PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that Nanotechnology World (NW) controls, collects, uses or processes only.

Personal Information Protection Principles

NW adheres to the following personal information protection principles:

Processing of personal information shall be lawful, fair and transparent, and processing activities shall have lawful grounds.
Personal information may only be collected for specific, transparent and objective purposes and processing activities must fit the purpose for which the personal information was collected.
The processed personal information must be relevant, adequate and may not include more than what is required for the purpose of the processing.
Personal information must be kept updated and must be controlled for error to prevent the processing of false and misleading data/information.
Personal information may only be processed for as long as it is required for the object of the collection.
Personal information must be secured from unlawful use, loss, unintended deletion and harm.

Personal Information User’s Rights

A user has the following rights in regards to personal information:

Right to know whether user’s personal information is being processed.
Right to know how user’s personal information is processed.
Right to request rectification or erasure of user’s personal information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure, meaning user requesting for user’s personal information to be erased from NW records if there are no legitimate grounds for retaining it.
Right to object to processing, meaning in certain cases user’s right to object to processing of user’s personal information, for example in the case of direct marketing.
Right to restrict processing of user’s personal information, e.g. if personal information is inaccurate or the processing is unlawful.
Right to access the personal information collected from/about the user, including the right to request and obtain a copy of the personal information.
Right to lodge a complaint, meaning if a user is not satisfied with the way NW handles user’s personal information the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Right to withdraw any given consent of processing of user’s personal information.

Personal Information Collected

NW collects and processes Personal Information through several channels, including:

Online subscription forms
Conference or event registration
Telephone and emails
NW website
NW app

Data NW typically collects and processes may include but are not limited to:

Name
Email address
Phone number
Job title
Organization or company of employment

Processing of Personal Information

Personal information is only used for the purpose detailed in this Privacy Policy. Personal information is never disclosed, sold or shared without user’s explicit, informed consent, unless required by law.

Personal information is generally used to identify the user as a participant, speaker, exhibitor, sponsor or collaborating partner at any given NW corporate event in order to develop, organize, promote, execute and evaluate any such NW corporate event.

NWA processes personal information for the following purposes:

To identify user
To provide user a service
To communicate and interact with user
To improve and promote NW corporate events
To conduct questionnaires concerning satisfaction

With user’s consent, NW processes user’s personal information to send user newsletters and campaigns and for other specific purposes user has given consent to.

Personal information is kept until it is no longer required for these purposes and for other purposes deriving from law. User may withdraw consent at any time.

Securing of Personal Information

NW has taken technical and organizational measures to prevent that personal information will be subject to deletion, publication, alteration, misuse, or to fall in the hands of an unlawful party as part of its Internal Security Policy. A multi-layered security approach is in place, including physical security, access controls, IT security and use of safety protocols.

Any privacy breach where personal information unintendedly has been deleted, altered or made accessible to an unlawful party, NW will proceed according to its Internal Security Policy. Such Internal Security Policy includes NW employees’ awareness of the procedures they must follow to identify and report any suspected or actual privacy breach.

Transferring of Personal Information

Personal information collected and processed by NW is never sold to third-party vendors.

Information about Cookies

NW uses cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze user behaviour, administer its website and to collect information about users. This is done to personalise and enhance the NW website user experience. Cookies store information to help make the website function. Only NW can access the cookies created by its website.

NW may use cookies for the following purposes:

Functionality cookies are used to store user’s preferences such as default language.
Analytics cookies are used to track the use and performance of the NW website and services.
Advertising cookies may be used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to user and to user’s interests.

Privacy Officer

The person responsible for respecting and protecting personal information at NW is its CEO, Marine Le Bouar. She can be reached email at info@nanotechnologyworld.org.

NW reserves the right to revise its Privacy Policy and make changes to it at any time.