Terms & conditions
Terms of use
By registering for a community account on our website, you accept our terms of use and confirm that you have taken note of the following rules and information:
If you are under the age of 16, you need the consent of your parents or legal guardian to create an account on our website.
Please check the privacy settings of your account.
You can find these under ‘Manage / Manage privacy’.
This is where you define generally who can see your contacts and your content.
You can set / change the visibility for each post individually.
For your own protection, do NOT share personal information publicly, but only with people you know or are friends with.
This applies, for example, to
- Contacts
- Phone or mobile number(s)
- Credit card details
- Passwords
- Date of birth
- Exact address
- Personal photos, videos, etc.
We respect freedom of speech in accordance with Art. 16 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and Art. 19 of the UN Charter – within the borders of the applicable laws.
Contributions that violate applicable law or the basic values of our community will not be tolerated.
These include in particular
- Hate speech
- Discriminatory statements that violate human dignity
- Threats, insults, targeted attacks on individuals or groups
- Deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information (false reports)
Our community stands for respectful and constructive dialogue.
If you see a post that violates these rules, click on ‘Report this item’ in the context menu.
Our moderators check every report promptly.
Content that violates laws or regulations is not permitted, in particular
- Incitement to criminal offences, violence, hatred or discrimination
- pornographic content and depictions of sexual violence
- Insults, threats or criminal propaganda
- Copyright infringements
- deliberately disseminating false information or fraudulent content, misleading advertising
- unauthorised use or disclosure of personal data of other/our users
We are legally obliged to remove or block obviously illegal content as soon as we become aware of it.
In particularly serious cases, we inform the competent law enforcement authorities and report the matter to them.
In the event that unlawful content becomes known, the right to erasure of the data declared in the privacy policy expires, as long as they are relevant to the prosecution authorities.
If a moderator classifies one of your posts as inappropriate, you will be asked to revise or remove it within a communicated deadline.
If you do not comply with this request, the post will be deleted.
In this case you will receive a warning.
It is at the sole discretion of the moderator to issue warnings.
Your user account will be blocked after 3 (three) warnings.
In the event of serious or obvious violations of the law – e.g. incitement to hatred, discrimination or violence – your account will be blocked immediately and without warning.
If you consider a warning or the blocking of your account to be unjustified, you have the option of lodging an objection with the core team.
Every objection will be investigated. It will be examined objectively and independently. A decision by the core team is binding and final.
Please note the SHVF disclaimer (in the legal notice) and our data protection regulation.
You confirm that you have read and understood the information on copyright, liability for (external) links and the SHVF disclaimer (see imprint).
By creating your account, you confirm that you have read and understood our privacy policy – in particular the information on data security (point 12).