Privacy Policy

Association of Data Scientists (ADaSci) is the leading association for professionals in Data Science & Machine Learning. ADaSci promotes best practices and advances in data science, machine learning, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making and outcomes through an array of publications, conferences, competitions, networking communities, and professional development services.

While information is critical to our ability to provide high quality service to users, our most important asset is the trust that our members and visitors place in how we provide that service. Keeping personal information secure, and using it only as our visitors would want us to, is a top priority for all of us at ADaSci.

This page is used to inform members and visitors regarding our policies governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of anyone using our services. If you choose to use our services, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The personal information that we collect is used for providing and improving our services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this privacy policy.

The terms used in this privacy policy have the same meanings as in our terms and conditions, which is accessible at ADaSci.org, unless otherwise defined in this privacy policy. The term "us" or "we" refers to ADaSci, the owner of the website and provider of the services. The term "you" refers to the viewer of our website or user of our services.

For a better experience while using our service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

This privacy policy sets out how ADaSci uses and protects any personal information that we collect about you when you use any of our organization's websites, sign up for journal or magazine subscriptions and e-newsletters, register for events, or otherwise participate in ADaSci activities or services. ADaSci is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using our websites or by other contact methods, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

ADaSci is committed to protecting the privacy of children, and therefore does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information on the website or through its services from persons under 13 years of age, except in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). By providing any personal information to ADaSci or otherwise using the service, all visitors and users, including without limitation individuals in the European Union, must acknowledge and hereby unambiguously consent to the transfer to, collection, and processing of such information in India. You may not use the service if you do not agree to such transfer, collection, and processing of your personal information in India.

Your privacy is important to us, and so is being transparent about how we collect, use, and share information about you. This policy is intended to help you understand:

• What information we collect about you
• How we use information we collect
• How we share information we collect
• How we store and secure information we collect
• How we access and control your information
• How we transfer information we collect internationally
• Other important privacy information

This privacy policy covers the information we collect about you when you use our products or services, or otherwise interact with us (for example, by attending our events), unless a different policy is displayed. We offer a wide range of products, journals, continuing education, certification, and events. We collectively refer to all of these products, together with our other services and websites, as "Services" in this policy.

This policy also explains your choices about how we use information about you. Your choices include how you can object to certain uses of information about you and how you can access and update certain information about you. If you do not agree with this policy, do not access or use our Services or interact with any other aspect of our business.

We collect information about you when you provide it to us, when you use our Services, and when other sources provide it to us, as further described below.

How we use the information we collect depends in part on which Services you use, how you use them, and any preferences you have communicated to us. Below are the specific purposes for which we use the information we collect about you.

To provide the Services and personalize your experience

We use information about you to provide the Services to you, including to process transactions with you, authenticate you when you log in (Single Sign-On), provide customer support, and operate and maintain the Services. For example, we use the name and details you provide in your account to identify you to other Service users. Our Services also include tailored features that personalize your experience, enhance your productivity, and improve your ability to collaborate effectively with others by automatically analyzing the activities of your interests to provide search results, activity feeds, notifications, connections, and recommendations that are most relevant for you and your team. We may use your email domain to infer your affiliation with a particular organization or industry to personalize the content and experience you receive on our websites.

For research and development

We are always looking for ways to make our Services smarter, faster, more secure, integrated, and more useful to you. We use collective learnings about how people use our Services and feedback provided directly to us to troubleshoot and to identify trends, usage, activity patterns, and areas for integration and improvement of the Services. We also test and analyze certain new features with some users before rolling the feature out to all users.

To communicate with you about the Services

We use your contact information to send transactional communications via email and within the Services, including confirming your purchases, reminding you of subscription expirations, responding to your comments, questions, and requests, providing customer support, and sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages. These communications are part of the Services and in most cases you cannot opt out of them. If an opt-out is available, you will find that option within the communication itself or in your account settings.

To market, promote, and drive engagement

We use your contact information and information about how you use the Services to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you, including by email and by displaying ADaSci event ads on our company websites and applications, as well as on platforms like Facebook and Google. You can control whether you receive these communications.

Customer support

We use your information to resolve technical issues you encounter, to respond to your requests for assistance, to analyze crash information, and to repair and improve the Services.

