Privacy policy

WHO WE ARE
Aardvark Film Emporium (Non-profit)
Schützengasse 114
CH-2502 Bienne
Email: film(at)aardvarfilm.com
Website: Museng Fischer

Disclaimer
All texts and links have been carefully checked and are regularly updated. We endeavour to publish accurate and complete information on this website. However, we accept no liability or guarantee for the accuracy, completeness or up-to-dateness of the information provided. We reserve the right to change the content of the website at any time without prior notice, and make no commitment to update the information contained therein. All external links were checked for accuracy at the time of inclusion. However, we accept no liability for the content or availability of external links. In the case of illegal, incorrect or incomplete content, and in particular in the case of damage resulting from the unchecked use of content on linked pages, only the provider of these pages may be held liable. This applies irrespective of the nature of the damage (direct, indirect or financial) or for any other damage that may occur as a result of loss of data, loss of use or for other reasons.

PRIVACY POLICY
The website aardvarkfilm.com (hereinafter website) is operated by Aardvark Film Emporium, an independent Swiss film distributor based in Biel, Switzerland (hereinafter Operator). The following General Terms and Conditions are governed by the legal provisions of Switzerland. The operator regularly revises the data protection guidelines and reserves the right to make changes at any time. Persons who access the website(hereinafter referred to as users) agree to the following terms and conditions by using the website.

General information
The administrator of this website are committed to protecting users' privacy and addressing potential privacy concerns. The following information has been posted to help you, the user, understand what private information we collect and how your information is used. We treat your personal data confidentially.
You can use our website without providing any personal data. Wherever possible, the collection of personal data on our websites (Newsletter) is voluntary. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

Protection of personal data
Personal data (usually referred to just as „data“ below) will only be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents, and the services offered there.
By visiting the Operator's website, certain data is automatically stored on the Operator's server or on servers of content, services and products that the Operator obtains and/or has installed, for system administration purposes, for static or backup purposes or for tracking purposes. Under certain circumstances, this data may allow conclusions to be drawn about a specific visitor. However, personal data will not be used by the operator in this context.
The following privacy policy is intended to inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis for the processing of such data either under our own control or in conjunction with others. We also inform you below about the third-party components we use to optimise our website and improve the user experience which may result in said third parties also processing data they collect and control.

Cookie Manager
To obtain consent for the use of technically unnecessary cookies on the website, the provider uses a cookie manager. When the website is called up, a cookie with the settings information is stored on the end device of the user so that the request for consent does not have to be made on a subsequent visit.The cookie is required to obtain legally compliant user consent.
You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your internet browser.

Cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are permanently or temporarily stored in your computer when you visit this website. The purpose of the cookies is in particular the analysis of the use of this website for statistical evaluation as well as for continuous improvements. Cookies can be completely or partially deactivated at any time in the user's browser settings. If cookies are deactivated, not all functions of this website may be available.

Third-party cookies
If necessary, our website may also use cookies from companies with whom we cooperate for the purpose of advertising, analysing, or improving the features of our website. Please refer to the following information for details, in particular for the legal basis and purpose of such third-party collection and processing of data collected through cookies.

Disabling cookies
You can refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Likewise, you can use the browser to delete cookies that have already been stored. However, the steps and measures required vary, depending on the browser you use. If you have any questions, please use the help function or consult the documentation for your browser or contact its maker for support.

Google Analytics
The operator uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about the user's use of the website (including his IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate the IP address with any other data held by Google.
Google offers an opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en .This add-on can be installed on the most popular browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on informs Google Analytics‘ JavaScript (ga.js) that no information about the website visit should be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use as detailed herein.

