Please note that all data thus captured will be used and held in accordance with the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

What information do we collect?

• We collect information from visitors to this website in order improve our offering to them.
• We collect your details when you email or telephone us with an enquiry or complete our online contact form.
• In addition to the above, we collect information automatically about your visit this website. Please see our Cookies Section for more details.
• We do not keep data collected in the course of financial transactions and use platforms which are PCISS compliant.

Use of personal information

We process personal information collected via this website for the purposes of:

• Providing information about the World Biogas Association INDIA Congress
• Dealing with your enquiries and requests
• Administering orders
• Administering membership records
• Providing reservation or booking services for the event
• Conducting market research

Marketing

Please note that your information may be used to send you details of other of ourproducts or services that we have identified as likely to be of interest to you. This will be in accordance with the preferences that you indicated when you completed an online form. If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving communications from us, or would like to change the channels (such as email or post) that we use to contact you, please contact Hanan Berrouhou, Database Administrator, at hberrouhou@worldbiogasassociation.org or write to the World Biogas Association at Sustainable Workspaces, Office CH5, Fifth Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom.

WBA offers a selection of services in partnership with third parties. We will only communicate on this if you have opted-in to receive such communications e.g. when you completed an online form, or when you entered into an agreement with us, or entered WBA membership. You may ask us at any point not to share your information with third parties for this purpose, by contacting Hanan Berrouhou, Database administrator, at hberrouhou@worldbiogasassociation.org or writing to the World Biogas Association at Sustainable Workspaces, Office CH5, Fifth Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom.

Disclosures

We will only disclose data when obliged to disclose personal data by law, or the disclosure is ‘necessary’ for purposes of national security, taxation and criminal investigation, or we have your consent, and to the following:

• Business partners;
• Suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf;
• Successors in title to our business.

Other websites

The World Biogas Association INDIA Congress website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

Subject access requests

You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please write to us at WBA, Sustainable Workspaces, Office CH5, Fifth Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom. Please note that we reserve the right to charge a fee of up to £10 for any such request.

Internet-based transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using it to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. This means for instance that data you pass to us may be processed outside the European Economic Area, although the data will always be held securely and in line with the requirements of UK data protection legislation. By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser. Find out more about cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org.

This World Biogas Association INDIA Congress website requires cookies in order to function correctly. These cookies are used only to improve the user experience on our site. We also use cookies to identify you when you visit this website and to keep track of your browsing patterns and build up a demographic profile. They are not stored, collected or resold for marketing purposes, they are purely to help us track how people are using our site, and to ensure it functions correctly.

Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the menu on your browser, or look at the instruction on www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note however that turning off cookies will restrict your use of our website.

We are not responsible for third party cookies on this site, although the only ones our site uses are from trusted sources as outlined below.

The cookies used are as follows:

• Google Analytics – Google analytics javascript runs on our site to tell us who is using our site and how. This script requires a cookie to record this data. These are third party cookies.
• Twitter – The twitter widget present on some pages creates cookies if you interact with it. These are third party cookies.
• Linkedin?
• Content Management System and associated plugins – Our website is powered by a PHP-based Content Management System and as such it creates cookies to store session information in order to help it remember user interactions and states, for example if you are logged in our not. These are the only first party cookies we create, and they are required for the site to function correctly. they are not used in any way outside of their technical applications.

If you are unhappy about cookies being stored on your computer, you should change your browser settings to prevent them.

By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as detailed above.

Your data protection rights

WBA would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request from WBA copies of your personal data.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that WBA corrects any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request thatWBAcompletes the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that WBA erases your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that WBA restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to WBA processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that WBA transfers the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Jocelyne Bia at jbia@worldbiogasassociation.org.

Making a complaint

If you think your data rights have been breached, you can complain to us by writing to ADBA, Sustainable Workspaces, Office CH5, Fifth Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom. You can also raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner Office (ICO). https://ico.org.uk/

Amendments

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. It was last updated in August 2023.