2. 2 Personal Information that we receive from other sources
We may collect Personal Information about you from publicly available sources (either ourselves or via third parties) in connection with our legitimate business interests.
We may also receive information from third parties who collect Personal Information from you and pass it on to us. To the extent necessary, the third party collecting this data is responsible for obtaining the relevant consent from you to ensure you are happy with the ways in which your Personal Information will be used.
3. What does Vision Fairs do with your personal information?
We will only use your Personal Information (including information we receive from other sources) in the following ways (depending on the types of information): (i) so that we can perform a contract with you; (ii) for the purposes of legal compliance; and (iii) for the purposes of our legitimate business interests (namely to carry out and improve our business, analyze the use of our Websites and services and support our customers and Website users).
All of the Personal Information described above will be stored on Vision Fairs’ user database (unless you notify us that you no longer wish us to retain such information, in which case it will be deleted). Vision Fairs will only use your Personal Information to contact you (for example by email, mail or telephone) for those purposes to which you have previously consented on the site or where we otherwise have a right to do so. For example, if you register on the site, Vision Fairs will email you Vision Fairs’ newsletter and, if you wish, contact you about relevant products and services offered by Vision Fairs or by reputable third parties. Vision Fairs will also contact you to market its products and/or services where it has obtained your details during a sale of any of its products or services. If you do not wish to receive information about Vision Fairs’ and/or third parties’ products and services, please indicate your preference via the “subscription preferences” link at the bottom of the home page. You may cancel your subscription to Vision Fairs’ newsletter at any time by clicking on the link at the foot of any edition of the newsletter or marketing communication.
Should you request us to amend or suppress records containing your information we will endeavor to do so as promptly as practical, however you may receive communications for a transitional period while we process the records.
Vision Fairs will also use the information which you provide in aggregate form (i.e., so that no individual users are identifiable) to determine demographic profiles and browsing patterns to:
develop marketing profiles and assist strategic development;
manage Vision Fairs’ relationship with its sponsors and advertisers;
enable site audits to be performed; and
enable Vision Fairs to review, develop and improve the services which it offers.
In addition, Vision Fairs will use your information to notify you about changes to our services.
Vision Fairs will also use the Personal Information collected from your use of the Websites to administer the Websites and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes, to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so, as part of our efforts to keep the Websites safe and secure, to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you, and to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
4. Keeping your personal information up to date
We take all reasonable action to ensure that the information we collect, and use is accurate, complete and up to date.
However, the accuracy of the information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That’s why we recommend that you:
Keep us up to date with changes to your information such as your name and address; and Let us know if there are any errors in the information.
You have the right to see the Personal Information we hold about you and to ask us to: (a) make any changes to ensure that any Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and up to date; (b) erase or stop processing any Personal Information we hold about you where there is no longer a legal ground for us to hold it; or (c) transfer any information we hold about you to a specified third party. If you wish to do this, please contact us using the contact details set out at section 9 below.
5. To whom is your personal information disclosed?
Each Vision Fairs entity will share your Personal Information with the other members of its group which means its subsidiaries, ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries and (if you consented to receive marketing from such third parties) will make your name and postal address available to reputable third parties so that they can send you details of their products and services.
In supplying Vision Fairs withallPersonal Information, you agree that Vision Fairs may transfer that information (to the extent that it is still held on our database at the relevant time) to a third party who acquires all or substantially all of any Vision Fairs entity’s assets or stock or our Website services, or to a third party which we purchase or from which we acquire substantially all of its assets or stock, in each case whether by merger, acquisition, reorganization or otherwise.
Vision Fairs will also share your Personal Information with selected third parties including business partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract it enters into with them or you, and/or, to the extent you have expressly consented (by ticking the relevant box on the registration form), to advertisers and advertising networks that require your data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.
Attendance at a physical event
To gain access to the event, you will be issued with a badge. This will detail your name, job title, company name, country and a QR code. Badge scanning technology may be used at events for the purposes of access control and security into the event itself and for location information at areas with the event.
Exhibitors may also ask to scan your badge. By agreeing to allow them to scan your badge your contact details will be shared with the relevant exhibitor and used in accordance with applicable data protection laws and the exhibitor’s privacy policy.
6. When does this Privacy Policy not apply?
This Privacy Policy only applies to the collection and use of data by Vision Fairs. It does not cover third-party sites to which we provide links. Those sites may have their own privacy policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Information to these websites.
7. How do we protect your information?
Vision Fairs is committed to data security and will take the appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely. If you subscribe to access our premium content (and, accordingly, enter payment details), Vision Fairs offers the use of a secure server. The secure server software encrypts all information that you input before it is sent to Vision Fairs.
Vision Fairs takes steps to guard against unauthorized access to the Personal Information of the users of the Websites. Although it makes every effort to create a secure environment for your Personal Information, Vision Fairs cannot guarantee the safety of any Personal Information which is transmitted to us online and/or via email as, unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Vision Fairs will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information, any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate technical and organizational measures to try to prevent unauthorized access.
We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as we reasonably require it and, in any event, only for as long as the Egyptian Data Protection Law allows.
Where Vision Fairs has given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of the Websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
8. Contacting us
If you have any questions or concerns about Vision Fair’s use of your Personal Information, please email us at info@visionfairs.com