Legal notice and privacy

Legal notice

Publisher: Opening® Culture in Fermentation.

Project: Drive Awake (driveawake.ch). Responsible for content: Opening® Culture in Fermentation.

Contact: via the site contact form.

Hosting: Infomaniak SA, Rue Eugène-Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias, Geneva, Switzerland.

Intellectual property

The site content (texts, images, videos) and the Drive Awake and Opening® (registered trademark) signs are protected. Any reproduction requires prior authorisation.

Liability

Content, in particular scientific sources, is prepared with care, but we do not guarantee completeness or absence of errors. External links point to third-party content for which we are not responsible.

Privacy statement (Swiss FADP)

Controller: Opening® Culture in Fermentation. Contact: via the site contact form.

This page explains which data we process on driveawake.ch, for what purposes and with whom.

Data processed

• Visit statistics: we use Matomo, hosted on our own servers (stats.driveawake.ch), without cookies, with shortened IP address and respecting the Do Not Track signal. Statistics are aggregated and do not identify you. No data is shared for advertising.
• Newsletter: if you subscribe, we process your email address to send you updates. Sending is handled by Infomaniak (Infomaniak Network SA, Geneva) as a processor. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link at the bottom of each email.
• Contact form: the data you send is used only to reply to you.
• Reports: the form for reporting a mistake or suggesting a correction keeps the message, the page and, only if you provide it, your email address, to correct the text and, if you ask, to reply to you. Your IP address is not stored: to limit abuse we keep an irreversible fingerprint of it, deleted after one hour. Reports are deleted six months after the collection period ends.
• Browser storage: the site remembers a few technical choices in your browser, for example whether you have already answered the survey or closed a notice. This information stays on your device.
• Videos: YouTube and Vimeo videos load only when you start them; from then on, those services' rules apply.
• Server logs: our host (Infomaniak) records technical data (IP address, date, page requested) for security and operation.

Purposes

Inform about the project, measure site use in aggregate, manage the newsletter, contacts and reports. No profiling, no automated decisions.

Retention and location

Data is kept for as long as the stated purposes require, then deleted. It is processed in Switzerland (Infomaniak servers). Fonts are served from our own servers, with no requests to external services.

Your rights

You may request access, rectification, deletion, objection and portability of your data via the site contact form. You may also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Bern.

Last updated: 09/2026.