For safety and security

We use information about you and your Service use to verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity, and to identify violations of Service policies.

To protect our legitimate business interests and legal rights

Where required by law or where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests, and the interests of others, we use information about you in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and audit functions, and disclosures in connection with the acquisition, merger, or sale of a business.

With your consent

We use information about you where you have given us consent to do so for a specific purpose not listed above. For example, we may publish testimonials or featured customer stories to promote the Services, with your permission.

We share information through the Services and with certain data processors. We share information we collect about you in the ways discussed below, including in connection with possible business transfers, but we are not in the business of selling information about you to advertisers or other third parties.

Sharing with other Service users

When you use the Services, we share certain information about you with other Service users. You can create content, which may contain information about you, and grant permission to others to see, share, edit, copy, and download that content based on settings you or your administrator (if applicable) select. Some of the collaboration features of the Services display some or all of your profile information to other Service users when you share or interact with specific content.

Managed accounts and administrators

If you register or access the Services using an email address with a domain that is owned by your employer or organization, certain information about you including your name, profile picture, contact info, content and past use of your account may become accessible to that organization's administrator and other Service users sharing the same domain.

Service providers

We work with data processors to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, payment processing, analysis, and other services for us. If a service provider needs to access information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.

Links to third party sites

The Services may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit information to any of those third-party sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies, not this one.

Third-party widgets

Some of our Services contain widgets and social media features. These widgets and features collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Compliance with enforcement requests

In exceptional circumstances, we may share information about you with a law enforcement entity if we believe that sharing is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (b) enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of service; (c) protect the security or integrity of our products and services; (d) protect ADaSci, our customers, or the public from harm or illegal activities; or (e) respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose information to assist in preventing the death or serious bodily injury of any person.

Sharing with affiliated companies

We share information we collect with affiliated ADaSci communities and, in some cases, with prospective affiliates. The protections of this privacy policy apply to the information we share in these circumstances.

We use secure data hosting service providers in India to host the information we collect, and we use technical measures to secure your data regardless of the data hosting location.

While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable, and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.

Our processors take the appropriate technical and organizational measures to adequately protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, and unauthorized disclosure of or access. Measures include, but are not limited to:

• Prevention of unauthorized persons from gaining access to personal data and processing systems (physical access control).
• Prevention of personal data processing systems from being used without authorization (logical access control).
• Ensuring that persons entitled to use a personal data processing system gain access only to such personal data as they are entitled to access in accordance with their access rights.
• Ensuring that personal data cannot be read, copied, modified, or deleted without authorization during electronic transmission, transport, or storage on storage media.
• Ensuring the establishment of an audit trail to document whether and by whom personal data have been entered into, modified in, or removed from personal data processing systems.
• Ensuring that personal data is protected against accidental destruction or loss.

How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible (for example, because the information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.

Account information

We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and a reasonable period thereafter in case you decide to re-activate the Services. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our Services.

Information you share on the Services

If your account is deactivated or disabled, some of your information and the content you have provided will remain in order to allow other users to make full use of the Services.

Managed accounts

If the Services are made available to you through an organization (e.g., your employer), we retain your information as long as required by the administrator of your account.

Marketing information

If you have elected to receive marketing emails from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our Services.

You have certain choices available to you when it comes to your information. You may contact us at any time to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, subject to applicable legal obligations.

Notice to end users

Many of our products are intended for use by organizations. Where the Services are made available to you through an organization (for example, your employer), that organization is the administrator of the Services and is responsible for the accounts and/or Service sites over which it has control. Please direct your data privacy questions to your administrator, as your use of the Services is subject to that organization's policies.

Administrators are able to:

• Require you to reset your account password.
• Restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to the Services.
• Access information in and about your account.
• Access or retain information stored as part of your account.

In some cases, administrators can also:

• Restrict, suspend, or terminate your account access.
• Change the email address associated with your account.
• Change your information, including profile information.
• Restrict your ability to edit, restrict, modify, or delete information.

If you do not want an administrator to be able to assert control over your account or use of the Services, use your personal email address to register for or access the Services.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by adding a notice on the Services homepages, login screens, or by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

If you disagree with any changes to this privacy policy, you will need to stop using the Services and deactivate your account(s).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our practices, please contact us: