Privacy Policy

Endoscopy Events websites (collectively “Endoscopy Events” in this document) refer to sites hosted on the EndoscopyEvents.com and other related domains and subdomains thereof. This privacy policy describes how Endoscopy Events uses and protects any information that you give us. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide us with personal information through Endoscopy Events, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Endoscopy Events collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Endoscopy Events purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Endoscopy Events visitors use its website. From time to time, Endoscopy Events may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Endoscopy Events also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Endoscopy Events does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Endoscopy Events choose to interact with Endoscopy Events in ways that require Endoscopy Events gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Endoscopy Events gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address.

In each case, Endoscopy Events  collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Endoscopy Events . Endoscopy Events  does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities, like watching a live video feed or interact in a chat box.

All of the information that is collected on Endoscopy Events  will be handled in accordance with GDPR legislation.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Endoscopy Events  discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Endoscopy Events ’s behalf or to provide services available through Endoscopy Events , and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Endoscopy Events  you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Endoscopy Events  will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Endoscopy Events  discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, if you give permission to have your information shared, or when Endoscopy Events  believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Endoscopy Events  , third parties, or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a Endoscopy Events   website and have supplied your email address, Endoscopy Events  may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Endoscopy Events  and our products. Your personal information might also be shared with our clients in accordance to their own privacy policy.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Endoscopy Events  takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Use of personal information

We use the information you provide to register for an account, attend our clients events, receive notifications, use certain other services, or participate in the Endoscopy Events   in any other way.

We will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

Your personal information will be shared with Endoscopy Events  Clients as part of their agreement to use Endoscopy Events  services.  It is our clients responsibility to provide their own policy upon request.

We would like to send you email marketing communication which may be of interest to you from time to time. If you have consented to marketing, you may opt out later.

You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

Legal grounds for processing personal information

We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:

• our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you;
• explicit consent that you have given;
• legal obligations.

Access to data

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please submit a request to the contact information at the end of this policy.

Retention of personal information

We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.

Endoscopy Events  will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archives of the sites.

When deletion is requested or otherwise required, we will anonymise the data of data subjects and/or remove their information from publicly accessible sites if the deletion of data would break essential systems or damage the logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archival records of the Endoscopy Events ’s sites. o

Rights in relation to your information

You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

• request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
• ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
• ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information (for information on deletion from archives, see the “Retention of personal information” section);
• object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
• withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).

If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please follow the instructions at the end of this Privacy statement.

Third Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under our control. When following a link and providing information to a 3rd-party website, please be aware that we are not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This privacy policy only applies to the websites listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on Endoscopy Events , you should read their own privacy policies.

Cookies

Additionally, information about how you use our website is collected automatically using “cookies”. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Endoscopy Events  may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Endoscopy Events ’s sole discretion. Endoscopy Events  encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you by emailing: [email protected]

Additional information

We will track your location based on your IP address in order to share relevant statistics and marketing data with our clients. To detect your location, we will send your IP address to the geolocation services of usersinsights.com. We will store the country, region, city and coordinates associated with your IP address. We will also store your IP address in a hashed format so we can check it for changes.

We will track your last login date and number of sessions in order to share relevant statistics and marketing data with our clients.

We will track your browser name, browser version and device platform in order to share relevant statistics and marketing data with our clients.

We will track the pages that you visit in order to share relevant statistics and marketing data with our clients.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Forms

Ultimate Member provides you with forms for user registration, login and profiles.

Via these forms you are collecting personal data from your users.

You should include in your privacy policy what personal data is captured when someone submits/fills in one of the forms, why you collect it and what you do with this data and how long you keep it.

How long we retain your data

Registered user information is retained in your website’s database indefinitely.

Data can be exported or removed upon users request via the existing WordPress data exporter or eraser.

If syncing data to a 3rd party service (e.g Mailchimp via our MailChimp extension), data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.

Where we send your data

Endoscopy Events  does not send any user data outside of this site by default.

If you have extended the functionality of the plugin (e.g sending registered user data to MailChimp via our MailChimp extension, this user info may be passed to these external services. These services may be located abroad and outwith the EU.