This is the privacy declaration of DevBcn, an event organized by Conferencia DevBcn SL (“The Organization” hereinafter). The Organization is an organization with the aim of promoting knowledge and good practices about software development, and more specifically around frontend, backend, cloud, devops, machine learning, and other technologies. The Organization cares deeply about your privacy. We strive to protect the privacy and the confidentiality of personal data we process. Hence, we do everything in our power to comply with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereafter the ‘Regulation’) or any applicable data protection legislation (hereinafter collectively with the Regulation referred to as the ‘Data Protection Law’). The words ‘personal data’, ‘controller’, ‘processor’, ‘process’, ‘processing’, ‘profiling’, ‘data subject’ and all its derivatives used in this Privacy Declaration shall have the meaning set out in the Regulation.
Conferencia DevBcn SL as organizer of the DevBcn is the controller of the personal data that is used to organize the conference and related activities.
Personal data collected falls under the following main categories:
These personal data may relate to you in your capacity as a customer or supplier of The Organization and DevBcn, but also to you as a business relationship of one of our clients, and/or as one of the attendees of our conferences. We collect and process personal data that you provide to us directly (e.g. by sending a proposal or buying a ticket). Occasionally we may as well collect contact data through another route, for example via a public source or provided by one of our clients, sponsors or attendees. We do not use automated data processing (e.g. activity analysis) or so-called“profiling” that may involve the generation of derivative data.
We process your personal data for various purposes, including conducting our general and financial administration, the organization of our (future) conferences, to keep you updated about our (future) conferences, managing our customer and supplier base, providing a correct service and the proper execution of our agreements and direct marketing activities (e.g. sending newsletters). Article 6.1 of the Regulation indicates the legal grounds on the basis of which personal data may be processed. Below we give you a brief overview of the legal grounds we rely on for the processing of personal data. Your personal data may be processed: Based upon your consent: we process personal data based upon your explicit and specific consent. Your consent is freely given and can be withdrawn at any moment. For compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject to: we have to comply with various legal obligations, under which we are obliged to maintain specific (personal) data. For the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract: to execute our agreements, it’s necessary to process personal data. We hereby always limit ourselves to processing the data that are strictly necessary.
Organization of the DevBcn requires a lot of administration. Nevertheless we try to keep it very simple for our attendees.
We also process personal data for reasons of direct marketing. We deem it to be one of our legitimate interests to communicate with our customers (e.g. attendees, speakers, sponsors, providers…). Therefore, we may send you information about our products, services and future conferences if we consider you as a part of our customer base. This will be the case if you visited one of our previous conferences, or if you contacted us by mail or subscribed to our newsletter, or if you’re a customer of one of our business relationships. If you no longer want to receive our communications, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link.
Only a limited number of the conference staff have direct access to the personal data we’ve collected and processed, and are bound to confidentiality.
The Organization does not share your personal data with third parties for any other purpose than mentioned in this Privacy Declaration, unless when we are required to do so by law or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
We do however pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organizations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (e.g. email communication, payment processing, back-up storage…). We only discloses the essential personal data to its sub-processors that are necessary for the execution of their services.
If we transfer personal data to countries outside the EEA, we will, in all circumstances, take appropriate safeguards and establish legal grounds justifying such transfer.
We keep your personal data as long as required to comply with our legal obligations and to provide our services in a correct manner or because we have a legitimate interest to keep your personal data. At any moment you have the possibility to object against further processing of your personal data.
The Organization takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized modification. If you have the impression that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of abuse, please contact our customer service or via customers@devbcn.com.
The Regulation provides you with various rights regarding the processing of your personal data. If you wish to invoke your privacy rights, please contact customers@devbcn.com. We will normally respond to your request within 30 days. This period can be extended by a further two months if the request is complex or if you send us several requests. We will notify you of this extension within 30 days after we’ve received your request.
Under the circumstances and conditions set by the Regulation, you also have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data.
If processing of your personal data is based upon your explicit and prior consent, you can revoke your consent at any time.
In principle you can exercise these privacy rights free of charge. We ask to be as specific as possible when directing your request. In addition, we may ask personal data as proof of identity during the process.
If we are unable to resolve an inquiry or request, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
The Organization is entitled to update this Privacy Declaration by posting a new version on the website. As such, it is strongly recommended to regularly consult the website and the page explaining the Privacy Declaration, to make sure that you are aware of any changes.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Declaration, or if you want to submit a request you can contact us using the following contact details:
Conferencia DevBcn SL
NIF : B72617129