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We Value Your Privacy
IDC (hereinafter as “we” or “IDC”) is committed to conducting its business in
line with best personal data protection practices. Personal data refers to any
information that identifies you or could be used to identify you. This Privacy
Policy provides you with transparent information about how IDC, as a data
controller, collects, processes, shares, and otherwise uses your personal data
and about your related rights.
Please note that this Privacy Policy includes European Union and European
Economic Area (hereinafter together as “EU”) and United Kingdom specific
provisions relating to data subjects’ rights and legal bases which only apply to
you if the GDPR or the UK GDPR applies to the processing of your personal data,
for example, if you attend an IDC event organized in the EU territory. These
provisions include Sections: 1.2 – 1.3, 3.2 – 3.3, 4, 6, 7.3 – 7.4 and 8.2 –
8.4.
Specifically, please note that:
* We do not report usage or user information to any third party (except in
connection with third party commissioned research and, in such case, you
expressly consent to the disclosure of such information, or as otherwise
described in this Privacy Policy);
* We do not accept any advertisements on our website and therefore have no
information reporting requirements to any third party; and/or
* We do not share your personal data with any third parties, except as
described in this Privacy Policy or required by the applicable law.
If you are a Californian resident, please refer to our CCPA statement for
further details about your rights.
1. Who Processes Your Data?
1. The controller of your personal data is IDC. A full list of IDC
affiliates is available here. Each affiliate acts as a data controller
with respect to data collected, processed, used, and stored as a part
of services and activities conducted by an IDC affiliate. Certain
services and activities may be conducted by several IDC affiliates.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to processing of your personal data
by individual IDC affiliates that have published their own
country-specific Privacy Policies available on the relevant IDC
affiliates’ websites.
2. Within the meaning of Article 4 (16) of the GDPR, IDC’s main
establishment in the EU is in the Czech Republic.
3. Where required, IDC has designated a representative in the EU:
IDC CEMA s.r.o.
Malé náměstí 459/11
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
4. For all matters related to privacy and the collection, processing, use
and storage of your personal data, please contact IDC’s Privacy
Compliance Officer at privacy@idc.com.
For more information about IDC, please refer to here.
2. What Data Do We Collect, Process, Use, and Store When Providing Our
Products and Services?
1. Depending on the product or/and service involved, IDC may collect
various data types for distinct purposes. Below, you will find more
information on the data collected, processed, used, and stored related
to the products and services IDC provides:
1. Syndicated Research and Data Products: IDC may use your name and
email address, business phone number, information about your
organization, your job title, and other information provided by you
at the time of registering your user account on the IDC website to
deliver the Syndicated Research services and/or Data Products
ordered by you or your organization as part of a corporate account.
We may also use your contact details to communicate with you when
producing reports and other Syndicated Research services and Data
Products. In addition, we may log your IP address for security
purposes.
In order to enhance our services and in particular, to improve user
experience, prevent misuse of IDC services and user accounts, or to
provide feedback and usage statistics to our clients, we may track
your usage of our services (such as search history). Corporate
administrators (hereinafter as "Corporate Administrators") at our
client organizations have access to usage statistics for their
organization’s account base. If your user account, including
personal data, is part of a corporate account, then a Corporate
Administrator at your organization may request your user data
containing personal data and usage information. Corporate
Administrators can access user information only for individuals
within their organization’s corporate profile.
2. Custom Solution Services: IDC may use your name and email address,
business phone number, information about your organization, your
job title, and other information shared by you or your
organization, if required due to the nature of the Custom Solution
project, to provide Custom Solution Services (e.g. consulting and
advisory services) ordered by you or your organization.
