using, transferring, deleting, or destroying data.
PETA Schweiz may collect, use, and pass on personal data to the extent permitted by law, or if the person in question has given approval. We sometimes engage external service providers to conduct commissioned data processing of personal data, but we remain authorised to direct the external service provider at all times. Other than as disclosed below, data is not passed on to third parties. Compliance with legal regulations is ensured contractually as well as through the relevant technical and organisational means applied by the party responsible and the commissioned data processor.
Donations
If you make a donation, place an order, or participate in a contest, you will be asked for your name, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone number, and – in the case of a donation or order – bank account or payment card details. PETA Schweiz saves this data in order to arrange payment. The data necessary for billing will be transferred to the relevant payment system provider. The conditions of the chosen provider apply.
If you choose to pay using PayPal, a credit card via PayPal, or direct debit via PayPal, we will pass on your payment data to PayPal (Europe) Sàrl et Cie, SCA, 22–24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereafter "PayPal") to arrange the payment. PayPal reserves the right to conduct a credit check for the payment methods of credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or – if this is given as an option – "purchase on account" via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of a credit check with regard to the statistical probability of non-payment to decide which payment method to offer. The credit check may include probability values (known as "score values"). Should score values have an impact on the result of the credit check, they are based on a scientifically approved mathematical-statistical method. The calculation of score values incorporates, among other information, address data. For further information on the credit agencies used and other data protection procedures, please read PayPal's data protection declaration.
If you choose to pay by credit card via the payment service provider Concardis, your payment will be processed by Concardis GmbH, Helfmann-Park 7, 65760 Eschborn, Germany. We will pass on to Concardis the information you gave us when you placed your order as well as information regarding your order. Your data is passed on only for the purpose of payment arrangement with Concardis. For details, please read Concardis' data protection declaration.
If you choose to pay using paydirekt, your payment will be processed by paydirekt GmbH, Hamburger Allee 26–28, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Your payment data (e.g. the payment amount and payee information) as well as your confirmation that all payment data is correct will be collected, processed, and transferred to your bank by paydirekt in order to process the payment. paydirekt authenticates the payment through your bank's authentication process. For further information on the transfer or processing of your data, please read paydirekt's data protection declaration.
If you provide PETA Schweiz with your postal address, it will be used to send you information regarding the ways we use donations to help animals. You may object to this use at any time, by contacting PETA Schweiz’ Data Protection Officer at the details above (Please see section III below).
Contacting Us
If you contact PETA Schweiz – for example, through our contact form or by e-mail – your information will be saved so that we can process your enquiry and handle any further questions.
Comments and Posts
If you leave comments on PETA Germany's blog or social media channels, your IP address will be saved for reasons of the provider's security. If a person were to use his or her comments or posts to publish illegal content, such as unlawful abuse or banned political propaganda, PETA Germany or PETA Schweiz could be prosecuted, therefore we need to know the author's identity.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to PETA Germany’s newsletter via an invitation displayed on PETA Schweiz’ website, PETA Germany will receive the contact information you provide in order to send you the newsletter PETA Germany uses its newsletter to provide you with regular information about its ife-saving animal rights work.
If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, you will be asked for your name and a valid e-mail address as well as information to validate that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided or that the owner of the e-mail address has agreed to receive the newsletter. No further data will be saved, by either PETA Schweiz or PETA Germany. The transferred data is used only to send out the newsletter.
The IP address transferred during the newsletter subscription, as well as the date of your subscription, are the only exceptions. They are stored by PETA Germany only for verification purposes should a third person subscribe to the newsletter without the knowledge of the person authorised to use the e-mail address provided.
Storage Period
We assume that the approval you gave PETA Schweiz to save your data when you were explicitly asked for it during the data transfer will remain valid for an unlimited period of time. This is why we do not delete data actively transferred to us, unless the person in question asks us to do so. This, of course, does not apply to the server log files automatically transferred from your device when you access our websites (which includes data such as the browser type, operation system used, referrer URL, and host name of the accessing computer). This data will automatically be deleted after 365 days at the latest.
III. The Rights of Affected Persons
PETA Schweiz aims to work as transparently as possible in processing personal data. We will therefore provide you with extensive information about your rights as an affected person. You are free to exercise these rights at any time, and in doing so, you will not incur any costs apart from your own costs for stamps or telephone usage.
Information
You may ask for a copy of all of your personal data stored by PETA Schweiz as well as information regarding this data's origin and possible recipients by contacting our data protection officer.
We may ask you to prove your identity, e.g. by providing us with a copy of your ID card, so that we can make sure that your data are not given to third parties without authorisation. This safety measure serves the purpose of protecting your data. The proof you provide will be deleted immediately after your identity has been verified.
Deleting or Amending Personal Data
In general, you are entitled to amend your personal data, limit their use, or ask PETA Schweiz to delete them at any time, unless deletion would be prohibited by legal retention periods; in that case, PETA Schweiz would block the use of the data in question in any type of processing. We generally assume that your approval has no time limitation. This means data that you actively transferred to us are not deleted unless you ask us to do so.
