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Privacy Policy

Effective 3 March 2023

Introduction

The International Association of Exhibitions and Events (“IAEE”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (as posted on our website here and as amended from time to time) (“Privacy Policy”) describes how IAEE collects, uses, and shares your information when you use and interact with all IAEE operated and controlled websites including http://www.iaee.com (the “Websites”), and applies to all persons who use our website or Services (“Users”). Our Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of the Websites and all other publicly available online services controlled or provided by IAEE (collectively, the “Services”).

If you have questions about IAEE’s Privacy Policy or practices, or if you need to contact us about the information we collect about you, our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Acknowledgement and Consent

By visiting our Websites or using or purchasing our Products or Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the terms, practices and policies described in this Privacy Policy (and as updated from time to time), and you hereby consent that we may collect, use, and share your information as described herein. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or our Services. Your use of the Website and our Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use (available here, and as updated from time to time (the “Terms”)), which is incorporated by reference herein. Any capitalized terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We are constantly working to improve our Websites and Services, and we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well. Our current Privacy Policy will always be on our Website at iaee.com and any updates will be effective upon posting. You are responsible for periodically checking our Website for updates. Under certain circumstances, we also may elect to notify you of changes or updates to this Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the Website or by sending you an email, but you should not rely on receiving such additional notice. If you use the Website, purchase Products, or use our Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, you agree to the new Privacy Policy. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

What Information Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of your personally identifiable information. “Personal Information” means any unencrypted or non-de-identified information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person such as, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, etc. This definition may vary depending on the state/province or country in which you reside, and that state’s/provinces or country’s definition will control to the extent it differs from the definition provided here. Please see additional information below on the particular information we may collect.

Personal Information does not include your Personal Information that has been deidentified, pseudonymized, anonymized, aggregated, and/or otherwise processed so as to be unidentifiable in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific individual (by reasonable means) without the use of additional information, and where such additional information is kept separate and under adequate security to prevent unauthorized re-identification of a specific individual such that one could not, using reasonable efforts, link such information back to a specific individual (collectively, all of the foregoing in this sentence being referred to as “De-Identified Personal Information”).

We also may collect Personal Information from you through means other than our Website. This may include offline collection, such as if you submit a paper application, make a payment by check, or call or visit our office. It also may include emails, text messages, or other electronic communications that you send to us separate from our Website or by way of our Service Providers (as defined herein). However, if we combine the Personal Information we collect from you outside of our Website with Personal Information that is collected through our Website or by another means as described above, the Privacy Policy will apply to the combined information, unless specifically disclosed otherwise.

Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services, and IAEE’s collection, use, disclosure, and protection of your Personal Information and does not apply to that collected by third party websites, applications, or services.

Eligibility To Use The Services

We do not knowingly collect, solicit or maintain Personal Information from anyone under the age of 17 or knowingly allow such persons to register for or use our Services. If you are under 17, please do not send any Personal Information about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address) to us. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 17 without verification of parental consent, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information from our database. Please contact us if you have any concerns.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several categories of Personal Information from and about you as summarized in the following table:

Category Specific Items of Personal Information
Identifiers
  • first and last name
  • user name (which may include first and last name)
  • email address
  • postal address
  • customer/account name or number
  • phone number
  • mobile device identifier, passport number
Demographics
  • year born, country of residence
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law
  • racial or ethnic origin, age, color, sex, gender identity, disability (only to the extent you care to disclose information for the purposes of accessibility at events), and the processing of genetic data or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person
Commercial information
  • products/services purchasing history and tendencies
  • donation history
Internet or other electronic network activity; device information
  • type and manufacturer of device and its ID/UDID or similar device-specific code
  • Internet Protocol (IP) address, protocol, and/or sequence information
  • operating system and platform
  • Internet service provider or mobile carrier’s name, connection speed, and connection type
  • browsing, session, interaction, and search history related to our Website
  • cookies
  • pixel tags
  • browser type, language, and version
  • screen resolution
  • domain name system requests
  • Media Access Control (MAC) address of pages you have visited
  • pages viewed
  • time and date of access to our Website
  • number of clicks per visit
  • date stamp and URL of the last webpage visited before visiting our Website, and URL of the first page visited after leaving our Website
  • pages viewed, time spent on a page, click-through and clickstream data, queries made, search results selected, comments made
  • type of service requested
  • hypertext transfer protocol headers, application client and server banners, and operating system fingerprinting data
Geolocation
  • physical location or movements
Sensory information
  • voice and/or video recording
Professional or employment information
  • email address that identifies you (e.g., jane.r.smith@website.com versus jrs@website.com)
  • employer, employment history, information from professional references, work experience
Education information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information (pursuant to FERPA)
  • education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, e.g., school name, grades, transcripts, class lists, student financial information
Inferences drawn from any of the above to create a profile of a consumer
  • a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes
Other information
  • scanned signatures

