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</section><div class="clear"></div><section id="main-section" class=" "> <div class="container"> <div class="clear"></div><div class="row row-title "> <div class="col-md-12"><div class="clear"></div></div> </div><div class="row "> <div class="col-md-7"><h2>Privacy Policy</h2> <p>ISO is committed to protecting your privacy, including that of <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/members.html" title="Members">ISO members</a>, participants in ISO activities, our customers, visitors to our websites and subscribers to our magazines and newsletters. This Privacy Policy addresses your personal data and how ISO processes and safeguards your personal data.</p> <h3>Your personal data</h3> <p>In your interactions with ISO, you may choose to provide such personal data as your name and contact details, your professional title, affiliation and committee role, your payment information and other information that identifies or can identify you. The personal data that you provide will be used only for such purposes as are described or evident at the point of collection, for example, to respond to your questions or comments or to help you liaise with your ISO member. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data you provide ISO in the following situations:</p> <ul class="entry-content"> <li>your participation in ISO standardization activities, for which your agreement to the <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/iso-member-data-protection-policy.html" title="ISO Member Data Protection Policy">Data Protection Policy for ISO members</a> and the <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/declaration-for-participants-in-iso-activities.html" title="Declaration for participants in ISO activities">Declaration on copyright and data protection for participants in ISO activities</a> (as an ISO member or participant, respectively) is required;</li> <li>your creation of a <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/store.html" title="Store">ISO webstore</a> account, and any subsequent use of your account, including for purchases;</li> <li>your creation of an ISO member’s webstore account hosted by ISO, and any subsequent use of your account, including for purchases, as specified to you;</li> <li>your use of ISO’s websites and other IT tools provided to you by ISO, as specified to you;</li> <li>your subscriptions to ISO Update, our newsletters, and any other subscription campaign, as specified to you; and</li> <li>any other interaction with ISO when you have agreed to the application of this Privacy Policy.</li> </ul> <h3>How to withdraw your agreement to this Privacy Policy:</h3> <ul class="entry-content"> <li>if you are a participant in ISO standardization activities, please contact your <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/members.html" title="Members">ISO member</a> to which you gave your personal data or contact ISO directly at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506173940/mailto:DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org">DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org</a>;</li> <li>if you hold an account for the <a href="/web/20210506173940/https://www.iso.org/store.html" title="Store">ISO webstore</a> or an ISO member’s webstore account hosted by ISO, you can directly revise the personal data in your account (see <a href="#note-webstore">Our webstore</a> below for more details about how to control your personal data);</li> <li>if you are visiting ISO’s websites, you can control your acceptance of cookies (including deleting them) by changing your browser settings (see <a href="#note-cookies">Our cookies</a> below for more details about how to control your personal data); and</li> <li>if you have subscriptions to <em>ISO Update</em>, our newsletters, and any other subscription campaign, you can unsubscribe at any time (see <a href="#note-providers">Our service providers</a> below for more information about how we ensure successful subscription campaigns.)</li> </ul> <p>If required to do so by law or to respond to any legal claims, we may disclose your personal data to the relevant regulatory or legal authority. For any other questions or concerns regarding your agreement to this Privacy Policy, you can directly contact ISO’s Data Protection Offer at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506173940/mailto:DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org">DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org</a>.</p> <h3>Your rights</h3> <p>In addition to understanding how ISO processes your personal data and your right to withdraw your agreement to that processing, you can request access to, correction of and deletion of your personal data. You can also request that your personal data be provided to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Where the request for your personal data in said portable format requires ISO to incur expense, you may be requested compensation. Requests for deletion will be considered in light of ISO’s tax, auditing, contractual and other obligations under applicable laws, including in Switzerland, as well as ISO’s legitimate interests or business requirements in preserving past contributions to ISO standardization work. Your personal data is retained for specific data retention periods as determined under ISO’s tax, auditing, contractual and other obligations under applicable laws and ISO’s legitimate interests or business requirements, after which your personal data is deleted or anonymized. For any questions or concerns, you may contact ISO’s Data Protection Officer at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506173940/mailto:DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org">DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org</a>, as registered with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).</p> <p>You contribute to the ISO system. We rely on you to help us and help others. If you suspect a personal data breach, please contact ISO’s Data Protection Officer at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506173940/mailto:DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org">DataProtectionOfficer@iso.org</a> immediately.</p> <h3><a id="note-providers" name="note-providers"></a>Our service providers</h3> <p>In order to provide you the best service possible, we may transfer your personal data to our service providers that provide us back office applications for ISO’s websites, your accounts and subscriptions, and other IT tools. These service providers are bound by contractual agreements to keep your data private and secure.</p> <p>For subscriptions to <em>ISO Update</em>, our newsletters, and any other subscription campaigns, we use a service provider to help us track rates of subscriber engagement within specific campaigns as well as capture engagement trends overall.</p> <p>From time to time, we may ask our website visitors to answer survey questions about ISO’s websites, our products or categories of products. Surveys will not request any personally identifiable data.</p> <h3><a id="note-cookies" name="note-cookies"></a>Our use of cookies</h3> <p>ISO uses software to monitor its websites and IT applications for operational purposes. We use cookies to help us understand how you engage with our websites and IT applications so that we can improve them. Our analytics providers collect information anonymously and allow us to look at trends without identifying individual users. 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