Privacy Policy
1. Data protection at a glance
General information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration listed below this text.
Data collection on this website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator’s contact details in the legal notice of this website.
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Ein Teil der Daten wird erhoben, um eine fehlerfreie Bereitstellung der Website zu gewährleisten. Andere Daten können zur Analyse Ihres Nutzerverhaltens verwendet werden.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection.
Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically evaluated. This is primarily done using cookies and so-called analysis programmes. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on this can be found in the following privacy policy.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this privacy policy.
2. Hosting and content delivery networks (CDN)
External Hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website. The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data.
Conclusion of a contract for order processing
In order to ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded an order processing contract with our hoster.
3. General notes and mandatory information
Data protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Note on the responsible party
The party responsible for data processing on this website is
International Union of Physiological Sciences
Department of Women & Children’s Health,
University of Liverpool, 1st Floor University Department,
Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street,
Liverpool, L8 7SS E
Any data subject may, at any time, contact us via our contact address or via email iupsmanager@iups.org directly with all questions and suggestions concerning data protection.
Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is found under https://www.dlapiperdataprotection.com/index.html?t=authority&c=US
Storage period
Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons no longer apply.
SSL and TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, blocking, deletion and correction
You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time within the framework of the applicable legal provisions. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions on the subject of personal data.
4. Datenerfassung auf dieser Website
Cookies
Cookies are small text files. These are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Our web page uses cookies. Generally spoken, cookies help to make a website user-friendly, secure and efficient. We wish to emphasise that cookies do not contain any viruses and do harm your computer. Upon access to our website you will be always asked which cookies you want to accept.
Most of the cookies are what is called “session cookies.” While some of them are automatically deleted after your visit, others make it possible to recognize your browser upon your next visit this site. Thus they remain stored on your device until actively deleted by you. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. Please not that you have the possibility to configure your browser individually whether to accept or reject or automatically deleting cookies when closing the browser.
Server Log Files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in “server log files”. These are:
- Domain
- IP-Address
- Time of the server request
- “Request”
- Status-Code
- Bytes transferred
- “Useragent”
These data will not be combined with data from other sources and are not made directly available to the website controller. However, the website controller receives anonymous statistics (without IP addresses) informing about total and average number of devices, visits, and pages visited per day or per month, respectively. It also shows whether you reached us directly or via an external link.
Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
5. Plugins and tools with relevance to data collection
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts on different devices , this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
YouTube
Our website uses embedded videofiles which are uploaded from Youtube. Whenever you open such a video, youtube collects unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. Information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with Google services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request as well as the video(s) you watch and People with whom you communicate or share content are also collected.
Social Media
This website contains Facebook, Instagram or Bluesky symbols. However, their website’s components are not integrated into this website. You open them independently of the website. We refer to the privacy policies of these companies