Privacy Policy
The privacy of users on our website is of great importance to us, and we make every effort to ensure its protection. These rules explain how we use your personal information. Our privacy policy is based on the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council from April 27, 2016, "On the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data," the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union.
The website is owned by MEDSTUDY.CZ LLC (hereinafter - MEDSTUDY.CZ) and was created to provide information about MEDSTUDY.CZ services to customers on the internet at the following addresses: www.medstudy.cz, medstudy.cz (hereinafter - website).
By using the MEDSTUDY.CZ website in any way, you confirm your consent to the collection and processing of your personal data. By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of these rules, you allow us to use cookies on each subsequent visit. If you do not agree with the privacy policy, please do not use our website.
Collection of Personal Data
We collect, store, and use the following types of personal data:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral sources, visit duration, pages viewed, and navigation paths through the site;
- Information such as your email address used for registration on our website;
- Information you provide when creating a profile on our website – such as your name, profile image, gender, date of birth, marital status, hobbies, interests, education, and employment details;
- Information such as your name and email address, provided when subscribing to our newsletters or mailings;
- Information you provide when using services on our website;
- Information generated when using our website, including usage times, frequency, and circumstances of use;
- Information regarding any services or transactions you conduct through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email, and credit card information;
- Information posted on our website for publication online, including your username, profile picture, and the content of your posts;
- Information contained in any correspondence sent to us via email or through our website, including the content and metadata of the message;
- Any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person's consent for both the disclosure and processing of that information according to these rules.
Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through the MEDSTUDY.CZ website will be used for the purposes outlined in these rules or on relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To administer our website and business;
- To personalize our website for you;
- To enable you to use the services available on our website;
- To provide services purchased through our website;
- To send you notifications, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect payments from you;
- To send you emails you specifically requested;
- To send you our newsletter if you have subscribed to it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive it);
- To send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we think may interest you, via publications, email, or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- To provide third parties with statistical information about our users (these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
- To handle inquiries and complaints made by or about you related to our website;
- To ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- To verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's messaging service); and
- For other purposes.
If you submit personal information for publication on the MEDSTUDY.CZ website, we will publish and otherwise use that information according to the license you grant us.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their direct marketing or the marketing of any other third party.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, professional advisers, as reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in these rules.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
- To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in these rules, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International Transfers of Personal Information
Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information according to these rules. Information we collect may be transferred to countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area, including the United States, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information you publish on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
By agreeing to these rules, you consent to the transfer of your personal information described in this section.
Retaining Personal Information
This section outlines MEDSTUDY.CZ’s data retention policies and procedures, designed to ensure we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information processed for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes. We may retain data as required by Ukrainian law and as needed to fulfill the purposes of this privacy policy, or until you request its deletion.
Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall). All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password for accessing the MEDSTUDY.CZ website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to your account on our website).
Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to periodically update these rules and publish the new version on the MEDSTUDY.CZ website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to these rules.
Cookies
The MEDSTUDY.CZ website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will be deleted at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
It is important to note that full functionality of our website is possible only with the use of cookies. Disabling cookies may lead to incorrect operation of services or limited access to content.
Third-Party Websites
The MEDSTUDY.CZ website contains hyperlinks and references to third-party websites and entities. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties in this area.
Updating Information
Please notify us in a timely manner if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Contact Information
All requests regarding the processing of personal data or information related to the Privacy Policy should be sent to the email: info@medstudy.cz.
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