Collection and processing of personal data

When you visit our website, our servers record by default the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, the pages you visit on our website and the date and length of your visit.  Apart from this, personal data are only saved when you decide to enter them, e. g. during a registration, a survey or the performance of a contract.

Use, disclosure and purposes of personal data

We use your personal data for technical administration purposes of the web pages, for customer administration, product surveys and marketing, only to the necessary extent .
Disclosures of personal data to official institutions and government agencies take place only in the framework of mandatory national legal requirements. Our employees, agencies and trading partners are bound by an obligation of confidentiality.

Choice

We would like to use your data in order to inform you about our products and services and request your opinion. Of course, participation in these actions is voluntary. Should you not agree with this, tell us any time, so that we can block your data.  You will find further information in the respective local website.

Security

We implement technical and organisational measures in order to protect the data you have provided against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, or destruction or against access by unauthorised persons.  Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Right of access

Upon your request, we or our representatives will inform you in writing as promptly as possible and pursuant to applicable legislation, on which personal data, if any, have been collected and stored about you in our website. If you are registered as an user, we also offer you the possibility to access the data yourself and change or erase it.  Should there be, in spite of all our efforts to ensure accuracy and currency, any false information, we will correct it upon your request. You will find further information in the respective local website.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP-anonimysation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or rather at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ (General information of Google Analytics and Data Protection)

Please note that on this website Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Newsletter

To send our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in process, which means that we will send you a newsletter per e-mail if you previously confirm that we should activate the newsletter service. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail and ask you to click on the link sent in the e-mail as to confirm that you want to receive our newsletter per e-mail. If you decide later on that you do not wish to receive any other newsletter from us, you can unsubscribe any time at no cost.  A short text message to info@medical-studies-advisory.com is enough. Of course, in every newsletter you will also find an “Unsubscribe” link.