Data Privacy Day: Show Your Support for Online Privacy
January 28 is Data Privacy Day. To celebrate this awareness day, we’ve created a sticker collection dedicated to online privacy. Show your support for the cause, and personalize your smartphone or laptop with privacy stickers!
Privacy Is More Important than Ever
When the Council of Europe established the Data Privacy Day 17 years ago, Android devices weren’t a thing yet, and the first iPhone was only a few months old. Back then, it wasn’t evident that soon, practically no one would be able to do without a smartphone. It wasn’t clear that these digital companions would be able to track our every move and that most of the popular mobile apps would be designed to analyze our behavior.
Nor was it foreseeable that, based on the vast volume of collected user data, AI will be able to derive information about us that we would have never been willing to disclose in the first place.
In light of this, privacy protection on the Internet is way more important today than it was when the Data Privacy Day was introduced in 2008. And since an ever-increasing part of our lives takes place online, it’s paramount to stand up against the growing surveillance in the digital space.
Win a Privacy Sticker Set
We’re celebrating this year’s Data Privacy Day with a twelve-piece sticker collection. Be it emphatic or in a tongue-in-cheek way, show your support for data privacy, and embellish your mobile devices with the stickers of your preference.
There are multiple ways to get your hands on the stickers:
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Win them: Send “sticker” to *THREEMA, or like and repost our Data Privacy Day post on Bluesky, Mastodon, or X.
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Download them: Obtain the SVG files here, and print the stickers yourself, or have them printed by the service of your choice.
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Order them: Our merch store also holds the twelve new stickers as of now.
We’re giving away ten sticker sets. The lucky winners will be randomly selected on January 29, 2025, and notified via the respective platform.
Good luck!
1. Organizer
The “Prize Draw” is organized by Threema GmbH, CHE-221.440.104, domiciled at Churerstrasse 82, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland (hereinafter referred to as the “Organizer”).
Participation in the Prize Draw is governed exclusively by the following “Terms of Participation.”
2. Eligibility
Participation in this Prize Draw is open to individuals who, at the time of entry, are at least 18 years old.
Employees of the Organizer and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate.
3. How to Participate
To participate in the Prize Draw, eligible individuals must have access to the Internet, a valid email address, and a valid social media account or valid Threema ID. Access to the Prize Draw will be given directly from the Organizer via the Threema app or its social media channels.
When participating via Bluesky, Mastodon, X, or LinkedIn, the participants must follow this step:
Share and like the Organizer’s announcement post on the respective social media platform.
When participating via the Threema app, the participants must follow this step:
Send “sticker” to the Threema ID *THREEMA.
Participants may enter on multiple platforms, but only one entry per platform is allowed.
Participation in the Prize Draw is free of charge; no purchase or other transaction for consideration is necessary to enter the Prize Draw.
4. Prize Draw Period
The Prize Draw starts on January 28, 2025, at 10 a.m. CET and ends on January 29, 2024, at 10 p.m. CET (hereinafter referred to as the “Prize Draw Period”).
Entries in accordance with Sec. 3 hereinabove received outside this Prize Draw Period will not be considered.
5. Prizes
There will be a total of 10 sticker sets given away, each worth CHF 35.05, with each participant being able to win a maximum of 1 sticker set.
The claim of a winner to the prize may not be assigned or transferred. The prize may not be paid out, added to, or changed. If the prize is not available for any reason whatsoever, the Organizer reserves the right to award a substitute prize of equal value.
6. Winners Selection
The winners will be randomly drawn from all eligible entries after the Prize Draw Period ends.
The draw will take place on January 29, 2025, at 10 a.m. CET, and the winners will be notified via the respective social media channel or via the Threema Channel.
The winners must respond with an email to the Organizer to claim their prize. If a winner cannot be reached within seven (7) days of the initial contact attempt, the Organizer reserves the right to draw a new winner randomly.
7. Prize Delivery
The prize will be shipped by the Organizer and delivered to the winners within one (1) month of the respective winner being notified.
In order for the Organizer to ship the prizes, they will need to know the winners’ current postal addresses.
The Organizer is not responsible for any delays in delivery caused by the delivery service. For winners with postal addresses outside Switzerland, any government fees and charges (VAT, customs duties, etc.) will be borne by the winners.
8. Exclusion from Participation
In the event of a breach of these Terms of Participation, the Organizer reserves the right to exclude participants from the Prize Draw.
Furthermore, the Organizer reserves the right to exclude participants who use unfair means or otherwise obtain advantages through manipulation, in particular through untrue information and the use of “fake profiles.” In such cases, prizes may also be subsequently revoked and/or reclaimed.
9. Premature Termination or Cancellation of the Prize Draw
The Organizer is entitled to prematurely terminate, suspend, or modify the Prize Draw if unforeseen circumstances beyond the Organizer’s control occur which make the original performance more difficult or unreasonable for the Organizer. This includes in particular, but is not limited to, the unauthorized intervention of third parties, technical problems with the hardware or software that are beyond the control of the Organizer, as well as legal violations that are directly related to the performance of the Prize Draw, in particular manipulative intervention in the course of the Prize Draw.
10. Data Protection
The Organizer processes the personal data collected in the course of the Prize Draw exclusively for the purpose of conducting the Prize Draw and sending the prizes to the winners of the Prize Draw. The processing of personal data is based on the overriding private interest (conducting the Prize Draw; contract performance) of the Organizer; Art. 31 Sec. 2 lit. a FADP [for EU/EEA: Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. b GDPR].
Anonymous participation in the Prize Draw is possible via the Threema ID *THREEMA; only winners must identify themselves to the Organizer for the purpose of sending the prizes. This includes the email address and postal address of the respective winner.
The personal data required for sending the prizes will be deleted as soon as all prizes have been successfully delivered.
If you have any questions, please contact the Organizer’s data protection officer at privacy at threema dot ch.
11. Liability of the Organizer
The Organizer is not liable for any damages, losses, or injuries arising from participation in the Prize Draw or the acceptance and use of the prize, except in cases of intent or gross negligence by the Organizer.
The Organizer is not liable for technical difficulties on Bluesky, Mastodon, X, or LinkedIn, with the Internet connection, telephone provider network, or any other transitions throughout the Prize Draw Period.
This limitations of liability or exclusions of liability on the part of the Organizer also apply to the personal liability of representatives and vicarious agents of the Organizer and its employees
12. Contact Information
For any questions regarding this Prize Draw, please contact prizedraw at threema dot ch.
14. Final Provisions
Participants acknowledge with their entry that they have read and understand these Terms of Participation of the Organizer.
Participants acknowledge that this Prize Draw is neither sponsored, endorsed, associated nor administrated by Bluesky, Mastodon, X, or LinkedIn.
In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Terms of Participation will otherwise remain in effect. They will be construed following their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.
If the interpretation of the German and the English wording of these Terms of Participation differ, the German version will, in case of doubt, prevail.
The Prize Draw is governed by Swiss law to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of April 11, 1980 (CISG).
Legal recourse is excluded.
