We, the bioRe® Foundation, take the protection of your personal data very seriously and comply strictly with applicable laws and regulations relating to data privacy. Each person is entitled to protection of privacy and protection from abuse of personal data. We treat personal data strictly confidentially and refrain from selling them, or passing them on, to third parties.
Cookies
On our website, we use ‘cookies’, i.e. text files saved on your computer and designed to enable identification of your computer/mobile device during your visit to the website, also in case of repeat visits.
In the settings of your Internet browser, you may choose to be informed of the use of cookies to give you the possibility of allowing or excluding them, or deleting cookies already installed.
Please use the help function of your Internet browser to obtain information on how to change settings. While our website can generally be used without allowing cookies, specific functionalities may be limited.
Cookies do not enable a server to read private data from your computer or data saved by some other server. They do not cause any damage to your computer.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, i.e. text files saved on your computer to enable analysis of your use of the website. As a general rule, the information cookies produce on your use of the website is transmitted to, and saved on, a Google server located in the U.S.
On this website, we have activated IP anonymisation as a result of which Google will shorten your IP address in member states of the European Union or other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Google will use such information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for website operators, and to provide other services related to website and Internet use. Google may also transmit such information to third parties if required by law or to the extent that third parties process such data on behalf of Google. In any circumstances, Google will not connect your IP address with other Google data.
You may prevent cookies from being saved by adjusting the settings of your browser software. However, we want to point out that, in such a case, you may not be able to make full use all functionalities of this website. Furthermore, you may prevent collection of data generated by cookies with regard to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of such data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available through this link: browser plug-in
Form data and newsletters
Processing of personal data
Personal data will be collected only if you provide the data spontaneously, e.g. when subscribing to the newsletter or using a form on this website to transmit data.
Personal data will be collected only if you provide the data spontaneously, e.g. when subscribing to the newsletter or using a form on this website to transmit data.
At any point in time, you will be able to revoke the consent to distribution of the newsletter that you have given in the process of subscribing to the newsletter. To this end, you may, for instance, use the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the newsletter.
Disclaimer
Although the bioRe® Foundation takes every care to ensure that the information published is correct, no warranty can be given with regard to the correctness, accuracy, up-to-dateness, reliability and completeness of this information.
The bioRe® Foundation expressly reserves the right to change, delete or temporarily not publish content in whole or in part at any time without prior notice.
Liability claims against the bioRe® Foundation for damages of a material or immaterial nature arising from access to or use or non-use of the published information, through misuse of the connection or through technical faults, are excluded.
References and links to third-party websites are outside the responsibility of the bioRe® Foundation. Access to and use of such websites is at the user’s own risk. The bioRe® Foundation expressly declares that it has no influence whatsoever on the design, content and offers of the linked websites. Information and services of linked websites are entirely the responsibility of the respective third party. Any responsibility for such websites is declined.
Right of modification
We reserve the right to modify the present statement on data protection, e.g. upon a change of legal requirements or a launch of new services. We kindly ask you to keep up-to-date with our measures related to data protection by re-reading our statement on data protection at regular intervals.
Donation technology
On our website, we use donation technology by RaiseNow AG, Hardturmstr. 101, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland, in agreement with the company’s data-privacy policy. Any personal and payment data as well as communication preferences are gathered by RaiseNow on the basis of our interests pursuant to art. 6 para. 1 letter b GDPR and an order-processing agreement pursuant to art. 28 para. 3 p. 1 GDPR. RaiseNow AG based in Switzerland and RaiseNow GmbH based in Germany comply with all requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation. Switzerland has the status of a safe third country to which the European Commission has resolved to confirm an adequate level of data protection. This includes, for example, the security of data processing, which is subject to regular auditing and certification by TÜV Süd, a German agency for technical inspection, in agreement with the PCI-DSS SAQ D Level 2 security standard in the case of RaiseNow AG. RaiseNow may use the data gathered in anonymised form, i.e. without reference to a donors, for the purposes of optimising and improving their services, but not in order to contact them or pass data on to third parties.