Your privacy is of paramount importance. We do not sell or otherwise transfer your personal data (“Personal Data“) to third parties except with your prior consent or as we are required under applicable law or regulation. We do not subject you to profiling or automated decision-making. Personal Data relating to communications will be saved for as long as you are a business contact to us, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory retention obligations.

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Third-party service providers such as Google may track your use of our website, combine this information with information from other websites you have visited (and which they also track) and use such combined information for their own purposes. If you have registered with the respective service providers, they may be able to identify you. In these instances, their processing of your Personal Data will be governed by their privacy policies (to see how Google uses your Personal Data when you use our website, please refer here).

You may change your browser settings to delete and block cookies (or to deactivate Google Analytics alternatively download and install the browser add-on from Google available here). By continuing to use the STAT website without changing your settings (or using the add-on, as applicable) you consent to our and our third-party service providers’ use of cookies.