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FINMA treats the data provided to it in the strictest confidence and protects users’ interests. Personal data are neither sold nor forwarded to third parties. FINMA takes appropriate steps to protect its databases against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or falsification.

The FINMA website can in principle be accessed without providing any personal details. The web servers operated by FINMA’s hosting provider record impersonal usage data for each visit. The log files provide information on the IP address, the number of times the FINMA homepage is accessed, the browser used and its operating system, the domain of the user’s Internet provider and an overview of all the files requested by the user. The internal government hosting provider prepares these anonymous data for FINMA to enable it to identify trends and therefore improve its web offering accordingly. The usage data are not linked to personal data.

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