Data protection for private individuals in Switzerland

Art. 13 DPO

Modalities of the duty to provide information

Chapter 2: Obligations of the Controller

Statutory textStatus: 1 December 2025

The controller must provide the data subject with information on the collection of personal data in a precise, transparent, comprehensible and easily accessible form.

Source: Version on FedlexThis translation is not an official version. Only the German, French and Italian versions are legally binding.

In brief

The company must provide you with information about the collection of your personal data in a precise, transparent, comprehensible and easily accessible form (Art. 19 FADP).

What does this mean for me?

A privacy policy that is hard to find or difficult to understand does not meet these requirements. You can expect clear information that is easy to find.

Example

An online shop hides its privacy policy as a long, unstructured text on a sub-page that no link leads to. This is neither easily accessible nor comprehensible.

Implements these provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP)

  1. Art. 19 FADPDuty to provide information when collecting personal data

Explanation by mydatenschutz.ch in plain language – not legal advice. The statutory text is authoritative.