Data protection

By accessing the website of the DFAB HOUSE (hereinafter referred to as the “website”), you agree to the below-specified data protection policy. Transparency with regard to the usage of your personal data is a matter we at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication as operator of this website take seriously. The following points inform you about how we handle your personal data and privacy.

Scope of the present data protection policy

This data protection policy applies to the website www.dfabhouse.ch managed by the NCCR Digital Fabrication. The NCCR Digital Fabrication however cannot guarantee that external websites accessible by links from the website comply with the NCCR Digital Fabrication’s data protection requirements. We therefore request that you consult the respective privacy policies of said third-party websites, because they are outside of the NCCR Digital Fabrication’s sphere of influence and thus do not lie in our area of responsibility.

Usage of Matamo analytics

To identify trends and improve the quality of our website, a few non-personal items of usage data, such as your IP address, the specific sites you visited, which browser you are using, date and time of access, are recorded through Matomo analytics (formerly PIWIK), a free web and mobile analytics service provided by InnCraft Ltd. Every time a visit is made to the website, these data are stored. As these informations are of non-personal nature, users cannot be identified personally on the basis of this information. The sole purpose of such information is to continuously further developing the website in order to ensure optimal userfriendliness.

Cookies

When visiting the website, some information is also stored on the users’ computers. This information is in the form of browser cookies (hereinafter referred to as “cookies”) and helps the website to adapt to the individual requirements of the users. The next time you visit our website, you will have faster and easier access. This means, for example, that you do not have to keep adjusting the language settings each time you visit the site. Users who wish to prevent the storage of information through cookies, can set their browser to refuse cookies or to issue a warning. You can also always delete cookies that have been saved during your past visits to the website.

Additional service regisrations

When you register to certain of our online services – e.g. newsletters – you are required to provide certain items of personal information so that we can process your request. Subscription to these kind of services however is voluntary. The NCCR Digital Fabrication will only send you newsletters with your explicit permission. You can unsubscribe from newsletters at any time. The NCCR Digital Fabrication may use information about what you read and click on to tailor the offers in these newsletters to best suit your requirements.

Social plugins

The website at times uses social plugins which are operated by social network providers (e.g. Facebook or YouTube.). These plugins can be used by the social network providers to collect data, among other things. The NCCR Digital Fabrication has no influence whatsoever on this collection of data or on the further processing and use of the data by the social network providers and declines all responsibility.

Storage of your data

The NCCR Digital Fabrication takes reasonable precautions and uses appropriate security technology to protect your data. Data are only stored for as long as necessary.

Questions about data protection

Please address all questions or requests with regard to the protection of your personal data to the following address:

ETH Zurich / NCCR Digital Fabrication
HIB E 25 / Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1
8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 633 41 01
Email: communications@dfab.ch

Changes in this data protection policy

The NCCR Digital Fabrication reserves the right to modify its data protection policy at any time. We therefore suggest you to regularly check it with regard to possible adaptations.

Legal basis

This data protection policy bases on the Swiss Federal Law on Data Protection.