PRIVACY POLICY

 

  1. BASIC INFORMATION ON DATA PROCESSING

 

  • MediStep is an online learning portal for medical students and medical professionals - hereinafter " Users". It applies exclusively to the website operated by the provider, namely medistep.org.

 

  • Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to MediStep. MedStepoffers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.

 

  • The test questions about medical topics are prepared by professionals based on their own experience and research to the best of their knowledge and belief.  

 

  • These General Terms of Use apply exclusively to the use of the portal. With regard to the optional use of additional services that are subject to a fee, the Special Terms and Conditions that can be accessed here also apply, provided these are used. Deviating, conflicting or supplementary conditions of the user do not apply.

 

 

  1. DISCLOSURE OF DATA TO THIRD PARTIES AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS

 

  • 2.1. Within the scope of the legal regulations, we are entitled to commission other companies and persons to carry out tasks on our behalf, for the fulfillment of which the transfer of personal data is necessary. These include, for example, companies that specialize in payment processing, shipping goods, sending newsletters, etc.

 

  • 2.2. If we use the services of third parties to provide our services, we take appropriate legal precautions as well as technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of personal data in accordance with the relevant statutory provisions.

 

 

  1. PROVISION OF THE USER ACCOUNT

 

  • We process inventory data (e.g. names, addresses and other contact details), contract data (e.g. payment information, services used) to fulfill our contractual obligations and services.

 

  • In order to be able to use our offer to the full extent, registration is required. When setting up a corresponding user account, you must enter a password in addition to your e-mail address. This information is used for login and secure identification on our site.

 

  • We may also ask you for additional personal information such as first and last name, desired specialty, university, address or gender, e.g. as part of a survey or within your user account. Unless this information is necessary to provide our services, it is always voluntary. We will use this information to tailor our offer to you.

 

  • When you register and log in to your user account and use our online services, we save the IP address and the time of the respective user action. The storage takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests and the interest of the user in protection against misuse and unauthorized use.

 

 

  1. COOKIES

 

  • We use cookies on our site. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or web servers of third parties to the web browser of the user and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies can be small files or other types of information storage. In addition, we use comparable storage and access technologies, such as local storage and web beacons (hereinafter collectively referred to as "cookies").

 

  • We also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to make use of our services, it will automatically be recognized that you have already been with us and what inputs and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

 

  • You can revoke your consent in the data protection settings at any time. The revocation does not affect the legality of the processing until the revocation.

 

  1. CONTACT FORM

 

  • If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

 

  • The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected