Privacy Policy

Information Collection & Use

Widget Summit does not sell, rent, or lease its list of attendees, speakers, sponsors, or web visitors to any company for any purpose. Widget Summit does not print "Who's Who" lists of attendee data or sell off your information to the highest bidder.

Ticket Purchase

Widget Summit attendees must provide personally identifiable information at time of purchase including your full name, e-mail address, billing address, and credit card details.

Credit Card Processing

Widget Summit offers the convenience of remote ticket purchase by card issuing banks of the Visa, MasterCard, or American Express credit card associations. The nature of such credit lending accounts require safeguards by all involved parties to reduce fraud, charge-backs, and unauthorized use. Widget Summit, in partnership with your bank and its member associations, processes lending requests on your behalf after completing address verification, card present verification, and an authorized user match.

Widget Summit does not store credit card data or billing address details on its servers. Payment data is handled by our upstream merchant processor, Braintree Payment Solutions, inside a purpose-built PCI DSS compliant hardened storage vault. Credit card processing data is transmitted to Braintree servers over a [X BITS] SSL connection to encrypt data in transit and verify the identity of both parties.

Address Verification

Widget Summit collects your name and billing address to prevent fraudulent use of your credit line. Your supplied name, address, city, region, and postal code are passed to your issuing bank, or its partners, for verification against your registered account data. Address verification lowers credit card processing fraud and therefore lowers our credit card processing rates.

Billing address details are not stored by Widget Summit. Basic geographic data -- including city, region, and country -- are translated into a Where on Earth Identifier (WOEID) by Yahoo! for geographical targetting by our staff and possible attendee networking.

Card Security Code

Your credit card security code is never stored by Widget Summit or its payment processors. The card security code is also known as card validation code from MasterCard, card verification value from Visa, and the unique card code by American Express. The card security code is an additional security measure for card-not-present transactions such as e-commerce and a required piece of cardholder data in some regions or countries.

Call for Proposals

Basic contact data including your name and e-mail address is collected through the Widget Summit Call for Proposals system. This basic contact information is needed to process your speaking request and respond to your proposal.

User Profile

You may choose to create a user profile on the Widget Summit website to network with other attendees. Personal information supplied through your profile may be exposed to other Widget Summit attendees and the public Web, according to your preferences.

Widget Summit may conduct searches against popular social networking sites based on your provided e-mail address to assist you in your profile-building process.

Communications from Widget Summit

Event-related Announcements

Widget Summit may directly notify event participants of event news or instructions via e-mail. Notifications include information to help you plan your trip to Widget Summit or any major changes to the Widget Summit schedule.

Customer Service

We will send you a welcoming e-mail based on the name and e-mail address you submit at the time of ticket purchase. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Future Events

Widget Summit may notify past attendees of future events via e-mail. This one-time e-mail is considered part of our ongoing relationship with our attendees.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

Widget Summit shares aggregate audience data with its speakers and sponsors to encourage presentations and interactions custom-tailored for our audience. Shared aggregate data includes, but is not limited to, your professional industry (tech, media, electronics, etc.), job title, or answered survey questions.

Personally Indentifiable Information

Widget Summit does not share personally identifiable information such as your name or e-mail address with third parties. Widget Summit may share your name with other members of your company also attending Widget Summit to help you plan your conference experience. Company connections are verified by a Widget Summit employee using corporate e-mail addresses and/or company data provided at the time of your registration.

Service Providers

Widget Summit employs outside contractors to complete some necessary event functions. Event print designers and physical printing services receive access to a full attendee list, including your full name and company, for the purpose of printing event badges. On-site event staff will verify your identity using government-issued identification at the time of badge delivery. Our staff and outside service providers do not retain this information and are prohibited by contract from sharing such data with outside parties.

Log Files

Each visit to the Widget Summit website leaves a footprint in the form of a log file. Our servers log each visit including the requesting Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, operating system, date and time of visit, and browser capabilities.

We use this information to measure our audience, analyze trends, administer the site, and plan future site features. We use a third-party tracking service, Google Analytics, to collect site analytics for visitors using a JavaScript-enabled web browser.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file stored inside your browser to track your site interactions across multiple pages or visits. Widget Summit stores information about logged-in members inside a cookie for improved user experience. Our tracking partner, Google Analytics, uses cookies to identify unique site visitors across multiple visits.

If you reject cookies you may still use our site but may be required to re-authenticate requests of priviledged pages.

Links to Other Sites

The Widget Summit website includes links to other websites not owned by Widget Summit. Please be aware that we, Widget Summit, are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave WidgetSummit.com and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by WidgetSummit.com.

Business Transitions

In the event Widget Summit goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via e-mail and a prominent notice on WidgetSummit.com for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time as our business and site features change. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by e-mail, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by e-mail.