Disclaimer

The alfapump® system is currently not approved in the United States or Canada. In the United States and Canada, the alfapump® system is currently under clinical investigation (POSEIDON Study) and is being studied in adult patients with refractory or recurrent ascites due to cirrhosis. DSR® therapy is still in development and it should be noted that any statements regarding safety and efficacy arise from ongoing pre-clinical and clinical investigations which have yet to be completed. There is no link between the DSR® therapy and ongoing investigations with the alfapump® system in Europe, the United States or Canada.

Privacy & Cookie policy

Privacy Statement Website Sequana Medical

This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by SEQUANA MEDICAL (hereinafter “us” or “we”).

  1. Handling of personal data
    In the following we wish to provide you with information on how we handle your personal data when you use our Website. Unless otherwise indicated in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the Website requested by you (Art. 6(1)(b) General Data Protection Regulation).
  2. Using our Website
  3. Accessing our Website
    When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data to our web server. This is done for technical reasons and required to make available to you the requested information. To facilitate your access to the Website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:
    1. IP address
    2. Date and time of access
    3. Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
    4. The content of request (specific site)
    5. Status of access/HTTP status code
    6. The transferred volume of data
    7. Website requesting access
    8. Browser, language settings, version of browser software operating system and surface
      Moreover, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store such data for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers (Art. 6(1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation).
  4. Setting of cookies
    1. What are cookies?
      This Website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our Website.
    2. What cookies do we use?
      We differentiate between two categories of cookies: (1) functional cookies, without which the functionality of our Website would be reduced, and (2) optional cookies used for website analysis and marketing purposes. The following tables contain a detailed description of the optional cookies we use:
Optional Cookies

This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by SEQUANA MEDICAL (hereinafter “us” or “we”).



Purpose and content Lifespan
Website analysis with Google Analytics: 
These cookies assign a randomly generated ID to your device, enabling us to recognize your device upon your next access. For details on website analysis, please see the respective chapter below. 6 months
Analysis of webcast with Multimedia Center from Nasdaq:
These Cookies enable us to analyze your use of the webcast by assigning a unique and randomly generated ID to your device that lets us recognize if you have used the Multimedia Center player once before. 12 months
Website Analysis

Google Analytics
On our Website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google will analyze your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose, we use, among others, the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Google in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. the referring URL, our web pages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution) will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US, where it will be stored and analyzed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process. We have activated on our Website the IP anonymizing function offered by Google, which will delete the last eight digits (type IPv4) or the last 80 bits (type IPv6) of your IP address. Moreover, Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield, which ensures that an adequate level of data protection is maintained with respect to the processing of data by Google in the US.
You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed. Both options will prevent the application of web analysis only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out cookie.
Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy.

 

Multimedia Center from Nasdaq

On our website, we use the external analytics service Multimedia Center of our webcast provider Webcasts NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions International Limited, (“Corporate Solutions”) a NASDAQ, Inc. company, Nasdaq Offices, Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5HA, Great Britain („Nasdaq“).
Nasdaq will analyze your use of our webcast on our behalf.
To this purpose, we use, among others, the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Nasdaq in connection with your use of our webcast (e.g. the referring URL, our webpages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution, date, duration of your viewing, part of the webcast you viewed) will be transmitted to a server of Nasdaq in Germany, where it will be stored and analyzed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process.
You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis for webcasts at any time by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed.
Further information on Nasdaq is available in the Nasdaq privacy statement.

 

Use of contact forms

You can contact us directly via the contact forms available on our Website. In particular, you may provide us with the following information:

  • Name, surname, and title
  • Country
  • Contact data (g., e-mail address, phone number)
  • Message

We collect, process and use the information provided by you via the contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific request.

 

Information on side effects and quality complaints

This Website is not intended or designed for communications on issues regarding the safeness or quality of products. If you wish to make a quality complaint, please contact your health care professional (e.g., a physician or pharmacist) or your local health authority.

 

Transfer of data for commissioned processing

For the processing of your data, we will to some extent use specialized service contractors. Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processor agreements, they will only process personal data upon our instruction and strictly in accordance with our directives.

 

Processing of data outside the EU / the EEA

Your data will in part also be processed in countries outside the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), more specifically Switzerland. We will ensure that a sufficient level of protection is provided for your data.

 

Information regarding your rights

The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:

  • Right of information about your personal data stored by us;
  • Right to request the correction, deletion or restricted processing of your personal data;
  • Right to object to processing for reasons of our own legitimate interest, public interest, or profiling, unless we are able to prove that compelling, warranted reasons superseding your interests, rights and freedom exist, or that such processing is done for purposes of the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
  • Right to data portability;
  • Right to file a complaint with a data protection authority;
  • You may at any time with future effect revoke your consent to the collection, processing, and use of your personal For further information, please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of data based on your consent.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact form or to our company data protection office indicated below.

 

Contact

For any questions you may have concerning data privacy, please contact our company data protection manager at the following address:

 

Data Protection Manager

Sequana Medical NV, Kortrijksesteenweg 1112, 9051 Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium

 

Amendment of Privacy Statement

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. Updates of our Privacy Statement will be published on our Website. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our Website. We, therefore, recommend that you regularly visit the site to keep yourself informed on possible updates.

 

Last updated: October 29th, 2018

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