Privacy notice & terms of use

ValIndex is operated by Alain Walder, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, who is the controller under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). ValIndex is not a company and has no parent company.

Contact for any privacy request: show email address.

When you subscribe we store your email address, your first name if you give it, your language, the form you used, and how you reached the site (the referring website, the first page you landed on, and a channel label such as "search" or "AI assistant").

We use this to send Market Pulse in your language and to understand which pages and channels bring readers. We do not sell or rent the list, and we do not use it for advertising.

The list is held by our newsletter provider, Buttondown (USA). The provider may record whether an email is opened and which links are clicked. If the provider cannot accept a signup, the same details are kept in our server logs (Google Cloud, deleted after 30 days) so the signup can be completed.

If you write to us by email, we use your message and address only to reply. The site has no contact form and no call booking.

Like any web server, ours logs technical data for each request (IP address, browser type, page, time), to keep the site secure and to block abuse. The site runs on Google Cloud (Belgium) behind Cloudflare.

We use no advertising cookies and no third-party analytics. To attribute signups, the site keeps a random session identifier in your browser's session storage; it is deleted when you close the tab. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.

Some of the providers above are based in the USA or process data there. We rely on their contractual data-protection commitments for these transfers.

Subscriber data is kept until you unsubscribe, and deleted on request. Contact requests are kept as ordinary correspondence. Server logs are deleted automatically after the providers' standard retention periods (about 30 days).

Every newsletter has a one-click unsubscribe link. You can ask at any time to see, correct or delete your data by writing to show email address. You can also complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

ValIndex content is research and general information on Swiss companies and markets. It is not investment, legal or tax advice, and not an offer to buy or sell anything. Figures are estimates drawn from public registers, official statistics and published sources; check anything that matters for a decision.

You may quote figures, charts and short passages from ValIndex, including in articles, reports and AI-generated answers, provided you name ValIndex as the source and, where possible, link to the page you took them from. Republishing whole articles or datasets requires permission.

These terms and this notice are governed by Swiss law.