Ensuring the privacy and security of your personal information is very important to us. Our Privacy & Security Policy outlines the information we collect about you, how we use, disclose and otherwise manage this information and the choices you have to restrict our usage of this information.

• Collected information

  We collect personal information when you submit an abstract proposal to the conference, or register into ICAR6, or when you contact us with a comment or question. This may include, for example, your name, email address, and professional information.

• Our email list

  When you submit an abstract proposal to the conference or register for ICAR6, you are automatically subscribing to our mailing list. Information such as your name, email and professional information may be obtained in order to communicate relevant information about ICAR6 to our participants. We use this personal information strictly to diffuse information that is relative to the conference.

• Service to participants

  When you contact us with a question, feedback or other comment, you must provide information that will allow us to identify you, such as your name and email address. We collect this information in order to respond promptly or respond to your comment or feedback. We may retain this information to assist you in the future. We also may use your feedback, suggestions and comments to improve the conference or the website in the future.

• Website information collected

  You can visit our site without telling us who you are or providing us with any personal information. However, we collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all of our visitors and other related information such as page requests and average time spent on our website. We use this information to monitor and improve our platform.

  We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about the pages you access or visit. Cookies are bits of information that are automatically stored on your computer, so we can recognize you when you return.

  We use cookies to better understand your use of our website so that we may continue to refine and improve it. If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser preferences to disable them. However, if you decide not to accept cookies, may not be able to use all of the website’s options. The information collected through cookies may be combined with other identifiable personal information (such as demographic information) from our records and other sources. We may use this combined information for future ICAR conference initiatives and to help us improve our website presentation.

• Information we share

  We don’t transfer (or otherwise make available) your personal information to anyone else with the exception of third parties who provide payment services on our behalf. Also, we may use service providers to process data, host our website, and send emails, in order to help us better understand your use of our website and refine and improve the website. These companies may store and process this information in Canada or in the US.

  All of our service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information and to use it only in compliance with applicable Canadian privacy laws.

  We may also disclose specific personal information about you if required by law, governmental request or court order if, based on our good faith belief, it is necessary to conform or comply with such law, request or court order.

• Retention of personal information

  We only keep your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it, or as otherwise required by law.

• Security of personal information

  Your privacy is important to us. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against the loss, theft, unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control. We have implemented measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control, including only providing access to personal information to employees and authorized service providers who require such information for the purposes described in this Privacy & Security Policy.

• Policy changes

  We may periodically update this Privacy & Security Policy for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed. Any changes made will be posted here. This Privacy & Security Policy was updated on October 24 2017