The New European Surgical Academy (NESA), headquartered at Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany, is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at nesacademy.org, register for our programs and events, make donations, become a member, or otherwise interact with our organization.
As a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing surgical techniques and sharing medical knowledge globally, we understand the importance of maintaining the trust of our surgeons, members, donors, and partners across 64 countries.
Important: By accessing our website or using our services, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use our services.
The data controller responsible for your personal data is:
New European Surgical Academy (NESA)
Unter den Linden 21
10117 Berlin
Germany
For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: privacy@nesacademy.org
We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information:
We may receive information about you from:
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
| Purpose | Legal Basis (GDPR) |
|---|---|
| Processing event registrations and workshop participation | Contract performance |
| Managing membership accounts and benefits | Contract performance |
| Processing donations and issuing receipts | Contract performance / Legal obligation |
| Sending newsletters and educational materials | Consent |
| Communicating about programs, events, and initiatives | Legitimate interest |
| Improving our website and services | Legitimate interest |
| Conducting research and publishing findings | Consent / Legitimate interest |
| Complying with legal obligations | Legal obligation |
| Protecting our rights and preventing fraud | Legitimate interest |
We may share your personal information with:
We may disclose your information when required by law, court order, or governmental request, or to protect our rights, safety, or property.
Note: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
As NESA operates in 64 countries, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When we transfer data internationally, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place:
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy:
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@nesacademy.org. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data:
While we strive to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security but are committed to maintaining the highest standards of data protection.
Our services are intended for medical professionals and adults interested in surgical education. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete such information promptly.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including partner institutions, medical journals, and research databases. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of any material changes by:
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about how we protect your information.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
New European Surgical Academy (NESA)
Unter den Linden 21
10117 Berlin, Germany
Email: info@nesacademy.org
Website: nesacademy.org
NESA
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to