Privacy Policy

Privacy policy

Data protection is important for us and we are taking it seriously. Our privacy policy aims to inform you about the data which are being collected from users visiting these e-tools.

Please visit the legal notice & disclaimer for information about the responsible authors as well as the editor and operator of this website. For further information about Focus IN CD & CD Skills and  background of the projects, its partners and the conflict of interest statement, please visit the relevant sites.

If you have any questions, please contact the project team here.

1) Validity of this policy

This privacy policy comprises the use of all „Celiac Facts“ e-tools developed within the Focus IN CD & CD Skills projects, comprising the online courses for patients and physicians & dietitians as well as the web application „pediatric guidlines to diagnose celiac disease, all in several languages.  

2) Responsibility

The responsible operator of the online courses and the web-app is the Child Health Foundation (Stiftung Kindergesundheit), Munich, Germany. The Child Health Foundation is also responsible for data processing.  

The project’s website and the online courses are being provided by the company Soon-Systems (https://soon-systems.de/). A framework contract with Soon Systems was concluded corresponding to § 7 LDSG B-W respectively § 11 BDSG.

For the responsibility regarding the content of the courses and web-app, please visit our legal notice & disclaimer.

3) Legal Basis

The General Data Protection Regulation (kurz GDPR) as well as the Bavarian data protection regulations.

For registered users only:

If you decide to register with your personal data on this platform in order participate in CME-tests for accreditation at EACCME (European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education), you herewith agree that in case of an operator exchange your agreement to the privacy policy remains effective and your data can be tranferred to the new operator.

4) Collection, processing and usage of person-related data

What are person-related data?

Person-related data comprise all information assigned to a person which allow that the individual person can be identified, such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Person-related data do not include information that cannot be allocated to a particular person or where the allocation would only be possible with a disproportionate effort.

We keep the data protection act of the Federal Republic of Germand and the data protection regulations of the European Union when processing person-related data.

The data will only be processed and kept within the Child Health Foundation and are and will never being forwarded to any Thirds Parties.

5) Data collection and storage

Visit of the e-tools:

Within the project „Focus IN CD“, three different e-tools were developed and have been made published. Within the project "CD Skills", the content of e-tools was translated into additional three languages. Users do not need to register in order to access and use the e-tools.

The e-tools comprise the following:

  •  Online course for patients with celiac disease or interested lay people in 9 languages:
      • Englisch
      • Croatian
      • German
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Slovenian
      • Romanian
      • Moldovan
      • Czech
  •  Online course for physicians & dietitians in 9 languages:
      • Englisch
      • Croatian
      • German
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Slovenian
      • Romanian
      • Moldovan
      • Czech
  • Web-App „Pediatric Guidelines“ to guide physicians throught the updated pediatric guidelines for Celiac Disease (other guidelines and languages are planned to be added in the future): www.pediatric-guidelines.eu

The following user data are being saved in the server-logfiles by the site operator Soon Systems:

- browser type and version

- operating system

- referrer URL

- hostname of the user's device

- time of server inquiry

However, these data cannot be allocated to a certain person. The collection of these data is only necessary to e.g. identify any web-server attacks . The log-files are automatically being deleted after 180 days.


Use of Webpage Analysis Tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK):

Programs for evaluation of user behavior on the LMU internet pages are only used by the LMU in an anonymized form. On several internet and Moodle pages we use the Open-Source-Software-Tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK) for analysis of your surfing behavior. This software places a cookie on your computer. If individual pages - even sub-pages - of our internet pages are called, then the following anonymized data is saved.

  • Two bytes of the IP address of the calling system (user’s system)
  • The called internet page
  • The internet page from which the user has arrived at the called internet page (referrer)
  • The sub-pages which are called from the called internet page
  • The dwell-time on the internet page
  • The frequency of call-up of the internet page
  • Information about the operating system, type of browser, video display resolution

The software Matomo is set up so that full IP addresses are not saved, but rather two bytes of the IP address are masked. In this way an unambiguous association with the calling computer is not possible. Therefore, your IP address is also always anonymized before any evaluation.

The software runs exclusively on the servers of the LMU. Any saving of data occurs only on these servers. Any transmittal to third parties does not occur. Additional information on Matomo is found at https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/ (external link).

The use of Matomo can be disabled in general by making a corresponding setting in your internet browser.

You can decide whether an unambiguous internet analysis cookie may be saved in your browser in order to allow the operator of the internet page to acquire and analyze various statistical - not personal - data. The use of an internet analysis cookie serves the purpose of improving the quality of the internet pages and their content, and for improving user convenience. Web analysis cookies make it clear how the internet page is being used, so that the offering can be optimized.

However, if you decide against it, then please disable the checkbox to set the Matomo deactivation cookie in your browser.

Your visit to this webpage is currently detected and anonymized by the Matomo web analysis tool. Please click here so that your visit will no longer be detected.

The use of Google Analytics on the LMU web servers does not occur for reasons of data protection.

Tracking durch Matomo

Use of Webpage Analysis Tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK):

Programs for evaluation of user behavior on the LMU internet pages are only used by the LMU in an anonymized form. On several internet and Moodle pages we use the Open-Source-Software-Tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK) for analysis of your surfing behavior. This software places a cookie on your computer. If individual pages - even sub-pages - of our internet pages are called, then the following anonymized data is saved.

  • Two bytes of the IP address of the calling system (user’s system)
  • The called internet page
  • The internet page from which the user has arrived at the called internet page (referrer)
  • The sub-pages which are called from the called internet page
  • The dwell-time on the internet page
  • The frequency of call-up of the internet page
  • Information about the operating system, type of browser, video display resolution

The software Matomo is set up so that full IP addresses are not saved, but rather two bytes of the IP address are masked. In this way an unambiguous association with the calling computer is not possible. Therefore, your IP address is also always anonymized before any evaluation.

The software runs exclusively on the servers of the LMU. Any saving of data occurs only on these servers. Any transmittal to third parties does not occur. Additional information on Matomo is found at https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/ (external link).

The use of Matomo can be disabled in general by making a corresponding setting in your internet browser.

You can decide whether an unambiguous internet analysis cookie may be saved in your browser in order to allow the operator of the internet page to acquire and analyze various statistical - not personal - data. The use of an internet analysis cookie serves the purpose of improving the quality of the internet pages and their content, and for improving user convenience. Web analysis cookies make it clear how the internet page is being used, so that the offering can be optimized.

However, if you decide against it, then please disable the checkbox to set the Matomo deactivation cookie in your browser.

Your visit to this webpage is currently detected and anonymized by the Matomo web analysis tool. Please click here so that your visit will no longer be detected.

The use of Google Analytics on the LMU web servers does not occur for reasons of data protection.

Tracking durch Matomo

Last modified: Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 1:33 PM