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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/> <style> @import url("https://static.threema.ch/fonts/labgrotesque.css"); * { font-family: 'Lab Grotesque', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } body { margin: 0; padding: 10px; } body.dark { background-color: #222222; color: white; } a { color: #4fbc24; text-decoration: none; font-size: inherit; } body.work a { color: #0A87F0; } body.dark a { color: #4fbc24; } body.dark.work a { color: #0A87F0; } a.btn { display: inline-block; color: #fff; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; user-select: none; background-color: #05A63F; padding: 0.6rem 0.75rem; border-radius: 1px; margin-top: 10px; } body.work a.btn { color: #fff; background-color: #0A87F0; } body.dark a.btn { color: #fff; } h2 { font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; } p, ul, li { font-size: 10pt; } time { font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; } ul.references { margin-top: 40px; padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: none; } </style> </head> <body class="light threema"> <div id="main"><div> <h1>General Privacy Policy</h1> <p>for the Threema App</p> <h2>General</h2> <p>With this General Privacy Policy, we want to give you an overview over the processing of your personal data in relation with the “<strong>Threema App</strong>”.</p> <p>Detailed information about data protection when using the Threema App can be found <a href="/privacy_policy?lang=en&extended=1">here</a>.</p> <h2>Who is responsible for processing personal data?</h2> <p>Threema GmbH, Churerstrasse 82, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland, is responsible for the processing of personal data. You can contact our Data Protection Officer at <code>privacy at threema dot ch</code>.</p> <h2>What purposes does Threema process personal data for?</h2> <p>We process your personal data for the following purposes:</p> <ul> <li>Contract performance;</li> <li>Bug fixing and product improvement (<span style="color:#00B050;">voluntary and optional</span>);</li> <li>License verification.</li> </ul> <h2>What personal data is processed?</h2> <p>Depending on how you use the Threema App in its latest version, the following personal data is processed:</p> <ul> <li>Push token of Google<a href="#ref_1">¹</a> and Apple;</li> <li>IP address;</li> <li>Digital purchase receipt or license key.</li> </ul> <p>The following personal data is optional for the use of the Threema App and will only be processed if you voluntarily provide it:</p> <ul> <li>Telephone number;</li> <li>Email address;</li> <li>Log file (as part of “<strong>Debug Logs</strong>”; see Section 2.H. of the <a href="/privacy_policy?lang=en&extended=1#h-crash-reports">Privacy Policy</a> of the Threema App).</li> </ul> <p>All text messages, media files, and voice and video calls between Users of the Threema App, including (<span style="color:#00B050;">voluntarily and optionally</span> set) nicknames and profile pictures, are end-to-end encrypted; Threema is unable to access any of the contents because it doesn’t know the private keys.<a href="#ref_2">²</a></p> <h2>What personal data is processed temporarily?</h2> <p>During an ongoing data transmission, the following personal data is only processed temporarily:</p> <ul> <li>IP address.</li> </ul> <h2>What personal data is stored linked to the Threema ID, and for how long?</h2> <p>The following personal data is stored by us linked to the Threema ID (<span style="color:#00B050;">storage period in brackets</span>):</p> <ul> <li>Push token (for <span style="color:#00B050;">180 days</span>);</li> <li>Telephone number (<span style="color:#00B050;">until revocation</span> and only in one-way encrypted form);</li> <li>Email address (<span style="color:#00B050;">until revocation</span> and only in one-way encrypted form).</li> </ul> <h2>What personal data is stored without a link to the Threema ID, and for how long?</h2> <p>The following personal data is stored by us without a link to the Threema ID (<span style="color:#00B050;">storage period in brackets</span>):</p> <ul> <li>Digital purchase receipt (for <span style="color:#00B050;">30 days</span> in pseudonymized form);</li> <li>License key (for <span style="color:#00B050;">30 days</span>);</li> <li>Log file (<span style="color:#00B050;">until its analysis</span>).</li> </ul> <h2>Is personal data disclosed to third parties?</h2> <p>We make every effort to process the personal data that occurs when using the Threema App exclusively on our own hardware (servers) in Switzerland.</p> <p>The following companies located in Switzerland and the EU/EEA are commissioned by us as processors:</p> <ul> <li>For the verification of telephone numbers, <span style="color:#00B050;">F24 Schweiz AG</span> and <span style="color:#00B050;">Swissphone Wireless AG</span>, located in Switzerland, process telephone numbers to send SMS with verification codes;</li> <li>For the establishment and transmission of “<strong>Group Calls,</strong>” <span style="color:#00B050;">Leaseweb Netherlands B.V.</span>, located in the Netherlands, processes IP addresses.</li> </ul> <p>The following companies located outside of Switzerland and the EU/EEA are commissioned by us as processors (<span style="color:#00B050;">only concerning Users outside of Switzerland and EU/EEA</span>):</p> <ul> <li>For the verification of telephone numbers, <span style="color:#00B050;">Twilio Inc.</span>, located in the USA, processes telephone numbers to send SMS with verification codes.</li> </ul> <h2>What control options do you have?</h2> <p>In addition to your legal claims under data protection law, Threema provides you with the following control options over your personal data:</p> <ul> <li>Rectification, completion, and deletion of your telephone number and email address in the Threema App or via this <a href="https://myid.threema.ch/unlink">link</a>;</li> <li>Deletion of your push tokens and the use of “<strong>Threema Push</strong>” as an alternative to the Google push token in the Threema App;</li> <li>Immediate information about inventory data in the Threema App via this <a href="https://threema.id/%2AMY3DATA?text=info">Threema ID</a>;</li> <li>Deletion of all inventory data by revoking your Threema ID via this <a href="https://myid.threema.ch/revoke">link</a> (<span style="color:#00B050;">requires revocation password</span>).</li> </ul> <h2>What rights do you have?</h2> <p>You have a right to information to Threema and a right to rectification, completion, deletion, and blocking of your personal data as well as a right to withdrawal (of your consent) and to objection (against data processing based on overriding interests).</p> <p><a href="/privacy_policy?lang=en&extended=1" class="btn">Detailed privacy policy</a></p> <ul class="references"> <li id="ref_1"> ¹ On mobile phones without Google Play services and with the “<strong>Threema Libre</strong>” version of the Threema App, no push tokens are generated; see Section 2.A. of the <a href="/privacy_policy?lang=en&extended=1#a-setting-up-the-threema-app">Privacy Policy</a> of the Threema App. </li> <li id="ref_2"> ² The sole exception are messages to Broadcast IDs; see Section 2.D. of the <a href="/privacy_policy?lang=en&extended=1#d-sending-messages-to-broadcast-ids">Privacy Policy</a> of the Threema App. </li> </ul> </div></div> </body> </html>