Terms

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE

Thank you for visiting our website. Please take a few moments to read these terms and conditions which relate to your use of the information on this site. We revise this page from time to time, so please review these terms periodically.

1. Copyright

The contents of this website, including its design, and any information, text, data, graphics, charts, diagrams or photographs, contained within the articles displayed or in any other material (“Material”), are the property of the European Council for Cardiovascular Research (“ECCR”), and protected by copyright, database and other intellectual property rights. All trade names, trade marks (if any), logos, devices and other graphics contained on this website belong to ECCR (or its advertisers, or other third parties as appropriate).
Your use of the Material appearing on this website is limited to your own personal, non-commercial, educational use and reference. In using this website, you agree not to adapt, translate, modify, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the Material, or any software or programs used in connection with the Material.

2. General Use of Website

The Material is intended to provide helpful, constructive, general information and guidance only in relation to the field of cardiovascular disease and should not be relied upon for any other purpose. ECCR is not in any way responsible for your use, misuse or otherwise of the Material.

3. Extent of ECCR’s liability for the Website

This website and Material are provided on an ‘as is’ basis; all express, implied and statutory warranties, terms and conditions are excluded, to the fullest extent permitted by law. In particular, please note the following:-

(a) Although ECCR uses all reasonable endeavours to edit and review Material prior to publication, ECCR makes no warranties in relation to the accuracy or reliability of any Material published on this website. The Material may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors;

(b) ECCR does not host all pages appearing on this website and for this reason and due to the nature of the World Wide Web generally, is not able to warrant that this website will be available 24 hours a day, nor that it will be free of virus or other harmful code or properties. ECCR requires its web host to adhere to all data protection laws and principles but makes no warranty as to the security or safety of personal information which you might provide via these pages;

(c) Where there are links to other websites, or advertising appears on this website, ECCR does not endorse products or services promoted by such third parties; information relating to third parties, their goods and services is provided to you as a visitor to this website for your general information and assistance only. You visit third party websites and enter into contracts with such third parties at your own risk.

ECCR excludes all direct or indirect liability (whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence and breach of statutory duty) and misrepresentation or otherwise) and including damages, costs, claims or liabilities for loss of profit, loss or depletion of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of or damage to data or hardware, interruption to business howsoever arising from your use of this website, to the fullest extent permitted by law provided always that ECCR does not seek to exclude or limit its liability for any death or personal injury caused by ECCR’s negligence or in any other way which would be prohibited at law.

4. General

The website is operated by the European Council for Cardiovascular Research, a company limited by guarantee and registered as a charity, its registered office being ECCR Secretariat, c/o The Conference Collective Ltd., 8 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8HT, UK. If you have any queries or concerns about this website generally, or would like to know more about ECCR, please contact us at:

ECCR Secretariat, c/o The Conference Collective Ltd., 8 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8HT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8977 7997
E-mail: eccr@conferencecollective.co.uk

These terms and your use of this website and the Material is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of England and you agree that any matter or dispute arising concerning these terms or any other matter related to the website or Material, shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provision of these terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.

PRIVACY POLICY

The European Council for Cardiovascular Research (“ECCR”) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate the company’s strong commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the ECCR website eccr.wpengine.com (“website”).

In order that you can become a member of ECCR, we request information from you. This information relates to contact information (your name, postal and e-mail address), financial information (credit card number) and other personal information. The Conference Collective Ltd collects this information on our behalf, and processes it for us. The information you provide is used by them to:

  • Register members of ECCR and users of our website;
  • Process any financial payment due from you;
  • Let you know about future products and services supplied by ECCR that may be of interest to you;
  • We may also keep general personal information for statistical and internal administration and marketing purposes.

If you would like to opt out of receiving future mailings from ECCR please e-mail The Secretariat eccr@conferencecollective.co.uk using the subject heading “Privacy Policy”.

Personal information about you which is collected by us (whether on-line or off-line) is kept confidential and will not be sold or disclosed to any third party without your consent.

If you have any queries or concerns about the use to which information about you is being put by The Conference Collective Ltd, or if any details provided by you are wrong, change or need updating, please contact us.

Other Information

Our policy is to retain personal data only for so long as necessary. If you have any queries or concerns about information stored by ECCR, please contact us at the address and e-mail set out below.
You have a right to be supplied with a copy of the data which we hold about you, but we may make a charge for providing a copy of this data to you.

Our website may log each user’s IP address and domain name in order to provide aggregate site usage statistics, such as the number of unique users, and in order to help diagnose problems with servers and assist in the administration of the website.

We do not currently use cookies but may use them in the future; we will let you know by placing a notice on this page.

Your Consent

By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by us. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this website, so that you are always aware of what information we have and collect, how we may utilise it and under what circumstances we may decide to disclose it to third parties.

Contact us

For any other queries regarding this privacy statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, or any other aspect of the business of ECCR, you can contact:

ECCR Secretariat, c/o The Conference Collective Ltd, 8 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8HT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8977 7997
E-mail: eccr@conferencecollective.co.uk

Summary

We are committed to responsible data management. Data relating to identifiable individuals is only obtained, stored, processed and accessed:

  • For defined and justifiable purposes;
  • Securely and confidentially;
  • Respecting individuals’ rights of review and objection

We value your trust in us.