This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

Welcome to the web site (the “Site”) of R4Alz Online. This Site is operated by the Robotics for all group (“R4A”) and has been created to a) provide information about the R4Alz (REMEDES for Alzheimer) battery and b) to offer a series of neurocognitive tests, whether accessible to you via web, mobile app or other platform (our services, together with the Site, are the “Services”) by visitors and users of the Services (“you” and/or “your”).

This Privacy Policy sets out R4Alz Online policy with respect to information, including in particular information which identifies you personally (known as ‘personally identifiable information’ in the USA or ‘personal data’ in the European Union, which together we’ll call “Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from visitors and users of the Services.

Please read this privacy policy carefully so that you understand how we will treat your information.  By using any of our Services, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this privacy policy.  If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use any of the Services.  If you have any queries, please email us at issel.labgroup@gmail.com

Who we are

We are:

(R4A) Robotics 4 All
ISSEL (Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Labgroup)
IPL (Information Processing Laboratory)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Campus
GR-54124, Thessaloniki
GREECE

We will refer to this labgroup as “R4A”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”.

Our legal status under applicable data privacy laws

R4A is a data controller under the EU legislation. We comply with the GDPR 2016/679.

Information We Collect

When you interact with us through the Services, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:

Personal Data That You Provide Through the Services: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries, register for access to the Services or use certain Services, which typically includes your:

  • Gender
  • Age
  • Years of education
  • Occupation
  • Type and results of each test you perform within the R4Alz Online page
  • In case a neuropsychologist uses the tests on patients, he can submit the patient’s
    • Social Security Number
    • Current diagnosis
    • Day care center or place the administration was performed
    • Stress or depression status

By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to us using them in the context of the “Services” and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may store such information in our infrastructure or such in databases owned and maintained by R4A’s affiliates, agents or service providers, located in the European Union. The Services may use such information and pool it with other information on an anonymized and generalized basis to track, for example, the total number of users of our Services.

Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information

By providing us with the information about you discussed above, you consent for us to use that information in the following ways:

  • to gather raw tests results data in order to produce statistics and trends, based on exercise types, age/gender categorization or any other categorization that has been defined by the R4Alz Online system owner
  • To provide the aggregated data to the certified Day Care Center it treats you, in case these tests were administered by a neuropsychologist that works there
  • to include your anonymized data in publicly available aggregated statistics
  • to use your anonymized data for scientific purposes (in research projects, scientific publications etc.)

Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information

R4A is a research group and data capturing and processing is done for scientific purposes.

Legal Requirements: R4A may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of R4A, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

Your Choices

You can visit the Services without providing any Personal Data. If you choose not to provide any Personal Data, you may not be able to use certain R4Alz Online Services.

Where and how we store your personal information

The information that we collect from you will be held in servers in the European Union.

Children

R4A does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16 without written parental consent. If you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Services, unless written parental consent has been provided. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on the Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to ISSEL through the Services without a submitted parental consent, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

Links to Other Web Sites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by R4A (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites. The links from the Services do not imply that R4A endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

Security

R4A takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Services from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free; any transmission is at your own risk. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Services may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to R4A via the Internet. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Other Terms and Conditions

Your access to and use of the Services is also subject to the Terms of Services

Your rights

EU data protection legislation gives EU citizens the right to access information held about you. You may also email us at issel.labgroup@gmail.com to request that we delete your personal information from our database. We may retain an anonymized copy of your measured data records for legitimate purposes (research and archive purposes).

Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about R4A’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of the Services.

You may contact us as follows: issel.labgroup@gmail.com