Privacy policy

The association MYBLUEPLANET (MYBLUEPLANET) is committed to climate protection in accordance with its statutes. We show what everyone can do to preserve the blue planet. Our community grows through inspiring and multiplying projects that we develop and implement. We are all MYBLUEPLANET. In order for us to carry out this mission, we process personal data about you. The protection of your personal data is important to us. We process this data in accordance with data protection legislation in Switzerland (DSG) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). Responsible for the data processing we describe here is MYBLUEPLANET, Turnerstrasse 1, 8400 Winterthur. If you have any data protection concerns, please contact us: phone: 052 203 02 32 (Monday – Friday from 8 am to 5 pm, lunch break: 12 pm to 1 pm), or by email: info@myblueplanet.ch.
 

Handling of personal data

We process your personal data, e.g. name, contact details, professional position, employer, IP address or other information related to your identity, to protect our legitimate interest in fulfilling our statutory mission, to fulfill a contractual agreement with you or insofar as you have consented. We use your data exclusively for the purpose for which you have provided it to us. When contacting us via our contact form or by e-mail, your information will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for any queries. If you apply for a job with us, your details will only be used to process your application and will not be passed on to third parties. Please note that applications sent to us by e-mail are transmitted unencrypted.
 

Right to information, correction and deletion

You have the right to receive information free of charge about whether and which of your personal data we have stored. If we have stored your personal data incorrectly, you can have the information corrected. In cases where we process your personal data to fulfill our statutory purpose, you can file a justified objection to this processing. As long as there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary, you can request the deletion of your data at any time. Please contact us at: info@myblueplanet.ch.
 

Revocation of consent

If you have given us consent to process your personal data, e.g. when registering for our electronic newsletter, our member portal, in the context of participation in committees of MYBLUEPLANET or in order to be informed about our events or publications, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. Address your informal revocation to: info@myblueplanet.ch or to the department at MYBLUEPLANET to which you gave your consent.

Disclosure to third parties

Your data will only be passed on to third parties in exceptional cases, for example when registering for an event (here: Service provider for conference material, comparison with reservations of the external conference venue and possibly other conference participants).

Use of «cookies»

Like many other Internet providers, we use so-called cookies as part of our online offering. «Cookies» are files that are stored on your computer, smartphone or similar for the duration of your visit to our website in order to record how you as a user move around our website. They help to ensure, for example, that you can navigate smoothly, place orders, or that the selected font size remains unchanged when you switch to subpages. Common web browsers are set by default to accept «cookies». You can change this setting so that «cookies» are rejected or a confirmation is requested from you beforehand. If you reject «cookies», you may no longer be able to fully use certain functions of our online offer.

Right of appeal

If you have any questions about the protection of your personal information that you have provided to MYBLUEPLANET or that MYBLUEPLANET processes from you, please contact us so that we can review and ensure the protection of your information throughout.

Notes on content from third-party providers

Within our online offer, we have integrated content from third-party providers, e.g. via logos and buttons with links to other websites and social networks such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. In addition, we use the analysis tool Google Analytics. We point out that the third-party providers collect, process and use your data in accordance with their own terms of use and privacy policies when using their offer.