PRIVACY POLICY

The protection of your personal data and the preservation of your privacy are important to us. You can expect us to handle your data with care and to ensure a high level of data security. With this Privacy Policy, we inform you about how and for what purpose we process personal data at the Justice Initiative (hereinafter: “Justice Initiative”).

Contacts

Name and Address of the Controller

When you visit the website of the Justice Initiative, Guido Fluri is the responsible party in terms of data protection legislation for any processing of your personal data that may result from this:

Guido Fluri Stiftung
Schulhausstrasse 10
Cham, Schweiz

Mail: info@justice-initiative.eu

Data Protection Officer

Our data protection officer can be reached at info@justice-initiative.eu or to the address mentioned above.

Representative In the European Union

The representative within the meaning of the GDPR and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection provisions is:

Sachverständigenbüro Mülot GmbH
Grüner Weg 80
48268 Greven, Germany
info@svb-muelot.de

Which personal data of which categories of persons do we process?

Justice Initiative processes personal data mainly of the following categories of data subjects:

Visitors to our website/s and in particular, people who signed the petition
Service providers, suppliers and other business partners and/or their respective contact persons
Justice Initiative employees, Survivors, initiators and partners
Contact persons at media companies
Contact persons at public authorities

We process personal data which you provide to us, which we collect about you or which we have received from third parties. The most important are:

Contact and identification data (this includes, for example, first and last name, e-mail address).
Financial data (this includes, for example, information on the accounting of the remuneration for a service received/provided or on the bank or postal account)
Contractual data (including, for example, details of a service received/provided and remuneration)
Communication data (for example, physical or electronic correspondence with Justice Initiative)
Data in connection with legal disputes

For what purposes do we process personal data?

Justice Initiative processes personal data for different purposes. The main ones are:

Signing the petition: The main purpose because Justice Initiative collects personal data is to be able to collect signatures online for the petition.
Website: Furthermore, it is our concern to make the website functional and secure. Information about the purposes of processing on our website can be found in section 8.

On what legal basis do we process personal data?

As a legal basis for the processing of your personal data serves us regularly:

your consent, which you can revoke at any time (for example, if you want your signature deleted from the petition or the setting of cookies on our websites)
the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract with you or your request to do so in advance
a balancing of interests (for example, to ensure information security or the performance of tasks in the public interest), which you may, however, object to under certain circumstances
a legal obligation (such as social security legislation or for us to retain accounting-related documents), which may also be taken into account in the context of a balancing of interests

How long do we keep your data?

In principle, we process your personal data for the period of time required to achieve the respective purposes.

Insofar as statutory retention obligations exist, the personal data in question will be stored for the duration of the retention obligation. After expiry of the retention obligation, we check whether there is a further need for processing. If there is no longer a need, your data will either be deleted or anonymised.

If we store the data based on a contractual relationship with you, this data will remain stored at least as long as the contractual relationship exists and no longer than the limitation periods for possible claims by us or legal or contractual retention obligations exist.

Do we disclose personal data to third parties?

We also disclose personal data to third parties as part of our business activities and for all purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, where permitted and appropriate, either because they process it for us (commissioned data processing), or because they use it for legitimate purposes or because this is required by law (data disclosure). This concerns in particular:

Service providers, including order processors, IT providers, suppliers and other business partners
Logistic partners
public authorities
Public authorities and courts

We may transfer, store, and process your data in countries other than your own. If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland or United Kingdom (UK), then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law. If we transfer data to a country without adequate legal data protection according to EU, Swiss or UK data protection law, we will ensure this as provided by law by using appropriate contracts, including by using the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (which are available here, here and here) for transfers of personal information between our group companies and between us and our third-party providers. These clauses require all recipients to protect all personal information that they process originating from the EEA, Switzrland or UK in accordance with European data protection laws and regulations. Our Standard Contractual Clauses can be provided upon request. We have implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third-party service providers and partners and further details can be provided upon request. In other cases, we may rely on the legal exceptions of consent, the execution of the contract, the establishment, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, overriding public interests, the published personal data or because it is necessary to protect the integrity of the data subjects.

What personal data do we collect in detail via our website?

In order to display and optimise our website content while ensuring data security, we may collect personal data from you.

