In this policy, we tell you how we treat and protect your personal data.
We explain here:
The Swiss Data Protection Act applies to our data processing. Under certain circumstances, the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union may also apply, which below we will abbreviate to GDPR.
We may amend this privacy policy at any time. The version published on our website applies.
Last update: 04/05/2021
The controller of personal data is:
Polariton Technologies Ltd
c/o ETH Zurich
Säumerstrasse 4
8803 Zurich
Switzerland
www.polariton.ch
hello@polariton.ch
If you have any questions or concerns regarding data protection, please contact:
Polariton Technologies Ltd
Wolfgang Heni
c/o ETH Zurich
Säumerstrasse 4
8803 Zurich
Switzerland
Wolfgang.Heni@polariton.ch
When you visit our website (www.polariton.ch), our server stores a logfile. In the logfile, we collect and process the following data:
Social Plugins
Our contact page uses a plugin from Google Maps. Google Maps is a map service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. When you access the contact page, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Google server and Google transmits the map content directly to the browser. Personal data (including IP address, date and time of the access, location data) may be transmitted to Google. We have no control over the further processing of personal data by Google. For more information about Google’s privacy policy, click here.
We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The Google Analytics service is used to analyze the traffic on our website. Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, location, time or frequency of visits to our website, is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored on that server. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function. Using this function, Google already shortens the IP address within the EU or EEA.
The data collected in this way is used by Google to provide us an evaluation of the visitors to our website and the user activities there. This data may also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and the use of the Internet.
Google provides further information on privacy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners, including information on how to prevent the use of data.
In addition, Google offers a so-called deactivation add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de along with further information. This add-on can be installed with the usual Internet browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you call up our platform. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) of Google Analytics that information about the visit to our platform should not be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services.
We use this information to track and resolve technical issues, troubleshoot problems, prevent attacks on our infrastructure, support analysis in the event of hacker attacks, and compile visitor statistics for our website. We do not use this data for direct marketing, profiling or automated individual decision making.
If the GDPR is applicable to the processing of your personal data, we must at this point inform you about the so-called legal basis for data processing:
We may process the data as we have a legitimate interest according to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. This consists of understanding and solving technical problems, finding errors, averting attacks on our infrastructure, carrying out analyses in the event of a hacker attack and producing visitor statistics.
We disclose personal data to data processors who process personal data on our behalf, in particular IT service providers.
All our data processors (e.g. IT service providers) process personal data in Switzerland. The Swiss Data Protection Act offers an appropriate level of data protection. The European Commission’s adequacy decision can be found here.
Finally, the transfer to third countries in the context of the use of social plugins is reserved (see Section 2.1). Both Google and LinkedIn are covered by the so-called Privacy Shield and thus offer an appropriate level of data protection in accordance with the GDPR and Article 6(1) of the Swiss Data Protection Act. You can find the European Commission’s adequacy decision here, the guide to the Privacy Shield of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner here (in German only).
The data will remain on our systems until the operational necessity ceases and the statutory or contractual deadlines expire and will then be deleted automatically.
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If your personal data is processed and the GDPR is applicable, you have the following rights towards us:
If this is the case, you can request access to the personal data and the following information:
(1) the purposes of the processing;
(2) the categories of personal data concerned;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations;
(4) where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
(5) the existence of the right to request from us rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data or to object to such processing;
(6) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
(7) where the personal data are not collected from you, any available information as to their source;
(8) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to request information as to whether personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you may be required to be informed of the appropriate guarantees in accordance with Article 46 GDPR in connection with the transmission.
(1) you contest the accuracy of the personal data, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) the processing is unlawful, and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead;
(3) we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require them for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or
(4) you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds override those of you.
Where processing has been restricted, such personal data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
We will inform you if we lift any restriction on data processing you have obtained according to the above conditions.
(1) The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
(2) the data subject objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing; or
(3) the personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The right to erasure does not apply to the extent processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
We shall no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Polariton Technologies AG
c/o ETH Zürich
Postfach 9000
8803 Rüschlikon
Switzerland
hello@polariton.ch
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