The Agent Economy Association ("we" or "us") hereby provides information on the processing of personal data.
This privacy policy applies to the following persons (also "you"):
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time. The current version is available on our website www.agent-economy.org.
The following organisation is the "controller" within the meaning of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection ("FADP") for data processing in accordance with this privacy policy, unless otherwise communicated in specific individual cases:
Agent Economy AssociationIf you have any concerns or questions about our data processing, you can contact us at the following address: info@agent-economy.org or by post via the address provided above.
We process different categories of personal data for different purposes. You provide us with most of the following personal data yourself. However, you are generally not obliged to do so.
Basic data relates directly to your person and characteristics. For example, we process your surname, first name, address, email address, telephone number if applicable, details of your professional function (including employer). We also process registration data (e.g. date of ticket purchase) when you register for the Agent Economy Summit.
Contract data is information that is generated in connection with the fulfilment of the contract (in particular sponsoring agreements). We process the following data:
Communication data is data that is generated in connection with any correspondence with you. This includes the following data:
We may process photos or videos that are taken during the event and in which you may be identifiable. We will inform you about this separately at the event.
We process your personal data for various purposes:
If you join our group the "Agent Economy Association" on LinkedIn or comment on content or share posts, this will be visible on our website. The social media platform LinkedIn also collects data itself when you visit our social media group. Further information on the processing of your personal data by the social media provider itself can be found in their privacy policy.
On our website, you will find the option to use a social media plugin from LinkedIn. This gives you direct access to our LinkedIn group via our website. This plugin is deactivated by default, but is activated when you click on the LinkedIn icon on the website.
We use third-party services for our website to measure and improve the user experience of the website and online advertising campaigns. For this purpose, we may embed third-party components on our website, which may in turn use cookies. The technology used is designed to recognise you as an individual visitor each time you access the site, for example, by having our server (or the servers of third parties) assign a specific identification number to you or your browser ("cookie"). Cookies are files that your browser automatically stores on your end device when you visit our website.
We use WordPress, which sets cookies to save settings in relation to the contact form or other similar settings. A cookie from Google is also installed, as we use ReCaptcha in the form to prevent spam.
We disclose your personal data to service providers (e.g. we use Mailchimp to send newsletters). If these service providers process personal data as processors, they are obliged to process personal data in accordance with our instructions and to take measures to ensure data security.
We may also disclose your personal data to the members of the association or participants of the Agent Economy Association, if you have consented thereto.
Finally, we may share your personal with third parties, if we are required to do so for statutory, regulatory or commercial reasons (e.g. to comply retention obligations), if it is necessary to do so in connection with the takeover or dissolution of the association, or other similar events as well as in case the unlikely case of an insolvency or similar event, and if it is necessary in connection with legal proceedings or to assert or defend against claims.
Recipients to whom personal data is disclosed are not only located in Switzerland. This applies in particular to certain service providers (e.g. Mailchimp). These may also be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, in particular in the USA. Not all countries outside Switzerland and the EEA have the same level of data protection as in Switzerland. We therefore compensate for the lower level of protection through appropriate contracts, in particular the so-called Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) issued by the European Commission and recognised by the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
We store and process your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purpose of the processing (for data in connection with contracts, this is usually for the duration of the contractual relationship) and for as long as data is subject to a statutory retention obligation (for certain data, for example, a ten-year retention period applies, which we must comply with).
You have specific rights under applicable data protection law. These are the following rights:
If you exercise your data subject rights, we must verify your identity (e.g. by presenting a copy of your ID). The listed data subject rights are still subject to legal requirements and restrictions. For example, we must continue to process your personal data in order to fulfil a contract with you, to protect our own legitimate interests or to comply with legal obligations. To the extent permitted by law (e.g. to protect the privacy of third parties and to protect our own legitimate interests, such as the existence of business secrets), we may restrict or refuse to grant your rights.