Preliminary note
This website was created and published by flake on behalf of the ETH Board, co-initiator of the pan-European initiative “Stick to Science”, which has been set in motion together with the two Federal Institutes of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETHZ) and the umbrella organisation of Universities of the United Kingdom, UK Universities, and the Wellcome Trust.
Contact for the following terms and conditions is the ETH Board.

I. Limitation of liability
Although every care has been taken by the ETH Board, EPFL and ETH Zurich, jointly with Universities UK and the Wellcome Trust, to ensure the accuracy of the information published, no guarantee can be given in respect of the accuracy, reliability, up-to-dateness or completeness of this information.

We reserve the right to alter or remove the content, in full or in part, without prior notice.

We will under no circumstances be liable for any loss or damage of a material or immaterial nature arising from access to, use or non-use of published information, or from misuse of the connection or technical faults.

II. Links
We have no influence over external pages to which it provides links, nor over external pages that provide links to the website of the ETH Board www.stick-to-science.eu. Accordingly, we provide no guarantee in relation to such pages that the information they contain is accurate or that they are free of malware (such as viruses). Responsibility for the information and services provided on linked web pages or web services are entirely the responsibility of the third parties concerned.

We accept no responsibility or liability for such web pages or web services.

III. Copyright
Copyright ETH Board.

Information on our website www.stick-to-science.eu is accessible to the public. Downloading or copying of contents, illustrations, photos or any other data does not entail any transfer of rights to the content.

Copyright and any other rights relating to contents, illustrations, photos or any other data available on the website www.stick-to-science.eu are the exclusive property of the ETH Board or of any other expressly mentioned owners. Any reproduction of any element requires the prior written consent of the copyright holder.
With the transmission of contents, illustrations, photos, logos or any other data, you declare that you are fully authorised to submitting it. By submitting, you grant us the right to use and publish such content for the purpose of the campaign “stick to science”.

IV. Privacy Notice
1. General Information

Stored data are carefully managed and protected against any form of abuse. Under Article 13 of the Federal Constitution and under federal data protection law, everyone is entitled to have their privacy protected and to have their personal data protected from misuse. We comply with these provisions. Personal data is treated according to the dispositions of the Federal Act on Data Protection. We will also comply with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 insofar as they apply to us.

2. Scope of Application
This Privacy Notice applies to the website www.stick-to-science.eu. It may be amended at any time without prior notice, so please review it occasionally.

3. What happens to your data?
a) Retention and erasure
The processing of personal data on the web page www.stick-to-science.eu is limited to the data that are required to provide a properly functioning website and user-friendly content and services, or to the data that you have actively made available to us. The personal data that we collect is only retained for as long as they are needed in order to fulfil the purpose concerned. Certain data may be retained for longer in order to meet statutory requirements or other obligations.

b) Data stored when completing a form
If you complete a form on our website (e.g. a contact form), we process the data that you provide us to the extent that this is required to fulfil the purpose of processing or to deal with your request. Normally any information we receive is provided on a voluntary basis. Obligatory fields are only marked as such if the information is required in order to fulfil our statutory duty or to deal with your request or enquiry. These data are erased when the statutory retention period expires at the latest.

When you register for the campaign “stick to science” (e.g. using any form) personal data is collected. This personal data is processed on the basis of your consent during the registration process, and is used only for the purpose of the campaign. This includes in particular, that we may share the personal information with the co-initiators of the campaign and publish your personal information in the list of signatories and on the website www.stick-to-science.eu as indicated in the registration form transmitted by you, with the exception of your email address and if you sign in as an institution, we will not publish the personal information of your designated contact person.

c) Data stored for the purpose of sending information material about the campaign
If you signed up to receive information material about the campaign, the following data will be recorded: your first name and family name, any title, your function, your portrait picture if uploaded, your possible quote, your email address and telephone number, your institution’s name, the logo of your organisation if uploaded, city and country. Your personal data related to sending out the information material to which you subscribe will be erased immediately at the end of the campaign.

d) Data stored for the purpose of web analysis
When you visit this website, anonymised access information (date, time, page viewed) may be stored on the server. The data stored in log files includes inter alia the type of browser used, the operating system, the web page from which you were directed to this website, the internet protocol address and other similar data. This data is used for technical analysis when maintenance work is carried out and also for averting risks in the event of attacks on our systems. When using this data we do not draw any conclusions about the person concerned. The data is used for statistical and data protection purposes.

This usage data forms the basis for statistical, anonymised evaluations for the purpose of tracking trends so that we can improve the information on offer. Under the Federal Act on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications, there is a statutory duty to store data on all connections made in the past six months.

In close cooperation with our hosting providers, we make every effort to protect the databases as effectively as possible from outside access, data loss, misuse or falsification.

4. Data Storage and sharing with third-parties
We may store your data electronically.

We employ professional services from companies and individuals to help us operate our Services. External operators have to meet the prerequisites set out in the provisions of Swiss data protection legislation as we do.

