This Privacy\nPolicy applies to personal data collected by Venture Business\nResearch Limited on www.cleanenergypipeline.com (including mobile\nsite) which links to this Privacy Policy, via registration forms,\nsurveys, competition entries, at events (including awards), or if you\ncontact us (online, by post, telephone or social media).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your privacy is\nvery important to us and this Privacy Policy sets out how we will\nprocess your personal data and what rights you have in respect of\nyour own personal data. We will securely store and process personal\ndata which you have provided to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aim of this\nPrivacy Policy is to tell you how we will use any personal data we\ncollect or you provide to us. Please read it carefully before you\nproceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have any\nquestions about this Privacy Policy or your rights in respect of your\npersonal data, please contact us at accounts@vbresearch.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You do not have\nto give us any personal information in order to browse our websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, if you\nwish to register on our websites, subscribe to a service, book places\nat events, request further information, contact us, complete any\nsurveys, enter competitions, or provide content for inclusion on our\nwebsites (e.g. blogs or other online forums) we will collect certain\ndata, including personal data. The data we collect may include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We may receive\nthe above information directly from you or from your colleague or\ncorporate contact who registers for a subscription or event on your\nbehalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please note that not all of the information we request is mandatory to provide you with the service. You are not required to provide any optional information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Event filming and photography<\/strong>: We may photograph, film, broadcast or record our events in which case we may process information such as your voice, likeness and image if you are identifiable from such photograph, film, broadcast or recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Financial Information<\/strong>: We will keep a record of any financial transaction you make with us. Online payments made through our websites are processed securely by the following third party payment providers: Stripe and Paypal. Please refer to Stripe\u2019s privacy policy at https:\/\/stripe.com\/gb\/privacy<\/a> and Paypal\u2019s privacy policy at https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/webapps\/mpp\/ua\/privacy-prev<\/a> for details of how your payment card data is processed by them. We do not directly collect or process your debit or credit card information, except in limited circumstances where you provide us with new debit or credit card details over the phone or we take a debit or credit card payment over the phone. In such circumstances, we do not retain a copy of your debit or credit card details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Device and browsing data<\/strong>: In addition, we may automatically collect information about any website that you came from or are going to. We also collect information about the pages of our websites which you visit, the links you click on, IP addresses, the type of browser you use and the times you access our websites. Some of this information is aggregated and is not used to identify you, but we also use analytics software on our websites which allows us to link information about your use of our websites back to you, where you have logged into your account. We may observe your use of our websites, whether you open emails we have sent to you and\/or events that you attend (where you use the bar coded name badge which we issue) and your activities at those events (such as the exhibitors you interact with). We may infer and derive certain information from these observations such as what additional brands, subscriptions and events you or a user similar to you may be interested in. This information will be used for our own internal and marketing purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cookie<\/strong>s: We use cookies to collect information about you online. Please read our Cookie Policy for further information on the cookies we use and how you can enable\/disable them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In accordance\nwith data protection legislation, we will only process your personal\ndata where we have a lawful basis for doing so. These bases are: (i)\nwhere it is necessary for the performance of a contract we have with\nyou; (ii) where you have provided your consent; (iii) where it is\nnecessary for us to comply with a legal obligation that we are\nsubject to; or (iv) where it is in our (or a third party\u2019s)\nlegitimate interests and such interests are not overridden by your\ninterests or fundamental rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Specifically,\nwe\u2019ve set out in this Privacy Policy the purposes for which we\nprocess your personal data and the lawful basis on which we carry out\nsuch processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The personal\ninformation we collect allows us to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marketing\nCommunications<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where we have\ntold you that we will do so (such as during the registration process\nto our websites\/website services and events (as applicable)) we may\nfrom time to time contact you by email, SMS, telephone or post about\nour products and services (including from all our brands within our\nbusiness) that may be of interest to you (legitimate interests, of\nus, to promote our products and services, and of our customers, to\nkeep them up to date with promotions, events and subscriptions which\nmay be relevant to their professions and job roles). Further\ninformation about such marketing is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the brand\nwith whose website or event you registered<\/strong>: We will also use your\npersonal information to send you business-to-business marketing about\nproducts, services and events of the brand with whose website or\nevent you have registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From other\nbrands within our business<\/strong>: We may also send you\nbusiness-to-business marketing about products, services and events of\nother brands within our business which we think may be of interest to\nyou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third party\nmarketing<\/strong>: We may share your registration information (including\nname, job title and contact details) with third parties for marketing\npurposes, but we will only do this where you have provided consent\nfor us to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opting-out<\/strong>:\nOur customers always have the right to let us know that they no\nlonger want to be contacted for marketing purposes. If at any point\nyou would like to opt-out of receiving such marketing communications\nfrom us, or would like to change the channels that we use to contact\nyou, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any emails\nyou receive, or email us, stating your preferences, at\naccounts@vbresearch.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other ways in\nwhich we use and share your personal information<\/p>\n\n\n\n Events\n(including awards)<\/strong>: Where you are attending an event organised by\nus we may share your name, job title and company with the other\nattendees of the event (including making this information available\nvia the event app, on social media sites and\/or in our event guide).\nGenerally we will ask for your consent to share this information, but\nfor some of our events, such as our awards and round table events\n(and any other events which we inform you of) we rely on legitimate\ninterests to share this information because it is a fundamental part\nof such events (for example, for table plans and networking\npurposes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you enter one\nof our awards and are short-listed, your name and organisation\ndetails will be included in the award lists and materials used and\ndistributed in relation to the award (legitimate interests, of us and\nother entrants and attendees of the awards, to allow other entrants\nand those attending the awards to see who is in the running).<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will share\nyour registration information with the sponsors of our events who may\ncontact you for marketing purposes (legitimate interests, of us, to\nattract the most appropriate sponsors for the event and of our\nsponsors, to facilitate business-to-business communications between\nthem and our registrants before, during and after our events). We or\nour sponsors may contact you ahead of our events to enquire whether\nyou\u2019d like to set up a meeting with our sponsors at the relevant\nevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where you\nregister to attend certain seminars or presentations at our events\nhosted by a third party, we may share your registration information\nwith such third party (legitimate interests, of our hosts, so they\nknow who has attended their events and so they can contact attendees\nabout their goods and services).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where you\nindicate that you want us to share your details with exhibitors at\nevents (for example, by scanning your event badge at an exhibitor\u2019s\nstand) we share your information with those exhibitors who may\ncontact you about their goods and services (consent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Event filming\nand photography<\/strong>: We process your personal data comprised in the\nfilm, photograph, broadcast or recording of the event so that we have\na record of our events for our own internal purposes such as training\n(legitimate interests, of us, to train our staff and help us better\nunderstand how best to run future events), to create marketing\ncontent for our promotion of future events (legitimate interests, of\nus, to encourage future sponsorship, attendance and awards entries),\nto supplement editorial content on an event (legitimate interests, of\nus, to provide fuller and more engaging content). We may also share\nthis with future sponsors (legitimate interests, of us, to show\npotential sponsors what the event is like and to encourage\nsponsorship) and existing sponsors and clients (legitimate interests,\nof us and our sponsors and clients, to share potential marketing\nmaterial with our sponsors and clients so that they can promote their\ninvolvement in the event).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sponsored\nwebinars and whitepapers<\/strong>: Where you sign up for a sponsored\nwebinar or to access sponsored content such as whitepapers, we share\nyour sign-up details with that sponsor who may contact you\n(legitimate interests, of us, to enable us to offer our users premium\nbusiness content free of charge, and of our sponsors, to facilitate\nbusiness-to-business relationships). We use a third party technology\nservice provider to help facilitate this. If you do not wish for your\ndetails to be shared we usually offer an alternative means of\naccessing this content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You employer<\/strong>:\nWhere your subscription to our service is a part of a wider corporate\nsubscription (i.e. your employer obtains a subscription for all of\nits employees) we may share information about your use of the service\nwith your employer (legitimate interests, of your employer, so they\ncan understand how their staff are making use of the resources they\nhave purchased).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Service\nproviders<\/strong>: We may employ the services of third party service\nproviders to help us in certain areas, such as website hosting,\nmaintenance, call centre operation and the operation of events. In\nsome cases the third party may receive your personal data (legitimate\ninterests, of us, for service efficiency and to benefit from third\nparty expertise, and our customers so they experience a good quality\nof service). However, at all times, we will control and be\nresponsible for the use of your personal data and we will endeavour\nto ensure that our service providers are bound by contractual\nobligations to only process your personal data in accordance with our\ninstructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aggregate\ninformation<\/strong>: As mentioned above, we may use aggregated\ninformation so we can administer and improve our website, analyse\ntrends and gather broad demographic information and detect suspicious\nor fraudulent transactions. We may pass this information to third\nparties. In most cases this information will be anonmyised, meaning\nthat you will not be able to be identified from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surveys<\/strong>:\nIf you complete a survey, unless we inform you otherwise, your\nanswers will be aggregated and anonymised for research and analysis\npurposes. However, if you choose to provide any information in your\nresponse to a survey which identifies you (e.g. name, job title), we\nmay be able to identify you from this. If you choose to submit your\nemail address to enter into any prize associated with the survey,\nthis will be used to administer the prize only and will not be linked\nto your survey responses (necessary for a contract). We may share\nyour responses in an aggregated and anonmyised form with third\nparties carrying out research relating to the topics covered in the\nsurvey or, if the survey relates to your use of one of our\nsubscription products, and this forms part of a corporate\nsubscription taken out by your employer for you and other employees,\nwe may share information provided in your survey responses about your\nuse of the subscription with your employer (legitimate interests, for\nresearch purposes). If you have included information about yourself\nin your survey responses (e.g. name, job title), third parties or\nyour employer (as appropriate) may be able to identify you from this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Administration\nof justice<\/strong>: We may occasionally be required by law, court order\nor governmental authority to disclose certain types of personal data\n(necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or for legitimate\ninterests in connection with a legal claim against us). Examples of\nthe type of situation where this would occur would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We process\npersonal data about individuals who feature in our publications,\ncontent and products, including information we have researched from\npublically available sources (legitimate interests and for\njournalistic purposes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also use\npublically available sources to research prospective customers in\norder to send them marketing information about products and services\nrelevant to them (legitimate interests, to grow our business).