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With this cookie policy, we would like to explain what cookies and cookie-like technologies are, how we and other service provider use them on this website, what information they collect, for how long and for what purposes we use them.

Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases

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Addition to the privacy policy

This cookie policy is a supplement to this website's privacy policy. The cookie policy specifies how a website uses cookies and what data it collects through them, while the privacy policy is a more comprehensive overview of all data processing activities on the website and beyond.

Cookies are small pieces of information similar to text files that can be stored and read on the end device. They serve various purposes, including maintaining basic functionalities of the website, security and privacy, providing optional functions of the website, collecting statistic data on visitor flows and providing marketing systems. Practical examples of what can be stored in cookies are the storage of login status in user accounts, the content of shopping baskets in e-commerce platforms, or a user ID for tracking behavior on the website.

The information can technically be stored in various ways. The best-known examples of this are HTTP cookies and cookie-like technologies like local storage, session storage or IndexedDB. Each type of storage has different properties, which determine the technical handling, accessibility and controllers authorized to access the information. All these types of storage are usually summarized under the term "cookies" and are therefore called as such in this cookie policy.

The setting and reading of cookies in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) is in accordance with Art. 5 (3) ePrivacy Directive and Recital 66 ePrivacy Directive only permitted if a user has given his consent on the basis of comprehensive information about the purposes of the processing. The website operator may also set cookies if they are strictly necessary to provide you as a user with the expressly requested service, e.g. the basic content of this website or other strictly necessary cookies for basic functionality of the website to be displayed to you without your consent.

The setting and reading of cookies in Switzerland is in accordance with Art. 45c (b) FMG (Fernmeldegesetz) only permitted if a user has the option to object the processing of data on the basis of comprehensive information about the purposes of the processing. In exceptional cases, consent must be obtained for the processing of personal data in cookies in Switzerland.

What rights does the website visitor have?

Services and their cookies can be set and read on the legal basis of your consent or a legitimate interest. When you first visited this website, you were asked for your consent and you had the opportunity to object to the use of certain services. We explained which legal basis is used for which service in our consent dialog.

You have the right to view the history of your decisions, change your privacy settings, object to the use of services and revoke your consent at any time. Below you find possibilities to exercise your rights:

How to manage cookies in a browser?

  • How to remove cookies in a browser: To remove cookies from your device, you can clear the browsing data in the settings of your browser. This action will remove all cookies from all websites you've visited, potentially including saved login details and site preferences. In some browsers, you can just delete the cookies and similar data without deleting the whole browsing history.
  • How to control cookies in a browser: For more granular control over cookies specific to certain websites, navigate to the privacy and cookie settings within your used browser. Here, you can adjust preferences related to individual sites' cookie usage.
  • How to block cookies in a browser: It's possible to configure most modern browsers in their settings to block all cookies from being placed on your device. But blocking cookies could lead to certain services and functionalities not functioning correctly, e.g. logins as a user. You can also use extensions for many browsers which can block the setting of cookies on websites.
  • How to manage cookies on this website: To tailor your preferences regarding cookies on this website, you can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the link in the section "Rights of the website visitor".

You can find more information on the handling of cookies devowl.io/rcb/cookie-handling/.

What types of cookies exist?

  • Essential cookies are indispensable for the basic functionality of a website and enable functions such as saving login information or access to secure areas of the site. These include, for example, security cookies, which can identify a bot that is not wanted on the website by storing an authentication key in a cookie.
  • Functional cookies improve the user experience by storing information and preferences such as language settings or appearance settings of the website to provide personalized. This includes, for example, preference cookies that store the user's preferred video quality on a website.
  • Statistics cookies collect data about the use of a website to gain insights into user behavior and optimize the performance of the site. This includes, for example, a randomly assigned user ID that makes it possible to attribute whether you have visited a subpage of the website.
  • Marketing cookies are used to track user behavior across different websites and to display personalized advertising based on the interests and surfing behavior of users. This includes, for example, advertising cookies that store an interaction with an advertisement on the website and pass it on to advertisers or a chat system for pre-sale questions and customer support.

Who can set cookies on this website?

On this website, both the operator of the website and third-party services which are used on this website may set cookies and access its content. Who can access which cookies and their content differs between first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created by the visited website and can only be read by the website operator and integrated third-party services on this website. Third-party cookies are set by usually third-party services on other domains, can be read on all websites on which the service that controls the domain is embedded and, for example, used by advertising networks to track user behavior across different websites and offer personalized advertising.

