PRIVACY STATEMENT

Meditrial Europe LTD, (henceforth “Meditrial”), headquartered in Bahnofstrasse 23, CH 6300 Zug, Switzerland is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Meditrial Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Meditrial website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Meditrial, as identified at the top of this Privacy Policy, is the data controller regarding all personal data processing carried out through the Website.

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact Meditrial Data Protection Officer (dpo@meditrial.net)

According to the article 5 of GDPR any personal data which you provide to Meditrial over this website or which is otherwise gathered via the website by Meditrial will be:

  • Name, address and contact details – Meditrial collects personally identifiable information (“personal data”), such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Meditrial also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
    In order to contact us, you are required to provide your personal data, filling in some free text fields. If you decide to fill those fields sharing personal data related to other persons, you will be considered as an independent data controller regarding that personal data and must assume all inherent legal obligations and responsibilities. This means, among other things, that you must fully indemnify Meditrial against any complaints, claims or demands for compensation for damages which may arise from the processing of this personal data, brought by the third parties whose information you provide through the Website.
  • Browsing datas – There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Meditrial. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Meditrial for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Meditrial Web site.
  • Special categories of personal data – Sensitive personal data is not requested information on Meditrial website. However, since the text fields to contact Meditrial are completely free, you may use them to disclose (inadvertently or not) more sensitive categories of personal data, such as data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. The content you upload in these fields may also (inadvertently or not) include other types of sensitive information relating to you, such as your genetic data, biometric data or data concerning your health, sex life or sexual orientation.Meditrial asks that you do not disclose any sensitive personal data on this website, unless you consider this to be strictly necessary. As it is totally optional to provide this information, if you do, this action will be an explicit consent to process the personal data provided by you.
    Meditrial does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
    Please keep also in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Meditrial public message boards, you relieve Meditrial of any liability relating to the processing of this data, which may be collected and used by others.
  • Job applications – Meditrial collects job applicants’ contact details and personal data included in their CV, which are sent to the email-address humanresources@meditrial.net or any other Company channels (ex. by post) for employment purpose.
  • Name, address and contact details – Meditrial collects personally identifiable information (“personal data”), such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Meditrial also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
    In order to contact us, you are required to provide your personal data, filling in some free text fields. If you decide to fill those fields sharing personal data related to other persons, you will be considered as an independent data controller regarding that personal data and must assume all inherent legal obligations and responsibilities. This means, among other things, that you must fully indemnify Meditrial against any complaints, claims or demands for compensation for damages which may arise from the processing of this personal data, brought by the third parties whose information you provide through the Website.
  • Browsing datas – There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Meditrial. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Meditrial for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Meditrial Web site.
  • Special categories of personal data – Sensitive personal data is not requested information on Meditrial website. However, since the text fields to contact Meditrial are completely free, you may use them to disclose (inadvertently or not) more sensitive categories of personal data, such as data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. The content you upload in these fields may also (inadvertently or not) include other types of sensitive information relating to you, such as your genetic data, biometric data or data concerning your health, sex life or sexual orientation.Meditrial asks that you do not disclose any sensitive personal data on this website, unless you consider this to be strictly necessary. As it is totally optional to provide this information, if you do, this action will be an explicit consent to process the personal data provided by you.
    Meditrial does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
    Please keep also in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Meditrial public message boards, you relieve Meditrial of any liability relating to the processing of this data, which may be collected and used by others.
  • Job applications – Meditrial collects job applicants’ contact details and personal data included in their CV, which are sent to the email-address humanresources@meditrial.net or any other Company channels (ex. by post) for employment purpose.
Meditrial intends to use your personal data, collected through the Website, for the following purposes:

