Global Neuro Data Protection Policy
1. Scope
Global Neuro (hereinafter "GN") is a not-for-profit organization established under the lawsof Switzerland with registered domicile at Clavadelerstrasse 1, 7270 Davos, Switzerland.
Global Neuro is subject to Swiss Law and adheres to all applicable regional and local privacy
laws and regulations to be considered in its activities.
At GN we highly value your privacy by default and adhere to the applicable privacy laws
when collecting and processing your data. Additionally, this Data Privacy Policy is subject tocontinuous adaption according to changing regulation environments and is subject toauditing procedures with regards to accountability. This Data Privacy Policy outlines theprinciples of data collection and processing for GN and completes the GN General Terms
and Conditions (GTC).
This Data Privacy Policy (hereinafter the "Privacy Policy") applies and describes how yourpersonal data provided to GN, namely concerning the collection, storage, and usage
thereof. Furthermore, it defines how collected personal data may be examined, corrected,
or deleted.
Upon (i) setting a check mark by ticking the check box next to the suggested consent
statement indicated on the GN website and (ii) clicking the acceptance icon indicated on
the GN Website you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to ourcollection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal data as outlined below. You areentitled to revoke your consent at any time in writing or by email.

2. Legal basis of data processing
As legal basis for processing your personal data we always ask for your actively given
consent, contractual consent, or by disclaimer to capture and specifically use your data
before collecting or storing it. Further purposes can be legal obligations or obligations set
by competent authorities, protection of vital or public interests, or justified interests of theperson responsible or a third party.

3. Data Protection Officer (DPO) at GN
The DPO of GN is a person as named from time to time and is responsible to keep protected
data handling and to resolve your inquiries.
For questions, requests or further information related to data processing by GN, you may
write us an e-mail at info@globalneuro.org. Your questions or requests will be handled by
the DPO of GN responsible to keep protected data handling and to resolve your inquiries.

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4. Collection of personal data
The following processing principles apply at Global Neuro:
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lawfulness, fairness and transparency
purpose limitation
data minimization
accuracystorage limitation
integrity and confidentiality
accountability

Based on information provided by you, the following personal data will be stored:
Identity data
User name, registration date, password, user ID, first name, last name, academic title
before name, academic title after name, profession, job title, gender, date of birth,
nationalities, primary language, secondary languages, areas of specialty.
Contact details
Primary email address, secondary email, mobile phone, home phone, work phone, workorganization, department, work address, work city, work state/province, work postal code,
work country, assistant name, assistant email, assistant phone, home address, home city,
home state/province, home postal code, home country.
Professional details
Profile image, affiliations, biographical information, year of graduation from medical school,
nursing school, other health care institutions, residency training, fellowship training, withschool, degree, specialty or subspecialty.
Educational history
AO Neuro / GN Educational Event history (event name, type, year, activity levels) andevaluation scores related to GN Educational Events.
Faculty data
Status faculty active, functions (KOL, founding member, board member), faculty image, CV
upload, education information (medical school, internship, residency training, fellowshiptraining), expertise data (publications, presentations), events taken part in (dates, lieu, role,evaluation scores, faculty development activities and history).
Travel data
Preferred travel agent, favorite airline(s), favorite airline alliance(s), departure location(airport, city), dietary request, seating preference, hotel room type, smoking preference,

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car type, passport number, passport issued in (city, country), passport issued on, passport
valid until, first name in passport, family name (surname) in passport, frequent flyer
information, favorite hotel chains, favorite rental companies, additionalcomments/requirements, accessibility, dietary preference.
Event data
Badge title, organization, first name, last name, degree pre- and post-event evaluation
results, learning activities and subsequent results.
Financial data
Reimbursement information: reason for reimbursement (description), city, country, yourrole, claim, date, per diem and expense fields, meals, mileage, parking, transport,
accommodation (based on respective recent IP system), receipts, bank details (account,bank name, bank address, account holder name, account holder address, accountnumber/IBAN code, SWIFT/BIC, other information). GN stores and uses data deriving fromfinancial transactions on the GN Website and shall not be liable for all and any damage
caused by disclosing these data to any public authorities upon official request.

Our legal basis for processing the data listed above is your consent and our legitimate
interest of pursuing the purposes listed above for data collection, unless we have anotherlegal basis, provided that we require one. Consent given can be withdrawn at any time, but
this does not affect data processed prior to withdrawal.

