Privacy Policy

Last updated on January 22, 2023

We, at Comtec Group Congresses Organiser Ltd‎. (together with our affiliates, “Comtec Group“, or “we“ or “us“) respect the privacy of the users of our website (the “User” or “you“) and are committed to protecting 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 (the “Site“) or when you participate in any of the online forums, platforms, newsletters or other digital activities carried out by us on the Site (“Activities“). This Privacy Statement also describes your choices regarding the use, access and correction of your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party online resources to which the Site may link, where Comtec Group does not control the content or the privacy practices of such resources.

BY ENTERING THE SITE AND USING OR PARTICIPATING IN ANY ACTIVITIES, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, INCLUDING TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY ACTIVITIES.

BEFORE SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US, PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY TO LEARN ABOUT OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

Personal Information: We receive and store certain information you may provide us or collected by us when you are using the Site or participating in any Activities. This privacy policy includes information that personally identifies you, directly or indirectly, including your name, telephone number, postal address, country, email address, occupation, company and/or organization name, job title, specialty and application/request information (such as questions, inquiries, comments, responses and/or derived correspondences with us), and any other information provided by you when you interact with us. Such information is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “personal information”, and comprises solely of information that is voluntarily provided by you (for example, when you contact us through the “Contact Us” form appearing on the Site, sign up for our newsletters or otherwise voluntarily participate in any Activities). You can choose not to provide us with any personal information, but failure to do so may preclude us from responding to any questions and comments you may refer to us on the Site or may otherwise preclude you from participating in certain Activities. If you subscribe to our newsletter or wish to attend our events, we will send you information, marketing, business and promotional materials via e-mail, SMS messages and/or by other digital means in relation to our future events, we will do so only if you have given us your explicit, free and informed consent for such purposes. We will provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to our mailing list in order to receive direct marketing information, and you may ask us at any time to remove you from the said list.

Log Data: As is true of most websites, our servers automatically collect and record information that the browser on your computer or mobile phone, tablet or similar device you use to access our Site (a “Device“) sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). Log Data may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, referral and exit pages and URL’s, language information, the domain from which you are visiting and additional information in respect to your usage and browsing of the Site. We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you. We also may collect information about various aspects of your use of our Site or your participation in any Activity, such as the dates and time of your login, the content you have viewed, the pages you have visited, the searches and/or registrations you may have made and any clickstream data, for the purposes of administrate and improve the Site or our Activities, for our internal records and for statistical analysis.

Location Data: When you access our Site on a mobile Device (such as a tablet or a mobile phone), we may collect information about your location through location information accessible through your Device. You can change the privacy settings of your Device at any time, in order to turn off the functionality of sharing location information. If you have any queries about the privacy settings of your Device, we suggest you contact the manufacturer of your Device or your mobile service provider for help.

Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. We collect certain information by automated means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons “cookie” technology, subject to our Cookie Policy which is available at https://www.comtecint.com/cookie-policy/. For example, when you visit our website, we place certain cookies on your computer. Please see below our detailed policy on how we use cookies and other tracking technology and your options relating to such use.

Social Media Widgets: Our Site also includes some social media features, such as a Facebook “like” and LinkedIn “follow” buttons. These features may collect your Internet Protocol address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the companies that provide them.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Personal Information:
We may use your personal information for the following general purposes (under the legal basis of your consent, performance of a contract and our legitimate interests, as described in Sec. 3 below):
-to communicate with you in general, including for the purpose of providing you information about our products and services or responding to your questions and comments;
-to measure interest in and improve our Site and/or Activities;
-to enable some of our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, researching and developing or improving new Activities, enhancing our Site, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns relating to our products and services;
-subject to applicable law, to send you marketing information that we believe may be of interest to you, regarding our products and services. You may choose not to receive such information and opt-out of such future communications. All such communications sent to you will contain the instructions for opting-out;
-to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities or handle and resolve legal disputes, for regulatory purposes, to enforce this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, or as we may otherwise believe to be necessary or appropriate:
(i) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; and (ii) to protect our rights, properties or interests; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

Non-Personal Information:
Log Data and other non-personal information that we gather and collect is used mainly for the purpose of administering the Site; analysing trends in the aggregate in the use of our Site (for instance, we may use such information to create user predicted preferences and social characteristics); enhancing user experience on our Site (for instance, we may use such information to determine which areas of our Site are more popular than others), estimating and reporting total audience size and traffic; for purposes of ad optimisation (i.e., tailoring, targeting, analysing, managing and optimising of our ads), investigating, detecting, preventing or otherwise taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse; and providing analytics and reporting with respect to the use of the Site.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
Our collection and processing of Personal Information is based on the following:

Consent & performance of a contract – need to carry out the above processing of information, which is in anticipation of entering into commercial engagements or as part of the performance of existing engagements with you or the organization you work for, and your consent under this Privacy Policy.
Consent – to the extent that we use the personal information for advertising or promotional activities, we will request your specific, freely-given, unbundled, informed and separate consent to such uses.
Legitimate interest – to the extent that we use the personal information to improve this Site or for analysing statistics, the basis for collection of data is our legitimate interest to conduct such improvements and analysis.

WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Personal Information
We are committed to protecting your privacy and we will not share your personal information collected from your use of the Site with others, except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may share your personal information under the following circumstances:
When we have your consent to share such personal information;
In the course of operating our business, it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to others such as our affiliates (i.e., any company controlled by us, controlling or under common control with us), service providers, contractors and select vendors so that we can operate our business. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of such personal information.
We may share your personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to enforce our legal rights, to defend against legal claims or in such circumstances where, in our judgment, a disclosure is necessary or appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
We may share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, detect, prevent or otherwise take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our various terms of service or as otherwise required by applicable law.
As we continue to develop our business, we may sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, personal information collected from users is generally one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred personal information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy or subsequent policies which may be adopted in its stead.
In the event of sale or transfer, in whole or in part, of any member of the Comtecgroup shares or assets, change of control and in cases of mergers or in case of negotiations with respect to the foregoing;
Other than as described above, any other transfer of your personal information to third parties will be subject to your consent.
Public Information:
We may share information that you voluntarily make public, including information that you post on any blogs, message boards, chat rooms or other similar forums, whether or not such forums are owned by Comtecgroup. Since such public information can be accessed by others and used by any member of the public, such use by third parties is beyond our control. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, please contact us at privacy@comtecint.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
We may also display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our Site in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at privacy@comtecint.com.
Non-Personal Information:
We may share aggregated or anonymous information or statistics (which in any event does not contain any of your personal information) with third parties, such as our existing or potential agents, investors, affiliates, vendors, service providers and other business partners. We will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at our Site to any third parties for their own direct marketing use unless we provide clear notice to you and obtain your explicit consent for your data to be shared in this manner.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies:
We collect certain information by automated means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons “cookie” technology. For example, when you visit our website, we place cookies on your computer.
Cookies (sometimes referred to as browser cookies) are small packets of data that a website stores on your Device’s hard drive allowing your Internet browser to save and retrieve information about your visit to the website. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your Internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your Device until you delete them) to help us collect non-personal information about various aspects of your use of our Site or your participation in any of the Activities, and to enhance your experience using the Site. Cookies can also help enable the detection of certain kinds of fraud. If you do not want us to place a cookie on your device’s hard drive, you may be able to turn that feature off on your device. Please consult your Internet browser’s documentation for information on how to do this and how to delete persistent cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from us, the Site may not function properly.
Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages, emails and social posts that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages, open or click an email, or share a post on social media, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action. These tools allow us to measure responses to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions.
Some web browsers may transmit Do Not Track signals to websites with which the browser communicates, telling the websites not to follow its online movements. Because of differences in how browsers interpret this feature, it is not always clear whether Users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they are even aware of them. Therefore, our Site currently does respond to such Do Not Track signals.
Analytics and Remarketing Tools:
We may use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics, Marketo and CrazyEgg) to analyse your use of the Site, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyse performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to the Site and mobile and Internet usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyse and provide us this data. We do not have access or control over the cookies placed by these analytics providers. When you access and use the Site, your Log Data and other non-personal information may be processed by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. More information about the analytics tools we use can be found in these links:
For Google Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by updating your Internet browser’s ad settings, at https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated?hl=en.
For CrazyEgg – https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy. You can also opt out of CrazyEgg collecting and storing your data at any time by following the instructions in following link: https://www.crazyegg.com/opt-out
We may also use third-party remarketing services (including Google Remarketing and Marketo) to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our Site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who have visited our Site or participating in any Activity (for example sign-up to receive our newsletters). These third-party remarketing service providers use cookies to serve ads based on a past visit to the Site. Any data collected by such third-party remarketing service providers will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of such third party remarketing services provider. More information about the remarketing tools we use can be found in these links:
For Google Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by updating your Internet browser’s ad settings, at https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated?hl=en.
For Marketo – http://legal.marketo.com/privacy.
General Opt Out Option. In addition to the opt out options mentioned above, you may also opt out of any of our third-party’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page, located at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. When personal information is transferred over the Internet, we encrypt it using Transfer Layer Security (TLS) encryption technology or similar technology. We may also use cloud service providers for our servers and/or storage, and in such cases, we rely on the security measures taken by the cloud service provider for the physical security, the integrity, redundancy and the data protection of the data which relates your personal information.
You should note, however, that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the internet and that there is also some risk that others could find a way to thwart our and/or the cloud service provider’s security systems, and that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share such information, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. In particular, e-mails sent to us may not be secure, and you should, therefore, take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.
We use third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run our Activities. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of your personal information.

