Disclaimer & Privacy Policy

Disclaimer

MDnext, hereby grants you access to mdnext.org (“the website”) and invites you to register for the services and products offered. MDnext thereby reserves the right to adjust the content or remove parts at any time without having to give prior or subsequent notice.

MDnext makes every effort to update and/or supplement the content of the website as often as possible. Despite this care and attention, it is possible that content is incomplete and/or incorrect. The information and services and offered on this website are offered without any form of guarantee or claim to correctness. These can change at any time without prior notification from MDnext. MDnext can never accept liability for hyperlinks to websites or services of third parties included on the website.

Age limitations
You must be at least 18 years old to be able make use of services of MDnext or to register on this Website.

All intellectual property rights concerning these materials lie with MDnext. Copying, distribution and any other use of these materials is not permitted without written permission from Mdnext, except and only insofar otherwise established in regulations of mandatory law (such as the right to quote), unless stated otherwise at specific materials.
The Netherlands, September 2023.

Fair Use Clause
This website may contain content that is not authorized by the original creators. In case this happened, please contact us at privacy@mdnext.org.

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains how MDnext, uses, and discloses information about you. The terms “MDnext,” “we,” “us,” and “our” include Stichting MDnext and our affiliates. We use the terms “member,” “you,” and “your” to mean any person using our Platform or attending related events, including any organization or person using the Platform on an organization’s behalf. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about members and other individuals that we collect when you use our “Platform,” which means any website, application, or services we offer, or when you communicate with us. For information about choices you may have under this policy, please see “Your Choices” below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself. For more information about the scope of our Privacy Policy, please see Section 4.5.

To make this Privacy Policy easier to understand, we have provided summaries below. These summaries are not part of the official policy. Even though we have provided summaries, it is important for you to read the entire policy carefully. If you wish to access any particular section of this Privacy Policy, use the list below to jump to that section.

We collect information that you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information that you provide when you become a member, choose interests or groups, fill out a form, or communicate with us. The types of information that we may collect include identifiers, such as your name, email address, postal address, and phone number; demographic information and any other personal information that you choose to provide, such as choices of interests, gender, date of birth, groups, and professional or employment-related information, including your role, company, and years of experience. Your choice of groups is also optional, but we are required to process this information in order to administer your account, and to indicate that you are a member of the groups that you join. See Section 2 to learn how we will use the information that you provide to personalize our recommendations and other content to you.

We use information about you to

operate, improve, promote, and protect MDnext and our Platform.
communicate with you.

We may use information about you described above for various business purposes related to operating our Platform, including to:

Provide, maintain, and improve our Platform, including to process transactions, develop new products and services (for example, including you in tests or pilots of new or revised Platform functions, such as messaging or search functionality or using information about your usage of the Platform to develop new or revised messaging or search functionality), and manage the performance of our Platform.
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Platform.
Detect, investigate, and prevent abuse, and other illegal activities.
Protect the rights, property, or safety of MDnext and others.
Enforce compliance with our policies and to comply with applicable law and government requests.

We may use information about you for various business purposes related to communicating with you, including to:

Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide service.
Communicate with you, in accordance with your requests, about services, and events offered by us and others, to provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you, to conduct online surveys, to contact you about events on our Platform that are being held, and to otherwise communicate with you in accordance with Section 2.3.
Notify you about communications of other members, in accordance with the communication preferences that you indicate.
Send you updates, and support, and administrative messages.

We may use information about you for various other business purposes, including to:

Provide content, features, or sponsorships that match member profiles or interests Deliver more relevant information to you on and off the Platform.
Facilitate contests and other activities.
Send you marketing communications, subject to applicable law.
Combine with information that we collect for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Carry out any other purposes described to you at the time that we collected the information.

If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a specific legal basis for processing personal data, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.

We process information about you in order to provide our services in accordance with our Terms of Service, for example, to allow you to join groups or to display your profile to other members; to allow us to send you important updates. We also process information about you where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and not overridden by your rights (for example, in some cases for direct marketing, fraud prevention, network and information systems security, responding to your communications, the operation of networks of groups by the network administrators, and improving our Platform). In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process information about you, or may otherwise need the information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, we may process information, if we believe doing so is required by, or in accordance with, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits.

