Terms of Use

Terms of Use#

0. Preamble#

Swiss-AL Platform is a web tool developed by ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab for analyzing multilingual corpora. It provides access to aggregated data extracted from texts from Swiss public communication.

1. Acceptance of Terms#

1.1 Using the Platform constitutes agreement to the Terms of Use.

2. Access to Swiss-AL Platform#

2.1 Full access to the Platform is granted to users authenticated via Switch edu-ID.
2.1.1 Users authenticated with Switch edu-ID are requested to register their research project and specify its duration before using the Platform.
2.1.2 Accounts cannot be shared or transferred.

2.2 Limited access (to demo corpora only) is granted to both authenticated and unauthenticated users.

3. Use#

3.1 The use of the Platform is granted for research and academic purposes only.
3.2 The use of the Platform is not granted for commercial purposes.

4. Data Sharing#

4.1 Intellectual property rights for the corpus data (texts) processed by the Platform belong to third-party contributors. Swiss-AL Platform only provides aggregated data and other corpus derivatives to the users (frequency tables, diagrams, word clouds, etc.).

4.2 Users are permitted to share aggregated data and other corpus derivatives produced by the Swiss-AL Platform under the following conditions:

  • The data is redistributed for research and academic purposes only.

  • The attribution is given to the creator of aggregated data (ZHAW, Digital Discourse Lab).

5. Privacy Policy#

5.1 Users’ data is collected to facilitate account creation and enable contact in the event of relevant changes to the Platform or users’ accounts.

5.2 The following personal data is collected during registration:

  • first name

  • last name

  • e-mail address

  • institution

5.3 Users’ data is not shared with third parties.
5.4 Users have the option to request the deletion of all data linked to their account.
5.5 Swiss-AL Platform does not process personal data of unauthenticated users.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties#

6.1 The Swiss-AL Platform is provided “as is” without guarantees of accuracy, availability, or fitness for a specific purpose.

7. Termination#

7.1 The account or access to the Platform may be terminated in case of:

  • Violations of the Terms of Use;

  • Platform misuse.

8. Changes to Terms of Use#

8.1 We reserve the right to update the Terms of Use.
8.2 Users will be notified of changes through announcements on the Platform as well as via the email address registered in the user’s Switch edu-ID.

9. Contact Information#

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
School of Applied Linguistics
Digital Linguistics
Theaterstrasse 17
CH-8401 Winterthur

Project Leads:
Julia Krasselt, Philipp Dreesen

Last updated: 09.11.2025

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