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 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. ETH Zurich upholds this principle on its web presence.
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies for the centrally managed web presence of ETH Zurich under the domain “ethz.ch” and personal data collected there, as well as for all subdomains (e.g. “sce.ethz.ch”), provided they explicitly refer to this Privacy Policy. For all other subdomains or websites connected with ETH, different or additional privacy policies and notices may apply and, in this case, we refer you to the creators of the websites in question for more precise information. Individual departments, projects or teams at ETH Zurich operate applications that can be used via the web or smartphones. In these cases, different or additional data protection regulations may apply for specific use cases.
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 when filling in a form
If you fill in a form on an ETH web page, we will collect the data that you enter. This data may also be shared with third parties to fulfil the purpose in question. In addition, we store metadata (IP address, timestamp, browser) in order to trace abuse or for troubleshooting and bug fixing.
Storage of data when commenting on news posts
If you comment on a news post on an ETH web page, we will store and publish the information that you enter when sending the comment. This includes your surname, first name, location and text. In the case of forms, we also store certain metadata (IP address, timestamp, browser) in order to trace abuse or for troubleshooting and bug fixing.
This data is stored on our servers alongside the comment and will remain in the system for the same amount of time as the comment itself or up to a maximum of ten years. After ten years, news posts are archived in a web archive. Under certain circumstances, the publicly visible data is forwarded to applications, such as the ETH smartphone app.
Storage of data for the purpose of sending newsletters
In order to send newsletters, we use Adobe Experience Manager, Sympa1 or Inxmail Professional2, in addition to our content management system (CMS). 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.
Storage of data for the purpose of web analytics
We use the “Piano Analytics” web analytics service provided by Applied Technologies Internet GmbH, Leonardstrasse 52-58, 80636 Munich, Germany (“AT Internet”) and Google Tag Manager to process data left behind when you visit ETH websites. Both tools perform targeted statistical evaluation and analysis of