How We Collect Personal Information and from What Sources

Information You Provide Us. The Personal Information we collect through our Website, or from our business partners, service providers, exhibitors, and sponsors may include the following:

  • Information that you provide by filling in webforms on our Website.
  • Information provided when creating an online account (such as the IAEE Career Center or Elevate, IAEE’s Learning Management System) (“IAEE Account”). We do not require you to register to use all of our Services. However if you do register for Services offering an IAEE Account, you will gain access to those areas and features of the Services that require registration. IAEE will collect certain information about you in connection with your registration for your IAEE Account, which may include Personal Information and other information, such as a username, password, personal profile, pictures, your location, and information about your contacts and your business. Some of your IAEE Account information may be displayed publicly. You are not required to provide your Personal Data; however, if you choose to withhold certain Personal Data, we may not be able to provide you with certain Services
  • Purchasing our Products or Services
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us
  • Subscribing to our e-newsletters or other communications, requesting information from us, submitting or posting material (where permitted) on our forums, or interacting with customer support or service, report a problem with our Website, Products, or Services, or otherwise communicating with us. If you sign up for a membership, attend a conference or event, email us, subscribe to our newsletters mailing lists, publications, or blogs, we may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond to your requests, provide the requested products or Services, and to provide notifications or other correspondences to you. If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, you may let us know by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address below. Please note requests to remove your email address from our lists will take no more than 10 business days to fulfill. We may also still contact you as needed to provide important announcements or notifications regarding the Services
  • Membership application information
  • Registering for an IAEE event
  • Your responses to surveys that we or our service providers might ask you to complete for research purposes
  • Applying to become a certified CEM, CIEP
  • In stores (parent, subsidiary and affiliate brands)
  • When communicating with customer service/support. We will use this information to assist you with your support request and may maintain this information to assist you or other Users with support requests. Please do not submit any information to us via a support submission, including confidential or sensitive information that you do not wish for IAEE or our Service Providers to have access to or use in the future.
  • Through participation in loyalty/rewards programs
  • Third party websites and mobile applications (e.g., websites that share information with us or advertising partners regarding online activities)
  • Data suppliers (e.g., companies that provide demographics and other information regarding consumers)
  • On mobile applications (parent, subsidiary and affiliate brands)
  • Joint marketing partners
  • Online advertising companies
  • Fulfillment and delivery service providers
  • Social media companies
  • Other service providers
  • Responding to employment opportunities

Payment Transaction Information

We may collect and store information related to purchases and donations made through the Services. Please note IAEE works with Service Providers (as defined below) to handle payment transactions. IAEE does not itself store your credit card; this information is normally handled for IAEE by our Service Providers. You are subject to the privacy policies and terms and conditions of our Service Providers when purchasing an IAEE membership, shopping for IAEE Products, or making donations, the terms of which may differ from those of IAEE for our Services. Please review the Service Providers’ privacy policies and terms and conditions before using their services.

