1. Principles

The Swiss Cytometry Meeting places a high priority on privacy, especially concerning the protection of your personal data. We handle your personal data with utmost care and in compliance with applicable legal provisions.

This Privacy Policy aims to inform you, as users of our website https://swisscytometrymeeting.ch (hereafter referred to as our website), about the data we collect, specifically the following:

• Who is responsible for data processing

• What personal data is collected

• How the collected data is used

• How data is stored and preserved

• Who has access to this data

• Where the data is processed

• What rights you have

2. Who is responsible for data processing

Swiss Cytometry Meeting is the data controller under this privacy notice, unless otherwise specified by us in an individual case.

Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

3. Personal Data

We process personal data that you provide to us or that we receive from third parties. This data includes various categories related to you.

3.1 Automatically collected data

We use the Google Analytics service to collect data. This data is necessary to better understand your use of our website, to make improvements, and to more effectively meet user expectations.

When you visit our website, this service automatically collects the following information:

  • IP address
  • Location
  • Hardware and software details
  • Pages visited on our site

You can view the privacy policy of Google Analytics by following this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

We use cookies on our website, as detailed below in section [5], to ensure the website’s proper functioning. We use cookies to enhance the browsing experience, deliver personalized ads or content, and analyze our traffic. Users may choose to accept, reject, or customize cookies.

3.2 Data collected manually

Our website offers several contact forms and newsletter sign-up forms.

When using our forms, we collect, store, and process personal data provided by you to handle your request.

Data collected through the forms include:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Company name
  • Services you are interested in
  • Message

3.3 How we use your personal data

The personal data collected on our website will only be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy.

Data collected through our contact forms may be used for the following purposes:

• We may use your data to respond to your request or query, in relation to exercising your rights and to enable us to contact you if further questions arise.

• Marketing activities: We may use your email address to send our newsletter and inform you about our services and promotional offers.

Automatically collected data is used for the following purposes:

• Statistics

3.4 With whom we share personal data

To respond to your requests, personal data may be shared with:

• Employees: We may disclose information collected through our contact forms to any member of our organization who needs it to respond to your requests.

• Third Parties: We may also use service providers and delegate certain tasks (such as IT services and infrastructures, server hosting, maintenance, and other services) to third parties.

Furthermore, your data may only be disclosed to other third parties if we are legally required to do so (e.g., at the request of an investigative authority) or if you have expressly consented to its transfer to third parties.

3.5 Retention of your data

We process your data as long as our processing purposes, legal retention periods, and our legitimate interests in documentation and preservation of evidence require or storage is a technical necessity.

3.6 Security of your data

We take necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized processing and to ensure their confidentiality, availability, integrity, and traceability.

We caution that the Internet is not a secure medium, and unauthorized third parties can access data transmitted in this environment. This may lead to the publication or modification of such data or technical issues.

Despite extensive technical and organizational security measures, the loss of personal data, their interception, or manipulation by unauthorized persons cannot be ruled out.

4. Your rights

Under applicable data protection law, you have the following rights regarding our data processing:

• The right to request information about the data we process concerning you.

• The right to have us correct the data if they are inaccurate.

• The right to request the deletion of data.

• The right to request that we provide certain personal data in a commonly used electronic format or transfer them to another data controller.

• The right to withdraw your consent, where our processing is based on your consent.

• The right to receive, upon request, further information necessary to exercise these rights.

You can exercise these rights by sending a request to info@swisscytometrymeeting.ch or by mail to Swiss Cytometry Meeting, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

If you disagree with how we process your rights or with our data protection practices, please let us know.

You can at any time object to receiving announcements and to the processing of your data for marketing and advertising purposes by writing to info@swisscytometrymeeting.ch or by mail to Swiss Cytometry Meeting, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

5. Cookies

Some pages of this website use cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. These cookies allow the website to recognize your browser on your next visit and thus adjust the content to your preferences and settings. You can configure your browser to be informed about the setting of cookies. For example, you can allow cookies only in individual cases, accept cookies in certain cases or generally exclude them and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing your browser. If cookies are disabled, the functionality of our website may be limited.

We distinguish the following categories of cookies:

• Necessary Cookies: Necessary cookies are required to enable basic functionalities of this website, such as providing a secure connection or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

• Functional Cookies: Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities such as sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

• Analytical Cookies: Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help to provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

• Performance Cookies: Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website, which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

• Advertising Cookies: Advertising cookies are used to deliver personalized advertisements to visitors based on pages they have previously visited and to analyze the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

For more information about your cookie settings, click here.

6. Entry into Effect

This statement comes into effect in January 2024.

7. Revision

This privacy policy is subject to a regular review process to maintain its compliance and reflect any changes in our data collection process.

We recommend that you review our privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any updates.

This privacy policy was last revised on 29.11.2024.