Privacy Policy and Cookie Disclaimer — BGS Group
We know you value your privacy. That’s why we are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
By accessing or browsing our websites, you confirm that you have read, understood and fully agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with this, you should not use this website.
This privacy policy applies to this website (hereinafter - the website), which is operated by BGS Group LLC (hereinafter - the Company) and all related services, and applies to all your information received by us during the use of the website.
As part of its activities, the company provides services in the formation of expert space for business communication and exchange of professional experience, creation and strengthening of partnerships for solving business problems among representatives of the respective industry, by organizing and conducting business events (congresses, exhibitions, etc.).
For your comfort, we divided our Privacy Policy into parts.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
- Personal data processed under this Policy may be in the following categories: personal data provided by the User in accordance with the registration form posted on the Site, namely:
- last name, first name, patronymic of the User;
- contact phone number of the User;
- e-mail address (e-mail) of the Account;
- the name of the company represented by the User, the position of the User.
- personal data, which are automatically transmitted during the visit of the User:
- IP address, to identify and solve technical problems;
- information from cookies, in order to identify and track visitors, their behavior on the site and preferences when working with the site;
- information about the browser (or other program that accesses the site);
- access time;
- Page addresses visited;
- referer (previous page address).
Categories of subjects of personal data in accordance with this Policy include:
- Customers and contractors of the company (natural persons);
- Representatives/employees of customers and contractors of the company (legal entities);
OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use your personal data:
- To identify you as a registered user on the website to send you newsletters via e-mail;
- To provide you with our services. We will need to use your data where it is necessary for us to perform our obligations under a contract with you.
- To have full confidence that your requirements are met when we provide our services. We may use your PERSONAL DATA to better understand your requirements and preferences so that we can provide you with a tailored experience.
- To tell you about our special offers, events, services. We will need to use your email, telephone number to send you information about services that you may be interested in.
- To analyse user traffic to measure the use of our websites and to improve the content of our websites and our services. We may sometimes use your personal data (e.g. your IP address) to measure the use of our websites and assess the effectiveness of our website pages.
- To comply with legal requirements. We may need to process your data to comply with legal requirements which we are subject to.
The processing of personal data of the User is carried out without limitation of the term of such processing, by any lawful way, including in information systems of personal data using or without means of automation (collection, analysis, recording, systematization, stockpiling, storage, clarification (update, modification), retrieval, use, transfer (dissemination, provision, access), anonymization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data).
Processing of personal data ceases:
- in case of expiry of the consent for processing of personal data of the subject;
- in case of withdrawal of consent to processing of personal data by the subject of personal data;
- in case of detection of improper processing of personal data.
When the purpose of processing personal data has been achieved, as well as in the event that the subject withdraws his or her personal data from the processing, personal data shall be destroyed if:
- the other is not provided for by the contract to which the beneficiary or guarantor of which is the subject of personal data;
- The company may not process personal data without the consent of the subject on the grounds provided by federal laws;
- otherwise not provided by any other agreement between the company and the subject of personal data. e are subject to).
INFORMATION WE RECEIVE AND COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES:
We may receive information about you from other websites operated by the BGS Group events group or from the other services that we provide. We also work closely with third parties such as payment processors and contractors 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.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Union. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the European Union who work for us or for one of our contractors. We will take all steps that are mandatory or reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable data protection laws, including, where relevant, entering into EU standard contractual clauses (or equivalent measures) with the party outside the European Union receiving the data.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised uses, access or modifications.
Some of the parts 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.
TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your information with our trusted third-party service providers who manage our websites. These third parties provide specific services and administer activities offered at our website; for example, call and email centre and credit card processing. These third parties are not authorised to discuss or make any use of your personal information; it can only be used to provide such services.
If you register for one of our events, we also provide your information to our trusted event partners. These partners adhere to the same strict privacy guidelines as BGS Group LLC. This information is collected, including for the purpose of its subsequent provision to third parties, from among the participants of the event, in which the Data Subject also participates, acting as a representative of the client, to establish professional and B2B contacts between the participants.
Occasionally, we may also use third parties to help us collect and aggregate site guest and customer information. We may share this aggregated, non-personally identifiable information with existing and prospective business partners and advertisers. None of the aggregate information will contain any information that identifies you individually.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights in accordance with a GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation):
- The right to access the information we hold about you
- The right to have your information corrected or deleted (you can do it yourself if you are registered user or you can require us by phone or email).
- The right to object to the processing of your personal data (you can ask us to stop processing your personal information).
- The right to have your data transmitted to another organisation (if we hold your personal information with your consent, you have a right to ask us to transmit the data to a third party in a structured format if it is technically feasible).
- The right to file a complaint (You have the right to make 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 would like to inform you that we reserve the right to change this privacy policy without prior notice to you. We will immediately notify you when such changes take effect. You will have a choice to stay with us and consent to those changes or unsubscribe.
COOKIES
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with good content and also allows us to improve our websites.
WHAT ARE COOKIES
When you come to our website using your device, the server creates a text file with the anonymous information, including the name of the website, a unique identifier and some digital code. This file is called "cookie" and it is only available for the server to read or retrieve.
Persistent cookies are saved on your device and update the information each time you enter the website. The data that remains unchanged is sourced from your computer using the information from your previous visit. This way you get quicker access to the information on the page.
Session cookies transfer the information between your device and the server during the session. Due to the session cookie, the data type like the language that you chose is collected to maintain these settings while you surf our website. The server disposes of session cookies once you close the browser.
We may 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;
- 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.
You can opt out of receiving cookies by changing your web browser settings.