Information We Collect Automatically

Cookies, Web Beacons, Links, And Other Tracking Technologies: IAEE may keep track of how you use and interact with the Services through the use of cookies, web beacons, links, and other tracking technologies.  We do this to help analyze the use of and improve the Services. Through these technologies we may automatically collect information about your use of the Services and other online activities, including our email correspondences, third-party services, and client applications, and certain online activities after you leave the Services. Link information is generally only analyzed on an aggregate basis. Some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies. Such data may include analytics information, sites visited before visiting the Services, browser type, operating system, and tracking of your interactions with our content and emails.

Cookie Policy: For more information on the cookies we use, please visit our Cookie Policy website page.

Unique Identifiers: When you use or access the Services, we may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more “Unique Identifiers,” such as a universally unique identifier (“UUID”). A Unique Identifier may remain on your device persistently, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Services. Some features of the Services may not function properly if use or availability of Unique Identifiers is impaired or disabled.

Log File Information: When you use our Services, we may receive log file information such as your IP address, browser type, access times, domain names operating system, the referring web page(s), pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We receive log file data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, or interact with our email notifications. IAEE uses log file data to provide, understand, and improve our Services, and to customize the content we show you. IAEE may link this log file to other information IAEE collects about you via the Services.

Behavioral Tracking: We also may use these technologies to collect e-Identified Personal Information to track your click or browsing patterns or to learn about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services, or associate Personal Information with other information collected in this manner, but, we do not allow personalized third-party behavioral tracking, though we may use.

Facial Recognition for Events: We may use Google Vision on our Websites that ask event attendees to upload a photo for their event badge for security purposes. This is used solely to identify if the photo contains an image of a human face. We store the photo that the attendee has uploaded and the facial recognition only adds a Yes/No answer as to whether the photo contains an image of a human face.

Location Analytics: Our mobile application includes functionality which allows our attendees to identify their location at the event, in certain cases. Application users choose to use the application anonymously or to login as an identified user, in which case the personal data provided upon registration may be used. Information such as IP address, device ID and location is gathered.

Membership Directory Content: In addition to data collected by us, members may update or supplement data provided in our membership directory. We permit members to upload and share user-generated content, such as photographs and resumes, with other members. The directory is not intended as a place for members to post third-party Content. We expect our members to respect the copyrights, intellectual property rights and data protection rights of others at all times. Our membership directory area is provided as a service to members to foster information exchange. The use of the data for any commercial purposes by you is expressly forbidden. If you feel that your information in the membership directory has been used inappropriately, please contact us.

Information We Collect from Third Parties

We may collect information that others provide about you when you use the Website, or obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the Website.

Third Party Services: If you link, connect, or login to your account with a third party social media service (e.g., Facebook, Google, Instagram, Yelp, etc.), the third party service may send us information such as your registration and profile information from that service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.

Other Sources: To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data or fraud detection information, from third party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results or fraud warnings from service providers like identity verification services for our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the Website through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions. Other examples of such providers include, but are not limited to, backend processing, fulfillment, and automation, certification, video hosting platform, email management, authentication, form processing, website usage tracking, managing calendar invites and scheduling, and database hosting and management.

Public Information: IAEE may also collect information about you from publicly available sources. Information you make publicly available in any public or open forum, such as on a social media network, may be considered public information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and may be accessed and collected by IAEE. Please be aware that any content or information you share with or provide to third parties using or related to your use of the Services is neither private, nor confidential. IAEE is not responsible for any content or information you post or share with third parties. If you do not wish for certain information to be public, please do not share it.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. First-party or third-party cookies may be used alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. A first-party cookie is a cookie set by the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. A third-party cookie is a cookie set by (and on) a domain name that is not the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. It might be set as part of a side resource load (image, JS, iframe, etc., from a different hostname) or an AJAX HTTP request to a third-party server. The information that first-party and third-party cookies collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services (i.e., tracking such activities). They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. More information on how to opt-out of third-party advertiser tracking mechanisms here.

Google Tools. We use tools provided by Google as described below.

Google Analytics. We use, and some of our third-party service providers may use, Google Analytics (click for link to Google’s website) or other analytics service to help us understand the use of our Website and Services. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes data it collects to track and examine the use of our Website to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. The Personal Information collected and processed may include cookies, usage data, and other internet information. Such service providers may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by us only and not the use of cookies by third parties.

Google reCAPTCHA. We use Google reCAPTCHA, which identifies bots by collecting hardware and software information and sending that data to Google for analysis. More about Google reCAPTCHA is available here.

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on.

Posting Content

You also may submit information, such as comments, reviews, testimonials, etc., to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “Content”). Your Content is posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your Content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Content will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. By posting any Content or submitting Content for posting you agree to and do hereby grant us and our licensors, affiliates, partners, successors and assigns, a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, transferrable, royalty-free right and license to use, store, display, publish, transmit, transfer, distribute, reproduce, rearrange, edit, redact, modify, aggregate, summarize, adapt, create derivative works of and publicly perform the Content that you post or otherwise submit to us for any purpose, in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed (“Right to Use”).

The Right to Use you grant us above also extends to any Content that you have posted to our Facebook or other social media account pages, or on other websites, e.g., Google, Yelp, Trip Advisor, Instagram, etc. The term “Use” includes, but is not limited to, use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, delete, translate, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and make derivative works of the content.

If we permit you to post Content, by posting any Content, or submitting Content for posting, you agree to with the “User Content Posting Guidelines” set forth at the end of this Privacy Policy.

­­­­ How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information and respond to your questions on Products or Services that you request from us and information on new products and services, discounts, special promotions or upcoming events, and features or offers that we believe will be of interest to you.
  • To provide you with the Products, Services, or information that you have requested.
  • To process transaction payments, including, but not limited to, Product and/or Service fees, subscription fees, professional fees, membership dues, registration fees, voluntary contributions, examination fees, credential and designation fees, and payments, refunds and reimbursements for any products or services that you choose to purchase from us (though we do not retain your credit or debit card number).
  • To process discounts, offers, loyalty rewards, and/or rebate requests, forms, and applications and coordinate with the manufacturer, retailer and/or wholesaler.
  • To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
  • To notify you about information regarding or changes to our Website, our policies, terms, or any Products or Services we offer or provide, or regarding your account.
  • To process your account application and any changes to your account information.
  • To process Personal Information or other information that you submit through to us.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
  • To contact you about our own and third-parties’ products and services that may be of interest to you.
  • To provide access to restricted parts of our Website, e.g., areas accessible if you have a user account.
  • To enhance and improve our Products and Services, for example, by performing internal research, analyzing user trends, and measuring demographics and interests.
  • To provide statistics about the usage levels of the Website and other related information to our service providers.
  • To notify you of data privacy incidents or provide you with legally required information.
  • To contact you regarding a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes in which you have participated.
  • To request your participation in ratings, reviews, surveys, focus groups, or other initiatives which help us to gather information used to develop and enhance our Products and Services.
  • To determine eligibility for membership, credentials, designations, or volunteer opportunities.
  • To evaluate your performance on continued learning courses and assist you in the tracking of your progress.
  • For examination or event registration, scheduling, event attendance, administration and related purposes.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide Personal Information.
  • In any other way we may describe and for which we obtain your consent when you provide the information.

Automated Decision Making. We may use your Personal Information you provide us and which we obtain from other sources to better understand your interests so we can try to predict what other products, services and information you might be most interested in. This practice involves making automated decisions about you based on this information in order to better enable us to tailor our interactions with you to make them more relevant and interesting. You may object to our doing this at any time by contacting us.

Collection and Use of Sensitive or Special Categories of Information. We use sensitive or special categories of Personal Information we collect, namely, race and ethnic origin, in conducting research surveys of users we conduct on behalf of third parties such as auto-industry related companies. We disclose aggregate information to such third parties, but we do not disclose identifiable sensitive Personal Information.