Right of Revocation
You are furthermore entitled to object to the use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time or to revoke your previous approval.
This includes the right to object completely or in part to being contacted by PETA Schweiz in the future. You may, for example, ask us to contact you less if you consider our mailings too frequent. You may furthermore amend the ways in which we may contact you (e.g. by specifying whether you agree to being contacted by post, phone, e-mail, or text message) at any time.
Right to Data Portability
You are entitled to receive the personal data you gave PETA Schweiz in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Contact Data
Should you have questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data; want to revoke a previous approval; or want to exercise any of your other rights as an affected person as described above, please use the following address to contact our data protection officer:
PETA Schweiz
Attn: Data protection officer
Hauptstrasse 72
8280 Kreuzlingen
Of course, you may also contact our data protection officer by e-mail at any time at datenschutz@peta-schweiz.ch.
Please note that if you revoke approval for the storage and processing of your data, PETA Schweiz will not be able to provide you with certain services, such as sending you our newsletter or letting you participate in contests.
Right of Complaint
Should you feel that PETA Schweiz's processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection laws, you may send a complaint to the relevant data protection agency.
IV. Inclusion of Third-Party Services and Content
Third-party content, such as YouTube videos, RSS feeds, or graphics from other websites, may be used within PETA Schweiz's websites. In such cases, the user's IP address must be recognised, as third-party content cannot be displayed in the user's browser without her or his IP address. PETA Schweiz endeavours to use only content for which the information required is limited to the IP address. However, we cannot influence whether third-party providers also store IP addresses for statistical or other purposes. Of course, we would inform our users if we learned about such use. The processing of your data by third-party content providers is subject to the relevant data protection regulations.
PETA Schweiz's partners, other websites and online services accessible through our websites, and our partners that collect data in connection with contests, promotions, etc, have their own data protection guidelines, which are independent of our policy. We are not responsible or liable for these guidelines, which are not connected to PETA Schweiz.
V. Use of Social Plugins
Facebook
PETA Schweiz provides links on its websites to social media accounts and content posted or maintained by PETA Germany, including PETA Germany’s Facebook presence. PETA Germany's internet presence uses social “plugins” by the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd, Hanover Reach, 5–7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"). The plugins are recognisable by one of Facebook's logos (a white "F" on a blue tile or a "thumbs up" symbol) or are marked by the words "Facebook Social Plugin". Please find a list and the images of these plugins here:
https://developers.facebook.com.
If you access a PETA Schweiz webpage that contains such a plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection to Facebook's servers. The plugin's content will be directly transferred from Facebook to your browser and then embedded in the webpage. As we have no influence over the amount of data that Facebook collects with this plugin, we would like to inform you about these plugins to the best of our knowledge:
By embedding plugins, Facebook is informed that you have accessed the relevant PETA Schweiz webpage. If you are logged in to Facebook, it can assign access to your Facebook account. If you interact with plugins, such as by using the "Like" button or posting a comment, the relevant information will be transferred directly to Facebook from your browser and saved there. If you are not logged in, Facebook may still find out and save your IP address.
To learn more about Facebook's policy regarding the purpose of its data collection, the amount collected, its processing and use of your data, your relevant rights, and the settings you can use to protect your privacy, please read Facebook's data protection policy.
If you are a Facebook user and don't want the platform to collect data about you through PETA Schweiz's websites and connect this with your Facebook user data, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our websites.
It is also possible to block Facebook's social plugins by using browser add-ons such as the "Facebook Blocker".
Twitter
PETA Schweiz uses Twitter buttons provided by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, U.S. ("Twitter"). They are recognisable by words such as "Twitter" and "Follow" in connection with a stylised blue bird. PETA Schweiz provides links on its websites to enable you to access PETA Germany’s Twitter feed, and also uses Twitter buttons to allow you to share a post or page by PETA Schweiz or follow PETA Germany on Twitter.
If you access one of PETA Schweiz's webpages containing a Twitter button, your browser will establish a direct connection to Twitter's servers. Twitter directly transfers the content of the button to your browser. Therefore, PETA Schweiz has no influence over the amount of data that Twitter collects through this plugin. To our knowledge, only your IP address and the URL of the accessed webpage will be transferred when the button is displayed. However, this information is used only to display the button.
For more information, please read Twitter's data protection declaration.
Instagram
PETA Schweiz's websites do not use social plugins by Instagram. The Instagram logo displayed on our websites is merely linked to PETA Germany's and PETA Zwei's profiles. If you click the logo, you will be forwarded to Instagram's website.
VI. Use of Tracking Tools, Cookies, and Analytics Tools
Google Analytics
PETA Schweiz uses Google Analytics – a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, US ("Google"). Google uses cookies. Information generated by the cookies regarding the use of our websites is usually transferred to a Google server located in the US and saved there. At our request, Google uses this information to evaluate the use of our websites in order to create reports about user activity and provide us with further services connected to the use of our websites and the internet. Pseudonym user profiles may be created from the processed data.
