Privacy Notice

ERN RARE-LIVER respects the user’s privacy and does not track personal data when visiting our website. We act in accordance with Regulation 2016/679 the European Parliament and of the Council.

Responsible for content

Although the content of these webpages has been created with utmost care, we assume no liability for it being correct, complete or up-to-date. According to Art. 7 para 1 TMG (German Telemedia Act), we, as a service provider, are responsible for our own content on these webpages in accordance with general legislation. However, according to Art. 8-10 TMG, we are not obliged to monitor transmitted or saved external information or to investigate circumstances that may constitute illegal activities. This does not affect our obligation to remove or restrict access to information in accordance with the generally applicable laws. We will delete such content immediately upon becoming aware of any rights infringements.

Liability for links

Our own website contains links to external websites whose content we have no control or influence over. We therefore assume no liability for such content. The provider or operator of the linked pages is solely responsible for the content of those pages. The linked pages were checked for any potential infringements at the time that the link was created and no illegal content was discovered. Without being made aware of an infringement, we cannot reasonably be expected to monitor the content continuously. We will delete the corresponding links immediately upon becoming aware of any rights violations.

Copyright

The content of these webpages is subject to German copyright law. It may only be reproduced, edited, translated, distributed or used beyond the scope of the copyright with written permission from the corresponding author or creator. Furthermore, this website may only be copied or downloaded for non-commercial or personal use. If this website contains content that was not created by the operator, the copyrights relating to this content have been respected. Third-party content is identified accordingly. However, if you believe there may be an infringement of copyright, please inform us and we will delete such content immediately.

Data protection

Our website can generally be used without having to provide personal information. If personal data such as your name, address or e-mail address is collected on our webpages, you provide this information voluntarily, unless specified otherwise. We will not share this data with third parties without your express consent. We expressly point out that there may be security vulnerabilities when transferring data online or electronically (such as when communicating by e-mail). As a result, such data cannot be protected completely against being accessed by third parties.

​Contact details published as part of providing the disclosure information may not be used by third parties to transmit advertising or other information that has not been expressly requested. The operators of the webpages expressly reserve the right to take legal action if unsolicited promotional information is sent (e.g. in the form of ‘spam’).

Right to information; correction, blocking, deletion of data

You have the right to be informed (free of charge) at any time of the data being held about you, its origin and recipient and the purpose for which it is used, as well as the right to such data being corrected, blocked or deleted. If you have any questions about personal data, you can contact us at the address stated in the Legal Disclosure.

Source

This website uses Matomo to optimize the user expreience

About Matomo

Matomo is an open source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website. Matomo is processing the following personal data: cookies, anonymized IP address, location of the user, date and time, title of the page being viewed, URL of the page being viewed, URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page, screen resolution, time in local timezone, files that were clicked and downloaded, link clicks to an outside domain, pages generation time, country, region, city, main language of the browser and user agent of the browser. If you would like to see what Matomo looks like, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.org.

Purpose of the processing

Matomo is used to analyse the behaviour of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated… Once the data is processed (number of visitors reaching a not found pages, viewing only one page…), Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content… etc.

Matomo is processing the following personal data:
  • Cookies
  • anonymized IP address
  • Location of the user
And also:
  • Date and time
  • Title of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
  • Screen resolution
  • Time in local timezone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded
  • Link clicks to an outside domain
  • Pages generation time
  • Country, region, city
  • Main Language of the browser
  • User Agent of the browser
The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on legitimate interests.

The legitimate interests

Processing your personal data such as cookies is helping us identify what is working and what is not on our website. For example, it helps us identify if the way we are communicating is engaging or not and how we can organize the structure of the website better. Our team is benefiting from the processing of your personal data, and they are directly acting on the website. By processing your personal data, you can profit from a website which is getting better and better.

ERN RARE-Liver has a legitimate interest in processing your personal data in order to analyse and optimise the usage of our website. Without the data, we would not be able to provide you the service we are currently offering to you. Your data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information you are looking for.

Recipient of the personal data

The personal data received through Matomo are sent to: Our company. The matomo data is hosted in Germany and we are keeping the personal data captured within Matomo for a period of 1 year.

Details of transfers to third country and safeguards

Matomo data is hosted in Germany.

Retention period

We are keeping the personal data captured within Matomo for a period of 1 year.

The existence of each of the data subject’s rights

Your personal data is anonymized. You can object to the tracking of your personal data by using the following opt-out feature:

If you wish us to not process any personal data with Matomo, you can opt-out from it at any time. There will be no consequences at all regarding the use of our website.

The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and information about how decisions are made, the significance and the consequences

Matomo is not doing any profiling.