We respect your privacy. We want to ensure that you get the information, content, and experiences that matter most to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of its members, customers, reviewers, authors, speakers, and other contacts.
We collect information so that we can provide the best possible experience when you utilize our services. This information is collected for example when you register at our site, or when you submit a paper, meeting or other event organized, sponsored or supported by IABC.
We may collect the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent sections:
- Your name and contact details
- Date of birth
- Online profile data/usage
- Emergency contact information
- Social media profile information
- Copies of identification documents
- Education and professional information
- Registration and participation in IABC events and activities
- Subscription preferences
- Information about the device(s) you use
- Information about service usage
- Cookies
- Location information
- Author and peer review information
- Other information you upload and/or provide to us
We use (and, where specified, share) your personal information for the following purposes:
We may use your personal information to provide you with notices of new product releases and service developments which we believe are in line with your interests. To provide support or other services. We may also use your personal information to respond directly to your requests for information, including registrations for newsletters, booklets, flyers, posters, or other specific requests, or pass your contact information.
We may use personal information such as name, physical address, telephone number, email address, and company/institution to interact with you, including contacting you about subscriptions, event participation, or membership.
We use financial and payment information to process your orders and may need to share some of this information with delivery services, financial corporations, and other parties to complete transactions. We may use your personal information, including the information gathered as a result of site navigation and electronic protocols and cookies (including third-party cookies), improve website quality, evaluate page response rates, conduct usability testing, and facilitate your use of the websites (for example, to facilitate navigation and the login process, avoid duplicate data entry, enhance security, and preserve information between sessions).
We may communicate with you about a meeting, conference, or event hosted or co-sponsored by IABC or one of our business associates. This may include information about the event's content, event logistics, payment, updates, and additional information related to the event. Information you provide when registering for or participating in a conference managed or co-sponsored by parties, other than or in addition to IABC may be shared with those parties, and the treatment of such information is further subject to the privacy policies of those parties. IABC and its conference co-sponsors may contact you after the event about the event, subsequent iterations of the event and related events. Although IABC does not share your data with sponsors or event participants, you are well advised to control the data that you share with them directly at the venue.
In order to deliver best services of most interest to you, from time to time, we may ask members, participants, volunteers, and website visitors to provide us input and feedback (for example through surveys, usability studies, focus groups).
IABC may automatically record web analytics, using third party or internally developed software, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors. As well as recording the IP addresses of users, we may also keep track of sites that users visited immediately prior to visiting IABC's website and the search terms they used to find it as well as the pages visited on IABC's website, the amount of time spent on those pages and the types of searches done on them. Your searches remain confidential and anonymous. We uses this information only for statistical purposes to find out which pages users find most useful and to improve the website. We also capture and stores information about the devices used to access our website and related data, such as: Browser/Device type/version Operating system used Media Access Control (MAC) address Date and time of the server request Volume of data transferred External links behavior.
We may link to other sites created and maintained by other public- and/or private-sector organizations. We provide these links solely for your information and convenience. When you transfer to an outside website, you are leaving the our domain, and our information management policies no longer apply. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of each external website that you visit before you provide any personal data.
Cookies are electronic placeholders that are placed on your device to track your behavior on that website over time. We may use both session-based cookies (which last only for the duration of the user's session) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device and provides information about the session you are in and waits for the next time you use that site again). These cookies provide useful information to IABC, enabling us to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's access to and use of our sites, allows us to track usage behavior, and to balance the usage of our websites on our web servers. We may also collect your location (IP address) so that we can personalize our Services. Tracking cookies, third-party cookies, and other technologies such as web beacons may be used to process additional information, enable non-core functionalities on the IABC website and enable third-party functions (such as a social media "share" link). We may also include similar technologies in promotional email messages to determine whether the messages have been opened.
Do Not Track (DNT) The online advertising industry has self-regulatory initiatives designed to provide consumers a choice in the types of ads they may see online and to conveniently opt-out from online behavioral ads served by some or all of the companies participating in these programs. Our website do not respond to DNT consumer browser settings.
Changes in our Privacy Policy We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy and term and conditions at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy and/our Terms&Conditions, we will post those changes to relevant areas and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page, at least thirty (30) days prior to the implementation of the changes.
We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate. We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods: mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations; for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records. If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact us at info@iabconference.com.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy and/or Terms&Conditions and/or about the use of your personal information, please feel free to contact us by email at info@iabconference.com.
Attn:Jens Allmer, University of Applied Sciences, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Date: 20 September 2019
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