Privacy Policy
Effective Date December 11, 2024

This Privacy Policy outlines how the International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information.  We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The IAGA website does not currently collect and retain personally identifiable information (“personal information”) from your use of our website except as follows:

  • Automatically: to the extent that your browser provides information to the back-end system powering our site, and 
  • Directly: to the extent that you directly provide personal information to us on event registration, sponsorship or membership forms; and 
  • From Third Parties: to the extent we collect personal information from external sources, such as social media platforms, analytics, or public databases.  

Types of information collected may include:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and physical address;
  • Professional Information: Job title, employer, and industry;
  • Payment Information: bank or card details or other billing information (where applicable); and
  • Technical Information: IP address, device type, time zone setting and location, and browsing patterns.  

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION 
We use your information for the following purposes:

  • To register you as an IAGA member. In particular, IAGA publishes a public-facing, searchable membership roster on our website.  IAGA members may consent to the inclusion of their Contact Information and Professional Information in this roster. If you do not consent to your personal information being included in the membership roster, please let us know; it will not prevent you from becoming an IAGA member but we will still retain and process your personal information for other membership-related purposes.
  • To provide and improve our services and member benefits.
  • To communicate with you regarding our services, member benefits, updates and/or relevant content.
  • To process payments, manage subscriptions and recover money owed to us.
  • To run our organization in an efficient and effective way.
  • For marketing purposes, with your consent, such as newsletters and promotional materials.
  • To comply with legal and regulatory obligations. 

We do not sell or rent contact information to third parties of any kind for any reason.  

USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies for core functions like loading the publicly viewable pages of our website and recognizing your individual email address based on prior completed forms, as well as to enhance user experience, analyze website traffic, and for marketing purposes. Many of the cookies used expire once you complete each session, while others are used primarily for analytical purposes of evaluating site and individual page usage details.  You may modify your cookie preferences through your browser settings.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information with:

  • Service Providers: Third-party vendors who assist us in providing our services, such as venues where we host our events, payment processors, email providers, and website analytics services.  
  • Legal Authorities: To comply with legal requirements or respond to lawful requests.
  • Affiliates, including Sponsors and Other Strategic Partners: For co-marketing or other collaborative purposes, where appropriate.  

THIRD PARTY LINKS
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING (FOR EU / UK USERS)
If you are located in the European Union or United Kingdom, we process your personal information based on one of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: Where you have given consent for us to use your information.
  • Contract: To fulfill contractual obligations to you.
  • Legal Obligation: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Legitimate Interest: For our legitimate interests in operating our business, including but not limited to our interests in maintaining a robust record of our members, inviting members to conferences and other events, communicating the services provided by IAGA to our members, receiving monies owed to use promptly, protecting our brand, improving our website, mitigating fraud and maintaining information security. 

DATA SECURITY
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.  We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. However, no security system is entirely foolproof, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Given our international operations, your personal information may be transferred to and/or processed in countries outside your country of residence.  We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and are safeguarded by appropriate measures. If you would like further information, please contact us.

DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.  To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

YOUR RIGHTS
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Transparency: Right to transparency over how we use your personal information and fair processing of your information.
  • Access: Right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Rectification:  Right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
  • Erasure: Right to request deletion of your personal information under certain conditions.
  • Data Portability: Right to request to receive a copy of the personal information you have provided to us, or to have this information sent to a third party, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Objection: Right to object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Restriction: Right to request restriction of our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Withdraw Consent: Right to withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information.  

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the information below.

You also have the right to file a complaint about our processing of your personal information with your local national supervisory authority for data protection.   

If you want more information about your rights, please refer to the website of your local national supervisory authority for data protection. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach your local national supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time and will post any future changes immediately on this page.  Please review this privacy policy periodically.

CONTACTING US
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us:.

By post:
International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA)
PO Box 230178
Las Vegas, NV 89105
United States of America

By email:
[email protected]

EU REPRESENTATIVE (FOR EU USERS)
Our nominated representative for matters relating to the European General Data Protection Regulation is […]. You can contact our EU representative: 

By post:
Avenida Jaime III, 1, Primera Planta
07012 Palma de Mallorca
Islas Baleares
Spain

By email: 
[email protected]