Privacy Policy

Last update: 2020

General information

The confidentiality of your personal data represents one of the main concerns of N&I Medical Advertising SRL (the “Owner”), a limited liability company organized and functioning under Romanian laws, having its registered office in Bucharest, sector 3, 240 Calea Călărași, building 76, entrance 1, ground floor, apartment 2, acting as data controller.

This document is intended to inform you on the processing of your personal data in the context of your use of the www.medicalbusinesspress.com internet site (the “Site”). We note that this document contains specific provisions applicable to healthcare professionals.

If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us in any of the ways mentioned below.

Categories of personal data processed

Personal data consists in any information referring to an identified of identifiable natural person. Different information that, collected, can help to the identification of a particular individual can also represent personal data.

On the Site, we collect personal data through various methods, including through registration, applications, surveys in connection with your requests, and automatically, when you browse the Site.

The personal data obtained by us may include, as applicable:

family and first name;  
address of the location of your practice;  
email address;
phone number;
your professional data (personal biography/credentials, graduated studies, bachelor’s degrees, specializations, professional affiliations, publications, certifications and other professional achievements, your occupation/position/title, hospital, medical specialization, and your identification number as specialist in the healthcare area or your identity document released by authorities); 
data on activities recorded in your account;
data on your location (for instance, the data function on the location available on a mobile phone);  
information on your visits on our Site, including the type of browser and operation system used by you, access hours, visualized webpages, accessed URLs, the IP address and the webpage visualized by you prior to browsing our Site;  
the cookie module identifier;
your phone’s advertising identifier;
information on the used device, including its sole identification code, the hardware model, the operation system and its version, as well as information on the mobile network used by you;  
your answers to surveys in which you chose to participate, including your answers to surveys related to diseases or the practice (for instance, the number of patients suffering from a particular disease examined by you);
your interests (your health condition and topics on which you look for information through the Site or in which you are interested);
information on the use by you of the products presented on the Site and on your interactions with the Owner.

We may also collect Personal Data from other sources, including from companies handling databases accessible to the public, associated marketing partners, social platforms and other third parties.

We may receive Personal Data from third parties in order to confirm your contact details or in order for us to better understand your interests, by associating demographic information with your personal data provided by you.

When you are asked to provide us with personal data, you have a right to refuse. However, if you choose to not provide us with the personal data that is necessary to us in order to provide the services specific to the Site, we may not be able to provide such services to you.

If you provide us with or allow us to collect any personal data in connection with other persons, you confirm that you have the authority to share such information and that you allow us to use such data pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Ways for obtaining personal data

In general, we can obtain personal information during the monitoring of our technological instruments and services, including communications via email sent to and by the Owner. We can also obtain personal information through the registration on the Site or we can receive information about you from third parties.

We can receive professional information about you from other sources, such as from information of physicians (including from publicly available sources) or from your patients.

We can combine information received by us from different sources.

Purposes and grounds for processing

If you are a user of the Site, the Owner processes your personal data as follows:

for compliance with the legal obligation incumbent on the Owner in the context of the services provided through the Site, including with tax-related obligations and archiving obligations.

The processing of your data for this purpose is required based on legal obligations. The providing of your data is required for this purpose. Your refusal to provide us with your data can lead to the Owner’s inability to comply with the legal obligations incumbent on it and, therefore, to its inability to provide you the services through the Site.  

for marketing activities, i.e. in order to send you, through remote communication means (e-mail, SMS), commercial communications on the products and services offered by the Owner through the Site.

The processing of your data for this purpose is based on your consent, if you choose to give it.  

You can give your consent to the processing of data for this purpose by checking the corresponding box at the time of or after the account creation in your own account. In order for you to unsubscribe from receiving such commercial messages, you can use the option located at the end of each e-mail/SMS containing commercial communications. Moreover, you can unsubscribe by accessing your account on the Site.  

The providing of your data for this purpose is voluntary. Your refusal to give your consent to the processing of your data for this purpose will not have negative consequences for you.  

for the purpose of conducting various analyses, reports on the operation of the Site, profiling of consumption preferences and, in principal, in order to improve your experience offered on the Site.

The processing of your data for this purpose is based on the Owner’s legitimate interest to permanently improve the experience of customers on the Site. The providing of your data for this purpose is voluntary. Your refusal to provide us with your data for this purpose will not have negative consequences for you.  

for the settlement of complaints, reports, for traffic monitoring and for improving your experience offered on the Site.

The processing of your data for this purpose is based on the Owner’s legitimate interest to secure the proper operation of the Site, and to permanently improve the experience of visitors of the Site, including by the settlement of various comments, queries, or complaints.  