PETA Schweiz uses Google Analytics only with activated IP anonymisation. This means that the user's IP address is shortened by Google within European Union (“EU”) member states and other Agreement on the European Economic Area member states. Occasionally, the complete IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address transferred by the user's browser will not be merged with other Google data.
You may prevent Google's collection of data created by the cookie and focused on your use of our websites as well as its processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Users may also prevent cookies from being saved by clicking this link. This will transfer an opt-out cookie, which prevents any future data collection when accessing this website. Please note that you may not be able to use all website functions thereafter.
For further information on data use for advertising purposes by Google, managing your settings, and ways to object to such data use, please visit Google's websites: data use by Google when using our partner's websites or apps, data use for advertising purposes, manage information that Google uses to show you advertisements, and tell Google which advertisements to show you.
General Cookies
PETA Schweiz also uses other cookies. If you accept their use via the banner at the bottom of this page, we will save this decision for seven days. Therefore, if you visit again after this period, you will be asked for permission again. We want to make our cookie settings as transparent as possible and ensure that we have a current agreement to the use of cookies at all times.
Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device when you visit one of PETA Schweiz's websites. They contain information that allows the system to recognise the device and possibly enable specific functions on our websites.
This processing is necessary in order to protect PETA Schweiz's prevailing legitimate interests and is based on GDPR article 6(1)(f).
PETA Schweiz mainly uses "session cookies", which are automatically deleted as soon as you end the internet session and close your browser. We also use the following cookie that is saved for longer periods: dm_ID Cookie der IONOS Cloud GmbH (saves the visitors’ ID for one year after deposit).
Cookies are saved on your terminal device, which means that you are in control of our cookie use. You can disable the transfer of cookies or delete saved cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. However, please note that certain functions provided by PETA Schweiz's websites may then be limited or not possible.
Facebook Tracking Pixels
To evaluate and support our online marketing strategy on and via Facebook, we have embedded a Facebook tracking pixel on this website, which is provided and analysed by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland, ("Facebook"). If you visit PETA Schweiz's websites, the tracking pixel makes a direct connection between your browser and Facebook's server. Your browser thereby, among other things, informs Facebook that your terminal device visited a website operated by us. If you have a Facebook account, Facebook can connect your visit to our website to your user account. Furthermore, it can see when a Facebook advertisement was successful and led to an online transaction. This remarketing pixel enables us to display advertisements to a predefined audience. In this respect, Facebook provides us only with statistical data without any relation to specific persons. This measure is taken to optimise the impact of our marketing, market research, and tailor PETA Schweiz's websites. Pixel tracking does not allow us to identify you, as visitors to our websites are marked in an anonymised form. To do this, Facebook uses cookies. It stores and uses the data collected through pixels, in some cases outside the territorial validity of EU data protection regulations.
For more information on Facebook's policy regarding the purpose and extent of its data collection, its processing and use of your data, and the settings you can use to protect your privacy, please read its data protection policy.
You can edit the settings for Facebook advertisements here if you are logged in to Facebook. Alternatively, you can disable Facebook pixels on the Digital Advertising Alliance website.
If you have a Facebook account and don't want Facebook to collect data during your use of websites operated by PETA Schweiz and then connect this to your Facebook user data, you should log out of Facebook before visiting our websites.
AddThis Bookmarking
This website contains AddThis plugins that allow you to set bookmarks and the shared use of interesting web content.
AddThis uses cookies. The data produced (e.g. the time of use or browser language) are transferred to and processed by AddThis, LLC, 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 22102, US. In particular, this website contains information on the kind of data processed as well as the use thereof. We do not process the relevant data. By using the "AddThis" array, you agree that AddThis may process data to the extent described on its website, www.addthis.com, where you can also find information on the data processing it conducts as well as its data protection guidelines.
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
PETA Schweiz uses Google AdWords conversion tracking to evaluate the success of our advertising efforts. Google records certain steps you may take on PETA Schweiz's websites, such as subscribing to our newsletter or submitting a donation form. This allows Google to count the number of actions taken and to see – based on previously placed cookies – which advertisements had been clicked previously that seem to be relevant for your interests. Google processes this data on servers located in the US and does not connect this to any personal data associated with your Google account.
Google Fonts
We use the fonts ("Google Fonts") provided by Google. For the relevant data protection regulations, please go to https://policies.google.com/privacy. To find out more about opting out, please visit https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Google Maps
We embed the maps ("Google Maps") provided by Google. The data processed may include, in particular, users' IP addresses and location data. These are collected only with the user's permission (which is usually set on your mobile device). This data may be processed in the US. Please find the relevant data protection regulations at https://policies.google.com/privacy. To opt out, go to https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
VII. Edits and Updates
PETA Schweiz reserves the right to edit these data protection guidelines from time to time. Should the way in which your personal data is being used change, we will inform you by publishing new data protection guidelines and, if necessary, ask you to agree to this new use of personal data.
