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Introduction

Friendly Automate allows you to collect, store, and process personally identifiable information ("PII") - such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Additionally, when you use our web tracking, Friendly Automate stores IP addresses of your visitors and the pages they view, and sets cookies to identify repeat visitors.

Therefore, the use of Friendly Automate is subject to the new Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) and the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR).

<aside> 🇨🇭 You can find detailed information on the new Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection in our blog post - including templates and checklists for implementing the most important measures.

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Our software itself is compliant with these data protection laws. You can find more about this in our Privacy Policy. According to these laws, we have the role of "processor".

There are also things that you must consider and implement. Indeed, according to the wording of these laws, you are "controller" for all personal data that you process with our software.

In Switzerland and the EU, individuals have the following rights, among others:

Below we explain how you, as a data controller, can implement this.

How to use Friendly Automate in a privacy compliant way:

1. Sign a Data Processing Agreement with us

If you have personal data processed by a third party (in this case by us), you are required by the nFADP and the GDPR to enter into a Data Processing Agreement (DPA). A DPA specifies what your and our obligations are with regard to data protection aspects, and how the data is specifically processed and protected.

Please contact us to arrange a DPA.

2. Create a privacy policy

<aside> 💡 “Every person has the right to know what data is stored about them.”

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