Privacy policy
How AfroSwissters handles personal data on this website and in its activities, under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). Open a section to read it.
Version 1 · 5 November 2026 · contact@afroswissters.ch
At a glance
01 Who is responsibleAfroSwissters in Zürich. One address for every question.
The association AfroSwissters (a non-profit association under Art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code, with its seat in Zürich, Switzerland) is responsible for the processing described on this page.
For anything about your data, write to contact@afroswissters.ch. We have not appointed a data protection officer; the board is responsible.
02 What we process, and whyOnly what an activity needs, listed activity by activity.
- Visiting the website
- Technical data such as IP address, browser, the pages you open and the time, processed by our website provider to deliver the pages and protect them against misuse. We do not use analytics or advertising tools.
- In your browser
- Your language choice and your answers in our self-check tools (AI literacy check, Beyond the CV, CV builder, Starter path) stay in your own browser. They only reach us if you choose to send them or to join the talent pool.
- Newsletter
- Your email address, and your name if you give it, to send the newsletter. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link.
- Events and tickets
- Name, email and your answers in the registration form, to organise the event and contact you about it. Payments are handled by the payment provider; we do not see full card details.
- Membership and member area
- Name, email, your membership plan and payments, and the profile fields you choose to fill in. Your password is handled by our website provider and is not visible to us.
- Open Doors
- What you enter in a listing or a report, to check listings and publish them as described on the Open Doors page.
- Talent pool
- Your profile, your choices and any consent you sign, as described in the talent pool rules. Entries are deleted automatically after 12 months.Read the talent pool rules →
- Donations
- Handled by our donation provider. We receive your name, contact details and the amount, to thank you and issue receipts.
- Emails to us
- Your message and contact details, to answer you.
- Photos at events
- We take photos at many events and publish some of them. Tell us at the event or by email if you do not want to appear; we remove a photo on request.
03 Who receives dataOur team and the services that run the website. We never sell data.
Inside AfroSwissters, only the people who need it for a task: the board, management and the team running an event or the talent pool.
Outside, service providers that process data on our behalf: our website, database and email provider, payment and donation providers, and the provider of our email inbox. Employers in the talent pool only receive anonymous profiles; names only with the person’s signed consent.
Some pages show embedded videos or social media posts. When they load or when you play them, the platform receives technical data such as your IP address under its own privacy policy. Some tools load code from content delivery networks, for example the PDF generator when you click “Download PDF”.
We disclose data to authorities only where the law requires it. We never sell or rent personal data.
04 Data outside SwitzerlandWhere our providers process data, and on what basis.
Our providers may process data in the states of the European Union and the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States.
The Federal Council recognises the EU and EEA states, the United Kingdom and Israel as having adequate data protection (Annex 1 of the Data Protection Ordinance). For the United States this applies to companies certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; otherwise we rely on standard contractual clauses recognised by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
05 How long we keep itAs long as a purpose needs it, then it is deleted.
- Talent pool profiles, requests and consents: 12 months, then deleted automatically; earlier on request, within 30 days.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
- Event registrations: until the event is wrapped up. Accounting records: 10 years, as Swiss law requires (Art. 958f Code of Obligations).
- Membership: for as long as you are a member, then the accounting records for 10 years.
- Messages: as long as we need them to handle your request.
06 Your rightsAsk what we hold, correct it, delete it or withdraw your consent.
You can ask us at any time what personal data we hold about you (Art. 25 FADP), have it corrected or deleted, object to its processing, receive the data you gave us in a common electronic format (Art. 28 FADP) and withdraw a consent with effect for the future.
Write to contact@afroswissters.ch. We may ask you to confirm your identity, and we answer within 30 days, free of charge.
If you think we handle your data unlawfully, you can contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, edoeb.admin.ch.
07 Security and cookiesEncrypted connections, limited access, only the cookies that are needed.
Pages and forms use encrypted connections (HTTPS). Stored entries are only accessible to the team members who need them; talent pool entries cannot be read through the website.
We do not set analytics or advertising cookies. The member login and the checkout set the cookies they need to work, and embedded videos or posts can set their own when they load.
Please do not send us sensitive data, for example about health, religion or ethnic origin, through our forms unless we ask for it.
08 Changes to this policyWe update this page when something changes.
We adapt this policy when our activities or the law change. The version and date at the top of the page show the current state.
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