5. Use of personal data
With your active consent, a contract, or by disclaimer you agree that we use your Personal
Data in the way described below.
We use store and process personal information for the following general purposes:
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to enable you to access and use GN Services;to enable you to communicate with other users, including but not limited to sending
them messages, notifications or other information;
to enable course chairpersons to communicate with you;to operate, protect, improve and optimize GN Services and our business for example byperforming analytics, conducting research, personalizing or otherwise customizing user
experience, and to provide customer service and support;
to help maintain a trusted environment on GN platforms, such as detection andprevention of actual and potential fraud and other harmful activity, conducting
investigations and risk assessments, verifying any identifications provided by you, andGlobal Neuro Foundation
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conducting checks against databases and information sources for fraud detection andprevention, risk assessment and harm prevention purposes;
to send you service, support, and administrative messages, reminders, technicalnotices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;to send you marketing, advertising, and promotional messages and other informationthat may be of interest to you, including information about Global Neuro Foundation,
our services, or general promotions for partner campaigns and services. You canunsubscribe or opt-out from receiving these communications in your settings;
to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have withany of our users, and to enforce our agreements with third parties.

We do not rent, sell, or otherwise share your personal data with third parties, except withyour consent.
Further, we may use third-party service providers to help us deliver our service and run or
analyze GN services (e.g. third-party data analytics services to analyze, among other things,
server load). The use by third parties of the data disclosed is strictly limited to theaforementioned purposes.
We also reserve the right to disclose your Personal Data to (a) comply with relevant laws,
regulatory requirements and to respond to lawful requests, court orders, and legal process;(b) to protect and defend the rights or property of us or third parties, including enforcing
agreements, policies, and terms of use; (c) in an emergency, including to protect the safetyof our employees or any person, or (d) in connection with investigating and preventing
fraud.
We also aggregate data into anonymized system usage statistics.

6. Data transfer and transfer of data abroad
We consider the personal data referred to in this privacy notice to be confidential and willtreat it accordingly.
We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:• you have given your consent,•••

the disclosure is necessary to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims and there is no
reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the nondisclosure of your data,in the event that a legal obligation exists for the transfer; or
this is legally permissible and necessary for the execution of contractual relationships
with you.

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However, we may disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients forthe purposes set out above:• our service providers (external partner, such as banks, insurances), including processors(such as IT providers);• dealers, suppliers, subcontractors, and other business partners;• clients;• domestic and foreign authorities or courts;• the media;• the public, including users of our websites and social media;• industry organizations, associations, organizations, and other bodies;• acquirers or parties interested in the acquisition of business divisions, companies, orother parts of GN;• other parties in possible or pending legal proceedings;• affiliates of GN.
We reserve the right to transfer, store, use, and process your data, including any Personal
Data, to countries outside of Switzerland including the European Economic Area, the UnitedStates, and possibly other countries. By using GN services, you consent to us transferring
your data to these countries. You should note that laws vary from jurisdiction tojurisdiction, and so laws and regulations relating to privacy and data disclosure, applicableto the places where your information is transferred to or stored, used, or processed in, may
be different from the laws and regulations applicable to your place of residence. We takethe legally required safeguards and contractual measures to ensure that any parties wetransfer personal data to do so in keeping with the level of data protection and security
prescribed by the applicable data protection regulation. If the level of data protection in acountry does not correspond to the Swiss or EU standard, we contractually ensure that theprotection of your personal data corresponds to that in Switzerland or the EU at all times.
To this end, we agree on the EU standard contractual clauses with our partners andimplement additional technical and organizational measures if necessary.

7. Data retention
We may retain information regarding you and your use of GN services, including personallyidentifying information and profiling data, for as long as needed to provide you with ourservices and the uses described in this Privacy Policy. Generally, this means that we willkeep information for the duration of your account.
While Global Neuro Foundation strives to provide the possibility of a full deletion of
Personal Data, note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up
storage for some period of time after your account deletion.

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Irrespective of your account deletion, we may retain and use such data as necessary toprotect our legitimate interests, the interests of third parties or the public, and to comply
with our legal obligations, maintain accurate accounting, financial and other operational
records, resolve disputes, and enforce our rights connected to your use of GN services.

