Builders’ Conference is dedicated to protecting and respecting your privacy. We hold, as with most organisations & businesses, personal information about our customers and people who may be interested in our services.
This privacy policy clarifies the category of information & data we process and how that processing may affect you and your rights.
Builders’ Conference will from time to time update this privacy policy. Builders’ Conference will upload a notice of any material changes on our website prior to applying the changes and if & when appropriate we will notify you using any of the contact details we hold for you for this purpose. We do encourage you to review on a regular basis our policies to be informed of how we use your information.
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted via [email protected] and any queries regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent in writing to Data Protection Officer, Builders’ Conference, Crest House, 19 Lewis Road, Sutton Surrey SM1 4BR.
If you wish to make a complaint about how we use your information, please do not hesitate to contact us via the above method and we will do our best to help. If you are still unhappy, you can contact the data protection supervisory authority. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted via website.
Please see below for definitions of terminology used in this Privacy Policy.
Builders’ Conference is a trade body with unincorporated status which as part of its service to its membership, collects or receives your data under this privacy policy as a data controller for the purposes of EU Data Protection Legislation.
Most of the personal data we process about you comes directly from you for example:
and/or
Please note that we may record conversations made with our Researchers, Membership Officer and other members of our teams.
We automatically collect information about you as follows:
We may obtain publicly available professional information about you (as detailed in the data processed section below) from public sector sources, third parties or online publications. This information is used in the following ways:
Below details the information that we collect, the purpose for its collection and use, and the legal basis for the processing. Where legitimate interest is the processing ground, the legitimate interest is provided in the purpose section.
To enhance business development & marketing efficiencies for companies, individual buyers and sellers within construction and related markets.
Legitimate Interest
To provide & communicate with you with regards to Builders’ Conference member services.
We may also record any telephone conversations.
Performance of a membership
To respond to your communications and to retain a record for quality and training purposes.
General:
We may also record any telephone conversations.
Legitimate interest
To ensure network and information security.
Web log server information:
Legitimate interest
Legitimate interest
General:
We may also record any telephone conversations.
Legitimate interest
When you register for an event:
Informing our membership and services strategy to enhance and personalise our member experience and offerings. Informing our marketing strategy to ensure our communications with you are relevant. When provided as part of a request for a trial/demo information is used to match you to the most suitable member of our team.
Legitimate interest
To determine your interest in our products and services.
Legitimate interest
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect special categories of personal data from individuals and we request that you please do not submit special categories of personal data to us.
We share your data in the manner and for the purposes described below:
We may use personal information to let you know about Builders’ Conference membership and services that we believe will be of interest to you. We may contact you by email, post, or telephone or through other communication channels that we think you may find helpful. In all cases, we will respect your preferences for how you would like us to manage marketing activity with you.
To protect privacy rights and to ensure you have control over how we manage marketing with you:
In order to understand your interest in our products and services and/or to ensure that we only send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you we analyse your engagement with our website/platform, content, products and services. For example, your level of engagement or a specific topic of engagement will lead us to infer what is of most interest to you and if you we may offer you similar further content or related services.
When you visit a Builders’ Conference website, Builders’ Conference uses “cookie” technology try to make that experience simple, personalised and meaningful. Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer or any similar device you use to access the internet e.g. smart phone, tablet or other mobile device when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information about your use of the website. A number of cookies Builders’ Conference use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the website and will last for longer.Builders’ Conference use cookies to:
When you visit a Builders’ Conference website, Builders’ Conference uses “cookie” technology try to make that experience simple, personalised and meaningful. Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer or any similar device you use to access the internet e.g. smart phone, tablet or other mobile device when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information about your use of the website. A number of cookies Builders’ Conference use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the website and will last for longer.Builders’ Conference use cookies to:
Some of the cookies used by Builders’ Conference website are set by us. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also understand more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes further useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. Please note however, that by blocking or deleting cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of websites you visit.
Builders’ Conference may need to transfer your personal data outside the EEA to provide the best service possible to our membership and in the most efficient manner. In all instances, we take steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and transfers are limited to countries which are recognised as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangement are in place to protect your privacy rights. To this end:
In the EEA, data subjects have the following rights:
For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the cookies section above.
You can exercise your rights by writing to us at Builders’ Conference, Crest House, 19 Lewis Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4BR or by contacting us via [email protected]
You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority if you have concerns about how we are processing your personal information. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first, although you have a right to contact your supervisory authority at any time.
Some browsers offer a “do not track” (“DNT”) option. For information about Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org.
At this time we do not respond to DNT signals. For information on how to block and opt-out from tracking technologies used on our website, please see the cookies section above.
Please note Builders’ Conference does not control and is not responsible for websites that are referred to or linked from its own websites and that use of your personal information on these websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children. The website/platform is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18. Whilst we make every effort not to target under 18’s, their data can still be collected if they request certain information from the website for educational purposes. Under these circumstances we immediately exclude these individuals from any targeted campaigns if they provide enough information to derive that they are under the age of 18 or a student. The data may still reside on one of our systems.
If you believe that we have received information pertaining to or from persons under the age of 18 please contact us via [email protected]
Compliance with a legal obligation - processing is necessary to ensure we comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Consent – you have given specific consent to the processing of your personal data.
Data Controller – the entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
EEA – the European Economic Area which comprises countries that are members of the European Union and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Identifiable natural person - a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Legitimate Interests - processing is necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests in carrying on, managing and administering our respective organisation effectively and properly (except where our or the third party’s interests are overridden by your own interests, rights and freedoms).
Performance of a contract – processing is necessary to carry out our contractual duties, exercise our contractual rights or otherwise perform our contract with you, or to take steps at your request to enter a contract.
Personal Data - any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing - means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction any
Special categories of personal data - personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, genetic or biometric data processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning vital interests – processing necessary protect an interest which is essential for the life of the data subject or that of another natural person.