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Privacy Policy (Data Protection Statement)

Last Updated: 2025-10-12

1. Introduction and Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how EuroITcounsel (hereinafter “we” or “us”), an entity registered in Switzerland, collects, processes, and protects the personal data of our website users, and other individuals (“data subjects”), in compliance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and other applicable data protection laws.

2. Contact Information

Controller of Data Processing (Data Controller):

  • Entity Name: Verein Euro IT Counsel
  • Address: Seefeldstrasse 123, 8034 Zurich, Switzerland
  • Email: info@euroitcounsel.eu
  • Website: https://euroitcounsel.com

For questions regarding this policy or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at the email address above.

3. Personal Data Collected

We may collect the following categories of personal data, depending on your interaction with us:

  • Identification Data: Name, address, phone number, email address.
  • Usage Data: Information about your use of our website or services (e.g., IP address, device type, browser information, pages visited, time spent).
  • Communication Data: Records of correspondence, emails, and other communications with us.
  • Cookies are not used. We might in the future use strictly technical, first party cookies.

4. Purposes of Data Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Contractual Performance: To fulfil our contractual obligations and provide the services you have requested.
  • Communication: To communicate with you to respond to inquiries and send relevant updates.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with legal and regulatory obligations in Switzerland and abroad (e.g., accounting, tax laws).

5. Principles of Processing

We adhere to the core principles of data protection under the FADP:

  • Lawfulness and Good Faith: We process data lawfully and transparently.
  • Proportionality: We only process data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the specified purposes.
  • Purpose Limitation: Data is collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes and is not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
  • Data Accuracy: We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data we process is accurate and up-to-date.
  • Storage Limitation: We delete or anonymize personal data as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

6. Disclosure to Third Parties and Cross-Border Transfers

We may disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • Service Providers/Processors: Third-party companies that perform services on our behalf (e.g., hosting, IT support, payment processors). We ensure these partners are contractually bound to protect your data.
  • Legal/Regulatory Authorities: Government bodies, courts, and other authorities where required by law.
  • Single Members and members of the Board: we might share some of your details to our members and board members to follow up on your queries and to perform single acts of processing, exclusively in the EEA and UK.

If we transfer your personal data outside of Switzerland to a country without an adequate level of data protection (as determined by the Federal Council), we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses or binding corporate rules, and inform you about the destination country.

7. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, protecting your data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. These measures include access controls, regular backups.

8. Your Rights

Under the FADP, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right of Access (Information): To request information about the personal data concerning you that we process.
  • Right to Rectification: To request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Right to Erasure (Deletion): To request the deletion of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if processing is unlawful.
  • Right to Object: To object to the processing of your personal data.
  • Right to Data Portability: To receive your personal data in a structured, common, and machine-readable format.

You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details in Section 2. We will respond to your request within the statutory time limit (generally 30 days).

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in our data processing practices or legal requirements. The updated version will be indicated by a new “Last Updated” date and will be posted on this page.