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Privacy Policy

The Semi-Circle Basel, Switzerland is committed to safeguarding your privacy. This Data Privacy Notice describes the way The Semi-Circle Basel processes the personal data that you share when you get in contact with us through this website or via your Membership with us.

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Who is responsible for your personal data?​

The Semi-Circle Basel is responsible for the use of your personal data  via this website to the extent that we do not sell your data to third parties.  You as a user are responsible for any data that you input into this website via forms, events, or membership info.

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What types of personal data do we collect and how?

When you navigate and use our website, we may collect personal data about you in the ways described below:

• Personal data that you provide to us: We collect personal data that you enter forms or data fields on our website or online resources. Such information includes contact information (such as your full name, email address, postal address, and telephone number), communication preferences, the Events and Memberships of interest to you, paper forms filled out during events such as fairs and pictures of you when participating in such fairs and marketing events, and any other personal data that you voluntarily provide to us in the text of your enquiries using the contact forms and posts on our blog.

• Information collected from your computer or electronic device: We collect data about your computer or electronic device when you navigate our website and online resources, or when subscribing to feeds on social media. We also employ cookies on this website. You will find additional information on this subject and how to block cookies in our Cookie Policy (below this Privacy Policy).

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Why do we collect personal data?

When you get in contact with us, when you enter into a Event or Membership relationship with us or just navigate our website, we collect, use, and process personal data about you. The collection, use, and processing of your personal data is done for the following purposes:

• To administer, operate, and maintain the normal functioning and security of this website;

• To answer your questions, requests, complaints;

• To improve our website and services

• To maintain our business relationship with you, by creating an account in our customer relationship management systems;

• To enable you to use our social media resources.  Please be aware that you should consider carefully what information about yourself you choose to share with others when you use social media resources: If you share personal data on Facebook, Twitter or another external social media platform. please note that you will be subject to their own privacy policy;

• To send you information about our products, services, events or our newsletter, in the case you have so requested;

• Grant you access to certain information or offerings;

• We will not use your personal data for other different purposes than those mentioned above.

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On the basis of which legal ground do we collect your personal data?

We collect and use personal data about you through this website on the basis of the following legal grounds stated in the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR):

• Your consent (Article 6.1.a of GDPR)

  • This is the case when you ask for information about our products and services, events and/or subscribe to our newsletter. You can revoke your consent at any time;

• To take the necessary steps to enter into a contract with you or to fulfil our contractual obligations (Art. 6.1.b GDPR):

  • This is the case when you contact us through the website and that  we need some information about you regarding Events or Membership Registrations;

• The necessity to pursue our legitimate interests (Art. 6.1.f GDPR), especially:

  • when we engage suppliers to obtain IT support for the storage, functioning or security of our website;

  • when we respond to your questions online;

  • when we enter your contact details in our CRM to maintain our business relationship with you;

  • when we use personal data in order to improve our website and the way we interact with you;

  • when we archive our communications, in order to defend our rights and interests before a court or regulator.

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With whom do we share your personal data?

For the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, your personal data is shared with the following categories of recipients:​

• Third party service providers: We employ third party service providers engaged by us to perform certain tasks and services on our behalf and under our instructions. We use external service providers to help us with the administration and management of this website, to host our data centers, to deliver electronic communications, to assist us in preventing fraud and ensuring the security of the website and compliance with applicable laws. Any third-party provider has access only to the personal data needed to perform its specific services. These third parties have entered into data processing agreements with us to only use the personal data for the agreed outsourcing purpose, to protect your data, and not to sell such data to other third parties.

• Social media platforms and tools: If you share the content of this website on social media and if you share your thoughts on our blog, your personal data may be seen by or shared with other users of the website, but only as required in connection with such functions.

• Courts, regulators and Law enforcement: Your personal data may be disclosed when we have a litigation with you and when we are legally required to disclose such personal data to a court, regulator, competent law enforcement authority. This includes cases in which we are required to respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government agencies or where required by applicable laws, court order, law enforcement, authorities and regulators.

 

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personal data to third parties except as indicated above.

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Will your personal data be transferred abroad?

Given the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, your personal data may be transferred to other countries (e.g. we rely in service providers to support our website operations.

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How do we protect your personal data?

The Semi-Circle Basel has set up and maintain measures to protect your personal data against the risks of accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access.

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For how long do we keep your data?

We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may need to archive certain personal data collected about you, for the statutes of limitation period, in order to be able to defend our rights before a court in case of a lawsuit or comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. Where it is no longer required to retain personal data, we erase or anonymize your personal data.

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What rights do you have in relation to your personal data and how can you exercise your rights?

You have the rights to:

• request information about what personal data is collected about you and how it is used by us and obtain a copy of it.

• request to correct or to erase your personal data.

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In order to exert the abovementioned rights, you can contact our website team at webmanager@semicircle-basel.com. Please indicate in your email  the purpose and scope of your request or concern and your contact details.

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Please note that you can object at any time to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the end of our direct marketing emails;

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in the Switzerland.

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Changes to this data privacy notice

If our Data Privacy Notice changes in any way, The Semi-Circle Basel will place an updated version of the policy on this page, so that you are fully informed concerning the types of information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed. Last update: November 2021.