Data Protection Overview
The following Data Protection Overview provides a concise overview of how Veni Vidi Medical online services (websites and social networks) collect and process your personal information. Full details of this process are available in the complete version of our Data Protection Policy.
What information do we collect?
When you open and/or use one of our online services, the information collected includes:
- The type of browser you are using
- The pages you have visited on our website
- The operating system
- Your IP address or shortened IP address
- User behaviour (e.g. mouse movements, click behaviour, session duration, etc.)
This information is predominantly collected and used in an anonymised or pseudonymised form.
If you have registered on our website, you have voluntarily provided information about yourself, which includes:
- First name, last name and title
- Payment information
- Contact information (e.g. email, phone)
- Address and order information
- Company, group assignment
- Products and equipment you use
- Personal interests and preferences
How is information collected by Veni Vidi Medical?
Veni Vidi Medical’s online services use various types of cookies or tracking technologies with different functions. These perform purely technical functions, while also contributing to the optimization of the web pages, to interactions with social media, as well as to the usage-related advertisement both on our side and the partners’ side. As a result, we also provide information to our partners for analysis, marketing, and social media purposes. You can object to the use of these technologies at any time and in different stages. Click on “Settings” to select your personal cookie settings.
Data is collected by Veni Vidi Medical’s online services via automated processes or user entry, e.g. by means of:
- Cookie tracking pixels
- Direct user entry
- Cross-device tracking, mouse tracking and similar methods
Cookies make websites more user-friendly, effective and secure. A cookie is a text file containing information about user activity which is temporarily saved in the user’s browser. They can be used to define and save visitor preferences and website settings.
Why does Veni Vidi Medical online services process and use my personal information?
It should be noted that Veni Vidi Medical only collects personal information on a case-by-case basis and for specific purposes. The following list of reasons is therefore not exhaustive.
- For the provision of our products and services
- To comply with legal obligations
- For credit checks when processing payments that use insecure payment methods
- To prevent fraud on purchases for advertising purposes
- For web analytics and to improve our website
- For contests
- For newsletters and other subscriptions
- For online applications
- For contact purposes and in contact forms
- For orders
- During the use of Veni Vidi Medical digital services, eg. platforms, subscribing to/unsubscribing from newsletters.
We know that it is important to you that your personal information be handled with care. Since data protection is a high priority issue at Veni Vidi Medical, we make sure that your information is collected, processed and used strictly in accordance with the law. The instances listed above are those in which we require personal information from you. This information helps us continually improve our websites and provide you with an individualised user experience. The individual items of personal information are used to process your orders, to deliver purchased goods and products to you, to verify your creditworthiness, to process payments, to prevent fraud, and to keep you informed about your orders and our products, services, and special offers.
To ensure that we can get in touch with you quickly, we request that you provide us with your email address. Your address will only be used for advertising purposes if you have given your explicit permission for this.
Legal basis for processing personal data
We process your data only in compliance with the applicable laws. In particular, we will process your data in accordance with Article 6 and Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as in accordance with the conditions for consent in Article 7 GDPR. We will process your data, among other things, upon the following legal bases. Please note that this is not a complete or exhaustive list of the legal bases. Instead, these are merely examples intended to render the legal bases more transparent.
- Consent (point (a) of Article 6, paragraph 1 and Article 7 GDPR or point (a) of Article 9, paragraph 2 and Article 7 GDPR): we will only process specific data according to your explicit and voluntary consent, provided in advance. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
- Performance of a contract / pre-contractual measures (point (b) of Article 6, paragraph 1 GDPR): we require access to certain data to initiate or implement your contract with Veni Vidi Medical and Veni Vidi Medical’s partners.
- Compliance with a legal obligation (point (c) of Article 6, paragraph 1 GDPR): Veni Vidi Medical is subject to several legal requirements. In order to meet these requirements, we must process specific data.
- Protection of legitimate interests (point (f) of Article 6, paragraph 1): Veni Vidi Medical will process specific data to protect its interests or those of third parties. However, this only applies if your interests in the individual case do not prevail.
Where is my personal information processed?
Generally, your information is processed on servers located in the UK. If permitted, your information may also be processed in countries other than the UK. User information is processed in part by external companies hired by Veni Vidi Medical. The forwarding of data within the entities (if permitted), the transfer of data abroad, and the processing of data via external partners are performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection laws.
These activities are secured by means of the statutory regulations on data privacy protection including data processing agreements, EU standard contractual clauses, and international conventions.
What rights do I have?
- The right to information
- The right to object, including the right to withdraw your objection
- The right to have information deleted or released/transferred
- The right to limit or block the processing of information
- The right to have information corrected
- The right of appeal, also through a responsible supervisory authority
- The right to withdraw your consent
- The right to not be subject to a decision stemming from the automated processing of information or profiling
For data protection requests, please contact our Corporate Data Protection Representatives through our contact page.
