Privacy policy

Venture Marketing Group is a media company that owns and operates events, magazines and websites.

This privacy policy governs the collection and use of personal information by Venture Marketing Group. For more information about Venture Marketing Group please see: www.venturemarketinggroup.co.uk.

This website is owned and managed by Venture Marketing Group.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains the types of personal information we collect, how we use that information, who we share it with, how we protect that information, and your legal rights in relation to your information. By accessing or browsing our websites, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this privacy policy in its entirety. If you do not agree with the practices described in this policy, you should not use this website.

Who we are

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, the data controller is Venture Marketing Group Ltd of 2nd floor, 2 – 4 St George’s Road, London, SW19 4DP.

Information covered by this policy

When you access and browse our websites (including when you register for an event or fill in forms on our websites) and when you correspond with us by phone or email or other electronic means, you may give us information about yourself. The information you give us may include, but not be limited to, your name, payment processing information, postal address, email address, landline and/or mobile telephone number, delivery details, payment processing information, dietary and access requirements and information about your employment (including your job title, responsibilities and employer’s details) as well as other personal information.

Collection of personal information

We may collect information about you from different sources detailed below.

Information you give us:

Information we collect about you:

With regards to each of your visits to our website(s), we may also use cookies and other technologies to automatically collect the following information:

Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating systems and platform; and information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstreams to, on and from our websites, products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call us.

Information we receive and collect from other sources:

We may receive information about you from other websites operated by Venture Marketing Group or from the other services that we provide. We also work closely with third parties such as payment processors and app providers and may receive information about you from them. We may also collect information about you from publicly available sources, including publicly available content on social media.

Cookies

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the websites and also allows us to improve our websites.

MANAGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES:

To manage the third-party cookies served on our site, please click here and visit the relevant websites listed here:

– Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
– Adobe Analytics: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/analytics.html#1
– Sizmek: http://www.sizmek.com/about-us/privacy

To manage all cookies on our site, including those that are served by us, you can change your browser settings. For additional information on how to manage all cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that disabling, blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings may impact your ability to fully use our website.

Our use of your personal information

We may use your personal information to:	How do we use personal information for this purpose?	What is the legal basis for us processing your information in this way?
Provide you with goods and services.	We will use your personal information where this is necessary for us to perform our obligations under a contract with you, for example where you have purchased services from us, and to ensure your requirements are met at events.	Using your personal information in this way is necessary for us to perform our contractual obligations to you.
Ensure that your requirements are met at events.	We may use your personal information to better understand your requirements and preferences, so that we can provide you with a tailored experience.	It is in our legitimate interests to look at your requirements so that we can personalise our events for you, to better meet your needs as a customer.
Complete bookings you make through our website.	We will need to use your contact information (such as your email address or postal address) to assist you with any bookings you make through our website.	Using your personal information in this way is necessary for us to perform our contractual obligations to you.
Process your payments and protect against fraudulent transactions.	We may need to process your personal information in order to keep your payments safe and secure and protect against fraudulent transactions.	It is in our legitimate interests to process personal information to keep our customers’ payments secure.
Contact you for research purposes or to tell you about our special offers or other goods and services (provided you have consented to this).	We will need to use your personal information (such as your email address and/or telephone number) to send you information about services that you may be interested in. Please note that we may also share your personal information with other portfolios in the VMG group for this purpose.	We will ask for your consent before processing your information in this way.
Diagnose problems with our server or administer our websites.	We may need to use personal information, such as your IP address, to diagnose server problems or administer our websites.	We will ask for your consent to the use of cookies before processing.
Analyse user traffic to measure use of our websites and to improve the content of our websites and our services.	We may sometimes use your personal information (e.g. your IP address) to measure use of our websites and assess the effectiveness of our site pages, including advertising on our sites. We may also use this personal information to improve the content of our websites and services.	It is in our legitimate interest to look at user traffic so that we can improve our websites and better meet your needs as a customer.
Comply with legal requirements and exercise or defend legal claims.	We may sometimes need to process personal information to comply with legal requirements to which we are subject (for example, in relation to health and safety).	It is in our legitimate interests to process personal data for the purposes of complying with legal requirements to which we are subject.
When you log in to a virtual event, or consent to having your badge scanned at a physical event by us or a third party, you may be contacted for research purposes, services or to tell you about relevant further education or career opportunities.	We will use your personal information (such as your email address, postcode and/or telephone number) to send you information about opportunities and services that you may be interested in. Please note that we will also share your contact information with other portfolios at Venture Marketing Group and third parties for this purpose.	By logging in to a virtual event or allowing your badge to be scanned at a physical event you are consenting to your information being processed in this way. If you do not wish for you information to be processed please do not scan your badge or log in to a virtual event.
Where you opt in to receive e-newsletters. We will send you regular relevant information.	We will use your personal information (such as your email address) to send you information about services/products that you may be interested in. Please note that we may also share your personal information with other portfolios at Venture Marketing Group for this purpose.	We will ask for your consent before processing your information in this way. You will have the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time (via the relevant website or link on an e-newsletter email).