WHAT TYPE OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
Always Active cookies
These cookies are always active. They are needed for the website to work properly and securely, or are used by our internal systems to measure visits and understand where our visitors come from.
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Name |
Service |
Purpose |
Cookie type and duration |
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|
BITRIX_CONVERSION_ |
Bitrix CMS |
Stores conversion tracking data used by the internal analytics system to record form submissions and leads. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
BX_SM_GUEST_ID |
Bitrix CMS |
Assigns a unique identifier to distinguish visitors within the internal analytics system, enabling accurate visit and behaviour tracking. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
BX_SM_LAST_VISIT |
Bitrix CMS |
Records the date of the visitor's last visit, used by the internal analytics system alongside the guest identifier. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
BGS_UTM |
Website |
Stores the UTM tags from the link you arrived through, so we can see which source brought you to the site. |
First-party |
1 day |
|
PHPSESSID |
PHP platform |
Maintains the user's session and enables core site functions such as form submissions and dynamic page requests. |
First-party |
Session |
|
cf_clearance |
Website / Cloudflare |
Stores confirmation that your browser passed Cloudflare's security check, helping protect the site from bots. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
cc_consent |
Cookie Consent Management |
Stores the visitor's overall cookie consent choice (accept all or essential only). |
First-party |
1 year |
|
cc_analytics |
Cookie Consent Management |
Records whether the visitor has consented to analytics cookies. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
cc_functional |
Cookie Consent Management |
Records whether the visitor has consented to functional cookies. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
cc_marketing |
Cookie Consent Management |
Records whether the visitor has consented to marketing cookies. |
First-party |
1 year |
Performance Cookies
These cookies help us analyse the use of the website and improve its performance. We may collect information about how you interact with the site.
|
_ga |
|
Distinguishes visitors so Google Analytics can count visitors and report how the site is used. |
First-party |
2 years |
|
_ga_* |
|
Keeps session state so Google Analytics can measure visits correctly. |
First-party |
2 years |
|
_ym_d |
Yandex |
Stores the date of the user's first visit for analytics purposes |
First-party |
1 year |
|
_ym_isad |
Yandex |
Detects whether an ad blocker is in use so visitor statistics are counted correctly. |
First-party |
20 hours |
|
_ym_uid |
Yandex |
Distinguishes visitors for anonymous Yandex Metrica statistics. |
First-party |
1 year |
|
_ym_visorc |
Yandex |
Records actions on the page (mouse movement, clicks, scrolling) so we can see how visitors use the site. |
First-party |
30 minutes |
|
yabs-sid |
Yandex |
Registers a unique session identifier so Yandex Metrica can measure visits |
Third-party |
Session |
|
i, yandexuid, yuidss |
Yandex |
Used by Yandex to distinguish visitors, measure visits and analyse how our site is used. These identifiers may also be used across Yandex services. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
ymex |
Yandex |
Stores technical data that Yandex Metrica needs to count visits correctly. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
is_gdpr |
Yandex |
Identifies visitors from the GDPR region so the correct privacy rules are applied. |
Third-party |
Up to 2 years |
|
is_gdpr_b |
Yandex |
Identifies visitors from the GDPR region so the correct privacy rules are applied. |
Third-party |
Up to 2 years |
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to display personalised advertising and measure its effectiveness. They allow us to track user activity and build an interest profile in order to show relevant advertising on other websites. Some of our third-party providers may also place additional cookies where necessary for the proper operation of their services or integrations with our website.
|
__cf_bm |
LinkedIn/Clouflare |
Bot detection provided by Cloudflare |
Third-party |
30 minutes |
|
bcookie |
|
Browser identifier used to uniquely recognise devices accessing LinkedIn, for abuse detection and diagnostics. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
lang |
|
Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings |
Third-party |
Session |
|
li_gc |
|
Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
Third-party |
180 days |
|
lidc |
|
Facilitates data centre selection and routes requests to the correct LinkedIn server, so embedded LinkedIn features load reliably. |
Third-party |
24 hours |
|
dfpfpt |
LinkedIn/Microsoft |
Unique user identifier to prevent abuse in payment workflows for LinkedIn |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
fptctx2 |
LinkedIn/Microsoft |
Used to prevent abuse in payment workflows for LinkedIn |
Third-party |
Session |
|
__ddg1_, __ddg10_, __ddg8_, __ddg9_ |
Usocial/DDoS-Guard |
Set by DDoS-Guard to keep the Usocial social-share functions working and protected from attacks and bots. |
Third-party |
1 day |
|
_yasc |
Yandex |
Collects data across websites to help make ads more relevant. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
receive-cookie-deprecation |
Yandex |
Set as part of Chrome's phase-out of third-party cookies (Google Privacy Sandbox); indicates that third-party cookies are limited for this user. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
sync_cookie_csrf |
Yandex |
Protects the process of matching your Yandex advertising identifier with partner networks against misuse. |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
sync_cookie_ok |
Yandex |
Synchronises your identifier with advertising networks. |
Third-party |
1 day |
|
yp |
Yandex |
Stores user preferences and settings (e.g. region/language) and data used for advertising |
Third-party |
1 year |
|
cycada |
Yandex |
Service cookie set by Yandex Metrica; required for the analytics service to function. |
Third-party |
Session |
CHANGES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY
We reserve the right to make changes to our Cookies Policy at any time. Where changes are made, we will post the revised Policy here with an updated effective date. Your continued use of our websites, apps, or other products or services will signify your acceptance of these changes.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can call us at +31 232 05 00 99 or email [email protected].