Privacy Policy

This Sentience Politics website (the “website”) is governed by Swiss data protection law, in particular by the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DPA) and any applicable foreign data protection laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU). The EU recognizes that Swiss data protection law ensures adequate data protection.

We may amend our privacy policy at any time by posting it on this website.

Access to this website is via transport encryption (SSL/TLS).

Access to this website – like all Internet use – is subject to general, indiscriminate and suspicionless mass surveillance by security authorities in Switzerland, the EU, the USA and other countries.

Access data / Server log files

The web host collects data about accesses to this website and stores them as “server log files”. The following data is logged in this way:

  • Visited website
  • Time at the time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you came to the site
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used

The collected data is only used for statistical analysis and to improve the web server. However, the web host reserves the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

Handling of personal data

In principle, you can visit this website without providing any personal information. We only store data without reference to your person, such as in particular the name of your Internet provider, any pages you may have visited previously, or fields you click on this website. We evaluate this data in order to further improve our offer. However, the data does not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person.

Contact

Personal data is collected by us when you provide it to us of your own accord, for example when you contact us. We will, of course, use the personal data provided to us in this way exclusively for the purpose for which you provide it when contacting us.

Any communication of this information is expressly on a voluntary basis and with your consent. Insofar as this involves information on communication channels (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel, if necessary, in order to respond to your request.

You can, of course, revoke your consent at any time for the future. To do so, please contact us by e-mail.

Spam check by Clean Talk

In connection with our forms, we use a security check to protect against spammers, which is provided by the service “Anti-Spam by Clean Talk”. The service provider is Clean Talk INC, 711 S Carson Street, Suite 4, Carson City, NV, 89701 United States. The service provider assures compliance with the GDPR in connection with the service provided. All queries are used to distinguish whether the input is made by a human being or whether the input into our forms is improperly made by automated machine processing. In addition to the IP address and e-mail address, the query contains further data that the service provider requires to perform the service. Your entries are transmitted to the service provider for this purpose and further used there. We have no influence on how the data is used or where it is stored.

By using our forms, you agree to your data being collected accordingly.

The service provider uses this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the service.

For further information, please refer to Clean Talk’s privacy policy and website.

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function

This website uses “Google Analytics”, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the event that IP anonymization is activated on the website, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within the member states of the European Union (EU) or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of this website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit google.com/analytics/terms/ and google.de/intl/en/policies/. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, you can disable web tracking under the following link: Web Tracking Settings.

Newsletter subscription

If you subscribe to our newsletter (Mailchimp), we will send you regular information about our offers. By subscribing to the newsletter, you agree that your email address will be sent to Mailchimp in the USA. Here you can find the Privacy Policy of Mailchimp. Mandatory data for sending the newsletter is only your e-mail address. The provision of further data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally in connection with the activities of the association Sentience Politics and the activities of the initiative Fundamental Rights for Primates. For sending the newsletter we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that we will only send you a newsletter after you have explicitly confirmed that you consent to receiving newsletters. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail asking you to confirm that you wish to receive future newsletters by clicking on an appropriate link.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are permanently or temporarily stored in your computer when you visit this website. The purpose of the cookies is in particular to analyze the use of this website for statistical evaluation as well as for continuous improvements.

If you wish to restrict or block cookies stored on your device, you can do so via your browser settings. Information on this can be found in the help function of your browser. Comprehensive information on how to block cookies in many browsers can also be found at computerhope.com. If cookies are disabled, you may no longer be able to use all the functions of this website.

Rights of the user: information, correction and deletion

As a user, you can request information free of charge about what personal data has been stored about you. Provided that your request does not conflict with a legal obligation to retain data (e.g. data retention), you have the right to have incorrect data corrected and to have your personal data blocked or deleted.