Privacy Notice

Infotech Crowd takes your privacy seriously and respects your wishes. We take all necessary steps to ensure that your data is protected and processed in a way that complies with and often exceeds current data protection legislation in all regions in which we operate. We will never sell your data to any third parties and will always be transparent and honest about how we collect, manage, and share your information.

Information we collect

When you complete a web form to register for one of our events, make an enquiry or to download an information asset, we will ask you for certain information including contact details (name, company name, job title, address, email, and telephone number).

From time to time, we may also gather data from networking forums, company websites and other publicly available sources of information in order to identify and communicate with additional people who might be interested in our events, services and marketing intelligence.

We process this data for our legitimate interest to understand the profile of people who may be interested in us and the marketing services we provide, and to communicate information about future events, our services and marketing intelligence we may offer.

If you would prefer not to receive such communications, you may opt-out at any time via the unsubscribe button that is included on all our marketing communications, or by contacting us via email or post via:

hello@infotechcrowd.com

In addition to the above, we collect information via cookies about how you use our website. You are able to control these cookies by selecting 'manage cookies' on the cookie banner. Please see our cookie notice below for further information on the cookies used on this site, how we use them and how you can control them.

How we manage your information

The information we hold is kept in a secure way with appropriate measures taken to protect it from misuse, unauthorised access, loss, and inaccuracy. These measures include technical and organizational precautions designed to limit access solely to those who need it and to ensure your data is used only for the purpose for which it was collected.

Where we are processing your data to provide services to you, we will keep your information for as long as is needed to provide those services and for a reasonable period afterward as is needed for our tax and legal obligations.

Where we are processing your information for marketing purposes, we will continue to do so until such a time as you inform us that you wish to be removed from our marketing programmes, after which we will immediately cease processing, keeping only a shadow record to prevent your data from being accidentally re-entered into our marketing activities.

How we share your information

We will only share your information with a small number of trusted partners. These may include banks and payment providers (in order to pay you), service providers (to assist us in supplying services to you), other agencies, law enforcement or governmental organizations where we are required to make such disclosures by applicable law (for example, tax agencies).

Your rights

UK & EU

In the UK and the EU you have the following legal rights with regards to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us via hello@infotechcrowd.com. You may also lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection supervisory authority at any time, for example if you believe that data processing is not in accordance with data protection regulations or if you feel that we have not adequately answered your query. In the UK the relevant authority is the Information Commissioner's Office. The ICO may be contacted via casework@ico.org.uk.

• Right to be informed — You have the right to request confirmation as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If we are processing your data, you have the right to further information about this processing, for example, the processing purposes, the recipient and the planned duration of storage or the criteria for determining the duration.
• Right of access — You have a right to know what information we hold about you, often referred to as a Subject Access Request or SAR.
• Right to rectification — You have a right to ask us to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to erasure ("Right to be Forgotten") — You have the right to ask for your data to be deleted if you withdraw your consent (if that is the legal basis for the processing) or if processing is no longer necessary, providing that we are not required to keep that data by law.
• Right to restriction of processing — You have the right to restrict processing in certain circumstances, for example, if you believe that your personal data is incorrect or that it is being processed unlawfully.
• Right to data portability — You have the right to receive personal data concerning you for which you have previously given your consent, in a structured, machine-readable format to enable it to be transferred to a third party of your choice.
• Right to object — You have the right to object to certain types of processing such as processing for direct marketing purposes. If you have previously given your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time unless the processing is necessary for a legal reason.

US

In the US you have certain rights with regards to personal data. These can vary from state to state so Infotech Crowd has chosen Californian privacy law, including the below rights, as our US standard. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us via hello@infotechcrowd.com.

• You have the right to know what information is being collected about you and how it is used and shared.
• You have a right to access information held about you.
• You have the right to ask companies to correct personal data that is incorrect.
• You have the right to ask companies to not sell your information to any third party.
• You have the right to opt out of direct marketing.
• You have the right to ask companies to delete your data (unless specific exceptions apply) and to expect companies to delete data they no longer need.
• You have the right to expect companies to use reasonable effort to protect your data from unauthorized access and use.
• You have the right to expect companies to collect only the data they need and to only use it for the purpose for which it was collected.

AU

In Australia, companies must follow the Australian Privacy Principles relating to the collection, management and protection of personal data as defined in the Australian Privacy Act (APA). If you wish to talk to us about any of these principles, please email us via hello@infotechcrowd.com. You may also lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection supervisory authority at any time. In Australia, the relevant authority is the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner who may be contacted via enquiries@oaic.gov.au.

• Your data must be collected and managed in an open and transparent manner.
• You must be notified when your information is being collected, who is collecting it, why it is being collected, how the data will be used, how you may contact the entity collecting the information and how you may complain.
• You may request access to the data that is held about you — companies cannot charge you for access or refuse access unless there is a lawful reason to do so.
• You may request correction of data concerning you that you consider to be incorrect.
• Data collected about you must be limited to what is reasonably required for the intended use.
• Your data must not be used for a purpose other than the one for which it was collected unless further consent is given, the secondary use is one that would reasonably be expected, or it is required by law.
• Your personal data may only be used for direct marketing where you have given consent or the information is publicly available or where the direct marketing relates to similar previous purchases from that company. The company must provide a free and straightforward opt-out mechanism and bring this to your attention in all marketing communications.
• Your data may only be transferred to third countries that offer a similar level of protection as Australia unless you have consented to the transfer or if it is required by law.
• Companies must take reasonable steps to keep your data up to date, accurate and complete.
• Companies must take reasonable steps to protect your personal data and delete data they no longer need.

For any other queries around our privacy notice and the data we hold about you, please email us at hello@infotechcrowd.com.

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How do we use cookies?

Infotech Crowd will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you; however, some third-party cookies may do so.

You can control or restrict what cookies are stored based on your interaction with this website. As soon as your preferences have been set, it will alter which cookies are stored from this website from that point onward. If you want to have all historical data associated with first-party cookies deleted, please contact hello@infotechcrowd.com. For third-party cookies, you will need to contact the individual provider to have historical cookie data deleted.

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