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PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY

BEEMED | GENERAL PRIVACY NOTICE 


 

1. Introduction 

At BeeMed SA (we, our or BeeMed) we are committed to the privacy and confidentiality of the personal data of our users.  

In this document, the term personal data refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, date of birth, e-mail address, phone number, or postal address as well as any personal information that you have chosen to add to your profile page. It also includes online identifiers such as your IP address and URLs  

This privacy notice (General Privacy Notice) describes our policies and practices with regards to personal data and sets out how we collect, use and share your personal data.  

This privacy notice applies to all our activities, including the digital solutions accessible at www.beemed.com, app.beemed.com, wiki.beemed.com, the mobile applications “BeeMed” and BeeMed Events” available on both the IOS App Store and Android Playstore, (the Solutions), and the services we provide in this context (together with the provision of the Solutions, our Services), which are listed without limitation in section 13 of this General Privacy Notice (Service-Specific Information). 

We may have additional privacy notices (the Additional Privacy Notices) which apply in addition or instead of this General Privacy Notice in specific situations or for specific Services, in which case the terms of such Additional Privacy Notices will prevail over those of this General Privacy Notice. 

By using our Services, or otherwise providing us your information, you expressly acknowledge that we may process your personal data in accordance with this General Privacy Notice. 

 

2.Short Version 

The following is a summary of (but not a replacement for) this General Privacy Notice:   

  • Our role. We, BeeMed SA, are responsible for the processing, as controller, of your personal data (but only for our own activities and not those of our users or third party providers) (see section 3);  
  • Data we collect. We collect the information which is provided to us by you or such parties (for instance other users). We also collect some information automatically when you interact with the Services (see section 4); 
  • How we use it. We process your personal data in compliance with Swiss laws and other data protection laws applicable to us. This means that we will only process your information where we have a legal basis to do so (see sections 5), and only for certain reasons (mainly for providing our Services, operating our our Solutions, and for the other legitimate purposes indicated in this General Privacy Notice) (see section 6); 
  • Control and Access. Your personal data is stored Switzerland. We do not share it with third parties or transfer it abroad unless this is both necessary for the operation of our Services and permitted by applicable laws. This may for instance be the case when we use service providers or must interact with third parties to conduct our professional activities. However, some information on the Solutions is available publicly or to other users, and thus worldwide (see sections 7 and 8); 
  • Retention. We do not store your personal data for longer than necessary for us to fulfill the purposes set out in this General Privacy Notice (see section 9); 
  • Security. We apply security measures and strive to protect your personal data. However, no IT infrastructure is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that ours is (see section 10); 
  • Your rights. You may contact us via dpo@beemed.com to exercise your rights pertaining to your personal data (see sections 12 and 14).  

 

 

3. Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data  

BeeMed SA, rue Charles-Monnard 6, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland, is responsible for the processing, as controller, of your personal data. You will find our contact details below in section 11.  

This General Privacy Notice only applies to data processing undertaken by or on behalf of us. Whilst we may provide links to third party websites, contents, or services, we are not responsible for their policies in relation to personal data. In such circumstances, the collection and use of your personal data are governed by the privacy policy of those third party providers, which you should carefully review to learn more about their personal data processing practices.  

As further detailed in this General Privacy Notice, we may process your personal data if it is provided to us by another user. This General Privacy Notice does not govern how other users use your personal information. Please read the section What about the information shared by our users? for additional information in this respect. We may also process personal data as data processor for our customers, as specified in section 13 (Services-Specific Information).  

4. How we collect your personal data 

We collect the personal data you provide us. 

We collect the personal data that you provide to us when interacting with us and/or using our Services, for example when you use our Solutions, place an order or communicate with us when you create and/or manage your account, apply for a fellowship or for a job, publish an article, a case, a post in the newsfeed, or through web forms you fill 

It is only mandatory that you complete the data fields identified as such. If one or more mandatory data fields are not completed, we will not be able to provide access to our Services. You are not required to complete the optional data fields in order to access our Services. These fields may be completed at any time through your account settings. 

Additional Information on what information we collect from you: 

  • If you decide to create an account or enquire about one of our products or services, we may in particular ask you to provide the following categories of information: 
  • basic personal details – such as name and title; 
  • employment information – such as job title, company name, company address, specific fields of interest, work email address and office phone number; 
  • personal contact details – such as email address and phone number; 
  • log in details – such as username and password; and 
  • payment details – such as your bank account and payment card information. 