We may share your personal information with the following third-party service provider:
flake GmbH: we use flake for the conception, design, programming and maintenance of our website. More information on the privacy practices of flake https://flake.ch/

5. SSL
This website uses SSL encryption when transmitting confidential or personal content about our users. This type of encryption is activated when payments are processed, for example, and when you submit enquiries to us via this website. Please note that the encryption is activated when you perform particular actions. When the encryption is activated, your browser line changes from “http://” to “https://”. SSL encrypted data cannot be read by third parties. Transmit your confidential information only when SSL encryption is activated; please contact us if you have any doubts.

6. Cookies
This Website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies used (session cookies) are deleted from your hard disk at the end of the browser session. Other cookies remain on your computer and enable you to be recognised again when you make your next visit (permanent cookies). You can stop cookies from being stored on your browser by restricting or deactivating the storage and reading of cookies. Please note that you will not be able to use certain functions of the website without enabling cookies.

In addition, note that this website can contain cookies set by third parties.

By using the website, you expressly agree to the use of all cookies.

7. Social networks and other third party services
The website www.stick-to-science.eu may integrate different social networks (like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube). These pages and services are offered and operated by third parties. All of these pages have their own data protection provisions. In addition, third-party services, such as those provided by YouTube, Twitter, , bit.ly etc., may be directly embedded into individual web pages of the website. These providers also use cookies, etc. When they use the relevant web pages, the user’s data is automatically transmitted to these companies. In such cases, the data protection provisions of the provider concerned expressly apply. Users must be aware that data is collected via these services and may also be passed on to third parties. If users also have an account with the service concerned, the operator may assign the information transmitted directly to the personal account concerned.

We have no influence over the collection of data or its further use by these operators. We have no knowledge of how much data they store, where they store it and how long, the extent to which they comply with duties to erase data, the analyses they make of the data, the links they make to the data and to whom they pass on the data. 

The most important third-party services we use are:
Twitter: Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103. For further information on how Twitter handles user data, please consult its Privacy Policy and its Cookies guidelines.
YouTube: As soon as you call up a webpage of the website that has a YouTube video embedded in it, a connection is established with the YouTube servers, and plug-ins from YouTube (YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA; subsidiary of Google LLC) are used from time to time. YouTube receives information on which page was visited from which IP address.
Bitly: Bitly is a URL shortening service. Bitly, Inc. is based in New York, USA. You will find further information on how Bitly handles user data at https://bitly.com/pages/privacy

8. Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, tablets or mobile devices, to help the website analyse how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (date and time of request, location and frequency of access requests, origin, language, operating system, browser, click behaviour, visitor source, resolution of computer, length of time spent on website including your anonymised IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Our website makes use of Google Analytics with an IP anonymisation function. This means that your IP address is shortened and thus anonymised by Google within Member States of the European Union and in countries that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases only, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.

On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider.
Google may transmit this information to third parties if so required by law or when third parties are commissioned by Google to process the data. Google has stated that the IP address transmitted by your browser in relation to Google Analytics will not be associated with other data by Google.

You may refuse the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Google offers a deactivation option for the most commonly used browsers. If you activate the deactivation option, no information about your visit to the website will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activating the deactivation option does not prevent information being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may use. For further information about the deactivation option provided by Google and about activating this option, please click on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

By using this website, you explicitly agree to your data being processed by Google in accordance with the Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.

9. Plug-ins & expansions
This website uses plug-ins and extensions in particular provided by the following services:
• Google Analytics: operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
• Twitter. operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). Click here for an overview of Twitter plug-ins and what they look like: https://publish.twitter.com; click here for Twitter’s Privacy Policy: twitter.com/privacy.

The plug-ins are identified by the respective logo. If you visit a www.stick-to-science.eu webpage containing one of these plug-ins, your browser will connect directly to the service providers’ servers (“services”). The services will transmit the content of the plug-in directly to your browser and it will be incorporated into the website. If you are logged into the services, the latter will be able to assign your visit to your user account. When you interact with the plug-ins, such as by activating the “Like” button, your browser transmits the relevant information directly to the service provider, where it is stored.
For further information regarding the purpose and scope of data collection and how the service providers process and use the data, as well as your rights and the privacy settings available to you, please consult the data protection policy of the relevant service provider.

If you do not wish services to collect information about you via this website, you must log out of the services before visiting this website.

10. Your rights
You have the right to request information on the processing of your personal data by us at any time free of charge. Contact the office named in the printer’s imprint (Impressum). You may have further statutory rights, such as the right to have data erased or corrected. Collecting data in order to provide the website and storing data in log files is absolutely essential to the operation of our website. As a result, users of our website have no right to object in this respect.

11. Security
If you transmit us any data (for instance by means of a contact form made available to you), it cannot be guaranteed that such data transmission is either confidential or reliable. Moreover, we will normally reply to such data through the electronic channel, too, for which again neither confidentiality nor the integrity of the data transmitted can be guaranteed. For this reason, no sensitive data, such as confidential data, should be transmitted through this channel.

February 3, 2022