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AATCC’s Privacy Notice explains AATCC’s policies regarding the collection, use, transmission, and disclosure of information provided by or collected from you via your AATCC Account, or other means that you provide. By agreeing to be bound by these Account Terms, you agree that you have read and understand how your information or data are used as described in the Privacy Notice (and as amended from time to time).
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AATCC takes data protection very seriously and wants to make sure your data is as safe as possible. Our Fair Processing Notice explains how we use your personal data, describes the categories of personal data we process and for what purposes. We are committed to collecting and using such data fairly and in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
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You have the right to object to how we process your personal information. You also have the right to access, correct, sometimes delete and restrict the personal information we use. In addition, you have the right to complain to us and to the data protection regulator.
In addition to the information, you provide to us directly (for example when you join as a member or order products), we collect personal information in a number of ways for example from AATCC events you may have attended or AATCC products and services you have accessed.
For some products and services, we need to use personal information, or we will not be able to provide any of these products and services to you.
You can request access to a copy of your personal information. Please make all requests for access in writing, and provide us with evidence of your identity. We will not make any charge for responding to any request from you, and we will respond to your request in accordance with our obligations under data protection law.
If you have given us your consent to use your personal information you can withdraw this at any time.
You can ask us to change or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal information held about you.
You can ask us to delete your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, you have withdrawn consent, or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it.
You can ask us to restrict the personal information we use about you where you have asked for it to be erased or where you have objected to our use of it.
You can make a complaint about how we have used your personal information.
We use your personal information to provide you with products and services such as membership benefits, and to assess your suitability for other products and services such as events, workshops, qualifications, and other awards. We also use it to improve and market our products and services. We may also use your personal information on AATCC marketing channels, such as images and video we have taken at AATCC events.
We need some personal information before we can provide you with our products and services. In some cases we won’t be able to provide products and services to you if we don’t have all the personal information we need.
Keeping personal information.
How long we keep your personal information depends on the products and services we deliver to you, but we will never retain your personal information for any longer than is necessary. For example, we may retain a list of individuals who have attended an AATCC event and expressed an interest in a future event, or we may retain a list of individuals who hold an AATCC qualification, even if the individual is no longer in membership.
We may communicate with you about AATCC products and services using any contact details you have given us – for example by post, email, text message, telephone, social media, and notifications on our website. If you are a member this will include keeping you up to date with member-related matters. Where you have given us consent to receive marketing, you can withdraw consent, and update your preferences by contacting us directly.
Sometimes we need your consent to use your personal information. We won’t always need consent to use personal information – for example if we need it to meet regulatory requirements or to perform a contract with you. Where you have given us consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.
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