Disclaimer

This website is dedicated to the dissemination of the MELIORA project. The project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon programme under the Grand Agreement No. 101136791.

  1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer when you visit our website. Each cookie contains various data such as, for example, the name of the server from which it comes, a numeric identifier, etc. Cookies help us to do different things, such as enabling certain features on our website or measuring how visitors such as you use our website. Read on for more details on which cookies we use and for what purposes.

  1. Who is “we”?

This website is controlled by the European Health Management Association who is part of the MELIORA consortium (“EHMA”, “We” or “us”), and we are the controller for the data processing occurring here. You can contact us at:

European Health Management Association

C/ AV. DE CORTENBERGH 89, BRUSSELS 1000, Belgium

Tel: +32 (0)2 502 65 25

Should you have further questions regarding the processing of your personal data, do not hesitate to contact:

Individual responsible for data protection: Guiseppe Martone

Email: giuseppe.martone@ehma.org

  1. Which cookies do we use and why?

On our website, we use analytics cookies. In more detail:

Analytics cookies are cookies that are either processed by us or by a third party and which allow us to measure the number of users and therefore carry out a statistical analysis of the use of the website. For these purposes, they analyse your browsing behaviour on our website, with the goal of improving the services of this website.

For the _ga cookies (tracking cookies) we require your prior consent. You can give your consent by clicking the appropriate button in the cookie banner. You can withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the cookies stored in your browser. You can find more information on how to do this on the websites of the respective browser manufacturers:

  1. What data is collected and why?

The cookies we use collect the following data:

  • Time of visit, pages visited, and time spent on each page of the web pages
  • Referring site details (such as the URI a user came through to arrive at this site)
  • Type of web browser
  • Type of operating system (OS)
  • Flash version, JavaScript support, screen resolution, and screen colour processing ability
  • Network location and IP address.
  1. With whom do we share your personal data?

We will not share your personal data with anyone but our suppliers who help us process your personal data.

Our use of analytical and statistical cookies may imply that the third-party provider of those cookies, namely Google, may obtain certain information about you, including about your surfing behaviour. You may find more information on Google’s processing activities here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Anyone who has access to your personal data will always be bound by strict legal or contractual obligations to keep your personal data safe and confidential.

Anonymised and aggregated statistics about the use of the website, may be shared within the MELIORA consortium and with the European Commission, but this will not contain any information that can be traced back to you as a user.

  1. How long do we keep your personal data?

Your personal data are only processed at the first moment of collection. Afterwards, we immediately use the anonymization features of Google Analytics to ensure that any information collected via cookies is anonymized. Please note that the, _ga cookie remains on your device for the whole duration of the indicated lifespan (unless you delete them manually). Each time you visit our website, these cookies will be collected again. For more details on how to delete them, please see point 3 above.

We may keep reports and aggregated statistical data for up to 5 years after the project’s duration.

  1. What do we do to keep your personal data safe

As explained earlier, the security and confidentiality of all data we process is very important to us. We have also technical, organizational and contractual measures to ensure that our infrastructure, systems, applications, premises and processes are and remain safe.

  1. Which rights do you have with regard to your personal data?

When we collect and use your personal data, you enjoy a right of access, correction, erasure, data portability as well as restriction and opposition to processing your personal data. Note, however, that where it concerns personal data processed through cookies, we anonymize immediately.

If you have any complaints regarding the processing of your personal data by the European Health Management Association, you may always contact us via the e-mail address mentioned above. If you remain unsatisfied with our response, you may file a complaint with the competent data protection authority. In Belgium, the supervisory authority is the Belgian Data Protection Authority (https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen). The full list of the European data protection authorities is available on the website of the European Data Protection Board (https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en).

  1. What if this cookie policy does not answer all of your questions?

The data protection laws require that we provide you with information on the processing of your personal data. Should you have further questions regarding the processing of your personal data, do not hesitate to contact us at giuseppe.martone@ehma.org

  1. Will this policy be updated?

We will occasionally update these terms and cookie policy. Any modification of these conditions will be posted on this website. From the moment that we make available to users the new conditions through publication on our website, these new conditions apply and replace those previously published. It is a user´s responsibility to periodically access these published conditions on our website to always know the latest ones.

Last updated: April 2024