Privacy
Draft. A Swiss lawyer reviews this text before launch.
This website belongs to the campaign of Claire Rochat for the election to the grand Conseil vaudois on to follow. This page explains which data we process, why, where it is kept and when we delete it. It is based on the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP).
In short
- You can read this website without us knowing who you are. We use no cookies for statistics or advertising.
- If you sign up as a supporter, this shows your political opinion. That is sensitive personal data. We only process it with your explicit consent.
- Your name only appears in public if you tick a separate box.
- Your data is kept on servers in Switzerland. We never sell it and never give it to an AI service.
- After the election we delete your data, unless you want to stay informed.
1. Who is responsible?
The controller is Claire Rochat, Postfach, email claire@podium.local.
The website runs on Podium, a service of PanVion. PanVion and its technical partner Ollosoft process the data only on behalf of Claire Rochat and only on their instructions.
2. Which data we process and why
| When | Which data | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| You visit the site | Page viewed, time, browser type, referring page. The IP address is shortened and not stored. | Running the site safely and counting visits anonymously | Legitimate interest |
| You sign up as a supporter | First name, last name, email, and if you wish place of residence, postcode, occupation, photo, a short sentence | Showing support and keeping you informed about the campaign | Explicit consent |
| You register for an event | Name, email, number of people, and if you wish a phone number | Organising the event and telling you about changes | Consent |
| You donate | Name, address, email, amount, date, your declaration about the origin of the money | Processing the donation and meeting legal disclosure duties | Contract and legal duty |
| You write through the contact form | Name, email, your message | Answering you | Your request |
| You subscribe to the newsletter | Email, and if you wish your name | Sending the newsletter | Consent |
We do not build profiles of you. We do not buy addresses and do not import voter registers.
3. Supporters
Signing up reveals a political opinion, so we ask for each step separately:
- Sign up as a supporter. Without this tick we store nothing. We first send you an email to confirm.
- Show my name in public. Only if you tick this does your name appear on the public list. Claire Rochat checks every entry before it is shown.
- Use my postcode for anonymous statistics. Only if you tick this do we count your postcode on a map. Areas with fewer than 5 people are merged so that nobody can be identified.
A photo you upload stays private unless you release it for the public list.
You can withdraw any consent at any time, with the link in every email or by writing to claire@podium.local. Your public entry then disappears within 24 hours.
4. Donations
TWINT and card donations are processed by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, Dublin, Ireland). Stripe does not pass your card or TWINT details to us. Stripe and TWINT also process data for their own purposes, such as fraud prevention, and are responsible for that themselves. Stripe may transfer data to the United States under its own privacy policy and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
We receive your name, address, email, the amount and the date. For a bank transfer with a QR bill we see what your bank sends with the payment.
We do not accept anonymous donations or donations from abroad. Donations from Swiss citizens living abroad are allowed. Where the law requires it, we report larger donations with name and place of residence to the authority that publishes them. For federal elections this currently applies above CHF 15,000 per person and campaign.
Your donation is only named in public if the law requires it or you explicitly ask for it.
5. Statistics without cookies
We count visits with Umami, a statistics program on our own servers in Switzerland. It sets no cookies, stores no full IP address and does not recognise you on a later visit. We only see totals, for example how many people read an issue page.
We use no advertising pixels and no social media plugins. Share buttons are plain links. The network only opens when you click.
6. Where your data is kept
The website and all data are kept in data centres in Switzerland (Exoscale, Geneva and Zurich). We work with these parties:
| Party | For | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Exoscale | Servers and database | Switzerland |
| to follow | Confirmation emails and newsletter | to follow |
| Stripe | TWINT and card payments | Ireland, United States |
| PanVion | Running and supporting Podium | Switzerland |
| Ollosoft | Technical maintenance, only in an emergency and logged | to follow |
The technical partner has no access to your data in normal work. Emergency access needs approval, is logged and is covered by Swiss standard contractual clauses.
Your data is never sent to an AI service.
7. How long we keep data
| Data | We delete it |
|---|---|
| Supporters | 3 months after election day, unless you subscribed to the newsletter |
| Unconfirmed sign-ups | After 7 days |
| Event registrations | 30 days after the event |
| Contact form messages | 12 months after the last reply |
| Newsletter | As soon as you unsubscribe |
| Donation records | When the legal retention period ends |
| Server logs | After 14 days |
| Proof of your consent | As long as the data it covers, then at most 3 years as evidence |
After the election the website stays online as an archive. The archive no longer shows a supporter list.
8. Your rights
At any time you can:
- ask which data we hold about you.
- have wrong data corrected.
- have your data deleted and withdraw any consent.
- receive your data in a common format.
Write to claire@podium.local. We answer within 30 days. You can also complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), www.edoeb.admin.ch.
9. Security
All forms are encrypted. Only Claire Rochat and campaign team members who need it can see your data. Every export and every support access is logged.
10. Changes
We update this notice when something changes. The version on this page applies. Last updated: 26 October 2026.