3. Events Organization: When organizing conferences, webcasts,
networking events, and other events, we may collect the name, email
address, job title, company, and business phone number of each
participant during the registration process. Alternatively, event
participants may be asked to register through the idc.com general
registration form as described in Section 2.1(a) above. In
addition, we may collect details pertaining to professional
profiles, including photos and information from social media
profiles, as well as the names and email addresses of contacts from
event partners (including sponsors). We may also collect any
feedback or information that participants, speakers, and/or
partners have volunteered to provide to us via questionnaires
submitted prior to, during or after events. We will use such data
to organize and market such events, manage event participation, and
present details about speakers and sponsors in the programs and/or
promotional materials of such events, as well as on our website and
via social media. We may share information on participants and
speakers other than their contact details with our event partners,
as listed on the event website, to prepare, improve, and organize
the event, including the collection and review of event statistics,
and to ensure that the event's content is relevant to and
customized for the event audience.
Some public IDC events may be recorded by means of photographs,
audio recordings, and/or videos. Such photographs and recordings
may subsequently appear on the respective event website, other
relevant website, on social media, in the press, or in promotional
materials (such as IDC promotional videos or program guides). All
events to be thus documented will be clearly indicated as such. IDC
may separately seek your consent prior to recording if you are to
feature predominantly in the planned recording (e.g. speakers and
participants in interviews).
Based on participants' and speakers’ consent, we may share their
contact details with our event partners, as listed on the event
website, for follow-up communication, including marketing. We may
ask you for such consent during your event registration and/or
during the course of the event. The consent you grant to IDC to
share your contact details with event partners is unrelated to any
consent that you may grant directly to any event partner during
event networking, including by allowing an event partner to scan
your electronic business card.
In addition, we may collaborate with our sister company, Foundry,
to produce events. If that is the case, your personal data may also
be collected and processed by Foundry as an independent controller
in accordance with Foundry’s privacy policy.
If you request us to arrange additional event-related services for
you, such as booking accommodation and/or flight tickets, we will
also use your personal data to secure the requested arrangements.
Networking tools at events: IDC may provide specific tools during
the event to enhance your networking opportunities — in particular,
a networking application and electronic business cards, as
described below.
Mobile application: An event mobile app may include your name,
company, and job title (along with your photo, profile, and social
media information, as provided by you) and may be visible to all
other event participants. Opting for "private mode” will ensure
that your name and contact details do not appear in the
application.
Electronic business cards: We may provide you with electronic
business cards. These are incorporated, for instance, in your event
badge and contain your name, email address, business phone number,
job title, and company. You may provide such contact details to
event partners by allowing them to scan your electronic business
card. By allowing an event partner to scan your electronic business
card, you provide your consent to this event partner to use your
contact details, as included in the electronic business card, for
any follow-up communication, including marketing communication on a
one-time basis. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of the relevant
event partner for more details about the processing of your
personal data by the given event partner and your rights vis-à-vis
this event partner.
4. Awards and Competitions: When organizing awards or competitions, we
may collect the name, email address, job title, company, and other
details provided by each participant in the application form.
Alternatively, such details may also be obtained from third parties
who nominate the respective participant via a specific nomination
form, in which case the nominating person has informed the
participant and obtained necessary permissions to share the
participant’s personal data with IDC.
We will use such data to organize the awards or competitions and
manage participation. We may share information on participants with
members of our jury, which may consist of both internal and
external parties bound by a confidentiality obligation, to evaluate
applications and select winners of all award/competition
categories.
Based on participants’ consent, we may share their contact details
with the partners of the awards or competitions, as listed on the
respective websites, for follow-up communication, including
marketing. We may ask you for such consent during your registration
and/or while interacting with you during the award or competition
process.
5. Ancillary Services: To provide services related to updates on
industry developments, IDC may use your name and email address to
deliver these updates to you or your organization. Such services
may include newsletters, market updates, market snapshots, and
other value-added services or features provided by IDC, whether for
remuneration or free of charge.
Irrespective of whether IDC provides its services to you or your
organization, we may also process your name and email address and
personal data that you provide to us when we ask for your insight
in relation to a specific industry or topic (e.g. when you fill out
a survey form that we sent to you).
