Privacy policy

This website and its content is provided by a private person without commercial interests.

The responsible party in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Eastern Switzerland University
of Applied Sciences
Oberseestrasse 10
8640 Rapperswil

E-mail: sarah.barber@ost.ch
Website: www.wedowind.ch

When you access this website, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information is collected 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 is for the following reason:

Your data will not be used to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is only evaluated statistically in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

When visitors write comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, in addition to the visitor's IP address and the user agent string (this identifies the browser) to help detect spam.

An anonymized string may be created from your email address (also called a hash) and passed to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the inquiry and the subsequent response to the same. The specification of further data is optional.

If you write a comment on our website, this can be a consent to store your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that when you write another comment, you do not have to re-enter all this data. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personally identifiable information and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set some cookies to store your login information and viewing options. Login cookies expire after two days and display options cookies expire after one year. If you select "Stay logged in" when you sign up, your login will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content.