Last updated: January 18, 2021

Who We Are

International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (IAAS) is a non-profit international organization registered in Singapore. Our mission is to use science and technology to solve the problems of agricultural sustainability. In supporting this mission, IAAS’s primary events are organizing academic conference specializing in agricultural sustainability, researching and advertising agricultural sustainability,

Your privacy is important to IAAS. This Privacy Policy applies to all websites operated and controlled by International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (“IAAS”) (either “we,” “us” or “IAAS”), its affiliates or any third party agent of IAAS, IAAS service providers, and other websites, where these terms and conditions are posted (the “Site” or “Sites”). This privacy policy does not pertain to information that is collected offline.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because by registering for or using the Site you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to keep up to date on how we are handling your personal information.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY EXPLAINS THE FOLLOWING:

• Interpretation and Definition
• What information IAAS collects about you
• How Does IAAS Collect Personal Information
• How IAAS uses the information collect from you
• Transfer of Your Personal Data
• Security of Your Personal Data
• Link to other websites
• Changes to the Privacy Policy
• Contact Us

1. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definition

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• Association (referred to as either “the Association”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers toInternational Association for Agricultural Sustainability,
  8 Eu Tong Sen St #17-82 The Central,
  Singapore, 059818.

• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to: Singapore
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal information or data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Association. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Association to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Association, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to International Association for Agricultural Sustainability, accessible from https://iaas.org.sg/
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

2. What information IAAS collects about you?

IAAS collects (i) personal information voluntarily supplied by you when you use the Sites, and (ii) tracking information collected as you navigate the Sites. We note that over time, non-personal information could become personal information through regulatory developments, technological advancements, or co-mingling with Personal Information. The types of personal information we collect from you depends on the features you use on the Site.

IAAS may collect personal information if visitors voluntarily choose to sign up for updates, newsletters, submit papers, event registrations or cooperation enquiry. In this case, users may receive periodic email (or regular mail) communication regarding paper submission and event registrations.

In particular, we may collect any of the following information from and about you:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

3. How does IAAS collect personal information?

(1) Active

As noted above, we collect and store the personal information from you directly, at the time you supply information to us via the Site:

• Membership Registration
• Sign up for newsletter
• Contact us with our website form

If you do not want us to collect your personal information, please do not provide it to us.

(2) Automatic

We may collect information automatically while you are visiting or interacting with the Site. Here are some examples of the information that is collected via the Site and a description of how this information is used:

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send your information, such as the webpages you view. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, tailor our Sites to the interests of our users and measure traffic within our Sites.

Cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. A cookie is a small text file that may be used to collect information about your activity on the Site. For example, when someone visits a page within the Site, a cookie is placed on the user’s machine (if the user accepts cookies) or is read if the user has visited the Site previously.

4. How IAAS uses your personal information?

We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

5.  Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

6.   Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7.    Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

8.     Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9.      Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: service@iaas.org.sg
• By visiting this page on our website: iaas.org.sg/contact