Privacy policy

1. The protection of your data is important to us. We therefore provide you with comprehensive information on the handling of your personal data in the following privacy policy. In doing so, we observe the applicable data protection regulations.

2. The following privacy policy applies to all persons whose personal data is processed. Furthermore, this privacy policy applies to the use of our website.

3. This privacy policy explains how and why we process personal data and what rights you have under the applicable data protection regulations.

4. The responsible data processor is the head office or the management of the Foundation's head office.

5. The processing operations described below are based on the applicable legal basis in Switzerland.

6. Your data will always be deactivated, deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. You have the option of requesting the deletion of your data by sending an email to the office. Blocking or deletion of the data takes place after the spe-cified storage periods have expired. However, blocking or deletion may be prevented by statutory or officially mandated retention periods.

7. Your data will be treated confidentially. We take suitable technical and organizational precautions in cooperation with our webmaster to protect the data from loss, misuse or falsification and from unauthorized access by third parties.

8. When processing your data, there is no automated decision-making in individual cases and no profiling.

9. This data protection declaration does not apply to external websites that you access via a link on our website. No liability is assumed for such external websites. Please refer to the relevant website for information on the data protection declaration applicable there.

10. As part of the review and processing of applications, we process personal data about you and, if applicable, about persons associated with you, such as management bodies, internal or external project managers and auditors as well as external consultants.

11. By submitting an application, you consent to your personal data being processed for the purpose stated at the time of collection. The data processing thus serves to fulfill the purpose of the foundation and, based on this, regulatory requirements. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties.

12. The application can be withdrawn at any time. Please contact the office for this purpose.

13. Our system does not collect any data or information when you visit our website. This does not include log data that your browser automatically transmits to us and that our webmaster collects and automatically saves in so-called server log files. These are browser type and browser version, operating system used, referrer URL, host name of the ac-cessing computer and time of the server request. Such data will not be stored together with other personal data of yours.

14. You have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information - always in connection with the specific content of this privacy policy - about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, data portability, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data at any time.

15. All of the above information has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we provide is up-to-date, correct and complete.

16. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, correctness and topicality of information, even of a journalistic or editorial nature. Liability claims arising from material or non-material damage caused by the use of the information provided are excluded as far as permissible.

17. The Foundation may change or delete texts at its own discretion and without notice and is under no obligation to update the content of this website. The use of or access to this website is at the visitor's own risk. The Foundation is not responsible for any damage of any kind allegedly caused by visiting this website and therefore accepts no liability for such damage.

18. The copyright and all other rights to content, images and other files on the website belong exclusively to this website or the specifically named rights holders. The written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance for the reproduction of all files.

19. The Foundation also accepts no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or offend common decency.

20. The Foundation reserves the right to amend and supplement this declaration at any time at its own discretion and in accordance with the relevant data protection legislation.

21. Contact details: Foundation headquarters: Seefeldstrasse 45, 8008 Zurich (c/o Niggli Attorneys at Law); office: Dr. iur. Max Walter, Bickelstrasse 3, 8942 Oberrieden,max.walter@sswlaw.ch , (M) 079 959 16 90.