Privacy Policy
The privacy policy refers in particular to our website, for which we, the LYMPH study team and the Department of Clinical Research (DKF), have registered the domains lymphtrial.com and lymphtrial.ch.
Personal data is always processed in compliance with the Information and Data Protection Act of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (IDG) and, where applicable, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG).
In addition, we comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, in this case, indicate the relevant legal basis in accordance with Art. 13 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.
Visting the Website
The website lymphtrial.com/lymphtrial.ch is hosted by Squarespace Inc, 225 Varick Street, 8 Clarkson St., New York, NY 10014 USA. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is all information that can be used to identify you personally and that can be traced back to you. This includes:
Information about your browser, your network and your device
Websites that you have accessed before visiting this website
Websites that you access on this website
Your IP address
Cookies
We use cookies to anonymously assign multiple page views to the same user and to analyse the use of the lymphtrial.com/lymphtrial.ch site (see section Web analysis tools). We give our users control over which cookies and similar technologies are used on their websites (except for those that we need to use to provide the services properly, such as for performance or security reasons).
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or short texts that are downloaded to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies placed on your device, see The cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and necessary cookies are always used because they enable Squarespace, the hosting platform, to provide this website securely for you.
These analytics and performance cookies, as described below, are only used on this website if you accept our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to gain insight into website traffic, website activity and other data.
This website provides font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts and displays these fonts. In order to properly display this website to you, these third parties may receive personal data about you, including Information about your browser, network or device Information about this website and the page you are visiting on the website and your IP address.
You can use your browser settings to see which cookies have been set and delete them if necessary. You can also accept or reject them when you access the website.
Squarespace requires the data for the operation of this website to ensure the security and reliability of its platform and services. However, Squarespace uses it in an anonymous, aggregated or pseudonymised form that does not directly identify you. They use this data to evaluate, provide, protect or improve their services (including the development of new products and services). The corresponding data is stored for a period of twelve months.
Web analysis tools
This website collects personal data that serves as the basis for our website analytics. This includes:
Information about your browser, network and device
Websites you visited before coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including
clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamp
Saftey of your data
Access to the data is granted exclusively in accordance with the principle of necessity and only to persons who need to access the personal data due to their function and task.
The measures to be taken depend on the type of information, the type and purpose of use and the current state of the art.
The LYMPH Study research group, the Department of Clinical Research and its service providers implement technical and organisational security measures to ensure that the data collected remains confidential and is protected against accidental or unlawful access, alteration, disclosure, loss or destruction.
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn more about the traffic and activity on this website. Squarespace also processes your data in the USA, among other places. Squarespace uses so-called EU standard contractual clauses as the basis for data processing with recipients based in third countries (outside Switzerland and the EU/EEA) or for data transfer to these countries. Standard contractual clauses are templates provided by the EU Commission and are intended to ensure that your data complies with European standards even if it is transferred to and stored in third countries.
To completely deactivate tracking, you must activate the so-called "Do Not Track" setting in your browser settings.
You can view Squarespace's privacy policy here:
https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/?_ga=2.145398192.567154122.1696338563-983927426.1693289936
Is the lymphtrial.com/ lymphtrial.ch website encrypted?
The lymphtrial.com/lymphtrial.ch website is offered via secure https connections. Appropriate certificates ensure that the web pages are actually operated by the publisher of the website.
Your rights
Users of the lymphtrial.com/lymphtrial.ch website and other persons about whom we process personal data have the right at any time within the framework of the applicable legal provisions
to information about any stored data,
to restrict the processing of the data,
to data portability, if and to the extent that the GDPR is applicable
to rectification, blocking or erasure of this data,
to revoke any consent given and
to object to the processing of their personal data.
If you have any questions about personal data, you can contact us by email at any time.
Changes to the privacy policy
The Lymphatic Study Research Group and the Department of Clinical Research reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time if necessary. The current status of this privacy policy is 03 October 2023.
Contacts and responsibility
As the operator of the websites lymphtrial.ch and lymphtrial.com, the research group of the Lymph Study is responsible for the correct processing of personal data:
Departement Klinische Forschung
Forschungsgruppe LYMPH-Trial, E. A. Kappos
Universität Basel
c/o Universitätsspital Basel
Spitalstrasse 8/12
CH-4031 Basel
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can e-mail us at lymph.trial@usb.ch.
All browsers offer the option of checking whether a secure https connection has been established. The corresponding certificates can also be viewed.
Who is legally liable for links to other providers’ websites?
This privacy policy applies only to the lymphtrial.com/lymphtrial.ch websites. Where links provide access to content from other providers, we would ask you to observe their data protection declarations.
Neither the research group of the LYMPH study nor the Department of Clinical Research are responsible for the content or data protection practices of these other providers.