Privacy Policy and Terms
1. Introduction
This privacy policy (Privacy Policy) sets out the ways in which all members and contractors of TFDI Europe Ltd, registered in the United Kingdom may use your personal data.
In this Privacy Policy:
- ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ means the TFDI Europe and our consultants with which you are interacting as detailed above. For example, TFDI Europe and our consultants organising the event you are attending.
- ‘the site’ means the TFDI Europe website you are visiting or engaging with; and
- ‘you’ and ‘your’ means you, the person engaging with us, using our services or visiting our site.
By registering or subscribing to our services, visiting our site or otherwise interacting with us, we will process your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection and privacy laws.
2. How you can contact us – [email protected]
3. Information we may collect about you
Information you give us:
We collect any information you provide to us when you complete registration forms, or provide us with your details over the phone, email or social media platforms including LinkedIn. This information might include your name, address, email address, phone number, and other information relevant to the event or service.
Information we collect about you:
Personal information refers to the types of personal information that may be collected and used, including:
Collection of information contained in any correspondence between you and us via contact forms on websites, and emails or telephone calls.
Through forms we may collect: contact details such as name, email address, postal address and telephone number; interests and business information, such as roles and responsibilities; survey information, comments, feedback, posts and any other content submitted.
We collect information about you visiting our website and how you use it. This may include your IP address, geographical location, device information, browser type, referral source, length of visit, operating system, number of page views, which pages you viewed and similar information. This information may be collected by a third party website analytics service provider on our behalf and/or may be collected using cookies.
We may collect publicly available information including names, job title, employer, telephone, social media and business email address contact details to allow us to send you information about our goods and services using our legitimate interest to do so pursuant to relevant data protection legislation. You can request to stop receiving such communications at any moment by contacting us directly.
Information we receive from third parties:
We may also receive information about you from third parties where you have consented to such third party sharing your information, for example a trade show or membership organisation or social media etc.
4. How we use information about you
We may use your information for the following purposes and to connect you with potential customers, sellers, partners, collaborators, depending on the relationship we have with you. Prior to submitting your personal data to us, we will provide you more specific information where necessary about how we will use your data, and link you to this Privacy Policy.
Legal Basis: By specifically requesting information from us, you are consenting to us using your personal data for the purposes of communicating such information to you.
Recordings
Photos and videos may be taken during events, which may feature attendees, speakers, sponsors or exhibitors. Where we have taken photos and videos during an event that feature you as an attendee, delegate, sponsor or exhibitor, to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws, those photos and videos may be used for promotional or, where applicable, commercial purposes. You have the right to withdraw the consent you have given at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out by the Company before you withdraw your consent
You can find out more information on the privacy notice provided at the time you submit your data to us or in your contract with us (if applicable).
Social Media
We may utilise your personal information to conduct advertising campaigns on various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. This is done in order to inform you about upcoming events or new products and to make sure that you only receive pertinent advertisements related to our products and services. To ensure that you are presented with ads that are relevant to your interests, we may also share your personal information with these social media platforms.
Through our company and brand pages, we have a presence on these social media platforms and collect personal information whenever you interact with us. It’s important to note that these platforms may set cookies and other tracking technologies on your device both while you’re on their pages and as you navigate away from them. The information collected may be shared with us for statistical purposes, to assess how users interact with our content on social media.
Please be aware that these social media platforms are solely responsible for how they handle your personal information. Information about how they collect and use your personal information, including instructions on how to disable cookies and other technologies, can typically be found in their respective privacy and cookie policies on their websites. We may also use your personal information for customer and prospect management, including analytics and product management.
5. Who we might share your data with
In certain circumstances we may share your personal information with:
Our clients and the agreed delegate organisations based on the event/project TFDI has been contracted to deliver, with TFDI and our contractors for specific purposes. For example, where they may assist in providing products and services to you, or offer relevant products and services which may be of interest. If outside the EEA, we would only transfer data where an appropriate safeguard such as EU model clauses or such other methods as may be applicable under relevant data protection laws, exists between the entities.
