Privacy Policy
The EnVision Summit is committed to protecting the privacy of our website user’s personal information. This privacy policy (“Policy”) applies with respect to the information that we collect from www.envisionsummit.org. We may amend this Policy at any time without notice. Amendments to this Policy will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof.
GDPR Notice
The EnVision Summit website complies with GDPR regulations. For direct questions, please contact us at info@envisionsummit.org.
The EnVision Summit Community and Legitimate Interests
EnVision Summit is a community-based organization, focused around creating and delivering education and peer-to-peer networking for professionals in the ophthalmology field. It represents practitioners and suppliers. When registering for the event, the EnVision Summit organizers will process your data for the benefit of the community at large, and to better serve you as a member of the community.
Legitimate interests include: fulfilling contractual and legal obligations, direct marketing of products and services including personalized offers, personalizing the website experience, and providing demographic information in aggregate to sponsors and advertisers. The intent to share information with sponsors is made clear during the registration process.
Legitimate Interests for Email Subscribers
You may subscribe to receive communications from EnVision Summit. Your subscription does not require you attend the conference. We will process your data in order to personalize the email content and your website experience, and to provide aggregate demographic information and non-personal behavioral information to advertisers and sponsors.
Legitimate Interests for Anonymous Website Visitors
EnVision Summit processes data for anonymous website visitors in order to personalize the experience, in accordance with our Cookie Policy as defined in this privacy policy.
Use of third-party Data Processors for Advertising
When visiting our website, you may see advertisements from our Sponsors/Partners. You may later see the very same advertisements on other websites (“retargeting”). These retargeted ads may be personalized based on your browsing behavior on our website. You may opt out of these retargeted ads by clearing your browser cache.
Rights as a Data Subject
The EnVision Summit complies with all articles relating to rights of the Data Subjects, including but not limited to:
Right to erasure – Article 17
Right of access by the data subject – Article 15
Transparent information, communication – Article 12
Right to Object – Article 21
General Privacy Policy
I. INFORMATION COLLECTED
We collect both non-personally identifiable information and personally identifiable information. We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us, by, for example, filling out a survey, registration form or similar data collection instrument.
During your visit to the website, we also may collect information your visit but not about you. For instance, we may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring website address. This information helps facilitate the online experience at our website. In addition, we use cookies to track usage patterns at our site. When you view our site we might store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal information. Rather, they help you navigate a website as easily as possible. We use cookies to identify you and to deliver content specific to your interests.
II. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In general, we will only use the information you provide to us for the purposes as are described at the point of collection. We may deliver information about the EnVision Summit and promotional material. Users may opt-out of receiving future communications by following the instructions set forth in the opt-out section below.
III. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, processing credit card payments, providing customer service, supporting our Site functionality and other features offered through our Site. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not authorized to share or use such information for any other purposes. We do not knowingly share, sell, or distribute your personal information with any third party.
In addition, the EnVision Summit shares certain information you have provided us with carefully selected partners, but will not share email, phone or fax information with these partners.
IV. SECURITY
Our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet, we will take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information.
V. OTHER WEB SITES; LINKS
Our website may contain links to other websites. The EnVision Summit is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to become familiar with privacy policies of other sites you visit, including linked sites.
VI. CHILDREN
We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from persons under the age of 18. We do not have a mechanism for determining the age of the visitors to our Site.
VII. CHOICE; OPT OUT
You may opt-out of receiving postal mail, e-mail and/or facsimile communications from us. Please note opt-out choices do not apply to messages regarding your conference registration or sponsorship.
Contacting us:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, practices of this site or your registration for the EnVision Summit, contact us at info@envisionsummit.org.