We are committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information we process. We will make every reasonable effort to protect your privacy by adopting a high level of website security and adhering to company policies on how we store and use your personal information.
This notice relates to our use of the personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, via the services we make available to you, by phone, email, in letters and other correspondence, and in person. It has been created to help you understand our views and practices regarding your personal information.
We recommend that you read this notice prior to using our websites, products, and/or services. If we change this notice, we will post the changes on this page and may place notices on other pages of the website so that you will be aware of the personal information we collect and how we will use it. If you use this website, or our products and services, or access our content on this website, after any such change has been made, you will be deemed to have read and accepted all the changes.
The personal information we collect about you, or that you provide to us, will be dependent on your relationship with us, the products and/or services we provide to you, the ways in which you choose to interact with us and your level of engagement with us.
You may give us personal information when you fill in forms on our websites or when you correspond with us by phone, email, in writing or otherwise. The types of personal information we may collect about you may include:
When you visit our websites, we may collect the following information automatically:
When you open an email sent by us, or on our behalf, we may collect the following personal information automatically:
From time to time, and as permitted by applicable law(s), we may collect personal information about you from other third party sources, including publicly available data sources and your employer, organization or university/institution. This personal information may be used to update and enhance any existing personal information about you that we currently hold.
Depending on your relationship with us, we may process your personal information in one or more of the following ways:
Marketing by post: occasionally, we will send you information by post where we have decided that it is beneficial to you as a customer and in our interests. Such information will be non-intrusive and is processed on the grounds of legitimate interest.
Marketing by email: where you have opted in to us sending you email updates, including for our online content, industry news and updates, events and webinars, competitions and surveys, you are free to withdraw this consent at any time. If you have provided information about your interest areas, or have purchased or used our products and/or services, we may use this information to tailor the content of our emails to you. Depending on our relationship with you, we may send you marketing emails on the grounds of legitimate interest. We will not send you marketing emails if you have opted out of receiving them. Any marketing emails we send you will include an unsubscribe link.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing emails from us, you can let us know at any time by:
From time to time, this website may request information from users via surveys or contests. Participation is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose any information requested.
Information requested may include contact information (such as name and delivery address), demographic information, and opinions about our products and services. Contact information will be used to notify any winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving our products and services, including the functionality of this website.
We may retain certain records for other legitimate reasons (including after your relationship with us has ended), for example to maintain records of published content, to resolve any potential disputes and to comply with reporting and retention obligations. For personal data that we hold, we only hold it for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data was processed. We regularly review the personal data that we hold and delete or anonymize data that is no longer needed.
We will never sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. However, we may share your personal information with selected third parties. We require that our third party service providers only use your personal information as necessary to provide the requested services. It is likely that the identity and categories of the third party service providers with whom we share your personal information will change during the life of your relationship with us. Depending on that relationship, and your use of our products, services, and websites, it is anticipated that your personal information will be disclosed to the following categories of third party service providers who perform functions on our behalf. As examples:
This website may contain links to third party websites and services. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of these third party websites and services. This notice applies solely to information collected by this website.
In addition, where you apply via our website for a job advertised by us on behalf of an external recruiter, please be aware that the recruiter may be using a third party to collate applications, such as a multi-job posting platform. In those circumstances, we will send your application to those third parties on the recruiter's behalf. The recruiter is solely responsible for those third parties, and we are not responsible for them or the actions of the recruiter. If you have any concerns or queries about how the recruiter (or their third parties) may store or use your application, please contact the recruiter directly.
By providing us with your personal information, you acknowledge that it may be transferred to, stored at and processed at a destination inside or outside China by us, our affiliates and/or other third parties. Please do not submit any personal information to us if you do not wish for it to be transferred internationally.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the following rights in respect of the personal information we hold about you. For more information about these rights, or if you wish to exercise them, please contact us.
In most cases, this entitles you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
We may need you to provide information that will help us confirm your identity. If we hold personal information about you, in most cases, we will give you a copy of the information in an understandable format, together with an explanation of why we hold and use it.
Once we have all the information necessary to respond to your request, we will usually provide your personal information to you within one month. This timeframe may be extended by up to two months if your request is particularly complex. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If we are made aware that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, or your personal information changes (such as your email address), we will correct, update or remove that personal information as appropriate, where we are notified by you. This can usually be done by you within any personalization options of this website (where applicable), or by contacting us.
This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Please note that while we will honor your request wherever possible, we may need to retain some personal information about you, for example, where we are required to retain records to comply with our legal obligations.
Where we are relying on legitimate interest (or that of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, as described in the "Our use of your personal information for marketing activities" section of this notice.
This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Whenever we process your personal information, by automated means based on your consent, or based on an agreement, you have the right to get a copy of your personal data transferred to you or to another party. This only extends to the personal data you have submitted to us.
In the first instance, please talk to us directly so we can try to resolve any problem or query. You also have the right to contact customerservices@confsync.cn.
We value your privacy and your rights as a data subject and have therefore appointed Prighter Group with its local partners as our privacy representative and your point of contact if you are a resident within the EEA or Turkey. Prighter gives you an easy way to exercise your privacy-related rights (e.g. requests to access or erase personal data). You may contact us via our Prighter representative and make use of your data subject rights.
This section is relevant to individuals located in China. If you are not located in China, this section is not relevant to you and will not impact you.
To make this notice as easy to understand as possible, we have not repeated sections that apply in the same way to all individuals, whether located inside or outside China. Therefore, all sections of this notice apply to you, other than those sections modified or replaced by this section 4.
Reference to law (or laws) within this section is a reference to the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law and associated Chinese privacy regulations.
Section 1.7 does not apply to individuals located within China. Instead, for individuals in China, we will process your personal information in accordance with the following lawful bases:
The paragraph beginning 鈥楳arketing by post' in section 2.8 does not apply to individuals located within China. For individuals in China, we will only send you information by post where we have decided that it is beneficial to you and you have provided us with your consent.
Section 3 does not apply to individuals located within China. This section 4.4 replaces it entirely.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the following rights in respect of the personal information we hold about you. For more information about these rights, or if you wish to exercise them, please contact us.
If we are processing your personal information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent. You are also entitled to restrict or limit how we handle your personal information, unless otherwise stipulated by laws or administrative regulations.
This entitles you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you, unless such access is prevented by law or administrative regulation.
We may need you to provide information that will help us confirm your identity. If we hold personal information about you, in most cases, we will give you a copy of the information in an understandable format, together with an explanation of why we hold and use it.
Once we have all the information necessary to respond to your request, we will provide you with a response to your request in a timely manner.
If we are notified by you that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, or where you indicate to us that it requires supplementing, IOPP will correct, update, complete, supplement or remove that personal information as appropriate. This can usually be done by you within any personalisation options of this website (where applicable), or by contacting us.
This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where it is no longer needed, for example, because the purpose for the processing has been achieved. Please note that whilst we will honour your request wherever possible, we may need to retain some personal information about you, for example, where we are required to retain records to comply with our legal obligations.
If you request that your personal information be transferred to a personal information handler that meets the conditions of the Cyberspace Administration of China, we shall provide a reasonable means for achieving this.
Close relatives of a deceased individual can exercise the rights to access, rectify and delete that decedent's personal information.
In the first instance, please talk to us directly so we can try to resolve any problem or query. Users based in China also have the right to contact the Cyberspace Administration of China if you have any questions about Data Protection. You can contact them at http://www.cac.gov.cn/.