MEDACTA PRIVACY INFORMATION NOTICE

Medacta International SA, with registered offices in Strada Regina, Castel San Pietro, (Switzerland) (hereinafter “Medacta”), in its capacity as Data Controller regarding the processing of personal data according to the applicable privacy laws (hereinafter collectively defined “Applicable Law”), recognizes the importance of personal data protection and considers that preserving the confidentiality of your personal data is one of the main objectives of its activity.

Medacta informs you that processing of your data will be carried out in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency, accuracy, purpose and storage limitations, data minimisation, integrity and confidentiality. Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the legislative provisions of the Applicable Law and of the confidentiality obligations included therein.

1. Data Controller and Data Protection Officer

Pursuant to the Applicable Law, Medacta is the Data Controller that determines the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data.

A Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) has been appointed, freely contactable for any information relating to the processing of personal data (e.g., the list of the other data processors) at the following address: privacy@medacta.ch

2. Personal Data subject to processing

“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Medacta collects the following Personal Data:

1. Your personal data (name, surname);
2. Your contacts (including email, address of the hospital, phone number);

3. Purposes of processing

Medacta process your data pursuant the Applicable law. The Personal Data that you provide will be processed by Medacta for the following purposes:

1. Subscription to Medacta’s Webinar or other events;
2. Subscription in Medacta’s database for handling your requests and/or contact you for professional purposes (i.e.: organization and management of medical and professional activities, including administrative purposes, invitations to educational events of a scientific nature);
3. Purposes related to the compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
4. Purposes necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity;
5. Purposes related to marketing purpose (i.e.: newsletter about new Medacta products, latest news, innovations and information about our events and educational activities).

Pursuant Applicable Law, your consent is not requested for the purpose referred to in point 1) and 2).

The purposes referred to in points 3) and 4) constitutes a legitimate processing of Personal Data within the meaning of the Applicable Law because, once the Personal Data has been provided, the processing is indeed necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which Medacta is subject.

Providing your Personal Data for the above-mentioned purposes is voluntary, however, any refusal to provide such data may not allow Medacta to reply to your requests and to comply with legal obligations to which Medacta is subject.

For the purpose 5), your explicit consent is requested.

4. Use of images and multimedia materials (Webinar and other events)

If you participate to Medacta’s webinar or other events, any record incorporating your image and/or voice (for example, in the case of interventions during events) may be used for the following purposes:

1. publication on the websites of Medacta circuit and making available live streaming or on demand;
2. publication on the social platforms, including the social network channels of Medacta;
3. carrying out communication and promotional activities;
4. The images collected will be stored, also in electronic form and on any technological support for the purposes and within the limits defined above and may be disseminated on our websites as well as through social networks (Linkedin, YouTube by way of example but not limited to). The use of the images does not give right to any compensation.
5. If you do not wish your image to be taken during the event, we ask you to not make interventions or to communicate your will to Medacta /to your contact person or at privacy@medacta.ch.

5. Means of data processing and data retention

The processing will be carried out manually and/or through electronic methods, in compliance with the provisions of the Applicable Law, by persons specifically authorised and in compliance with the applicable regulations.

Medacta will process your Personal Data only for the duration necessary to achieve the purposes described in section 3. Apart from the above, Medacta will retain your Personal Data for a period of time necessary or permitted to comply with the Applicable Law. Further information regarding the period of retention of Personal Data and the criteria used to determine such period may be required to the DPO.

6. Recipients

Your personal data may be disclosed, in close relation to the object specified above in section 3, only to:

1. persons authorized to process Personal Data, that are committed to/ or under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality (e.g., employees and collaborators, companies that support us in communication activities) (collectively referred to as “Recipients”);
2. law enforcement agencies and public authorities when so required by the Applicable Law.

Medacta guarantees that they will not communicate Your Personal data to non-authorised recipients and will not disseminate or sell them to anyone.

7. Transfer

For the purposes described in Section 3, your Personal Data may be transferred outside your Country and, if you are in Europe, also outside the European Economic Area, pursuant to Applicable Law and to the Decision of the European Commission, only for the purposes described. Further details may be requested to the DPO at privacy@medacta.ch

8. Your Rights

Pursuant to and to the extent allowed by the Applicable Law, you have the right, at any time, to request, to Medacta, access to, rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing concerning your Personal Data or to object to relevant processing activity and to receive in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format the Personal Data concerning you.

Requests to exercise your rights must be sent to the following address: privacy@medacta.ch

In any case, pursuant to the Applicable Law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority of your Country if you believe that the processing of your Personal Data is against the Applicable Law.

9. Amendments

This Privacy Policy came into force on 25th May 2018. Medacta reserves the right to amend or to update its content, whether in whole or in part, including following changes in the legal and regulatory obligations regarding data protection