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Legal Notices
Please read the following information carefully. It contains legally relevant provisions. By accessing the website and its pages, you declare that you have understood and accepted the following terms of use in connection with this website.
If you do not agree with these terms, please refrain from accessing this website.
Disclaimer
All texts and links have been carefully reviewed and are continuously updated. We endeavor to provide correct and complete information on this website; however, we assume no responsibility, guarantee, or liability that the information provided through this website is correct, complete, or up to date.
We reserve the right to modify the information on this website at any time and without prior notice, and we are not obliged to update the information contained therein.
All links to external providers were checked for accuracy at the time they were added; nevertheless, we assume no liability for the content and availability of websites accessible via hyperlinks.
Responsibility for illegal, incorrect, or incomplete content and, in particular, for damages arising from the content of linked pages, lies solely with the provider of the page to which reference is made. This applies regardless of whether the damage is of a direct, indirect, or financial nature, or whether it constitutes any other type of damage that may arise from data loss, loss of use, or any other reasons of any kind.
Copyright
The copyright and all other rights relating to the content, images, photographs, or other files on the website belong exclusively to the Swiss Philosophical Society or to the specifically named rights holders.
For the reproduction of any elements, the prior written consent of the copyright holders must be obtained.
Privacy Policy
The Swiss Philosophical Society takes data protection seriously and would like to explain to you, by means of this Privacy Policy, which data are absolutely required, how we use them, and how you can correct or modify your information.
We cannot provide any guarantee for the security of data transmission over the Internet. In particular, when transmitting data by email, there is a risk of access by third parties.
Should individual provisions or formulations of this disclaimer be or become invalid, the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected in their content and validity.
We believe that the protection of your privacy is of the utmost importance. Therefore, compliance with the strict legal provisions on data protection is a matter of course for us. We firmly believe that data protection begins with transparency. It is therefore our concern that you always know when we store which of your personal data, how we use it, but also how you can restrict or prevent its use.
What are personal data?
Personal data are all information relating to the personal and factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable person. This includes information and details such as your (real) name, your address or other postal address, and your telephone number.
Your email address is also included if it has such a connection to your name that you can be identified.
Information that cannot be used to determine your identity is not included. Such information includes, for example, all details without any connection to your name, such as only the indication of gender, age, or education.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Data
The Swiss Philosophical Society undertakes to protect your privacy, uses your personal information only within the Society, and discloses it only to those companies that are involved in fulfilling the contracts concluded with you or otherwise in the provision of services.
Otherwise, your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties unless you have expressly given your consent to do so or we are obliged to disclose such information, for example, on the basis of a court order or an official order.
Contact
When contacting us (for example, via the contact form or by email), the information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of processing the request and in the event that follow-up questions arise.
Newsletter
When registering for the newsletter, we store your IP address and the date of registration. This storage serves solely as proof in the event that a third party misuses an email address and registers for newsletter receipt without the knowledge of the authorized person.
You may withdraw your consent to the storage of your data, your email address, and their use for sending the newsletter at any time. The withdrawal can be made via a link contained in the newsletters themselves or by notifying the contact address provided in the legal notice.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies. Cookies are small text files that the web server stores in several locations in the browser of your computer and through which you can be identified when you visit the website again.
The cookies we use do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. During the use of our Internet services, we primarily store so-called session cookies on the hard drive of your computer, which are only relevant for your visit to our website.
These cookies are used exclusively for connection control and navigation and enable user-friendly browsing of our Internet services. They «remember», for example, certain settings during the session and save you from having to enter information repeatedly.
Session cookies are deleted when you end your browser session. We also use long-lasting (persistent) cookies, which enable us to recognize your browser when you visit our website again.
Your browser provides the option of displaying a warning message when a web server attempts to place a cookie on your computer. You can accept or reject cookies. Most browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies. However, you can disable the storage of cookies or configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being sent.
When you leave our website, you can subsequently delete cookies from the hard drive of your computer, for example if automatic removal could not be carried out due to a disruption in the Internet connection.
Of course, you can also view our websites without cookies. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you can prevent the storage of cookies on your hard drive by selecting «do not accept cookies» in your browser settings.
For details on how this works, please refer to the instructions provided by your browser manufacturer. If you do not accept cookies, this may result in limitations to the functionality of our services.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website.
According to the privacy policy and information provided by Google, these are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information collected includes, for example, information about the operating system, the browser, your IP address, the website you previously visited (referrer URL), and the date and time of your visit to our website.
The information generated by these text files about your use of our website is subsequently transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will, however, be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide the website operator with further services related to website usage and Internet usage.
If required by law or insofar as third parties process this data on behalf of Google, Google will also provide this information to these third parties. This use takes place in anonymized or pseudonymized form.
Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie. Users can disable the use of the DART cookie by accessing the privacy policies of Google's advertising network and content advertising network.
The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
Furthermore, you can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link.
Information, Right of Objection, Questions
You may request, at any time, free of charge and without delay, information about the data stored, if any, relating to your person or associated with a username assigned to you. We reserve the right to provide this information electronically.
Furthermore, you have the right at any time to object to the future use of your personal data. The modified or deleted information will not be retained by us.
In the event of a request for information or an objection, you must provide sufficient details for identification and provide valid proof that the information relates to you.
In these cases, or for any other questions regarding our data protection, please contact us (contact details can be found in the legal notice).
Reservation of Changes
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time while complying with the applicable legal provisions.