Privacy policy and cookies

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Grupo Asís Biomedia, S.L. operates the Veterinary Digital Library service and related services, applications, domains and networks offered by Grupo Asís Biomedia ("Veterinary Digital Library Service"). The Veterinary Digital Library Service allows you to connect, collaborate, share, and remix documents with other users of the Veterinary Digital Library Service community on the Internet. Grupo Asís Biomedia’s Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using the Veterinary Digital Library Service. By using or accessing the Veterinary Digital Library Service, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Gathered by Grupo Asís

For visitors to our website and registered users, we log standard technical information, such as your IP address. If you choose to register with us, Grupo Asís Biomedia requires you to provide your name, email address, and each user has a user ID and password that they choose. To maintain privacy it is important not to share your password with anyone. Selecting a longer password with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols makes it more difficult for others to guess your password. It is also helpful to change passwords on a regular basis. In addition, Grupo Asís Biomedia will require you to provide geographical information such as your physical address. In the future Grupo Asís Biomedia may ask you to provide other demographic information, such as age, gender, interests or occupation, as well as credit card information for verification purposes. We may collect other personal information when you provide feedback or comments, or communicate with others through our systems. Grupo Asís Biomedia also uses "cookies" – small files containing a string of characters sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser – in addition to Flash shared browser objects to administer its website and provide a more tailored and user-friendly service to you. For example, we may use cookies or Flash objects to count the number of unique computers accessing our website. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from the Veterinary Digital Library Service if you choose. When you access the Veterinary Digital Library Service or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using different types of tracking technology. This "automatically collected" information may include IP Address, a unique device or user ID, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Veterinary Digital Library Service, and the dates and times that you visit the Veterinary Digital Library Service.

Grupo Asís Uses of Information:

The information we collect about you in the course of our relationship is used to provide the Veterinary Digital Library Service to you. For example, as we endeavor to protect your identity, we may use your demographic information to create a database of user profiles, select advertisements based on your information and for marketing analysis. In addition, we look at technical information to diagnose problems with our systems, to administer the Veterinary Digital Library Service, and to enhance the services we provide to you. We will use your email address, without further consent, for administrative communications such as notifying you of major updates, for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement or defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded from the Veterinary Digital Library Service.

Grupo Asís Biomedia uses all of the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the way the Veterinary Digital Library Service works and looks, and to create new features and functionality. Grupo Asís Biomedia may use "automatically collected" information, "cookies", and Flash objects to: (a) automatically update the Veterinary Digital Library Service; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Veterinary Digital Library Service; (c) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (d) track your entries, submissions, participation and status in any promotions or other activities, and usage of the Veterinary Digital Library Service.

When Grupo Asís Biomedia Discloses Information:

Grupo Asís Biomedia does not share your personally identifiable information, including any of your user profile data that you create, with other organizations for their marketing or promotional uses. Please be aware, however, that 1) any personally identifiable information that you voluntarily choose to display on the Veterinary Digital Library Service becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others without restriction; and 2) as a feature of the Veterinary Digital Library Service, other users may become aware of your behavior or document viewing activities to their own profile pages and may use this information without restriction; provided that you will have the ability to opt out of this feature at anytime.

Grupo Asís Biomedia may share personally identifiable information about our users with third parties, including: (a) with your consent or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy; (b) when we have a good faith belief it is necessary pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order; (c) where required by law; or (d) at our sole discretion, where we deem necessary to respond to claims, to protect the safety of any individual or the public, or to protect the rights or property of the Veterinary Digital Library Service or any third party. We may disclose personally identifiable information to affiliated companies, sub-contractors, other agents or businesses or persons to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; and assist Grupo Asís Biomedia in improving the Veterinary Digital Library Service and creating new service features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Notice, we authorize only a limited use of such information, and we require these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures to keep your information secure. Grupo Asís Biomedia may also disclose to third parties anonymous aggregated user information that is not personally identifiable.

Changing or Deleting Your Information:

You have the ability and control to remove or alter your account-specific information, including any user profile data that you provide to the Veterinary Digital Library Service at any time. Access and control over most user-provided personal information on the Veterinary Digital Library Service is readily available through the edit function on your profile. As a user of the Veterinary Digital Library Service, you may modify or remove any of your profile information at any time by logging into your account. Information will be updated promptly.

Data Security:

Grupo Asís Biomedia will take appropriate security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. Grupo Asís Biomedia processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. Grupo Asís Biomedia takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

We endeavor to restrict access to personal information to Grupo Asís Biomedia employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and are required to meet these obligations.

If Grupo Asís Biomedia learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Grupo Asís Biomedia may post a notice on the Veterinary Digital Library Service if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach you should notify us at protecciondatos@grupoasis.com.

In the Event of Merger or Sale:

In the event that Grupo Asís Biomedia is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, or undergoes a change of control or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of its assets, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice:

Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received that personal information. Your continued use of the Veterinary Digital Library Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of personal information you have provided to us, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you and obtain your consent before implementing revisions with respect to such information.

Contacting Grupo Asís Biomedia:

Please contact Grupo Asís Biomedia with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, and our third-party disclosure practices or your consent choices at:

Grupo Asís Biomedia, S.L.
Centro Empresarial El Trovador, planta 8, oficina I
Plaza Antonio Beltán Martínez, 1
50002 Zaragoza SPAIN
Tel: +34 976461480
Email: protecciondatos@grupoasis.com