Legal notice and privacy policy

diaunocuba.org is operated by Associazione Cuba Día Uno, a non-profit association under articles 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code, based in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

For any communication, including legal matters, write to info@diaunocuba.org. We normally reply within five working days.

The association collects donations for the reconstruction of Cuba. The money is held in Switzerland and is only used once all of the following conditions are met in Cuba:

• free elections;
• a multi-party system;
• release of political prisoners;
• freedom of expression and of the press;
• full respect for human rights.

Only in the event of a humanitarian disaster in Cuba, before then the General Assembly may, by two thirds, allocate up to 25% of the general fund to direct aid for the population, through independent organisations with a proven record and with the express authorisation of the U.S. government; donations made to a specific project are never used for this.

No payment is made to Cuba while it is prohibited by applicable sanctions or could expose the association or its banks to U.S., UN or EU sanctions, unless expressly authorised; the funds are held in Swiss francs at Swiss banks.

Each donation is recorded separately for the project chosen by the donor (or for the general fund) and is used exclusively for that project. The money is never handed to any government. If no democratic transition takes place within 10 years, the funds will go to humanitarian aid for the Cuban people through independent organisations. The full terms of donations are set out in the association's articles, available on request at the address above.

Donations are gifts within the meaning of articles 239 et seq. of the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO), bound to the purpose described above. They give no right to anything in return.

At least 95% of each donation is allocated to the chosen project or to the general fund; at most 5% may be retained for running costs (payment and bank fees, technology, audit, legal advice). Any unused part of that share is returned to the projects each year in proportion to donations received; money already allocated to a project never covers costs (art. 6 of the statutes).

Online payments are processed by Payrexx AG (Switzerland); bank transfers go straight to the association’s account at a Swiss bank. The association never receives or stores the donor's card or account details.

Monthly donations can be paused or cancelled at any time from “My account” or by writing to info@diaunocuba.org.

Tax deductibility: donations can only be deducted from taxable income if the association is recognised as tax-exempt for public-benefit purposes (art. 56 let. g and art. 33a of the Federal Direct Tax Act). Until that recognition is granted, receipts do not certify deductibility. We will publish the tax authority's decision on this page.

We take care over the content of this site but cannot guarantee that it is always complete, accurate and up to date. Information about the situation in Cuba comes from public sources and is provided for information only.

The site links to third-party sites (such as Payrexx). We have no control over them and are not responsible for their content or for how they handle data.

To the extent permitted by law, the association excludes all liability for damage resulting from use of the site or from it being temporarily unavailable. Liability for intent and gross negligence remains reserved (art. 100 CO).

The text, graphics, logo and code of this site belong to Associazione Cuba Día Uno unless stated otherwise. You may quote and share them for non-commercial purposes with attribution. Any other use requires our written consent.

The controller of your personal data is Associazione Cuba Día Uno (contact details in section 1). For any data-protection question or to exercise your rights, write to info@diaunocuba.org.

• We only collect the data we strictly need.
• We use no tracking cookies, advertising, third-party analytics or social plugins. The site loads no fonts, images or scripts from external servers.
• We never sell, rent or pass your data to third parties for commercial purposes.
• Donors stay anonymous in public: the site only shows total amounts and the number of people, never names, email addresses or photos.

Providing this data is voluntary, but without a name and email you cannot donate or receive a receipt.

In Switzerland we process data in line with the principles of art. 6 FADP. For people in the European Union, the legal bases (art. 6 GDPR) are:

• performing the donation and the services you request (art. 6(1)(b) GDPR);
• legal obligations, in particular record-keeping (art. 6(1)(c) GDPR);
• our legitimate interest in site security and proper management of the fund (art. 6(1)(f) GDPR);
• consent, for push alerts and testimonies, which you can withdraw at any time without affecting earlier processing (art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

We entrust certain tasks to carefully chosen providers who are contractually bound to confidentiality and data protection. Payrexx and the bank also process payment data as independent controllers under their own policies.

Within the association, only the committee members responsible for managing the fund can access donor data. Authorities only receive data where the law requires it.

Data may be processed in Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, France and the United States. The Swiss Federal Council recognises EU countries as providing adequate protection. For the United States we rely on providers certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and, for data from the EU, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework) or on standard contractual clauses recognised by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and the European Commission.

We only use strictly necessary technical cookies, which do not require consent:

If you install the site as an app, your browser keeps a copy of the public pages on your device so they load faster; if you hide the install suggestion, that choice is stored only on your device. Payrexx payment pages may set their own cookies, governed by their policies.

• Donation data and accounting records: 10 years from the end of the financial year, as required by art. 958f CO.
• Sign-in links: 15 minutes, after which they stop working and are deleted.
• Account sessions: until you sign out or they expire (30 days).
• Push alerts: until you turn them off or the browser subscription expires.
• Testimonies: until you ask us to remove them.
• Server technical logs: 14 days.
• Emails received: as long as needed to handle the request, at most 2 years, unless retention is required by law.

We protect data with appropriate technical and organisational measures: encrypted connections (HTTPS with HSTS), a server in Germany with restricted, key-protected access, a database that cannot be reached from the internet, sign-in links and sessions stored only as cryptographic fingerprints, protection against abuse and repeated attempts, and automatic security updates. No transmission over the internet is ever completely secure, however.

Within the limits of applicable law, you have the right to:

• obtain information about the data we hold on you (art. 25 FADP, art. 15 GDPR);
• have inaccurate data corrected (art. 32 FADP, art. 16 GDPR);
• request erasure or restriction, subject to legal retention duties (art. 17 and 18 GDPR);
• receive your data in a commonly used electronic format (art. 28 FADP, art. 20 GDPR);
• object to processing based on legitimate interest (art. 21 GDPR);
• withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise them, write to info@diaunocuba.org. We may ask you to prove your identity. You may also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, www.edoeb.admin.ch) or, if you are in the EU, the supervisory authority in your country.

We make no decisions based solely on automated processing and do not profile donors.

The site is not aimed at people under 16. Donations by minors require the consent of a legal guardian.

We may update this page when the site, our providers or the law change. The version published here, with the date shown at the top, applies.

This page is available in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. In case of discrepancy, the Italian version prevails.

Swiss law applies. The courts at the association's seat in the canton of Ticino have jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory jurisdiction that protects consumers.