Privacy

Dear user, the recent European legislation on privacy GDPR requires that you express your consent to the processing, which is carried out by the Data Controller, of the data concerning you.

Types of data collected

Among the Personal Data collected by this Website, independently, there are: name, email, userid, user messages, posts proposed on the Forum, usage data, system log and cookies.

Complete details on each type of data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or through specific information texts displayed before the data is collected.

Personal data may be freely provided by the User or, in the case of Usage data, collected automatically during the use of this Website.

Processing methods

We inform you that the policy adopted by this site intends to strictly guarantee the privacy of users and patients for the topics covered. The clinical cases that you want to propose on the Patients Forum will, if necessary, be appropriately anonymized by the Data Controller in the event that what you have proposed can be traced back to your identity or that of other people.

We also invite you, when registering on the site, to use a "userid" from which it is not possible in any way to trace your identity or that of other people.

Failure to accept this principle will not allow the Owner to publish any questions you may have asked on the Forum which will therefore be deleted.

The cases that will be proposed by you on the Forum will be labeled with your userid and will remain in the sole availability of the Owner. If such cases are not considered by the Data Controller to be in line with this privacy policy or with the information purposes of this site, they will not be published but immediately deleted.

We inform you that the site collects appropriately anonymised usage data from which it is not possible to trace your identity.

It is not mandatory to provide personal data to this site if you do not wish to submit a clinical case on the patient forum.

The use of Cookies - or of other tracking tools - by this Website or by the owners of third party services used by this Website, unless otherwise specified, has the purpose of providing the Service requested by the User, in addition to additional purposes described in this document and in the Cookie Policy.

It is possible to view the cookie policy at this link and approve or reject it using the functions available in the "Cookie Policy" section of the site.

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or destruction of Personal Data.

The processing is carried out using IT tools, organizational and logical methods strictly related to the purposes indicated.

In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, other parties involved in the organization of this Website (system administrators) may have access to the Data, also appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Data Controller. The updated list of Managers can always be requested from the Data Controller.

The User assumes responsibility for the Personal Data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this Website and guarantees to have the right to communicate or disseminate them, freeing the Owner from any liability to third parties.

Fundamentals of lawfulness of processing

The Owner processes Personal Data relating to the User if one of the following conditions exists:

the User has explicitly given consent for the specific purposes of publishing clinical cases on the patient forum;
the User needs to be contacted by the Owner after completing the contact form on the site.
However, it is always possible to ask the Data Controller to clarify the concrete legal basis of each treatment.

Place of treatment

The Data is processed at the Data Controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

The User's Personal Data may be transferred to a country other than that in which the User is located. To obtain further information on the place of processing, the User can contact the Data Controller.

If one of the transfers described above takes place, the User can request information from the Owner by contacting him at the details listed below.

Retention period

The Data is processed and stored for the time required by the purposes for which it is based