In accordance with GDPR and privacy best practices, Becoming-U has created the following Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your data?

We have your email and name because you because you signed up to participate in Imagine 2019, or you joined the Becoming-U mailing list. When you fill out a Contact Form on our website, we use the information provided to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us.

We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to other parties. We don't keep any other information about you apart from your email and name for mailing purposes.

Why do we collect the data?

We collect this information to share with you how to interact with Imagine 2019 while it is live, to share news of the Becoming-U community, and from time to time, to share news from the Hosts. We will not share this information with any other third parties.

When you join Imagine 2019 or the Becoming-U community, we may contact you via email to send updates and relevant news, talk about new programs, projects, or services, and/or invite you to contact us. We may also contact you via email to tell you about changes to this privacy policy.

When you join our list, we keep your data in our email platform (MailChimp) until you request that we remove your name and other data about you. You may change your preferences or unsubscribe at any time using the link in each email we send.

Is it protected?

Your information is securely kept on databases that are hosted by a data protection compliant service provider. We protect your data. However, part of the support for the Summit includes other vendors like Paypal, Xing and Constant Contact and our e-commerce gateway, etc. They have their own secure sites and privacy policies for which we are not responsible.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, Xing, Constant Contact or other event registrars). If you have questions about how one of our partners is using your data, contact that partner.

Cookies

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site.

Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, Constant Contact or other event registrars). If you have questions about how one of our partners is using your data, contact that partner.

Your rights?

You have the right to:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If you want to act these, then please email us directly: hello@becoming-u.com

If you ever want to unsubscribe you can also just do that at the bottom of each email, at anytime.

MailChimp – Newsletter

We offer you the opportunity to register for our free newsletter via our website.

We use MailChimp, a service of The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, hereinafter referred to as “The Rocket Science Group”.

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active

the Rocket Science Group guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States. In addition, the Rocket Science Group offers further information about its data protection practices at

http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

If you register for our free newsletter, the data requested from you for this purpose, i.e. your email address and, optionally, your name and address, will be processed by The Rocket Science Group. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of your registration will be saved. During the registration process, your consent to receive this newsletter will be obtained together with a concrete description of the type of content it will offer and reference made to this privacy policy.

The newsletter then sent out by The Rocket Science Group will also contain a tracking pixel called a web beacon. This pixel helps us evaluate whether and when you have read our newsletter and whether you have clicked any links contained therein. In addition to further technical data, such as data about your computer hardware and your IP address, the data processed will be stored so that we can optimize our newsletter and respond to the wishes of our readers. The data will therefore increase the quality and attractiveness of our newsletter.

The legal basis for sending the newsletter and the analysis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your prior consent to receive this newsletter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revoking your consent or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.

Shariff social media buttons

Our website uses the plug-ins of the following social networks. To integrate these plug-ins, we use the Shariff plug-in.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website.

Shariff is an open source program developed by c’t and heise. By integrating this plug-in, linked graphics prevent the following social network plug-ins from automatically establishing a connection to the respective social networks server when you visit website(s) on which the plug-ins are integrated. Only if you click on one of these linked graphics will you be forwarded to the service of the respective social network. Only then will information about your use of our site be recorded by the respective social network. This information may include your IP address, the date and time you visited our site, as well as the pages you viewed.

If you are logged in to one of the social network services while visiting one of our plugged-in websites, the information collected by the plug-in from your specific visit will be recognized by the provider of that social network and assigned to your personal user account there and/or publish information about your interaction with our site there. If, for example, you use the a share button for the social network, this information may be stored in your user account there and published on the platform of the respective social network provider. To prevent this, you must either log out of the social network before clicking the graphic or make the appropriate settings in your social network account.

Further information about Shariff is available at

http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html

The following social networks are integrated into our website:

Facebook operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, operated within the EU by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Privacy information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

Facebook guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

Twitter operated by Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Privacy information can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active

Twitter guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

LinkedIn operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, California 94085, USA.

Privacy information can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active

LinkedIn guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.