Web Site Policies

 

Except as noted, the information below applies to the official SCPU web sites, which are defined as the official Web pages of the school.

Commitment to Privacy

Individuals' privacy is important to SCPU. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information policy and practices. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available through a link on our homepage. Our privacy and public records obligations are governed solely by applicable laws of Switzerland.

Notice About the Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected by or submitted to official SCPU web sites. The following information explains the Internet privacy policy and practices that the school has adopted for its official Web sites in legal terms, it shall not be construed as a contractual promise, and the school reserves the right to amend it at any time without notice.

In addition to this explanation of policy and practice, the school encourages its faculties and other units contributing to its official Web pages to provide specific notices about the collection and use of any personal information associated with those pages. The following information is therefore general, and we encourage you to read page-specific notices to ensure that you understand precisely the applicable privacy policies and practices.

When you access our Web pages, the client information and the essential and nonessential technical information listed below is automatically collected -- we refer to those categories collectively as "access" information. No other information is collected through our official Web sites except when you deliberately decide to send it to us (for example, by clicking on a link to send us an e-mail). The information you might choose to send us is listed below as "optional information."

Automatically Collected Access Information

Client information: the Internet domain and Internet address of the computer you are using.
Essential technical information: identification of the page or service you are requesting, type of browser and operating system you are using; and the date and time of access.
Nonessential technical information: the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our Web site.

Optional information
when you send us an e-mail: your name, e-mail address, and the content of your e-mail.
when you complete online forms: all the data you choose to fill in or confirm, including credit or debit card information if you are ordering a product or making a payment, as well as information about other people if you are ordering a gift and want it sent directly to the recipient's address.

The Way We Use Information
Client information is used to route the requested Web page to your computer for viewing. In theory, the requested Web page and the routing information could be discerned by other entities involved in transmitting the requested page to you. We do not control the privacy practices of those entities. Essential and nonessential technical information helps us respond to your request in an appropriate format [or in a personalized manner] and helps us plan Web site improvements. Optional information enables us to provide services or information tailored more specifically to your needs or to forward your message or inquiry to another entity that is better able to do so, and also allows us to plan Web site improvements.

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site For example, we may report that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

We may keep client information from our systems indefinitely after the Web page is transmitted, but we do not try to obtain any information to link it to the individuals who browse our Web site, however, on rare occasions when a "hacker" attempts to breach computer security, logs of access information are retained to permit a security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any other relevant information in our possession to law enforcement agencies.

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request. Similarly, we use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. Again, we do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request.

We generally use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are generally not used for any other purpose and by school and state policy are not shared with outside parties.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without a clear notice on the particular site and without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Links to Other Sites

Provision of links from official SCPU Web sites to sites located outside of the SCPU's domain does not imply endorsement or credibility of the service, information, or product offered through the linked sites.

E-mail: admin@scusuisse.ch