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Privacy Policy

PharmicNews places great importance on the protection of personal data of our users. The Privacy Policy governs the way PharmicNews handles or collects information when visitors access our website. The processing of personal data is based on one of the lawful bases for processing.

PharmicNews is owned by Pharmic.eu, Petraciceva 6, 10000 Zagreb. Data Controller: PharmicNews, Petraciceva 6, 10000 Zagreb, marketing@pharmicnews.com Data Protection Officer: marketing@pharmicnews.com Collection and Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is considered to be information that identifies you (such as name, address, email, or postal address, etc.). PharmicNews does not collect your personal data unless you have expressly made it available to us (e.g., subscriptions or for other reasons), thereby consenting or giving consent to their use for the purposes stated below.

Use and Disclosure or Transfer of Personal Data

PharmicNews will use your personal data for the purpose of technical management of websites, preference analysis, and delivery of general and personalized offers, to enable access to special information, and for communication with you. PharmicNews also advises all parents and guardians to educate children on how to safely and responsibly handle personal data on the Internet. Our services are not intended for persons under the age of 16, but for the data we collect or process, we cannot know if they relate to persons under the age of 16. We advise all parents and guardians to educate persons under the age of 16 on how to safely and responsibly handle personal data on the Internet. When filling out contact forms on our website, it is necessary to establish, for security reasons, via Google ReCaptcha services, that it is a human. Google’s terms of service and privacy policy apply to this service. If you wish to contact us in another way, you can send us an email: marketing@pharmicnews.com Based on legitimate interest, we use information about your visit to our website to show you our site and analyze which pages you visit most frequently. This information allows us to analyze and improve our site without compromising privacy. In order to analyze and improve the use of our site, we do not place analytical cookies on your device.

Policy Related to the Use and Storage of Cookies (HTTP Cookies)

Our websites that you visit use cookies. Cookies are considered small files that are temporarily stored on your hard drive, allowing our website to recognize your computer during your next visit to the PharmicNews website. These tools may collect and store technical data such as cookies, user and/or visitor IP address, mobile device identifier, browser data, and the like, but do not identify the individual. Third-party cookies are used by PharmicNews to obtain statistical data on the visit and use of our website. The data collected includes the user’s IP address, browser information, language, operating system, and other standard statistical data collected and analyzed solely in an anonymous and aggregate form. Depending on the settings of your Internet browser, cookies may be automatically accepted. If you do not agree to their use, you can easily delete and/or permanently disable cookies on your computer or mobile device at any time using the browser settings you use. For more information on managing cookies, please visit the browser’s website you are using. Please note that the purpose of cookies is to improve and enable the use of our website, and by preventing or deleting cookies, you may disable the features of our website or cause a different operation and appearance in your browser.

Newsletter

If you have given explicit consent to receive the Newsletter, we may send you an electronic newsletter with commercial advertising content. The data you provide us to subscribe to the Newsletter will only be used to send the Newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe from the Newsletter, you can do so at any time through the unsubscribe option found in the Newsletter. In the event of unsubscribing, the personal data we collected for this purpose will cease to be processed. The collected data is stored only for the period until you withdraw your consent to receive our Newsletter. Data processing for receiving our newsletter is necessary for our legitimate interests. Therefore, you are not obliged to provide such data and/or consent to its receipt. The legal basis for receiving our newsletter is your consent (Article 6, paragraph 1, General Data Protection Regulation). If you have not given your consent, the newsletter will not be sent to you.

Security

PharmicNews makes great efforts to ensure the security of personal data and compliance with applicable data protection regulations (such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the Act on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, etc.). Please note that your data is conscientiously protected from loss, destruction, manipulation, unauthorized access, and unauthorized disclosure. Our PharmicNews employees are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your data and adhere to the general acts of PharmicNews. Also, PharmicNews uses state-of-the-art technical and organizational security measures to ensure the security of your personal data.

Retention Period

We store and keep your personal data until you withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter.

Your Rights

In case of any change to any of your personal data, please inform us of the changes at marketing@pharmicnews.com so that we can correct or update your personal data. Hereby, we inform you that you have the right to withdraw the given consent at any time in whole or in part, by informing PharmicNews in writing at marketing@pharmicnews.com. Furthermore, upon receipt of the consent withdrawal statement, we will confirm receipt in writing, and the personal data covered by the consent withdrawal statement will no longer be processed from the date of consent withdrawal. Please note that all processing and/or transfers made until the date of consent withdrawal will remain legally valid. In addition to the right to withdraw consent, users, in accordance with applicable data protection regulations, have the right to access and confirm from PharmicNews regarding personal data, the right to rectify, the right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”), the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability, and the right to object. Users also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority. If you have decided not to share your data, please consider that you may not be able to access some parts of the website. Users who decide they no longer wish to receive our services can unsubscribe from receiving notifications by unsubscribing from our site, sending an email notification to marketing@pharmicnews.com.

Automated Processing

Please note that some data (such as the type of Internet browser you use, the number of visits, the average time spent on the pages, the content viewed, and the like) is processed automatically when accessing the PharmicNews website. The said data is used to assess the attractiveness of our website. Please note that the user has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, except where such a decision is necessary for the conclusion or execution of a contract between the user and PharmicNews permitted by Croatian law or EU law or based on the user’s explicit consent.

Links to Other Sites

This privacy policy applies to the PharmicNews. Our publications may contain links to other service providers, and this privacy policy does not apply to them. When leaving the PharmicNews website, please familiarize yourself with the privacy policy on each website that collects personal data.

Notice of Changes and Contact

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on PharmicNews.com. If you have any questions regarding the privacy statement, please contact us at marketing@pharmicnews.com.