  • Service provision – Meditrial collects and uses your personal information to operate the Meditrial Web site and deliver the services you have requested.
  • Marketing – Meditrial also uses your personal data to inform you of other products or services available from Meditrial and its affiliates. Meditrial may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
  • Profiling – Meditrial may create a profile of you as a website user, through the use of profiling cookies and by collecting and analysing information on the preferences you select and choices you make in the website, as well as your general activities on the website. This profile will be used to give you information about other services which Meditrial believes you may be interested in, and to show you information and advertisements which may be relevant to you and your interests (for more details please see the paragraph “Use of cookies”).Moreover, Meditrial keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Meditrial, in order to determine what Meditrial services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Meditrial to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
  • Human resources selection and job recruitment – Meditrial will process job applicants’ personal data (contact details and personal information included in the curriculum vitae) only to consider applicants’ candidacy for working at Meditrial.
  • Compliance – Meditrial will process your personal data to maintain appropriate business records, to comply with lawful requests by public authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law.
  • Preventing misuse/fraud – Your personal data may be handled to prevent and detect any misuse of this website or any fraudulent activity carried out through the Website.
The data retention period varies according to the different purposes of processing. In detail personal data processed for:

  • Service Provision will be kept by Meditrial for the period deemed strictly necessary to fulfil such purposes – in any case, as these Personal data are processed for the provision of the Services, Meditrial may continue to store this Personal data for a longer period, as may be necessary to protect Meditrial’s interests related to potential liability related to the provision of the Services;
  • Marketing and Profiling will be kept by Meditrial from the moment you give consent until the moment you withdraw the consent given. Once consent is withdrawn, Personal data will no longer be used for these purposes, although it may still be kept by Meditrial, in particular as may be necessary to protect Meditrial’s interests related to potential liability related to this processing;
  • Human resources selection and job recruitment will be retained by Meditrial for as long as deemed strictly necessary to fulfil these purposes;
  • Compliance will be kept by Meditrial for the period required by the specific legal obligation or by the applicable law;
  • Preventing Misuse/Fraud will be kept by Meditrial for as long as deemed strictly necessary to fulfil these purposes.
The persons or entities with whom your personal data may be shared (“Recipients”) are listed below:

  • Persons authorized by Meditrial to to process personal data needed to carry out activities strictly related to the provision of the services, who have undertaken an obligation of confidentiality or are subject to an appropriate legal obligation of confidentiality;
  • Entities engaged in order to provide the services (e.g., hosting providers or e-mail platform providers);
  • Persons, companies or professional firms providing Meditrial with advice and consultancy regarding accounting, administrative, legal, tax, financial and debt collection matters related to the provision of the services;
  • Public entities, bodies or authorities to whom your personal data may be disclosed, in accordance with the applicable law or binding orders of those entities, bodies or authorities.

Meditrial’s websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of Meditrial;
  • Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Meditrial, or the public.
The personal data collected by us may be transferred for the above-mentioned processing purposes to any third parties to whom Meditrial subcontracts all or part of this processing. This may for instance include e-marketing service providers, hosting providers and any other relevant roles.

Note that your personal data will never be sold to a third party. In the event of transfer of personal data to a country outside of the European Economic Area, Meditrial systematically ensures the application of an adequate level of protection of such personal data by means approved by applicable data protection legislation. In particular, Meditrial implements appropriate safeguards to ensure the lawfulness and security of these personal data transfers, such as by relying on adequacy decisions from the European Commission, standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission, or other safeguards or conditions considered adequate to the transfer at hand.

Data Subject’s Rights

With regard to the processing of your personal data, Meditrial acknowledges the following rights to you:

  • the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing;
  • the right to object to processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to withdraw the consent to data processing at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
  • the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority in particular in the EU Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR

You can always exercise your rights described above by sending a written request to Meditrial at the following address: dpo@meditrial.net

Meditrial takes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate administrative, physical and technical security measures.
The Meditrial Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Meditrial pages, or register with Meditrial site or services, a cookie helps Meditrial to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Meditrial Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Meditrial features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Meditrial services or Web sites you visit.

Sending your CV from the “Career” page or completing the “Contacts” page of Meditrial website constitues a free initiative of the applicant, therefore it is intended as an explicit consent to personal data processing.
Meditrial will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Meditrial encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Meditrial is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Meditrial welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Meditrial has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Meditrial at dpo@meditrial.net.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Last update: 06-May-2020