We, Magnus Group respect the privacy of the users of our website and are committed to protect the personal information that Users may share with us. This Privacy Statement describes our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information which we may obtain when you visit our website from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement or when you participate in any of the online forums, platforms, newsletters or other digital activities carried out by us on the Site. This Privacy Statement also describes your choices regarding the use, access and correction of your personal information.

Collection of Personal Information

The information collected directly from a user may include contact information, such as the user’s name, contact information, and postal address. This personal information can be used only for communicating with you about our conferences.

We may retain your personal information for as long as it is relevant to our business purposes or until you request that we remove it.

We endeavour to keep your personal information confidential and protected against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or alteration through the use of appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards. The information about each user is stored on systems that are subject to appropriate security measures, and we limit employee access to such information.

What do we do with your personal information?

Magnus Group uses your personal information to provide you with details of our conferences, programs or news that we think will be of interest to you. We may also use the information to process any internal administration and analysis.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to third parties.

How We Share the Information We Collect:

If you attend a Magnus Group conference, we may publish some of your information. For example, full contact information of those who have registered for a meeting may be published in the abstract book. Attendee names and institutions may be listed on our website. We may share your contact information with speakers of a conference to assist them with the duties of planning and organizing the meeting. We may also publish information such as attendee names, education or professional background, or photographs in material produced by Magnus Group, and photographs of meeting interactions may be used in our marketing literature. Additionally, we may publish this information for Board Members, the Scientific Advisory Board, and other people who participate in programming the activities.

Your Rights and Choices:

You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Data. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Or, if you would like to review, correct, or update Personal Data that you have previously disclosed to us, you may do so by contacting us.

Photography & Filming

For promotional purposes, there may be a photographer and video production taking place during the conference. Delegates who do not wish to be filmed or recorded should advise the organizers by email [email protected].

Public Information:

We may also display personal testimonials of attendees on our Site along with your name in addition to other endorsements. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at [email protected].

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies:

We may collect information through the Site by way of cookies or other tracking technologies. Cookies and other tracking technologies are script files that facilitate the collection of Non-Personal information, such as the number of visitors to the Site, and how each visitor arrived at the Site.  You may be able to reject or block cookies or tracking technologies on the Site by adjusting your browser settings.  Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar.  If you elect to reject cookies and other tracking technologies, we may not be able to deliver certain information or services to you.

Children’s Privacy Protection

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy in the interactive online world. The Site is not designed for or intentionally targeted at children 18 years of age or younger.  We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under the age of 18 through the Site. If you are under 18, please do not give us any personal information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through the Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided personal information to us, please contact us, and we will endeavour to delete that information from our databases.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time with or without notice to you. Any such changes will be posted on the Site. By accessing the Site after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of your information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the relevant information. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Consent

By disclosing your personal information to us using this website or over the telephone, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by magnusgroup.org accordance with this Privacy policy.

Sandra Dare
Technical Director

Contact Us:

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please contact us electronically or send physical mail to [email protected].

Dated: 16 September  2019