Text Messages. Our Services may include sending you Short Message Service (“SMS”) messages, which may deliver up to two messages per day to your wireless device (unless you communicate further with us), but message frequency may vary.  We may use your information to contact you about your, purchases, returns (if available), Website updates, conduct surveys, or informational (e.g., meetings and events) and service-related communications, including important security updates. After you send the SMS message “STOP” to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. Alternatively, you may submit your request by email to us, including the email address and phone number you registered with us, or by any reasonable means. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and we will start sending SMS messages to you again. For help, please reply to a text with HELP. Message and data rates may apply, depending on your cell phone plan. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may or do disclose your Personal Information, in whole or in part, to the following types of third parties, and for one or more of the following purposes:

Type of Third Party Purpose
Data storage or hosting providers Secure storage and transmission of your data
Database and software service providers Management and tracking of your data
Legal and compliance consultants, such as external counsel, external auditors, or tax consultants Provide professional services to us
Identity management providers Authentication purposes
Payment solution providers Secure processing of payments you provide to us
Manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers Submission, processing, and management of rebates, discounts, offers, loyalty rewards, and the like
Fulfillment and shipping vendors Fulfillment and delivery of Products and Services
Survey and research providers Perform studies on our behalf
Advertising partners, including social media providers Deliver targeted advertisements
Technology providers Assist in the development ,management, and support of our Website
Outbound call center providers Perform outreach on our behalf regarding our Products and Services
Publishers and learning providers Develop products on our behalf
Learning technology and online event providers Delivery and improvement of web events and learning programs and the tracking of your progress
Examination providers Schedule and deliver credential and designation examinations
Digital credential providers Deliver digital badges earned through your participation in learning programs
Our volunteers or committee members Perform various functions on our behalf
Unrelated third-party list renters One-time mail or email approved by us

Service Providers. We may share your Personal Information with third parties for the purpose of providing or improving the Services to you. We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers which perform services on our behalf (“Service Providers”). This includes, without limitation, Service Providers which provide services relating to: outbound and/or inbound communications, data analysis, credit checks, screening checks, collection services, marketing assistance, managing customer information, creating, hosting, and/or providing customer or support services on our behalf, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, or managing our conferences and other events. These Service Providers may have access to your Personal Information in order to provide these services to us or on our behalf. If we engage Service Providers for any of the foregoing, use of your Personal Information will be bound by obligations of confidentiality and their use of Personal Information will be restricted to providing their services to us. We may store Personal Information in locations outside our direct control (for instance, on servers or databases located or co-located with hosting Service Providers)..

Event-Related Disclosure. From time to time, we may conduct events, run contests, make special offers, or other activities (“Events”), possibly together with an exhibitor, sponsor or other Service Provider. If you provide information to such third parties, you give them permission to use it for the purpose of that Event and any other use to which you consent. We cannot control such third parties’ use of your information. If you do not want your information to be collected by or shared with such third parties, you can choose not to participate in these Events.

Sale of Personal Information. We disclose our mailing lists to certain carefully screened third parties in exchange for monetary or other consideration, and these third parties may communicate with you regarding their own products and services. We may share your Personal Information with exhibitors for their marketing and commercial purposes (including, but not limited to, their sending you marketing and related communications), but only if you have both registered for a conference and either had your attendee credentials scanned by the exhibitor at its booth or enter an exhibitor’s booth virtually online (this does not apply to casual website visitors or conference attendees who are not registered to enter the exhibit hall).

Your Consent to Disclosure/Transfer/Sale of Your Personal Information. You consent (and shall not object to) to our disclosure, transfer, and/or sale of your Personal Information, De-Identified Personal Information, and other information you provide to us, as well as the rights you have granted or consented to in this Privacy Policy  (collectively, “Transferred Information”) to a potential or actual buyer or acquirer of our company or other successor for the purpose of considering or undergoing a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, change in control, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets (each of the foregoing referred to as a “Transfer”), whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or other court proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred. We cannot make any representations regarding the use or transfer of Transferred Information that we may have in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership, or an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Furthermore, except as required by law, we are not and will not be responsible for any breach of security by any third parties or for any actions of any third parties that receive any of the Transferred Information that is disclosed to us.