The same applies to the analysis of website usage and compliance with legal requirements. If you use the corresponding functions, we also process personal data for the purpose of data collection:

to be able to collect signatures for the petition
contacting you
interacting with you in connection with our website content (e.g., social media)
otherwise specified use

The categories of third parties we may share personal information in connection with our website with are as follows:

Ad Networks
Data Analytics Services
Data Storage Service Providers
Performance Monitoring Tools
Retargeting Platforms
Social Networks
Testing Tools
Website Hosting Service Providers
Communication & Collaboration Tools

Server-Logfiles

When you visit one of our websites, the browser used on your end device automatically sends data to the server of the respective website. This data is temporarily stored in a log file, the so-called server log files. The access data includes the IP address, name and version of the web browser used, the operating system used, the amount of data transferred, the name of your Internet service provider, the date and duration of your visit to our website and the website from which you visited us. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

The basis for the temporary storage of your personal data and the log files is our legitimate interest in enabling the use of our website (connection establishment), to ensure system security and stability on a permanent basis, to optimise our offers and for internal statistical purposes. A personal user profile is not created. For the hosting of the website, we may use the services of third parties in or outside EU/Switzerland who carry out the above processing on our behalf. Currently, our websites are hosted exclusively with Swiss hosting providers and on servers in Switzerland.

Contacting / Contact Form

On our websites, you have the option of contacting us via contact form and/or by e-mail. The personal data collected in the case of using a contact form can be seen on the respective contact form. In this case, the information you provide will be processed for the purpose of processing your request and handling it.

The respective mandatory information is required to process your request. This includes your name, email address, your reason for writing us and information about yourself. The voluntary provision of further data facilitates the processing of your inquiry and enables us to provide you with more detailed information.

The basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest in processing your inquiry. If the contact serves the fulfilment of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, this is an additional basis for the processing of your personal data.

Your personal data will be kept for as long as necessary to uphold a business/contact relationship with you and as long as necessary to verify our correspondence with you, unless the deletion conflicts with any statutory retention obligations. In these cases, we keep your data for as long as we are legally obliged to do so.

If you sign the petition on our website, you can click on whether you will receive information from us via email in the future. To subscribe to our newsletter it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address. This information is required so that we can send you our newsletter. If we ask you for further information, such as your first or last name, you enable us to send you even more targeted information.

Our newsletters may contain, in part and to the extent permitted, graphics and/or web links that record on a personal basis whether, when and how often an individual newsletter was opened in an e-mail application and which web links were clicked on. Such graphics and/or web links record the use of newsletters to ensure quality and to enable improvements to the newsletter and to evaluate the effectiveness of the newsletter. You can block the setting of such graphics and/or web links in your e-mail application.

For this purpose and to deliver our newsletter to you, we use Mailchimp, a newsletter sending platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group LLC, a company of Intuit Inc. based in the USA (“Mailchimp”). Mailchimp is a service with which, among other things, the sending of newsletters can be organised and analysed. The data entered for the purpose of receiving newsletters is transferred to Mailchimp’s servers and stored there. According to Mailchimp, data may be transferred and processed worldwide, to the USA and other countries in which Mailchimp, its subsidiaries or its sub-processors operate as data processors.

To protect your data, we have entered into a data processing agreement with Mailchimp.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter or by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address mentioned above (“Contact”).

For more information on data protection at Mailchimp, please refer to the respective Privacy Statement.

Cookies

We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are placed and stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) with the help of the browser. They serve to make our website more user-friendly and effective overall and to make your visit to our website as pleasant as possible. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device. They cannot execute any programs and cannot contain any viruses.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. These are automatically deleted when you log out or close the browser. Other cookies remain stored on your computer beyond the respective usage process and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognise your browser on your next visit. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyse your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

The basis on which we process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask you for consent. If this is the case and you consent to the use of cookies, the basis for processing your data is your consent. Otherwise, the personal data processed using cookies is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. customer-friendly and effective design of the website visit) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations.

Regardless of whether the processing is based on consent or legal permission, you have the option at any time to revoke any consent you have given or to object to the processing of your data by cookie technologies. You can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow the acceptance of cookies for certain cases in individual cases or generally exclude them. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of our website.

Google-Services

On our websites, we use various services of Google LLC, based in the USA, or if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited, based in Ireland (“Google”).

We use the following Google services on our websites:

YouTube

You can find more information about each service below.

Google uses technologies such as cookies, web storage in the browser and tracking pixels that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The information thus generated about your use of our website may be transmitted to a Google server in the USA or other countries and stored there.

