This personal information relates to the following categories of people:
We do note collect or store sensitive personal information, such as information relating to health, beliefs or political affiliation.
Our services and products are directed at business professionals. They are not intended for children under the age of sixteen. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users in this age group and reserve the right to delete such information if we become aware of having collected it.
This section explains how and why we use personal information.
In events enquiries, sales and administration
If you have made an enquiry about us or our events/services either online or over the phone, your personal information will be used to respond to the enquiry or to take other steps to service your request.
For event and exhibition management
If you participate in one of our events as a speaker, sponsor, exhibitor or attendee, your personal information will be used in connection with the running of the event, communications and to handle payments and recover debts.
We will also use your personal information to maintain databases that allow us to assess your qualities as a speaker or sponsor/exhibitor, promote events and encourage further engagement at our events.
In addition, photos and videos are taken at our events, which may feature attendees, speakers, sponsors or exhibitors. Where we have taken photos and videos at our events that feature you as an attendee, sponsor or exhibitor, to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws, those photos and videos may be used for promotional purposes.
Where events and exhibitions use badge scanning technology your personal information will be used to identify you at certain access points, such as to conference rooms, VIP areas, luncheons, seminars, entry and exit and other areas of the event. This will provide certain location information. Badges cannot be read remotely.
The personal information obtained from badge scanning will be used for access control, security and analysing attendee traffic with a view to improving the event experience for all participants.
Where we are hosting and managing a virtual exhibition or event Informa (and any third party platform provider acting on our behalf) will use your personal information provided during the registration process to host and manage this digital event and for analyzing attendee interactions and traffic with a view to improving the event experience for all participants and provide you with a personalized experience.
When you entering virtual spaces, zone or room such as an exhibition booth your personal information may be shared with the sponsor and exhibitor to allow them to engage with you subject to the attendee privacy notice you may have been provided during the registration and login process.
For marketing
The relevant Ejtemaat Events MENA L.L.C. data controller may use your personal information to send you newsletters, offers or other marketing emails that keep you up to date with relevant event news, event offers and quality content that may be of interest. Depending on the nature of your interaction with us and applicable data protection laws, you may have actively given us your consent (i.e. opted in) or we may be entitled to rely on your implied consent or legitimate interests to market to you. The opportunity to opt out of future marketing will always be provided and you have the right to amend your marketing preferences at any time either through the communications sent to you (footer) or by emailing info@ejtemaat.com.
Some of our events or services may be co-branded or sponsored by third party exhibitors or sponsors. We may share your details with these third-party partners. Where this happens, a clear notice will be provided that gives you the opportunity to opt out or opt in to such sharing as required by applicable data protection laws. The third-party partner’s use of your details will be in accordance with the notice provided and its privacy policy and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
For mobile applications and website analytics
We may combine attendee session information or other information collected through tracking technologies, whether you are logged in or not, with online behavioural information to understand your online experiences and determine which events and services are likely to be of interest to you.
Our marketing related emails contain tracking to tell us whether emails are opened to verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which emails are of more interest to you and to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them.
For enquiries
Any personal information provided on the Contact Us page will be used only to provide a response or to service the request/ enquiry made. The information provided will not be added to the marketing or customer prospect databases of Ejtemaat Events MENA L.L.C.
We recognise the importance of protecting and managing personal information. Any personal information provided will be treated with the utmost care and security. This section sets out some of the security measures in place.
We use a variety of physical and technical measures to keep personal information safe and prevent unauthorised access to, or use or disclosure of it. Electronic data and databases are stored on secure computer systems with control over access to information using both physical and electronic means. Our colleagues receive data protection training and there is a set of detailed security and data protection guidelines which colleagues are required to follow when handling personal information.
While we take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information will be kept secure from unauthorised access, we cannot guarantee it will be secure during transmission by you to a website or other services, as we do not control that transmission.
Third-party links
This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites and do not accept any liability in connection with their content. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of each third-party site linked from this website to determine its use of your personal information.
We will only retain personal information for as long as is necessary and as permitted by applicable laws.
We will retain personal information while we are using it, as described in the section above. We may continue to retain it after we have ceased such uses for certain legitimate business purposes. For example, if you have opted out of marketing communications from us, we will retain limited details about you to ensure we can honor your opt-out request. We may also continue to retain your personal information to meet our legal requirements or to defend or exercise our legal rights.
The length of time for which we will retain your personal information will depend on the purposes for which we need to retain it. After we no longer need to retain your personal information, it will be deleted or securely destroyed.
For any questions about this Privacy Policy contact our Lead Data Protection Manager at info@ejtemaat.com.
To keep up with changing legislation, best practice and changes in how we process personal information, we may revise this Privacy Policy at any time without notice by posting a revised version on this website. To stay up to date on any changes, check back periodically.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 28.01.2021.