The providing of your data for this purpose is voluntary. Your refusal to provide us with your data for this purpose will not have negative consequences for you.  

Duration of data processing

In principle, the Owner will process your personal data as long as this is necessary for the achievement of the aforementioned processing purposes.

If you withdraw your consent to the processing of data for marketing purposes, the Owner will terminate such processing of your personal data for this purpose. Yet, the processing performed by the Owner based on your consent given by you prior to its withdrawal will not be affected.

Disclosure of personal data

For the attainment of processing purposes, the Owner may disclose your personal data to partners, to third parties or to entities supporting the Owner in performing its activities through the Site whenever any central/local public authorities, such as: agencies and our suppliers, our professional advisors and auditors, our subsidiaries and business partners, regulatory authorities, governments and law enforcement authorities, courts of law, tribunals, arbitrators and other judicial bodies, and to third parties in relation to the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, in full or in part, of our business or to any change in our business, in the following cases, which are listed indicatively:

for the Site administration;  
in situations where such disclosure is necessary for the award of prizes or other facilities to data subjects obtained as a result of their participation in various promotional campaigns organized by the Owner through the Site;  
in order to maintain, customize and improve the Site and the services offered through it;  
in order to conduct data analyses, tests and researches, to monitor the use and business trends, to develop safety features and for the authentication of users;  
in order to send marketing commercial communications, under the terms and within the limits provided for by law;  
when the disclosure of personal data is required by law etc.

Transfer of personal data

Personal data provided to the Owner may be transferred outside Romania, but only to European Union member states.

Rights from which you benefit

Under the terms set forth by the legislation in the personal data processing area, as data subject, you benefit from the following rights:

(a) the right to information, i.e. the right to receive details regarding the processing operations performed by the Owner as described in this Privacy Policy;

(b) the right to access to data, i.e. the right to receive a confirmation from the Owner on the processing of your personal data, as well as details on the processing operations and on the way in which data is processed, the purpose of the processing, the data recipients or categories of data recipients etc.;  

(c) the right to rectification, i.e. the right to have your inaccurate/unjustified personal data corrected and your incomplete data supplemented by the Owner with no undue delays;  

Such rectification/supplementing will be communicated to each recipient to which data was transmitted, except for cases where this proves to be impossible or requires disproportionate efforts.  

(d) the right to data erasure with no undue delays, („the right to be forgotten”), in situations where one of the following reasons applies:

data is no longer necessary for the attainment of the purposes for which it was collected or processed;  
in cases where your consent is withdrawn and there is no other legal basis for processing;  
in cases where a data subject objects to processing and there are no prevailing legitimate interests;  
in cases in which personal data was unlawfully processed;  
in cases in which personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation;  
personal data was collected in connection with the providing of services of the informational community under the Union’s law or the domestic law governing the controller.

Following a request for data erasure, the Owner may anonymize such data (thus depriving it of its personal nature) and may continue the processing under these circumstances for statistical purposes.  

(e) the right to the restriction of processing to the extent that:

a person challenges the data accuracy, for a time interval that allows us to check the accuracy of such data;  
the processing is unlawful, and the data subject objects to the erasure of personal data, requesting for a restriction of its use instead;  
the controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but the data subject requests such data from it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or  
the data subject objected to processing (for purposes other than for direct marketing), for the time interval while we check whether the controller’s legitimate rights prevail over those of the data subject.

(f) the right to data portability, i.e. (i) the right to receive personal data structured, commonly used, machine-readable and interoperable format, and (ii) the right to have such data transmitted by the Owner to a different data controller, to the extent that the requirements provided for by law are met;  

(g) the right to object – in respect of processing operations, such right can be exercised by sending an application as indicated below:

at any time, on grounds relating to the particular situation of a data subject, to the processing of data concerning him/her under the legitimate interest of the Owner or based on the public interest, except for cases where the Owner is able to demonstrate that it has legitimate and imperative reasons that justify the processing and prevail over the interests, rights and freedoms of data subjects or that the purpose consists of the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim;  
at any time, free of charge and with no justification, to the processing of data concerning him/her for direct marketing purposes.

(h) the right not to be subject to an automated individual decision-making, i.e. the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning the data subject or similarly significantly affects him or her;  

(i) the right to address the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing or the courts of jurisdiction, to the extent you find this necessary.  

For any further queries on how personal data is processed and in order to exercise your rights mentioned above, please contact us at the following email address: redactia@medicalbusinesspress.com

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