This Privacy Policy will help you better understand how we collect, use, and share your personal information related to the International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance (“the Conference”). If we change our privacy practices, we may update this privacy policy. If any changes are significant, we will let you know (for example, through the WordPress admin or by email).
Trust is the foundation of our platform, including trusting us to do the right thing with your information. Three main values guide us as we develop our products and services. These values should help you better understand how we think about your information and privacy.
We carefully analyze what types of information we need to provide our services, and we try to limit the information we collect to only what we really need. Where possible, we delete or anonymize this information when we no longer need it. When building and improving our products, our engineers work closely with our privacy and security teams to build with privacy in mind. Our guiding principle is that your information belongs to you, and we aim to only use your information to your benefit.
If a third party requests your personal information, we will refuse to share it unless you give us permission or we are legally required. When we are legally required to share your personal information, we will tell you in advance, unless we are legally forbidden.
Many participants and partners using our platform do not have the benefit of a dedicated privacy team, and it is important to us to help them meet their privacy obligations. We build our products and services so they can easily be used in a privacy-friendly way. We also provide detailed FAQs and documentation covering the most important privacy topics and respond to privacy-related questions we receive.
We generally process your information to fulfill a contractual obligation (for example, to process your registration for the Conference), or where we or someone we work with needs to use your personal information for a reason related to their business (for example, to provide you with a service). Laws in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and in the United Kingdom (“UK”) call these reasons “legitimate interests.” These “legitimate interests” include:
We only process personal information for these “legitimate interests” after considering the potential risks to your privacy and balancing any risks with certain measures — for example, by providing clear transparency into our privacy practices, offering you control over your personal information where appropriate, limiting the information we keep, limiting what we do with your information, who we send your information to, how long we keep your information, or the technical measures we use to protect your information.
We may also process your personal information where you have provided your consent. In particular, where we cannot rely on an alternative legal basis for processing, where you direct us to transfer information to a third party, where we receive your data from a third party and it already comes with consent, or where we are required by law to ask for your consent (including in the context of some of our sales and marketing activities). At any time, you have a right to withdraw your consent by changing your communication choices, opting out from our communications, or by contacting us.
Depending on whether you are a participant, speaker, partner, or visitor, please refer to our supplemental privacy policies, as relevant, to understand our purposes for processing, categories of recipients, and legal basis for processing for each type of personal data.
We believe you should be able to access and control your personal information no matter where you live. Depending on how you interact with the Conference website, you may have the right to request access to, correct, amend, delete, port to another service provider, restrict, or object to certain uses of your personal information. We will not charge you more or provide you with a different level of service if you exercise any of these rights. Please note that a number of these rights apply only in certain circumstances, and all of these rights may be limited by law.
If you have registered for the Conference or otherwise provided your information to us and wish to exercise these rights over information about your registration or interaction, please contact us directly. We are a processor and process information on your behalf. We will, of course, help you fulfill these requests to the extent required by law, such as by giving you the tools to do so and by answering your questions.
If you are not happy with our response to a request, you can contact us to resolve the issue. If you are located in the EEA or UK, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection or privacy authority at any time.
Finally, because there is no common understanding about what a “Do Not Track” signal is supposed to mean, we don’t respond to those signals in any particular way.
We are a Canadian company, but we work with and process data about individuals across the world. To operate our business, we may send your personal information outside of your state, province, or country, including to the United States. This data may be subject to the laws of the countries where we send it. We take steps to protect your information when we send your information across borders
Depending on whether you are a participant, speaker, partner, or visitor, please refer to our supplemental privacy policies, as relevant.
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If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, your personal information is controlled by our Irish affiliate, WordPress International Ltd. Your information is then sent to other locations and to service providers who may be located in other regions, including Canada (where we are based) and the United States. When we send your personal information outside of the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we do so in accordance with applicable law.
If you are in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, when we send your personal information to Canada it is protected under Canadian law, which the European Commission has found adequately protects your information. If we then send this personal information outside of Canada (for example, when we send this information to our subprocessors), this information is protected by contractual commitments that are comparable to those provided in the Standard Contractual Clauses.
Finally, while we do what we can to protect your information, we may at times be legally required to disclose your personal information (for example, if we receive a valid court order). For information about how we respond to such orders, please review our Guidelines for Legal Requests.
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we have collected it. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. We will also retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. If you stop using our services or if you delete your account with us, we will delete your information or store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format.
Depending on whether you are a participant, speaker, partner, or visitor, please refer to our supplemental privacy policies, as relevant, for further details on the retention of your personal information.
Our teams work tirelessly to protect your information and to ensure the security and integrity of our platform. We also have independent auditors assess the security of our data storage and systems that process financial information. However, we all know that no method of transmission over the Internet, and no method of electronic storage, can be 100% secure. This means we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. You can find more information about our security measures at /in/security.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website and when providing our services. For more information about how we use these technologies, including a list of other companies that place cookies on our sites, a list of cookies that we place when we power a merchant’s store, and an explanation of how you can opt out of certain types of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
We use and share your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. For categories of sensitive personal information that we collect, we only use or disclose such information either with your specific consent when required or as otherwise permitted by law.
To make the Conference better for everyone, we collect and use personal information provided by:
– **You:** We collect the information you provide when you register for the Conference, visit our website, fill in order information, or contact our support team. We collect account and payment information you provide to us, items you save to favorites, purchases you make, reviews you post, and how you otherwise interact or communicate with our platform.
– **Your device(s):** We collect information from and about the devices you use, including computers, phones, and other web-connected devices you use to access our apps or services, and we combine this information across different devices you use.
– **Third parties:** We receive information from partners who help us provide you with our services, including
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