Your Rights Under GDPR and Other Laws

When using our website and submitting personal data to us, you may have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws. Depending on the legal basis for processing your personal data, you may have some or all of the following rights:

The Right to be Informed

You have the right to be informed about the personal data we collect from you, and how we process it.

The Right of Access

You have the right to get confirmation that your personal data is being processed and have the ability to access your personal data.

The Right to Rectification

You have the right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

The Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)

You have the right to request the removal or deletion of your personal data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.

The Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your personal data. When your personal data is restricted, we are permitted to store your data, but not to process it further.

The Right to Data Portability

You have the right to request and get your personal data that you provided to us and use it for your own purposes. We will provide your data to you within 90 days of your request. To request your personal data, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.

The Right to Object

You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for the following reasons:

• Processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling).
• Direct marketing (including profiling).
• Processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.

Rights in Relation to Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

You will have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

Filing a Complaint with Authorities

You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. If the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy. For details about your rights under the law, please visit https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr.

Definitions

• Non-personal data (NPD): Information that is in no way personally identifiable.
• Personal data (PD): Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. Personal Data is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, Personal Data is broader in scope and covers more data.
• Visitor: Someone who merely browses our website.
• Member: Someone who has registered with us to use or buy our services and products.
• User: A collective identifier that refers to either a visitor or a member.

Information We Collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.

Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing Personal Data

Our legal basis for collecting and processing your Personal Data when you buy or use our products or services is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract. Our legal basis for collecting and processing your Personal Data when you sign up for our newsletter, conference, contests, events, workshops, services, and product information through our website opt-in forms is based on consent.

What Happens if You Don’t Give Us Your Personal Data

If you do not provide us with enough Personal Data, we may not be able to provide you with all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your Personal Data.

How We Collect Your Personal Data

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information may include the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, as well as the name of the website you’ll visit when you leave our website, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.

When Entering and Using Our Website

When you enter and use our website, some of the cookies used by our website may contain your Personal Data.

At User and Member Registration or When Buying Products or Services

When you register as a user, member, or when buying our products or services, we may collect some or all of the following information: your first and last name, email address, physical address, IP address, company name, credit card or other payment information, phone number, user name, password, and other information listed.

Our Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.

By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, user name, and other personal choices – while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.

Media Cookies

These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content such as author images. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.

Session Cookies

These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.

Persistent Cookies

These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.

We May Also Use Cookies For:

• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited.
• Personalizing content that you see on our website.
• Our website analytics.
• Remarketing our products or services to you.
• Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details.
• Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests.
• Allowing you to post comments.
• Allowing you to share content with social networks.

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

Web Beacons

We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors.

Google Analytics Privacy Notice

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket.