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Swiss data privacy, made operational.
Privello is a data-privacy consultancy for Swiss companies. We build revFADP compliance that works alongside your GDPR obligations, and we document lawful Swiss–U.S. data transfers — pragmatic deliverables your team can actually run.
Two halves · one system
Govern your data, and move it lawfully
Swiss companies — from Zürich and Zug to Basel and Geneva — carry two data-protection questions at once: running a compliant programme under the revised Federal Act on Data Protection, and keeping personal data lawful when it flows to the United States. Privello builds both together, so neither half is left exposed.
The revFADP programme
The Swiss data-protection framework, built for how you operate — mapping, records, notices, and processing agreements, aligned with your GDPR obligations where they overlap.
Swiss–U.S. transfers
The revFADP sits outside the EU's GDPR and has its own transfer rules. We document a lawful Swiss–U.S. data route — the Swiss–U.S. DPF or SCC-equivalent clauses with an assessment behind them.
Data protection · revFADP
Switzerland is not the EU — and the data rules show it
Switzerland sits outside both the EU and the EEA. Its regime is the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (revFADP), in force since September 2023 and supervised by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. It tracks the GDPR in spirit, but it is a separate statute — a GDPR programme rarely maps over one-to-one.
What Privello handles
- revFADP data mapping, records of processing, and privacy notices
- Where a GDPR programme needs revFADP adjustment — and where it doesn't
- Data-processing agreements and vendor/sub-processor review
- DSAR and data-subject-rights workflows
- Coordination with qualified Swiss counsel on local-law questions
Cross-border · Swiss–U.S.
The Swiss–U.S. transfer route, documented
When a Swiss company sends personal data to the United States, it relies on Switzerland's own framework — including the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework for certified U.S. recipients — or on SCC-equivalent clauses backed by a transfer assessment. Privello helps choose and document the route that fits, so it holds up under scrutiny.
The transfer file
- Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the recipient is eligible
- SCC-equivalent clauses for the right transfer scenario
- Transfer assessments that stand behind the mechanism
- A defensible record of why each Swiss–U.S. flow is lawful
Why Privello
Consulting with a lawyer's rigor
Privacy compliance usually arrives as either an expensive legal memo nobody operationalises or checkbox software nobody configures. Privello sits between them: consulting engagements, fixed-scope and plain-language, but with analysis built to survive a regulator's questions — and the honesty to point you to Swiss counsel when a matter genuinely needs formal legal advice.
Is the revFADP the same as the GDPR?
Closely aligned but not identical. Switzerland sits outside the EU and the EEA, and the revFADP is a separate statute with its own scope, so a GDPR programme usually needs review and some adjustment rather than a straight copy.
Does the revFADP let Swiss companies send data to the U.S.?
Yes — through Switzerland's own transfer framework, including the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework for certified U.S. recipients, or SCC-equivalent mechanisms supported by a transfer assessment.
Do you work in German, French, or Italian?
This page is also available auf Deutsch. Our deliverables are prepared in English; we're happy to coordinate with your Swiss-side advisors in their working language.
Is Privello a law firm?
No. Privello LLC is a data-privacy consultancy, not a law firm. Patrick Smith is a U.S.-licensed attorney (Texas), but engagements are consulting engagements and coordinate qualified Swiss counsel where Swiss law requires formal legal advice.
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Talk through your data-privacy question
Tell us what personal data your business processes and where it flows between Switzerland and the U.S. We'll outline where you stand — and what to fix first — in a first conversation.
Or call +1 (214) 620-9200.