Required Disclosures. Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose your Personal Information to any third party unless required to do so by law, court order, legal process (e.g., subpoena), including, but not limited to, in order to respond to any government, regulatory, or licensing request, or if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, contracted vendors, or affinity partners, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) enforce our Terms or customer agreement (including for billing and collection purposes); (c) take precautions against liability; (d) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (e) assist government enforcement agencies or to meet national or other security requirements; (f) to protect the security or integrity of our Website, our Products, Services; or, (g) exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or others. We will attempt to notify you, where practicable, about these requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily or other harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon us, our users, our Website, or our Services. In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that user about the request after the fact if we determine in good faith that we are no longer legally prohibited from doing so and that no risk scenarios described in this paragraph apply.

Disclosure of De-Identified Personal Information. We may share De-Identified Personal Information with third parties for any purpose. De-Identified Personal Information or non-Personal Information may be aggregated for system administration and to monitor usage of the Website. It may be utilized to measure the number of visits to our Website, average time spent, number of pages viewed and to monitor various other Website statistics. This monitoring helps us evaluate how visitors use and navigate our Website so we can improve the content. We may share De-Identified Personal Information or anonymous information (including, but not limited to, anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, IP address, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties in any way we choose and for any purpose. We may disclose, sell, rent, etc., your De-Identified Personal Information to third parties and we may receive valuable consideration for doing so.

Access to the Information IAEE Has Collected about You

IAEE provides certain tools and settings within the Services to help you access, correct, delete, or modify your Personal Information associated with the Services.  IAEE welcomes you to contact us regarding the Personal Information we have collected about you, including regarding the nature and accuracy of the data that has been collected about you, to request an update, modification, or deletion of your information, to opt-out of certain Services uses of your information, or to withdraw any consent you may have granted to IAEE.

Opting-Out of Communications from IAEE

Users may opt-out of receiving certain communications from IAEE by following the unsubscribe process described in an email communication, or you may manage your communications preferences at our website page here. However, please note you may not opt-out of Services-related communications, such as account verification, changes or updates to features of the Services, or technical and security notices. Please note that if you choose to delete your information or opt-out of the collection and use of your information, you understand that certain features, including but not limited to access to the Services, may no longer be available to you.

Security of Your Information

IAEE uses reasonable efforts to secure and protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of your information and to protect it from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. IAEE implements security measures as we deem appropriate and consistent with industry standards. As no data security protocol is impenetrable, IAEE cannot guarantee the security of our systems or databases, nor can we guarantee that personal information we collect about you will not be breached, intercepted, destroyed, accessed, or otherwise disclosed without authorization. Accordingly, any information you transfer to or from Services is provided at your own risk.

Please do your part to help us keep your information secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and IAEE Account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or IAEE Account. We specifically reserve the right to terminate your access to the Services and any contract you have with us related to the Services in the event we learn or suspect you have disclosed your IAEE Account or password information to an unauthorized third party.

Safely Using IAEE’s Services

Despite IAEE’s safety and privacy controls, we cannot guarantee the Services are entirely free of illegal, offensive, pornographic, or otherwise inappropriate material, or that you will not encounter inappropriate or illegal conduct from other users when using the Services. You can help IAEE by notifying us of any unwelcome contact by contacting us using the information below.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain your information after you request such deletion for longer periods for specific purposes to the extent that we are obliged to do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and/or as necessary to protect our legal rights or for certain business requirements. We may retain De-Identified Personal Information for as long as we deem appropriate. For example, if we process your payments, we will retain this data for longer periods of time as required for legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting purposes. Additional examples of specific reasons we would retain some Personal Information for longer periods of time include:

  • Our contractual and business relationships with you.
  • Security, fraud and abuse prevention – i.e., to protect you, other people, and us from fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access.
  • Financial recordkeeping – when you make a payment to us we are often required to retain this information for long period of time for purposes of accounting, dispute investigation and resolution, and compliance with tax, anti-money laundering, and other financial regulations.
  • Complying with legal or regulatory requirements – to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, as required to enforce our terms of service, including investigation of potential violations.
  • Direct communications with us – if you have directly communicated with us, through a customer support channel, feedback form, or a bug report, we may retain reasonable records of those communications.

