Privacy notice on website
Affidea Website Privacy Policy
Last updated: 27. 05. 2024
Affidea respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that we collect through our website at www.affidea.cz (“Website”).
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
We recommend that you read this Privacy Notice in full to ensure you are fully informed.
What does Affidea do?
Affidea Česká republika is part of the Affidea Group, the largest, most successful pan-European medical service provider specializing in diagnostics investigations, clinical laboratories, and cancer treatment services. For more information about Affidea, please see the “About Us” section of our Website.
The data controller of your personal information is Affidea Praha s.r.o., Šustova 1930, 148 00 Praha 11 – Chodov.
What personal information does Affidea collect through the Website and why?
The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
· Information that you provide voluntarily
Certain parts of our Website may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily, for example, we may ask you
§ about the type of medical service you will require from our clinic and for your contact details (online booking form);
§ to direct your enquiries to us through a contact form.
· Information that we collect automatically
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device.
Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our Website, including the pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the traffic to our Website, where are our readers come from, and what content is of most interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further in our Cookie Statement [link].
In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by the applicable data protection laws.
Please note that the present Website Privacy Notice does not apply to personal data that we collect – outside this Website – when we provide medical services. For these, please see our relevant data privacy notice for patients [link]. In other instances of personal data collection, we provide specific data privacy notice to explain why and how we process personal data.
Who does Affidea share my personal information with?
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
· to our group companies or third party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Website), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information. Currently we use the services of;
· to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
· to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, if we inform the buyer, it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;
· to any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)
If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contact with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).