Data Collection and Usage
Information that we collect directly from you or from the following sources:
- Third-party referrals
- Information that you have provided in using our social media sites, applications, and Internet sites
- Personal information, such as name and title, contact details, employing agency or organization name, and email address.
- Communications with you.
- Information that you provide when posting content on social media sites.
- Facilitating the efforts of IIR through communication with contacts (e.g., to communicate details of events or webinars).
- Internal analysis and research to help us improve our services.
- Administering our websites, investigating any complaints, and providing customer service.
- Monitoring social media content to manage relations with our clients and to conduct our services.
- It is necessary for performing our obligations and efforts under our contracts (including grants and cooperative agreements) and grant obligations with our clients.
- It is necessary for compliance with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- We have a legitimate business interest to:
- Manage and promote our services and offered products, events, information, etc.
- Provide and improve our services.
- Ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
- We have obtained your consent to collect and use your information. When you have consented to the collection of your PII, you have the right to withdraw your consent by notifying IIR’s Data Protection Office.
Categories of information that we may collect about you include:
- Information that you provide us when registering your attendance, such as name, email address, profile information, job title, and any requested individual accommodation.
- Information collected when we record one of our events.
- Enabling you to attend or access online our events.
- Facilitating the smooth running of events.
- Analyzing attendee interests in and interactions with the event through voluntarily authorized and provided geolocation data (such as “Find an event near me”).
- Marketing our events through the use of video.
- Providing access to audio and/or video recordings (e.g., “replays”) of certain event sessions to attendees and online through our websites or social media sites.
- It is necessary for performing our obligations and efforts under our contracts (including grants and cooperative agreements) and grant obligations with our clients.
- It is necessary for compliance with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- We have a legitimate business interest to:
- Manage and promote our services, programs, etc., being offered.
- Operate, manage, monitor, and evaluate our events.
- Provide and improve our services.
- Collect relevant information for hospitality and health and safety purposes.
- Manage attendance or participation in events or programs available to limited audiences (such as “open to sworn law enforcement personnel only”).
Information that we collect directly from you or from the following sources:
- Our websites (member-based, restricted-access, and public)
- Our applications (“apps”)
- IIR-managed Web pages or client pages on social media sites
Categories of information that we may collect about you include:
- It is necessary for performing our obligations and efforts under our contracts (including grants and cooperative agreements) and grant obligations with our clients.
- It is necessary for compliance with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- We have a legitimate business interest to:
- Information that you provide when you enter information on our website, an IIR-managed client website, social media sites, or through our apps, such as when you provide contact details or answer online questionnaires or feedback forms.
- Information that you provide when you subscribe to email newsletters or event announcements, such as name, email address, and job title.
- Information that you provide when registering for an online or user account, including name, organization or personal email address, job title, organization, organization’s physical address, direct telephone number, photograph, and biographical details.
- When you have an online or user account, information such as login and similar credentials and information about use and preferences for these services.
- Enabling you to access your online accounts across devices.
- Personalizing the experience of our websites, IIR Web pages, IIR-managed client pages, and apps.
- Administering our websites and/or apps, including enforcing audience or user access restrictions.
- Enabling peer networking opportunities based on your background and experience.
- Providing better, more customized client service.
- Investigating any complaints.
- Monitoring social media content to meet client expectations.
- It is necessary for performing our obligations or exercising our efforts under our contracts (including grants and cooperative agreements) with our clients.
- It is necessary for compliance with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- We have a legitimate interest to:
- Promote our services through our websites and through social media tools.
- Monitor, investigate, and report any attempts to breach the security of our websites, social media sites, or apps.
- Provide and improve our services, including, but not limited to, our apps.
- Operate our services and business.
- We have your consent (where required) to use your information. After you have consented to the collection of your PII, you have the right to withdraw your consent by notifying IIR’s Data Protection Office.
Categories of information that we collect about you include:
- Information captured in our Web logs—such as device information (e.g., device brand and model, screen dimensions), unique identification numbers (e.g., IP address and device ID), and browser information (e.g., URL, browser type, pages visited, date/time of access)—geolocation and other device-specific information, and Internet connection information.
- Information captured through IIR’s use of cookies, which may be utilized to enhance resources. In general, IIR websites do not utilize cookies or other methods other than to analyze usage patterns to improve our services and users’ experiences. If we are using cookies or any other methods for any other purpose, you will be asked to consent to that use.
- Personalizing the experience of our managed websites, social media pages, and apps.
- Administering our managed websites, social media pages, and apps.
- Performing statistical, usage, and trend analyses to improve the user experience and the performance of our managed websites, social media pages, and apps.
- Providing better, more customized client service.
- Investigating any complaints.
- It is necessary for compliance with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- It is necessary for performing our obligations or managing our efforts under our contracts (including grants and cooperative agreements) with our clients.
- We have a legitimate interest to:
- Monitor, investigate, and report any attempts to breach the security of our websites.
- Improve the performance and user experience of our websites.
- Customize our clients’ experience.