Privacy policy

1. Introduction

This privacy policy provides information on how we, the data controller, handle personal information that we collect via our website. You will also find information with regard to your rights under the GDPR and other data protection legislation.

2. Data controller

Responsible for the content on the website https://www.sbalzarini-lab.org is:

Name: Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Ivo F. Sbalzarini
Address: University of Zurich, Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 635 58 81
E-mail: ivo.sbalzarini@uzh.ch

Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR serves our company as the legal basis for processing operations in which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose.

If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract of which you are a party as is the case, for example, with processing operations that are necessary for a delivery of goods or the provision of another service or consideration, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, for example in cases of inquiries about our products or services.

If our company is subject to a legal obligation by which a processing of personal data becomes necessary, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR.

In rare cases the processing of personal data might become necessary to protect vital interests of the subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were to be injured on our premises and as a result his or her name, age, health insurance data or other vital information had to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6 (1) (d) GDPR.

Finally, processing operations could be based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Processing operations that are not covered by any of the mentioned legal bases are based on a legal basis if the processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and freedom of the data subject are not overridden. Such processing operations are permitted to us in particular because they were specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In this respect the European legislators took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed if you are a customer of our company (recital 47 sentence 2 GDPR).

4. Transmission of data to third parties

We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  1. you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 (1) p. 1 (a) GDPR,
  2. the disclosure is permissible under Art. 6 (1) p. 1 (f) GDPR to protect our legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
  3. in the event that a legal obligation exists for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (c) GDPR, and
  4. this is legally permissible and necessary according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 (b) GDPR for the processing of contractual interference with you.

5. Technology

5.1 SSL/TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us as the operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that there is a “https://” instead of a “http://” in the address line of the browser and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

We use this technology to protect your transmitted data.

5.2 Data collection while visiting our website

When using our tool for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (in so-called “server log files”). Our tool collects a series of general data and information with each call of a page by you or an automated system. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. The following can be recorded:

  1. browser types and versions used,
  2. the operating system used by the accessing system,
  3. the website from which an accessing system arrives at our website (so-called referrer),
  4. the sub-websites that are accessed via an accessing system on our website,
  5. the date and time of an access to the Internet site,
  6. an abbreviated Internet protocol address (anonymized IP address),
  7. the Internet service provider of the accessing system.

When using this general data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about your person. Rather, this information is required in order to

  1. deliver the contents of our Internet site correctly,
  2. optimize the content of our website and the advertising for it,
  3. ensure the long-term functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website, and
  4. provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack.

Therefore, the data and information collected is statistically analyzed by us and evaluated with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from any personal data provided by a data subject.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 § 1 p. 1 (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above.

5.3 Posts from Bluesky

Our news page shows the newest posts of our account on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/mosaicgroup.bsky.social). The posts are written into the page when the website is built. In addition, when you open the news page, your browser requests the current posts from Bluesky’s public interface (public.api.bsky.app) and loads the pictures in the posts from Bluesky’s servers (cdn.bsky.app). Both are operated by Bluesky Social, PBC, USA. In doing so, your browser transmits to Bluesky the data listed in section 5.2, in particular your full IP address, which Bluesky processes under its own privacy policy (https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy). We receive no data from this, and nothing is transmitted to Bluesky before you open the news page.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) p. 1 (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in showing our current activity on the page. If you do not wish your browser to contact Bluesky, do not open the news page, or block the addresses named above in your browser.

6. Cookies

6.1 General information

We use cookies on our website. These small files are automatically created by your browser and stored on your IT system (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our site.

In the cookie, information is stored that arises in each case of connection with the specific end device used. This does not mean, however, that we thereby gain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of our service more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain fixed period of time. If you visit our site again in order to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

At last, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our service for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already been to our site when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

The data processed by cookies, which are required for the proper functioning of the website, are necessary to protect our legitimate interests as well as those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 (1) p. 1 (f) GDPR.

For all other cookies, it applies that you have given your consent to this within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) a GDPR via our opt-in cookie banner.

7. Your rights as a data subject

7.1 Right to confirmation

You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed.

7.2 Right to information, Art. 15 GDPR

You have the right to receive information about the personal data stored about you, as well as a copy of this data in accordance with the statutory provisions from us at any time and free of charge.

7.3 Right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR

You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Furthermore, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

7.4 Deletion, Art. 17 GDPR

You have the right to demand that we delete the personal data concerning you without undue delay, provided that one of the reasons presented by law applies and as the processing or storage is not necessary.

7.5 Restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing if one of the legal requirements applies.

7.6 Data portability, Art. 20 GDPR

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which has been provided to us by you, in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer this data to another individual or institution without hindrance from us to whom the personal data has been provided, given that the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Furthermore, when exercising your right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 (1) of the GDPR, you have the right to have the personal data transferred directly from one processer to another processer, to the extent that this is technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other individuals.

7.7 Objection, Art. 21 GDPR

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (e) (data processing in the public interest) or (f) (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests) GDPR.

This also applies to profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Art. 4 (4) GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

In individual cases, we process personal data to conduct direct marketing. You may object to the processing of personal data for the purpose of such advertising at any time. This also applies to profiling, as it is related to such direct advertising. If you object to us processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

In addition, you have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out by us for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 (1) of the GDPR, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

You are free to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC.

You have the right to revoke consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.

7.9 Complaint to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain about our processing of personal data to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.

8. Routine storage, deletion and blocking of personal data

We process and store your personal data only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage or if this has been provided for by the legal provisions to which our company is subject.

If the purpose of storage no longer applies or if a prescribed storage period expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

9. Duration of the storage of personal data

The criterion for the duration of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiry of the period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of the contract.