Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1.  Identification of the Controller

City Cancer Challenge is the Controller of the processing of your personal data in order to provide you the services identified in this website (the “Website”).

City Cancer Challenge, is a Foundation domiciled at 9 Rue du Commerce, 1204, Geneva (Switzerland) and its Tax ID number is CHE35326021. Email: communications@citycancerchallenge.org.

City Cancer Challenge is committed to the fundamental right to the protection of your personal data and this privacy policy is intended to inform you of your rights.

2. What information will we collect from you?

You should be aware that there are different ways to collect personal data:

a) The data you provide directly to us.

We collect information about you when you contact us through the channels provided for this purpose, such as the register or contact form, or when you provide us your CV to work with us.

When you contact us through these channels, we will ask for your consent to obtain your email address, your name and surname, organization, role, your country of residence and other information about your professional profile and academic background if you are applying to work with us.

All the fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the forms provided will be mandatory, the omission of any of them could lead to the impossibility of us being able to provide the services requested. You must provide truthful information, and it is forbidden to impersonate anyone or to use an alias or anonymous name.

You may not, when providing any information that may be requested from you, choose expressions that are offensive, coinciding with brands, tradenames, names or pseudonyms of public figures or celebrities for whose use you are not authorized.

It is essential that you keep your reference data, passwords and access codes that you generate at all times. You will be solely responsible for the use of your personal account, and in this regard, you agree to use such information diligently, not to make it available to third parties, and notify us, without delay, of its loss or theft.

In order to ensure that the information provided is always up to date and free of errors, you must notify City Cancer Challenge as soon as possible of any changes to your personal data by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address indicated here.

Likewise, by clicking on the “I accept” (or equivalent) button incorporated in the aforementioned forms, you declare that the information and data you have provided are accurate and truthful.

b) Data obtained indirectly.

When you browse, different cookies and other tracking devices may be installed on your device, as explained in our Cookies Policy.

3. What is the source of your data?

We consider that all the data processed by City Cancer Challenge has been provided to us freely.

In the event that the personal data provided is from a third person, you guarantee that you have informed them of this Privacy Policy and have obtained their authorisation to provide the data to City Cancer Challenge for the purposes indicated above. You also guarantee that the information provided is accurate and up to date, and you are responsible for any direct or indirect damage or harm that may be caused as a result of non-compliance with this obligation.

4. How will we use your personal information and what services will we provide you?

City Cancer Challenge acts as the controller of the personal data for the following purposes:

a) Based on the management of the contractual or precontractual relationship:

b) Based on the existence of a legitimate interest of City Cancer Challenge:

a) To keep you informed about the products and services of City Cancer Challenge, as well as to send you news, events and other activities that we carry out in City Cancer Challenge, by conventional and/or electronic means (e-mails, SMS, …), related to the products or services that we carry out and that may be of your interest.

a) If you are not a registered user, to keep you informed about City Cancer Challenge’s products and services, and as long as you have given us your express content to do so, by conventional and/or electronic means (e-mails, SMS…), related to cancer news, research, events and activities that we carry out at the Foundation, worldwide and in your country.

However, if you do not wish your data to be processed for any of these purposes, you may object at any time by contacting us at communications@citycancerchallenge.org, as indicated in the Rights Management section of this Privacy Policy.

5. Data transfers and international transfers.

All transfers of personal data that we carry out are necessary for the fulfilment of the above-mentioned purposes, or are made in order to fulfil a legal obligation:

a) To public administrations and the administration of justice, and to law enforcement agencies in compliance with the legal obligations applicable to us.

b) Companies providing IT services, tools or IT infrastructure on which the services provided by City Cancer Challenge are based, such as hosting providers, CRMs, emailing service companies, etc.

In this regard, we inform you that any transfer will be made taking into account all the necessary legal safeguards. We also guarantee that we sign specific contracts with all our service providers as established by the regulations.

Furthermore, City Cancer Challenge guarantees that the necessary safeguards are in place to ensure that the data can be transferred securely, either because the provider offers adequate guarantees, through, among others, its participation in the Swiss-U.S Privacy Shield, or because of the exceptions set out in the applicable regulations are met.

6. Exercising your rights.

We inform you that you will be able to exercise the following rights:

  1. Rights of access to your personal data to know which ones are being processed
    and the processing operations carried out with them.
  2. Right to rectify any inaccurate personal data.
  3. Right to delete your personal data, where possible.
  4. Right to request limitation of the processing of your personal data when the accuracy, legality or necessity of the data processing is in doubt, in which case, we may retain the data for exercise or defence of claims.
  5. Right to object to the processing of your personal data when the legal basis that
    enables us to process them is the legitimate interest. The right to the portability of your data, when the legal basis that enables us to process them is the existence of a contractual relationship or your consent.
  6. Right to revoke the consent granted to City Cancer Challenge.

You can exercise your rights at any time and for free in the following ways:

  1. By sending an e-mail to this email address indicating the right you wish to exercise and your identification data.
  2. By sending a written request to the address 9 Rue du Commerce, 1204, Geneva
    (Switzerland) indicating the right you wish to exercise and your personal data.
  3. In addition, when you receive any communication from us, by clicking on the unsubscribe section that will contain that communication, you can unsubscribe from all previously accepted commercial communications.

We also inform you that you have the right to file a complaint at the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Switzerland’s Data Protection Authority, if you believe that we have breached the applicable data protection legislation regarding the processing of your personal data.

7. Retention periods and Cookies.

We will only keep your data for as long as necessary to provide you with these services. Any of the data you provide us through the channels will be blocked as long as they are no longer necessary to manage the service and will only be available if there is a legal obligation (derived from a request from the appropriate authorities) and when you exercise your rights here.

Regarding the personal data obtained through the City Cancer Challenge channels, City Cancer Challenge uses Cookies according to the Cookies Policy that you can consult here.

8. Security and confidentiality.

We are dedicated to the security of your information. In order to prevent unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure of personal data, we have undertaken appropriate technical and physical measures and management processes to safeguard and secure the information we collect from you.

9. Minors

Minors under 13 years of age may not use the services available through the Website without the prior authorization of their parents, guardians or legal representatives, who shall be solely responsible for all acts performed through the Website by the minors in their care, including the filling of forms with the personal data of such minors and the marking, where appropriate, of the boxes accompanying them. In this regard, and to the extent that City Cancer Challenge is not able to control whether or not users are minors, it shall be the parents and guardians who shall enable the necessary mechanisms to prevent minors from accessing the Website and/or providing personal data without their supervision, and City Cancer Challenge shall not accept any liability in this regard.

10. Update of the privacy policy

We do our best to keep our privacy policy fully updated on a monthly basis. If we make changes, they will be clearly identifiable in a conspicuous manner (for example: we may communicate changes to you by email).

This privacy policy has been reviewed and published as of January 28, 2020.

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