Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 2020

This document governs the privacy notice of our website cessa-uc.com. It describes how Cristcot HCA LLC. (known as „Cristcot”, „cessa”, „cessa-uc” or „website”), the owner and operator of the cessa-uc.com website, uses and protects any „Personal Data” when you use this website.

Please read our privacy notice carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personal Data. We may change this privacy notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you agree with any changes. The contact information for questions and comments related to this policy is: research@cessa-uc.com.

Your Rights When using our website and submitting personal data to us, you may have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws. Depending on the legal basis for processing your personal data, you may have some or all of the following rights:

The right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the personal data we collect from you, and how we process it.

The right of access: You have the right to get confirmation that your personal data is being processed and have the ability to access your personal data.

The right to rectification: You have the right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure (right to be forgotten): You have the right to request the removal or deletion of your personal data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.

The right to restrict processing: You have a right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your personal data. When your personal data is restricted, we are permitted to store your data, but not to process it further.

The right to data portability: You have the right to request and get your personal data that you provided to us and use it for your own purposes. We will provide your data to you within 30 days of your request. To request your personal data, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.

The right to object: You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for the following reasons:

Processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);

·       Direct marketing (including profiling);

·       Processing was for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.

·       Automated individual decision-making and profiling was uses.

·       Filing a Complaint with Authorities

You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. If the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

We do not collect information from you when you visit our website. We do not offer a way to place an order, subscribe to a newsletter or enter information on our website. There are no forms or contact input fields on our website.  This is intentional. The non-personally identifiable information collected with your use of the internet via the IP address on your computer is described below. This includes information collected by third parties when you visit websites, including ours. When you browse our website, we may receive traffic data registered by the hosting servers, cookies that may share some non-personally identifiable information and your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address. We may also use the information offered by other external services for traffic analysis, such as Google Analytics.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We may use the non-personally identifiable information we collect from third parties, such as Google Analytics, for the following main purposes:

·       To operate the website and provide you with the information described on it.

·       To improve the quality of our website and information provided.

·      For internal record keeping and statistical purposes.

Grounds for Using Your Personal Data

The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide information to you.

Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties

We will not sell, trade or otherwise transfer any non-personally identifiable visitor information or personal data about our users to third parties. This does not include other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business (including lawyers and clinical researchers) business partners or prospective business partners, in clinical research and industry business operations such as the sale, acquisition, or merger of our assets. All those parties agree to keep this information confidential and to their treatment according to the laws and rules on personal data protection. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other similar uses.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We do not collect personally identifiable information from visitors to our website. Your non-personally identifiable visitor information is stored on secured servers and networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. We have built our website using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal data. We and the third parties who provide services for us, also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal data. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal data or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect your personal data and to not share it with anyone by following some of the opt-out options for third parties who do collect non-personally identifiable visitor information from your visit to our website. You should always log out of a web browser when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.

Retaining and Destroying Your Personal Information

We retain non-personally identifiable visitor information that we collect from your visit to our website only for as long as we need it for legal or business purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Legally Required Releases of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your personal data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.

Disclosures to Successors

If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your personal information to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your personal information according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your personal information if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business.

Revoking Your Consent for Using Your Personal Information

You have the right to revoke your consent for us to use your personal information at any time. Such an opt out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as computer system services, data management services, and others who help in maintaining the website (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your personal information you may contact us using the contact information found at the top of this notice.

International Data Transfers and Storage

Non-identifiable personal data that we collect from your visit to our website may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, specifically the United States. The European Union has not found the United States to have an adequate level of protection of personal data under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. For European Union customers and users, with your consent, your personal data may be transferred outside the European Union to the United States. Wherever we transfer, process or store your personal data, we will take reasonable steps to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you in accordance with our privacy notice. By using our website, you agree to the transfers of your personal data described within this section.

Web Beacons

We may use a technology called web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of our website. The information we may collect through web beacons will allow us to statistically monitor the behavior of our visitors.

Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Notice

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s past visits to our website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. For European users visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Google Analytics Privacy Notice

Our website may use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We may use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We may enable Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with personal data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google Remarketing

Our website may use a remarketing advertising service. Remarketing services provided by Google and other companies show advertisements on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see advertisements for products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website’s owner might like to encourage you to revisit the site and buy a computer by showing you the same, or similar advertisement again on other websites that you visit. We may use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site or other sites using remarketing. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/.

Facebook Remarketing

Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing you may see our advertisements on Facebook after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in the visitors’ browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows websites like ours to show advertisements on Facebook to people who are similar to those who have already visited our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217.

Contacting Us About Your Personal Information

You can contact us using the contact information found at the top of this notice and we will help you with understanding our use of personal information. However, we may keep your personal information as needed to enforce our agreements and to comply with any legal obligations.

Do Not Track Settings

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

Our Email Policy

We do not collect your email address. As a part of our business practice, we will not contact you via email unless you contact us using the contact information listed at the top of this notice. If you contact us via email, we will only reply to the communication you initiate. We will treat your email address in accordance with the policies regarding the treatment of your personal information described within this notice.

Use of Your Credit Card

Our website does not process financial transactions.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us using the information at the top of this notice.