Privacy-Policy

ABOUT US:

DobreTech is a well-established professional conference and event organizer based in Africa. We work closely with our delegates in organizing international conferences, bringing together experts, academia, and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss options and strategies in their fields.
Our international conferences aim to provide our participants with a positive experience and help them perform in their daily responsibilities while overcoming any possible challenges. Our headquarters is in Africa —– Cameroon: Yaounde (Yde) and we have a branch office in Prague (PRG), America (USA), and France (Lille).
Our website gives you the possibility to register and request for detailed information (Agenda) of DobreTech events. We collect your information for detailed hereafter.
DobreTech is committed to protecting your privacy.
This document is designed to give a clear explanation of DobreTech data processing practices. Please see below for further information.
If you have any questions or concerns relating to DobreTech site or would like to find out more about how we collect, store, or use your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer:DobreTech:
Email: info@dobretech.com
Phone: +1.714.600.0500

 

Q1. WHAT IS GDPR AND WHAT HAVE DobreTech DONE TO COMPLY?

GDPR stands for the General Data Protection Regulation and is effective as of May 25th, 2018. GDPR replaces national privacy and security laws that previously existed within the EU with a single, comprehensive EU-wide law that governs the use, sharing, transfer, and processing of any personal data that originates from the EU.
Our policy is to respect all laws that apply to our business and this includes GDPR. We also appreciate that our customers have requirements under GDPR that are directly impacted by their use of DobreTech services. We are committed to helping our clients stay in compliance with GDPR and their local requirements. As part of our commitment to GDPR compliance, we have updated our Privacy Policy. Besides, here are a few things that DobreTech is committed to doing to ensure our compliance with GDPR and that of our customers:1.) DobreTech commits to following appropriate security measures and precautions following GDPR. We ensure that employees authorized to process personal data have committed to confidentiality. We hold any sub-processors that handle personal data, including our data center partners and hosting providers to the same data management, security, and privacy practices and standards to which we hold ourselves. DobreTech will assist inquirers, as much as possible; to respond to data subject requests regarding data privacy & GDPR.

 

Q2. WHAT’S CHANGING WITH DobreTech PRIVACY POLICY?

DobreTech has released an update to our Privacy Policy which comes into effect starting on May 25th, 2018. Our new policy addresses new data regulations (including GDPR). The most significant changes in the new policy are detailed below. In a nutshell, it provides our clients with more control over their information.
Our policy explains how you can make choices about your information and the measures we’ve put in place to keep your information secure.

Q3. WHERE WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION, WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT & THE PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR COLLECTION?

DobreTech has a research department that is tasked with the responsibility of finding relevant potential participants to our events. The department does in-depth market research on LinkedIn and Google to collect data. The data we collect include Name (First & Last Name) and Company Name only!Through human and artificial intelligence, the department can generate the emails of the potential participants from the Full Name and Company Name information collected.

 

Our event invitations are sent to only individuals we believe are relevant for the event and their attendance would be beneficial for their career development through benchmarking and networking with other peers from the industry. We admit that sometimes our invitations reach few irrelevant people. However, we provide the possibility to UNSUBSCRIBE from our mailing list. Please note that by unsubscribing you will not receive any invitations of any of our other events that may be relevant to you.

Besides, we collect data via our website. Our website provides the possibility to submit your information to register and request for the agenda of our events. The personal information provided is being collected for legitimate business purposes, which includes processing event registrations and inquiries, keeping you informed about new events, products or offers and providing the best possible service to you. Whenever we process data for these purposes we will ensure that we always keep your Data rights in high regard and take account of these rights.

The provision of this information is voluntary. However, if you do not provide the information requested, we may be unable to process your registration or inquiry. All information provided by you will be held in the strictest confidence.

