Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will explain how the Data Visualization Society (“We") uses the personal data we collect from you when you interact with our organization. It explains what personal information we collect and how we use it.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed and stored.

 

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP addresses: We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

 

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you consent by clicking the button on the website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

The cookies we generally use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure server.  We limit access to the information by our own employees, contractors, site service providers and those individuals who are authorized for the proper handling of such information.  We request that our third party contractors and site service providers follow similar standards of security and confidentiality.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

 

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our service

 

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Data Visualization Society, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Your rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request DVS for copies of your personal data where identifiable by name. We may charge you a fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that DVS correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that DVS complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that DVS erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that DVS restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to DVS’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that DVS transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: hello@datavisualizationsociety.org 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at hello@datavisualizationsociety.org.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and / or the DVS Privacy Policy page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

 

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to operations@datavisualizationsociety.org.