CLIENT PRIVACY & GDPR
Our international conferences aim to provide our participants with a
positive experience and help them perform in their daily
responsibilities while overcoming any possible challenges. Our
headquarters is in the Czech Republic.
Our website gives you the possibility to register and request for
detailed information (Agenda) of our events. We collect your
information for the purposes detailed hereafter.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This document is designed
to give a clear explanation of our data processing practices. Please
see below for further information.
If you have any questions or concerns relating to our site or would
like to find out more about how we collect, store or use your data,
please contact our Data Protection Team.
email: info@berryprofessionals.com
Contact number: 00420739427298
A. WHAT IS GDPR AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO COMPLY?
GDPR stands for the General Data Protection Regulation and is effective
as of May 25th, 2018. GDPR replaces national privacy and security laws
that previously existed within the EU with a single, comprehensive
EU-wide law that governs the use, sharing, transfer and processing of
any personal data that originates from the EU.
Our policy is to respect all laws that apply to our business and this
includes GDPR. We also appreciate that our customers have requirements
under GDPR that are directly impacted by their use of our services. We
are committed to helping our clients stay in compliance with GDPR and
their local requirements.
As part of our commitment to GDPR compliance, we have updated our
Privacy Policy.
In addition, here are a few things that we are committed to doing to
ensure our compliance with GDPR and that of our customers:
1. We commit to follow appropriate security measures and precautions in
accordance with GDPR.
2. We ensure that employees authorized to process personal data have
committed to confidentiality.
3. We hold any sub processors that handle personal data, including our data
center partners and hosting providers to the same data management,
security, and privacy practices and standards to which we hold ourselves.
4. We will assist inquirers, as much as possible; to respond to data
subject requests regarding data privacy & GDPR.
B. WHAT’S CHANGING WITH our PRIVACY POLICY?
We have released an update to our Privacy Policy which comes into
effect starting on May 25th, 2018. Our new policy addresses new data
regulations (including GDPR). The most significant changes in the new
policy are detailed below. In a nut shell, it provides our clients more control over their information. Our policy
explains how you can make choices about your information and the
measures we’ve put in place to keep your information secure.
C. WHERE WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION, WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
& THE PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR COLLECTION
We have a research department who is tasked with the responsibility of
finding relevant potential participants to our events. The department
does in depth market research on LinkedIn and Google to collect data.
The data we collect include Name (First & Last Name) and Company
Name only!
Through human and artificial intelligence, the department is able to
generate the emails of the potential participants from the Full Name
and Company Name information collected.
Our event invitations are sent to only individuals we believe are
relevant for the event and their attendance would be beneficial for
their career development through benchmarking and networking with other
peers from the industry. We admit that sometimes our invitations reach
few irrelevant people. However we provide the possibility to
UNSUBSCRIBE from our mailing list. Please note that by unsubscribing
you will not receive any invitations of any of our other events which
may be relevant to you.
In addition, we collect data via our website. Our website provides the
possibility to submit your information to register and request for the
agenda of our events. The personal information provided is being
collected for legitimate business purposes, which includes processing
event registrations and enquiries, keeping you informed about new
events, products or offers and providing the best possible service to
you. Whenever we process data for these purposes we will ensure that we
always keep your Personal Data rights in high regard and take account
of these rights.
The provision of this information is voluntary. However, if you do not
provide the information requested, we may be unable to process your
registration or enquiry. All information provided by you will be held
in the strictest confidence.
To register or request for our event brochure you may need to provide
the following information (however is not limited to):
Full Name & Job Title
Company Name & Address
Phone & Fax Number
Email Address
Interest Areas & Preferences
BERRY Professionals is the sole owner of the information collected on
our site and by sending us your information you give us explicit
consent/right to process your information to respond to your enquiries
and keep you informed about our current and future events including
other offers.
We only collect data that is necessary for the purposes mentioned
above. BERRY Professionals does not receive or purchase any contacts
from a third party.