Even if you delete your account, keep in mind that the deletion by our Service Providers may not be immediate and that the deleted information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.

Notices; Opting Out

By providing us with your email address (including by “following,” “liking,” linking your account to our Website or Service or other services, etc., on a third party website or network), you consent to our using the email address to send you marketing-related communications, e.g., newsletters, etc., as well as Service-related emails, e.g., account/membership renewal, invoices, receipts, voting, legal notices, etc. For residents of countries outside of the US, by clicking on our website the option to receive such communications, you consent to our sending such communications.

If you prefer not to receive marketing-related communications from us, please let us know by clicking on the unsubscribe link within a marketing message or newsletter you receive, or by updating your email preferences under your profile, or by contacting us. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, special features, announcements, or offers. You cannot opt out of receiving Service-related notices by email unless you terminate your account or membership.

Transfer and Storage of Your Information

Please note information IAEE collects about you may be transferred, processed and/or accessed by us in the United States, or another country where we, or our Service Providers operate. Please be aware Personal Data may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state or country where privacy laws may differ from and may not be as protective as those where you live. If you are located outside the United States and choose to allow us to collect information about you, please be aware that IAEE may transfer your Personal Data to the United States and process and store it there.

If you are a resident of the EU Region (as defined below), or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information to a country or jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EU Region who work for us or for one of Service Providers, also as disclosed.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (known as the “Shine the Light” law), IAEE members and customers who are residents of California may request certain information about our disclosure of personal information during the prior calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at the address below or at privacy@iaee.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will comply with your request within thirty (30) days or as otherwise required by the statute. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Do Not Track

IAEE does not currently employ a process for automatically responding to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals sent by web browsers, mobile devices, or other mechanisms. Per industry standards, third parties may be able to collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services when you use Services. You may opt out of online behavioral ads at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. You also may limit certain tracking by disabling cookies in your web browser. While we do not track your visit to our Website, if you do not allow cookie tracking, our service providers (e.g., Webscribble) may track cookies and you would need to opt out or disable this through their website.

GDPR: The Following Provisions Apply only to Citizens and Residents of the United Kingdom, EEA, and Switzerland

The following provisions apply only if you are a citizen or resident of the UK, EEA, or Switzerland (collectively referred to in this section for convenience as the “EU Region”). For such citizens or residents, all processing of your Personal Information is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations, in particular, (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR” and which includes the UK’s similar law), and our processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR. For purposes of the GDPR, we will be the “data controller” of Personal Information (defined in the GDPR (available here) as “Personal Data”, but referred to herein as Personal Information) we collect through the Website, unless we collect such information on behalf of a “data controller” in which case we will be a “data processor.” This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, applications or services that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy or that display or link to a different privacy policy. For EU Region residents and citizens only, to the extent any definition in this Privacy Policy conflicts with a definition under the GDPR, the GDPR definition shall control.

We provide adequate protection for the transfer of Personal Information to countries outside of the EU Region through one or more of the following methods: (a) a series of intercompany agreements based on or incorporating the Standard Contractual Clauses, (b) we may rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, (c) we may obtain your consent for these data transfers from Europe to the United States to other countries, (d) we may adopt binding corporate rules, or (e) to the extent applicable, we may rely on derogations as set forth in GDPR Article 49 for the transfer and onward transfer of personal information collected from individuals in Europe to the United States and other countries that the EU Region may view as not providing adequate data protection. Regarding method (e), we may transfer Personal Information to a third party to perform a contract with you, with your explicit consent or in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. If this Personal Information is not processed and transferred, we will not be able to execute the contract with you or you will not have access to any or all the benefits and features associated with your transaction.

We also may need to transfer your information to other group companies or service providers in countries outside the EEA. This may happen if our servers or suppliers and service providers are based outside the EU Region, or if you use our Products and/or Services while visiting countries outside these areas.

