Anyone implanted with a defibrillator and monitored by telecardiology

This advances medicine, improves knowledge about heart disease and improves the quality of care

Your participation will help medical research and the development of new technologies to fight against sudden death

You have the right to be informed of the overall results of the research at the end of it, in accordance with the last paragraph of article L.1122-1 of the Public Health Code from the investigator or his designated representative who will have obtained your consent.

The results of this research may be presented at conferences or published in scientific journals.

Your data collected will be anonymized so that it will be impossible to identify you. No information allowing you to be identified may be disseminated; neither your name nor your first name will therefore be broadcast.

In accordance with the provisions of Law No. 78-17 relating to data, files and freedoms and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), you have the following rights:

• the right to request access, rectification, erasure or limitation of your data collected in the context of research. You can also access all of your medical data directly or through a doctor of your choice, pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 1111-7 of the Public Health Code;

• the right to object to the collection and transmission of your data covered by medical secrecy;

• the right to retrieve all the data concerning you with a view to transmitting it to another data controller (right to portability);

• the right to withdraw, at any time, your consent to the collection of your data. If during the research you no longer wish to participate, the data concerning you and acquired before your withdrawal from participation will be used by the investigator or his designated representative, unless you object. In this case, these will be destroyed.

These rights are exercised with the investigator or his designated representative who follows you in the context of the research and who knows your identity. You can also contact the Data Protection Officer appointed by Inserm by contacting her by email (dpo@inserm.fr ) or by post (Data Protection Officer, 101 rue de Tolbiac, 75 013 Paris).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – CNIL (French authority for the control of personal data).