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Privacy: IVDR Guide
How IVDR Guide handles personal data: no analytics or tracking cookies, what the request form and newsletter collect, retention, and your rights.
Summary
IVDR Guide (ivdrguide.com) uses no analytics and no advertising or tracking cookies, and this notice explains what happens to the personal data you give it through the provider-match form, when you send a request, and the newsletter, when you subscribe.
It names the controller, the purpose and legal basis of each collection, the retention periods, the recipients, the service providers involved and the rights you hold.
The key facts are summarised in the table below. Any question about this notice goes to editorial@ivdrguide.com.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Controller | The publisher of ivdrguide.com, editorial@ivdrguide.com |
| Analytics, advertising and tracking cookies | None |
| Provider-match form | Kept for 24 months; passed only to independent providers, for your request |
| Newsletter | Email address only; kept until you unsubscribe |
| Your rights | Write to editorial@ivdrguide.com |
Who Is Responsible for Your Data
The controller of the personal data described on this page is the publisher of ivdrguide.com, and you reach it at editorial@ivdrguide.com. IVDR Guide is an independent, provider-neutral reference on the EU medical device regulations. The publisher decides why and how the data on this page are processed, and what the site covers is set out on the overview of the EU MDR and IVDR.
This notice is the privacy notice of IVDR Guide under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). That regulation is the legal frame of this page only; the site itself explains the medical device regulations, not data protection law.
What This Website Does Not Collect
This website uses no analytics service and sets no advertising or tracking cookies, so no profile of your reading is built through analytics or advertising tools. Reading an article, opening a table or following a link to an official source therefore sends nothing to an analytics provider.
No advertising vendor is used on ivdrguide.com either, so no advertising network receives information about the pages you visit.
Data from the Provider-Match Form
The provider-match form collects what you type into it so that your request can be passed to independent MDR and IVDR providers who work on this. The table below compares what the form and the newsletter collect, why, on which basis, for how long and with whom. The form appears on pages that explain the MDR and IVDR compliance programme and on other topic pages of the site.
| Where | What | Purpose | Legal basis (plain words) | Kept for | Shared with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider-match form | Email address, company name, request description, selections (topic, role, regulation, timing) | Passing your request on so that a provider can answer it | Steps you ask us to take | 24 months | Independent providers, for that request only |
| Newsletter | Email address | Sending the newsletter | Your consent | Until you unsubscribe | Nobody |
What the Form Collects and Why
The form asks for your email address, your company name, a description of what you need and your selections: the topic, your role, the regulation (MDR, IVDR or both) and your timing. A page on a specific topic can add a selection of its own.
These data serve one purpose: to pass your request on and to let a provider answer you directly. The legal basis, in plain words, is that the processing is needed for steps you ask the publisher to take when you send the request. Sending a request does not subscribe you to the newsletter.
Who Receives a Request
A request goes only to independent providers whose work matches it: regulatory consultants, EU authorised representatives, notified-body preparation support, clinical evaluation writers and contract research organisations (CROs), training providers or electronic quality management system (eQMS) vendors.
Your data are passed on for that request only and for no other purpose. The form itself carries this notice: "Requests go to independent providers. Providers cannot buy a place on ivdrguide.com; see our editorial policy."
How Long Form Data Are Kept
Form data are kept for 24 months and then deleted. The period applies to every field of the request, including your email address, company name and description. You can ask for earlier deletion at any time by writing to editorial@ivdrguide.com.
Data from the Newsletter
The newsletter collects only your email address, uses it only to send the newsletter, and keeps it until you unsubscribe. No name, company or other detail is asked for when you subscribe, and the address is shared with nobody.
The legal basis, in plain words, is your consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time, either by unsubscribing or by writing to editorial@ivdrguide.com.
Service Providers That Process Data for Us
Two kinds of service provider process personal data on behalf of the publisher: the provider that hosts the website and its database, and the provider that delivers email. Both act only on the publisher's instructions and only for the tasks listed in the table below.
| Category | Task | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Website hosting and database | Runs the website and stores form data | Form data |
| Email delivery | Sends the newsletter and other emails of the site | Email addresses, email content |
Your Rights and How to Use Them
You can ask the publisher at any time which of your personal data it holds, have them corrected or deleted, receive them in a portable format, and withdraw any consent you have given. These commitments sit alongside the other rights that the General Data Protection Regulation gives you.
Send a request of this kind, or any question about how your data are used, to editorial@ivdrguide.com. Every way to reach the editorial team is listed on the page contact IVDR Guide.
Complaints to a Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you think your data are handled unlawfully. Writing to editorial@ivdrguide.com first is welcome but not required, and it does not replace that right.
Changes to This Notice
This notice was last updated on 6 November 2026, and any change is published on this page with a new date. Questions about a change go to the same address as every other privacy request.
More About IVDR Guide
The other pages about IVDR Guide explain who publishes it, how the content is compiled and checked, the rules that keep it independent, and how to get in touch. The content is compiled from named primary sources (EUR-Lex, the Commission's medical device pages, MDCG documents, NANDO, EUDAMED, national gazettes and competent authorities) and checked against them. The four pages are listed below.
- About IVDR Guide: who publishes the site
- methodology and fact-checking: how the content is compiled and checked
- editorial policy: the rules that keep the site independent
- contact IVDR Guide: every way to reach the editorial team