We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you have any questions, please email us at info@backnetwork.com and we will do our best to answer your questions. We are registered to collect personal data with the UK Information Commissioner.
About backnetwork.com
backnetwork is an online networking facility for people attending events. By creating an account and becoming a Subscriber, you will be able to set up an individual profile providing your contact details, business information, photographs and blogs.
Part of the Subscription experience necessarily involves the use, processing and display of some of your personal information on the backnetwork Website, to enable our Subscribers to identify each other and expand their contacts network. It may also be accessible by Visitors. Subscribers can change their profile information at any time and can control how other Subscribers and users of the service communicate with them.
This privacy policy explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you. By using the backnetwork Website and any services we offer via it, you are agreeing to be bound by this policy in respect of the information collected about you.
Information collection
We collect information from our users at several different points on the backnetwork Website.
Personal information collected by us will not be sold or passed on to any other business or organisation. The only exception to this is where we are legally obliged to do so to by a court order or other legal process.
We may collect the following personal information from you:
- Name, address, email address and other contact details;
- Other personal data including but not limited to: photographs of you, first names, personal and business interests and sectors, gender, age, education and occupation, preferences, objectives, conferences attended, friends/associates subscribing to the backnetwork Website, Subscription history, comments and other text posted by you in online forums or blogs;
- (only where applicable) credit card number, expiry date, security code and name on card when making a purchase. Please note that we do not retain any of your financial details for any longer than is needed in order to process your payment and all payment systems are secure;
- Non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the backnetwork Website.
Although it is not always compulsory to give us all of this information, if you do not then we may not be able to provide you with the full range of services the backnetwork Website has to offer.
We will use this information as follows:
- To register you as a Subscriber of the backnetwork Website;
- To facilitate your use of the backnetwork Website as reasonably necessary;
- To process orders or applications submitted by you;
- To assist Users in finding and communicating with each other;
- From time to time we may send you information about our goods and services which we think may be of interest to you. You can tell us to stop this at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link that you will always find in email communications from us or sending an e-mail to info@backnetwork.com.
- To verify your identity where necessary;
- When carrying out marketing analysis and making general improvements to the backnetwork Website;
- To obtain your views or comments on the services we provide;
- To contact the winners of any competitions or special offers and to help us plan other promotional activity;
- To manage the backnetwork Website, track usage and improve our services;
- To display on the backnetwork Website in order to facilitate user interaction in the backnetwork.com social networking community;
- Email addresses may be used for the purposes of inviting your contacts to join backnetwork.com, to add you to your contacts� networks, and to send notifications related to our services. You may be able to communicate with other Subscribers in your online network without disclosing your email address.
- Your email address may also be used by us to send you updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. You may choose not to receive email of this type by changing your account settings.
- To facilitate searching and finding contacts and acquaintances, we allow Users to search for other Subscribers using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.
- To enter you into a competition, sweepstake or contest.
- Non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to Subscribers. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
- In addition, non-personally-identifiable and/or publicly viewable information may be passed onto relevant events organisers for their standard business purposes.
- If you have submitted any CVs or personal resumes, we may pass these onto relevant third parties for the purposes of review and/or distribution to potential employers.
Sharing your data with third parties
We may transfer personal information to carefully selected promotional partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from but only if you have given us prior specific permission to do so. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply. Users who no longer wish to receive third party promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email, or email us at info@backnetwork.com.
Communications to Non-Subscribers
As mentioned above, our Subscribers can invite friends and contacts to subscribe to the backnetwork Website by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. We store the email addresses that Subscribers provide so that the respondents may be added to your contacts list, and also to send reminders of the invitations. We do not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from us may request the removal of their information from our database at any time.
Our Subscribers may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
You may prefer to prevent our email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by changing your account settings or by contacting us at info@backnetwork.com.
Log files
Like most standard web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
When you visit the backnetwork Website we may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means that they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Passwords and credit card numbers are not stored in cookies. A cookie helps you get the best out of the backnetwork Website and helps us to provide you with a more customised service. We use cookies for the following purposes:
- we use cookies so that you do not have to re-enter your details each time you visit a website;
- we use cookies to track how the backnetwork Website is used and to improve and update our content
You can block or erase cookies from your computer if you want to (your browser's help screen or manual should tell you how to do this), but certain parts of the backnetwork Website may be reliant on the use of cookies to operate correctly and may not work correctly if you set your browser not to accept cookies.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on the backnetwork Website may be delivered to users by us or one of our web advertising partners. Our web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by us and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Exceptions
Other than as set out above, we will not share the information we collect with anyone outside of Madgex Limited or our subcontractors as is necessary for the above purposes without your specific permission, except in the following instances:
- We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, but we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
- As necessary to enforce our User Agreement or to protect our rights.
- To protect the safety of Subscribers of the public and users of our services.
- As required by law to do so (for example, if required to do so by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime).
Childrens' Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the backnetwork Website from persons under 14 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 14. If you are under 14 years of age, then please do not use or access the backnetwork Website at any time or in any manner. If we find out that personally identifiable information of anyone under 14 years of age has been collected without verified parental consent, then we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
Use of forums or chat rooms
The backnetwork Website may include chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups on which you can post information. Any information that you post in these areas becomes public information and you should always be careful when deciding to disclose your personal details as part of that information. We cannot take any responsibility for the use by third parties of information that you decide to publish in this way. Additional terms of use may apply to your use of these facilities as displayed on the backnetwork Website from time to time.
Linking to third party websites
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if you access them using links from the backnetwork Website and recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.
In addition, if you linked to the backnetwork Website from a third party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.
Security
We have implemented technology and policies to safeguard your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use.
Please let us know if you change your details:
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, please contact us at any time by emailing info@backnetwork.com.
In addition, if you no longer wish to be a Subscriber, we provide a way to delete/deactivate or hide Users' personally identifiable information. This can usually be done within the website or by emailinginfo@backnetwork.com.
Transferring your information outside of Europe
As part of the services offered to you through the backnetwork Website, the information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside of the European Union ("EU"). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EU. We also share information between our web developers and advisors, which are located in countries worldwide. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this privacy policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
Contact us:
If at any time you would like to contact us with your views about our privacy practices, or with any enquiry relating to your personal information, you can do so by sending an e-mail to us at info@Backnetwork.com or by post at Madgex Limited at Suite One, Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1EB.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. You will be bound by any minor changes to the policy when you use the backnetwork Website after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on the backnetwork Website for 30 days.
Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
This Privacy Policy is written pursuant to and governed by English law. Any dispute arising hereunder shall be resolved under the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Madgex Limited, October 2006