Introduction and who we are
Redbridge Events ltd. connects specialists all over the world through events and scholarly publishing.
Data and Redbridge Events ltd. are at the heart of what Redbridge Events ltd. does, and we take matters of data privacy seriously. We respect our relationships with customers, clients, visitors, sponsors, exhibitors, contributors, suppliers and colleagues, and the trust they place in us to hold their personal Redbridge Events ltd.
Redbridge Events ltd. Data Controllers
This Privacy Policy explains how Redbridge Events ltd. collect, use and protect personal data across our brands.
International coverage and variation
This Privacy Policy applies to all Redbridge Events ltd. events across the world.
To update your marketing preferences
To update your personal information or marketing preferences, contact our Divisional Marketing teams listed below.
marketing@workspaceshow.co.uk
Data Team – esha@workspaceshow.co.uk
For data privacy queries or complaints, you can address them to the Redbridge Events ltd. or email the above mentioned email addresses.
What we collect
This section explains what personal information Redbridge Events ltd. we collect.
This section describes what personal information Redbridge Events ltd. we may collect from you when you use our products and services, and what other personal Redbridge Events ltd. we may receive from other sources.
In this Privacy Policy, Redbridge Events ltd. refers to the types of personal information that may be collected and used, including:
• Contact details such as name, email address, postal address and telephone number
• Educational, nationality and professional Redbridge Events ltd
• Demographic Redbridge Events ltd. such as gender and birth date
• Usernames and passwords
• Payment Redbridge Events ltd., such as a credit or debit card number or bank account details
• Order and purchase history
• Comments, feedback, ratings, posts and other content submitted, including survey Redbridge Events ltd.
• Interests and communication preferences including marketing permissions where appropriate
• Location Redbridge Events ltd. such as provided through a mobile app and Bluetooth beacons
• Images, including photographs and video footage, for example via CCTV or cameras in our mobile apps, or where we require a photograph on an event badge for security purposes, including biometric data for identification or crime prevention purposes
• Audio notes, such as via our mobile apps
• Redbridge Events ltd. verifying your identity such as passport details to comply with legal obligations in certain countries and to provide visa invitation letters where requested
• IP address, website and communication usage Redbridge Events ltd., such as correspondence and details of your use of our website and services obtained through cookies or other tracking technologies
• Name of hotel when attending one of our events.
This personal information relates to the following categories of people:
• Prospects, customer contacts, subscribers and users in respect of our services and products
• Visitors, sponsors, exhibitors and speakers at our events
• Professionals featured in digital and print products, such as senior executive details made available through intelligence products, research, publications
• Authors, editors, and reviewers in respect of our publications
• Contacts of our service providers and business partners
We may collect this directly from you when you register for an event or engage with our services and/or platforms. We may also collect this from third party partners and public sources to the extent permitted by applicable data protection law or/ legitimate interest basis
Data collected by third parties at our events
In some cases, third parties attending our events may collect personal information about you, for example by taking a photograph of your business card on one of our event mobile apps, or by scanning your visitor badge. We are not the data controller of this data, and are not responsible for third party use. For further information, please see any relevant third party privacy policies or the applicable terms of use for the relevant app.
How and why personal information is used
This section explains how and why we use personal information.
Product enquiries, sales and administration
If you have made an enquiry about us or our products or services, either online or over the phone, your personal information will be used to respond to the enquiry or to take other steps at your request, prior to you entering into a contract with us.
If you have purchased or registered for one of our products or services, including on a trial basis, we will use your personal information, including bank or card details, to provide you with the product or service, communicate with you about it, handle payments and recover any debts.
Call monitoring for training and quality monitoring purposes
Where one of our sales representatives speaks to you over the phone, the calls are recorded for training and monitoring purposes.
To include professional personal information in our products and consulting services
If your professional personal information is relevant to our products and is freely available through public sources, such as a website related to your work or profession, listed directories, press releases, industry publications, or if you provide it to us, to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws, we may use such personal Redbridge Events ltd. in the products we provide to customers, for example in subscription products, research, industry analysis and insights. We may also check your information against the personal information listed on available databases, to identify and verify your professional status.
