Privacy Statement

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Constitution as well as the data protection provisions of national law (Swiss Data Protection Act, DPA) and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), everyone has a right to the protection of their privacy as well as protection against the misuse of their personal data. The NBI & NGF treat your personal data as strictly confidential. Specifically, data is always processed by the NBI & NGF on the basis of the relevant legal framework of the NBI or the legal framework of the NGF.

“Personal data” refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable person (“data subject”). A natural person is judged to be identifiable if they can be directly or indirectly identified, particularly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to that person’s physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

As a visitor to this website, personal data refers to all data that can be attributed to you personally such as your name, address, email address or usage patterns.

The following data is saved to log files when you access this website: IP address, date, time, browser query and general information transmitted regarding the operating system and/or browser. This usage data forms the basis for statistical, anonymous analyses in order to identify trends so that we can improve our services accordingly.

When you contact the NBI & NGF, for example by telephone, email or contact form, we save the personal data you supply (such as your surname, first name, telephone / cell phone number and email address) in order to be able to respond to your questions or process your claim. As part of the filing of claims online, all of the personal data you enter into the form is saved and processed for this purpose.

Your personal data is only kept for as long as necessary for the intended purpose. Data is only transferred to public institutions and authorities as well as private individuals on the basis of statutory provisions, court rulings or official directives for the purpose of initiating legal proceedings or prosecuting crimes if our legally protected rights are infringed upon. Your data is not processed in any other way and no other personal analyses are carried out except in connection with technical security incidents, conduct in breach of contract or criminal activity.

This website uses “cookies”. Cookies are small units of information that are saved locally on your computer. Cookies cannot execute any programs or install any viruses on your computer. Their sole purpose is to make the web pages of the NBI & NGF more user-friendly and effective on the whole.

This website can use the following types of cookies:

Session cookies: temporary files that are deleted when you close your web browser

Persistent cookies: these cookies remain in place when you close your web browser, but can be deleted manually.

Mandatory cookies: these are cookies that are required in order to use the website. This includes cookies that allow the user to log into secure sections of the website.

The “Siteimprove” cookies are also used. How these work and what purpose they serve is described below under “Web analytics”.

You can reject or delete cookies using your web browser’s settings. In this case you will still be able to use the NBI & NGF website but certain functions may be restricted or no longer work.

Siteimprove

This website uses Siteimprove Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Siteimprove GmbH. Siteimprove Analytics uses “cookies”. These are text files that are saved on your computer and allow analysis of how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is transferred to and stored on a Siteimprove server in Denmark. Siteimprove uses the information sent to it to analyze the use of the website, to compile reports regarding website activity for the operators of the website and to provide other services associated with the use of the website and the Internet. Siteimprove will not transmit this information to third parties. IP addresses are not irreversibly anonymized before collected data can be viewed through Siteimprove Analytics.

You can prevent cookies from being installed by configuring the settings of your browser software accordingly. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all of this website’s functions to their full extent. By using our website, you indicate your consent to the processing by Siteimprove in the manner described above of the data collected about you and for the purpose described above.

The web pages of the NBI & NGF contain links to other providers’ websites. The NBI & NGF have no influence over these websites, their content, what they offer or their availability as well as the applicable privacy statements and provisions. The NBI & NGF therefore do not accept any liability.

Contacting the NBI & NGF using the contact form or the online claim report or by accessing the intranet of the NBI & NGF involves using the Internet and therefore an open network that can be accessed by anyone. Although the data is transmitted between the user and the NBI & NGF in an encrypted form (encrypted website), some transmission connection data such as the sending and receiving addresses remain unencrypted.

The NBI & NGF take all appropriate organizational and technical steps to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal data within their responsibility. Individual users of this website are however responsible for protecting their computers and devices accordingly, and specifically for choosing a secure password for logging into the intranet of the NBI & NGF and treating the necessary access data as confidential.

You have the following rights with respect to the NBI & NGF in connection with your personal data:

• A right of access

• A right to rectification or erasure

• A right to restriction of processing

• A right to object to processing

You also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data by the NBI & NGF.