Effective August 21, 2026
This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes how the RAGE MEDIA Association (“we”, “us”, “our” or “The Rage”) collects, uses, and discloses, transfers, and otherwise processes and handles your personal data when you visit our website https://www.therage.co/ (“Website”), when you use our services, when you communicate with us or when you otherwise deal with us. In addition, we may inform you about the processing of your personal data separately, for example in consent forms, terms and conditions, additional privacy notices, forms, and other notices. We use the word “data” here interchangeably with “personal data”.
If you provide information to us about you or any person other than yourself, you must ensure that the data is accurate and that these other people understand how their data will be used, that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our service providers, to use it. You are welcome to provide them with a copy of this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice is aligned with the Federal Data Protection Act (“FDPA”) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). However, the application of these laws de-pends on each individual case.
Controller
The responsible person for processing your data under this Privacy Notice (“Controller”) unless we tell you otherwise in an individual case is
RAGE MEDIA
Dammstr. 16
6300 Zug
You may contact us regarding data protection matters and to exercise your rights at: privacy@therage.co.
Data Collection and Purpose of Data Processing
We process the following data about you for the purposes outlined below:
1) Website
When you visit the Website, we collect data that is necessary for its functionality and security.
The data collected includes: IP address; information about the operating system of your end device (aggregated); essential cookies; date, region/city, and time of the server request (aggregated); browser type and version (aggregated); other aggregated data about the device and software used to access the Website; etc.
If you want to prevent certain data, such as your IP address, from being collected, we recommend using https://obscura.com/.
2) Newsletters
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we process the information provided by you in order to provide you with our newsletter. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by using the option to unsubscribe contained in the newsletter or by sending us an email to privacy@therage.co.
The data collected includes: email address.
We do not sell, rent, or share your email address with third parties for marketing purposes. If you would like to keep your email address private, we recommend using an alias service like https://simplelogin.io/.
3) Log-In
A log-in is automatically created if you subscribe to our newsletter (see Section 2.2). We process the data collected in this context in order to provide you with this log-in feature and to ensure its functionality and security.
The data collected includes: email address; password.
4) Crowdfunding / Donation
You may support The Rage by making donations as cryptocurrency payments through different channels made available on the Website. We process the data collected in this context in order to receive and administer donations.
When you use blockchains, you acknowledge that your wallet address and other data/information provided by your transactions, which are considered personal data if relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, are permanently and publicly stored on-chain, which means such data is publicly available to anyone. Neither we, nor any third party, has any power to delete such data published by its users to the blockchain. If you want to ensure that your privacy rights are not affected in any way, you should not transact on blockchains as certain rights may not be available or exercisable by you or us due to the technological infrastructure of the blockchain.
You hereby release and indemnify us of any liability associated with data that you transferred to the blockchain.
5) Communication
When you contact us by email, telephone, letter, contact form, or other means of communication, we collect the data exchanged between you and us for the purposes of communicating with you and providing our services to you, in particular to respond to your enquiries. By providing us with this data, you acknowledge that we use your data in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
The data collected includes: contact details; email address; phone number; type, manner, place and time of communication; subject; content of communication; etc.
Safety or Security Reasons
We process your data to protect our IT and other infrastructure. For example, we process data for monitoring, analysis and testing of our networks and IT infrastructures including access controls.
Compliance with Law and Legal Procedures
We process your data to comply with legal requirements (e.g. to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, to fulfil tax obligations, etc.), and we might have to request further information from you to comply with such requirements or as otherwise required by law and legal authorities. Furthermore, we may process your data for the enforcement of legal claims and for the defence in legal disputes and official proceedings.
Risk Management and Corporate Governance
We process your data as part of our risk management and corporate government in order to protect us from criminal or abusive activity.
Cookies and Tracking
Cookies are text files that are stored on your device (computer, laptop, smartphone, etc.) and that are necessary for the use of the Website as such or certain functions or that enable the analysis of the use of the Website. We do not use non-essential cookies.
To optimize the performance of the Website, we use the open-source analytics tool Plausible Analytics, which is offered by Plausible Insights OÜ in Estonia. Plausible Analytics does not collect personally identifiable information (PII), does not use cookies to track performance, and does not track visitors across devices. Plausible Analytics only displays aggregate data and cannot be used to track individual visitors. You can find more information on the handling of personal data in Plausible Insights OÜ’s privacy notice: https://plausible.io/privacy and https://plausible.io/data-policy.
To optimize the performance of our newsletters, we use the integrated service “newsletter opens” analytics by Ghost Foundation in Singapore. To learn how the Ghost Foundation processes your data, please refer to its privacy notice: https://ghost.org/privacy/.