If you make an enquiry or engage us to provide consulting services or research/analysis, we will collect your personal information such as your name, country, job title, company or academic affiliation, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number. We will use your personal information to respond to the enquiry or to fulfil consulting services.
For event and exhibition management
If you participate in one of our events as a speaker, sponsor, exhibitor or attendee, your personal information will be used in connection with the running of the event, to handle payments and recover debts. This includes our legitimate business interests in carrying out logistic, administrative and analytics activities, to ensure our events run smoothly and so that we can offer an improved experience for our customers.
We may also use your personal information to maintain databases that allow us to assess your qualities as a speaker or sponsor/exhibitor, promote events and encourage further engagement at our events, and to request references in certain circumstances.
We may share your personal information with exhibitors at the event you are going to attend, so that they can contact you in advance and arrange to meet with you during the event.
In addition, photos and videos are taken at our events, which may feature attendees, speakers, sponsors or exhibitors. Where we have taken photos and videos at our events that feature you as an attendee, sponsor or exhibitor, to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws, those photos and videos may be used for promotional purposes. Third parties may also take photographs at our events, for example to maintain a record of stands or exhibitors they have visited. We are not responsible for the collection or use of images taken by third parties.
Where events and exhibitions use badge scanning technology, your personal information will be used to identify you at certain access points, such as to access VIP areas, seminars, entry and exit in other areas of the event. This will provide certain location information. Badges cannot be read remotely.
The personal information obtained from badge scanning will be used for access control, security and analysing visitor traffic with a view to improving the event experience for visitors and others. We may also use de-identified image data taken from cameras and/or location data collected via a mobile phone app and Bluetooth beacons to analyse visitor traffic and/or to assess attendance at particular seminars or presentations. This data may be shared with the relevant exhibitors.
You can also allow your badge to be scanned by event exhibitors. When you do so your contact details will be shared with the relevant exhibitor and used in accordance with applicable data protection laws, the exhibitor’s privacy policy and any other notices or consents you are provided with or given at the event.
We may also use smart tag technology to record and monitor attendance at our live sessions, which removes the need for manual badge scanning when entering and exiting. We will share your personal data with the sponsors of the live sessions and they may contact you with more information about their products and services. You may opt-out of receiving the smart tage or cease attendance monitoring at any time by contacting us on. When you enter virtual spaces, zones or rooms such as an exhibition booth, your personal information may be shared with the sponsor and exhibitor to allow them to engage with you subject to the attendee privacy notice you may have been provided during the registration and login process.
When using our event app, we will be collecting your personal data, including location information to improve your event experience and offer features such as in-app navigation, which notifies you about featured sessions and recommends tailored content matching your interests. We and the event’s sponsors and exhibitor may also use the app data for analytical and marketing purposes. You may opt-out of using our app features by updating your preferences in the app settings.
For our publishing services
If you publish work with us, your personal information, including the personal information of any named representative or beneficiary, is used in connection with the dissemination and promotion of your published work, and fulfilment of any contractual obligations, as is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a commercial organisation. Your name and affiliation will be published as part of authored work. Personal information is also used to handle payments or for other purposes, as is necessary to perform the contract entered into with us.
In addition, we sometimes take photos and videos at events associated with your published work. Where photos and videos are taken at our events that feature you as an author, we may use those photos and videos for promotional purposes.
For marketing
We may use your personal information to send you newsletters, offers or other marketing emails that keep you up to date with our news, events and products that may be of interest. Depending on the nature of your interaction with us and applicable data protection laws, you may have actively given us your consent (i.e. opted in) or we may be entitled to rely on your implied consent or legitimate interests to market to you. The opportunity to opt out of future marketing will always be provided, and you have the right to amend your marketing preferences at any time by opting out/ unsubscribing.
