Privacy Policy

Updated on the 30th June, 2024

In compliance with Law 34/2002, of July 11, Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE), the following entity is the owner of this website (www.my-gch.com) and its corresponding App MyGCH. In accordance with the requirement of article 10 of the aforementioned Law, it reports the following information:

• Entity: Global Hysteroscopy, SL
• CIF: B-02700102
• Address: C/Gutenberg 1, Ed.Torres de La Caleta, Blq. B, Local 3
• General contact email: info@my-gch.com
• Registered Trade Mark: Global Congress on Hysteroscopy
• Platforms: www.my-gch.com and APP MyGCH

Global Hysteroscopy, SL respects the privacy of the users (from now on the “User” or “you“) and is committed to protecting the personal information that Users may share. This Privacy Policy describes the practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information which may be obtained when you visit our website or App from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (from now on the “Sites“) or when you participate in any of the online forums, platforms, newsletters or other digital activities carried out by us on the Sites (from now on “Activities“). This Privacy Statement also describes your choices regarding the use, access, and correction of your personal information.

By entering the site and using or participating in any activities, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the collection and processing of your personal information necessary to provide the services you are requesting. If you disagree to any term provided herein, please do not use the site or participate in any activities.

Before submitting any personal information to us, please read this Privacy Policy carefully to learn about our privacy practices.

Global Hysteroscopy, SL guarantees users of the Sites that it complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, and has established the security measures required by law and regulations aimed at preserving secrecy, confidentiality, and integrity in the processing of personal data. Personal data will be used in the manner and with the limitations and rights granted by the protection of personal data. The collection and processing of the requested personal data is intended to provide the corresponding services for the user, both in administrative as well as commercial terms. Global Hysteroscopy, SL agrees to keep the maximum reserve, secrecy, and confidentiality on the information of the personal data that it has at its disposal.

1.- YOUR RIGHTS CONCERNING PERSONAL DATA ARE THE FOLLOWING:

■ Access: consult your personal data that appears in our files

■ Modification: request the correction or modification of your personal data.

■ Suppression: request the deletion of your personal data.

■ Opposition: request that your data not be processed for certain uses.

You can exercise these rights at any time, by proving your identity by means of a copy of your ID or equivalent document, in writing to info@my-gch.com 

2.- WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

1) Personal Information:

The information you may provide is received and stored when using the Sites or participating in any Activities. This information includes information that personally identifies you, or that may, directly or indirectly, personally identify you, including, but not limited to your name, telephone number, postal address and email address. Such information is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “personal information”, and comprises solely of information that is voluntarily provided by you (for example, when you contact us via email, registration forms, sign up for newsletters or voluntarily participate in any Activities). You can choose not to provide us with any personal information, but failure to do so may preclude us from responding to any questions and comments you may refer to us on the Site or may otherwise preclude you from participating in certain Activities.

2) Log Data:

As is true of most websites, our servers automatically collect and record information that the browser on your computer or mobile phone, tablet or similar device you use to access our Site (a “Device“) sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). Log Data may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, referral and exit pages and URL’s, language information, the domain from which you are visiting and additional information in respect to your usage and browsing of the Site. Information may be collected about various aspects of your use of our Site or your participation in any Activity, such as the dates and time of your login, the content you have viewed, the pages you have visited, the searches and/or registrations you may have made and any clickstream data.

3) Location Data:

When you access our Site on a mobile Device (such as a tablet or a mobile phone), we may collect information about your location through location information accessible through your Device. You can change the privacy settings of your Device at any time, in order to turn off the functionality of sharing location information. If you have any queries about the privacy settings of your Device, we suggest you contact the manufacturer of your Device or your mobile service provider for help.

4) Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

See Cookies Policy

5) Social Media Widgets:

Our Site also includes some social media features and links. These features and links may collect your Internet Protocol address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the companies that provide them.

3.- HOW INFORMATION IS USED AND METHODS

Personal Information:

Your personal information may be used for the following general purposes:

• To communicate with you in general, including for the purpose of providing you information about our products and services or responding to your questions and comments. This may be done by email, notification by APP or phone.

• To measure interest in and improve our Site and/or Activities. This is done via data analytics.

• To enable some of our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, researching and developing or improving new Activities, enhancing our Site, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns relating to our products and services. This is done via data analytics.

• Subject to applicable law, to send you marketing information that we believe may be of interest to you, regarding our products and services. This is done via email and you may choose not to receive such information and opt-out of such future communications. All such communications sent to you will contain the instructions for opting-out

• to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities or handle and resolve legal disputes, for regulatory purposes, to enforce this Privacy Policy or our General Terms and Conditions, or as we may otherwise believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; and (ii) to protect our rights, properties or interests; and

• As otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

Non-Personal Information:

Log Data and other non-personal information that may be gathered and collected is used mainly for the purpose of administering the Site; analyzing trends in the aggregate in the use of our Site (such as information to create user predicted preferences and social characteristics); enhancing user experience on our Site (such as information to determine which areas of our Site are more popular than others), estimating and reporting total audience size and traffic; for purposes of ad optimization (i.e., tailoring, targeting, analyzing, managing and optimizing of our ads), investigating, detecting, preventing or otherwise taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse; and providing analytics and reporting with respect to the use of the Site.

