Privacy policy

Effective Date: August 15th, 2025

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Nadia Fares (“we,” “our,” or “us”), a film director and screenwriter based in Switzerland, collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when you visit our website.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your information in a transparent, secure, and lawful manner.

2. Data Controller

We are the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data.
If you have any questions or requests about this policy or how we process your data, you can contact us at: nadiafares@rocketmail.com

3. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of personal data:

  • Information you provide directly (e.g., when using our contact form): your name, email address, and any other details you include in your message.

  • Automatically collected information: IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and the date and time of access.

  • Cookies and tracking data: small text files stored on your device to improve website performance and analytics.

4. Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data for:

  • Responding to inquiries and communication requests.

  • Operating and improving our website.

  • Complying with legal obligations under Swiss law.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.
For information about the cookies Squarespace uses, visit Squarespace Cookies.

Necessary cookies are always active and allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. These cookies allow us to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

This website also collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device.

  • Web pages you visited before coming to this website.

  • Your IP address.

This may also include details about your use of this website, such as clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to understand site traffic and activity.

Squarespace Hosting and Analytics
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device.

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

  • Web pages you view while on this website.

  • Your IP address.

Squarespace needs this data to operate this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes this data in a de-personalized form.

6. Third-Party Services and Data Transfers

Squarespace Hosting

Our website is hosted and operated using Squarespace, Inc. Squarespace processes personal data on our behalf to provide hosting, content management, and related services. Squarespace may store and process data in the United States or other countries outside Switzerland.
For details on Squarespace’s practices, see their Privacy Policy.

Analytics and Other Providers

We may use third-party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use our site. These providers may store data on servers located outside Switzerland.

When transferring data abroad, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, as required by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP).

Forms and Submissions

When you submit information via a form on this website, we collect the data requested in that form to track and respond to your inquiry. This may include your name, email address, and any other details you choose to provide.

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, to enable them to provide website services to us.

Fonts and External Resources
This website uses Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts to render certain typefaces. To properly display this site, these third-party providers may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device.

  • Information about this site and the page you are viewing.

  • Your IP address.

For more information, you can review Google Fonts Privacy Policy and Adobe Fonts Privacy Policy.

7. Data Sharing

We only share personal data:

  • When required by law or authorities.

  • With service providers who assist in running our website and only under binding agreements ensuring data protection.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law. Once data is no longer needed, it is securely deleted.

9. Your Rights

Under Swiss law, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal data.

  • Request correction of inaccurate data.

  • Request deletion of your data.

  • Object to certain processing.

  • Withdraw consent at any time, where applicable.

You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the details provided in Section 2.

10. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration.

11. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in legal requirements or our practices. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Contact Information:
Nadia Fares
Switzerland
nadiafares@rocketmail.com