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Data protection

Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. To ETH Zurich the protection not only of your personal but the safety and security of all data that flows through our institution is important. As part of this effort, we process personal data in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Law and, where applicable, with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Please feel free to contact us atds@ethz.ch if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you need more information than we have shown here. Alternatively, you can reach us at our postal address: ETH Zurich, Legal Service (Datenschutz), Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich, SwitzerlandEnd of the Privacy Policy. Last revision: October 2018.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored permanently or temporarily on your computer when you visit this website. Their main function is to analyse how a website is used, both for statistical evaluation and to help continually improve the site. You can set your browser to partly or completely deactivate cookies at any time; once cookies have been deactivated, however, some features of this website may not function properly.

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage. The data obtained from this is used to optimize our website.Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States). Google processes website usage data on our behalf and is contractually committed to measures to ensure the confidentiality of the processed data.During your visit to the website, the following data, among others, is recorded:

  • Pages viewed
  • The achievement of "site goals"
  • Your behavior on the pages
  • Your approximate location (country and city)
  • Your IP address (in truncated form so that no unique association is possible)
  • Technical information such as browser, ISP, terminal device and screen resolution
  • Source of origin of your visit (i.e. via which website or which advertising medium you came to us)

This data is transferred to a Google server in the USAGoogle Analytics stores cookies in your web browser for a period of two years since your last visit. These cookies contain a randomly generated user ID that can be used to recognize you during future website visits.The recorded data is stored together with the randomly generated user ID, which enables the evaluation of pseudonymous user profiles. This user-related data is automatically deleted after 14 months. Other data remains stored in aggregated form indefinitely.