Privacy Policy
How we collect, process, and protect personal data across our website, research projects, and participation programmes.
Scope
This policy explains how Helvetia Research collects and processes personal data through its website, its research activities, and its recruitment and participation programmes. It applies to visitors, research participants, applicants, and institutional contacts.
Data We Collect
We collect only the data necessary for a defined purpose: contact details submitted through our forms (name, email, telephone), information voluntarily provided in applications or participation forms (nationality, languages, current status, professional background), documents such as curricula vitae, and limited technical data generated when you visit the website.
Purpose of Processing
Personal data is processed to respond to enquiries, to assess applications and participation requests, to administer research projects, and to comply with legal and institutional obligations. Research data used in analysis is pseudonymised or aggregated wherever the research design permits.
Legal Basis
Processing is based on your consent, on the performance of a contract or pre-contractual steps you have requested, on our legitimate interest in conducting and administering research, or on legal obligations under Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Storage and Security
Data is stored on access-controlled infrastructure. Documents such as CVs are held in private storage that is not publicly accessible. Access is restricted to authorised research and administrative staff bound by confidentiality obligations.
Retention
Personal data is retained only as long as required for the purpose for which it was collected, for the duration of the relevant research project, or as required by law. Application materials that do not lead to engagement are deleted once the selection process is concluded, unless you ask us to keep them on file.
Sharing
We do not sell personal data. Data may be shared with research partners strictly where a project requires it and under appropriate confidentiality and data protection arrangements, and with service providers acting on our instructions.
Your Rights
You may request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate data, deletion, restriction of processing, or withdrawal of consent at any time. Requests can be sent to office@helvetia-research.com and are handled within a reasonable period.
Changes
This policy may be updated to reflect changes in our activities or applicable law. The version published on this page is the version in force.
Questions about this policy: office@helvetia-research.com