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IMPORTANT: Please read this notice carefully - it applies to all people who visit the site and, depending on who you are and where you live; it may affect your rights. You should read it in full each time you visit the site.

Hippocrates Research, as Owner of processing your personal data, in compliance with and for the purposes of the Leg. Decree of June 30, 2003 No. 196 (“The code regarding personal data protection”), together with the “Privacy Code”, informs you that the above legislation provides for protection of people and other subjects regarding personal data processing and that this treatment will be based on principles of correctness, lawfulness, transparency and protection of your privacy and your rights.

Hippocrates Research respects the privacy of visitors to its website, we recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information you share with us (any information by which you can be identified, such as name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number).

Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of the legislation mentioned above and with obligations of confidentiality as provided herein. That is why Hippocrates Research has established this privacy policy, so that you can understand the care with which we intend to treat your information.

With respect to this website, Hippocrates Research, Inc. will only collect, store or use personally identifiable information ("Your Information"), when it is voluntarily submitted to us. It is our intent to inform you before we do that and to tell you what we intend to do with the information. You will have the option not to provide the information, and in the future you will be able to "opt out" of certain uses of the information.

We will use Your Information to respond to requests you may make of us, and from time to time, we may refer to Your Information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our website's products and services. We will not sell Your Information, use Your Information for our gain, or share Your Information with any other company or organization. Any and all uses would comply with all applicable laws.

You have the right to obtain from Hippocrates Research the deletion, the communication, the update, the rectification, the integration of your personal data, and generally you can exercise all rights according to the art. 7 of the Privacy Code provided below in copy.

The Legislative Decree no. 196/2003: art. 7 - Right of access to personal data and other rights:

1. You have the right to obtain confirmation about the existence of personal data concerning you, although not yet recorded, and their communication in an intelligible form.
2. You have the right to obtain an indication:

a)       about the origin of personal data;

b)       about the purposes and procedures of the processing;

c)       about the logic applied in case of processing done with the help of electronic instruments;

d)       about the owner’s identification data, of the person in charge and of the delegate designated according to the art. 5, paragraph 2;

e)       about subjects or subjects’ categories to that can be communicated or that which can learn as delegate designated in the State country, as persons in charge or appointed persons.

    3.   You have the right to obtain:

a)       the update, the rectification or, when you are interested, data integration;

b)       the deletion, the anonymous transformation or the blocking of data processed in violation of the law, including those for which conservation isn’t necessary related to the aims for which the data were collected or then processed;

c)       the certification that the operations in letters a) and b) have been notified, as also related to their contents, to those to whom data were communicated or diffused, except when this requirement proves impossible or involves a use of means manifestly disproportionate to the protected right.

    4.   You have the right to object, in whole or in part:

a)       for legitimate reasons, to personal data processing, even if pertinent to the purpose of
collection;

b)       to personal data processing that concerns you, to send advertisements or direct sale or the market research completion or commercial communications.

If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Hippocrates Research website, but you may be unable to access certain options and services. In general, you can visit www.hippocrates-research.it without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We track the total number of visitors to our site, the number of visitors to each page of our site, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers and analyze this data for trends and statistics, but the individual user remains anonymous.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this site is not intended, or designed to attract children under the age of 13. As noted above, we do not collect personally identifiable information -- including an individual's age.
Our website has security measures in place, including the use of industry standard secure socket layer encryption (SSL), to protect the confidentiality of any of Your Information that you volunteer. However, to take advantage of this, your browser must support encryption protection (found in Internet Explorer release 3.0 and above and Netscape Navigator release 3.0 and above). These security measures also help us to honor your choices for the use of Your Information.

As a convenience to our visitors, this website currently contains links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.

Hippocrates Research is not responsible for any information or opinion contained on any other site. As Hippocrates Research has no control over such sites and because their content is subject to change without notice to Hippocrates Research it is the responsibility of the user of these sites to ensure that any information accessed is accurate and that softwares which are downloaded from those sites are free of viruses or any other items of a destructive nature. Hippocrates Research accepts no liability whatsoever in respect of any loss, damage, costs or liability incurred through any such downloaded material.

Personal data privacy is a new and evolving area, and Hippocrates Research is evolving to meet these demands. Mistakes are possible; miscommunication is possible. If you have any comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. . We will address any issue to the best of our abilities.

We may update this Website Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do update it, however, for your convenience, we will make the updated policy available on this page.

Last updated August 31, 2009.