Legal notice, disclaimer and copyright
Please note: on Tuesday 2 July 2024, the EMCDDA became the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), with an extended remit and stronger role. Some pages on our website may not yet reflect this change but will be updated shortly.
The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer, a copyright notice and rules related to personal data protection.
Disclaimer
The agency's goal is to keep this information and material timely and accurate. If errors are brought to its attention, the agency will try to correct them.
However, the agency accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever (including, but not limited to, any direct or consequential loss or damage that might occur to you and/or any other third party) arising out of, or in connection, with the information on this site, including information relating to the documents it publishes.
In particular, the agency is indemnified from, and against, all costs, proceedings, claims, expenses and liabilities whatsoever arising from any breach by any legal or natural person as a result of any representation or warranty providing to be a misrepresentation.
The information the agency provides is:
- of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity;
- not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date;
- sometimes linked to external sites over which the agency has no control and for which the agency assumes no responsibility;
- not professional or legal advice;
- not a substitute for the exercise of professional or clinical judgement and if you are not qualified or experienced enough to make that judgement, you should take professional advice;
- not advice or recommendation and we do not intend you to rely upon it when making (or refraining from making) any clinical or individual decision;
- note that it cannot be guaranteed that a document available online reproduces an officially adopted text precisely. Thus, in case of disagreement, the official adopted text will always prevail.
It is the agency's goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However, some data or information on the website may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free. The agency cannot guarantee that its service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The agency accepts no responsibility whatsoever with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this website.
Copyright and reuse notice
As an EU public body, the EUDA is strongly committed to the principles of open data.
Unless otherwise stated, the EUDA, according to current EU and international legislation, is the owner of copyright on this website and its contents.
Information and documents made available on EUDA web pages and for which the EUDA owns the copyright are public and may be reproduced, adapted and/or distributed, totally or in part, irrespective of the means and/or the formats used, provided that the EUDA is always acknowledged as the original source of the material. Such acknowledgement must be included in each copy of the material.
The copyright policy of the EUDA is fully compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
The above-mentioned permissions DO NOT apply to content supplied by third parties. Therefore, for documents where the copyright lies with a third party, permission for reproduction must be obtained from the copyright holder.
Please feel free to contact us should you have any doubts or questions regarding re-using any of the information, data or other resources provided on the EUDA website or within our publications: emcddawebmasters[a]emcdda.europa.eu (replace '[a]' with '@' before sending).
Personal data including 'cookies'
The European Union is committed to user privacy. The policy on 'protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions' is based on Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC Text with EEA relevance.
Although you can browse through most of the EUDA website without giving any information about yourself, in some cases, personal information may be required in order to provide the e-services you request. In this respect:
- For each specific service, a controller determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data and ensures conformity of the specific service with the privacy policy;
- At the EUDA, the Data Protection Officer, dpo[a]emcdda.europa.eu, monitors the compliance with the Regulation and advises controllers on fulfilling their obligations (click here for more information about data protection at the EUDA);
- For all EU Institutions and agencies, the European Data Protection Supervisor acts as an independent supervisory authority with regard to the protection of personal data.
Data subjects have the right to access their personal data and the right to rectify any data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
The EUDA collects information on website usage for the purpose of analysing your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. A cookie is stored on your device for this purpose. This data is not shared with any third parties and is used uniquely by the EUDA for the purposes stated above.
In some cases, the EUDA provides links to third party sites. Since we do not control them, we encourage you to review their privacy policies.
If you have any questions about the processing of your e-mail and related personal data, do not hesitate to include them in your message.
For more information regarding the use of personal data, please contact dpo[a]emcdda.europa.eu.