Plug-Ins
We do not use plug-ins on the Website. If the Website contains icons from other third-party providers (e.g. X/Twitter, Facebook, Reddit), we only use theses for passive linking to the pages of the respective providers.
Third-Party Platforms
We operate accounts on third-party platforms (e.g. X/Twitter, Nostr, Instagram). If you communicate with us via our accounts or otherwise interact with our accounts on these third-party platforms, your data will also be processed according to the privacy policies of the respective platform. Please find further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the third-party providers in their respective privacy policies.
Legal Basis for Data Processing
Insofar as we have asked for your consent, we process your data on the basis of this consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by sending us a written notification (email to: privacy@therage.co). The withdrawal of your consent affects neither the legality of the processing that we carried out before your withdrawal nor the processing of your data on the basis of other processing grounds.
If we do not need your consent, we will not obtain it and we will process your data for other reasons, such as the initiation/execution of a contract or a business relationship with you, a legal obligation, a vital interest of the data subject or another natural person, or to perform a public task. We may also process your personal data if we have a legitimate interest in doing so, which includes, for example, complying with applicable law and marketing our products and services, the interest in better understanding our markets and in safely and efficiently managing and developing our company, including its activities.
Transfer of Data to Third Parties
As part of our data processing, we may share your data with third parties, in particular to the following categories of recipients:
Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers and business partners around the world with whom we collaborate to fulfil the above purposes (e.g. IT provider) or who we engage to process data for any of the purposes listed above on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions only.
Contractual Partners: If required by the respective contract, we will pass on your data to other contractual partners, dealers, subcontractors, etc.
Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may pass on data to offices, courts, and other authorities if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so or if this appears necessary to protect our interests. The authorities are responsible for processing data about you that they receive from us.
Disclosure of Data Abroad
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, processed, and stored in, a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. In view of the EEA or Switzerland the law in some of those countries may not offer an adequate level of data protection. We only transfer data to these countries when it is necessary for the performance of a contract or for the exercise or defence of legal claims, or if such transfer is based on your explicit consent or subject to safeguards that assure the protection of your data, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and/or the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (SCCs), adjusted according to Swiss law, all of the aforementioned if applicable and required.
Third-Party Links
The Website may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that when you use such link, your data such as IP address, personal browser settings, etc., are transmitted to these third parties. We have no control over, do not review and cannot be responsible for these third-party websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Notice do not apply to these third-party websites or their content, or to any collection of your data after you click on links to such third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. Any links to third-party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content, or websites.
Retention and Storage of Data
We only process your data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of complying with legal retention requirements and where required to assert or defend against legal claims, until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been settled. Upon expiry of the applicable retention period, we will securely destroy your data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Data Security
We take appropriate organizational and technical security measures to prevent your data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or dis-closed. However, we and your data can still become victims of cyber-attacks, cybercrime, brute force, hacker attacks and further fraudulent and malicious activity including but not limited to viruses, forgeries, malfunctions, and interruptions which is out of our control and responsibility. We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Your Rights
In connection with our processing of your data, you have various rights under applicable data protection law: the right to information about how we process which personal data about you, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of pro-cessing, the right to data portability, the right to withdrawal of a previously given consent, the right to file a complaint with the competent data protection authority if you believe that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with data protection requirements, and the right to object to a particular processing.
However, we ask that you please contact us first if you believe that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with your wishes, so that we can address your concerns and implement appropriate changes.
Please note that we reserve the right to enforce legal restrictions, if necessary, e.g. if we are obliged to store or process certain data, have an overriding interest (insofar as we can invoke such interests) or need the data to assert claims. If the exercise of certain rights involves costs for you, we will inform you in advance. We have already referred to the possibility of withdrawing consent in Section 3 above. It is important to note that exercising these rights may conflict with your contractual obligations and could result in consequences such as early termination of the contract or associated costs. Should this occur, we will in-form you in advance, unless this has already been contractually agreed.
If you wish to exercise the rights mentioned above, please contact us at privacy@therage.co or at the contact details provided in Section 1, unless otherwise indicated or agreed. Please note that we may need to verify your identity in order to prevent misuse, e.g. by means of a copy of your ID card or passport, unless identification is otherwise possible.
In addition, every data subject has the opportunity to assert their rights in court or to file a complaint with the relevant data protection authority. In Switzerland, the relevant data protection authority is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch).
Changes to this Privacy Notice
Due to continuous development of the Website and the contents thereof, changes in law or regulatory requirements, we may need to update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Our current Privacy Notice can be found on the Website.