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News

03.10.2011

New member of staff: Wolfgang Jehle

With effect from today, Wolfgang Jehle strengthens the ifa team in the position of Project Manager.

From a very early age, Wolfgang Jehle has had the fire service in his blood and from 1982 to 2002...

01.09.2011

New member of staff: Federico Ferrario

An experienced expert is being added to the team of full-time instructors. We are delighted to have had Mr. Federico Ferrario on board since 1 September 2011.

This engineer, who qualified at the...

Introduction

By accessing this website and all its pages, as well as the products, services, information, documents, etc. contained or described therein (hereafter called "elements"), you declare that you have understood and accepted the following terms of use.

Copyright

All elements in the ifa website belong exclusively and comprehensively to ifa (in particular copyrights and other rights), if nothing to the contrary is mentioned. The elements may only be freely used for browsing purposes. Any complete or partial re-publication, modification, linking, use, transmission, complete or partial copying is forbidden without ifa’s express prior consent in writing.

Ownership of the ifa website and trademark rights

“ifa” and the ifa logo are registered trademarks. No component of the ifa website is designed in such a manner that any licence or right to use an image, a registered trademark or a logo is granted. By downloading or copying the ifa website, no rights of any kind are transferred to you with respect to the software or elements in the ifa website. The ifa reserves all rights (in particular copyrights or trademark rights) with respect to all the elements in the ifa website and shall take all measures required to enforce these rights.

No guarantee

The ifa shall not assume any responsibility or give any guarantee that the functions in the ifa website will not be interrupted or be faultless, that faults will be remedied or that the ifa website, or the respective server, will be free of viruses or damaging components.

No promise

Although the ifa has taken due care to ensure that the elements in the ifa website are accurate at the time of publication, neither the ifa nor its contractual partners give any explicit or implicit promise or guarantee (including towards third parties) with respect to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the elements. The elements in the ifa website may be changed at any time without prior notice.

No liability

Any kind of liability of the ifa (including negligence) for damage or consequential damage resulting from the use of or access to the elements of the ifa website or to links to third-party websites (or from the impossibility of use or access) shall be ruled out. In additional, the ifa shall refuse to accept any liability for manipulations on the Internet user's computer system by third parties.

Security during data transmission

If you visit the ifa website, your data will be transported via an open network that is accessible to anyone. Accordingly, the data may be transmitted across borders, even if both you and the ifa are in Switzerland. In addition, you should take note that the elements which you transmit to the ifa via an electronic medium, in particular via e-mail or which you have been transmitted to you by the ifa, usually are not encoded. Even in the case of an encoded transmission, the sender and the addressee remain unencoded. In addition, the ifa expressly points out the risk of viruses and the possibility of carefully targeted attacks by hackers. For the purpose of combating viruses, it is recommended that current browser versions be used and that anti-virus software be installed and constantly updated. On principle, e-mail messages of unknown origin and unexpected attachments to an e-mail message should not be opened.

Protecting personal data

The ifa does not collect any kind of personal data by means of the ifa website, unless you expressly place these data at the ifa’s disposal by completing a form or otherwise. In these cases, the ifa can use your personal information for the marketing of products and services which could be of interest to you from the ifa’s point of view.

Use of Google Analytics

The ifa website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the use of Google Analytics about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information solely for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website by compiling anonymised reports and graphics about the number of visits, the number of sites viewed per user, etc. This information will be used by the ifa solely for the purpose of market research and, above all, to optimise the ifa website and tailor it to suit users needs. It will not be possible to identify individual users based on this information which is why it does not come under the rubric of personal data as regulated by the data protection law. Click here for more information about the technology used by Google.

Links to other websites

External links are not specially marked as such on the ifa website. The ifa has no influence whatsoever over sites that are linked with or have links to the ifa website and cannot, therefore accept any responsibility for or provide any guarantee or warranty (neither express nor implicit) regarding correctness, completeness, trueness or lawfulness with regard to the contents of these websites or for any offers or services contained on them. Establishing links to off-site websites or other external websites is entirely at your own risk.