This Privacy Policy covers The Future Society’s handling of two categories of information:
- Information we receive in connection with our hosting, partnerships, research, education programs, consulting and other services (“The Future Society Projects”)
- and Information we receive through any part of our website at www.thefuturesociety.org or any other The Future Society webpage, survey or data collection form or process that incorporates this Privacy Policy, as well as personal data we collect through other channels for our marketing and business development activities (collectively with data collected through the The Future Society Websites, “The Future Society Operational Data”).
1. Privacy Practices Specific to The Future Society Projects
a. Information Collected Through the The Future Society Projects
Through some The Future Society Projects, we receive information from or on behalf of our partners. Because of the nature of our projects, this information may contain any type of personal data.
b. Uses of Information Collected Through the The Future Society Projects
Subject to our contractual obligations, and depending on the particular The Future Society Project, we use information described above as follows:
- To implement the The Future Society Projects;
- To enforce the legal terms that govern the The Future Society Projects;
- To comply with law and protect rights, safety and property; and
- For other purposes requested or permitted by our partners.
c. Disclosures of Information Collected Through the The Future Society Projects
Subject to our contractual obligations, and depending on the particular The Future Society Projects, we share the information described above as follows:
- To implement the The Future Society Projects;
- To enforce the legal terms that govern the The Future Society Projects;
- To comply with law and protect rights, safety and property; or
- For other purposes requested or permitted by our customers.
For those purposes, we may share information with our affiliates and other entities that help us with any of the above.
2. Privacy Practices Specific to The Future Society Operational Data
a. Information We Collect
The Future Society Operational Data consists of contact details, information about an individual’s interactions with The Future Society or our partners.
We obtain The Future Society Operational Data directly from the relevant individuals (such as on the The Future Society Websites or at events), and also from third-party sources, such as their employers, referrals, and social networking platforms (e.g., LinkedIn).
On our Websites, we or third parties may collect certain information by automated means such as cookies, Web beacons and JavaScript. This information may include unique browser identifiers, IP address, browser and operating system information, device information, Internet connection information, as well as details about individuals’ interactions with websites.
We and third parties may use automated means to read or write information on users’ devices, such as in various types of cookies and other browser-based or plugin-based local storage. Cookies are files that contain data, such as unique identifiers, that we or a third party may transfer to or read from a user’s device for purposes such as recognizing the device, service provision, record-keeping, analytics and marketing. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse certain types of cookies, or to alert you when certain types of cookies are being sent. However, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, certain websites (including our own websites) may not function properly.
In some cases, we facilitate the collection of information by advertising services administered by third parties. The ad services may track users’ online activities over time by collecting information through automated means such as cookies, and they may use this information to show users advertisements that are tailored to their individual interests or characteristics and/or based on prior visits to certain sites or apps, or other information we know, infer or have collected from the users. For example, we and the third-party vendors may use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together, as well as other automated means and other data (such as the data described above) (i) to recognize users and their devices, (ii) to inform, optimize, and serve The Future Society ads and (iii) to report on our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services. For controls specific to advertising and analytics services offered by Google, click here and here. Visitors from IP addresses in the United Kingdom, European Economic Area or Canada are automatically presented with a cookie consent tool that provides details and options for these and additional cookies. For more information about that tool or our cookies generally, or to use the tool from an IP address in the UK, European Economic Area or Canada, please visit this page. If you replace, change or upgrade your browser, or delete your cookies, you may need to use these opt-out tools again.
b. Use of The Future Society Operational Data
The Future Society uses and discloses The Future Society Operational Data as follows:
- To fulfill your requests;
- To send you information about our projects;
- To respond to your questions, concerns, or customer service inquiries;
- To enforce the legal terms that govern the The Future Society Websites and our activities;
- To comply with law and protect rights, safety and property; and
- For other purposes requested or permitted by our partners and users.
We will retain The Future Society Operational Data as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes unless the law requires us to keep it for a longer period of time. To provide security and business continuity for the activities described in this Privacy Policy, we make backups of certain data, which we may retain for longer than the original data.
c. Disclosures of The Future Society Operational Data
Subject to our contractual obligations, and depending on the particular The Future Society Website or activity at issue, we share the information described above as follows:
- To carry out the uses of information described above;
- In connection with routine technical support; or
- For other purposes requested or permitted by our partners.
For those purposes, we may share information with our affiliates and other entities that help us with any of the above.
d. Legal Basis for Processing The Future Society Operational Data
The laws in some jurisdictions require organisations to tell you about the legal ground they rely on to use or disclose your personal data. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds for processing The Future Society Operational Data are as follows:
- Legitimate interests: In many cases, we handle personal data on the ground that it furthers our legitimate interests in activities related to our projects such as the following in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals:
– Protecting our partners, personnel and property
– Analyzing and improving our activities
– Marketing
- We may also process personal data for the same legitimate interests of our partners.
- Legal compliance: We need to use and disclose personal data in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations.
- To honor our contractual commitments to you: Some of our processing of personal data is to meet our contractual obligations to an individual, or to take steps at the individual’s request in anticipation of entering into a contract with them.
- Consent: Where required by law, and in some other cases, we handle personal data on the basis of consent.
(We process data collected through The Future Society Projects pursuant to our contracts with our customers, as explained earlier in this Privacy Policy.)
3. Additional Information About Our Privacy Practices (applicable to both The Future Society Projects and The Future Society Operational Data)
a. Security of Your Personal Information
Transmission and storage of electronic information is never 100% secure or error-free. However, we have put in place physical, electronic, and administrative measures to help prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data security, and to use correctly the data we collect.
b. Personal Information Rights and Choices
You may review and update certain user information by logging in to the relevant portions of the The Future Society Websites where such information may be updated. To opt out of our marketing emails, click the unsubscribe link or email unsubscribe@thefuturesociety.org.
Some individuals have certain legal rights (including, in certain cases, under the EU-U.S. and EU-Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks) to obtain confirmation of whether we hold personal data about them, to access personal data we hold about them, and to obtain its correction, update, amendment or deletion in appropriate circumstances. In some cases, they can ask us to provide personal data in portable form or to transmit it to a third party. To exercise those rights, they may contact us as described at the end of this Policy. Individuals may also use the contact information below to object to our uses or disclosures of personal data, request a restriction on its processing or to exercise any legal right to withdraw consent, though such actions typically will not have retroactive effect.
For example, individuals have a right to opt out of our processing of The Future Society Operational Data for direct marketing purposes.
The rights described here are subject to significant limitations and exceptions under the Privacy Shield Frameworks and applicable law. In situations in which we process personal data on behalf of our partner, we may refer the request to the relevant partner and cooperate with their handling of the request, subject to any special contractual arrangement with that partner.
d. Notification of Changes
The Future Society may change this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, our data handling practices or the features of our activities. The updated Privacy Policy will be posted on thefuturesociety.org .
e. Contact Information
If you have questions regarding our practices or this Privacy Policy, or to send us requests or complaints relating to personal data, please contact us at unsubscribe@thefuturesociety.org.
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Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and Ownership of Materials
The Future Society actively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law. The information contained in this site is copyrighted and may not be distributed, modified, reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of The Future Society. The images from this site may not be reproduced in any form without the prior advance written consent of The Future Society. If you have any questions concerning the usage or licensing of The Future Society copyrighted materials, please contact us at info@thefuturesociety.org or by phone at 0033 61 279 2540.