Certain personal data are also collected in an automated manner. 

We also automatically collect personal data, including by means of cookies and other active elements, as further described in this General Privacy Notice.  

You may define certain authorizations relating to the automatic collection of your personal data when you configure your device or your internet browser according to available functionalities. You may also define certain settings for the automated collection of your personal data through the cookies setting plugin available on the Solutions. For more detailed information, please see the cookie section below (section 11). 

Some information about you may also be provided to us by our users or third parties 

We may collect certain information about you if this is provided to us by one of our users. Such information may comprise anything that is included in the user content that are uploaded by our users.  

We require each of these users to have lawful rights to collect, use, and share your information before providing any information to us. We also require them to only share health information in an anonymized or pseudonymized manner (meaning that reasonable measures must be taken to remove any information permitting to identify individuals). You will find more information on this here.  

In some circumstances, we may collect personal data about you from our partners, from publicly available websites, from current and former customers and contacts (for instance as referees for our research), and third-party customers and suppliers, to help us expand and better understand our audience and enhance the relevance of our content. For example, in some cases we obtain the contact details of potential contributors to our publications from public websites. 

5.How we use your data 

We process your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and only if we have a valid legal ground to do so. 

We process your personal data in compliance with applicable law, in particular Swiss data protection laws and, to the extent they apply to us, other data protection legislations, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or its equivalent in the United Kingdom, manually or automatically using computer tools. 

This means that we will only process your information for certain reasons (see Section 7) where we have a legal basis to do so. 

Additional Information on the "legal basis" 

  • Here is what each of these legal bases is: 
  • Contractual Necessity: the processing is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or to take pre-contractual steps at your request. This is particularly the case in particular when processing your personal data is strictly required to provide you with the Services. When the GDPR applies, Contractual Necessity is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. 
  • Legitimate Interest: the processing is necessary for the fulfilment of our legitimate interests, and only to the extent that your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms do not require us to refrain from processing. When the GDPR applies, Legitimate Interest is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. 
  • Consent: we have obtained your prior consent in a clear and unambiguous manner. Consent given can be withdrawn at any time, but this does not affect data processed prior to withdrawal.  When the GDPR applies, Consent is based on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. 
  • Legal Obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations. When the GDPR applies, Legal Obligation is based on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. 

What about the information shared by our users? 

On our Solutions, we offer functionalities that enable users to upload and share content. This General Privacy Notice does not address how our users uses your personal data. If we access your personal data because it was transmitted to us by one of our users, it is our user which is responsible for ensuring that your personal data is collected and transferred to us in accordance with all privacy and data protection laws of all relevant jurisdictions, based on an appropriate legal ground. In that case, we will process your personal data as "data processor", in accordance with our terms of services, or in some cases, as a controller for our legitimate business operations related to providing those Services, as detailed in this General Privacy Notice or any Additional Privacy Notice. 

We require our users to only share health data in an anonymized or pseudonymized manner (meaning that reasonable measures must be taken to remove any information permitting to identify individuals). We also require them to only share other personal information if they have a lawful right to do so (for instance with the consent of the concerned individuals).  

You must contact the concerned user directly to make any request regarding your personal data, for instance if you wish that this user remove your information. We may however take action in case of demonstrated breach of our terms of use. However, depending on the functionality of the Services, we may not have access to the content shared by our users (for instance if the content is fully encrypted).   

If you have questions about our legitimate business operations in connection with providing Services to your users, please contact us as described in section 14 

 

 

Additional Information on profiling and automated decisions 

We may process your personal data to create a profile about you and provide you with more relevant information and services (profiling), for instance to show you more relevant information based on prior interactions with our Services. 

We, however, do not make decisions exclusively on the basis of an automated processing which have legal effects on the data subjects or affect them significantly (automated individual decision). You may have the right to object to such activities, in accordance with applicable data protection laws (see section 12 below for additional information on your rights). 

6.Why we use your data 

We process your personal data for the reasons indicated in this Section or in any Additional Privacy Notice.  

Where we intend to process your personal data for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected, we will provide you with information on that other purpose and any relevant further information prior to such processing. 

To provide our Services, operate the Solutions and for customer management purposes. 