According to its own statements, Google may process personal data for advertising products in any country in which Google or Google’s subcontractors maintain facilities. Information about the locations of Google’s data centers can be found here. For Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google Ads, the following subcontractors may be used: Sub-processor Information. Google promises to ensure an adequate level of data protection by relying on the EU standard contractual clauses (see Data Processing Addendum). In addition, Google continues to be certified under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield agreements.

For more information about Google’s processing and privacy settings, please refer to Google’s privacy policy or privacy settings.

YouTube

On our website, we use the services of the provider YouTube LLC, based in the USA (“YouTube”), a subsidiary of Google LLC. (“Google”).

When you start a YouTube video on our website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. This information (including your IP address) may be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged into your YouTube account at the same time, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account before visiting our website.

We use the so-called extended data protection mode of YouTube. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any data about you as a visitor to our website before you watch or play the video. However, the transfer of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the extended data protection mode.

Further information can be found in YouTube’s terms of use and Google’s privacy policy.

Facebook Pixel

Due to our legitimate interests in the analysis, optimisation, and economic operation of our website and for these purposes, we use the so-called “Facebook Pixel” of Meta Platforms Inc., a service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, if you are habitually resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. The parent company is Meta Platforms Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Meta”).

With the help of the Facebook pixel, the behaviour of site visitors can be tracked after they have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This allows the effectiveness of the Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimized.

The data collected in this way is anonymous for us, so it does not offer us any conclusions about your identity. However, the data is stored and processed by Meta so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Meta can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with the Facebook data policy. This allows Meta to enable the placement of advertisements on Facebook pages as well as outside of Facebook. This use of data cannot be influenced by us.

Through the use of cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your terminal device, Facebook can subsequently recognize you in the Facebook member area and optimize the efficiency of advertisements, e.g. offer advertisements targeted to specific groups, in accordance with Facebook’s data usage policy. This only affects you if you have an account with Facebook and are logged into the Facebook member area. If you are not a member of Facebook, you are not affected by this data processing.

General information on the use of data by Meta, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Facebook data policy. Specific information and details about the Facebook Pixel and how it works can be found in the Facebook help section. If you generally want to object to the collection by Facebook Pixel and the use of your data for the display of Facebook or Instagram Ads, you can do this in the advertising settings of Facebook, or the privacy settings of Instagram. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook. If you do not have a Facebook account, you can also opt out of the use of cookies for reach measurement and advertising purposes via the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page and additionally via the US website or the European website.

Social Media Presence

We maintain social media profiles on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The data you enter on our social media profiles is published by the social media platform and is not used or processed by us for any other purpose at any time. However, we reserve the right to delete content if this should be necessary. At most, we will communicate with you via the social media platform.

Be aware that the operators of social media platforms may use web tracking methods. The web tracking, over which we have no control, can also take place regardless of whether you are logged in or registered with the respective social media platform.

More detailed information on data processing by the providers of the social media platforms can be found in the respective privacy policy:


Instagram
Meta Platforms Inc. (USA)/Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (Irland):	Privacy Policy


YouTube
YouTube LLC (USA):	Privacy Policy


Facebook
Meta Platforms Inc. (USA)/Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (Irland):	Privacy Policy

LinkedIn LinkedIn Corporation (USA)/ LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Ireland)	Privacy Policy
Twitter
Twitter Inc. (USA)/ Twitter International Company (Irland)	Privacy Policy

Links to Third Party Websites

Our websites may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us and to which this data protection declaration does not extend. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data transmitted to third parties (such as the IP address or the URL), as the behaviour of third parties is naturally beyond our control. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for these third-party contents. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages.

Illegal contents were not recognizable at the time of linking. However, a permanent control and examination of the linked pages without concrete evidence of a violation of the law is not reasonable. If we become aware of any infringements, such links will be removed immediately.

Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational security precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorised access and misuse. This includes, in particular, the issuing of directives, the implementation of training, IT and network security solutions, access controls, access restrictions and the encryption of data.

In order to protect your data transmitted online in the best possible way, we use SSL encryption. You can recognise such encrypted connections by the prefix “https://” in the page link in the address line of your browser. Thanks to SSL encryption, the data you transmit via online form cannot be read by unauthorised third parties. However, we would like to point out that data transmission via the Internet can never be completely protected against access by third parties.

Your Rights

You are generally entitled to the rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, objection to processing and revocation of consent with regard to your personal data. To assert your rights, you can contact us at the address given in section 2.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you can also complain to the competent supervisory authority.