Data Retention:

Your personal information is held in our systems for the duration of your interaction with our events, websites, and webmail communications. You may request to be removed from our systems at any time, however, please note that if you have registered as an attendee to one of our events, contracted any of our services, or bought any of our goods, your data must be retained for as long as local accounting regulations require us to keep it, and generally this is for 7 years.

4.- WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED

Personal Information

Personal information collected from your use of the Site will not be shared with others, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may share your personal information under the following circumstances:

• In the course of operating our business, it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to others such as our affiliates (i.e., any company controlled by us, controlling or under common control with us), service providers, contractors, and select vendors so that our business can operate accordingly. Wherever necessary, confidentiality agreements are made considering that they are consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of such personal information.

• Personal information may be shared to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to enforce our legal rights, to defend against legal claims, or in such circumstances where, in our judgment, a disclosure is necessary or appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

• Personal information may be shared if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, detect, prevent or otherwise take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our various terms of service or as otherwise required by applicable law.

• As our business continues to develop and is part of an ever-changing industry, we may sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, personal information collected from users is generally one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred personal information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy or subsequent policies which may be adopted accordingly.

Public Information:

• Information that you voluntarily make public may be shared, including information that you post on platforms designed to do so: webinar chat, blogs, message boards, networking sections, chat rooms or similar whether or not such forums are owned by Global Hysteroscopy, SL. Since such public information can be accessed by others and used by any member of the public, such use by third parties is beyond our control. To request the possibility of removing your personal information from any of these areas, please contact us at info@my-gch.com.

• Personal testimonials of satisfied customers may be displayed on our Site in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, your testimonial may be posted along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at info@my-gch.com.

Non-Personal Information:

We may share aggregated or anonymous information or statistics (which in any event does not contain any of your personal information) with third parties, such as our existing or potential agents, investors, affiliates, vendors, service providers, and other business partners.

5.- HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS PROTECTED

Commercially reasonable steps are taken to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. When personal information is transferred over the Internet, we encrypt it using Transfer Layer Security (TLS) encryption technology or similar technology.

You should note, however, that no security system is impenetrable. The security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share such information cannot be guaranteed, nor is it guaranteed that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. In particular, e-mails sent to us may not be secure, and you should, therefore, take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. We use third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run our Activities such as, but not limited to:

• Gooveris Software SL – www.my-gch.com and MyGCH APP
• Videoconference platforms – www.webinarjam.com, www.zoom.us
• Emailing & Newsletter platform – www.mailrelay.com

Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of your personal information.

6.- ACCESSING AND MODIFYING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES

You have the right to access & review, and/or make changes, and under certain circumstances – remove the personal data you may have provided us with, by contacting us at info@my-gch.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

In addition, you may manage your receipt of email or App notifications for informative or marketing purposes, by writing to info@my-gch.com Subject to applicable law, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely manner. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our subscription databases as it may impact our handling of the services you may have contracted with us.

If you reside in the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of infringement, if you feel that the processing of your personal data infringes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

7.- EXTERNAL SITES

The Site may contain links to websites operated by third parties (“External Sites”). Be sure to read the privacy policies, supplemental notices, and settings of all websites or platforms that you visit so you can understand their privacy practices and your options. These External Sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these External Sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

8.- CHILDREN’S PRIVACY PROTECTION

It is highly essential to protect children’s privacy in the interactive online world. The Site is not designed for or intentionally targeted at children 18 years of age or younger. Personal information is not knowingly collected or maintained from children under the age of 18 through the Site. If you are under 18, please do not provide any personal information. Parents and legal guardians are encouraged to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through the Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided personal information to us, please contact us, and information will be deleted from our databases.

9.- CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time with or without prior notice. Any such changes will be posted on the Site. By accessing the Site after any such changes to this Privacy Policy have been made, you accept them accordingly. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of your information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the relevant information is collected. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

10.- INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

Please be aware that information you provide to us is obtained as a result of your use of the Site and may be processed and transferred to all countries in which Global Hysteroscopy, SL has operations and be subject to applicable law. This information may also be processed by staff working for us or for one of our suppliers. The privacy and data protection laws in such countries may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using our Site, or by providing us with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in countries.

Any data transfers from within the EU will be carried out only to locations with similar & adequate levels of data protection.

11.- RIGHT OF EXCLUSION

Global Hysteroscopy, SL reserves the right to deny or withdraw access to the portal and/or the services offered without prior notice, on its own or by a third party, to those users who fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use.

12.- GOVERNING LAW

Global Hysteroscopy, SL maintains the right to pursue the breach of these conditions, as well as any improper use of its website, exercising all the civil and criminal actions that may correspond to it in law.

This Privacy Policy is construed in accordance with and shall be governed by the substantive laws of Spain and the courts of Málaga, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws thereof.

13.- CONTACT DETAILS

If you require any additional information and/or have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy and/or do not feel that your concerns have been addressed, please contact: info@my-gch.com