We mainly process your personal data to provide our Services to do so, including for creating and maintaining your user account, interacting with you, and other users (including for allowing other users to view your user's public content), providing you with the requested information and Services, and for related customer management purposes (such as invoicing). 

Legal basis: Contractual Necessity, Legitimate Interests 

Additional Information 

  • Contacting you and responding to your queries. You have the option of contacting us via the Solutions. In this context, we process the data which you provide to us (including your contact information and the subject-matter of the request). This data is used for the purpose of providing you with the requested information and services.  

The retention period depends on the reason for your request and its context.  

  • Providing maintenance and support. We use data to maintain our Services, troubleshoot and diagnose problems, and to provide customer support services. 
  • Customer and supplier management. If we are in a business relationship with your organization or you directly, we process the personal data that is necessary for our customer or supplier management, as well as for the following other related purposed, including (i) to carry out the transactions in which we are engaged, and to procure products and services from our suppliers and subcontractors; (ii) process your orders and payment along with our authorized payment processors (iii) to interact with you, for instance to reply to your inquiries; (iv) to track our activities (measuring sales, our work time, etc.) and those of our suppliers; (v) to manage our archiving and records; and (vi) for invoicing purposes]. 

The personal data that we process in this context includes: (i) personal data about individuals with whom we interact, such [as the name, title, position, company name, email and/or postal address and the professional fixed and/or mobile phone number]; (ii) personal data relating to our interactions and the services provided; (iii) any other information provided to us by you, your organization, or third parties. 

If you are our direct customer, our basis for processing the data is our Contractual Necessity. In other cases (e.g. if you are a representative of one of our customers), it is our Legitimate Interests in delivering our Services to our customers and ensuring we are paid for our services. 

The personal data which we must retain for record-keeping, tax or another legal obligation will, as a rule, be kept for the duration of the contractual relationship and thereafter for a period of 10 years (or such other retention period as applicable). Shorter retention periods apply for personal data which must not be retained for the above reasons. 

For our legitimate business interests related to the provision of the Services, including to ensure the security of the Services, improve our Services, as well as for monitoring or statistical purposes. 

We may also process your personal data for our legitimate business operations related to providing our Services, which include (i) ensuring that our Services are provided in an efficient and secure way (e.g. through internal analysis of the Services’ stability and security, updates and troubleshooting); (ii) protecting the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks; (iii) benefiting from cost-effective services (e.g. we may opt to use certain services offered by suppliers rather than undertaking the activity ourselves); (iv) improving and developing the Services (including monitoring the use of our Services, and for statistical purposes); and (v) achieving our corporate goals).  

Legal basis: Legitimate Interests, Consent, 

You may withdraw your consent, respectively object to such processing activities, at any time.  

Additional Information  

Additional information on the processing of your personal data for our legitimate business operations: 

  • Ensuring that our Solutions are provided in an efficient and secure way. In addition to the personal data which you provide when logging-in to your account or interacting with the Solutions (e.g. when you fill in forms or upload content to the Solutions), we automatically collect technical information about your interactions with the Solutions, such as IP address, the content that was accessed, date and time of access, information about your web browser, your preferences, or other information related to your interaction with the Solutions, including your navigation details on the Solutions.  

We process this data to establish a connection with your device over the internet, to identify you when you use the Solutions, control the use of the Solutions and for security purposes 

  • Protecting the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks. We use data to protect the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks, for instance to detect and disrupt the operation of malicious software by systematically scanning contents in an automated manner. 
  • Monitoring compliance with our terms and conditions. We monitor for breaches of our terms and conditions. For example, we reserve the right to monitor use to restrict unauthorized access to our Solutions and to detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent traffic.  
  • Personalizing and improving our Services. We may process your personal data, in particular data relating to your use of our Services and your habits and preferences (e.g. the content you accessed, date and time of access and your preferences), for internal analysis and statistical purposes, in order to better understand the needs of our users, to optimize their experience by personalizing our Services, and in general to improve the ergonomics and functionality of our Services. You may object to such processing activities at any time (see section 12 below for additional information on your rights). 

We do not link this information to you or your account. In connection with the Solutions, we use analytics tools provided by known market providers – such as Google Analytics – which provide to us only aggregated, non-identifiable data. The privacy policy of those service providers is applicable in this context. You will find information on the privacy practices of Google and how to opt out of their analytics cookies by clicking on the following link: Google Analytics. 