The cookie policy was last updated on 16.06.2025.

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Transparent handling of personal data is very important to us. This privacy policy provides information on what personal data we collect, for what purpose and to whom we pass it on. We regularly review and update this privacy policy to ensure the highest level of transparency.

What data we collect

We process your general personal data. Personal data is any type of information that relates to an identifiable natural person. The natural person is identifiable if conclusions can be drawn about the identity of the person from the available information.

Example: Your name, IP address and home address are personal data.

You often provide us with your personal data yourself. Whenever you enter your personal data and transmit it to us, it is deemed to have been provided to us. The transmission of data to us is basically voluntary, but in some cases it is mandatory in order to be able to use our offers.

Example: You enter your data in a contact form or sign up for a newsletter.

When you use our services, we sometimes collect their data without your active participation. This data is usually data about your device and data about user behavior.

Example: We collect data about the operating system of the device you used to access our website.

We strive to continuously improve our offer. For this purpose, we use your personal data for the development and improvement of our products and services.

Example: We collect data about visitor behavior on the website in order to constantly improve the user experience.

We share your personal data with companies that can decide for themselves how to use the data. Most often, this is done because it is necessary to comply with legal requirements, when an outstanding debt is transferred to a collection agency, or when to detect fraudulent activity.

Example: A legal requirement obliges us to pass on your data to an authority.

We work with providers from all over the world to process your personal data. This allows us to benefit from the global offering and access the best and most reliable services. Under certain circumstances, the country to which the data is exported does not have the same data protection standard as Switzerland.

Example: We use the services of a cloud provider such as Google, which is based in the USA.

What services we use

https://google.com/analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, a service of the provider Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland with headquarters at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, both together "Google".

What data do we process?

Google Analytics is an analysis service for websites to collect information about the use of the website. In particular, the following information may be collected:

  • IP address
  • Technical information such as browser, operating system or screen resolution
  • Interactions on the website
  • Duration of the visit
  • Time and date of the website visit
  • Referrer URL

The IP address is anonymised by Google Analytics so that a personal reference is no longer possible. When a visitor visits our website for the first time, Google Analytics can generate an identifier to recog-nise the visitor when they visit the website again. If you are logged in with your Google account, data processing can also take place across devices.

For what purpose do we process the data?

Your IP address is used to determine your approximate location. We can use the information obtained from this to measure the relevance of our offers in different regions. We also use the IP address to de-termine where website visitors have come to our website from. The technical information is processed so that the website can be displayed satisfactorily on every device. The interactions, duration, time and date are collected so that we can use this data to evaluate and optimise our marketing campaigns and offers. We can also use this data to determine how visitors interact with our website, i.e. which content is popular with which visitors. The referrer URL is processed for the purpose of measuring the effec-tiveness and analysing various marketing channels.

Who do we share the data with?

The transfer of data by us is governed by our statements on data transfer. As Google is a transnational company, your data may be transferred by Google to anywhere in the world. In particular, it may be transferred to Google's headquarters in the USA. A country in which the legislation does not guarantee adequate data protection.

https://tagmanager.google.com

We use Google Tag Manager on our website, a service of the provider Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland with headquarters at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, both together "Google".

Google Tag Manager is a service for centralised management of various tracking tags (e.g. Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Hotjar etc.). Google Tag Manager itself does not collect any data. The tags that collect the data that we manage using Google Tag Manager are listed in this privacy policy.

https://www.privacybee.io/

We use PrivacyBee on our website, a service provided by PrivacyBee AG, Laupenstrasse 1, 3008 Bern, Switzerland. PrivacyBee is used to recognize all data protection-relevant services and to generate an individual privacy policy for the website.

What data do we process?
PrivacyBee is a service for generating data protection declarations, which are then integrated into our website via JavaScript. The following data is processed for the provision of this service:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Date and time of access to our privacy policy

For what purpose do we process the data? The collection of this data enables us to display the privacy policy correctly on your end device configuration and to ensure that the content is correct and up to date.

Who do we share the data with?
The transfer of data by us is based on our statements on data transfer. The data collected through the use of PrivacyBee remains with PrivacyBee.

How can you prevent the processing of your data?
To prevent PrivacyBee from processing your data, you can disable JavaScript in your browser. Please note, however, that if you deactivate JavaScript, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent. We do not offer a specific opt-out option for the PrivacyBee service itself, as the service is essential for the provision of our privacy policy.

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