Data Protection
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 stored data 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. ETH Zurich upholds this principle on its web presence.
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to the web presence of the exhibition »Keep it Cool« at ETH Zurich under the domain »keep-it-cool.ethz.ch«.
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. We cannot guarantee the correctness or safety of external pages and accept no responsibility for such websites or web services.
What Happens to Your Data?
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 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.
Cookies
Currently, we do not use cookies, but only a technically necessary PHP session ID for the duration of your visit. No data is collected for statistical purposes, and no third-party cookies are used. Cookie settings in your browser currently have no effect on the use of our website.
Social Networks and Other Third-Party Services
ETH does not host any advertising on its web pages. We do not store or transfer any personal data to advertising services.
When you visit our web pages, we only show content from social media channels with your express consent. You may grant or revoke this consent via the settings in our cookie preference centre. If you grant consent, the platform operator may collect personal data via our website depending on the interface provided by the platform. In this case, the terms of service of the platform in question apply. ETH Zurich has no influence over these terms. The operator of the respective social media platform is responsible for processing personal data on the social media platforms where we maintain our social media presence.
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. 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.
Reference to the general privacy policy of ETH Zurich
Outside the website of the exhibition “KEEP IT CO₂OL”, the general privacy policy of ETH Zurich applies to ETH Zurich websites.