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Privacy notice

What this website collects, why, how long it is kept, and what you can ask us to do about it.

The short version

  • This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies, and no third-party analytics that identify you.
  • We only hold personal data you deliberately give us: a newsletter sign-up, an Open Pilot expression of interest, or an event registration.
  • We never ask for, and never want, patient or clinical data through this website.
  • You can ask us to delete your data at any time and we will.

Who is responsible

This website is operated by the HEALTH-ER consortium, coordinated by OBRELA Security Industries, under Grant Agreement No. 101299528 of the Digital Europe Programme. The granting authority is the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre.

For any question about your personal data, or to exercise the rights described below, contact the project coordinator.

What we collect, and why

Newsletter subscription

What
Email address, and optionally your name, organisation and country.
Why
To send you the project newsletter, roughly four issues over the project.
Legal basis
Your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)), given by double opt-in — we only add you once you click the confirmation link.
How long
Until you unsubscribe, or twelve months after the project ends, whichever comes first.

Open Pilot expression of interest

What
Organisation name and type, country, your name, job title and work email, your areas of interest, and anything you write in the free-text box.
Why
So the Open Pilot team can contact you and understand what would be useful. Aggregated, anonymised counts (how many organisations, from how many countries) are reported as project indicators.
Legal basis
Your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).
How long
For the duration of the project plus the retention period required by the Grant Agreement for audit purposes.

Event registration

What
Your name, email, and optionally organisation, job title, country, role and any accessibility or dietary requirements.
Why
To manage your participation in the event and to report attendance figures as project indicators.
Legal basis
Your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).
How long
Twelve months after the event, unless you also subscribed to the newsletter.

Website analytics

What
Aggregated page views and referrers. No cookies, no cross-site identifiers, no device fingerprinting, and no data that identifies an individual visitor.
Why
To report the visitor numbers required as a project indicator, and to see which pages are useful.
Legal basis
Legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) in understanding how the site is used. Because no personal data is processed and no information is stored on your device, no consent banner is required.
How long
Aggregated statistics only.

Cookies

This website sets no advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking cookies, and loads no third-party tracking scripts. That is why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner.

Two small pieces of information may be stored in your browser, both purely functional and neither shared with anyone: your light or dark theme preference, and — only if you log in to the partner area — a session cookie that keeps you signed in.

Web fonts are served from this website’s own servers rather than from a third-party font service, so visiting a page does not disclose your IP address to any external provider.

Who sees your data

Personal data collected through this website is accessible to the partners in the HEALTH-ER consortium who need it for the purpose you gave it for — for example, the Open Pilot team at HOPE and EYD for expressions of interest.

It is not sold, rented or shared for marketing. Technical service providers (hosting, database, email delivery) process data on our instructions under written agreements, with processing located in the European Union.

The granting authority may access project records for audit purposes, as provided for in the Grant Agreement.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or transfer it elsewhere. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time — this does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.

Every newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. For anything else, email us and we will act within one month.

If you believe we have handled your data improperly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

Clinical and patient data

No patient data, clinical data or special-category health data is ever collected through this website, and none should ever be sent to us through it.

Where the project processes data inside hospital environments during the pilots, that is governed separately by written agreements with the hospital concerned and by the project’s Data Management Plan, under the responsibility of the Privacy & Ethics Manager.

See also the legal notice and our accessibility statement.