Privacy

These include the following:

• A lawful purpose that is communicated to the data subject in a clear and timely manner.
• A legal basis for the processing of personal data, for example an agreement, the consent of the data subject, an essential obligation or a legitimate interest that overrides the privacy interests of the data subject.
• Data minimization — no more data may be collected and processed than is necessary for the purpose.
• Subsidiarity — if there are other means of achieving this purpose which are less burdensome toward the data subject, these should be used.
• Appropriate organisational and technical measures to protect the personal data being processed.

Mediq takes great care when processing your personal data. In the first instance, your personal data is only available to Mediq. However, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data with other care providers, such as your treatment provider, family doctor or health insurance provider. Therefore be situations in which it is necessary to link your personal data with and monitor it alongside your personal data held with other healthcare partners.

We also use your personal data to perform analyses to improve the services we provide to you or, for example, to contact you if there is a change to your order or to the delivery time of an order.

Furthermore, Mediq uses your personal data - insofar as permitted by law - to inform you about products and/or services provided by companies affiliated with Mediq and which may be of interest to you.

We can also provide general information about Mediq and the various treatment areas in which we operate and which we think are relevant to you. In principle, you will only receive this information if you have given your prior consent for this.

You may declare at any time that you do not (or no longer) wish to receive commercial information. To do this, please contact privacy@mediq.com. We will then stop sending information to you. Note that it may take some time to process your request.

Please note: if you withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, we will no longer be able to serve you as one of our customers.

A data processing agreement (DPA) is the agreement between the controller and the processor which determines how the processor handles the personal data. Mediq (the controller) and an IT service provider (the processor), for example, will in all cases conclude a written agreement with an external partner before any personal data can be distributed. Mediq is responsible for ensuring that this Is done. In short, every external party with which we do business and with which personal data is processed has a separate agreement with Mediq which meets the legal requirements.

You can contact us at any time to request to view your personal data and/or to modify, supplement, delete or restrict your personal data if it is factually incorrect, incomplete or irrelevant. You may also object to the processing of your personal data. To have your personal data modified or deleted, contact us at privacy@mediq.com.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation has also introduced new rights: the right to be forgotten and the right to data portability. You may also benefit from these new rights. We will do our utmost to fulfil your request within a reasonable time.

We use Google Analytics to analyse how we can serve our website visitors as effectively as possible. Information we receive from Google Analytics is stored by Google on servers in the United States. This concerns solely anonymised data and not personal data. The latter also means that the exact location from which you have accessed the websites is unknown.

Mediq uses this information to keep track of how its websites are used, to be able to create reports about these websites and to be able to offer its advertisers information about the effectiveness of their campaigns.

We have not allowed Google to use the information obtained for other Google services.

Please read the Google (Analytics) privacy policy for more information.

Personal data is essential for Mediq to provide its services. The use of personal data does sometimes encroach on an individual's privacy. It is important to minimise this encroachment: we always try to use no more of your personal data than is necessary and we handle your personal data with care at all times.

Our employees who work with medical information are bound by a duty of confidentiality. This means that, as a matter of course, no patient data may be shared with others. Treatment providers with whom we are in contact and employees of healthcare institutions are bound by a duty of confidentiality based on their professional code of conduct. As a result, only the people who are directly involved in organising your care may view your personal data, and they will handle this personal data in a confidential manner.

We use cookies when providing our services. Cookies are small, simple text files that your computer receives when you visit one of our websites. Cookies are used on most websites, including ours.

By using cookies, we ensure that you do not repeatedly receive the same information, or do not repeatedly need to enter the same information, when visiting our website. We make it easier for you to browse our website and we can also remember the contents of your shopping cart. Cookies also allow us to see how our website is used and where we can improve it further.

Cookies are safe to use: no personal information, such as a phone number or email address, can be derived from cookies. This also means that cookies cannot be used for email and telemarketing operations.

It is naturally possible to block cookies or withdraw your consent to them being used. Most Internet browsers can be set up to reject cookies. How this is done depends on the browser that you use.

Please note: if you disable cookies via the browser or block them in any other way, this may cause certain services or elements of the website to stop working or not to work in an optimal manner.