Privacy Notice

This notice explains what personal data SKAAH Media collects when you use www.skaah.media, why, and what rights you have. It follows the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where it applies to you, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who is responsible

The controller is:

SKAAH Hospitality GmbH (SKAAH Media)
Glärnischstrasse 39
8152 Opfikon
Switzerland
Email: privacy@skaah.media

2. What we collect and why

What we collect and why
Situation	Data	Purpose	Legal basis (where GDPR applies)
Visiting the website	IP address, date and time, pages requested, browser and device type, referring page	Delivering the site, security, fault finding	Legitimate interest in a secure, working website
Contact form and email	Name, email address, subject, message, anything else you choose to tell us	Answering you, handling corrections and complaints	Legitimate interest, or steps taken at your request
Story tips	Whatever you send us, including your identity if you give it	Journalism and source verification	Legitimate interest in reporting; freedom of expression and information
Search on the site	Your search terms	Showing results	Legitimate interest

We do not run a newsletter, event registration or analytics on this website at present. If we start, we will add them to this notice first.

We do not sell personal data. We do not use it for automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

3. Journalism

Our newsroom processes personal data about people in the news for journalistic purposes. Data protection law gives special treatment to such processing in order to protect freedom of the media and the confidentiality of sources. Requests for access to, or deletion of, data held for publication may therefore be limited or refused where the law allows. Requests about published content are handled under the corrections procedure in the Editorial Policy.

4. Cookies and similar technologies

See the Cookie Notice. In short: the site sets only the cookies and local storage it needs to work, unless you agree to more through the cookie banner.

5. Who receives your data

Our hosting and content delivery provider: Vercel Inc., USA
The service that delivers contact form messages to our newsroom: Resend, USA
Analytics provider: none
Fonts and images are served from our own website, so loading a page does not make your browser contact any other service. The only exception is video: when you press play, the video file is streamed from the server that hosts it.
Editorial staff and service companies of the SKAAH group, including SKAAH India Private Limited, Visakhapatnam, India, which employs members of the newsroom
Advisers, authorities and courts, where the law requires or where needed to assert or defend legal claims

The share buttons on our articles are plain links. They send nothing to X, Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp unless you click them.

6. Transfers outside Switzerland

Some recipients are in countries whose data protection law Switzerland or the EU does not regard as adequate, in particular the United States and India. For those transfers we rely on the standard contractual clauses recognised by the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, or on certification under the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient holds it. You may ask us for a copy of the safeguards.

7. How long we keep it

How long we keep personal data
Data	Kept for
Server logs	Only as long as our hosting provider keeps them for security and fault finding
Contact form messages and emails	Up to 24 months after the matter is closed, longer where needed for legal claims
Journalistic research material	As long as needed for reporting, corrections and legal defence
Business records	10 years, as Swiss law requires

8. Your rights

Subject to the legal limits, including those for journalism in section 3, you may:

ask whether we process data about you and receive a copy
have inaccurate data corrected
have data deleted or its processing restricted
object to processing based on our legitimate interests
withdraw a consent you gave, with effect for the future
receive data you gave us in a common electronic format

Write to privacy@skaah.media. We may ask for proof of identity. We answer within 30 days.

You may also contact a supervisory authority. In Switzerland this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, www.edoeb.admin.ch. If you live in the EU or EEA, you may contact the authority in your country.

9. Security

We protect personal data with technical and organisational measures suited to the risk, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), access controls and restricted access to newsroom material. No transmission over the internet is completely secure. Please do not send sensitive information through the contact form.

10. Children

This website is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

11. Changes

We may update this notice. The version published here applies.

Last updated: 11 November 2026