Privacy Policy

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing is:

Swiss Syndicate Film and Video
Kasernenstrasse 23, 8004 Zurich
info@ssfv.ch

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns regarding data protection or to exercise your rights.

General information

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as strictly confidential and in accordance with the applicable data protection provisions and this Privacy Policy. We primarily comply with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where and to the extent applicable, also with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

When you use our website, various items of personal data are collected. Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable person. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purposes this is done.

Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Overview and your rights

Data processing on our website

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected, on the one hand, when you provide it to us. This includes:

Contact by email
Newsletter
Membership application
Services and offers for our members

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This mainly concerns technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you access our website.

What do we use your data for?
We primarily use the data you provide to us to provide our services and offers or to fulfil our contractual obligations.

We primarily use the data collected automatically to ensure that the website is provided without errors, to improve our services and website, and also to analyse your user behaviour.

Your rights

You have the right at any time to obtain information about our processing of your personal data and the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to have your personal data corrected or deleted and to receive it in a commonly used electronic format. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Data processing

Contact by email

If you send us enquiries by email, your details, including the contact details you provide, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not disclose this data without your consent.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been dealt with). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Membership applications and member profiles

If you fill out our membership application form, we use the data you provide to assess your application and, if you are admitted, to administer your membership. We process the personal data you provide, in particular general personal data (name, date of birth, nationality and language, as well as your login information), your contact details (address, email address and telephone number), and data about your professional life.

Offers and services for SSFV members

We offer our members various services and offers. We process your personal data in order to provide and administer these services.

As an association member, you have the option of having your profile published on our website. For the publication of your personal data (name, contact details, email address, etc.), you provide your consent in each case. You may withdraw this consent at any time, in which case the data will no longer be publicly accessible in the future.

We offer our members support and advice on legal issues relating to their professional activities. We may also forward such enquiries to our association lawyer for a legal assessment and recommendation on how to proceed. We process the personal data you provide to us for this service in order to advise and support you in your matter. Depending on the case, this may involve different types of personal data (contact details, financial data, information about your professional or private life, etc.). Where necessary for providing support and advice, we may also disclose this data to third parties, e.g. opposing parties, business partners or authorities.

Members may also submit an application for coverage of legal costs from the legal protection fund. We process the personal data provided in the application (again, depending on the case, including contact details, financial data, information about your professional or private life) in order to assess the application.

As a member, you have the option of subscribing to our members’ newsletter. We process your personal data (name and email address) for sending our newsletter in order to inform you about our content and offers as well as other topics. We also analyse your interactions with the newsletter in order to improve our services. This analysis is used for statistical evaluation of our newsletter; we do not use this data to identify individuals.

For the processing of data involved in sending and analysing our newsletter, we use the services of dodeley®. The provider is indual GmbH, Sebastiansplatz 4, P.O. Box 377, 3900 Brig.

dodeley® is a service that can be used, among other things, to organise and analyse the distribution of newsletters. The data is stored on dodeley® servers in Switzerland. If you do not want analysis by dodeley®, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a corresponding link in every newsletter message. More information can be found in the dodeley® Privacy Policy: https://www.dodeley.com/impressum?language=de

Google Analytics

Our website may use a web analytics service provided by Google for statistical analysis and to improve our online offering. This may involve processing information about your use of our website, such as pages viewed, technical information about the device and browser used, and times of use.

The relevant analytics service is loaded via our cookie and consent management tool. Where consent is required for its use, the service is only activated after you have given your consent. You can adjust or withdraw your consent at any time via the settings of the cookie manager.

The provider of the service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Depending on the configuration of the Google service used, data may also be processed by other companies within the Google group and transferred to countries outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area.

For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to Google’s privacy information.

Cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies in some cases. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and managed by your browser. They may be used in particular to make the website technically available, to save settings, or to statistically analyse the use of our services.

Some of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted after you end your visit. Other cookies may remain stored on your device beyond the individual visit. The specific storage period depends on the respective cookie and its purpose.

Where cookies or similar technologies are used for the use of specific services, the relevant services are described in the respective sections of this Privacy Policy.

Settings for the services used: You can adjust the use of individual services via the cookie settings. You can access the relevant settings via the “Modifier les paramètres des cookies” button at the end of this Privacy Policy.

You can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are set, to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to accept cookies only in certain cases or generally reject them, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close the browser. If cookies are disabled, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Server log files

The provider of our website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits. These are:

Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address

These data are not combined with data from other sources.

Links to third-party websites

Our website contains numerous links to third-party services that redirect you to their websites. These include, in particular, links to services for SSFV members that can be found on our website (workshops and seminars, festival accreditations, collective daily benefits insurance and other services).

Please note that we do not collect your personal data on third-party websites and that, once you access them, the operators of those websites are responsible for processing your personal data. For more information, please consult the respective privacy policy.

Retention period and security

Retention period

We store your personal data only for as long and to the extent necessary for our services and offers, to fulfil statutory obligations (retention obligations), or for other purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the website operator, our website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL/TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Plugins and tools

Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps mapping service via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter Google).

When Google Maps is used, in particular your IP address and other technical data may be transmitted to and processed by Google. This may also involve the transfer of data to recipients outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area, in particular to the USA. The operator of this website has no influence on the specific data processing carried out by Google.

Google Maps is used in the interest of providing an attractive presentation of our online offerings and making it easier to find the locations indicated on our website.

Google Maps can be activated or deactivated via the cookie settings. You can access the relevant settings via the “Modifier les paramètres des cookies” button at the end of this Privacy Policy.

For more information about how user data is handled, please refer to Google’s privacy policy.