Health data use

As part as your medical care at Institut Curie, our medical, nursing and administrative teams collect and store, in your medical folder, personal data or documents containing personal data, such as medical reports, radiological images, and test results.

Unless you object, this personal data may also be reused in a pseudonymized or anonymized form and shared with academic and/or industrial partners within the framework of research.

You can find the research projects that may reuse this data at the link below.

You may rest assured that the objection to the use of your personal data for research purposes will have no consequences on the continuation of your care, the quality of care provided to you, or your relationship with your physician.

Your personal data will be used in compliance with the applicable regulations, in particular Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679 on the protection of personal data ("GDPR"). For more information on how Institut Curie uses and protects your personal data, you can consult the personal data policy.

In accordance with the applicable regulations, the processing of your personal data for scientific research purposes is necessary for the performance of a task carried out on the basis of the public interest.

In accordance with current regulations, you have, at any time and within the limits of the applicable laws, the following rights:

• the right to access and rectify your personal data,
• the right to object to the transmission of data that may be used for this research,
• the right to erase your data,
• the right to restrict the use of your data,
• the right to verify the identity of the data controller, the legal basis, the purpose of the use, the recipients, as well as the retention period of this data.

You can send your objection request to the following email address: opposition.recherche@curie.fr

You can also contact the Data Protection Officer for any requests regarding the exercise of your rights at the following email address: dpo@curie.fr 

In the event of exercising the right to erase your data, some data may, however, not be deleted if such deletion makes it impossible or seriously compromises the fulfillment of the research objectives.

If, after contacting us, you believe that your rights have not been respected, you have the option to file a complaint with the CNIL by mail at: 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 8715, 75334 PARIS CEDEX – (tel: 01 53 73 22 22), or directly via the CNIL website: https://cnil.fr/fr/webform/adresser-une-plainte