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Privacy Policy
In visiting the pages of this website you are agreeing to the privacy policy indicated below.
Fresenius Medical Care Portugal is strongly dedicated to respecting the privacy of their website users and it is for this reason that they have written the following Privacy Policy. This policy duly informs the users on how the website works and how their personal information will be dealt with.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may be periodically updated. Therefore, in order to be informed of any of the alterations made, we recommend that the policy always be read every time you visit the website.
Posterior to having sent your personal information, whenever there is an alteration made to our Privacy Policy that alters the way in which we intend to use them, you will be informed if you have provided us with contact information.
Requested Personal Information
We need some personal information from our website users when they subscribe to some of the services we provide so that we can supply them with the information they desire, clarify any questions or doubts they have, or, if requested by the user, take them into consideration for a recruitment process.
We do not ask for personal information that may directly or indirectly identify the user without his/her consent. Therefore we collect and keep information that the user voluntarily decided to provide. This includes personal information such as the users name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, etc.
If it is necessary to provide us with personal information in order to access one of the services on our website, you will be expressly informed of how this information will be used.
Minors under the age of 18 should ask their parents or guardians before providing any personal information on the Fresenius Medical Care - Portugal website.
Safety and Use of Information
Fresenius Medical Care Portugal promises to assure the privacy of the visitors of their website.
Fresenius Medical Care Portugal does not sell, lend, or in any way make available the personal information sent to them by their website users.
Keeping Personal Information on File
After collecting personal information voluntarily provided by our users Fresenius Medical Care Portugal will keep this information on file until they have received instructions to erase this information or until the law requires that it be erased. Keeping this information on file allows for Fresenius Medical Care Portugal to continue to supply an uninterrupted personalised service.
Cookies
Fresenius Medical Care Portugal could periodically send your computer information in order to identify their users.
This information is normally designated as "cookies" (small files of information that web sites sends to the computer hard drive of the people who visit their website. The cookies serve for the computer to memorize certain information of the websites in order to make it easier to access and download information every time the users visit the website. Knowing how and when the users visit the website can help Fresenius Medical Care - Portugal to continue to improve on their website. It is possible to identify a majority of the browsers in order to be notified on the reception of a "cookie" and even block its entrance in the system.
Terms and Conditions
Before accessing the use of a website, carefully read the Terms and Conditions. In accessing and using this website the user declares that he/she has read, understood and accepted the Terms and Conditions below without needing any posterior act or consent.
The Terms and Conditions may be altered at any moment if Fresenius Medical Care Portugal decides so, and the alterations enter in vigour on the date that they are put on the website. Once the website has been accessed and used by the user it is understood that he/she has read, understood and accepted the Terms and Conditions which have been altered.
Industrial Property and Authors' Rights
All of the information, registered trademarks and all of the general content of this website are the exclusive property of Fresenius Medical Care Portugal and of their subsidiary companies, and are protected under the general law terms and by the national and international legislation of the protection of Intellectual Property.
The reproduction of information for personal use is permitted but unauthorised modifications, copying, loans, rental, transmissions or sales of any of the contents of this website is prohibited.
The content of this website is protected by the Authors' Rights, Copyright and Industrial Property Rights.
All of the rights that are not specifically granted by Fresenius Medical Care Portugal are reserved rights. Therefore, all of the text, images, illustrations, pictures, publicity, brands and other elements within the website are protected by law and any copy, reproduction, diffusion or transmission, use, modification, sale, publication, distribution or any other total or partial use by any means is completely forbidden.
The only exception to this prohibition is the free right authorised by law, namely the right to site, as long as the origin being sited is clearly identified.
Authorisation is given to use documents (such as Press Releases, Announcements and Reports and Operations) from this website as long as the warning of authors' rights appears on all of the copies made. The use of these documents should be exclusively for informative reasons and not for commercial or personal reasons, there must not be copies made or put on any computer network or spread to any other means of communication and no alterations may be made to the documents. Any person who commits any of these infractions will be sued.
Although the personal information that is given to us is protected by our privacy policy, we understand that all of the information that is provided to us through the internet (including suggestions, material or ideas) will become our property and exclusively be used by us albeit by in restricted use. This information will not have to be treated by us as confidential.
Some parts of the website may contain images that are protected by the copyright of their supplies (for example, the photographs from image bank).
Software Download
Any of the software that may be downloaded from the Fresenius Medical Care Portugal website is protected by the copyright of the supplying entity. The terms for use of this software has been determined by the operator that makes the information available. Therefore, we recommend that that the terms for use of these also be read.
Links
To ease access, Fresenius Medical Care Portugal may include links to other websites on the internet. When using the links for those sites the regulations of the site should be read before being used. We are not able to guarantee the security of these sites nor do we take responsibility for the content or the functions of these websites.
Use and Risk
How you use the website is of your own risk. Not Fresenius Medical Care Portugal nor in any party involved in its creation, production, maintenance or implementation of the website may be held responsible for any losses or damages (including, but not limited to, resulting damages, lost profits and moral damages caused directly or indirectly) when they are a consequence of the user's correct or incorrect use of the website and the contents of the site itself, when a third party accesses the computer and computerised information system, when there is a virus, etc. Fresenius Medical Care Portugal does not guarantee nor declare that the files available for downloading on the site are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horse, scripts or any other code or programme that contains destructive or harmful properties despite the fact that they make an effort to make their site secure.
The information on our website is simply for information purposes. Despite the efforts made by Fresenius Medical Care Portugal to keep the contents updated, these may contain inaccuracies, typographical errors or have information that has not yet been updated. Fresenius Medical Care Portugal may make alterations to their website without any prior notice. We do not recommend that the site be used as a source for any decision making.
Policy Act
Any use of the website for illegal purposes or any other reason that may be considered indignant to the image of Fresenius Medical Care Portugal, or to their subsidiaries in the market, is strictly prohibited. The usurpation, forgery, or using usurped or forged contents, the illegitimate identification of and disloyal competition to this website are all punishable by law.
It is also prohibited to create or introduce any type of virus or program that may damage or contaminate or advise third parties to do so on this website.