A. DIRECT MARKETING
If you no longer wish to receive newsletters or promotional materials,
you may opt-out of receiving these communications. You can do it by
following the unsubscribe link placed in the footer of the promotional
email or, if by post, by returning the letter to us with “unsubscribe”
marked upon it. Or you can simply send an email to
info@berryprofessionals.com and ask to be unsubscribed.
B. USE OF COOKIES & LOG FILES
When you visit our site, a cookie (a very small text file) is placed on
your device which is powered by google ads. If you accept it, it is
used to provide you with a personalized experience and to assist in the
collection of the site visitation statistics. You may refuse the
cookie, if you wish. To do so, you will need to check your browser
settings.
The cookies collect certain information about your computer hardware
and software, this includes
(however is not limited to):
IP Address
Browser Type
Operating System
Access Times
Referring Website Addresses
This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain
quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of BERRY Professionals websites
C. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION AND TO WHO IS IT DISCLOSED?
BERRY Professionals does not share or publish our collected data. We do
not rent or sell our customer e-mail lists.
No list supplied by BERRY Professionals may be used by anyone other
than for the confidential use of the original mailer. All lists are
seeded with decoy names to protect against abuse; violators will be
prosecuted.
Once you register on the Link for free registration, it is indicated for each event that you are granted the free pass thanks to the sponsor partners of that particular summit who have given us the opportuntiy to give you a free pass. And it is mentioned that we share your registration contact submission with the limited several sponsors of that particular event to follow up with the communications after the event. However you have the option to opt-in or opt-out to their marketing emails respecting GDPR. Your data is important to us and we do make sure you are aware who access your registration data on the free link for registration.
But we do not share anyones contact details who is requesting agenda or registering as paid participant or speaker and panellist.
D. SECURITY
BERRY Professionals takes precautions to protect your information. When
users submit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over
the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Access to all of our users’
information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally
identifiable information. The servers that we store personally
identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
E. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
BERRY Professionals Website and Event Brochure contains some links to
other sites. Please be aware that BERRY Professionals is not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy
statement applies solely to the information collected by BERRY
Professionals.
F. HOW DO WE PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD YOUR INFORMATION?
Your information is safe with us. All our data are securely stored on
data servers of our hosting providers. BERRY Professionals s.r.o. has
confidentiality agreement with our Hosting provider and they abide
by security decisions and provisions established for their services.
G. HOW CAN YOU VERIFY, MODIFY OR DELETE YOUR INFORMATION?
BERRY Professionals will make every attempt to keep your personal data
accurate, complete and up to date. If your personal information is
incorrect, changes or if you no longer wish to receive information from
BERRY Professionals, we will endeavor to correct, update or remove your
information as swiftly as possible. This can be done by e-mailing
info@berryprofessionals.com. In case you want to verify which data is
stored on your behalf, to have it modified corrected or deleted, please
contact our data officer – Email: info@berryprofessionals.com and
explicitly specify your request. Special attention is drawn to the
consequences of a request for deletion, in which case any possibility
to be able to contact you will be lost.
H. DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION
The personal data we hold is stored on BERRY Professionals servers and
on the servers of cloud based database management services of our
hosting providers. BERRY Professionals retains data for the duration of
the customer’s or member’s business relationship with BERRY
Professionals. For more information on where and how long your personal
data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure,
please contact BERRY Professionals’ data protection officer at
info@berryprofessionals.com
Your personal data will be part of a list of contact details shared
internally amongst the staff of BERRY Professionals s.r.o. services for
the purpose of contacting you in the future, in the context of BERRY
Professionals activities. Personal data will be kept for a maximum 12
months from the day of the reception.
I. CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions regarding our activities, feel free to contact
the support team, operating under the responsibility of the data
protection officer.
J. GDPR COMPLIANCE
BERRY Professionals respects your right to privacy. We ensure all data
is managed lawfully, fairly and transparently. You have a right to be
forgotten and can email us at info@berryprofessionals.com to request
your personal data or any information related to privacy.
K. RECOURSE
BERRY Professionals will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure
that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy
Notice.
If you do not consent to this storing or processing of your personal
information please email info@berryprofessionals.com indicating your
wishes.