ICEDT PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the International Community for Education Technology website and reviewing our privacy statement. 

ICEDT is sincerely committed to protecting the privacy of our members and event attendees, as well as all others who visit our website in search of more education technology training, resources and information. This Privacy Policy applies between you, the member, event attendee and ICEDT. We want you to feel safe in knowing that your privacy is protected and your personal data is processed in a transparent manner because we take the privacy of your information very seriously. Read this carefully, and make sure you understand what it says before accepting it. If you have any questions about this, we are happy to answer. Send us an email at info@icedt.org and we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible. Your continuous use of this website means you have accepted the website’s privacy policy.

This website Privacy Notice information provides information on how we collect, process and use personal data. This Privacy Policy applies to all our services, website and conference registration portal where this Privacy Policy is presented.  

The Type Of Data We Collect & How We Use It

We believe in transparency and informed consent. That is why we want to provide you with full visibility to the types of personal data we collect from you. When you use the products and services we provide, we collect information that helps us provide the best of services to you.

We collect the following categories of information on our website and use them for the purposes explained below:

Basic Personal Details: When you register for a conference or as a user, we collect your contact information such as your first name, last name, email and telephone number which can be used for communication with you in accordance with the applicable laws. We can also implement various third-party log-in systems, such as Facebook and Google login, that allow you to provide some of your personal details directly from the third-party service.

Website activity: We collect data about your browsing activity on our website.

Device and browser information: We collect information relating to your devices, other technical information about the device or browser you use to access our website.

Financial Data: We collect credit card details and other payment account information. This information is needed to ensure we can process your payment. We also use third party payment processors who will request, and process details related to your chosen payment method. This information will be processed directly by the third party and we will not store that data. When you make a purchase, we will also ask you for your name, email address, telephone number and street address.  

Account Data: If you sign up for an online account, we will collect your username, a password and your email address. These are the minimum fields necessary to open and access your account.

Customer Service Data: We collect information you provide to customer service, including survey responses.

Event data: We collects location-based data about onsite attendee engagement as well as attendee content selection and favorites in the event mobile app.

Transactions Data: We collect information of your purchases, downloads, the content you have provided us with, your requests, agreements between you and 21CTIC, the services provided to you and other interactions with us.

Other Data: We may also collect non-personal data such as other information we collect that does not enable you to be identified. We may collect your IP address, access times, browser or application type, what pages you have visited and the sites linked from. However, in some cases, non-personal data can be stored together with your personal data in such a way that the non-personal data could be considered to be personal data as well and we process it in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

What We Use This Data For

We constantly want to improve our services so that you get the most value from them at all times. We always want to identify the best mobility option for you as we continue to innovate our services, collecting this data enables us to develop, improve and manage our services by better understanding our customers. We would like you to know that we use the data we collect to:

1. Customize, measure and improve our website and services.

2. Deliver targeted marketing to you based on your identified interest unless you let us know that you do not wish to receive such marketing.

3. Contact you by email or phone about your account or our services, including to market our services to you.

4. Keep you informed about our services contacting you in specific cases related to issues you might be experiencing with our services  

5. Provide a more personalized experience of our services, products and customer support.

6. Prevent potential fraud and enforce safety of use.

7. Provide you with offers from our partners that suit you and your needs.

Storing Of Your Personal Data

We take the security of your data very seriously. As with most other service providers, we store and process your personal data (if any) on third-party servers such as Hosting Providers. The Hosting Providers we have chosen enable us to keep your data in third party servers that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. By using our services, you give us consent to store, process and transfer your personal data (if any) outside of your country of residence to the countries where our Hosting Providers are located. Your personal data is stored for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed and used.

Data and Information Sharing

Periodically, we request contact and other personal information in order to fulfill transactions, such as membership, the purchase of goods or services, registration for events or to respond to requests for information. By sharing your payment details with us you consent to the transfer of such details to the location of our payment providers so that they can process your payment. These third parties can also collect data from you, which they will process in accordance with their own processes and privacy policies since we utilize them to provide payment and related administration services. We reserve the right to share certain membership information with qualified third-party vendors for offerings we determine to be of interest to our participants and members. If you'd rather not receive those offers, you can ask to be removed from any or all lists not directly related to our events and membership services by contacting our list manager at info@icedt.org.

We may provide products and services using resources and servers located in various countries around the world. In that case, your personal data may be transferred across international borders outside the country where you use our services. We also share your Personal Information in limited circumstances within our community, our service providers and advertisers, and other end users, in order to provide improved ways of working in our organization. Apart from Hosting Providers and Payment Providers, we may disclose your personal data to third parties only if:

1. You have given us your express consent for doing so. The disclosure is reasonably necessary to provide you with the services.

2. Whenever we use third-party consultants, we will impose contractual commitments on them to comply with this Privacy Policy since the disclosure is reasonably necessary for us to be able to enforce our Terms of Service and for the purposes of detecting and preventing fraud or security breaches, and in accordance with applicable law.

3. If we decide to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize our businesses in certain countries, this may involve us disclosing personal data to prospective or actual purchasers and their advisers.

Cookies & Related Technologies

The International Community for Education Technology website uses cookies, tracking pixels and other related technologies to operate and improve our website and offering. We use Cookies to facilitate your use of our website. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your computer or mobile device that register how you use the website and our services, as well as your preferences. Our site uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes, including to operate and personalize the website. It carries information from one session to the next so that you do not have to start over each time you come back to the site.

We use Google Analytics and other web analytics to gather website usage statistics to improve our services. This is done by using cookies with anonymous technical information. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Data Security & Protection

Data privacy and security are key considerations in the delivery of our services. We apply all necessary security measures to protect the data we collect against accidental or unlawful destruction and loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. We enforce our internal policies and guidelines through an appropriate selection of activities, including proactive and reactive risk management, security and privacy engineering, training and assessments. We have the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing our services, particularly where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against other unlawful forms of processing. We further limit access to our databases containing personal data to authorized persons except with justifiable need for such access usually done under superior supervision. In the event of a physical or technical incident, we have the ability to restore the availability and access to the personal data in our database.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

As we continue to ensure that this Privacy Policy Notice properly reflects the way we handle your data, we need to reserve the right to make changes to it in our sole discretion whenever it is necessary. Changes to this Privacy Policy Notice will be posted on this page. We encourage you to do your best to review this document on a regular basis. We will ensure that whenever we make a material change to our privacy practices, we will provide notice on the site or by other means as appropriate of all substantial changes.

General Information

For questions or if you need assistance, we're here to help. Contact our customer service team at:

International Community for Education Technology,

60B, Aganga Bus/Stop, Off Owode Ibeshe Road,

Ikorodu, Lagos Nigeria.