Privacy & cookies

Privacy Policy – International Mining and International Mining Events

In line with new data protection regulations which came into effect on 25 May 2018, and other similar regulations, the following explains how we collect and hold your personal information:

What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you complete the necessary registration process requesting to receive any of the following:

• a printed and/or digital copy of International Mining magazine
• an e-mail copy of the International Mining Brief weekly e-newsletter
• information relating to International Mining Events or
• other selected industry related third party information.

When registering on the site you may be asked to enter your name, position, business address and email details. Other information pertaining to your working environment will also be asked for.

We will also collect payment information that you provide to us when you purchase some of our products and services, including credit card data and banking details to enable us to fulfil your request.

What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

1. To understand your areas of interest to help improve our website and the magazine content (we continually strive to improve our offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
2. To send periodic e-mails, either via an e-blast or e-newsletter from ourselves or trusted and relevant third parties.
3. To process transactions.
4. To display non-identifiable photographs of news items and International Mining Events on our website and in our magazine.
5. To generate attendee lists for specific events (The Electric Mine, for example) where your name, job title and company will appear on networking-related media (app, delegate badges, online/printed attendee list, etc).
6. To provide additional event viewing/networking options (virtual venue, app) where your contact details will be shared with third parties to generate related login credentials.

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purposes of delivering the product or service requested by you.

How to unsubscribe
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include an unsubscribe option at the bottom of each bulk email, or you may contact [email protected], or call our offices on +44 (0)1442 870 829 to unsubscribe or update your contact information at any time.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating this website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those third parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law, enforce our sites policies, or protect ours or others rights, property or safety.

How long do we hold your information?
10 years

Any changes to our privacy policy will be updated to this page. If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy please contact kate@im-mining.com

For any further information regarding GDPR click here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en

Cookies Policy

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser. Find out more about cookies on http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

We use cookies to identify your device when you visit this website and to keep track of your browsing patterns and build up a demographic profile via Google Analytics. We also allow some third-party cookies from trusted advertisers for the same purpose.

Our use of cookies also allows users to carry out transactions.

Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the menu on your browser, or look at the instruction on http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Please note however that turning off cookies will restrict your use of our website.

How we use cookies?
Here are the types of cookies we use on our websites, and the purposes for which they are used:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our websites and use its features, including accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, any services on our websites you wish to access cannot be provided.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how you and other visitors use our websites. This can be anything like which pages you visit most often, and whether you receive an error messages from web pages. We use data from these cookies to help test designs and to ensure a consistent look and feel is maintained on your visit to our website. We also use third-party web analytics software on our websites (such as Google Analytics).
• Social media extensions. Although we enable these tools to be displayed on our websites so that you may, if you wish. interact with them, if you choose to do so, they are not within our control. Please refer to the relevant third party privacy policies for how these functionalities work.

Managing cookies
If, after being presented with our cookie banner, you elect to use our website without disabling cookies, then you agree to our use of cookies and other similar technologies for the purposes described above.

If you do not wish to allow cookies at all, or only want to allow use of certain cookies, please refer to your browser settings. You can also use your browser settings to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time, and delete cookies that have already been set. Please be aware that by deleting certain cookies or disabling them for future use, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our websites. In some cases this can disable your ability to use any area of our website.