Privacy statement EUROCAM

This privacy statement gives information about the processing and protection of your data and respects your privacy.

EUROCAM is committed to protecting your privacy while providing you with high quality and secure online experience. You can navigate our website without providing any personal information. However, we offer some services and features that require you to provide personal information such as your email, name, and country to fulfil these requests. This statement of privacy explains data collection and use in those situations.

Collecting your personal information

EUROCAM is as concerned as you are about the privacy of any personal information you may provide to it through this website. We will ask you when we need information that identifies your personal information or allows us to contact you. Generally, we need this requested information when we need to send documents to you. Personal information collected by EUROCAM is often limited to a user's email address, name, and country but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.

We make no effort to identify public (anonymous) users of our site. No identifying data will be disclosed to any third party for any purpose. Data that we collect is used only for aggregate, anonymous server administration, and log analysis. The previous statement applies to general EUROCAM interactions with the EUROCAM web servers. It does not apply to email sent to EUROCAM staff or any information submitted involving special offers, downloads, or website requests.

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 analyse how users use the site. Our cookie policy is described in our cookie statement below.

Security of Your Personal Information

EUROCAM strictly protects the security of your personal information. To the best of our ability, we carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

We will never use your personal information to advertise, promote or market third-party goods or services, and we do and will not publish or sell any personal data to third parties.

Cookie Statement

  1. What are cookies

cam-Europe.eu uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file sent along with pages from this website and/or Flash applications and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer, mobile phone, smartwatch or tablet. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit. The use of cookies is of importance for our website to run effectively.

Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer. When you quit your browser, the cookies will not be deleted automatically, unlike a session cookie, which will be deleted automatically by the browser.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire the moment you close your browser.

  1. Permission for the use of cookies

Every time you visit EUROCAM's website, we will prompt you to accept or refuse our cookies. We do this through a so-called cookie banner.

  1. Setting the cookies

First party cookies are cookies set by the website you're visiting. Only that website can read them

Third-party cookies are tracking cookies placed by third parties on our website. You can delete these cookies centrally via youronlinechoices.com.

Some of our pages use content from external providers, e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Google, WordPress, ECDC, AYUSH portal, WHO, Integrative Oncology, Carstens Stiftung, NCBI, ECIM, European Commission, European Parliament, EPP Group, Greens-EFA, IM Consortium, Cordis, ICIHM, CAM-Cancer, ESCOP, Research Gate, PubMed, EPAAC, EU4Health, Cloudflare, mailmuch, Mailchimp, and EUROCAM's affiliated organisations and associate partners.

  1. The type of cookies and how EUROCAM uses these

Strictly necessary cookies: It is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, which are essential to browse on the website and use its features, such as accessing the secure areas.Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you have made in the past due to operating the website better and making the website more user-friendly. For example, we store login details for our member section so you can automatically log in.  

Performance cookies: these ensure generating an anonymous cookie every time you visit a website. These cookies collect information about how you use the website. A cookie is created only on the first visit, and on subsequent visits, the existing cookie is used. This cookie is only for statistical purposes. For example, the following data can be collected:

  • the number of unique visitors
  • how often users visit the site
  • the specific pages users view
  • how long users stay on a particular page
  • on which page visitors leave the site.

We use this information for internal research on improving the service we provide for all our users. These cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally). This data is not shared with third parties or used for any other purpose.

  1. Your rights concerning your data

You have the right to inspect, rectify, limit and delete personal data. You also have the right to object to the processing of personal data and the right to data portability. You can exercise these rights by sending an email to communication@cam-europe.eu. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, we ask you to send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser. You are entitled to receive personal data to be used by another processor (GDPR). You have the right to complain at a supervisory authority (GDPR).

  1. Blocking and deleting cookies

At any time, you are free to refuse these cookies or delete them via your internet browser. You can also set your internet browser so that you receive a message when a cookie is placed. You can also indicate that certain cookies may not be placed. View the help function of your browser for this option. Deleting the cookies in your browser may have consequences for the web browsing experience of this website.

Please be aware that by refusing all cookies, we cannot guarantee that our website works properly. You may lose some functions of the website, or you may not be able to visit the website at all. In addition, refusing cookies does not mean that you will site may be lost, or you may not be able to visit the website at all. In addition, refusing cookies does not mean that you will no longer see advertisements at all. The advertisements are then no longer tailored to your interests and can therefore be repeated more often.

How you can adjust your settings differs per browser: Refer to the help function or click on one of the links below to go directly to the manual of your browser.

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/cookies-delete-data-delete-websites-stored
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/278835
Safari on mobile: https://support.apple.com/en-en/HT201265
Safari on Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

  1. New developments and unforeseen cookies

EUROCAM will need to update these statements from time to time, for example, when we modify our website or the regulations regarding cookies change. You can consult this webpage for the most recent version. If you have any questions or comments, please contact communication@cam-europe.eu.

In blog articles, content can be used that is hosted on other sites and made accessible by cam-europe.eu using specific codes (embedded content), as with YouTube videos, for example. These codes often use cookies. However, we have no control over what these third parties do with their cookies.

It is also possible that cookies are placed via our websites by others without being aware of it. Do you encounter unforeseen cookies on our website that you cannot find in our overview? Please contact communication@cam-europe.eu. You can also contact the third party directly and ask which cookies they placed, what the reason is, what the cookie's lifespan is, and how they have guaranteed your privacy.