Privacy policy

1. General

This data protection declaration provides information on how HUC Help United for Children Foundation processes personal data.

HUC Help United for Children Foundation is responsible for the processing of personal data. The contact details of HUC Help United for Children Foundation are as follows:

HUC Help United for Children Foundation
Kirchstrasse 39
9490 Vaduz
Principality of Liechtenstein
Tel: +423 236 09 09
E-Mail: info(at)hucfoundation.org

«Personal data» means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. «Processing» means any handling of personal data, irrespective of the means and procedures used, in particular the procurement, storage, use, modification, disclosure, archiving, deletion or destruction of personal data. For certain data processing, e.g. in the context of concluding contracts with HUC Help United for Children Foundation or in connection with the websites of HUC Help United for Children Foundation, there are further regulations (e.g. terms of use). These are available in the relevant contracts or on the relevant websites.

2. Data security

HUC Help United for Children Foundation undertakes to protect personal data and privacy in accordance with the applicable laws, in particular through professional secrecy and data protection law. For this purpose, HUC Help United for Children Foundation takes various technical and organisational security measures (e.g. access restrictions, firewalls, personalised passwords as well as encryption and authentication technologies, staff training etc.).

3. Categories of personal data

HUC Help United for Children Foundation processes the following categories of personal data. We always process as little personal data as possible.
Data of the partners of HUC Help United for Children Foundation, such as:

Master and inventory data (e.g. name, address, nationality, date of birth, career)
Technical data (e.g. business numbers, IP addresses, internal and external identifiers, access records)
Marketing data (e.g. preferences, needs)

Customer data, such as:

master and inventory data (e.g. name, address, nationality, date of birth, information regarding account, securities account, concluded transactions and contracts, information about third parties who are also affected by data processing, such as spouses, authorised representatives and consultants)
Transaction, order and risk management data (e.g. information on the beneficiaries of transfers, beneficiary bank, amount of transfers, risk and investment profile, information on investment products)
Technical data (e.g. business numbers, IP addresses, internal and external identifiers, access records)
Marketing data (e.g. preferences, needs)

Visitor and interested party data (e.g. visitors of HUC Help United for Children Foundation or of websites of HUC Help United for Children Foundation), such as:

master and inventory data (e.g. name, address, nationality, date of birth, information regarding account, securities account, concluded transactions and contracts, information about third parties who are also affected by data processing, such as spouses, authorised representatives and consultants)
Technical data (e.g. IP addresses, internal and external identifiers, access records)
Marketing data (e.g. preferences, needs)

4. Origin of personal data

HUC Help United for Children Foundation may, in order to fulfill the purposes set forth in sec. Section 5 collect personal data from the following sources:

personal data provided to HUC Help United for Children Foundation
personal data arising in connection with the use of products or services and transmitted to HUC Help United for Children Foundation through the technical infrastructure or through processes based on the division of labour
personal data from third parties

5. Purposes of processing

HUC Help United for Children Foundation reserves the right to use personal data which has been obtained for one of the above-mentioned purposes also for another of these purposes if this is compatible with the original purpose or allowable or obligatory by legal provisions (e.g. obligatory reporting obligations).

6. Outsourcing of business areas or services

HUC Help United for Children Foundation outsources certain business areas and services in whole or in part to third parties (e.g. account management including payment transactions.

The service providers who process personal data for this purpose on behalf of HUC Help United for Children Foundation (so-called other processors) are carefully selected. Wherever possible, HUC Help United for Children Foundation uses contractors domiciled in Liechtenstein and Switzerland
Other processors may be entitled to have certain services (e.g. electronic data processing, securities settlement, etc.) provided by third parties.

The other processors may only process personal data received in the same way as HUC Help United for Children Foundation itself and are contractually obliged to guarantee the confidentiality and security of the data.

7. Use of websites and cookie policy

When a person visits websites of HUC Help United for Children Foundation, the web server automatically registers details of their visit (e.g. the website from which the visit takes place, the IP address of the visitor, the contents of the website that are accessed, including date and duration of the visit) Such tracking data serve to optimize the websites of HUC Help United for Children Foundation and provide information on how visitors inform themselves about and use the products, services and offers of HUC Help United for Children Foundation.

However, if the visitor provides personal data, e.g. by filing out a registration form or message field for newsletters etc., HUC Help United for Children Foundation may use this data in addition to the purpose. The 5 purposes mentioned above, in particular for the following:

for customer and user administration
to inform the visitor about services and products
for marketing purposes (e.g. sending newsletters)
technical “hosting” and the further development of the websites of HUC Help United Children Foundation

When visiting the websites of HUC Help United for Children Foundation, the visitor’s data is transported via the Internet, i.e. an open network accessible to everyone. Data transmitted via electronic media (including e-mail) cannot be effectively protected against access by third parties. mong other things, this involves the risk that the data may be disclosed or the content changed, that the identity of the sender (e.g. e-mail) as well as the content of the message may be simulated or otherwise manipulated by unauthorized persons, that viruses may be released, that technical transmission errors, delays or interruptions may occur, that data may be sent abroad without control, where lower data protection requirements may apply than in Liechtenstein, etc.

Cookies are small files that are stored on the visitor’s computer in order to frack the corresponding website visit and navigation between different pages and/or to save settings (e.g. selected language). Cookies are used to collect statistical data about the frequency and time of visits to individual areas of the website and help to design tailor-made, useful and user-friendly websites. The visitor can decide at any time against the use of cookies by deleting the cookies set by the HUC Help United for Children Foundation website. Deletion is possible via the settings in the visitor’s Internet browser.

8. Storage duration

The duration of the storage of personal data depends on the purpose of the respective data processing and/or legal storage obligations, which amount to five, ten or more years depending on the applicable legal basis.

9. Rights of persons concerned

Pursuant to the GDPR persons whose personal data are being processed by HUC Help United for Children Foundation have the following data protection rights:

Right of information: persons concerned may obtain information from HUC Help United for Children Foundation about whether and to what extent person data of theirs are being processed (e.g. categories of personal data being processed, purpose of processing, etc.)

Right to rectification, erasure and restriction of processing: persons concerned have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data of theirs. In addition, personal data must be erased if the data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or processed, if the person concerned has withdrawn consent, or if the data have been unlawfully processed. Persons concerned also have the right to obtain restrictions of processing.

Right to withdraw consent: Persons concerned have the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data of theirs for one or more specific purposes at any time, where the processing is based on the concerned person’s explicit consent. The withdrawal of consent has no effect in relation to data processing undertaken on other legal grounds.
Right to data portability: persons concerned have the right to receive the personal data related to them, which they have provided to HUC Help United for Children Foundation, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have transmitted those data to a third party. Right to object: persons concerned have the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, without any formal requirements, to the processing of personal data of theirs, unless such processing is in the public interest or in pursuit of the legitimate interests of HUC Help United for Children Foundation or of a third party. Persons concerned also have the right to object, without any formal requirements, to the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Right to lodge a complaint: persons concerned have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Liechtenstein supervisory authority. They may also lodge a complaint with another supervisory authority in an EU or EEA member state, e.g. their place of habitual residence, place of work or the place in which the alleged breach took place.

Stand: September 2022