Privacy Policy
DirectPoll adheres to high standards of data protection of personal data collection and processing.
This Privacy Policy explains what information DirectPoll and its related services collect about its users and what we do with that information. Itapplies to the information that we obtain through your use of DirectPoll services via a device or when you otherwise interact with DirectPoll. In the context of this document, Personal data refers to any information that relates to an identifiable natural person.
Please note that we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy the controller of your personal data is:
DirectPoll
Limmattalstrasse 29
8049 Zürich
Switzerland
info@directpoll.com
https://directpoll.com
Privacy Contact:
info@directpoll.com
DirectPoll related services include any services provided from these domains:
• etc.ch
• directpoll.com
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully to understand our approach and practices regarding your personal data and how DirectPoll will treat it.
WHAT TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED?
DirectPoll will, depending on the product or service we provide to you, collect and process personal data about you including:
• Browsing Information: IP address is anonymized, i.e. we cannot detect where you come from or associate your DirectPoll web usage with any other data held by us.
• Poll data, as entered on drectpoll.com including the email address of the presenter
Please note that without this personal data we may not be in a position to provide you with our products and services.
Cookies
DirectPoll uses cookies that are essential to conduct a poll, browse the website and track visitors, their usage of the DirectPoll website, and their website access preferences. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. There are no non-necessary cookies at this time.
Website analytics
Directpoll and its related services use Matomo. Matomo is an open source software tool for web analysis. Web analysis is the collection, collection and evaluation of data on the behaviour of visitors to Internet sites. Learn more about the web analytics tool Matomo.
Matomo uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by DirectPoll.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE AND THE LEGAL GROUND FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We always process your personal data for a specific purpose and only process the personal data relevant to achieve that purpose.
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds for:
• the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
• based on your consent, voluntarily provided by you (e.g. when you create an account or a poll);
• compliance with a legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject;
• the purposes of our legitimate interests.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
• Managing our relationship with you, including communicating with you in relation to our products and services (for example, when you register for an event).
• Providing and improving our products and services.
• Meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.
WHO IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA SHARED WITH?
We do not share any personal data with anyone.
However, we may disclose personal data to public authorities, regulators or governmental bodies when required by law or regulation or if an authority or governmental body has issued an order requesting such personal data from us. Before we provide the information, we will inform you if the applicable law allows us to do so.
We store and process your personal data on servers located within Switzerland and the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). Normally we do not transfer your personal data outside of Switzerland and/or the EEA.
HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA STORED?
We only store personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal or official requirements. Poll data is stored for up to 2 years for statistical puposes.
HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA KEPT SECURE?
We have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful access to the personal data you have provided to us. As complete data security cannot be guaranteed for communication via e-mails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication, we would recommend sending any particularly confidential information by an alternative secure means.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM?
You have the right to:
• access your personal data and to be provided with certain information in relation to it, such as the purpose for which it is processed, the persons to whom it is disclosed and the period for which it will be stored;
• require us to correct any inaccuracies in your personal data without undue delay;
• require us to erase your personal data;
• require us to restrict processing of your personal data;
• receive the personal data which you have provided to us, in a machine readable format
Please note that these rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exemptions under applicable data protection law.
If you have any questions or would like to exercise any of your rights please contact:
If you are not satisfied with DirectPoll’s response, you have the right to make a complaint to the data protection authority in the jurisdiction where you live or work, or in the place where you believe an issue in relation to your data has arisen.