Selected third parties that we work with, where necessary for the purposes of delivering to you services that you request and agree to from us. For example, when you register to attend an event or join a delegation that we have been contracted to provide consultancy services, we may need to share your information with third party sub-contractors, service providers and businesses that may be potential partners, customers, buyers/sellers, collaborators. We take reasonable, appropriate steps to ensure that the contractor effectively processes the personal data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and our internal policies relating to the protection of Personal Data.
Any other third parties where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law.
We may share your personal information with third parties outside TFDI including the Securities Exchange in the event of a sale, merger, acquisition, partnership, joint venture, collaboration, or negotiations related to the same with respect to all or part of our business.
9. Cookies
We use cookies to ensure that you get the most out of our site. Cookies are small text files which we store on the device you use to access the site. Cookies allow us to monitor your use of the software and simplify your use of the site. For example, a temporary cookie is also used to keep track of your “session”. Without that temporary cookie (which is not stored after you quit your browser) you would have to log on every time you access a new page.
If you do not wish for cookies to be installed on your device, you can change the settings on your browser or device to reject cookies. For more information about how to reject cookies using your internet browser settings please consult the “Help” section of your internet browser (or alternatively visit http://www.aboutcookies.org). Please note that, if you do set your Internet browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to access all of the functions of our websites.
10. Third Party Content, Sites, and Contributions
Our website may contain content and links to other websites or apps that are operated by third parties. We don’t control these third party websites or apps (including whether or not they store cookies) and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. Please consult the terms and conditions and Privacy Policy of the relevant third party website or app to find out how that site/app collects and uses your information and to establish whether and for what purpose they use cookies.
11. How we look after your data and how long we keep it for
We use a variety of technological and operational security measures to protect your information against any unauthorised access to, unlawful use of, and modification and destruction of any personal data we store.
We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you and/or our client(s) have requested/agreed to TFDI providing, or for as long as the law otherwise permits. Where you have not participated, attended or registered to engage with TFDI, or otherwise engaged with us in 7 years, we will delete your data, unless we have an obligation to retain it for longer (for example for taxation purposes).
Transmission of information over the internet can be insecure, and although we employ measures to protect your information from unauthorised access we cannot always guarantee the security of information sent over the internet.
12. Where we store your information
Your information may be processed outside of the EEA. In such circumstances, we will take all steps necessary to ensure that any of your information is adequately protected and processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and where necessary, we put in place relevant safeguards to ensure the safe processing of your data.
Some websites, products and services are operated out of the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please be aware that information you provide to us, in relation to such websites, products and services, may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States.
By using these Websites or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage of your information in the United States, a jurisdiction in which the privacy laws are not as comprehensive as those in the country where you reside or are a citizen, such as the European Union. You understand that the U.S. government can obtain access to the Personal Data you submit if necessary for investigative purposes (e.g., terrorism investigation). We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We use appropriate and suitable safeguards such as EU Standard Contractual Clauses (EU Model Clauses) for transferring your Personal Data to the U.S.
13. Your rights in relation to your Personal Data – EU Data Subjects
TFDI operates in countries with data protection laws that may provide individuals with the right to be able to access and control their information. We will always enable you to exercise the rights provided by the appropriate data protection laws.
Your EU Data Subject Rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process Personal Data about you only where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable data protection law, including under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legal bases will depend on the purpose for which we process your Personal Data as generally described in section: How we use information about you.
You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of your personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request transfer of your personal data
- Right to withdraw consent
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact the DPO (details below).
If you believe we have not complied with any applicable data protection law you can lodge a complaint with the UK data protection authority. In the UK, the relevant authority is the Information Commissioners Office, you can find their details at www.ico.org.uk.
We note that we are a “controller” for those services where we make decisions on how personal information is used in connection with our services, and we are a “processor” for those services where we only use personal information as allowed by our customers.
UK & EU Data Subjects – How to contact us: [email protected]
17. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
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