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DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT

Version effective as of 07.07.2026

With this Data Protection Statement we, Semi-Live Publishing GmbH, describe how we collect and further process personal data.

The term "personal data" in this Data Protection Statement shall mean any information that identifies, or could reasonably be used to identify any person.

This Privacy Notice is aligned with the Swiss Data Protection Act.

1.             Controller / Data Protection Officer / Representative

The "controller" of data processing as described in this data protection statement is Semi-Live Publishing GmbH. You can notify us of any data protection related concerns using the following contact details: Semi-Live Publishing GmbH, Stadelhoferstrasse 33, CH-8001 Zürich, mail@semi-live-publishing.com.

2.             Collection and Processing of Personal Data

We collect personal data directly from you when you create an account, subscribe to our publications, contact us or otherwise interact with our apps and services. We may also receive information from publicly available sources or trusted business partners where permitted by law.

3.             Purpose of Data Processing and Legal Grounds

We process personal data only to the extent necessary to provide our services, operate our business, comply with legal obligations, and protect our legitimate interests.

Depending on your interaction with us, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Providing our digital publications and mobile application, including user account management, authentication, access to purchased content, technical support, and service administration.
  • Operating our professional online community and discussion forum, including user registration, moderation, communication between members, publication of user-generated content, and ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
  • Organising conferences, educational events and webinars, including registration, participant management, event communication, certification (where applicable), invoicing, and administration.
  • Communicating with users, including responding to enquiries, providing customer support, sending service-related notifications, and, where permitted by law or based on your consent, providing information about publications, educational activities, products, services and events.
  • Processing payments and fulfilling contractual obligations, including accounting, billing, fraud prevention and debt collection where necessary.
  • Improving our products and services, including statistical analysis, quality assurance, platform development, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and prevention of misuse.
  • Complying with legal and regulatory obligations, including record-keeping, responding to lawful requests from authorities, and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
  • Advertisement and marketing activities (including organizing events), provided that you have not objected to the use of your data for this purpose.
  • Ensuring our operation, including our IT, our websites, apps and other services.

Where required by applicable law, we process personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • the performance of a contract or steps taken prior to entering into a contract;
  • compliance with legal obligations;
  • our legitimate interests in operating, maintaining, securing and improving our services and business, provided such interests are not overridden by your rights and interests; or
  • your consent, where consent is required. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect.

If you have given us your consent to process your personal data for certain purposes (for example when registering to receive newsletters or carrying out a background check), we will process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent, unless we have another legal basis, provided that we require one. Consent given can be withdrawn at any time, but this does not affect data processed prior to withdrawal.

4.             Cookies / Tracking and Other Techniques Regarding the Use of our Website

We typically use "cookies" and similar techniques on our websites and apps, which allow for an identification of your browser or device. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer and automatically saved by the web browser on your computer or mobile device, when you visit our website or install our app. If you revisit our website or use our app, we may recognize you, even if we do not know your identity. Besides cookies that are only used during a session and deleted after your visit of the website ("session cookies"), we may use cookies in order to save user configurations and other information for a certain time period (e.g., two years) ("permanent cookies"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may configure your browser settings in a way that it rejects cookies, only saves them for one session or deletes them prematurely. Most browsers are preset to accept cookies. We use permanent cookies for the purpose of saving user configuration (e.g., language, automated log in), in order to understand how you use our services and content, and to enable to show you customized offers and advertisement (which may also happen on websites of other companies; should your identity be known to us, such companies will not learn your identity from us; they will only know that the same user is visiting their website has previously visited a certain website). Certain cookies are sent to you from us, others from business partners with which we collaborate. If you block cookies, it is possible that certain functions (such as, e.g., language settings, shopping basket, ordering processes) are no longer available to you.

In accordance with applicable law, we may include visible and invisible image files in our newsletters and other marketing e-mails. If such image files are retrieved from our servers, we can determine whether and when you have opened the e-mail, so that we can measure and better understand how you use our offers and customize them. You may disable this in your e-mail program, which will usually be a default setting.

By using our websites, apps and consenting to the receipt of newsletters and other marketing e-mails you agree to our use of such techniques. If you object, you must configure your browser or e-mail program accordingly or uninstall the app, should the respective setting not be available.

