Privacy policy

Molecool is a website about RNA research, operated by the NCCR RNA & Disease.

This privacy policy applies to molecool.ch and the domains kosmos-rna.ch, cosmos-arn.ch and cosmos-rna.ch that link to it. If molecool.ch is used below, this also refers to the previously mentioned referring domains.

Responsible for the privacy policy is the:

NCCR RNA & Disease
University of Bern
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy
Room S259, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern
E-Mail: officewhatever@nccr-rna-and-disease.ch
Phone: +41 31 684 38 12

Although the team behind Molecool.ch takes every care to ensure the accuracy of the information published, no guarantee can be given with regard to the correctness, accuracy, up-to-dateness, reliability and completeness of this information.

The Molecool team 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 regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected.

Molecool contains links to external websites which are not maintained by the Molecool team: Contents or services offered thereon are not reviewed and no liability is assumed.

We collect non-personal and personal data to further develop the website.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (hereinafter: Google), which uses cookies to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on the websites concerned, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the EU or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en   

Google's privacy policy can be viewed through the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en

We embed YouTube videos on some of our websites. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established and communicated which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. To prevent this, log out of your YouTube account beforehand. When starting the YouTube video, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google ad program, you will not have to expect any such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. To block this, you must block cookies from being stored in the browser.

For more information on data protection at "YouTube", please refer to the provider's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en

This Web Font Tracking Privacy Policy applies to the use of the Monotype Web Font tracking script when you self-host Web Fonts and similar technologies to count the page views of web pages that use Web Fonts provided by Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal offices at 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, Massachusetts 01801 USA, and our subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide (collectively, the “Web Fonts”). Monotype's privacy policy can be found at the following link: https://www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy/web-font-tracking-privacy-policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services or services. The new data protection declaration will then apply for the next visit. The authoritative language for this data protection declaration is exclusively German, although translations of this declaration exist.