What personal data do we collect

Personal details such as your name.
Contact details such as email address, home address, telephone number.
Professional details such as business address.
Details of website engagement.

Why do we collect your data

Your data is used to contact you in regards to your participation to the symposium or pre-symposium courses you are undertaking or have previously undertaken with us, either in person or online.
To provide and process invoices and payment
To allow us to analyse the services we offer
Marketing purposes for anything directly relevant to the basis of our relationship with you in regards to providing the symposium and pre-symposium courses and any other material we deem to be relevant.

Cookies

When accepted, we place cookies from Google Analytics. This is to gather information on what users view when visiting our website, keep track on how many visitors come back and to see which pages are being viewed. You can decide to decline the cookie placement.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. images, maps, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Sharing your information with third parties

Payment providers (including online payment providers and fraud detection providers)
IT service providers (including cloud providers)
For the purposes of data storage and analysis
In order to provide you with our services we may have to share your data with some selected third parties service providers. These include:

DigitalOcean (hosting & cloud provider)

How long we retain your data

Your data will be stored for the length of time we deem necessary, unless otherwise requested directly by you to remove your data from our database.

Any personal data can be requested to be removed from the database once you are no longer actively using our services, as we will require your contact details to allow us to directly contact you in regards to any attendance to courses or online courses you are participating in.

Rights you have over your data

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You have the right to object to our use of your personal information. You can request a copy of the data we hold for you, update it, and have it deleted. Full details of all of your rights in regards to GDPR can be found here.

How we protect your personal data

Our websites use SSL encryption to ensure your data is protected. Our payment processing systems are PCI-DSS compliant. All personal data is securely stored.