You will find additional information in Section 11 in relation to the use of cookies for this purpose, including on the duration for which data collected this way are stored. Data collected by other means is deleted or anonymized at the latest 7 days after its collection. 

  • Promoting our Services. We may use your publications, which may contain personal data, in order for us to promote our product and services. For instance, we may publish on social media cases uploaded by our community of users, in order to give them a broader visibility. Our legal basis for processing personal data here is our Legitimate Interest in promoting our business and pursuing our business as an independent publisher. 
  • Data anonymization. We may combine your personal data with other information (aggregate) or erase any information that allows us to identify you (anonymize), so that it is no longer considered personal data under applicable data protection law, in which case this General Privacy Notice will no longer apply and we may use such data for purposes not contemplated by this General Privacy Notice (e.g. for benchmarking or analytics purposes, or to develop and market new services). You may object to the anonymization or aggregation of your personal data for this purpose at any time (see section 12 below for additional information on your rights). 

To send you our newsletters and communication product changes and offers. 

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your contact details (name and email address) and use it to provide you with our newsletter. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter service or any type of communication at any time, in which case you will stop receiving our newsletter. We also process the time of registration and your opt-in confirmation based on our legal obligation to demonstrate compliance. 

We use the third-party services of Sendinblue to provide our newsletter service, which will have access to your login data in order to provide you with the service. Its privacy policy is applicable in connection with this, which you will fin here. 

Legal basis: Consent, Legal Obligation 

We want you to benefit from our new and existing products and services. For this purpose, if you have previously required services or products from us and have not objected to the corresponding use of your email address, we may contact you by email carefully curated and relevant offers and promotions, exclusive event invitations and feature announcements. You can change your preferences and object to the use of your email address for this purpose at any time by contacting us (see contact detail in section 14).  

Legal basis: Legitimate Interest  

To provide you with job opportunities within BeeMed. 

We may process your personal data to allow you to consult and apply for job opportunities within BeeMed. We will process the personal data you provide. In addition, if you provide us with links to your profile on social media platforms (such as LinkedIn) or with contact information for references, we will assume that we may gather information from these sources. 

Any information you submit must be true, complete and not misleading. Should the information provided be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading, subject to applicable law, this may lead to a rejection of your application during the application process or disciplinary action including immediate dismissal if you have been employed.   

We will process your personal data exclusively for assessing your application. Your personal data is retained no longer than the duration of the recruitment process unless required otherwise by applicable laws and regulations.  

Legal basis: Contractual Necessity (to take pre-contractual steps at your request) 

To comply with our other legal obligations or for other legitimate interests. 

We may further process your personal data if we have a legal obligation to do so or for other legitimate interests. This will for instance be the case if we need to disclose certain information to public authorities or retain such information for tax or accounting purposes, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.  

The personal data that we process for this purpose are those that we collected for one of the purposes indicated elsewhere in this section 6. We retain the personal data for the duration of the legal obligation imposed on us.   

Legal basis: Legal Obligations, Legitimate Interests 

7.The circumstances in which we share your personal data with third parties 

We will only share your personal data with third parties if this is necessary for the operation of our Services, if there is a legal obligation or permission to do so, or if there is another valid reason to do so. 

Additional Information  

  • Our service providers. We may share your personal data with third parties in connection with the operation of the Services or our business operations and with subcontractors such as IT service providers, cloud service providers, database providers, automated marketing solutions providers and consultants, including, SendinBlue (marketing), Google Cloud (cloud/storage provider), Google Analytics (data analytics tool), Cometchat (IT Services),  The Computer Firm & Origin Food (IT Services). 
  • Events we organize. If you signup to events we organize, the providers we use to organize them will have access to the information required to provide their services.  
  • Social plug-ins. We may also enable you to use third-party services directly from the Solutions, in particular through the social plug-ins of Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft], in which case you acknowledge that the third-party operators of such services may access some of your personal data related to the Solutions, in accordance with their own privacy practices. 
  • Public information. Your personal data may also be made available to other users of the Services or to third parties to the extent necessary for the proper operation and marketing of the Services, for example for the purpose of enabling users to interact. In particular, the Solutions may allow users to share information publicly (e.g., via their public profile, cases, and other content that users choose to make available to others). We may either publish this information directly on the Solutions, or communicate it by any other means, for instance by publishing it on social medias.  
  • Legal Obligation. We may also disclose your personal data where we have a legitimate interest in doing so, for example (i) to respond to a request from a judicial authority or in accordance with a legal obligation; (ii) to bring or defend against a claim or lawsuit; or (iii) in the context of restructuring, in particular if we transfer our assets to another company.  

