This Privacy Policy outlines Leading Edge IT Limited (“we“, “our” or “LEIT“) practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at https://www.winterdataconference.com (“Site“) use our services or otherwise share personal information with us, such as our customers, associates or software and services vendors (collectively: “Users“).
Responsible authority within the meaning of applicable data protection laws, in particular the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (collectively “GDPR”): The Information Commissioners Office (the “ICO”).
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our policies. Retention periods will be determined taking into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable opportunity. Under applicable regulations, we will keep records containing client personal data, account opening documents, communications and anything else as required by applicable laws and regulations.
We may rectify, replenish or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion.
Processing of your personal information (i.e. any information which may potentially allow your identification through reasonable means; hereinafter “Personal Information“) is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and providing you with our services, or in order to provide services to our clients, to protect our legitimate interests and for compliance with legal and financial regulatory obligations to which we are subject.
When you use the Site, or correspond with us in a business-to-business context, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We encourage our Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions.
We collect information about you in three ways: (1) from your input through our web forms, app forms and other mechanisms, (2) from third-party sources, and (3) through automated technologies.
The types of personal information that we collect directly from you depends on how you interact with us and the Service and may include:
We also may obtain personal information about you from our group companies and from other third parties, including:
Depending on how you interact with us and use our services, we use your personal information to:
Depending on the services provided, we share personal information with our trusted service providers, sponsors, agents and partners, including but not limited to, payment processors, venue providers, onsite event contractors, customer support, email service providers, IT service providers, mailing houses and shipping agents, to process the information as necessary to provide the services, complete a transaction, fulfil your request, or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We share your Personal Information with our sponsors, media partners and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee or event manager, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices in managing your communications preferences and other settings.
The services may include forums and participant directories that let you create a profile and post and share Personal Information, comments, materials and other content to help others connect with you. Any such contributions you disclose publicly may be collected and used by others, may be indexed by search engines, and might not be able to be removed. Please be careful when disclosing Personal Information in these public areas.
When entering a virtual space, zone, or room at an event, your registration details may be shared with other attendees including the sponsor or exhibitor to facilitate event networking real-time video conferencing, online chats, and/or virtual business card drops, subject to additional notices.
We will disclose your Personal Information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:
Where you submit content, such as write an article or produce a video, for any of our magazines or other products, or speak at one of our events, we will process some additional personal information about you, including
A huge thank you to our vendors for sponsorship of what was always a great event.