Privacy Notice for the Global Initiative for Industrial Safety (GIFIS) Commitment to Data Protection The Global Initiative for Industrial Safety (GIFIS) takes the protection of your personal information seriously. We are committed to safeguarding your personal data at all times. Purpose of this Privacy Notice This notice explains how we collect and use your personal information during your interactions with us, and outlines your rights regarding your personal data.

1. About GIFIS
GIFIS is an international initiative focused on enhancing industrial safety. Our contact details are as follows if you have any questions about this privacy notice or our data handling practices:

• Email: info@gifisglobal.com
• Social Media:
  • @industrialsafetyinitiative (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
  • @GIFISafety (X)

2. What Personal Information We Collect
We collect only the essential personal information, such as:

• Name, email address, and basic contact details.
• Additional information you voluntarily provide through our website, during events, or by other means.
• Data gathered from your interactions with our websites and services, including through cookies and similar technologies (refer to our Cookies Policy).

3. Why We Collect Personal Information
GIFIS collects your personal information to:

• Respond to your inquiries and requests.
• Provide information related to our activities, like newsletters, event invites, and updates, that you have consented to receive or that relate to GIFIS initiatives of potential interest to you.

4. Marketing Communications
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications if; (i) you made a purchase or asked for information about our goods or services from us or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time. We never share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes without your express consent. However, we may use your data via marketing entities partnered by us or our directors.

5. Disclosures Of Your Personal Data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for business purposes:

• Other companies in our group who provide services to us.
• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
• Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
• Other third parties including event partners, sponsors, exhibitors and other participants.
• Third parties for the purposes of our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC), Enhanced Due Diligence procedures.
• Partners in our group.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. Protection of Your Information
We secure your personal data using appropriate technical and organizational measures and limit its disclosure. We ensure that any third-party service providers comply with our privacy standards and the GDPR. Data Retention
Your personal information is retained no longer than necessary for the purposes outlined in this notice, except as required by law.

7. Your Legal Rights
You have the right to:

• Access, copy, and request correction of your personal information.
• Request deletion or restriction of processing of your personal information.
• Withdraw consent for data processing at any time, including

unsubscribing from communications. Lodging a Complaint If you have concerns about how your data is handled, please contact us at info@gifisglobal.com

8. Updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically without notice. Please check it regularly to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. This notice was last updated on [9th of July, 2024].

9. Third-Party Links
This 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 statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

10. Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

For more information about the cookies we use, please see below:

What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text stored by a web server on a web browser so that it can be later read back from that browser. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How GIFIS, uses cookies?
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• to enable certain functions of the Service.
• provide analytics.
• store your preferences.
• enable advertisements delivery including behavioural advertising.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

- Essential cookies
We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

- Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

- What are your choices regarding cookies
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. However, if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.