Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us.

It is SubSummit’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://subsummit.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://subsummit.com/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website visitors

Like most website operators, SubSummit collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SubSummit’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SubSummit’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SubSummit may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

SubSummit also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://subsummit.com/ blog posts. SubSummit only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of personally-identifying information

Certain visitors to SubSummit’s websites choose to interact with SubSummit in ways that require SubSummit to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SubSummit gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at SubSummit to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to external sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

This site uses Google AdWords for remarketing

https://subsummit.com/ uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Aggregated statistics

SubSummit may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. SubSummit may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SubSummit does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, SubSummit uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SubSummit uses cookies to help SubSummit identify and track visitors, their usage of https://subsummit.com/, and their website access preferences. SubSummit visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SubSummit’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SubSummit’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to SubSummit’s use of cookies.

Privacy Policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, SubSummit may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SubSummit’s sole discretion. SubSummit encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Sharing Your Personal Data

Your privacy is important to us. We may share some of your personal data with selected third parties to improve your SubSummit experience, including:

• Other companies in the SubSummit Network, for example for sales or marketing purposes, or for IT and system administration services and internal reporting activities.
• Service providers who provide IT systems, payment systems, customer management systems, visitor registration systems, event management systems and administration services and who will process your data in accordance with the terms of our data processing agreements with them.
• Venue providers, affiliated hotels of events or providers of event services who need to process your personal data in order to fulfill their contracts with you or with SubSummit to provide services at our events or to offer you facility services at an event.
• Event sponsors so that they can better plan their sponsorship to enhance the attendee experience and, where applicable, to provide you with marketing communications or to choose invitees to private briefings, meetings, or dinners. These sponsors shall agree to confidentiality restrictions and to use any personal information we share with them solely for this purpose.
• Exhibitors when you have interactions during an event (actions such as using a messaging or meeting service, or scanning a QR code, sharing online or physical business cards or having your badge scanned) in order for exhibitors to provide you with marketing communications.
• Aggregated, anonymous attendee reports may be shared with data brokers and sponsors to enhance the to provide our exhibitors with a high-level profile of the attendees at an event (e.g. type of organization, seniority within an organization, etc.)
• Other attendees of our events for specific purposes related to their presence at those events.
  • Editorial media and equity analysts who are attending our events, where you have given appropriate permission for your details to be shared.
  • Other attendees of our events for specific purposes related to their presence at those events.
  • To allow participants to interact with each other via the App, web browser or email.
  • Other delegates on the Website and official App for an event (if applicable) to allow delegates to contact each other and facilitate networking. No email addresses and telephone numbers will be made public through the delegate listing or otherwise. You may opt out of delegate communications through this medium at any time.
• Regulatory bodies in accordance with our health and safety obligations when running an event.

We may share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other organizations if legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to:

• comply with legal obligation, process or request;
• enforce our terms and conditions and other agreements, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;
• detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or
• protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, a third party, or the public as required or permitted by law (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction).

We may also disclose your information to third parties:

• if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
• if we or substantially all our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case information held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.