We treat your data as confidential. ETH Zurich endeavours only to collect personal data that is absolutely necessary for carrying out its tasks (data minimisation).
General information
We handle the data we store with care and protect it from misuse. We also choose not to share usage data about our web presence with third parties without your consent. In accordance with Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and data protection regulations, every person is entitled to have their privacy protected and to have their personal data protected against misuse. The Living Lab HIL at ETH Zurich upholds this principle on its web presence.
This privacy policy may be amended at any time without advance notice.
Hyperlinks
ETH Zurich does not have any influence over external pages to which it shares hyperlinks, nor over external pages that share hyperlinks to the content of ETH Zurich. By extension, we cannot guarantee in respect of external pages that the information and services they contain are correct or that they are free of malware (such as viruses). The respective external service provider bears full responsibility for these and we therefore do not accept any responsibility for such websites or web services.
What happens to your data?
Storage and deletion
Where possible, we try to limit the processing of personal data on ETH Zurich web pages to data that is required to provide a functioning, user-friendly internet presence and to fulfil our statutory duty, and, in addition, to data that you provide us with of your own accord. Personal data that we collect is only stored for as long as required to fulfil the purpose in question. Legal requirements or other obligations may result in longer periods of storage.
Storage of data for the purpose of sending newsletters
In order to send newsletters, we use Inxmail Professional. In doing so, we store your email address and all other specific details that we collected when you signed up for the newsletter in question. All of this data is stored in Switzerland or the EU and may be deleted by the end user via a link in the respective email.
Cookies
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer for a set period of time when you visit an ETH page. Cookies help us to statistically measure your usage of our website and continuously improve it. For example, we receive information about how many visitors are affiliated with ETH or whether they would prefer not to be tracked by us. You can deactivate some or all cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings or you can delete them manually. If cookies are deactivated, you may no longer be able to use all the features of our website. Moreover, we try to minimise the use of cookies from third-party services, such as advertising networks or social media platforms, and do not allow it without your explicit consent.
External content: webfonts via Adobe fonts
We use Adobe Fonts to display fonts on our website. Adobe Fonts is a service that provides access to a font library and is provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe), 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. No cookies are placed or used to provide the fonts as part of the Adobe Font service. To provide the Adobe Font service, Adobe may collect information about the font used to identify the website itself and the associated Adobe account.
For more information, see the Adobe Fonts privacy policy page and the Adobe privacy policy.
Logs
We save certain metadata about your user behaviour in log files for troubleshooting purposes and to trace abuse of our web presence. This data includes the IP address, date, time, browser request and information transmitted about the device used, including the operating system and browser. We do not use log files to analyse your user behaviour or associate it with other collected data. We periodically delete this type of data.
Your rights
You have the right to request information about the processing of your personal data from the responsible departments at no cost and at any time. To do this, get in touch with your direct point of contact or with the contact named in the legal notice. Additional rights such as the right to data erasure, data rectification, restriction of data processing and the right to data portability are in place as prescribed by law.
The collection of certain data for the purpose of making the website available and the storage of data in log files is strictly necessary to operate our website. As such, there is no right to object to this on the part of users of our website. We do not use log files to analyse your user behaviour or associate it with other collected data.
Data security
During website visits, ETH Zurich uses encrypted data communication based on TLS in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. You will recognise whether a particular web page is being transmitted over an encrypted connection by the closed key or lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.
When processing your data, ETH Zurich also takes appropriate technical and organisational security measures in general to protect your data against accidental or intentional tampering, partial or complete loss, destruction and any unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are in line with the current state of technology and are improved accordingly on an ongoing basis.
Operation
The web servers for operating the ETH Zurich website are generally managed by the IT Services department of ETH Zurich itself. Certain services may also be operated by external partners. In these cases, it is particularly important to us that data is processed within Switzerland or the EU and that no data is transferred to countries with an inadequate level of data protection (in accordance with Annex 1 of the Data Protection Ordinance [DPO; SR 235.1]) The same data protection requirements apply to external partners as to internally operated applications.
Contact details of our Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or require more information that your direct point of contact at ETH Zurich cannot provide you with, you can get in touch with our Data Protection Officer at
ds@ethz.ch. You can also write to the following address by post: ETH Zurich, Legal Office (Data Protection), Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
The Data Protection Officer at ETH Zurich is currently Tomislav Mitar. The supervisory authority for data protection law is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).