Many of our events and products are co-branded or sponsored by third party exhibitors or sponsors. We may share your details with these third party partners. Where this happens, a clear notice will be provided, that gives the opportunity to opt out or opt in to such sharing as required by applicable data protection laws. The third party partner’s use of your details will be in accordance with the notice provided and its privacy policy, and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
In social media
We may use your personal information to undertake advertising campaigns on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook in order to provide information about upcoming events or new products and to ensure you only receive relevant advertising about our products and services. We may share your personal information with social media platforms so that you see advertising about our, or our partners’, products and services that we think you will be interested in when you interact with the relevant social media platform. We may also share your personal information with social media platforms to help us present relevant advertising to individuals who the social media platforms determine are likely to have similar interests to you.
We maintain presences on social media platforms, through our company and brand pages. We collect personal information when you interact with us on social media. Please note that these social media platforms may set cookies and other tracking technologies on your device when you visit their pages and when you navigate from their pages.
The output of such information may be provided to us (usually for statistical purposes to see how users interact with our content on social media platforms). The social media platforms are responsible for how they handle your personal information and information about how these social media platforms collect and use your personal information (and how they use cookies and other technologies, including instructions on how you can disable these) can usually be found in their respective privacy policies and cookies policies on their respective websites. For customer and prospects management (including analytics and product management).
For surveys
We may use your personal information to undertake research surveys for ourselves or on behalf of a third party. This includes your contact information, pseudonymised demographic information and any feedback or answers you provide. Surveys may be carried out digitally or face-to-face.
For customer and prospects management (including analytics and product management)
The personal information held about you, combined with other personal information legitimately obtained and shared with us by third parties or publicly available data, may be used to better understand our customers and their preferences and to improve the products and services delivered. This may include automated profiling and campaign management techniques.
Data may also be used in advertising campaigns on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook in order to provide information about upcoming events or new products and to ensure you only receive relevant advertising about our products and services as described above.
For mobile applications and website analytics
We may combine visitor session information or other information collected through tracking technologies, whether you are logged in or not, with personally identifiable information to understand and analyse your online experiences, improve the efficiency and operation of our websites or services and determine which events, products and services are likely to be of interest to you.
Where you consent to the use of your location data, certain mobile applications may use location data to assist you to navigate around events and bring exhibitors’ and sponsors’ products to your attention whilst you are using the app.
Our marketing related emails contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether emails are opened, and combined with other technology, to verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting and to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email.
Where you subscribe to an online service, the accompanying emails similarly include a pixel. We track interaction with these emails and our online services to validate attendance for accreditation purposes, to help determine which information is of interest to you and to customise the advertisements seen on our sites.
If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should choose not to click links that we send or to opt out of email marketing or online events. This information may be connected to your personal identity.
While we strive to offer choice when using our website and mobile applications, we do not promise that we will be able to receive or honor web browser Do Not Track signals.
Within online membership communities, bulletin boards and chat areas
You may choose to participate in online membership communities on our sites that allow you to create and publish a profile and other personal information. These communities may provide privacy controls that allow choice in how much of your profile and other information to make public or to share with others within the community. Some platforms also provide membership of wider communities within your industry.
Privacy controls are usually found on the page on which you edit your profile, and each individual is responsible for understanding how those controls work, including default settings, and choosing how the information provided is shared and protected. By participating in these online membership communities, other members of the community may be able to view some of your personal information and you may be contacted by other participants using the information provided.
When you disclose personal information on any public community boards or chat areas on such websites, your personal information can be collected and used by anyone who views that board or area. This may result in unsolicited messages from other participants or other parties, which are outside of our control or responsibility.
However, where you engage with us in customer enquiry chat areas, this is private and we will use any information provided to help recommend products and/or assist with confirming any order you wish to place.
For enquiries and complaints
Any personal information provided on the Contact Us page will be used only to provide a response, find a resolution to the complaint or to service the request or enquiry made. The information provided will not be added to the marketing or customer prospect databases of Informa’s operating divisions.
