Data protection

Data controller

Groupe EMDL Sàrl, Route de Florissant 10, 1206 Genève, Switzerland. Email: contact@private-schools.ch.

What is published

For each school: its name, town, canton, education levels and, where public, its telephone number, email address and website. The directory holds 881 schools, of which 508 have an email address and 666 a telephone number.

For schools that have taken out a presentation, this is supplemented by the texts, photographs and information they have supplied themselves.

Where it comes from

Public cantonal registers of private schools, lists published by umbrella associations, school networks, and the schools' own websites. Nothing is bought from a data broker and nothing is inferred.

What it is used for

To let families find a school and contact it directly. The contact details published are those the school itself makes public for that purpose.

What the law says, and what we do with it

The Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, revised in 2023, now protects natural persons only: information about a school incorporated as a company is not personal data within its meaning. We do not shelter behind that distinction. Some schools in the directory are run by natural persons, some email addresses are personal and some numbers are mobile phones: those listings fall squarely within the Act.

We therefore apply the same regime to every listing, without distinction: information, correction and removal on request.

How long it is kept

For as long as the school exists and appears in the directory. A removed listing is deleted from the directory and from the published version, not merely hidden. A record of removals is kept so that a removed listing is not republished by mistake.

Who else has access

No one. Directory data is neither sold, rented nor passed to third parties for marketing.

Two technical transfers nevertheless occur in your browser when you use the site, and you should know about them:

• Fonts. Some fonts are served from our own servers. Two families are still requested from Google (Google Ireland Ltd.), which transmits your IP address to that company. This is being corrected.
• School photographs. Some profiles display an image hosted on the school's own server. Your IP address is then transmitted to that server. The address of the page you are viewing is not.

Trackers

This site sets no advertising cookie and uses no third-party analytics. The orientation tool runs entirely in your browser: what you enter there is neither transmitted nor stored.

Your rights

Any person, and any school, may request:

• to know what information about them is published;
• correction of inaccurate information;
• removal of their listing, in whole or in part — for instance the email address or the telephone number, keeping the rest;
• to object to any publication concerning them.

A removal request is carried out unconditionally, with no justification required and no commercial condition attached. It has no bearing on any ongoing service.

How to exercise these rights

By email to contact@private-schools.ch, stating the school's name and what you are asking for. We acknowledge receipt and deal with the request promptly. Removal requests take priority.

You may also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, Switzerland.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS only. It is entirely static: it has no database, no user account and no active form, and the server keeps only the host's technical access logs, retained for a limited period and used solely in the event of an incident.

Changes

This page may change. The date it was last updated appears below.

Last updated: 27 September 2026