Privacy Policy

Contact Information

Swiss Philosophical Society

z.H. Prof. Dr. Olivier Massin

Institut de Philosophie

Université de Neuchâtel

Espace Tilo-Frey 1

2000 Neuchâtel

Seraphine Reichlin

seraphinereichlin@gmail.com

In certain cases, third parties may be responsible for processing personal data, or there may be joint responsibility with third parties. Upon request, we are happy to provide data subjects with information regarding the respective responsibility.

Definitions and Legal Basis

Data Subject: A natural person whose personal data we process.

Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Sensitive Personal Data: Data regarding trade union, political, religious, or ideological views and activities; data regarding health, sexual life, or membership in an ethnic or racial group; genetic data; biometric data that uniquely identifies a natural person; data regarding criminal or administrative sanctions or prosecutions; and data regarding social assistance measures.

Processing: Any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, such as retrieving, comparing, modifying, archiving, storing, reading, disclosing, obtaining, recording, collecting, deleting, revealing, sorting, organizing, saving, altering, disseminating, linking, destroying, and using personal data.

Rechtsgrundlagen

Wir bearbeiten Personendaten im Einklang mit dem schweizerischen Recht wie insbesondere dem Bundesgesetz über den Datenschutz (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG) und der Verordnung über den Datenschutz (Datenschutzverordnung, DSV).

Legal Basis

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, DSG) and the Ordinance on Data Protection (Data Protection Ordinance, DSV).

Nature, Scope, and Purpose of Personal Data Processing

We process the personal data necessary to carry out our activities and operations in a sustainable, people-oriented, secure, and reliable manner. The personal data processed may include, in particular, browser and device data, content data, communication data, metadata, usage data, master data (including inventory and contact information), location data, transaction data, contract data, and payment data.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly available sources, or collect in the course of carrying out our activities and operations, to the extent that such processing is permitted.

We process personal data, where necessary, with the consent of the data subjects. In many cases, we may process personal data without consent, for example, to comply with legal obligations or to safeguard overriding interests. We may also request consent from data subjects even when their consent is not required.

We process personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the respective purpose. We anonymize or delete personal data, in particular, in accordance with statutory retention and statute of limitations periods.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties, or process it jointly with third parties. Such third parties may include, for example, specialized service providers whose services we use. These third parties may, in turn, disclose personal data to other third parties.

In the course of our activities and operations, we may disclose personal data in particular to banks and other financial service providers, government agencies, educational and research institutions, consultants and attorneys, accounting and fiduciary service providers, debt collection agencies, advocacy groups, IT service providers, cooperation partners, credit and business credit bureaus, logistics and shipping companies, marketing and advertising agencies, media outlets, parent companies, sister companies, and subsidiaries, organizations and associations, social welfare institutions, telecommunications companies, insurance companies, and payment service providers.

Communication

We process personal data in order to communicate with individuals, as well as with government agencies, organizations, and companies. In doing so, we process, in particular, data that a data subject provides to us when contacting us, for example, by mail or email. We may store such data in an address book or using similar tools.

Third parties who provide us with data about other individuals are legally obligated to ensure the data protection of those individuals on their own. In particular, they must ensure that they are authorized to provide such data and must also guarantee the accuracy of the data provided.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure data security commensurate with the respective risk. Through these measures, we ensure, in particular, the confidentiality, availability, traceability, and integrity of the personal data we process; however, we cannot guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our website and our other digital presence is secured via transport encryption (SSL/TLS, specifically using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated as HTTPS). Most browsers issue a warning before visiting a website without transport encryption.

Our digital communications—like all digital communications in general—are subject to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA), and other countries. We have no direct influence over the processing of personal data by intelligence agencies, police departments, and other security authorities. Nor can we rule out the possibility that a data subject may be specifically monitored.

Personal Data Abroad

We generally process personal data in Switzerland. However, we may also disclose or export personal data to other countries, in particular to process it there or have it processed there.

We may disclose personal data to any country on Earth or elsewhere in the universe, provided that the law of that country ensures an adequate level of data protection in accordance with a resolution of the Swiss Federal Council.

We may disclose personal data to countries whose laws do not guarantee adequate data protection, provided that adequate data protection is ensured for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or other appropriate safeguards. In exceptional cases, we may export personal data to countries without adequate or appropriate data protection if the specific legal requirements under data protection law are met, such as the explicit consent of the data subjects or a direct connection to the conclusion or performance of a contract. Upon request, we are happy to provide data subjects with information about any safeguards in place or to supply a copy of such safeguards.

Rights of Data Subjects

Data Protection Rights

We grant data subjects all rights provided for under applicable law. Data subjects have the following rights in particular:

Right of Access: Data subjects may request information as to whether we process personal data about them and, if so, what personal data is involved. Data subjects will also receive the information necessary to exercise their data protection rights and to ensure transparency. This includes the personal data being processed as such, but also, among other things, details regarding the purpose of processing, the duration of storage, any disclosure or export of data to other countries, and the origin of the personal data.

