Privacy policy
Biotechnet Switzerland (“We”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and to developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience.
This policy (together with our terms of website use and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our website www.biotechnet.ch (“our site”) you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Biotechnet Switzerland at Hofackerstrasse 30, 4132 Muttenz is both the data controller and data processor. Enquiries relating to data protection in reference to our activities may be sent to us at info@biotechnet.ch.
- Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- information that you provide by completing forms on our site such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, telephone number, job title, company name. This information may be provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our services, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our site;
- if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
- we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them;
- details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
We may also collect information about your computer hardware and software including, where available, your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is used by us for the operation of the site, to maintain the quality of the site and to provide general statistics regarding the use of our site.
2. Accuracy of personal data
We will take reasonable steps to create an accurate record of any personal data you have submitted. However, we do not assume responsibility for confirming the ongoing accuracy of your personal data. You can update your personal data by emailing us.
3. Cookies
We do not use cookies on our website.
Our website includes a newsletter sign up form, which is linked to Hubspot. Our newsletter sign up and other contact forms are protected by Google reCaptcha. Google reCaptcha and Hubspot are services provided by third parties, which may be located in any country. Although such service providers do not receive personal data from us, they may track your use of the website, combine this information with data from other websites you have visited, and use this information for their own purposes (e.g. to manage advertising). If you have registered with the service provider concerned, the service provider will also know your identity. The service provider concerned will then be responsible for processing your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection provisions. Service providers only provide information on how a particular website is used (but not any personal details).
We do not use plugins from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, Xing or Instagram on our websites.
4. Where we store your data
The data we collect from you is stored on servers provided by Raskin Apps. Raskin Apps has access to the log files and the data entered into the contact forms. The log files are automatically deleted after a month. A backup of our website is stored on Google Drive.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of Switzerland. It may also be processed by staff operating outside of Switzerland who works for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
5. Security of your information
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
We will not sell, rent or lease your information to third parties. However, we may share your information with trusted third parties to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
6. Use of your information
We may use information held about you in any of the following ways:
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to determine which of our products and services are the most popular so as to deliver customized content and advertising;
- for our own legitimate interests or those of other organizations (such as our member organizations or partners), e.g. for market research, analysis and developing statistics (data will be anonymized where appropriate);
- to send you marketing communications.
You will have the option to unsubscribe via a link in all such messages or by contacting us.
7. Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of the Biotechnet Switzerland management team and its board members.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- if you agree to share them in the context of collaborations, working groups and networking events;
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or other terms; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Biotechnet Switzerland, our members, business partners, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
8. Your rights under the applicable data protection law:
- The right to be informed about our processing of your personal data
- The right of access to your personal data and information about how we process it.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to have your personal data rectified (for example, if it’s inaccurate or incomplete).
- The right to erasure (the ‘right to be forgotten’).
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to block or suppress processing of personal data.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own
- purposes across different services.
- The right to object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal data.
- Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.
You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting us.
9. Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
10. Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcome. Please contact us.
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Terms of website use
This webpage (together with the documents referred to on it) informs of the terms of use on which a guest or a registered user may use our website: www.biotechnet.ch (“our site”). Please read these terms of use carefully, before starting to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them.
- Information about us
Our site is operated by Biotechnet Switzerland (“We”). We have our registered office at Hofackerstrasse 30, 4132 Muttenz. Our VAT number is CHE-112.835.271 MWST.
2. Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable, if for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
3. Prohibited uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
- in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
- in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
- to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (as set out below);
- to transmit, or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
- to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our sites; and
- not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our site, any equipment or network on which our site is stored, any software used in the provision of our site, or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
4. Interactive services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation: news groups; forums; communities; and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or a group (the “interactive services”).
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical). However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
5. Content standards
You must comply to these content standards, they apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
- be accurate (where they state facts);
- be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and
- comply with applicable law in Switzerland and in any country from which they are posted.
Contributions must not:
- contain any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- advocate, promote or assist any illegal activity;
- infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person or organization;
- be likely to deceive any person;
- be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
- be threatening, abusive or invade another’s privacy, or be likely to cause annoyance, harassment, embarrassment or alarm to any other person;
- give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
6. Intellectual property rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights on our site and of the material published on it with the exception of material that is be uploaded by our members and partners e.g. in person, group, platform and member listings, and their events, news and projects. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to material posted on our site. You must not modify the digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. You must acknowledge us (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on any extracts or pages downloaded.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
7. Reliance on information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our sites, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
8. Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our sites, or close them indefinitely. Any of the material on our sites may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
9. Our liability
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy or completeness. To the extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us, hereby expressly exclude:
- all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and
- all liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for: loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
10. Information about you and your visits to our site
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
11. Membership applications concluded through our site
Membership applications concluded through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by the terms of the Statutes of Biotechnet Switzerland.
12. Uploading material to our site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to contact other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out above. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.
We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out above.
13. Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any websites linked to it.
14. Linking to our site
You may link to our home page or other pages in our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. Our site must not be framed on any other site.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out above.
15. Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the content of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
16. Jurisdiction and applicable law
The Swiss courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Swiss law.
17. Variations
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
18. Suspension and termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms of use through your use of our site. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, which may include (without limitation):
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site and/or of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
- legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach; and/or
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
19. Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us.
Thank you for visiting our site.
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