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are\nsubmitting personal data on behalf of another or are submitting\npersonal data which may be used publicly on our products, you should\nonly do so where you have the consent of the individual and it will\nbe your responsibility to ensure that the individual is made aware of\nthis Privacy Policy and our processing of their personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the event that\nthe business is sold or integrated with another business, your\ndetails will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective\npurchaser\u2019s advisers and will be passed to the new owners of the\nbusiness (legitimate interests).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you provide a\ncredit or debit card, we may also use third parties to check the\nvalidity of the sort code, account number and card number you submit\nin order to prevent fraud as well as to process any transaction you\nattempt via our websites. Any decision to deny you services based on\nthe validity of your card details will be made solely by automated\nmeans. If you are denied a service because of this automated\ndecision-making you are entitled to request us to further\ninvestigate. Please contact us at accounts@vbresearch.com where you\nhave been denied access to a service based on your card details being\ndeclared invalid and you consider this to be in error. It may also be\nthe case that you will need to contact your bank \/ payment provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If false or\ninaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified, details\nmay be passed to fraud prevention agencies. Law enforcement agencies\nmay access and use this information. We and other organisations may\nalso access and use this information to prevent fraud and money\nlaundering, for example when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not\ntransfer personal data to servers outside the EEA for storage\npurposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you sign up\nfor one of our events outside the EEA (for example, we hold events in\nthe United States of America and Singapore), we may also transfer\nsome of your personal information to the country where that event is\nbeing held, to the extent necessary to enable you to attend that\nevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our site contains\nlinks to other websites over which we have no control. We are not\nresponsible for privacy policies or practices of other websites to\nwhich you choose to link from this site. We encourage you to review\nthe privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand\nhow they collect, use and share your personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have\nimplemented reasonable technical and organisational measures designed\nto secure your personal information from accidental loss and from\nunauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, the\nInternet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised\nthird parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your\npersonal information for improper purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under certain\ncircumstances, by law, you have the following rights in relation to\nyour personal data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are unsure\nabout your rights you should contact your data protection supervisory\nauthority. In the UK this will be the Information Commissioner\u2019s\nOffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you contact us\nin relation to your rights we will do our best to accommodate your\nrequest or objection. Please note, however, that not all rights are\nabsolute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may review,\ncorrect, update or change your personal information at any time by\ncontacting us at accounts@vbresearch.com Often, where you have signed\nup for an online account on one of our websites you can also amend\nyour details via that online account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will retain\nyour personal data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes\noutlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is\nrequired or permitted by law. Accordingly, your personal data shall\nbe maintained for up to seven years following the end of the services\nwe provide to you \/ your last contact with us. This retention period\nmay be extended if any applicable statutory or regulatory obligation\nrequires us to hold information for a longer period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If our Privacy\nPolicy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this\npage and we will take reasonable steps to make you aware of material\nchanges to it. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are\nalways aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it\nand under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other\nparties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAs a reminder, if you have any questions about this statement or your\npersonal information, please contact us at accounts@vbresearch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. SCOPE AND CONTACT This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected by Venture Business Research Limited on www.cleanenergypipeline.com (including mobile site) which links to this Privacy Policy, via registration forms, surveys, competition entries, at events (including awards), or if you contact us (online, by post, telephone or social media). 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HOW WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE USED AND SHARED?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4. SALE OF THE BUSINESS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
5. FRAUD PREVENTION AND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
6. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EEA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
7. LINKS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
8. SECURITY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
9. YOUR RIGHTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10. UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11. RETENTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
13. HOW TO CONTACT US<\/h2>\n\n\n\n