Correction and Restriction: Data subjects may correct inaccurate personal data, complete incomplete data, and have the processing of their data restricted.

Opportunity to Express One’s Own View and Request Human Review: Data subjects may, in the case of decisions based solely on the automated processing of personal data that result in legal consequences for them or significantly affect them (automated individual decisions), express their own view and request a review by a human.

Deletion and Objection: Data subjects may have personal data deleted (right to be forgotten) and may object to the processing of their data with future effect.

Data Disclosure and Data Portability: Data subjects may request the disclosure of personal data or the transfer of their data to another controller.

We may defer, restrict, or deny the exercise of data subjects’ rights to the extent permitted by law. We may inform data subjects of any prerequisites that must be met in order to exercise their rights under data protection law. For example, we may refuse to provide information in whole or in part, citing confidentiality obligations, overriding interests, or the protection of other individuals. We may also, for example, refuse to delete personal data in whole or in part, particularly citing statutory retention obligations. In exceptional cases, we may charge a fee for the exercise of these rights. We will inform data subjects in advance of any such costs. We are obligated to take reasonable measures to verify the identity of data subjects who request information or assert other rights. Data subjects are required to cooperate.

Legal Protection

Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection claims through legal channels or to file a report or complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority for private data controllers and federal agencies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Use of the Website

Cookies

We may use cookies. Cookies—both our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies)—are data that are stored in the browser. Such stored data does not have to be limited to traditional text-based cookies.

Cookies may be stored in the browser temporarily as «session cookies» or for a certain period as so-called permanent cookies. «Session cookies» are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies have a defined storage period. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to recognize a browser on the next visit to our website and thereby, for example, measure the reach of our website. However, permanent cookies may also be used, for example, for online marketing.

Cookies can be deactivated, restricted, or deleted at any time, in whole or in part, in the browser settings. The browser settings often also allow for the automated deletion and other management of cookies. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We actively request—at least where and to the extent required under applicable law—your explicit consent to the use of cookies.

Logging

We may log at least the following information for every access to our website and our other digital presence, provided that such information is routinely collected or transmitted to our digital infrastructure during such access: date and time, including time zone; IP address; access status (HTTP status code); operating system, including user interface and version; browser, including language and version; the individual subpage of our website accessed, including the amount of data transferred; and the last webpage accessed in the same browser window (referrer or referer).

We log such information, which may also constitute personal data, in log files. The information is required to ensure that we can provide our digital presence on a continuous, user-friendly, and reliable basis. The information is also required to ensure data security, including by third parties or with the assistance of third parties.

Tracking Pixels

We may incorporate tracking pixels into our digital presence. Tracking pixels are also referred to as web beacons. Tracking pixels—including those provided by third parties whose services we use—are typically small, invisible images or scripts written in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when our digital presence is accessed. Tracking pixels may collect at least the same information as that recorded in log files.

Notifications and Communications

Performance and Reach Measurement

Notifications and communications may contain web links or tracking pixels that record whether an individual communication has been opened and which web links have been clicked. Such web links and tracking pixels may also record the use of notifications and communications on a personal basis. We require this statistical recording of usage for performance and reach measurement in order to send notifications and communications effectively, user-friendly, and on a continuous, secure, and reliable basis, in accordance with the needs and reading habits of recipients.

Consent and Objection

As a general rule, you must consent to the use of your email address and your other contact details, unless such use is permitted on other legal grounds. Where applicable, we may use the «double opt-in» procedure to obtain double-confirmed consent. In this case, you will receive a communication containing instructions for the double confirmation. We may log the consents obtained, including the IP address and timestamp, for evidentiary and security purposes.

As a general rule, you may object at any time to receiving notifications and communications, such as newsletters. By submitting such an objection, you may also object to the statistical recording of usage for performance and reach measurement. This does not affect notifications and communications that are necessary in connection with our activities and operations.

Third-Party Services

We use services provided by specialized third parties in order to carry out our activities and operations on a continuous, user-friendly, secure, and reliable basis. Among other things, such services enable us to embed functions and content into our website. Where such content is embedded, the services used collect, for technically necessary reasons, at least temporarily, the IP addresses of users.

For necessary security-related, statistical, and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data relating to our activities and operations in an aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized form. This may include, for example, performance or usage data required to provide the respective service.

Digital Infrastructure

We use services provided by specialized third parties in order to make use of the digital infrastructure required for our activities and operations. This includes, for example, hosting and storage services provided by selected providers.

Final Notes on This Privacy Policy

We have created this Privacy Policy using the Privacy Policy Generator provided by Datenschutzpartner.

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will inform you of any updates by publishing the current version of the Privacy Policy on our website.