Terms of Service

A. Declaration of consent

With your use of the application, you explicitly declare your consent to the Terms of Service (TOS) below and fully accept all conditions contained therein.

B. General information/Preamble

This application is offered by Geoda and is meant to draw the users’ attention to all the open and freely available data collected and maintained by various Swiss public authorities. The goal of Geoda is to bring these data forward to help Swiss homeowners and home buyers make better and more informed decisions concerning their property and/or the structures on it (buildings/homes).

It is also meant to show them possibilities for in-depth clarification and where applicable, to point out solutions or protection methods worth considering. The application is likewise available to those who otherwise make use of the above property (e.g. tenants).

1. Contents

The core of the application involves connecting, merging and evaluating the widest variety of free open data at a given address entered by the user. To this end, the application merges various open data from for example Swiss Confederation, the Swiss cantons and the municipalities.

2. Duties of the users

Duties of the users Users are prohibited from putting the application or the analysis results to commercial use even on their own account. The application is exclusively for private use. However, both legal entities and natural persons can make non-commercial use of the application. In each case, users are prohibited from undertaking a structured query, namely by means of computer scripts, without prior express written permission from Geoda. Furthermore, users must obtain prior express written permission from Geoda before publishing or making public use of the application and its results and/or making same known to the public.

3. Contractual Penalty

If the user makes commercial use of the application without permission, he agrees to pay a fine of CHF 50,000. Geoda explicitly reserves the right to demand additional compensation.

4. Costs

The application is made available to the user free of charge. There are no further obligations between the contracting parties except those expressly named in these General Terms of Service.

5. Disclaimer

To the extent permitted by law, Geoda fully excludes and rules out any and all liability for the functionality of the application, the quality, currentness and completeness of the data provided, and the correctness of the results, including their interpretation and use by the user.

6. Data protection

Geoda prepares a housing report for a given property on the basis of the data entered by the user (the address) as well as geographical data. The data may be summarized, analyzed, used, transmitted and then disclosed as general analysis results in an anonymous manner (i.e. without revealing the user’s name, email address or telephone number) for general information.

7. Intellectual property/Copyright

All copyright and trademark rights for the application belong exclusively to Geoda. Any use, copy, change and/or reproduction of the application, the data, source codes, programs and/or the like contained therein are expressly prohibited even in modified form.