For news alerts
The information collected when you sign up for news alerts is used only to provide that service, and to understand the background and interests of our subscriber list.
In providing the service we gather statistics about how many emails are opened, using industry standard technologies including image downloads. This is to help us monitor and improve the news alerts service and information is collected and analysed at an aggregate level only.
From time-to-time we may use your registration details to contact you about the news alerts service. You can unsubscribe from the service at any time using links provided within our emails.
International transfer of personal information
This section explains our process around transferring personal information internationally.
Due to the international nature of our business and the technologies required, personal information may be accessed by our colleagues and third-party service providers from locations all around the world, whose data protection laws may not be as extensive as those in regions such as the European Union.
Who personal information is shared with
As a global multinational to provide you with our services and products, your information may be shared for specific reasons. This section explains how and why personal data is shared.
Sharing with service providers
We may share your personal information with third parties who assist in providing our products and services and administering our business. These include IT and marketing technology host suppliers, web and data hosting providers, mailing houses, ad servers, logistics and general services contractors, debt collection agencies, onsite health and safety partners, event registration partners, sales platform providers, communication tool providers, stand designers/builders/fitters, suppliers of sponsorship/marketing/PR collateral and other event collaboration partners. Personal information will only be shared with third parties if and to the extent it is necessary for them to provide our products and services to you.
Sharing with other organisations
We may share your personal information, including contact details and product or service interaction with trusted partner organisations for their marketing purposes, in accordance with local data protection laws and where required, with your permissions.
If you use one of our virtual products, such as a virtual exhibition, directory site or webinars, or choose to allow your badge to be scanned at an event, we may pass the information you provide to third parties. Generally, this will be via a process whereby you, as the user, visit or interact with a third party, such as visiting a stand at an online exhibition, having your badge scanned or clicking an asset branded and provided by a third party. In some instances, for example, a product listing site, you may reach out directly to a supplier or exhibitor, who may contact you in return. In other instances, our virtual products are sponsored and in these cases, the data provided will be given to the sponsor. Generally, we will let you know at the time of collection if a product is sponsored.
We may share your personal information with clients and data providers in connection with the marketing services referred to above, who are bound to process that data strictly in compliance with applicable law.
To reorganise or make changes to our business
If we are subject to negotiations for the sale of all or a part of our business to a third party, are sold to a third party or undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal information to the relevant third party or its advisors as part of any due diligence process. Any information that is transferred to that re-organised entity or third party will be used for the same purposes as set out in this policy, or for the purpose of analysing any proposed sale or re-organisation.
In connection with legal or regulatory obligations
We may process your personal information to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements or to respond to regulators where applicable. This may include disclosing your personal information to third parties, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so.
In some circumstances, we may be legally required to disclose your personal information because a court, the police, another judicial or law enforcement body or government entity has asked us for it.
To make a request you can contact Informa’s Privacy team via our online privacy form. Please click on “Make a Privacy Request” in the top right of this page.
Updating your information and marketing preferences
This section explains who you can contact to update your personal information that we hold and how you can update how we can send you updates on our products, services and events.
We want you to remain in control of your personal information. We try to ensure the personal information held about you is accurate and up-to-date. We will always provide the opportunity to unsubscribe or opt out of future marketing communications.
Information on how to unsubscribe or opt out will be provided on every marketing email we send you. However, if at any stage you would like to update and/or correct such personal information, or opt-out of future marketing communications, you can request this via esha@workspaceshow.co.uk
Contacting us
For any questions about this Privacy Policy contact our Group Data Protection Officer – sales@workspaceshow.co.uk
We hope we will be able to resolve any privacy concerns you may have.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that we update our Privacy Policy from time-to-time.
To keep up with changing legislation, best practice and changes in how we process personal information, we may revise this Privacy Policy at any time. Depending on the nature of the changes, we may update you via email if we have your personal information; or we may update the Policy without notice by posting a revised version on this website. To stay up to date on any changes, check back periodically.