ACCESSING AND MODIFYING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES
If you have provided us with any personal information, you may access, remove, review, and/or make changes to the same by contacting us at privacy@comtecint.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
In addition, you may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of any of our marketing e-mails. Subject to applicable law, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely manner. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our subscription databases.

EXTERNAL SITES
The Site may contain links to websites operated by third parties (“External Sites”). Be sure to read the privacy policies, supplemental notices, and settings of all websites or platforms that you visit so you can understand their privacy practices and your options. These External Sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these External Sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome and feedback about these sites.

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.

DATA RETENTION
We store Personal Information if it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which the information has been collected. This means that we delete your personal information when such information is no longer necessary. Statistics and analysis which have been anonymised may be saved thereafter.
We may retain all the information we collect or information provided to us, including personal information, for as long as required for the provision of our services and/or the Site. In addition, we may also retain such information for as long as required to comply with our legal or business requirements or obligations, to resolve disputes and to enforce our terms and conditions, all as permitted under any applicable laws.

DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
You may at any time request a review, rectification and/or the erasure of your personal information. Please note however that deletion could mean that we will not be able to process your applications / inquiries / requests and/or to provide you any services and/or you may not be able to use parts of the Site. You also have the right to request a copy of your personal information from our records and/or to request a limitation of the use of your personal information or the termination of use of your personal information.
If you wish to review, modify or delete your personal information, you can do so by sending us an e-mail with your request to: privacy@comtecint.com, and we will make reasonable efforts to do so within a reasonable period of time, and pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.
Note that unless you instruct us otherwise, we may retain and use your personal information for as long as reasonably required for the purposes of which such personal information was collected, including without limitation, for future analytics and analysis, comply with our legal or business requirements or obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our terms and conditions, all as permitted under any applicable privacy laws.
Aggregate and/or anonymous information derived from your use of the Site, may remain on our servers indefinitely

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.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
Please be aware that information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of the Site may be processed and transferred all countries in which Comtec Group has offices and operations and be subject to applicable law. This information may also be processed by staff working for us or for one of our suppliers. The privacy and data protection laws in such countries may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using our Site, or by providing us with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in countries.
For the above purposes, personal information may be transferred to recipients in countries around the world (which may be located outside the EU/EEA, European Economic Area) which in some cases may have a lower level of protection than that within the EU/EEA. When transferring personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, to jurisdictions that did not receive an adequacy decision by the European Commission, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure a sufficient level of protection for your personal information. The standard contractual clauses can be found via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/transfer/index_en.htm.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents who have an established business relationship with Comtec Group may choose to opt out of our sharing their personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and (1) you wish to opt out; or (2) you wish to request certain information regarding our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for the direct marketing purposes, please send an e-mail to privacy@comtecint.com with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line or write to us at:
Rothschild Boulevard P.O. Box 68
6578501 Tel Aviv, Israel

GOVERNING LAW
This Privacy Policy is construed in accordance with and shall be governed by the substantive laws of the state of Israel, without regards to principles of conflicts of laws thereof. Any disagreement or dispute arising under, in connection with, or in relation to this Privacy Policy shall be resolved exclusively by the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

QUESTIONS
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or do not feel that your concerns have been addressed, please direct your questions at: privacy@comtecint.com.
If you are a resident of the EU/EEA, and have a complaint regarding the processing of your personal information by Comtec Group you are entitled to report such dissatisfaction to the applicable supervisory authority in your country of residence.