8.International Transfers 

We store your personal data on servers located in Switzerland. We may also store a copy your personal data near to the geographic location where you reside (e.g. in the U.S. for U.S. users) in order to provide you with a better service. 

In principle, we do not transfer your personal data to other countries or make it available there. However, in certain circumstances, in particular in connection with the operations of our subcontractors, your personal data may be made available to recipients located abroad (e.g. SendinBlue is headquartered in France, and Google is headquartered in the U.S, from which locations some data may be available). In such cases, we will ensure that suitable safeguards are in place, in accordance with applicable data protection laws, for instance by relying on standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission.  

Moreover, the information accessible to the public or to other users on the Solutions may be accessed worldwide. 

If you transmit information and data to us, you are expressly deemed to consent to such data transfers. You may request additional information in this regard and obtain a copy of the relevant safeguards upon request by sending a request to the contact address indicated in section 14 below. 

9.How long we store your personal data 

Your personal data will not be stored longer than necessary.  We will erase or anonymize personal data as soon as it is no longer necessary for us to fulfil the purposes set out in section 6 of this General Privacy Notice. This period varies, depending on the type of data concerned and the applicable legal requirements. More information on each type of processing can be found in section 6 above.  

Your account information is retained for as long as your account is active. If you suppress your user account, your account information will be deleted or anonymized within 30 days after such event, unless data must be retained for a valid reason (such as evidentiary or tax purposes).  

In view of the legal obligations’ incumbent upon us, certain information relating in particular to the contractual relationship must be retained for at least 10 years. More information on each type of processing can be found in section 13 (Service-Specific Information). 

 

 

10.Security  

We maintain physical, technical and procedural safeguards to keep your personal data secure. 

We are committed to the security of your personal data, and have in place physical, administrative and technical measures designed to keep secure your personal data and to prevent unauthorized access to it. We use two-factor authentication whenever possible. We restrict access to your personal data to those persons who need to know it for the purpose described in this General Privacy Notice. In addition, we use standard security protocols and mechanisms to exchange the transmission of sensitive data. When you enter sensitive information on our Solutions, we encrypt it using Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology. 

Although we take appropriate steps to protect your personal data, no IT infrastructure is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that data you provide to us is safe and protected from all unauthorized third-party access and theft. We waive any liability in this respect. 

The internet is a global environment. As a result, by sending information to us electronically, such data may be transferred internationally over the internet depending upon your location. Internet is not a secure environment and this General Privacy Notice applies to our use of your personal data once it is under our control only. Given the inherent nature of the internet, all internet transmissions are done at your own risk. 

If we have reasonable reasons to believe that your personal data have been acquired by an unauthorized person, and applicable law requires notification, we will promptly notify you of the breach by email (if we have it) and/or by any other channel of communication (including by posting a notice on the Solutions). 

11.How we use cookies or other analytical tools 

We use Cookies, other analytical tools and similar technologies in connection with the Solutions, as further detailed in our Cookie Policy. 

We and our third party service providers use cookies and other similar technologies (Cookies) in connection with our Solutions in order for us to provide our Services and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance , to personalize your experience, and for our marketing activities, some of which are capable of automatically processing data on your electronic device and/or of transferring personal data about you to us or third parties. 

You can learn more about how we use Cookies and similar technologies and how you can exercise control over them in our Cookie Policy. 

12.Your rights with regard to the processing of your personal data 

You have the right to access your personal data we process and may request that they be removed, updated, or rectified. 

You may contact us directly to exercise your rights. Unless otherwise provided by law, you have the right to know whether we are processing your personal data, to know the content of such personal data, to verify its accuracy, and to the extent permitted by law, to request that it be supplemented, updated, rectified or erased. You also have the right to ask us to cease any specific processing of personal data that may have been obtained or processed in breach of applicable law, and you have the right to object to any processing of personal data for legitimate reasons.  

By accessing your user account (if you have one), you can review, update, correct or delete the personal data available within your user account. 

If you request us to delete your personal data from our systems, we will do so unless we need to retain your data for legal or other legitimate reasons. Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. 

Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, we will seek your freely given and specific consent by providing you with informed and unambiguous indications relating to your personal data. You may revoke at any time such consent (without such withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of processing made prior to).  

The above does not restrict any other rights you might have pursuant to applicable data protection legislation under certain circumstances.  

Additional Information  

In particular, if the GDPR applies to the processing of your personal data you have the following rights under the GDPR if the respective requirements are met: 

  • Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR) - you have the right to access and ask us for copies of your personal data.  
  • Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) - you have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.  
  • Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) - you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.  
  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) - you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.  
  • Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) - you have the right to ask that we transfer in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format the personal data you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances. 
  • Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR) - you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data which is based on our Legitimate Interests, in certain circumstances. In such case, we will no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override your interests, rights and freedoms or where the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. 
  • As a rule, you are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights and we will respond to your request within one month.  

Also, if you are a California resident using the Services, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may provide you the right to request access to and deletion of your personal data. You may request that we: 

  • disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request: (i) the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collected about you and the categories of personal information we sold (see sections 4 and 6 of this General Privacy Notice); (ii) the categories of sources from which we collected such personal information (see section 4 of this General Privacy Notice); (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information about you (see sections  5 and 6 of this General Privacy Notice); and (iv) the categories of third parties to whom we sold or otherwise disclosed personal information (see section 7 of this General Privacy Notice). 
  • delete personal information we collected from you; or 
  • opt-out of any future sale of personal information about you. 

In addition, users of the Services who are California residents and under 18 years of age may request and obtain removal of content they posted. 

We do not sell user personal data to third parties for the intents and purposes of the CCPA.   

To exercise the right to request access to and deletion of your personal data, please see the contact details in section 14 below. We do not discriminate based on the exercise of any privacy rights that you might have under this section and will respond to your request consistent with applicable law]. 

[All requests must be labeled “California Removal Request” on the email subject line. All requests must provide a description of the content you want removed and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate that content. We do not accept California Removal Requests via postal mail, telephone, or facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, and we may not be able to respond if you do not provide adequate information. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the material. For example, materials that you have posted may be republished or reposted by another user or third party.] 

You will find further details of your rights in sections  5 and 6 and  of this General Privacy Notice in connection with each processing activity we perform. If you want to exercise any of your rights, or want additional information about them, please contact us using the contact detailed listed below (see section 14). 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority. 

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we process your personal data, you may lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, in addition to the rights described above.  

Although this is not required, we recommend that you contact us first, as we might be able to respond to your request directly. 

13.Service-Specific Information 

This section of the General Privacy Notice contains the information which is specific to certain Solutions and other Services. It applies in addition to the other sections of this General Privacy Notice.  

For now, we have no additional services with specific information not already covered in other sections of this document. 

14.Contact Us 

If you believe your personal data has been used in a way that is not consistent with this General Privacy Notice, or if you have any questions or queries regarding the collection or processing of your personal data, please contact our data protection officer at dpo@beemed.com 

Contact our data UE representative: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en  

15.Updates to this General Privacy Notice 

This General Privacy Notice may be subject to amendments. Any changes or additions to the processing of personal data as described in this General Privacy Notice affecting you will be communicated to you through an appropriate channel, depending on how we normally communicate with you (including by email and/or via the Solutions, e.g. banners, pop-ups or other notification mechanisms). If you do not agree to the changes made, you must stop accessing and/or using the impacted Services. 

 

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Last updated: 17 August 2023 

 

BEEMED SOLUTIONS | COOKIE POLICY 

 

Scope 

This Cookie Policy is incorporated into and forms an integral part of our General Privacy Notice for the Solutions It explains how we, BeeMed, use cookies in relation to the Solutions.  

 

Which Cookies we use 

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers downloaded on to your computer when you access certain websites. They can serve different purposes. At BeeMed, we only use essential cookies in connection with our Solutions. They are required in order for the Solutions to function properly.  

On our website, we may also use the Google Analytics cookies to measure and monitor the traffic and use of the Solutions and their performance.  

Your Choices 

If you do not want Cookies to be stored on your electronic device, you can configure your internet browser or electronic device to refuse and/or restrict them. Keep in mind, however, that the cookies we use are, essential to the functioning of the Solutions. They may operate differently if you refuse or completely restrict all Cookies. 

You can see the help section of your internet browser or electronic device for more specific instructions on how to manage Cookies. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser. 

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Last updated: 17 August 2023