We may use Google Analytics or similar services on our website as Matomo. These are services provided by third parties, which may be located in any country worldwide (in the case of Google Analytics Google Ireland Ltd. (located in Ireland), Google Ireland relies on Google LLC (located in the United States) as its sub-processor (both «Google»), www.google.com) and which allow us to measure and evaluate the use of our website (on an anonymized basis). For this purpose, permanent cookies are used, which are set by the service provider. We have configured the service so that the IP addresses of visitors are truncated by Google in Europe before forwarding them to the United States and then cannot be traced back. We have turned off the «Data sharing» option and the «Signals» option. Although we can assume that the information we share with Google is not personal data for Google, it may be possible that Google may be able to draw conclusions about the identity of visitors based on the data collected, create personal profiles and link this data with the Google accounts of these individuals for its own purposes. If you have registered with the service provider, the service provider will also know your identity. In this case, the processing of your personal data by the service provider will be conducted in accordance with its data protection regulations. The service provider only provides us with data on the use of the respective website (but not any personal information of you).

In addition, we use plug-ins from social networks such as Facebook, X, Youtube, LinkedIn on our websites. This is visible for you (typically based on the respective symbols). We have configured these elements to be disabled by default. If you activate them (by clicking on them), the operators of the respective social networks may record that you are on our website and where on our website you are exactly and may use this information for their own purposes. This processing of your personal data lays in the responsibility of the respective operator and occurs according to its data protection regulations. We do not receive any information about you from the respective operator.

5.             Datatransfer and Transfer of Data Abroad

In the context of our business activities and in line with the purposes of the data processing set out in Section 3, we may transfer data to third parties, insofar as such a transfer is permitted and we deem it appropriate, in order for them to process data for us or, as the case may be, their own purposes. In particular, the following categories of recipients may be concerned:

  • our service providers (such as e.g. banks), including processors (such as e.g. IT providers);
  • dealers, suppliers, subcontractors and other business partners;
  • clients;
  • domestic and foreign authorities or courts;
  • the public, including users of our websites and social media;
  • competitors, industry organizations, associations, organizations and other bodies;
  • acquirers or parties interested in the acquisition of business divisions;

together Recipients.

Certain Recipients may be within Switzerland but they may be located in any country worldwide. In particular, you must anticipate your data to be transmitted to any country in which the Semi-Live Publishing GmbH is represented by affiliates, branches or other offices as well as to other countries in Europe and the USA where our service providers are located (such as Microsoft).

6.             Retention Periods for your Personal Data

We process and retain your personal data as long as required for the performance of our contractual obligation and compliance with legal obligations or other purposes pursued with the processing, i.e. for the duration of the entire business relationship (from the initiation, during the performance of the contract until it is terminated) as well as beyond this duration in accordance with legal retention and documentation obligations. As soon as your personal data are no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, they will be deleted or anonymized, to the extent possible.

7.             Data Security

We have taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse such as internal policies, training, IT and network security solutions, access controls and restrictions, encryption of data carriers and transmissions, pseudonymisation, inspections.

8.             Obligation to Provide Personal Data To Us

In the context of our business relationship you must provide us with any personal data that is necessary for the conclusion and performance of a business relationship and the performance of our contractual obligations (as a rule, there is no statutory requirement to provide us with data). Without this information, we will usually not be able to enter into or carry out a contract with you (or the entity or person you represent). In addition, the website cannot be used unless certain information is disclosed to enable data traffic (e.g. IP address).

9.             Your Rights

In accordance with and as far as provided by applicable law, you have the right to access, rectification and erasure of your personal data, the right to restriction of processing or to object to our data processing, in particular for direct marketing purposes in addition to right to receive certain personal data for transfer to another controller (data portability).

In general, exercising these rights requires that you are able to prove your identity (e.g., by a copy of identification documents where your identity is not evident otherwise or can be verified in another way). In order to assert these rights, please contact us at the addresses provided in Section 1 above.

In addition, every data subject has the right to enforce his/her rights in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent data protection authority of Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

10.         Amendments of this Data Protection Statement

We may amend this Data Protection Statement at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. If the Data Protection Statement is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you by e-mail or other appropriate means in case of an amendment.

Unless mandatory data protection laws provide otherwise, the processing of personal data is governed by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and other applicable laws of Switzerland.

Semi-Live Publishing GmbH