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Privacy policy

Last updated: 21 April 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is collected and processed when you visit this website or contact Blazon Scientific.

1. Controller

Thomas Solomon
 Blazon Scientific
Unterbergerstrasse 22
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Email: thomas.solomon@blazon-scientific.com

2. Scope of this Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website operated under the Blazon Scientific name and to personal data processed in connection with enquiries about freelance medical writing, scientific editing, evidence synthesis, and data analysis services.

3. Categories of Personal Data

Depending on how you use the website, the following categories of personal data may be processed:

a) Technical and server data
 When you visit the website, technical information may be processed automatically, such as:

  • IP address
  • date and time of access
  • browser type and browser version
  • operating system
  • referrer URL
  • requested pages and files
  • server log data
  • device and connection information

b) Contact and communication data
 If you contact Blazon Scientific by email, the following data may be processed:

  • your name
  • your email address
  • your organisation, if provided
  • the contents of your message
  • files or attachments you voluntarily send

c) Cookie and consent data
 This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Depending on your settings and interactions, this may include:

  • functional cookies used by WordPress
  • cookie consent preference data stored by Complianz
  • data relating to LinkedIn content, social features, or embedded functionality, where applicable
  • data connected with other tools or plugins identified in the cookie policy

4. Purposes of Processing and Legal Bases

Personal data are processed only where there is a lawful basis.

a) Website operation and security
 Data may be processed to make the website function properly, keep it secure, and maintain reliable performance.
Legal basis: legitimate interests in operating a secure and functional website.

b) Communication and enquiries
 If you contact Blazon Scientific, your data are processed in order to respond to your enquiry and, where relevant, take steps prior to entering into a contract.
Legal basis: pre-contractual measures and/or legitimate interests in handling business enquiries.

c) Provision of services
 If you engage Blazon Scientific for services, personal data may be processed as necessary to perform the agreement, manage communications, and maintain related records.
Legal basis: performance of a contract and, where relevant, compliance with legal obligations.

d) Cookie consent management
 Your cookie preferences may be stored in order to document and apply your consent choices.
Legal basis: compliance with legal obligations and/or legitimate interests in consent management.

e) Optional cookies and third-party services
 Where non-essential cookies or third-party services are used, they are processed only on the basis of your consent, unless another lawful basis clearly applies.
Legal basis: consent.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. According to the current cookie policy, these include cookies or services relating to:

  • WordPress
  • Complianz
  • LinkedIn
  • certain additional items currently classified as miscellaneous / pending investigation

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are required for the technical operation of the website or to record your cookie preferences. Non-essential cookies, including statistics, preferences, marketing, or third-party social media cookies, should only be activated after you have given consent.

You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie settings function on the website.

6. Recipients of Personal Data

Personal data may be disclosed only where necessary, for example to:

  • website hosting providers
  • email providers
  • WordPress-related technical service providers
  • Complianz, for cookie consent management
  • LinkedIn, if LinkedIn content or related features are used on the site
  • IT, maintenance, or plugin/service providers needed to operate the website
  • public authorities, courts, or advisers where disclosure is legally required or necessary

The current cookie policy states that LinkedIn-related content or features may process certain information and that LinkedIn is located in the United States.

7. International Transfers

Some third-party providers used on the website may process personal data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States.

Where personal data are transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by law, such as an adequacy decision or other recognised transfer mechanism.

8. Retention Period

Personal data are retained only for as long as necessary for the relevant purposes.

As a general rule:

  • technical log data are retained for as long as needed for security and technical administration
  • enquiry data are retained for as long as needed to respond and follow up
  • contract and invoice-related data may be retained for the period required under tax, accounting, and recordkeeping laws
  • consent records may be retained for as long as needed to demonstrate consent choices and legal compliance

9. Your Rights

Under applicable data protection law, you may have the right to:

  • request access to your personal data
  • request rectification of inaccurate data
  • request erasure of data
  • request restriction of processing
  • object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent
  • request data portability, where applicable

Requests may be sent to:
thomas.solomon@blazon-scientific.com

EU guidance explains that individuals have rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and, where relevant, portability, and controllers must respond without undue delay and at the latest within one month.

10. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

In Austria, this is generally the:

Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde)
 Barichgasse 40–42
1030 Vienna
Austria
Email: dsb@dsb.gv.at

11. External Links and Third-Party Content

This website may contain links to external websites or third-party content. If you follow such links or interact with embedded third-party features, your data may be processed by those third parties under their own privacy policies.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect legal, technical, or operational changes. The version published on this website is the current version.