Federal Act
on Data Protection
(Data Protection Act, FADP)

¹ Fed­er­al bod­ies may pro­cess per­son­al data for pur­poses not re­lated to spe­cif­ic per­sons, in par­tic­u­lar for re­search, plan­ning or stat­ist­ics, provided:

a.

the data are an­onymised as soon as the pur­pose of pro­cessing per­mits;

b.

the fed­er­al body only dis­closes sens­it­ive per­son­al data to private per­sons in such a man­ner that the data sub­jects are not iden­ti­fi­able;

c.

the re­cip­i­ent only trans­mits the data to third parties with the con­sent of the fed­er­al body that dis­closed the data; and

d.

the res­ults are only pub­lished in such a man­ner that the data sub­jects are not iden­ti­fi­able.

² Art­icles 6 para­graph 3, 34 para­graph 2 and 36 para­graph 1 do not ap­ply.