We Patrini – DadConnect (hereafter "we", "us" or "our") are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal data that is provided to us or collected by us on our website and during our business. We store and process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the Swiss Data Protection Act (DPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This privacy policy explains how we may collect and use any personal data that we obtain about you and your rights in relation to that data. We may provide you with additional privacy notices where we believe that it is appropriate to do so. In case, these additional notices supplement this privacy policy and should be read as one.
I. Who Is Responsible For The Processing Of Your Personal Data?
We, Patrini – DadConnect, c/o startup space AG, Wiesenstrasse 10A, 8952 Schlieren are the responsible Controller of the personal data you provide to us or we collect when you visit our website or during our business.
II. What Personal Data Do we Collect, Why Do we Collect It, and What Legal Bases Do We Rely On?
We collect and process your personal data as described in the following
1. Business Development and Business Acceptance
We collect personal information about prospective users, users, individuals that contact us, as well as other business contacts as part of business development initiatives and our business acceptance process.
The type of personal data we collect includes name, contact details (such as your address, email address and telephone numbers), data about your education, education, data about your job, data about your kids (such as name and age), data about your work life, language/s spoken, a picture of you face to identify your gender, interests, passions, payment data (such as your bank account number, or your credit card number), and pictures, videos and information that you upload and your communication with us or with other users.
We obtain this data directly from you, from other business contacts, affiliated companies ("Affiliates"), from business partners and other third parties providing services to us, or from publicly available open sources.
We may use your personal data to maintain and develop our business relationship with you, identify products or services you may be interested in, to pursue certain business development initiatives, send you publications and marketing communications and invite you to events, to the extent permitted by law.
The legal basis for processing your personal data for these purposes is our legitimate interest in conducting and developing our business (article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or our contractual obligations (article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
We only send you marketing emails if we are in an existing business relationship with you or you have consented to receiving such emails pursuant to article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can choose which information you would like to receive through our marketing communications by using the corresponding button at the bottom of our emails. If you no longer wish to receive emails relating to our products, services, or events, you can unsubscribe at any time by using the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of the email or by contacting us as indicated in section VIII of this privacy policy.
Where we need to collect personal data required for our services and you fail to provide that information when requested, we may not be able to provide our services as requested by you.
2. Products and Services
In the course of our business activities, we collect and process personal data about prospective users, users, clients, and individuals that contact us.
The type of personal data that we collect includes name, contact details (such as your address, email address and telephone numbers), nationality, a picture of you face to identify your gender, interests, payment data (such as your bank account number, or your credit card number), and pictures, videos and information that you upload as well as information of all kind from correspondence, contacts and interactions with us. We will also process information of all kind that is revealed to or collected by us in the course of offering our products and services.
This personal data does not include in principle special categories of sensitive data.
We collect personal data directly from you, from our users or other persons to a matter. We may receive or collect personal data from third persons such as our Affiliates, other organizations that you have dealings with or related to, regulators or government agencies. We may also collect personal data from publicly available sources.
We may use this data to provide our website, in particular our blog, as well as our application, to run our firm's business (e.g., carry out administrative or operational processes), monitor and analyze our business or to improve our services and products. Our main legal basis for these processing purposes is the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract pursuant to article 6(1)(b) GDPR. In other cases, we may also rely on our legitimate interest to conduct business as long as your interest in the protection of your personal data does not override our interests pursuant to article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
If you or the organization for which you are acting are a user and you fail to provide data that we require when requested, we may not be able to provide our products and services and continue our business relations.
In case you do not want to provide personal data that we need to offer products and services that you have requested, this may mean that we are not able to offer the full range of products and services you wish to have
3. Use of Our Website and Application
When you visit our website or our application, we collect the following information usage data such as domain name, user settings, browser type, operating system, internet service provider, session ID, IP address, mobile device identifier, authentication data and visit time, as well as other meta data.
We collect this personal data about you so that we can offer website content and provide products and services that are offered via the website as well as to analyze the usage of our website. In such cases, the legal basis for the processing is fulfilment of a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)b GDPR and our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)f GDPR.
In order to achieve the above purposes, we use cookies on our website. For more information on what cookies we use, for what purposes they are used and your rights with regard to these cookies, please consult our Cookie Policy that you can find here: [Cookie Policy: Understanding Our Website Cookies].
4. Recruiting
If you apply for a job or a recruiting event with us, you may need to provide personal data including special categories of personal data. With your application you expressly consent to our use of this personal data, to the extent necessary. This personal data might include CVs (including diplomas, professional experience), evaluation tests and reports, criminal records, family situation, any disability requiring special arrangements of the workplace. We will use this personal data to consider your application. We may also use this personal data to carry out checks to verify the personal data you provided (including references, background, identity, suitability, excerpts from the debt enforcements register and criminal record checks). The legal basis for these processing purposes is our legitimate interest in recruiting new employees pursuant to article 6(1)(f) GDPR and, in case the application is successful, the conclusion and performance of a contract pursuant to article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Where we need to collect personal data required for your employment and you fail to provide that personal data when requested, we may not be able to further consider your employment
5. Alumni
If you are a former employee of ours, we will process personal data such as your name, contact details (such as your address, email address and telephone numbers), information about your employment with us and thereafter as well as any other information we may have received from you.
