Your privacy

Your account and plans

We store your name, email address, a hashed password if you use one, email-verification state and sign-in sessions to operate your account. Sessions can include the IP address and browser or device description used to sign in. Your saved events, followed programmes, application statuses and private notes keep your plans available across devices.

Where offered, Google sign-in is optional. If you choose it, Google shares your account identifier, email address and basic profile, including your name and profile image if supplied. We use this to recognize you and operate your Davos Society account. We do not receive your Google password or request access to Gmail, your calendar or your files. Google processes your sign-in under its own privacy policy. Removing Google’s authorization does not by itself delete your Davos Society account; you can delete it in Your account.

Your agenda and notes are restricted to your account. They are not shared with organizers or published in the event directory. Administrators have access to the information needed to operate, moderate and support the service.

Your optional base location is private to your account. Corrections you send are visible to the review team. Your base, programme follows and correction reports are included in your account export and removed when your account is deleted.

Updates for saved events

If you turn on updates, we keep an account inbox of reviewed changes to your saved events, together with your preference and read status. These updates appear on the website and in the app. A separate opt-in lets followed programmes notify you about newly reviewed sessions. Turning either preference off clears that type of alert; turning it on again starts with future changes. Removing a saved event or programme follow also removes its associated updates. Phone push is a separate, optional setting. If enabled, we store an encrypted notification token associated with your session, your quiet hours and delivery status. Google (Android) or Apple (iPhone) delivers a generic message without event names or agenda notes. Delivery attempts are retained for up to seven days. Signing out, revoking the session or deleting your account removes its device registration. Offline sign-out queues removal for the next connection. A message already handed to the phone provider may still arrive. These updates are not sent by email.

Organizer and event information

Reviewed organization and event details are public. Submissions, membership records, source observations and review decisions support verification and corrections. Raw imports and review records are restricted to authorized reviewers. Saving an event does not register you with its organizer.

Email and service records

We use your email address for account verification and password recovery. Delivery information is kept long enough to retry failed messages and investigate delivery problems. Account messages are separate from marketing; this version does not send marketing campaigns.

Request logs help identify failures and abuse. The application avoids logging passwords, private notes, session credentials and account-link tokens.

Offline downloads and reminders

The phone app saves public map geometry and places after its first connected launch; the website saves them on an online map visit. Both keep save times and recently viewed routes between public venues, and refresh while connected. Browser storage may be evicted. On the website you can remove the copy and pause automatic saving; clearing the phone app’s data removes its copy. Current GPS readings are never included. Signing out clears saved routes. Optional phone reminders are scheduled locally from your saved agenda and removed on sign-out. Reopen the app online to update reminders after an event changes. Quiet hours use Davos time.

Cookies and your devices

The website uses authentication cookies needed to keep you signed in. A first-party session preference also remembers the catalogue year you select as you move between events, programmes and the map. It contains only the year and is not used for tracking. The native app stores session credentials securely and keeps an encrypted copy of your agenda for offline reading. That copy is removed when you sign out or when the app confirms that your session is no longer valid. A device that stays offline cannot receive a remote revocation immediately.

We use no advertising cookies or third-party analytics. When available and accepted, our own analytics counts page views and selected clicks on public pages, including navigation, event and registration links, and map downloads. It records the public page path without query strings or fragments, browser and operating system type, device and screen size, language, and the referring website without its page path. It uses your IP address to estimate your country, region and city. The IP and browser details also help derive rotating session and visit identifiers. The analytics database does not store the full IP. A separate security log keeps the IP and request status for up to 14 days, without the URL, cookies or request body. Analytics does not collect your account ID, saved agenda contents, form entries or device GPS location. Analytics sets no tracking cookie; a choice cookie remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics for 180 days.

Analytics is off until you accept. Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control also keeps it off. You can change your choice at any time; turning analytics off stops new collection. Earlier events remain until their retention period ends. Raw analytics events are kept for up to 13 months. Visitor counts are estimates based on accepted visits.

Maps and external services

Davos address searches are sent through our server to swisstopo's GeoAdmin service. GeoAdmin receives the search text and our server's connection. We temporarily cache address results to reduce repeated requests, without linking searches to an account. A selected address stays in the current map view's memory.

The Davos map and walking calculations use data hosted by Davos Society. If you choose Use my location, your device asks for permission. The position and accuracy stay in memory and are sent to our routing server only when you request a walk from that position. We do not store these coordinates or track you in the background. Clear location removes the displayed position. Opening a registration, source or external map link shares the request and chosen destination or route origin with that service. Its own privacy policy then applies. Davos Society does not connect to your inbox or submit registrations on your behalf.

The Davos forecast is downloaded from MeteoSwiss by our server. Reading it does not send your device location to MeteoSwiss.

Access, correction and deletion

In Your account, you can download your account information, change your password, end sessions and request account deletion. Sensitive actions require your current password or, for an account that uses only Google, confirmation with the same Google account. You can edit private notes and saved-event statuses in My agenda.

Deleting an account removes its credentials, sessions and private agenda. Public organization and event records remain so that other visitors and organizers can still use them. Review records are detached from the deleted account. If you are an organization’s last owner, ownership must be resolved before deletion.