Privacy Policy

Updated: June 7, 2018

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Conference Concepts, Inc., we have adapted a privacy policy that follows a few fundamental principles:

• We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our conferences.
• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
• We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

We are the folks behind several technical conferences, including Flash Memory Summit, NVMe™ Developer Days, and MRAM Developer Day.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you register to attend one of our conferences.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we'll refer to our conferences collectively as "Events." And if you'd like to learn more about which Conference Concepts, Inc. conference is the controller of information about you, take a look at the section below on Controllers and Responsible Companies.

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so—for example, to register for our Events, to communicate with you, or to make our Events better.

Information You Provide to Us

It's probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

• Registration Information: When you register for any of our Events, we ask you for your email, phone, company, job title, and other registration details.
• Communications With Us (Hi There!): You may also provide us information when you respond to surveys, emails, or communicate with us about a support question.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log Information: Like most technical conferences, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
• Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Events from certain geographic regions.
• Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

How And Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

• To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Events;
• To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising;
• To monitor and prevent any problems at our Events, protect the security of our Events;
• To communicate with you about offers and information about our Events;
• To personalize your experience when participating in our Events.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

• The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account - for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device; or
• The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
• The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
• We have a legitimate interest in using your information - for example, to provide and update our Events, to improve our Events so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Events, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Events, and to personalize your experience; or
• You have given us your consent - for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on.

Sharing Information

We do not sell our users' private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

• Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Events or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
• Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Events to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you).
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Conference ConCepts goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
• With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.
• Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it - which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information - and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of our conference websites, such as the visitor's IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic and investigate issues if something goes wrong on our websites.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and to take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Events for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Events may not be accessible.
• Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
• Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our conference websites, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the "GDPR"), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren't able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to How to Reach Us to, well, find out how to reach us.

EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

Controllers and Responsible Company

Conference ConCepts, Inc., a California corporation dba Flash Memory Summit™, dba NVMe™ Developer Days, and dba MRAM Developer Day™, may be addressed to:
12463 Rancho Bernardo Road, #373
San Diego, CA 92128-2143 USA

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: info@ConferenceConCepts.com

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Conference ConCepts, Inc. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage, or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of our Events after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

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