DATENSCHUTZ
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DATA PRIVACY POLICY
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Swiss Future Institute provides this website for informational purposes only. Use of and access to the information, materials, services, and other content available on or through the website are subject to these terms of use.
WEBSITE, SERVICE AND CONTENT PROVIDED ARE NOT WARRANTED
The website, service and content are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind. You alone bear all risks associated with the use of the website, services and content provided, including and without limitation, any consequences, any reliance on the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any content provided. Swiss Future Institute and its employees, partners, directors, agents, representatives, suppliers and service providers, disclaim all warranties, express or implied, without limitation.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Swiss Future Institute is not liable fo any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages, under any theory of liability, including without limitation damages for any loss of profits, use, data, or loss of any intangibles. In particular, and without limitation, Swiss Future Institute will not be hold liable for damages of any kind resulting from your decision, action, use or inability to use the website, service and content provided. While we try to maintain the integrity and security of this website, service and content and the servers from which it is operated, we do not guarantee that the website, service or content is or remains secure, complete or correct. The website, service and content provided may include inaccuracies, incompleteness or errors.
INDEMNIFICATION
By accessing and using this website, service and content provided, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Swiss Future Institute from and against any and all claims, losses, costs, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to any breach by you of these terms and your use of or activities in connection with this website, service and content. We reserve the right, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.
THIRD-PARTY LINKED SITES
As a convenience to you, Swiss Future Institute may provide hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. When you select these hyperlinks you will be leaving our website. Because Swiss Future Institute has no control over such sites or their content, it is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or their content, and Swiss Future Institute does not adopt, endorse nor is responsible or liable for any such sites or content, including advertising, products or other materials, on or available through such sites. Other websites may provide links to the Site or Content with or without our authorization. Swiss Future Institute shall not be responsible or liable for any links from those sites, or for any content, advertising, products or other materials available on or through other sites, or any loss or damages incurred in connection therewith. Your use of third-party websites, services, and content, including without limitation, your use of any information, data, advertising, products, or other materials on or available through such websites, is at your own risk and is subject to their terms of use.
USE OF COOKIES
This website utilizes different technologies to collect, store, and aggregate data about website usage. We may use electronic tags called “cookies” to help us understand and analyze the use of our site. This work is either performed directly by us or by a third party we’ve hired to assist. We collect information about which pages have been accessed and for how long, the country the user accesses the site from, and certain technical information regarding the user’s computer and operating systems, such as e.g. Internet protocol address, domain name, and browser. Certain sections of the Swiss Future Institute website require cookies to be enabled to enhance site performance. For example, cookies provide a secure way to help enhance site navigation. Cookies also help us to understand how people use our sites so we can improve site functionality. When a user comes to the website, our server sends a cookie to the user’s computer. Standing alone, cookies do not identify the user personally; they merely recognize the user’s browser. Generally, personally identifiable information is obtained by us only when a user decides to provide it, such as when requesting additional information via email or providing personal information with explicit consent.
LIMITED RIGHT OF USE/OWNERSHIP OF CONTENT
You are permitted to use this website and content for your personal, non-commercial use only. The website and content are and remain the property of Swiss Future Institute and is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and/or other intellectual property, proprietary, work product rights, and laws. You may use the website and content for your personal, noncommercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright, trademark, patent and other proprietary notices. Except as expressly authorized in advance by Swiss Future Institute in written form, you agree NOT to reproduce, modify or create derivative works based on rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, publish, publicly perform or display, reverse engineer, decompile or dissemble, all or any part of this website or content. Trade names, trademarks, and service marks of Swiss Future Institute include, without limitation, any associated logos. All trademarks and service marks on the website not owned by Swiss Future Institute are the property of their respective owners.
TERMINATION
Swiss Future Institute, in its sole discretion, may terminate your access to or use of this website and content, at any time and for any reason. Your access to or use of the website and content may be terminated without prior notice. Swiss Future Institute shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your website access, or to any information or files, and shall not be required to make such information or files available to you after any such termination.
JURISDICTIONAL CONTEXT
This website, service, and content are controlled and operated by the Swiss Future Institute in Switzerland and are not intended to become subject to the laws or jurisdiction of any country or territory other than Switzerland. In choosing to access the website, service, and content, you do so on your own initiative, on your own will, and at your own risk, and you are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules, and regulations.
IMPORTANT NOTE CONCERNING DATA PROCESSING IN CONNECTION WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the responsible body for the data processing that occurs via this website has its basis outside of the European Economic Area and Switzerland, then the associated Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC. will hereinafter be referred to as “Google”.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on the site visitor’s computer, to help the website analyze their use of the site. The information generated by the cookie (including the truncated IP address) about the use of the website will normally be transmitted to and stored by Google.
Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()" on this website. This extension ensures an anonymization of the IP address by truncation and excludes a direct personal reference. Via this extension, Google truncates the site visitor’s IP address within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional situations will the site visitor’s full IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the United States and truncated there. The IP address, that is provided by the site visitor’s browser using Google Analytics will not be merged by Google with other data from Google.
On behalf of the site operator, Google will use the information collected to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other website and internet-related services to the site operator (Art. 6 (1)( f) GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website, and the adaptation of the content. The interests of the users are adequately protected by the pseudonymization of their data.
Google LLC. offers a guarantee to maintain an adequate level of data protection on the basis of European standard contractual clauses. The data sent and linked to the Google Analytics cookies, e.g. user IDs or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 50 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is carried out automatically once a month.
The website visitor may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. The website visitor can also prevent Google from collecting information (including their IP address) via cookies and processing this information by downloading this browser plugin and installing it: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The website visitor can prevent data collection via Google Analytics on this website by clicking here. An "Opt-out Cookie" shall then be applied which shall prevent any future collection of the site visitors' data when visiting this website.
Further information concerning data processing and use by Google, the settings, and deactivation possibilities can be found in the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) as well as in the Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).