4DPicture Project Website Privacy Policy
This Policy describes the information that the 4DPicture website collects from you, how we use that information and our legal basis for doing so. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding the information you provide to us.
The 4DPicture project is committed to ensuring that the data we collect as a result of your visit complies with the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), also known as DSGVO in German, and RGPD in French. This is a regulation that applies to companies, non-profit organisations, and public entities worldwide to strengthen data protection for all individuals within the EU.
We collect minimal data to ascertain how many new and returning visitors to our website we have over time and which device they use during each session; which countries around the world are accessing our pages; how many individual pages are viewed over a given time period and how long visitors remain on a particular page. We will also record whether visitors arrive at our pages from referral links on other websites and in social media and whether the resources we make available within our pages are being viewed and downloaded.
In order to collect visitor usage data, we use Matomo Analytics for statistical purposes, to improve our site and to recognize and stop any misuse.
We will never sell your personal data to anyone.
What we collect and receive:
In order for us to provide you the best possible experience on our websites, we need to collect and process certain information. Depending on your use of the Services, that may include:
- Usage data —when you visit our site, we will store: the website from which you visited us from, the parts of our site you visit, the date and duration of your visit, your anonymised IP address, information from the device (device type, operating system, screen resolution, language, country you are located in, and web browser type) you used during your visit, and more. We process this usage data in Matomo Analytics for statistical purposes, to improve our site and to recognize and stop any misuse.
- Cookies — we use cookies (small data files transferred onto computers or devices by sites) for record-keeping purposes and to enhance functionality on our site. You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time.
- Contact form — Our contact form collects information provided by you, which includes: first and last name, function, organisation and email. This information is collected in order to contact you if necessary to perform our services.
You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.
Matomo Subprocessors
The Matomo service uses a select number of trusted external service providers for certain technical data processing and/or service offerings. These service providers are carefully selected and meet high data protection and security standards. We only share information with them that is required for the services offered and we contractually bind them to keep any information we share with them as confidential and to process Personal Data only according to our instructions.
Matomo uses the following subprocessors to process the data collected by our websites:
| Subprocessor | Data location and security | Service |
| AlwaysData | Europe, France | Secure infrastructure for servers and databases and logs hosted in Paris, France. |
Your Rights
You have the right to be informed of Personal Data processed by 4DPicture, a right to rectification/correction, erasure and restriction of processing. You also have the right to ask from us a structured, common and machine-readable format of Personal Data you provided to us.
We can only identify you via your email address and we can only adhere to your request and provide information if we have Personal Data about you through you having made contact with us directly and/or you using our site and/or service. We cannot provide, rectify or delete any data that we store on behalf of our users or customers.
To exercise any of the rights mentioned in this Privacy Policy and/or in the event of questions or comments relating to the use of Personal Data you may contact 4DPicture’s administrative team by email: j.spek@erasmusmc.nl or by using our contact form.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your jurisdiction.
Third party services in use on the 4DPicture website
When you visit our website, we use the following third party services which may collect personal data:
| Recipient | Purpose of processing | Lawful basis | Data location and security | Personal data collected by the third party | Privacy policy |
| YouTube | To play videos | Legitimate interest | USA | IP address | link |
| A2 Hosting | To host our web pages, embedded images and downloadable resources | Legitimate interest | The Netherlands | None | link |
Data Retention
If you contact the 4DPicture team, we will retain your information as long as necessary to provide you with the services or as otherwise set forth in this Policy. We will also retain and use this information as necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and protect the legal rights of the 4DPicture project.
We also collect and maintain aggregated, anonymized or pseudonymized information which we may retain indefinitely to protect the safety and security of our Site, improve our Services or comply with legal obligations.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may update this Policy from time to time. If we do, we’ll let you know about any material changes, either by notifying you on the website or by sending you an email.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy policy, please contact us using our contact form.