8. Visiting our websites
In order to display and optimize our website content while ensuring data security, we may
collect personal data from you. The same applies to the analysis of website usage andcompliance with regulatory and legal requirements. If you use the corresponding functions,
we also process personal data to:• contact you• regularly inform you about our offers (e.g., newsletter)• interact with you in connection with our offers and website content (e.g., social media)• otherwise specified use
Server-Logfiles
When you access one of our websites, the browser used on your end device (e.g.,
notebook, smartphone, tablet) automatically sends data to the server of the respective
website. This data is temporarily stored in a log file, the so-called server log files. The accessdata includes in particular your IP address, the type of web browser, the operating systemused, the date and duration of your visit to our website and the like. This is exclusively
information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
The processing of this data is based on our legitimate interests for the purpose of enabling
the use of our websites (connection establishment), to ensure system security and stability
on a permanent basis, to optimize our offers, and for internal statistical purposes. We do
not disclose this data to third parties or evaluate it in any other way. A personal user profile
is not created.
Cookies/tracking and other techniques regarding the use of GN websites
We typically use cookies and similar techniques on our websites, which allow for an
identification of your browser or device. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to yourcomputer and automatically saved by the web browser on your computer or mobile device,when you visit our website. If you revisit our website, we may recognize you, even if we do
not know your identity. Besides cookies that are only used during a session and deleted
after your visit of the website (session cookies), we may use cookies in order to save user
configurations and other information for a certain time period (permanent cookies). GN
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browser settings in a way that it rejects cookies, only saves them for one session, or deletes
them prematurely. Most browsers are preset to accept cookies. We use permanent cookies
in order to understand how you use our services and content. If you block cookies, it ispossible that certain functions are no longer available to you. By accepting the cookies andusing our websites, you consent to the use of such techniques. If you object, you must
configure your browser or e-mail program accordingly.
Google Services
On our websites, we use various services of Google LLC, based in the USA, respectively if
you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland,
Google Ireland Limited, based in Ireland ("Google"). The processing of personal data whenusing "Google Maps" always takes place in the USA. We may use the following Google
services on our websites:• Google Tag Manager• Google Analytics• Google Ads• Google Optimize• Google Marketing Platform• Google reCAPTCHA
Google uses technologies such as cookies, web storage in the browser, and tracking pixels,
which enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information thus generated about
your use of our website may be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
We use tools provided by Google that Google claims can process personal data in countries
where Google or Google's subcontractors maintain facilities. Google promises an adequatelevel of data protection in its Data Processing Addendum for Products where Google is a
Data Processor by relying on the EU standard contractual clauses. Although this does notprovide a conclusive guarantee of compliance with Swiss or European data protection law,
Google is also certified under the Swiss-USA. and EU-USA. Privacy Shield framework. For
more information about Google's processing and privacy settings, please refer to Google's
privacy policy respectively privacy settings.
Social media presence
On our websites, we have set up links to our social media presence on Facebook, Instagram,
LinkedIn, and Twitter. If you click on the corresponding icons of the social networks, youwill automatically be redirected to our profile on the respective social network. In order tobe able to use the functions of the respective network there, you must partially log in to
your user account for the respective network. When you open a link to one of our social

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media profiles, a direct connection is established between your browser and the server ofthe social network in question. This provides the network with the information that you
have visited our websites with your IP address and accessed the link. If you access a link to a
network while logged in to your account on the network concerned, the content of our site
may be linked to your profile on the network, i.e., the network may link your visit to our
websites directly to your user account. If you want to prevent this, you should log out
before clicking on the relevant links. In any case, an association takes place when you log into the relevant network after clicking on the link.
Integration of videos
To integrate videos on our websites, we use the services of the following providers:• YouTube LLC based in the USA, a subsidiary of Google LLC• Vimeo Inc. based in the USA

9. Your data protection rights
You are generally entitled to the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data
portability, objection to processing and revocation of consent with regard to your personaldata.
In those cases where we base processing on our legitimate interests, you have the right toobject to the processing of your Personal Data.
For withdrawing consent or objecting to any data processing as described above, simply
send an e-mail with your specific request to info@globalneuro.org.
Please note that exceptions apply to these rights. In particular, we may be obliged tofurther process and store your personal data in order to fulfill a contract with you, toprotect our own legitimate interests, such as the assertion, exercise or defense of legal
claims, or to comply with legal obligations. Also, legitimate interests of third parties orlegitimate public interests may lead to a further processing of your personal data. In thesecases, we can or must reject certain requests or comply with them only to a limited extent.

10. Deletion of your profile
Upon your written request, we will close your profile and remove your personal data fromthe GN Website as soon as reasonably possible, unless the processing is justified by ourlegitimate interests, necessary to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or toassert, exercise or defend legal claims.

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11. Data security
We use several tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) in order to protect yourpersonal data against unauthorized access and disclosure.
We take commercially reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent theloss, misuse, or alteration of your Personal Data. Accordingly, we store all the Personal Data
you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
You also acknowledge that no technical and organizational measures can fully eliminate
security risks connected with the transmission of information over the internet. We
therefore cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. We use thecommon SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in connection with the highest level ofencryption supported by your browser. Usually this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser
does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead.
Whether a single page of GN Website is transmitted in encrypted form is indicated by theclosed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data
against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or
unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved inline with technological developments. You are responsible for keeping the accountinformation (user name/password) for accessing GN services confidential.

12. Amending of this Privacy Policy
GN reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, without giving reasons. The
current version published on our website shall apply. If the privacy notice is part of anagreement with you, we will notify you by e-mail or other appropriate means in case of anamendment and your consent will need to be renewed upon major changes and in generalregularly from time to time. The modified Privacy Policy shall be deemed to be accepted byyou, if you do not object to the applicability of the revised Privacy Policy within 20 days
after receipt of said notice (in case of a registered user) or the publication on the GN
Website (in case of a user that is not registered), for example.

13. Security BreachIn the event of a data security breach, GN will promptly notify the Federal Data Protection
and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

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