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Who owns this website?

This website is operated by the Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO). The SCTO is an independent organisation and is based on an initiative of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. The SCTO is organised as an association within the meaning of Art. 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code, with its registered office in Bern.

Registered office and contact details:
Effingerstrasse 35
3008 Bern
+41 031 307 10 40

Liability

The Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO) aims to make a wide variety of high-quality information available through this website. It endeavours to provide this information in the correct form and according to the most current state of knowledge. However, the SCTO shall not be liable for the correctness, accuracy, or completeness of the information, or of ensuring that it is up to date.

Furthermore, no legal rights can be derived from the information. The SCTO shall not be liable for any loss or damage that occur as a result of using this web portal, including but not limited to loss or damage arising from incorrect information or technical issues. In addition, the SCTO shall not be liable for the content and availability of other websites that can be accessed through links on the SCTO’s website. As a rule, the SCTO does not offer any online advice and a timely response to enquiries cannot be guaranteed. The SCTO reserves the right to cease operation of the website at any time and without prior warning and/or to amend, make additions to, or delete any or all content.

Copyright

The overall content and structure of the SCTO website are protected by copyright. Downloading or printing individual pages or documents for personal, non-commercial use is permitted. Copying individual pages or documents for public, non-commercial purposes is permitted if our copyright and restrictions regarding commercial and further use are referenced. Further use requires prior written approval from the SCTO, in particular for complete or partial copying for commercial purposes, electronic distribution or distribution via other means, modification, and any connection to commercial and/or public use.

Data privacy: General data collection 

When you access this website, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information is recorded in the server log file and includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and the like. This information is collected to ensure a trouble-free connection to the website, to ensure the proper functioning of our website, to evaluate system safety and stability, and for other administrative purposes.

Your data will not be used to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is only evaluated statistically in order to optimise our internet presence and the technology behind it. This data is stored for a maximum of 10 years.   

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What rights do you have to your data?

You have the right to request information about the personal data we have processed about you. If we process your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. Furthermore, you can – as far as legally permissible – demand the correction, deletion, or restriction of the processing of your personal data. Finally, you have the right to complain to the responsible data protection authority.

How we protect your data

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these web pages, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to and truncated by Google on servers in the United States. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services to the website operator, relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in the SCTO.