Website Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12.11.2024

Affidea-CDC (C.D.C S.p.a. and C.D.C. Centro Polispecialistico Privato S.r.l.) respect your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains who we are, how we collect, share and use your personal information and how you can exercise your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that we collect through our website https://www.gruppocdc.it.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, you may contact us using the contact details at the end of this Privacy Policy.

We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy in full to ensure that you are fully informed.

What does CDC- Affidea do?

CDC is part of the Affidea Group, the largest and most successful pan-European provider of medical services specialising in diagnostic investigations, test laboratories and services for the treatment of oncological diseases. For more information on Affidea, please see the ‘About us’ section on the https://www.affidea.it/ website.

What personal information does CDC-Affidea acquire through the website and why?

The term “personal information” refers to anything that can be traced back to a natural person; such information allows their identification. This includes names, surnames, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses etc.

The user's personal information that we may collect falls broadly into the following categories:

Information provided voluntarily by the user

Certain sections of our website may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily. For example, we may ask

• the type of medical service you require at our clinic and your contact details (online booking)
• your opinion on our services (satisfaction questionnaire)
• whether you wish to subscribe to our newsletter to receive further communications;
• to send us your requests via a contact form;
• to use the Work with us section if you are applying for a job within Affidea.

The reason we collect and process your data will be stated at the time of collection.

Information we gather automatically

When you visit our website from a device, we may automatically gather certain information from it.

Specifically, the information we automatically gather may include user data such as IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, generic geographic location (e.g., country or city location) and other technical information. We may also gather information about how your device interacts with our website, including the pages you visit and the links you select.

By gathering this type of information we can better understand the traffic on our website, where our readers are coming from and what content is of greatest interest to them. We use this information for in-house analysis purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website for our visitors.

Some of this information may be gathered using cookies and similar tracking technologies, as explained in the specific cookie policy which can be viewed using the following link: /data-protection/cookie-policy/

With regard to browsing this website, it should be noted that the provision of data is linked to the user's specific decision to browse the aforementioned website after having read the information contained in the banner on the homepage. Please note that in order to avoid the installation of cookies, you can indicate your choices using the appropriate functions of the banner or using the appropriate functions offered by the browser you use.

In general, we will only use the personal information about you that we gather for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or for the purposes that we describe when we gather your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes not incompatible with those specified (such as archival purposes for public interest, historical and scientific research purposes, or for statistical purposes) if and where permitted by the applicable data protection laws.

Affidea reserves the right to use your data for its own purposes of defence in legal proceedings or in the preparatory phases of any such proceedings, against abuse in the use of related services by the User. The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in the event of computer crimes to the detriment of the site.

Please note that this Website Privacy Policy does not apply to personal data that we collect - outside of the Website - when providing medical services. For this reason, please refer to our Privacy Policy for patients Privacy Policy for patients

In other examples of personal data acquisition, we provide specific data privacy policies to explain why and how we process personal data.

Whom is the personal user information gathered by Affidea shared with?


We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:

• to our group of companies or third party service providers and partners who supply us with services (e.g. to provide assistance in improving the security of our website or for maintenance and upgrades), or who otherwise process your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when the personal information is gathered.
• to any law enforcement body, government agency, court or other third party to whom we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as required by applicable laws or regulations, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your legitimate interests or those of any other party;
• to a prospective buyer (and its agents or advisers) in relation to any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business; if informed, the buyer shall use your personal information only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy;

• to any other party subject to your consent to disclosure.


Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)

If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for gathering and using your personal information will depend on the personal information in question and the specific context in which we gather it.

However, we will normally only acquire your personal information with your consent if we require your personal information to enter into an agreement, or if the processing is in our legitimate interest and does not conflict with your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may be legally obliged to gather your personal information or otherwise require it to protect your legitimate interests or those of another party.

If we require you to provide us with personal information in order to comply with legal obligations or to enter into a agreement with you, we will supply you with the relevant details at the appropriate time and advise you as to whether or not it is compulsory to provide your personal information (and the possible consequences of not providing your personal information).

Similarly, if we gather and use your personal information on the basis of our own (or any third party's) legitimate interests, we will supply you with details of our legitimate interests at the appropriate time.


How is personal data collected by Affidea kept secure?

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information that we gather and process. The measures we take are designed to provide a level of security proportionate to the risks involved in processing your personal data.


International data transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

Specifically, our website servers are located in Italy. For information about the suppliers for the management of cookies, please see the specific policy on the site.

However, if we need to transfer data abroad, we have put in place appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We have implemented similar safeguards with our partners and third party service providers. Further details are available upon request.


Data Retention

We retain personal information gathered from you when necessary for ongoing legitimate business purposes (e.g. to provide you with a service that you have requested or to comply with legal, tax or accounting obligations).

If there is no legitimate ongoing business need to process your personal information, we will either delete it or make it anonymous or, if that is not possible (e.g. because of personal information stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it so that no further processing will take place until it is deleted.


Your data protection rights

You have the following data protection rights:

• If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you may do so at any time.
• Furthermore, if you are a resident of the European Union, you may object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict its processing or request its portability.
• You have the right to unsubscribe from receiving commercial correspondence that we send at any time. This right can be exercised by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the advertising emails we send. To unsubscribe from other forms of commercial communication (such as promotional mailing or telemarketing), please contact us using the contact details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
• Similarly, if we gather and process your personal information with your consent, you will be able to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing conducted by us prior to such withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of personal information conducted pursuant to lawfulness grounds other than consent.

You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section: data-protection-manager-contact.

We respond to all requests received from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority regarding the collection and use of your personal data. However, we naturally hope that you can raise these issues with us first For further information, please contact the Data Protection Authority http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/4535524


Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changes due to legal, technical and business developments. When we update this Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate steps to inform you in accordance with the extent of the changes made. We will obtain your consent for any substantial changes to the Privacy Policy if and where required by applicable data protection laws.

You can check the latest update of this Privacy Policy by checking the “last updated” date at the top of this document.


How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our possible use of your personal information, please contact us using the following details: by phone, on +39 02 8839361 or sending an email to 该邮件地址已受到反垃圾邮件插件保护。要显示它需要在浏览器中启用 JavaScript。.