Our Privacy Policy

We, the owners of this website, diomed.bg (referred to as the ‘Website’), respect your privacy highly and understand that protecting it is of critical importance. Please, read our Privacy Policy to have information in regards to how we collect personal information and how we use it.

By providing us with any sort of personal information, we assume, that you have read and agreed to the privacy policy on this Website. Any personal information will be used only by the guidelines provided in this privacy statement. We hold the right to change our Privacy Policy at any given time without prior notification. The most up-to-date privacy policy will always be found on this page with a respective date of when the latest changes were made. Should the changes be considerable, we will inform you in the best way possible.

We do not collect any personal data, unless you give us this yourself for the purpose of using our service, when contacting us directly via contact form on this Website or by booking an appointment. Without your explicit consent, this data will only be used to the extent necessary for your request.

Personal information that has been provided to us  will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us is fulfilled. As far as commercial and tax retention periods are to be observed, the duration of the storage of certain data can be up to ten years.

Voluntarily Submitted Personal Information (such as: name and e-mail address): Is voluntarily submitted by you, through either the use of:

a) sending us an email
b) writing us over contact form on our website
c) using a 3rd party service like a doctors directory (i.e. superdoc.bg)

Cookies: We may use both ‘session’ cookies or ‘persistent’ cookies which are stored on your browser when you visit our Website. We use them in a manner to provide you with a more personalised experience on our Website. Please, refer to the ‘cookies’ section of this privacy policy for further information.

Automaticallly-Collected: Whenever you access our Website through any browser or through any device, we collect data in regards to analyzing the performance of our Website and in regards to analyzing our target audience. Information such as: IP address, browser used, operating system used, referring websites, demographic information, viewed pages, date, time and duration of a session, as well as, interactions on our Website (clicks, scrolling through) are recorded.

Our website uses the so-called “cookies”. These are intended to make our website more user-friendly, efficient and increase the overall security level. For example, we want to speed up navigating our website. We also measure the frequency of page views and general navigation.

Cookies are small text files (a string of letters and numbers) that are stored on your computer system; they are sent by a web server to a web browser. Most are so-called “session cookies” when they are transferred from our servers to your computer system. These “session cookies” are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session. Other cookies are stored on your computer system and make it easier for us to recognize that ‘this’ is you during your next visit. Those are referred to as ‘persistent cookies’.  If your browser allows it, you can reject cookies at any time. However, it may be that certain features of our website can not be used or only partially.

WE USE COOKIES WITH THE PURPOSE OF:

  • User authentication and identification: We use cookies to identify that it is you when you visit our website again and as you navigate our website;
  • Push-up notifications: When you have voluntarily agreed to receive ‘push notifications’ from our Website, whenever there is a new post, we use cookies which are integrated in your browser, to notify you of it.
  • Security: We use cookies as part of series of security measures involved in order to be able to protect user accounts from fraudulent breaches. We also use cookies as a security measure to protect our website
  • Targeted advertising: We use cookies to be able to display to you advertisements that will be the most relevant to you
  • Analytics: We use cookies to track how are users interacting with our Website with the purpose of further optimizations.

Dependent on the browser that you are using, you can reject cookies at any given time. However, please note that doing so may impact your experience with most websites, including our Website. Your experience and the functionality of a website might, in such event, be limited for you, for instance, certain features might only be partially (or not at all) usable for you. Please check with the support team of your preferred browser how to disable and reject cookies.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the case of the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

We will not sell, distribute in any way or lease your personal information that you have directly submitted to us, to any third parties unless we have your concent to do so or are required by law.

Links to partners may be found on this website. Such one is the online directory: superdoc.bg. We aim to only link to partner services which we think might be relevant to you or which we have personally tried and can recommend.

By using the comment function on this Website (which is available at the end of each post), you automatically agree that we cannot be held liable if you provide any sensitive personal information and if by doing so, it is collected and used by third parties. In no event should you provide sensitive personal information such as address, social security number, bank or credit statements, religious or political views anywhere on our open commenting system as it is publicly visible to anyone.

If you upload any media to our Website through the commenting function, we highly advise you to remove any demographic data embedded (EXIF GPS). Please note that we cannot be held responsible if third parties decide to download and use your uploaded media without your consent. By uploading any media (such as, but not limited to, photographic images, videos, graphics), you automatically agree that we cannot protect your right as an owner of those media and you automatically agree that you understand that your media might be re-distributed by third parties without your consent.

This Website, diomed.bg, holds no liability to the rightful owner of any media.

Without their parental guardian’s explicit consent, this Website and service is not intended for users younger than thirteen (13) years of age. We do not intend to collect any personal data from children under thirteen (13) years of age.

You have the right to information about the data you have stored at any time, as well as the right to appropriate corrections. You can also lock or delete the data. If you have further questions on data protection, please contact us, regardless of whether it concerns information, blocking, cancellation and / or correction requests or the revocation of granted consent. Our contact address can be found in the imprint.

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences icon. (Available in the EU.)

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA RESIDENTS:

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(i) access your personal data

(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data

(iii) the right to have us delete your personal data

(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and

(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

If you do not agree with the storage of your personal data or if they have become inaccurate, we will initiate the deletion, correction or blocking of your data in accordance with the statutory provision. Upon request, you will receive free information about all personal data that we have stored about you. For questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, please contact (if the information is held by us):

Diomed
Obstetrics & Gynecology

Stoyan Mihaylovski 10
1164 Sofia

Phone: + (359) 0878171271 Email: info@diomed.bg

Web: https://diomed.bg

We hope that our Privacy Policy will allow you to understand how your personal data is collected, storred and used. Should you have any further questions, please, contact us at: info@diomed.bg

Last updated: 1st of September, 2021