Informa Privacy Notice

ARCHIVED 2025-01-01, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20250101_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20231201_rev01

Full text changes — 20231201_rev01 to 20250101_rev01

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 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, to handle payments and recover debts. This includes our legitimate business interests in carrying out logistic, administrative and analytics activities, to ensure our events run smoothly and so that we can offer an improved experience for our customers.
 We may 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, and to request references in certain circumstances.
 Where we have your consent to do so, we may share your personal information with exhibitors at the event you are going to attend, so that they can contact you in advance and arrange to meet with you during the event.
+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. Third parties may also take photographs at our events, for example to maintain a record of stands or exhibitors they have visited. We are not responsible for the collection or use of images taken by third parties.
+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. Third parties may also take photographs at our events, for example to maintain a record of stands or exhibitors they have visited. Biometric information from your photograph may also be used to find pictures of you taken during the event, in order to share these pictures with you. Such processing will not take place without your explicit consent. We are not responsible for the collection or use of images taken by third parties.
 Where events and exhibitions use badge scanning technology, your personal information will be used to identify you at certain access points, such as to access VIP areas, seminars, entry and exit in 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 visitor traffic with a view to improving the event experience for visitors and others. We may also use de-identified image data taken from cameras and/or location data collected via a mobile phone app and Bluetooth beacons to analyse visitor traffic and/or to assess attendance at particular seminars or presentations. This data may be shared with the relevant exhibitors.
 You can also allow your badge to be scanned by event exhibitors. When you do so your contact details will be shared with the relevant exhibitor and used in accordance with applicable data protection laws, the exhibitor's privacy policy and any other notices or consents you are provided with or given at the event.
+We may also use smart tag technology to record and monitor attendance at our live sessions, which removes the need for manual badge scanning when entering and exiting. We will share your personal information with the sponsors of the live sessions, and they may contact you with more information about their product and services. You may opt-out of receiving the smart tag or cease attendance monitoring at any time by informing our registration desk or contacting a member of our event staff.
 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 also for analyzing visitor interactions and traffic with a view to improving the event experience for visitors and provide you with a personalized experience.
 When you enter virtual spaces, zones or rooms 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.
+When using our event platform, if you choose to interact with our virtual products (e.g. virtual exhibition booths, download or bookmark companies/ content, attend sessions, watch videos, accept connections and meeting invites) then your information may be shared with the exhibitor or sponsor to allow them to engage with you. They may contact you in line with your indication of interest in their products.
+When using our event app, we will be collecting your personal information, including location information, to improve your event experience and offer features such as in-app navigation, notifying you about featured sessions and recommending tailored content matching your interests. We and this event's sponsors and exhibitors may also use the app data for analytical and marketing purposes. You may opt-out of using our app features by updating your preferences from the app settings.
 ### For our Publishing Services
 If you publish work with us, your personal information, including the personal information of any named representative or beneficiary, is used in connection with the dissemination and promotion of your published work, and fulfilment of any contractual obligations, as is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a commercial organisation. Your name and affiliation will be published as part of authored work. Personal information is also used to handle payments or for other purposes, as is necessary to perform the contract entered into with us.
 In addition, we sometimes take photos and videos at events associated with your published work. Where photos and videos are taken at our events that feature you as an author, we may use those photos and videos for promotional purposes.