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title: "What is Polaris?"
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description: "Polaris is a modern web platform for the Rotary community, enhancing collaboration, event management, and membership across 10 European countries."
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rotary-polaris.ch/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# What is Polaris?
## **Polaris … a modern and collaborative web platform**
Polaris is a **modern collaborative web platform** for the Rotary community introduced in January 2021 as a follower of the previous RCMS (Rotary Club Management System), which has been successfully used for 20 years.
Polaris serves more than **70.000 members in 10 European countries**. It is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Bosnian and Icelandic. Other languages can be introduced easily.
Polaris is **available on any device**, adapting automatically the layout to mobile devices, tablets, laptops and desktops. Most members use it as a Web-App on their smartphones.
Polaris on all devices
It offers features which cover the whole Rotarian community life, including organizing **events, projects, documents, photo galleries** and distributing **newsletters**. Of course it also covers all aspects of **membership management**. It enables interaction between national web-sites, districts, metropolitan clubs, regular clubs, satellite clubs, special clubs, services committees and fellowships for Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and Inner Wheel.
Since April 2012, the system has been certified by Rotary International (RI) for **automatic synchronization of data with Rotary International**. The synchronization is performed through the [SEMDA Interface](/polaris/docs/semda-30).
Polaris is subject to the European regulations "**GDPR**" applicable to the processing and protection of personal data as of May 25, 2018. **Polaris complies with GDPR**.
The continuous development of Polaris is ensured by a process whereby club and district representatives can announce their needs for new functionalities by putting them on a "common list". These proposals are taken up by the Polaris Team which is responsible for development of future versions.
Polaris is **provided as a SaaS solution to districts** and exceptionally also to individual clubs. It is **managed by Rotarians**. The system is developed and operated by independent companies mandated and paid for that purpose. **The support is provided by volunteers in the clubs (CICOs), in the districts (DICOs) and by the**[**Polaris Team**](/polaris/docs/polaris-team).
The system and the software are owned by the **[Rotary Communication Services Schweiz-Liechtenstein](https://rcs.polaris.rotary.ch/),** a non-profit association supervised by the 3 Rotary Districts of Switzerland/Liechtenstein.
> [!NOTE]
> ** CONTACT
>
> For commercial inquiries about Polaris, please send a message to [team-polaris@rotary.ch](mailto:team-polaris@rotary.ch). For support, please see [Contact & Support](/polaris/docs/support).
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a comprehensive data protection and cybersecurity law passed by the European Union with the express aim of protecting digital consumers from fraud and attacks and giving them more control over their personal data.
Software as a Service
Club Internet Communication Officers (IT)
District Internet Communication Officers (IT)
## Attachments
- [Description_Polaris_2022 (English).pdf](https://cdn.document360.io/3f5e5dcd-6f04-4fa4-89a0-b411b2a15ab9/Images/Documentation/Description_Polaris_2022 (English).pdf)
- [POLARIS_Booklet_EN.pdf](https://cdn.document360.io/3f5e5dcd-6f04-4fa4-89a0-b411b2a15ab9/Images/Documentation/POLARIS_Booklet_EN.pdf)