Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is important to us. Fondation Hirondelle is subject to the new Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) and is committed to complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The purpose of this policy is to explain what we do with the personal data you may entrust to us.

You are not required to submit any personal data in order to access and use this website (www.hirondelle.org). However, you may submit personal data to us, as defined below, by completing the contact form or the form to subscribe to our news, both of which are available on our website. The only personal data you may submit to us are: your name, email address and, if you choose to provide it, the organisation for which you work (hereinafter “personal data”).

These personal data are collected to enable Fondation Hirondelle to send you our news, i.e. our press releases, monthly newsletters, annual reports, event announcements and other information that may be of interest to you.

When you complete our form to subscribe to our news, we require your express consent to allow the collection and processing of your personal data. By giving your consent, you authorise Fondation Hirondelle to share your personal data with the service providers that enable us to process and store your data and to send you our news. We draw your attention to the fact that these service providers may be based in countries whose regulatory frameworks do not necessarily correspond to the nFADP and the GDPR. However, our service providers are contractually required to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us and to process them only at the request of Fondation Hirondelle, in accordance with our instructions and our personal data protection policy.

The personal data you submit to us are stored only insofar as they are useful for the purposes for which they were collected or as required by law.

You may access all your personal data collected by Fondation Hirondelle and ask us to modify or delete them at any time by sending us an email at privacy@hirondelle.org. You may unsubscribe from receiving our newsletters and other news by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each newsletter and message you receive from Fondation Hirondelle.

In order to optimise your experience on our website, cookies are used. These are small files saved in your web browsers which record and exchange settings and data from your web browser with Fondation Hirondelle’s website. Cookies are not used in any way to store your personal data. You may refuse the use of cookies in your web browser settings. Please note that by disabling cookies, you may not be able to access all the features of our website.

Our personal data protection policy may evolve, in particular due to changes in the regulatory framework governing data protection. We therefore invite you to regularly check our personal data protection policy to ensure that you have read the most up-to-date version. Last updated: 12 February 2024.

For any questions regarding our personal data protection policy, you may contact Fondation Hirondelle at the following address: privacy@hirondelle.org