Privacy statement

Privacy

Article 13 of Switzerland’s Federal Constitution and Swiss data protection laws guarantee everyone the right to privacy and protection from misuse of their personal data. We adhere to these provisions. Personal data is kept strictly confidential and is neither sold to nor shared with third parties.

In close cooperation with our hosting providers, we make every effort to protect our databases against external access, loss, misuse or fraud.

The following data is stored in log files when users access our site: IP address, date, time, browser query and general information that has been transmitted regarding the user’s operating system or browser. This user data serves as the basis for statistical, anonymous assessments, enabling us to identify trends that assist us in improving our services. 

Privacy statement for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a Web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” – text files that are saved on your computer and that facilitate the analysis of your use of this website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate your IP address within Member States of the European Union and in other countries that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to and shortened by Google servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website to compile reports about the website activities for the website operators and to provide services connected with the site activity and Internet usage. Google will also, where applicable, transmit this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be linked to other data retrieved by Google.
You can prevent the installation of the cookies by changing the appropriate settings in your browser software; we should like to point out, however, that this may prevent you from using certain functions of this website. By using this website, you express your consent to the processing of your data collected by Google in the manner described above and for the purposes previously mentioned.