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Privacy Policy

With this privacy policy, the association KunstBrücke informs you about which personal data we process in connection with our activities, including our website www.kunstbruecke.ch (in construction). In particular, we inform you for what purposes, in what way and where we process which personal data. We also inform you about the rights of persons whose data we process.

Our activities include the online and offline presentation of art, artist residencies and studio programmes, publications, and events, mediation formats and cultural exchange projects.

For individual or additional activities, further privacy policies and other legal documents such as General Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use or Conditions of Participation may apply.

We are subject to Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, foreign data protection law, in particular that of the European Union (EU) with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Commission recognises that Swiss data protection law provides an adequate level of protection.

Contact details

Responsible for the processing of personal data:

KunstBrücke
Impasse de Barme 2
1896 Vouvry, Switzerland
info@kunstbruecke.ch

We will indicate in individual cases if there are other parties responsible for the processing of personal data.

Definitions and legal bases

Definitions

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A data subject is a person about whom we process personal data.

Processing covers any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used — for example, querying, comparing, adapting, archiving, storing, reading out, disclosing, obtaining, collecting, deleting, disclosing, ordering, organising, saving, changing, distributing, linking, destroying and using personal data.

The European Economic Area (EEA) comprises the member states of the European Union (EU) as well as the Principality of Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway. The GDPR refers to the processing of personal data as "Verarbeitung von personenbezogenen Daten".

Legal bases

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the Data Protection Ordinance (DPO).

Where the GDPR is applicable, we process personal data on the basis of at least one of the following legal grounds:

Nature, scope and purpose

We process the personal data necessary to enable us to carry out our activities in a lasting, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. Such personal data may fall in particular into the categories of master and contact data, browser and device data, content data, meta or edge data and usage data, location data, sales data and contract and payment data.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose or required by law. Personal data whose processing is no longer required will be anonymised or deleted.

We may have personal data processed by third parties, process it jointly with third parties or transmit it to third parties. Such third parties are in particular specialised providers whose services we use. We also ensure data protection when working with such third parties.

We only process personal data with the consent of the data subject unless the processing is permitted on other legal grounds. Processing without consent may be permitted, for example, for the performance of a contract with the data subject and for corresponding pre-contractual measures, to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests, because processing is apparent from the circumstances, or after prior information.

Within this framework, we process in particular information that a data subject voluntarily transmits to us when contacting us — for example by postal mail, e-mail, instant messaging, contact form, social media or telephone — or when registering for events, residencies or the newsletter. We may store such information in an address book, in a customer relationship management (CRM) system or using comparable tools.

If we receive data transmitted about other persons, the transmitting persons are obliged to ensure data protection for those persons and to ensure the accuracy of the personal data.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly accessible sources or collect in the course of our activities, insofar as such processing is legally permissible.

Personal data abroad

We generally process personal data in Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we may also export or transmit personal data to other countries, in particular to have it processed there.

We may export personal data to all states and territories on earth if the law there ensures an adequate level of data protection according to the decision of the Swiss Federal Council and — where the GDPR is applicable — according to the decision of the European Commission.

We may transfer personal data to states whose law does not ensure an adequate level of data protection if data protection is ensured for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard contractual clauses or with other suitable guarantees. As an exception, we may export personal data to states without adequate or suitable data protection if the special data protection requirements are met, such as the express consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract. We will be happy to provide data subjects with information on any such guarantees upon request.

Rights of data subjects

Data protection rights

We grant data subjects all rights under applicable data protection law, in particular:

We may, within the legally permissible framework, defer, restrict or refuse the exercise of rights by data subjects, and may indicate any conditions for the exercise of data protection rights. For example, we may, in whole or in part, refuse access with reference to business secrets or the protection of other persons, or refuse deletion with reference to statutory retention obligations.

We may exceptionally charge costs for the exercise of rights. We will inform data subjects in advance of any such costs.

We are obliged to identify data subjects who request information or assert other rights by reasonable means. Data subjects are obliged to cooperate.

Right to complain

Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection rights in court or to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.

The competent data protection supervisory authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Where the GDPR is applicable, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent European data protection supervisory authority.

Data security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure data security appropriate to the risk. However, we cannot guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our website is protected by transport encryption (SSL/TLS, in particular Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, HTTPS). Most browsers indicate transport encryption with a padlock in the address bar.

Our digital communication — like any digital communication — is subject to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion as well as other surveillance by security authorities in Switzerland, elsewhere in Europe, in the United States of America (USA) and in other countries. We cannot directly influence the corresponding processing of personal data by intelligence services, police and other security authorities.

Use of the website

Cookies

We may use cookies. Cookies — both our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) — are data stored in the browser.

Cookies may be stored temporarily as "session cookies" or for a certain period as "persistent cookies". Session cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies have a defined storage period. Cookies enable, in particular, a browser to be recognised on the next visit to our website and thus, for example, the reach of our website to be measured.

Cookies can be deactivated and deleted in whole or in part at any time in the browser settings. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We actively request express consent to the use of cookies, at least where required.

Server log files

For each access to our website, we may collect the following information if it is transmitted by your browser to our server infrastructure or can be determined by our web server: date and time including time zone, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system and version, browser and version, accessed sub-page of our website including the amount of data transferred, and the website last accessed in the same browser window (referer).

We store such information, which may also constitute personal data, in server log files. The information is necessary in order to provide our website in a lasting, user-friendly and reliable manner and to ensure data security.

Notifications and communications

We send notifications and communications by e-mail, in particular our newsletter, and, where applicable, through other communication channels.

Success and reach measurement

Notifications and communications may contain web links or tracking pixels that record whether an individual message has been opened and which web links have been clicked. Such web links and tracking pixels may also record the use of notifications on a personal basis. We need this statistical recording in order to design our communication in an effective and user-friendly manner.

Consent and objection

You generally must expressly consent to the use of your e-mail address and other contact addresses, unless such use is permitted on other legal grounds. For any such consent, we use the double-opt-in procedure where possible. We may log such consents, including the IP address and date/time, for evidentiary and security reasons.

You may object to the receipt of notifications and communications at any time. With such an objection, you can simultaneously object to the statistical recording of usage. Necessary notifications in connection with our activities remain reserved.

Service providers for notifications

We send newsletters and other communications with the help of specialised service providers. In particular:

Social media

We maintain a presence on social media platforms in order to communicate with interested persons and to provide information about our activities. In connection with such platforms, personal data may also be processed outside Switzerland and the EEA. The general terms and conditions, terms of use, privacy policies and other provisions of the individual operators apply in each case.

In particular, we use:

Third-party services

We use services from specialised third parties in order to be able to carry out our activities in a lasting, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. These services allow us, among other things, to embed functions and content in our website. With such embedding, the services used will, for technically compelling reasons, at least temporarily record the IP addresses of users.

Digital audio and video content

We use services of specialised third parties to enable the direct playback of digital audio and video content:

Payments (future shop)

As soon as we offer publications or other products for sale via our website, payments will be processed by specialised service providers. We will add the providers used (e.g. Stripe, TWINT, PayPal) and the corresponding data protection information at this point in due course. The legal texts of the individual service providers apply in addition to the processing of payments.

Final provisions

We may amend and supplement this privacy policy at any time. We will provide information about such amendments in an appropriate form, in particular by publishing the current privacy policy on our website.

Vouvry, 20 April 2026