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We need to use your personal information in this way to complete the booking contract between us.</p> <p>We provide a delegate list to the organizations and other individuals who attend our events. We do this because our events provide a useful networking opportunity, and we have a legitimate interest in wanting to help build and develop the scientific community. You can object to us using your information in this way by contacting us using the information provided at the time of registration.</p> <h3>When you attend one of our educational sessions or sign-up for our webinars</h3> <p>When you attend one of our educational sessions, short courses, workshops, (such as Short Courses Learning Management and Classroom sessions) or webinars we will collect the following information from you: name, address, employer/academic institution and payment details. If you are already a member and register to attend a session or webinar, we may use some of the membership details we already hold on file for you to confirm your booking, and you can update the data during the transaction.</p> <p>The details we collect from you will include your name, address, payment details, phone number and email address. We need to use your personal information in this way to complete the booking contract between us.</p> <h3>When you phone us, email us, or use our website chat service</h3> <p>When you phone us or contact us by chat or email with general queries, or when we support your use of our products and services, we may also handle your personal information (your name, contact details and the other details you provide to us) in order to provide the customer services you have requested. This could be when you contact us to provide customer support for questions you may have with regard to membership, subscriptions, payments and other service type inquiries, or when you ask for our assistance troubleshooting issues with our products or services, explaining how our products or services work, or if you request information about new products and/or services. All phone calls are recorded for quality assurance and training purposes, and an announcement to that effect is included in our greeting. We record phone calls because we have a legitimate interest in monitoring the quality of our calls, and training our staff using live examples.</p> <p>Unless we are contracted to provide this support, we rely on your consent to handle your personal information in this way. If you do not provide us with the personal information we request from you for customer services purposes, we may not be able to fully answer your queries.</p> <h3>When you have expressed an interest in the Society:</h3> <p>This section applies if you have opted in to receive marketing communications from us, or have previously expressed an interest in the Society and not opted out.</p> <p>When you sign up to one of our webinars, whitepapers, or take one of our quizzes your registration details may be disclosed to the webinar sponsor. We rely on our legitimate interest to promote and develop the scientific community when we transfer your data to the sponsors.</p> <p>We will handle your personal information (such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, job title, employer/academic institution and sector preferences) to provide you with marketing communications in line with any preferences about which you have told us.</p> <p>When we send you marketing emails because you have opted-in to receive them, we rely on your consent to contact you for marketing purposes.</p> <p>If you have not opted-in and we send you marketing communications, we do this because of our legitimate interest to promote the success of the Society.</p> <p>Every email we send to you for marketing purposes will also contain instructions on how to unsubscribe from receiving them.</p> <p>You are not under any obligation to provide us with your personal data for marketing purposes.</p> <p>You can tell us that you do not want your personal information to be processed in this way at any time by contacting us at service@acs.org or, where relevant, by following the unsubscribe link shown in every marketing communication you receive from us.</p> <h3>When you create an ACS ID, a set of digital access credentials:</h3> <p>When you create an ACS ID, the set of credentials that allow us to authenticate your use of ACS websites and applications, we will collect the following information from you: name, email address, institution, username and password. We may also collect your ACS member number to provide you with access to ACS member-only content.</p> <p>We need to process your data for this reason to provide the contracted services you have requested.</p> <h3>To make our site, products and services better and to increase our membership base:</h3> <p>We will also use your personal information to provide you with a more effective user experience (such as by displaying articles and links in which we think you will be interested).</p> <p>Our use of your personal information in this way means that your experience of our site will be more tailored to you, and that the articles and links you see on our site may differ from someone accessing the same site with a different history or browsing habits.</p> <p>We also share your aggregated, anonymous data with third party analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our site.</p> <p>We will also use your personal information for the purposes of making our site, products and services more secure, and to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. We process your data for this reason because we have a legitimate interest to provide you with the best experience we can, to continue increasing our membership base and to ensure that our site, products and services are kept secure.</p> <p>You can prevent us from using your personal information in this way by using the 'do not track' functionality in your internet browser. 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If you object to our use of your personal information in this way, the relevant buyer of our business may not be able to provide services to you.</p> <p>In some circumstances we may also need to share your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share it to comply with a legal obligation.</p> <h3>Children’s Guidelines:</h3> <p>The Society (www.acs.org) meets the guidelines of TRUSTe’s Children’s program.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="info"></a>What About Technical Information And Analytics?</h2> <p><b>Information we collect about you: </b>When you visit our site we will automatically collect the following information:</p> <ul><li>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, screen resolution, operating system and platform; and</li><li>information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators, clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page.</li></ul> <p><b>Information we receive from other sources:</b> We are also working closely with third party advertising networks, analytics providers, hosting providers and search information providers from whom we may also receive general aggregated anonymous information about you.</p> <p>We may implement the Google Analytics demographics and interest reporting features on our websites. 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However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.</p> <p>Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.</p> <p>To learn more about how cookies are used on ACS.org and to see your options for managing those cookies, please visit our <a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/cookies.html">cookies policy</a>.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="storage"></a>Where Is My Data Stored?