1. Membership

When you become an ISBM member, we collect information about you including (but not limited to) your name, your employer’s name, your work address (including your citizenship and country location), telephone number, and your email address. We may ask members to voluntarily provide additional information in their membership profile, such as information about their educational background, certifications, areas of expertise, and other professional and philanthropic activities. We do not collect your payment information under any circumstances. Payment processiong on ISBM is securely handled by Stripe. We strongly discourage you from sharing your payment information with anyone.Members are allowed to edit their profile at any time to change, add or remove or update personal information.

ISBM requires your personal information for verification of membership eligibility, and membership administration, provides member benefits, and disseminates information related to ISBM, events, content, and other benefits or opportunities associated with your ISBM membership.

2. Live Events and Web Conferences

ISBM may collect information for ISBM-hosted events, such as your name and contact information, payment information, employer information, photograph, speaking qualifications and experience, travel and accommodations information, business information, educational information, purchasing preferences, and any special accommodations you may need. We may also make and store a recording of your voice and likeness in certain instances. ISBM won’t release your information to a third party unless it is authorized by you and is necessary for any ISBM-hosted event.

3. ISBM Travel Awards, Research Awards, and Recognition

In addition to collecting your personal and business information as mentioned above, ISBM may collect other information such as prior travel awards, gender, educational background, employment information, professional activities, and other funding sources, nominee’s contact information, educational degrees, a description of the nominee’s accomplishments and reference sources, etc.

4. Publications

You may redirect to the third-party website while using the ISBM website or reading an email from ISBM. However, ISBM is not responsible or liable for content provided by any third-party websites or personal information they may happen to gather from you.

You may need to create a “profile” with ISBM which involves providing ISBM with your full name, email address, and the country in which you live to get access to ISBM publications. ISBM will not share this information with any third party other than to store the information in ISBM databases.

5. ISBM Training and Certification

If you participate in ISBM-hosted training and certification tests, you may sign up directly through ISBM in which case we may collect your name, contact information, employment information, qualifications, education, experience, references, and academic degrees, from you. You may, alternatively, sign up for training – or be signed up for training – by or through a third party such as one of our training partners, or your own employer. We may also use independent contractors to conduct the training and third parties to provide the training venue. Your personal information will be stored in the ISBM database and may also be shared with our training partners, trainers, and/or the venue hosting the event (to verify your identity when you arrive).

Training partners, trainers, training venue hosts, exam hosting services, or anyone involved in these services will provide written consent that they will not share your information with others and not use your personal information other than to provide you with ISBM products and services.

6. What Happens if You Don’t Share Your Data

Some personal information is necessary so that ISBM can provide you with the services you have purchased or are entitled to as ISBM-paid members so that we know it is you and not someone else.

7. Use of ISBM Website

ISBM website collects certain information automatically and stores it in log files. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, and other usage information about the use of the ISBM website, including a history of the pages you view. We use this information to help us design our site to better suit our users’ needs. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, and track visitor movements that assist us in identifying visitor preferences.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (”Google”). Google Analytics uses ”cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using the ISBM website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can choose to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

The personal information provided by you is stored in the database hosted by third parties located in the United States. However, the third party doesn’t use or have access to your personal information for any purpose other than storage and retrieval. ISBM may use resources from third parties to communicate with you by email or mail for various purposes. We do not otherwise reveal your personal data to third parties for their independent use unless:

ISBM may in the future gather aggregated data, not personally identifiable, about our members and site visitors and disclose it to our partners, service providers, advertisers, and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

The ISBM website may use interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. If you choose to ”like” or share information from the ISBM website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service. If you are a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your site visit to your personal data.

ISBM makes member information for professional and networking purposes available through its member directory to other ISBM members using this site. Members are welcome to have their information shared in the Member Directory.

You have the right to confirm that ISBM is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data ISBM may have about you. You may also request information about the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside ISBM might have received the data from ISBM; what the source of the information was (if you didn’t provide it directly to ISBM); You have a right to correct (rectify) and edit inaccurate and/or incomplete data about you that is maintained by ISBM. You may request that ISBM erase that data or cease processing it, and cease using your data for direct marketing purposes.

Your personal data is stored by ISBM on the service provider database which is managed by ISBM in the U.S. ISBM retains data for the duration of the customer’s or member’s business relationship with ASM. ISBM reserves the right to amend the Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use at this site. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and terms and conditions and will email ISBM members. You should also check the ISBM website frequently to see the current Privacy Notice and Terms of Use that are in effect and any changes that may have been made to it.