This information is used to keep in touch with you and is in our legitimate interest pursuant to article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
6. Other Processing Activities
Further, we collect and process personal data about you if you offer or provide products or services to us, if we evaluate your products or services, and generally when you request information from us or provide information to us. We may also process your personal data to the extent we have a legal obligation (article 6(1)(c) GDPR) to do so or to defend, exercise or establish a legal claim which is in our legitimate interest (article 6(1)(f) GDPR)
III. Dow We Carry Out Profiling and Automated Decisions?
We do not process your data in a way that creates a profile of you in our databases (e.g., a customer profile) or allows us to deduct certain aspects of your life such as interest, hobbies, financial situation, health etc.
We do not, currently, use automated decision-making to decide about ways to handle your data. If we should decide to start using a computer program to evaluate any of your data and make automated decisions that have a legal or similar effect on you, we will inform you of this in full transparency
IV. How and Why We May Share Your Personal Data?
Where necessary or useful for the provision of our services or for other purposes defined in this privacy policy, we may disclose your personal data collected during the use of our website and/or application with Affiliates and third parties
7. With Affiliates and Third Parties.
We may share your personal data with our Affiliates and third parties such as consultants, companies providing automated communications services, service providers in general (e.g., but not limited to, card payments, emails collection, direct messaging tools etc.), authorities and other persons in Switzerland, the EU or other countries. In addition, we may share your personal data with third parties if:
- You have consented to us doing so (where necessary) or the organization that you work for has obtained your consent for us to do so (where necessary);
- We are under a legal, regulatory, or professional obligation to do so (for example, to comply with anti-money laundering or sanctions requirements); or
- It is necessary in connection with legal proceedings or to exercise or defend legal rights.
We use third parties who provide products and services on our behalf and may share your personal data with them, for example technology suppliers who may have access to your personal data when providing software support
8. Disclosing Personal Data to Affiliates and Third Parties in Foreign Countries
During our business activities and for the purposes described in this policy, we may also disclose your personal data to Affiliates and third parties outside of Switzerland to the extent permitted by law. Personal data is only transferred to in foreign countries if the relevant legal requirements are met. To the extent such countries do not offer adequate protection, the transfer is secured by appropriate safeguards (such as the approved EU Standard Contractual Clauses including the necessary Swiss amendments) or based on a statutory exemption (such as your explicit consent to the disclosure). The recipients are located in the following countries which either provide an adequate level of data protection or, where this is not the case, we rely on a statutory exemption or appropriate safeguards, in each case as indicated in the brackets:
- Countries of the European Union;
- United States [EU standard contractual clauses incl. Swiss amendments].
You may request a copy of these contractual guarantees, whereby in individual cases we may need to redact parts that are relevant to the privacy of others or confidentiality obligations. In exceptional cases, we may rely on your consent or transfer your personal data abroad if it is necessary for the performance of contract, establishment, exercise, or enforcement of legal claims or overriding public interests
V. How Do We Guarantee Security of Your Personal Data?
We have put in place technical and organizational security measures to hold your personal data securely in electronic and physical form, to protect it from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, improper use, modification, disclosure, or accidental loss. We use industry-standard security practices provided by our third-party service providers, such as AWS and MongoDB, which offer encryption, access controls, and data protection measures.
We use third party services like AWS, Mongo Atlas. E.g the data is encrypted in rest and in transit.
Our employees and third-party service providers who have access to confidential information (including personal data) are subject to confidentiality obligations.
Despite these security measures, we cannot completely eliminate the security risks associated with data processing
VI. How Long Do We Store Your Data?
We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. We will further retain your personal data to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, for as long as claims could be brought against us and for as long as legitimate interest, including data security, requires
VII. What Are Your Rights?
You have the right to:
- request access to your personal data and certain information in relation to its processing;
- request rectification of your personal data;
- request the erasure of your personal data;
- request that we restrict the processing of your personal data; and
- object to the processing of your personal data.
In case you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, and transfer of your personal data for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal data for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so.
Please note, that we may refuse or limit to grant these rights for legal reasons or based on data protection legislation, in which case we will provide reasons for our decision as required by the law.
If you feel we have not handled your query or concern to your satisfaction you can file a complaint with the competent data protection authority. In Switzerland this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (www.edoeb.admin.ch). Based on your residence, you may have the possibility to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority of your place of residence.
If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us in writing by email or letter in accordance with section VIII of this privacy policy.
In general, you will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of your individual rights. However, we may charge a fee for access to your personal data if the relevant data protection legislation allows us to do so, in which case we will inform you as required by the law
VIII. How Can You Contact Us?
Patrini - DadConnect
c/o startup space AG
Wiesenstrasse 10A, 8952 Schlieren (Switzerland)
support@dadconnect-app.io
+41 76 378 01 8
IX. What Applies To Updates and Chnages to this Privacy Policy?
We reserve the right to update and change this privacy policy from time to time to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this website. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
As at: 14/03/2025