This Cookie Policy covers the website of the Swiss Chamber of Industry and Commerce (“we” / “us”), which is accessible at the URL www.sihk.ch (“our website”).

By accessing our website, you consent to the following Cookie Policy.

What are cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer. This document describes what information they gather, how we use that information, and why we need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent cookies from being stored; however, doing so may reduce the functionality of certain elements on our website.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for the reasons outlined below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no alternatives to cookies that don’t partially or completely disable the functionality and features they add to our website. It is recommended that you permit all cookies if you are not sure which cookies the services you use require.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser; please consult the user guide of your browser to find out how to do this. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of ours and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of our website.

The cookies we set

Preference cookies

In order to provide you with a greater experience, our website sets a cookie to remember the language you are browsing in. This cookie has a validity of 100 days and does not store any personal data related to you.

Third-party cookies

Our website uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web, to help us understand how you use our site and how we can improve your experience. Cookies set by Google Analytics may contain information on your IP address and may track behaviors such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit.

Google Analytics is provided by Google, whose privacy policy is available on the page policies.google.com/privacy. Details on how Google uses the data collected is explained on the page policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

More information

If you require more information on the cookies we set, or the information they gather, you may contact us anytime via email at hkbb@hkbb.ch.