The Privacy Policy was last updated on June 25, 2025
The following provisions provide information on the processing of personal data by the website “globaleforcement.org” and the association “Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI)” (hereinafter “we”).
1. Data from visitors to this website
Only data that is automatically transmitted by your browser is collected from mere visitors to this website who do not register. This is technically necessary to access the website (e.g. data on IP address, browser, operating system or screen resolution, date and time of access, intermediary URL). This data cannot be assigned to a specific person and we do not combine this data with data from other sources.
2. Data from subscribers to the GEFI newsletter
We collect the surname, first name and e-mail address of subscribers to our newsletter. We process this data in order to send the newsletter efficiently.
3. Data from registered users of the GEFI website
We collect the surname, middle and first name and e-mail address of registered users of our website. We process this data to allow an efficient access to data published on our website.
4. Data of members of the GEFI association
We collect the surname, middle and first name, residential address, country of residence, e-mail address, background information on the interest in joining and (optionally) the mobile phone number and social media profiles of members of the Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI) association. We process this data for the efficient operation of the association in accordance with Swiss law and the association’s charter.
5. Data of persons named in the data sources used
The purpose of the Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI) Association and this website operated by it is to make the data we collect and process on enforcement by financial supervisory authorities available for research or other purposes.
The data published on the website originates from publicly accessible websites of financial market supervisory authorities, courts or other sources indicated on the website. We do not collect names of individuals and replace them with placeholders.
We do not systematically check whether these sources subsequently change or remove originally published data. However, if we become aware of this, we remove or change the data accordingly.
6. Disclosure of personal data
We do not share users’ or members’ personal data with third parties, except when necessary with vendors who provide consulting, IT, payment, or other services on our behalf.
We also reserve the right to provide information to Swiss authorities in accordance with Swiss law. In this case, we would inform the persons concerned if this is legally permissible.
If, in exceptional cases, we transfer personal data to a recipient in a country without adequate statutory data protection, we take appropriate precautions (e.g. contracts with standard data protection clauses, anonymization, etc.) to ensure adequate data protection. In doing so, we rely on the statutory exceptions (consent; performance of a contract; establishment, exercise or enforcement of legal claims; overriding public interests; published personal data or necessity of disclosure to protect your integrity).
7. Retention period
We only process personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes pursued with the processing.
8. Data security
We take appropriate security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all personal data, to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing and to counteract the risks of loss, unintentional modification, unwanted disclosure or unauthorized access.
However, despite such measures, the processing of personal data on the Internet can always have security gaps. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute data security.
Access to our online offering is – like all Internet use – subject to monitoring by secret services, police forces and other security authorities in various countries. This monitoring is outside our sphere of influence.
9. Rights of data subjects
Within the framework of Swiss and applicable foreign data protection legislation, data subjects have the right to information, correction or deletion as well as to restriction of data processing or objection to our data processing and to the disclosure of certain personal data for the purpose of transfer to another body.
Where data subjects have given their consent to the processing of their personal data, they can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. The exercise of these rights by data subjects requires proof of identity.
To assert their rights, data subjects can contact us at the address given below.
To the extent permitted or required by law, we may refuse requests to exercise these rights. For example, we may or must retain or otherwise process the personal data despite a request to erase the personal data or restrict processing for legal reasons.
Data subjects have the right to enforce their claims in court or to appeal to the competent authority. The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch).
10. Contact details for data protection concerns
Data subjects with data protection concerns can contact the following address:
Association “Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry and Capital Markets (GEFI)”
Data protection officer: gro.tnemecrofnelabolg@ycavirp
11. Changes to this privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies.
