Legal notice and privacy

Legal notice

• Operator: this site is run privately and free of charge. Contact: [email protected].
• Independent: Polatlas is an independent, non-commercial project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Swiss Confederation, the cantons, the municipalities, the Federal Statistical Office (BFS), Swissvotes or ETH Zürich.
• No guarantee: the figures are computed with care from public data (see the methodology), but errors are possible. Official results are published by the BFS. We are not responsible for the content of linked websites.
• Rights: the texts, maps and computed numbers of Polatlas may be reused under CC BY 4.0, naming “Polatlas (polatlas.ch)”. The data and the flags belong to their owners; sources and licences are listed on the credits page.
• Flags: the flags of the cantons and municipalities are shown to help you find places. Under Art. 10 of the Swiss Coat of Arms Protection Act (WSchG), flags may be used as long as the use is not misleading. If you represent a canton or municipality and want a flag removed, write to us.

Privacy

In short: no cookies, no tracking, no analytics, no advertising, no user accounts. Polatlas itself does not collect personal data.

1. Hosting (Cloudflare)

The site is delivered through the network of Cloudflare, Inc. (USA). When you open a page, Cloudflare processes the technical data your browser sends (IP address, time, requested page, browser type) to deliver the site and to protect it against attacks. Cloudflare keeps these logs for a short time. Its servers are in Switzerland and worldwide, including the USA. Cloudflare is certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. More: Cloudflare privacy policy.

2. Flags (Wikimedia Commons)

The flag images are loaded directly from the servers of Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Foundation, USA). To show them, your browser sends its IP address and the usual technical data to Wikimedia. More: Wikimedia privacy policy.

3. Storage in your browser

The site remembers your language in your browser (local storage) and keeps the current view in the page address (the part after “#”). This stays on your device and is never sent to us. You can delete it in your browser settings.

4. Data download

The CSV files under “Download the data” are made in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

5. E-mail

If you write to [email protected], Cloudflare Email Routing forwards the message to a Gmail inbox (Google, USA and Europe). We use your address and your message only to answer you and delete them when they are no longer needed.

6. Your rights

Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) you can ask what data about you is processed, and have it corrected or deleted: write to [email protected]. You can also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Last updated: 18 October 2026.