This Privacy Policy, prepared with respect to the European Union Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter: “GDPR”), is designed to give you useful information about the way NOVACONF Ltd with its location in address collect and use personal information and how we use cookies. 

THE DATA CONTROLLER 

The Data Controller within the meaning of GDPR is NOVACONF Ltd with its seat in address and country (hereinafter “NOVACONF”, “we”, “our” or “us”). In case of questions related to this Policy, please refer to info@novaconf.com. 

DATA WE PROCESS AND THE PURPOSE OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING 

We process your personal data only after receiving your clear and direct consent. The consent is given by filling in the form with your contact information, such as first name, surname, job title, the name of the company you work for, e-mail address, phone number, or sending us an email requesting any information about our events or asking for registration for our events. Sending us your consent is mandatory if you are interested in receiving our information about our events, participants, packages of participation, prices, event invitations, and news about NOVACONF, or being registered for our events. 

The abovementioned list of collected personal data does not exclude the possibility of sending you our request for further information about your academic titles, business phone number, business country, city, address, and postal code, on an optional basis.

Additionally, we may process any communication you have with us in relation to the events we host and to which you have registered for or that you have attended, publications we prepare and send you, and requested information from us.

If you do not provide us with the consent to process your personal data, we will regrettably be unable to process your subscription, and event invitations, and you will not be able to attend our events and receive information from us in accordance with the areas of your interest. 

OUR DATA PROCESSING STANDARDS 

On our website, we use reasonable security measures to protect data under our control from loss, misuse, or modification. We protect all information disclosed to us by clients in accordance with security and confidentiality standards. We also use technical measures (such as SSL encryption) to guarantee the safety of data. 

Access rights to personal data of our website users are limited to authorized employees or coworkers of NOVACONF in accordance with GDPR, ensuring protection from unauthorized access to personal data. 

TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION 

Considering the fact that the branch of NOVACONF is located in London, United Kingdom, processing of collected data includes also data transfer to the third countries, in accordance with the provisions of Decision of the European Commission of 5 February 2010 on standard contractual clauses concerning the transfer of personal data to processors established in a third country under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2010/87/EU) or a new Decision of the European Commission amending the above one and the internal agreement(s) signed by the companies from the NOVACONF. 

COOKIES 

NOVACONF uses cookies (“cookies”). They identify your browser and provide us with useful information for improving our website. In your browser settings, you can choose to reject cookies, but some website functions may not work properly. Cookies do not contain any personal data. 

YOUR RIGHTS 

In accordance with the relevant provisions of GDPR, we keep your information as long as it is necessary to deliver the content you have registered for or subscribed to. You have the right to access, amend, delete, and restrict the processing of your data. You can view and amend all your data that we are processing at any time by emailing us. You have the right to object at any moment and not to be subject to an automated decision. 

Your right to be deleted from our personal database does not exclude our rights and obligations regarding the processing of personal data provided in GDPR and relevant law regulations. After deletion, personal data may remain in the backup storage for a limited time, access to which is strictly limited. 

Should you wish to make a complaint regarding how we have processed your personal data, please contact us at info@novaconf.com. 

In case you think that the processing of your personal data has violated GDPR or the related law, you may file an official complaint to a competent authority in your European Union Member State. 

CHANGES 

We may modify our Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this page, so kindly review it at your convenience. Please do not continue to use our website if you do not agree with such changes.