Privacy statement

The Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) takes the view that the confidentiality of personal data of visitors to its website should be duly observed. In processing such personal data the LUMC acts in accordance with the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act.

The LUMC solely processes the data you may provide to give a correct answer to your question or to correctly provide the service requested by you. In such cases the LUMC solely processes your data to establish your identity as the person asking the question or requesting the service. Your data shall not be issued to third parties subject to your prior permission or any statutory obligation.

The LUMC continuously avails itself of log files of the activities in its web environment. These log files contain data such as your IP address, browser type, most recently visited LUMC web page and other similar data. Log files are solely used to analyse the use of the LUMC website in order to provide more user friendly and more efficient services. The visitor information cannot be related to individuals and shall not be used to personally identify you.

Some parts of the LUMC website may contain cookies. A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer as a file.

Cookies are not used to obtain or store personal information. By adjusting the settings of your browser you may opt to accept all cookies, to be informed when a cookie is placed on your computer or to reject all cookies. Please consult the manual of your browser for further details. Should you opt to reject all cookies, you may be denied access to some parts of the LUMC website.

This privacy statement applies to the web pages of the Leiden University Medical Centre. This privacy statement does not apply to internet sites of third parties connected with this site by links.