Federal Act on Data Protection / Data Protection Ordinance – SZ 🇨🇭
Understanding cookies and their role in online browsing is crucial for safeguarding your privacy. Cookies, small text files dropped by websites onto your device, serve important functions but also have implications for data collection. To address privacy concerns, global regulations such as the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) have been implemented. Prioritizing data protection is essential in today’s digital landscape.
What are Cookies?
Cookies act as small text files that websites store on your device during online exploration. Processed and stored by your web browser, cookies play essential roles in website functionality. However, it’s important to recognize their potential to store significant data that could identify you without your consent. Consequently, various regulations worldwide focus on protecting our data and privacy.
FADP & Cookies
Respecting Switzerland’s Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), websites processing personal data from users may require prior, freely given, and informed consent. This particularly concerns cookies that are non-essential for the basic website functioning but process personal data for analytics or marketing purposes.
If your website adheres to the GDPR guidelines, you’re already well on your way to fulfilling Swiss data protection regulatios
The information usually found about Switzerland’s regulations regarding the cookie banner is contradictory. On some websites, they may recommend a banner with the option to accept or reject cookies, while on others, only a notice without any required action is suggested. However, at illow, we always recommend keeping your website secure. That’s why a banner with the following features is our recommended tool in this case:
- Include a Button to Accept Cookies: The text in the cookie banner and the button must make it clear that by clicking the button the user agrees to the deployment of cookies.
- Include a Button to Reject Cookies: Although it does not specifically clarify a button as in other cases, we must provide an opt-out option that “takes effect immediately and is consistent.”
- Provide Detailed Information About Cookie Use: The cookie banner should contain information about why the website uses cookies. For example, does it collect data for analytics, advertising, or social media purposes?
- Alert the User if the Website Shares Data with Third Parties: If the website shares the data collected through cookies with third parties the cookie banner should explain this.
- Link to the Website’s Cookie Policy: Here the website will provide further information about the cookies in use on the site, including a list of all the cookies.
- Include a Link to the Cookie Settings: This isn’t required under GDPR as long as users have the choice to reject all cookies. However, it does have the benefit of allowing users who would otherwise reject all cookies to permit some forms of data collection.
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