PRIVACY AND DATA POLICY

Summary: PyCon Organizing committee only collects the information necessary to register you for PyCon and to provide you access to the PyCon content and services. Registrant contact information is NOT shared with third parties without your explicit opt-in consent. 

If you submit a talk, tutorial, or other content, then your name will be publicly associated with your personal content for purposes of giving you credit for your contribution to the conference and to maintain historical records.

You will be getting email messages about the PyCon conference, and you may have to share basic contact information with sponsors of PyCon.

After PyCon is over and we have fully discharged all of our responsibilities, we will delete any personal information that is not required to preserve publicly-available educational materials or to maintain legal records.

1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT?

For the purpose of data protection laws, the PyCon Organizing committee is the data controller in respect to the personal information that we collect and use as part of our business activities. As the data controller, we control, manage, and dictate the purpose for which your personal information is used and how we use your personal information for our business activity.

If you choose to provide your personal information to other parties during PyCon, including sponsors, then their data privacy policies apply to the data that you give to them. 

2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The type of personal information that the PyCon Organizing committee may collect include, but is not limited to the following:

  • Full name
  • Address
  • Phone Numbers
  • Email Addresses
  • Other Contact Information
  • Company, Firm, Organization, Agency, or other entity information
  • Biographies
  • Preference Information, such as communications that you receive from us
  • Information that you provide to use for the purposes of attending meetings, events, webinars, and other programs
  • Any other information relating to you (or other individuals) which you may provide to us

If you provide personal information to us regarding or related to a third party, then you confirm that you have the consent of the third party to share such personal information and that you have made the information in this Privacy Policy available to the relevant third party.

3. USE OF THIRD PARTY SERVICES

The PyCon Organizing committee uses some third party services, notably Airmeet (https://www.airmeet.com) to provide online content management and streaming services for PyCon. Airmeet has its own terms of service and privacy policy, which apply to your use of the Airmeet service to access PyCon online content 

To the extent that any part of the Airmeet Terms of use (https://www.airmeet.com/hub/terms-of-use) or Privacy Policy (https://www.airmeet.com/hub/privacy-policy) is more restrictive than this policy, the more restrictive terms will apply.

4. SENSITIVE OR SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Some countries consider some personal information particularly sensitive or special. This may include Ethnicity, Nationality, Gender, and other demographic information. The PyCon Organizing committee only collects this data when voluntarily given by the individual, and does not require it from any attendee. The Pycon Sri Lanka may use this information to create aggregated reports only; the Pycon Sri Lanka does not share any person’s sensitive information with third parties. 

WEBSITE USAGE INFORMATION

We collect information when you provide it to us, such as when you email us information, connect with us on social media, use the “contact us” feature, use the subscription feature located on our website, or when you engage in any other communication, recorded or otherwise communicated.

The PyCon Organizing committee collects certain information automatically when you use the website, such as the IP addresses and domain names of visitors, browser type, history of pages viewed and other usage information about your use of the website. We collect this information for site administration purposes, such as to analyze this data for trends and statistics. We may share statistical or aggregated non-personal information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, or other third parties. This data is used to customize our website content and advertising to deliver a better experience to our users. Please see the section below on cookies for information.

COOKIES

As you browse the PyCon Sri Lanka website (and the sites of third party providers contracted to provide services), those sites may place cookies on your computer. The cookies used by the PyCon Sri Lanka website are strictly functional cookies and have no marketing purpose. For any third party provider, please see that provider’s cookie policy.

PRESENTER OR AUTHOR INFORMATION

If you choose to author a written resource, including a mailing list post, or speak at PyCon Sri Lanka (both live and recorded for further broadcasting), you may be required to provide minimal biographical information to associate with your presentation or materials. You agree that this information will remain publicly available for purposes of proper attribution of your work and maintenance of the historical record.

5. HOW DO WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

As noted above, we collect information from you in the course of your use of the Pycon Sri Lanka website, products, and services. For example, we collect information from you when you subscribe to our mailing list. We collect information from you when you contact or communicate with us (including through the website, by email, or otherwise). We collect your personal information while monitoring the Pycon Sri Lanka website, products, and services. We gather information about you when you provide it to us, or interact with us directly, for instance engaging with staff or registering for an event. We may also in certain cases collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as third party companies.

6. HOW DO WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT?

The PyCon Organizing committee collects personal information for the following principal purposes. The list below will state the purpose and the reason for the purpose of collecting your personal information.

  • To provide the PyCon website to you
  • To enroll you for PyCon-related mailings
  • To register you for events, tutorials, and other services
  • To provide you with information about Python, PyCon, and events within PyCon
  • To allow you to connect with PyCon sponsors
  • To communicate with you and to respond to your questions, inquiries, or concerns
  • To administer and improve the PyCon, including the websites, events, tutorials, and other services
  • To process services and events
  • To prevent and detect fraud
  • To protect and enforce our legal rights

We do this for our legitimate business purposes, and under certain circumstances, to perform a contract between you and us. We may request your consent in circumstances where a legal justification over and above legitimate interests is required by applicable law.

7. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?

The PyCon Organizing committee may share personal information with third parties engaged to assist the PyCon Organizing committee in providing services to you or to carry out one or more of the purposes described above. These service providers are prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance and are contractually required to protect personal information disclosed by the PyCon Organizing committee and to comply with the general privacy principles described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we share your information with service providers, contractors and sub-contractors to help us provide the website, products, events, and services. For example, we may use a service provider to process payment information or provide analytics. When we use service providers, we provide limited access to your information so that such service providers can perform the tasks on our behalf.

The PyCon Organizing committee also shares basic contact information (name and email address) with sponsors.

The PyCon Organizing committee reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer personal information to a third party, if the PyCon Organizing committee has reason to believe that disclosing personal information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other website users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Additionally, the PyCon Organizing committee may disclose personal information in response to a subpoena, warrant, or other court order, or when we believe in good faith that a law, regulation, subpoena, warrant or other court order requires or authorizes us to do so, or it is required to respond to an emergency situation.

If you choose not to provide the Pycon Sri Lanka with your personal information, you may still visit some of the Pycon Sri Lanka website; however, you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services.

8. TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ACROSS BORDERS

The PyCon Organizing committee is a Sri Lankan committee. We may allow your personal information to be shared with third-party service providers based both within Sri Lanka and in other countries.

When we provide your personal information overseas, we do so in connection with providing information or services or as required or authorized under law. It is possible the overseas entities, which we share your information with, may not be subject to foreign laws that provide the same level of protection of information with, may not be subject to foreign laws that provide the same level of protection of information as your country of residence or employment, or may not be subject to any privacy obligations. Overseas entities may be required or compelled to disclose your personal information to a third party, such as an overseas authority.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we will use reasonable and appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

09. HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will keep your personal information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.

11. CONTACTING THE PSF WITH QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, OR COMPLAINTS

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please contact contact@pycon.lk. You are entitled to make an anonymous complaint or inquiry in relation to this Privacy Policy or your privacy rights; however, we may require you to identify yourself if required by law or it is impracticable for us to deal with your matter otherwise.

We will acknowledge receipt of any complaint and will strive to provide you with a written response within 30 days of receipt of your complaint. There may be instances where this is not possible due to the circumstances under which the complaint was made, the content of the complaint, and the scope of the complaint. If this is the case, we will respond to your complaint in a reasonable and practical time.