2. In addition, regardless of the product and/or service involved, IDC may
also process your name and email address, business phone number,
information about your organization, and your job title for the purpose
of management of business relationship with you or your organization.
3. IDC does not process any special categories of personal data (as
defined under the GDPR and the UK GDPR).
3. For How Long Do We Store Your Data?
1. We will store your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide
you with the products and/or services requested by you or your
organization; for as long as is reasonably required to store such
information for our lawful business purposes, such as exercising our
legal rights, or for as long as we are legally obligated to store such
information.
2. We will store photographs and video and audio recordings from each
event for a period of 3 years from the end of the respective event.
3. If you consent to us collecting, processing, using, and storing your
personal data, we will do so for the duration of such consent — in
other words, until such consent expires or is withdrawn. You have the
right to withdraw your consent at any time. For more details on the
withdrawal of your consent, please see the Your Rights section below.
4. On What Legal Basis Do We Process, Use, and Store Your Data?
1. We process, use, and store your data primarily to perform our
obligations under the contracts we have concluded with you or your
organization.
2. In certain instances, we may also process your personal data based on
our legitimate interests. IDC’s legitimate interests include offering
and delivering our products and services to business customers,
enhancing our customer base, management of the customer relationships,
exchanging professional knowledge about the industry, exercising our
legal rights, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the
security and operability of our network and services.
3. In specific cases, we process your data based on consent.
5. Cookies; web analytics
We may use cookies and other tools allowing us to track and/or analyze user
behavior on our websites. For more information about our use of such tools,
please refer to the IDC Cookie Policy.
6. Marketing
1. We may contact you to inform you about IDC news, services, features,
and special offers and to invite you to our events that we believe may
be of interest to you, including the provision of marketing
communication within the limits prescribed by law. Where required, we
will request your consent prior to sending any such communication.
2. Your marketing communication preferences may be changed at any time. If
you would like to unsubscribe from receiving marketing emails, please
follow the "unsubscribe" link and/or instructions which are placed at
the foot of every IDC email.
3. Please note, however, that we may occasionally send you important
information (including via email) about the IDC services you are using
or have used, including changes to applicable terms and conditions,
and/or other communication or notifications, as may be required to
fulfil our legal and contractual obligations. Such communication is not
affected by your marketing communication preferences.
7. How Do We Secure Your Data When It Is Collected, Processed, Used, and
Stored by Our Suppliers and Affiliates?
1. Our affiliates, as listed here, working with us or on our behalf for
the purposes described in this Privacy Policy may have access to your
personal data. We may also share your personal data with non-affiliated
third parties as and when necessary:
* To comply with legal processes;
* To enforce or defend the legal rights of IDC in connection with
corporate restructuring, such as a merger or business acquisition,
or in connection with an insolvency situation;
* To prevent fraud or imminent harm; and/or
* To ensure the security and operability of our network and services.
2. We share your data with our trusted business partners, who process your
data as our vendors and data processors on our behalf and pursuant to
our instructions. We strive to select our vendors carefully and ensure
they are able to provide adequate data protection and security
safeguards.
3. When such processors reside in the EU (or the UK), we comply with
Article 28 of the GDPR (or the UK GDPR, as applicable). If such
processors reside outside of the European Economic Area or the United
Kingdom, all data transfers are conducted in accordance with Chapter V.
of GDPR (or the UK GDPR, as applicable) — in particular, in accordance
with adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission or standard
contractual clauses (Model Clauses), as applicable.
4. In relation to the above, we may share your data with the following
third parties:
* Suppliers that provide IT support to IDC;
* Suppliers that support our marketing activities;
* Other professional services providers.
8. What Are Your Rights?
1. If you have any questions or concerns about our website and/or the
handling of your personal data, and/or you wish to correct, amend, or
delete that information where you believe that it is inaccurate, please
contact us at any time via the contact details provided in the Section
1 of this Privacy Policy.
