What we know about you

Elevatedliving (elevatedliving.ch) is a brand of Kelly Concepts, Geneva, Switzerland, which is responsible for the personal data described on this page.

For any question about your data, write to info@elevatedliving.ch, or use our contact page.

We ask for your email address and nothing else. We then send you one email with a link that is valid for 48 hours. Until you click it, we keep no record of your address. When you click it, we record your address, that it is confirmed, and when; and we send one notice to our editors' mailbox so we know someone has joined.

We use your address to send you the newsletter you asked for. Every edition carries an unsubscribe link that works in one click; you can also write to info@elevatedliving.ch. Once you unsubscribe we stop writing to you, and we keep only the fact that you asked us to stop, so that we do not email you again by mistake.

The contact form asks for your name, your email address, why you are writing and your message. Your message reaches us by email, with your address as the one we reply to; it is not stored in our database. We use it to read your message and to answer it.

To stop the newsletter and contact forms being used to flood someone's inbox, we count how often they are used from one internet address, and how often a confirmation email is requested for one email address. We never store the internet address or the email address for this: we store a scrambled code that, without our secret key, cannot be turned back into either, and the counters are deleted after eight days at most. A hidden field that only robots fill in does the rest.

When it is switched on, Cloudflare Turnstile also checks that a form is being filled in by a person. It is loaded only once you start using a form — not before — and it sends information about your browser and your visit to Cloudflare for that check.

Like every website, ours has to receive your internet address and the usual information your browser sends in order to deliver a page to you. Our hosting provider handles this. Our typefaces are served from our own domain, and the Instagram pictures on our home and events pages are fetched by our server, so neither tells Google or Instagram that you visited.

Links to Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn in our footer are ordinary links: nothing is sent to those networks unless you follow one.

The notice at the bottom of the page offers two choices beyond what the site needs to work. Analytics lets us use Google Analytics to count which pages are read and which links and buttons are used. “Accept” turns on Analytics only.

Marketing, which you can only switch on under “Options”, would allow Google Ads and Meta's pixel, which tell us whether an advertisement brought you here. Neither is in use today; if we start using them, they will load only for readers who have switched Marketing on, and this page will say so.

Google Analytics is not downloaded before you answer, and not at all if you decline. What we send it says that something happened — a page was read, a form was sent — never what you wrote in it: no name, no email address, no message. Google itself receives your internet address and information about your browser when it loads.

You can change your answer at any time with “Cookie preferences”, at the foot of every page. If you withdraw a yes, we delete the cookies those tools set on our domain and reload the page without them.

Some articles show an Instagram post. It is displayed in a frame provided by Instagram, which is part of Meta. As you scroll close to the post, your browser contacts Instagram to show it, and Instagram receives your internet address and may read or set its own cookies, under Instagram's own privacy policy. This happens without asking first — we decided that a post should always be visible — but only when you reach it: an article you leave before the post never contacts Instagram.

consent — always set once you choose

Remembers your answer to the cookie notice (analytics yes or no, marketing yes or no, and when you answered). Set by this site, kept for twelve months from the day you chose, then you are asked again. Without it the notice would reappear on every page.

consent-renewed — this browser session only

A note in your browser's session storage that your choice has already been re-sent to our server once today. It disappears when you close the tab.

_ga… — only if you allow Analytics

Set by Google Analytics to tell one visit from the next.

_gcl…, _gac…, _fbp, _fbc — only if you allow Marketing

Would be set by Google Ads and Meta's pixel to connect a visit to an advertisement. Neither tool is in use today, so these cookies are not set.

Our hosting provider

Hosts the site. The code that answers your forms runs in Frankfurt, Germany. Pages are delivered from its network of servers closest to you, which may be outside Switzerland.

Our database provider

Holds our database, including the list of confirmed subscribers and the abuse counters. Hosted in Ireland, in the European Union.

Our email delivery service

Sends our emails: the confirmation link, and the notices that reach our editors when you subscribe or write to us. May process data outside Switzerland.

Our email provider

Your messages and our subscription notices arrive in our own mailboxes. Our email provider may process data outside Switzerland.

Google

Google Analytics, only if you allow Analytics, as described above. May process data outside Switzerland.

Cloudflare

Only while Turnstile is switched on, to check that a form is filled in by a person. May process data outside Switzerland.

Instagram (Meta)

Only when you reach an Instagram post inside an article. May process data outside Switzerland.

Your newsletter subscription

Until you unsubscribe; after that, only the record that you did.

A newsletter request you never confirm

Not kept. The link in the email expires after 48 hours.

Your message through the contact form

Not stored on this site; it reaches us by email.

The abuse counters

Eight days at most, and they never contain your address.

Your cookie choice

Twelve months from the day you made it.

You can ask us what we hold about you and receive a copy, ask us to correct it or delete it, object to how we use it, and withdraw any consent you gave — the newsletter and the cookie choices included — at any time, with no effect on what was done before.

To do so, write to info@elevatedliving.ch, or use our contact page and choose “Anything else”. If you think we have not handled your data properly, you can also complain to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner or, if you live in the European Union, to the data protection authority of your country.

When what the site does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top changes too.