</h2> <p>We (and many of our external third parties) are based outside the European Economic Area (<b>EEA</b>) so their processing of your personal information will involve a transfer of data outside of the EEA.</p> <p>Whenever we transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, we ensure it is protected by making sure at least one of the following safeguards is in place:</p> <ul><li>by transferring your personal information to a country that has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection by the European Commission;</li><li>by using specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give your personal information the same protection it has if it was in the EEA;</li><li>where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar levels of protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US as if It was in the EEA.</li></ul> <p>To keep this privacy policy as short and easy to understand as possible, we have not set out the specific circumstances when each of these protection measures are used. For the details as to how we protect specific transfer of your data, you can contact the ACS Legal Department, by mail at 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 or by email at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240203220526/mailto:privacy@acs.org">privacy@acs.org</a>.</p> <p>All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or those of our third party data storage providers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You must not share your password with anyone.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="howlong"></a>How Long Do We Retain Your Data?</h2> <p>We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.</p> <p>To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.</p> <p>If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, we promise to stop sending them to you.</p> <p>In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research, product development or improvement, or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="object"></a>Your Right To Object Under Data Protection Laws</h2> <p>Depending on your location, you may have the right to object to us handling your personal information when:</p> <ul><li>we are handling your personal information based on our legitimate interests (as described in the “How do you use my data” section above). If you ask us to stop handling your personal information in this way, we will stop unless we can show you that we have compelling grounds as to why our use of your personal information should continue; or</li><li>for marketing purposes. If you ask us to stop handling your personal information on this basis, we will stop. We will then only hold very limited data about you to make sure we do not contact you again.</li></ul> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="rights"></a>What Are My Rights Under Data Protection Laws?</h2> <p><span style=" background-color: transparent; ">Depending on your location, you may have various rights under the data protection laws, which you can exercise by contacting the ACS Legal Department, by mail at 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 or by email at </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240203220526/mailto:privacy@acs.org">privacy@acs.org</a><span style=" background-color: transparent; ">. </span><br/> </p> <p>If you exercise your right under data protection laws, your request may be subject to a fee, if we are permitted to charge a fee. We will let you know at the time you make your request whether there is a fee to pay.</p> <h3>Right of access</h3> <p>You may be entitled to receive confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed by us, as well as various other information relating to our use of your personal information.</p> <p>You may also have the right to access your personal information which we are handling.</p> <h3>Right to rectification<b></b></h3> <p>You may have the right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal information we hold about you completed, by providing a supplementary statement to us.</p> <h3>Right to restriction</h3> <p>You may be able to restrict our processing of your personal information where:</p> <ul><li>you think we hold inaccurate personal information about you;</li><li>our handling of your personal information breaks the law, but you do not want us to delete it;</li><li>we no longer need to process your personal information, but you want us to keep it for legal reasons; or</li><li>where we are handling your personal information because we have a legitimate interest (as described in the “How do you use my data?” section above), and are in the process of objecting to this use of your personal information.</li></ul> <p>If you exercise your right to restrict us from using your personal information, we will then only process your personal information when you agree, except for storage purposes and to handle legal claims.</p> <h3>Right to data portability</h3> <p>You may have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, standard machine readable format and to send this to another organization controlling your personal information.</p> <p>This right only applies to your personal information we are handling because you consented to us using it or because there is a contract in place between us.</p> <h3>Right to erasure</h3> <p>You may have the right to require us to erase your personal information which we are handling in the following circumstances:</p> <ul><li>where we no longer need to use your personal information for the reasons we told you we collected it;</li><li>where we needed your consent to use your personal information, you have withdrawn your consent and there is no other lawful way we can continue to use your personal information;</li><li>when you object to our use of your personal information and we have no compelling reason to carry on handling it;</li><li>if our handling of your personal information has broken the law; and</li><li>when we must erase your personal information to comply with a law we are subject to.</li></ul> <h3>Right to complain</h3> <p>You may have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority for data protection issues in your territory. As we conduct business globally, we have not set out the specific supervisory authorities for each country in this policy, but please contact us if you would like us to identify who the relevant supervisory authority is in your country or territory.</p> <p>Please be aware that we may also need to use your personal information if it is relevant to a legal claim that is being pursued.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="links"></a>What About Websites To Which We Link?</h2> <p>Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates.</p> <p>Our site connects you to different websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites or use our services, please note that you have left our site and these websites have their own privacy policies.</p> <p>We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or websites. Please check their policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="change"></a>When Will You Change Your Privacy Policy?</h2> <p>Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail or post.</p> <p>Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.</p> <p><a href="/web/20240203220526/https://www.acs.org/privacy.html?cq_ck=1528479910948#top">Back to top</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase"><div class="container " data-ishtl="true"> <div> <h2><a id="contact"></a>How Do I Contact You With Feedback?</h2> <p>Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to us by mail at ACS Legal Department, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 or by email at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240203220526/mailto:privacy@acs.org">privacy@acs.org</a></p> <p>The representative we have appointed in the EU is ACS International Ltd. 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