We do not share information about you except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose personal information about you, including:

to members or social media services, depending on how you engage with the Platform. Information that is public on our platform is accessible to others both on and off the Platform.
to members or social media services, depending on how you engage with the Platform. Information that is public on our platform is accessible to others both on and off the Platform.
to our third-party service providers who help us to operate or improve our Platform.
to authorities to comply with legal obligations or requests and to protect and defend our rights and property.
to an affiliate or successor entity or otherwise as part of a corporate transaction.
among our businesses and affiliated companies.
when you direct us to share your information.

We may also share information in a manner that does not identify you, such as de-identified or aggregated information. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving the Platform to assist with certain business purposes, such as, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our content, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. These service providers, which include data analytics providers (as discussed further in Section 3.2 below), may access, process, and store information about you on our behalf for the purposes we authorize, subject to confidentiality obligations.

We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to government entities and other third parties, including the content of messages, if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms of Service or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, MDnext or others.

If MDnext is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

We may de-identify or aggregate information about you and share it freely, so that you can no longer be identified. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We may also share information about you with your consent or at your direction or where we are legally entitled to do so. For example, your information may be shared with event sponsors and others as described to you when you RSVP to an event. Your information also is made available to other group members and event organizers when you RSVP for and participate in an event.

MDnext is based in and governed by the Dutch law and we will be processing, transferring, and storing information in and to The Netherlands and other countries. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information. We cannot guarantee these controls will provide absolute security. This Privacy Policy is periodically updated, and does not apply to third parties.

MDnext is based in The Netherlands. Information about you will be transferred to, and processed in, The Netherlands and countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country and, in some cases, may not be as protective. We have taken appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, to require that your information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We employ technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information that is under our control and that we process on your behalf from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or disposal, both during transmission and once we receive it. For example, we store all information that you provide to us on servers on which security controls are used. We train team regarding our data privacy policies and procedures, and authorize our team to access personal information as required for their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and test for network vulnerabilities. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

We retain certain information that we collect from you while you visit or are a member of MDnext, and in certain cases where you have deleted your account, for the following business purposes:

So you can use our website
To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to
To detect and prevent abuse of our website, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete it or take steps to de-identify or anonymize it in accordance with applicable law

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you have provided or made accessible to third parties, such as other members, including group organizers and network administrators, and others with whom you may share information about yourself. Our Platform may direct you to a third-party service, such as social media services, or a portion of our Platform may be controlled by a third party (typically through the use of a frame or pop-up window separate from other content on our Platform). Disclosure of information to these third parties is subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the third-party privacy policy or content, even if we link to those services from our website or if we share information with these third parties.

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. Depending on the circumstances, we may provide additional notice to you of changes to this Privacy Policy, such as by sending you an email or by displaying a prominent notice on our Platform.

You can review and change information about you or deactivate your account in your account settings, but we may retain certain information.
You can remove photo tags if you wish.
Consult your device settings for information about how to deactivate location-based features at any time. You have the right to opt out of receiving MDnext’s promotional messages, but you may still receive other non-promotional communications.
You may update or correct your information by sending a request to communication@mdnext.org as described in Section 6 and Section 7.
You may request deletion of your information as described in Section 6 and Section 7.

You may have the right to exercise data protection rights, including to request that MDnext deletes, amends, or provides you access to your information.
You have the right to opt out of receiving MDnext promotional messages, but you may still receive other communications.
You can complain to your local data protection authority about the use of your information.
We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to privacy@mdnext.org.
You can also request deletion of your membership and personal information by contacting us and sending an email.
Rights that you may have, depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, may include:

Accessing, correcting, or requesting deletion of your information.
Appealing a decision MDnext has made about an access, correction, or deletion request.
Opting out of the sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising. To exercise your right to opt-out of these kinds of advertising, please follow the instructions found in the “Opting Out” section of our Cookie Policy and as described in Section 5.3 above.
Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Union are available here.

Note that MDnext is a controller of your information. Other members, such as group organizers and network administrators, may also act as controllers of your information. You should contact these members if you have any questions about how they use information that you have provided to them.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, although some of the functionality and features available on the Platform may change or no longer be available to you.

Under European data protection law, the controller of your information is Stichting MDnext.
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or how we use your information, please contact privacy@mdnext.org.
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