Transfers of personal information

We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. For example, we may engage Service Providers to provide market research, marketing (including competitions), advertising, communications, event management (including logistics, health and safety and audio-visual services), meetings and bookings (including accommodation), training, IT, hosting and other infrastructure, subscription and discount management, payment processing, and data cleansing and processing services. In the course of providing such services, these Service Providers may have access to your personal information. These third parties are contractually bound only to use personal information to perform the services that we hire them to provide.

We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:

(i)Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: dpo@sopro.io.

We will always use our best efforts to ensure that all the Service Providers we work with will keep your personal data secure.We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
if any part of the Venture Marketing Group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data about its customers will be one of the transferred assets; and
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 our terms and conditions or other agreements, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Venture Marketing Group.

If you use one of our virtual products, e.g. Directory Sites, Webinars etc., or choose to allow your badge to be scanned at an event, we may pass the information you provide to third parties. Generally this will be via a process whereby you, as the user, visit or interact with a third party. In some instances, for example, a products listing site, you may reach out directly to a supplier or exhibitor who may contact you in return. In other instances our virtual products are sponsored and, in such cases the data you provided to us will be given to the sponsor. Generally, we will let you know at the time of collection if a product is sponsored. If you wish to change your contact preferences with an individual exhibitor/sponsor, please follow their own unsubscribe request details.

Unsubscribing from a Venture Marketing Group product will stop contact from that product in the future, but not the individual third parties whom you have interacted with independently.

Security of personal information

We use administrative, technical, and physical measures to safeguard personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised uses, access or modifications.

Certain areas of our websites may be password protected. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password(s) with anyone.

Payments made via our websites are processed in a secure environment using software provided by third party providers.

Third party websites and apps.

Our websites may contain links to and from third party websites and we may provide you with details of apps provided by third parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites or download an app, these websites and apps will have their own terms of use and privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility of liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or apps.

Your rights

You have the following rights with respect to the personal information that we hold about you:

Your right to access the information we hold about you

You have the right to ask us whether or not we process your personal data and to request information on the purposes of data processing as well as confirmation on whether we use your personal information for these purposes only.

You can request access to the information we hold about you by contacting us using the contact details set out below. We will endeavour to make our file of your information available to you within 1 month, although occasionally we may not be able to give you access to the personal information we hold about you (for example, we may not be able to give you access if it would unreasonably affect someone else’s privacy or if giving you access poses a serious threat to someone’s life, health or safety).

You also have the right to be informed of the third parties to which we transfer your personal data within the scope of this privacy policy.

Your right to have your information corrected or deleted

If you have an account with one of our websites, you can sign into that account to update your personal information. If you have problems updating the information on your account or if you would like us to delete your information, or if you would like us to ask the third party suppliers (those holding data for fulfilment purposes) to whom we transfer your data within the scope of this privacy policy to update or delete your information, please send your request to data@vmgl.com and we will action it as soon as possible. There is also information about managing your personal information on our websites.

Your right to have your data transmitted to another organisation

You have the right to ask us to stop processing your data, even where that processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, where the processing is necessary for the legitimate commercial objectives we pursue in the course of our business), including the profiling we undertake to send you personalised offers, product recommendations and similar content. You also have the right to object to any results of a processing activity that prejudice your rights and that are conducted exclusively through automated systems.

You also have the right to ask us to stop processing your data for direct marketing purposes, including any profiling we undertake for the purposes of direct marketing. We will in any case only send you marketing communications if you have previously agreed to this, but if you change your mind you can easily unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by following the instructions included in these marketing communications.

Please note that, if you have consented to receive offers from our clients, our clients are responsible for taking account of your rights, including your right to opt-out of receiving offers from them. You may, however, at any time opt-out of receiving offers from third parties by logging in to your user account and changing the settings. If you had previously opted in, your personal data will cease to be transmitted to our partners from the time your request is processed.

Your right to object to us processing your data

Where we hold personal information about you with your consent or for the performance of a contract with you, you also have the right to ask us to provide you with the personal information we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, where technically feasible, to transmit that data to another organisation.

Making a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authorities if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice to you. Your continued use of our services or our websites following the posting of changes to these terms means that you consent to those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can email us at data@vmgl.com. If you wish to exercise your rights under applicable data protection law and this privacy policy, please contact us in writing at:

The Data Protection Officer, 2-4 St George’s Road, London, SW19 4DP

This version of the privacy policy is effective as of 5 February 2024.