To register or request for our event brochure you may need to provide the following information (however is not limited to):

Full Name & Job Title
Company Name & Address
Phone & Fax Number
Email Address
Billing information
Interest Areas & Preferences

DobreTech is the sole owner of the information collected on our site and by sending us your information you give us explicit consent/right to process your information to respond to your inquiries and keep you informed about our current and future events including other offers.
We only collect data that is necessary for the purposes mentioned above. DobreTech does not receive or purchase any contacts from a third party.

A. DIRECT MARKETING

If you no longer wish to receive newsletters or promotional materials, you may opt-out of receiving these communications. You can do it by following the unsubscribe link placed in the footer of the promotional email or, if by post, by returning the letter to us with “unsubscribe” marked upon it. Or you can simply send an email to unsubscribe@dobretech.com and ask to be unsubscribed.

B. USE OF COOKIES & LOG FILES

When you visit our site, a cookie (a very small text file) is placed on your device which is powered by google ads. If you accept it, it is used to provide you with a personalized experience and to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics. You may refuse the cookie if you wish. To do so, you will need to check your browser settings.The cookies collect certain information about your computer hardware and software, this includes
(however, is not limited to):
IP Address
Browser Type
Operating System
Access Times
Referring Website Addresses

 

This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of DobreTech websites.

C. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION AND TO WHO IS IT DISCLOSED?

DobreTech does not share or publish our collected data. We do not rent or sell our customer e-mail lists. We may share some information of registered delegates (First & Last Name, Job Title Company and Country) with other attendees only through DobreTech event Webapp powered by EventBuizz and if you do not want us to share your information with our attendees during the event please email info@dobretech.comNo list supplied by DobreTech may be used by anyone other than for the confidential use of the original mailer. All lists are seeded with decoy names to protect against abuse; violators will be prosecuted.

 

D. SECURITY

DobreTech takes precautions to protect your information. When users submit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Access to all of our users’ information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

E. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

DobreTech Website and Event Brochure contains some links to other sites. Please be aware that DobreTech is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to the information collected by DobreTech.

F. HOW DO WE PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD YOUR INFORMATION?

Your information is safe with us. All our data are securely stored on the data servers of our hosting providers. DobreTech has a confidentiality agreement with all our Hosting providers and they abide by security decisions and provisions established for their services.
Email Hosting / Data Storage / Web Application: Easy Internet Solutions (see Private Policy Agreement)

G. HOW CAN YOU VERIFY, MODIFY OR DELETE YOUR INFORMATION?

DobreTech will make every attempt to keep your data accurate, complete, and up to date. If your personal information is incorrect, changes, or if you no longer wish to receive information from DobreTech, we will endeavor to correct, update, or remove your information as swiftly as possible. This can be done by e-mailing info@dobretech.com. In case you want to verify which data is stored on your behalf, to have it modified corrected or deleted, please contact our data officer – Email: info@dobretech.com and explicitly specify your request. Special attention is drawn to the consequences of a request for deletion, in which case any possibility to be able to contact you will be lost.

H. DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION

The personal data we hold is stored on DobreTech servers and the servers of cloud-based database management services of our hosting providers. DobreTech retains data for the duration of the customer’s or member’s business relationship with the DobreTech. For more information on where and how long your data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure, please contact the DobreTech data protection officer at info@dobretech.com.
Your data will be part of a list of contact details shared internally amongst the staff of DobreTech services to contact you in the future, in the context of DobreTech activities. Personal data will be kept for a maximum of 12 months from the day of the reception.

I. CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions regarding our activities, feel free to contact the support team, operating under the responsibility of the data protection officer.

J. GDPR COMPLIANCE

DobreTech respects your right to privacy. We ensure all data is managed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. You have a right to be forgotten and can email us at info@dobretech.com to request your data or any information related to privacy.

K. RECOURSE

DobreTech will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and following this Privacy Notice. If you do not consent to this storing or processing of your personal information please mail info@dobretech.com with word “UNSUBSCRIBE” indicating your wishes.

 

Remarks can be addressed to the DobreTech Data Protection Officer.