Privacy Policy

Last revision: October 2026

With this Privacy Policy, we inform you how we process your personal data. Your personal data means any information relating to you as a natural person or as a legal entity (Personal Data). Processing means any handling of your Personal Data such as collection, retention, storage, adaption, usage, transfer, disclosure, etc. (Processing). If “we” (or “us”) is used hereinafter, this refers to Health Innovation Switzerland AG, c/o Walder Wyss AG, Christoffelgasse 6, 3011 Bern, Switzerland.

1. Who we are

The controller of your Personal Data is:

Health Innovation Switzerland AG, c/o Walder Wyss AG, Christoffelgasse 6, 3011 Bern, Switzerland, info@health-innovation.ch

2. Personal Data we process and our sources

We process Personal Data that you provide to us in case you contact us, in particular your contact details (e.g. name, e-mail address, phone number, business address, employer) and the content of your enquiry. When you visit our website, technical data is recorded in server log files (see section 4).

3. How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data:

to communicate with you and to answer your enquiries;
to support medical progress in order to improve people’s health;
to connect inventors, pioneers, start-ups, donors, other foundations and specialists through our network especially to match potential investors with start-ups and with sources of innovative inventions / projects;
to promote the maintenance and development of business relationships with you and to be able to constantly optimize our contacts and our network in the fields of medicine. We also use the information provided to us internally to contact you when necessary;
for the purposes of alerts, updates, information, brochures, newsletters, invitations to meetings, seminars, projects and other events, etc.;
to provide our website and ensure its security (see section 4 “Use of our website and e-mails” below for additional information);
to document the compliant exercise of your rights (see section 10 “Your rights” below for additional information);
to comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including the use of data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

4. Use of our website and e-mails

Our website does not use cookies or any analytics or tracking tools. When you visit our website, our hosting provider automatically records technical data (e.g. IP address, date and time of access, pages accessed, browser type) in server log files. This is necessary to deliver the website and to ensure its security.

We may use your name and e-mail address to send you alerts, updates, information, brochures, newsletters, invitations to meetings, seminars, projects and other events as well as other information by e-mail, but will ask for consent first unless we have obtained your contact details from you in the context of an application for support. If you receive marketing communications from us and no longer wish to do so, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the link included in these e-mails.

5. Data protection principles we adhere to

We adhere to the following principles of applicable data protection law:

we only process your Personal Data lawfully;
we process your Personal Data in a proportionate manner and in good faith;
we process your Personal Data for the purpose indicated at the time of collection and in a transparent manner;
we obtain the necessary consent from you for the Processing of Personal Data;
we guarantee data accuracy and data security;
we guarantee the observance of your rights in connection with data Processing.

We may share your Personal Data with trusted third parties including:

Third parties who are involved in the process of deciding which inventions / projects in the fields of medicine should be supported and promoted by us (e.g. experts);
Our affiliates;
third parties who are involved in the transfer of the investment amount (e.g. banking institutions);
third parties who are involved in sending information or organizing events (e.g. Mailchimp);
IT service providers (e.g. our hosting provider);
authorities (e.g. tax authorities);
our auditors.

In addition, we may disclose your Personal Data if we are required or permitted to do so by law or legal processes, for example due to a court order or a request from a law enforcement agency, when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate for our legitimate interest, for example in preventing harm or financial loss, in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or other illegal activity.

7. Countries we transfer your Personal Data to

We may transfer your Personal Data to recipients abroad (they may even be located outside the European Union), including countries that do not provide the same level of protection as Swiss and/or EU/EEA law. Before we do so, we will implement appropriate measures to protect your Personal Data, for example by requiring the recipient abroad to agree to data processing agreements that ensure an adequate level of data protection. We further reserve the right to transfer Personal Data abroad with your explicit consent or on the basis of further authorizations under applicable data protection law.

8. How we store your Personal Data

We store your Personal Data in personal form for as long as it is necessary for the specific purposes for which the data is collected, and as long as we have a legitimate interest in keeping your Personal Data (for example to enforce or defend legal claims or for archiving purposes and IT security). We also store your Personal Data as long as it is subject to a legal retention obligation.

9. How we protect your Personal Data

We use various technical and organizational security measures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized or unlawful access and Processing, and to counteract the risk of loss, accidental alteration or inadvertent destruction of data.

10. Your rights

You have the following rights:

You are entitled to ask for information of the data we hold about you and how we process it and to receive a copy of your Personal Data.
You may also have your Personal Data rectified or deleted, restrict our Processing of that information, and object to the Processing of your Personal Data.
You may also choose to withdraw your consent. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent we may be able to continue to process your Personal Data to the extent required or permitted by law.
You also have the right, in the event of a violation of privacy, to lodge a complaint in relation to our Processing of your Personal Data with the competent court.

To exercise your rights, you can contact us at the address indicated above.

We must ensure that your Personal Data is accurate and up to date. Therefore, please advise us of any changes to your Personal Data by contacting us at the address indicated above.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended over time, especially if we change our data Processing or if new legislation becomes applicable. We actively inform persons whose contact details are registered with us of such changes in the event the changes are significant, if this is possible without disproportionate effort. In general, however, the Privacy Policy in its current version at the beginning of the respective Processing applies to data Processing.