2. As a data subject under GDPR or UK GDPR, you have the following rights:
1. The Right to Access: Upon your request, we will provide you with
access to the personal data on you that we process, and we will
send you a copy of that data.
2. The Right to Receive Information: You may contact us at any time
with a request to receive more information regarding the following:
* the purposes for which we use your personal data;
* how we categorize your personal data;
* the recipients of your personal data;
* the length of time we store your personal data; and
* your rights as a data subject.
3. The Right to Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of
your personal data from us in a structured and commonly used
machine-readable format. You may also request us to transfer such
data to another data controller.
4. The Right to Erasure: You may request us to erase your personal
data from our records.
5. The Right to Rectification: If you discover that any of the data we
possess about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request to
have such data amended via the contact information provided in
Section 1 of this Privacy Policy.
6. The Right to the Restriction of Use: You may ask us to restrict our
use of your personal data so that we can only use your personal
data in ways stipulated by you. If you have obtained the right to
restrict the use of your personal data, you will be informed
beforehand should this right become invalid for any reason.
7. The Right to Object: In cases in which we rely on our legitimate
interest to use your personal data, we must consider and
acknowledge the interests and rights that you have under data
protection law. Your privacy rights are always protected by
appropriate safeguards and balanced with your freedoms and other
rights. You have the right to submit an objection at any time to
our use of your personal data based on our legitimate interest.
8. The Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your
consent at any time to our use of your personal data. Please note
that a withdrawal of your consent does not affect the legality of
the use of your personal data prior to your consent being
withdrawn.
3. To exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, please contact us
through the contact information provided in Section 1 of this Privacy
Policy.
4. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the
competent Data Protection Authority if you believe your rights
regarding our use of your personal data have been violated.
1. For all processing of personal data carried out by IDC subject to
the GDPR, the competent Data Protection Authority is the Czech
Office for the Protection of Personal Data (in Czech: Úřad pro
ochranu osobních údajů), with registered office at Pplk. Sochora
27, 170 00 Praha 7, Czech Republic, as the lead Data Protection
Authority of IDC.
2. For all processing of personal data carried out by IDC subject to
the UK GDPR, the competent Data Protection Authority is the
Information Commissioner's Office, with registered office at
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF, United Kingdom.
9. Data Security
1. IDC strives to ensure its security measures are in line with the
industry’s best practices to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of
the information in our possession. We strive to ensure the ongoing
confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of our
processing systems and services and will aim to restore the
availability of personal data and access thereto in a timely manner in
the event of a physical or technical incident. We employ various
security measures to protect the information we collect, as appropriate
to the type of information, including encryption, firewalls, and access
controls. IDC further ensures that all individuals who have access to
your data and are involved in the collection, processing, use, and/or
storage thereof are bound by appropriate confidentiality obligations
and have appropriate training.
2. You are responsible for keeping confidential any passwords that we give
you (or you choose) that enable you to access certain parts of our
website. For security reasons, such passwords must not be shared with
anyone.
10. Links to Other Sites
1. We may provide references and/or links to other companies,
organizations, and/or public institutions on our website that enable
you to access their websites directly from ours. The websites of these
entities are governed by the entities' own privacy policies. Please
note that we are not responsible for the content of such websites and
cannot accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with
such third parties' use of your personal data. If you have any queries
concerning the way your personal data is processed, used, or stored by
such entities, we recommend referring to the privacy policies on the
relevant websites.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
1. We may periodically modify the provisions of this Privacy Policy and
encourage you to review it from time to time in order to stay up to
date with the most recent developments in the area of the protection of
your personal data. In the event of significant changes, we may also
choose to notify you via email should we have your email address in our
records.
2. Updated versions of this Privacy Policy will be published on our
website.
3. This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 3, 2023.
12. Questions?
For all matters related to privacy and the collection, processing, use and
storage of your personal data, please contact IDC’s Privacy Compliance
Officer at privacy@idc.com.
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