Privacy Policy
Last modification: 8 February 2022
General Provisions
Annexes
-Data concerning candidates, students and alumni
-Data concerning academic and administrative staff
-Data concerning external individuals
Last modification: 8 February 2022
General Provisions
Annexes
-Data concerning candidates, students and alumni
-Data concerning academic and administrative staff
-Data concerning external individuals
As part of its academic, research and continuing education activities, the Institute collects and processes your personal data when you browse the website, fill in registration forms or interact with the Institute while on the website.
In accordance with applicable legislation, the Institute is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data.
The responsible and lawful processing of personal data is a central concern of the Institute. It ensures that personal data is processed in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, purpose, proportionality, good faith, security, privacy and transparency. Our policy on the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as "Policy") describes how we handle your data.
By using our website and our services you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this Policy.
We process your personal data only for the purpose for which it was provided and in compliance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (LPD in French). For certain processing operations, pursuant to Art. 3 para. 2 of the GDPR, we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation.
The processing of personal data needs to be justified by legal bases. At the Institute, processing operations are based on one or more of the following legal bases:
Where legitimate interests constitute the legal basis for the processing, the justification of these legitimate interests can be obtained on request from : dpo@graduateinstitute.ch
All your personal data processed by the Institute in the context of this Policy are controlled by the Institute, which is considered to be the data controller.
Our address is as follows:
As part of your use of our services, we collect and process various categories of personal data about you.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
We do not use your personal data for purposes other than those set out above unless we are required to do so by law. If we need to use your data for other purposes, we will inform you.
The Institute shares your data only under certain circumstances and in accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulations or with your consent.
Your personal data can be shared:
When third party service providers have access to your data, they only collect the data necessary for the execution of their tasks. They are prohibited from sharing or using the data for any other purpose.
We may share certain personal data abroad in the following cases:
In cases where a transfer takes place outside the EU/EEA to a data controller/data processor, the Institute ensures that your personal data is transferred to countries offering adequate protection and/or are protected by sufficient safeguards, including the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission.
We process and store your data for as long as we need them to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations, or for as long as they are necessary for the purposes for which we collected them, or as long as our legitimate interests continue to exist or consent has not been withdrawn.
In certain circumstances, we may be required to retain your personal data for a longer time due to legal requirements or for statistical purposes. In the latter case, the data is anonymized and you can no longer be identified.
Details of data retention periods are provided in the annexes.
Data security is one of the Institute's priorities. The Institute takes all reasonable administrative and technical measures to prevent any unauthorised disclosure and use, alteration or erasure of data.
The Institute does not use automated decision making or profiling.
The use of our website involves the collection of cookies. For more information on this subject, please consult our Cookie Policy.
For Swiss and other non-EEA individuals:
If you need to exercise your data protection rights, you can contact us by sending an email to: yourdata@graduateinstitute.ch or by post to the attention of the IT Service Desk at the following address:
For EEA based individuals:
If you are an EEA individual and need to exercise your data protection rights or have a request relating to your data, you can also contact our representative in the EU, IDEA AARPI, which has been appointed in accordance with article 27 of the GDPR for the processing of personal data covered by this Policy. You can do so:
In some cases, you may need to provide us with personal information (for example, a copy of your passport) to verify your identity.
We will do our best to satisfy your request within the legal time limit (30 days). However, the processing time may be extended for specific reasons related to the basis or complexity of your request. If this is the case, you will be informed.
If you have any questions or uncertainties about our use of your personal data, you can send an email to the Data Protection Officer at dpo@graduateinstitute.ch or by post to the attention of the Data Protection Officer using the contact details mentioned above.
The privacy policy is available on our website at any time. We reserve the right to modify and supplement any element of this Policy without notice and at our sole discretion.
The Policy is effective as of the date of the last modification indicated. The policy is available in French and in English. In any case, the French version shall prevail.
cf the « Privacy Policy Annexes » document.
Last modification : 26 May 2021
The Cookie policy is available in French and in English. In any case, the French version shall prevail.
Last modification : 26 May 2021
The Legal Notice is available in French and in English. In any case the French version shall prevail.
Visitor’s agreement as a consequence of accessing the websites
You have accessed the websites (hereinafter referred to as the « Websites ») of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (the « Institute »).
By accessing the Websites you confirm that you have read and understood the information as below stated (the « Legal Notice ») and declare that you agree with it, especially with (i) the exclusive application of Swiss substantive law as well as the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts at the place of the Institute’s seat (ii) the liability exclusions mentioned amongst others in the Legal Notice.
The Legal Notice is governed exclusively by Swiss substantive law. To the extent permitted by law, the competent courts at the place of the Institute’s seat, currently Geneva (Switzerland), shall have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute arising from the Legal Notice and/or the Websites’ use, subject to (i) appeal to the Swiss Supreme Court (Tribunal fédéral suisse) and (ii) the Institute’s right to prosecute a Websites’ user in any other competent jurisdiction.
Information sharing policy
Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Legal Notice, the Institute encourages use of the Websites contents (subject to the limits of applicable law and Legal Notice) as a way to share and disseminate information about its educational mission, research and knowledge transmission in general.
Intellectual property rights
Any information of whatsoever nature (text, picture, photo, video, etc.), which is available on the Websites (the « Information ») is protected by intellectual property rights, especially by copyright. Any use of whatsoever nature (downloading, printing, copying, etc.) pertaining to the Information has to be dedicated to strictly private, personal, non collective and non commercial use (the « Private Use ») of the Websites’ visitors as well as of any third party who could access the Information, especially any third party who receives Information by whatsoever means from a Websites’ visitor. The Websites’ visitor who provides third parties with Information shall inform said third parties about the Legal Notice’s content, especially about the Private Use obligation.
Unless the Institute’s direction previously gives express and written consent, any use of whatsoever nature (downloading, printing, copying, integration into online services, etc.) to other purposes than the Private Use is strictly forbidden. Said prohibition applies to, amongst others, the Institute’s logo and name, as well as any logo and name in relation with the Institute mentioned in the Websites.
If and in so far as guest websites are hosted by the Institute, such a guest website is governed by its own regulation as regards intellectual property rights, especially copyright.
Even if dedicated for Private Use, the Information’s use of whatsoever nature cannot be construed as or lead to an assignment (or any other legal action which could be considered as equivalent) of any right, especially of intellectual property rights, pertaining to the Information.
In any case quoting of references shall comply with applying requirements. Plagiarism constitutes a prohibited behavior under law and applying regulations.
Links to other websites
Websites could mention links to other websites that are external to the Websites of the Institute (the « Other Websites »). In such a case the Institute cannot be held liable or responsible in any form whatsoever and/or for any reason whatsoever especially for the content and/or the operation of the Other Websites.
In any case the Other Websites are governed by their own regulations, especially as regards intellectual property rights.
Hyperlinks to the Websites
The setting-up of hyperlinks to the Websites is subject to the previous express and written consent of the Institute’s direction.
General exclusion of any liability or responsibility
The Institute cannot be held liable or responsible in any form whatsoever and/or for any reason whatsoever for any eventual damage of whatsoever nature, especially in relation with the access (or lack of access) to the Websites, the use (or non-use), in any form whatsoever, of the Information mentioned in the Websites.
The Institute makes no warranties or guarantees, in any form whatsoever and/or for any reason whatsoever, especially as regards the quality of the Information delivered, the update of said Information as well as its original, unaltered, complete and/or exact nature.
Websites pages requiring a password
Some Websites pages require a password (login). In addition to the Legal Notice the use of said pages is subject, as the case may be, to their own regulations.
DPO - Contact email