YOUR SPECIFIC CONSENT TO PROCESSING OF “SENSITIVE” OR “SPECIAL” CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Certain types of Personal Information are considered, under the privacy laws of some countries, to be “sensitive” or “special” categories of information, e.g., race, ethnic origin, health data, certain biometric data (for uniquely identifying an individual), and information about sex life or sexual orientation.

We “process” or use information we collect about race, ethnic origin, and gender identity (if you choose to submit such information) for the purposes of designing our products and services to meet the needs of our members. You specifically consent to our processing this type of data for these purposes.

Our Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (EU Region Visitors Only)

If you are a visitor using our Website from the EU Region, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the Personal Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect Personal Information from you only where we need the Personal Information to perform Services for you for which you have contracted with us, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests or rely upon your consent where we are legally required to do so and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we also may have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you or may otherwise need the Personal Information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

The collection and processing of your personal information may be necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests. Such legitimate interest purposes may include:

  • fraud prevention
  • ensuring network and information security
  • indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security, including enhancing protection of our community against spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime, and security risks of all kind, and enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of our Terms of Use
  • when we are complying with legal obligations
  • processing employee or visitor, member, attendee, or registrant data
  • performing the function or service you requested of us
  • providing our Services and their functionality to you where such processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by our service providers related to the Services
  • direct marketing
  • the relevant and appropriate relationship we have with you
  • analytics, e.g., assess the number of visitors, page views, use of the Website, etc., in order to understand how our Website, Products and Services are being used, to optimize the Website and/or future communications, and to develop new services and Website features
  • updating your information and preferences
  • offering and improving our Website, Products, and Services
  • enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of our Terms

We provide adequate protection for the transfer of Personal Information to countries outside of the EU Region through one or more of the following methods: (a) a series of intercompany agreements based on or incorporating the Standard Contractual Clauses, (b) we may rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, (c) we may obtain your consent for these data transfers from the EU Region to the United States to other countries, (d) we may adopt binding corporate rules, or (e) to the extent applicable, we may rely on derogations as set forth in GDPR Article 49 for the transfer and onward transfer of Personal Information collected from individuals in the EU Region to the United States and other countries that the EU Region may view as not providing adequate data protection. Regarding method (e), we may transfer Personal Information to a third party to perform a contract with you, with your explicit consent or in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. If this Personal Information is not processed and transferred, we will not be able to execute the contract with you or you will not have access to any or all the benefits and features associated with your transaction.

We also may need to transfer your information to other group companies or service providers in countries outside the EU Region. This may happen if our servers or suppliers and service providers are based outside the EU Region, or if you use our Products and/or Services while visiting countries outside these areas.

Your Data Rights Under GDPR

If you are subject to GDPR, your rights include the following:

  • The right to access – Upon request, we will confirm any processing of your Personal Information and, provide you with a copy of that Personal Information in an acceptable machine-readable format.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to have us correct any inaccurate Personal Information or to have us complete any incomplete Personal Information.
  • The right to erasure – You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information and we will do so in some circumstances, such as where we no longer need it (we may not delete your data when other interests outweigh your right to deletion).
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to ask us to suppress the processing of your Personal Information but we may still store your Personal Information. See below for more information.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to your Personal Information used in the following manners: (a) processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); (b) direct marketing (including profiling); and, (c) processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics. See below for more information.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to obtain your Personal Information from us that you consented to give us or that is necessary to perform fulfillment of member benefits with you. We will give you your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
  • Rights regarding automated decision making – You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, except for the exceptions applicable under relevant data protection laws.
  • The right to complain to a supervisory authority – You have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European member state of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of Personal Information relating to you infringes upon your rights.
  • The right to withdraw consent – If we are processing your Personal Information based on your consent to do so, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Contact IAEE

Lisa Buchanan
International Association of Exhibitions and Events
12700 Park Central Drive, Suite 308
Dallas, TX 75251 USA
T: +1 (972) 458-8002
F: +1 (972) 458-8119
privacy@iaee.com