Federal Act
on Data Protection
(Data Protection Act, FADP)

¹ This Act ap­plies to the pro­cessing of per­son­al data of nat­ur­al per­sons by:

a.

private per­sons;

b.

fed­er­al bod­ies.

² It does not ap­ply to:

a.

per­son­al data be­ing pro­cessed by a nat­ur­al per­son ex­clus­ively for per­son­al use;

b.

per­son­al data be­ing pro­cessed by the Fed­er­al As­sembly and par­lia­ment­ary com­mit­tees as part of their de­lib­er­a­tions;

c.

per­son­al data be­ing pro­cessed by in­sti­tu­tion­al be­ne­fi­ciar­ies un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 of the Host State Act of 22 June 2007³ who en­joy im­munity from jur­is­dic­tion in Switzer­land.

³ The ap­plic­able pro­ced­ur­al law reg­u­lates the pro­cessing of per­son­al data and the data sub­ject's rights in court pro­ceed­ings and in pro­ceed­ings gov­erned by fed­er­al pro­ced­ur­al reg­u­la­tions. This Act ap­plies to first in­stance ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ The pub­lic re­gisters for private leg­al trans­ac­tions, and in par­tic­u­lar the ac­cess to these re­gisters and the data sub­ject's rights, shall be reg­u­lated by the spe­cif­ic pro­vi­sions of the ap­plic­able fed­er­al law. If the spe­cif­ic pro­vi­sions do not con­tain any rules, this Act ap­plies.