Newsletter (Mailchimp)
We offer you the opportunity to register for our free newsletter via our website. We use MailChimp, a service of The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, hereinafter referred to as „The Rocket Science Group“.
If you register for our free newsletter, the data requested from you for this purpose, i.e. your email address and, optionally, your name and address, will be processed by The Rocket Science Group. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of your registration will be saved. During the registration process, your consent to receive this newsletter will be obtained together with a concrete description of the type of content it will offer and reference made to this privacy policy.
The newsletter then sent out by The Rocket Science Group will also contain a tracking pixel called a web beacon. This pixel helps us evaluate whether and when you have read our newsletter and whether you have clicked any links contained therein. In addition to further technical data, such as data about your computer hardware and your IP address, the data processed will be stored so that we can optimise our newsletter and respond to the wishes of our readers. The data will therefore increase the quality and attractiveness of our newsletter.
You may revoke your prior consent to receive this newsletter with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revoking your consent or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.
In addition, the Rocket Science Group offers further information about its data protection practices at http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Embedded Youtube videos
We use youtube on our website, which is a service of Google. YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, hereafter referred to as “youtube”.
As you access any of our webpages on which a YouTube video is embedded, a connection to the YouTube server in the USA will be established. This connection is required in order to be able to display the respective video on our website within your browser. YouTube will record and process at a minimum your IP address, the date and time the video was displayed, as well as the website you visited. In addition, a connection to the DoubleClick advertising network of Google is established.
If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. To prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our site or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube account.
Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in Google’s privacy policy found at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Embedded Vimeo videos
We use Vimeo to display videos on our website. This is a service of Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA, hereinafter referred to as „Vimeo.“
When you access a page on our website that has Vimeo embedded in it, a connection to Vimeo’s servers in the USA is established. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Vimeo to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website will also be recorded.
If you are logged into Vimeo while visiting one of our webpages containing a Vimeo video, Vimeo will associate information about your interaction with our site to your Vimeo account. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of Vimeo before visiting our website or configure your Vimeo user account accordingly.
For the purpose of functionality and usage analysis, Vimeo uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics stores cookies on your terminal device via your browser and transmits information about the use of those websites in which a Vimeo video is embedded to Google. It is possible that Google will process this information in the USA.
If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser. Further details can be found in the section about cookies above.
Vimeo offers further information about its data collection and processing as well your rights and your options for protecting your privacy at this link: http://vimeo.com/privacy.

Dropbox
We use Dropbox to host and share press-kits, school dossiers, images, trailers, clips and other marketing materials for the different films. This is a service of Dropbox, Inc, 1800 Owens Street San Francisco, CA 94158 , USA, hereinafter referred to as „Dropbox.“ In case you have granted your consent to this processing the legal basis is Article 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website.
When you access a link on our website to Dropbox, a connection to Dropbox’s servers is established. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Dropbox to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website will also be recorded. If you are logged into Dropbox while clicking on a Dropbox Link on our website, Dropbox will associate information about your interaction with our site to your Dropbox account. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of Dropbox before visiting our website or configure your Dropbox user account and the Dropbox Cookie Consent tool accordingly.
If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser.
Further details can be found in the section about cookies above, and in your Dropbox account with the Dropbox Cookie Consent Tool. The legal basis for collecting and processing this information is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website and in Dropbox’s’s legitimate interest in protecting and sharing the hosted data, as well as statistically analysing user behaviour for optimisation and Dropbox diverse Services.
Dropbox offers further information about its data collection and processing as well your rights and your options for protecting your privacy at these links, as well as a Cookie Consent Tool to choose which cookies you interact with when using Dropbox services, and downloading files:
https://www.dropbox.com/privacy
https://help.dropbox.com/security/privacy-policy-faq
https://help.dropbox.com/security/cookies
https://www.docsend.com/cookie-policy/
https://help.dropbox.com/security/official-domains
https://help.dropbox.com/security/physical-location-data-storage

Social Plugins
Our pages contain plugins of the social networks Facebook & Instagram, today part of the Meta Companies. When you visit our pages, a direct connection between your browser and the Meta server is established via the plugin.
Meta thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you do not want Facebook or Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your respective user account, please log out of your user account. The use of Social media plugins is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in ensuring its visibility on social media.

Facebook - Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Instagram - Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

Meta Privacy Policy
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?section_id=0-WhatIsThePrivacy

The rights of users
With regard to the data processing, users and data subjects have the right to
• Information about your data stored by us and its processing
• Correction of inaccurate personal data
• Deletion of your data stored by us
• Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations
• object to the processing of your data by us
• to receive copies of the data concerning them and/or provided by them and to have the same transmitted to other providers/controllers (which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future.

Data processing by us and third parties
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We will only share your personal data with third parties if:
- you have given your express consent to this
- the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
- the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
- the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data

This privacy policy is established the 14 of august 2023.