Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 23rd October 2024

Last Updated: 10th November 2025

Introduction

The International Indo Arab Conference (“IIAC”, “IIAC”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal data is handled responsibly. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (www.iiac.ae), register for or participate in our conferences, exhibitions, sponsorships, or otherwise interact with us.

IIAC encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

 

Personal Data IIAC Collect

IIAC may collect various types of personal data in order to provide and enhance our services. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Identification Data: Names, Email addresses, Phone numbers, Postal addresses, organization/company affiliation.
  • Technical Data: IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, device identifiers, usage patterns.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, register for events, attend sessions, or use sponsor/exhibitor services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us, your communication preferences, event-feedback responses.

 

Use of Personal Data

IIAC utilizes personal data for the following purposes:

  • Service Delivery: To organize, operate and deliver our conferences and related services.
  • Customer / Participant Support: To respond to your enquiries, manage registration, manage sponsorship/exhibition requests, and provide support.
  • Marketing: To send you promotional materials and updates about our upcoming conferences, sponsors, exhibitors, or related services (where consent applies).
  • Analytics: To analyze usage patterns, event attendance, website engagement, and improve our services and event experience.
  • Legal Compliance & Protection: To comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms, protect our rights and manage risk.

 

Sharing Information

IIAC may share personal data with third parties under the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers: With vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf.
  • Business Partners / Exhibitors / Sponsors: With our partners, sponsors or exhibitors when you opt-in or where sharing is required for participation or promotion.
  • Legal Requirements: Where required by law or to protect our legal rights or the rights of attendees or other parties.
  • Corporate Transactions: In connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets

 

Data Retention

IIAC retains personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including:

  • Service Provision: For the duration of your registration / participation in an event, and for any after-event communications.
  • Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable legal, regulatory or audit requirements.
  • Dispute Resolution: To resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect our legal rights.

 

Data Protection Norms

 

Transparent and Lawful Collection

IIAC ensures that personal data is collected in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. We provide clear information about:

  • The types of data IIAC collect and the purposes for which it is collected.
  • The rights of individuals regarding their personal data.
  • The lawful basis for our processing activities (e.g., contractual necessity, legitimate interests, consent).

 

Legal Basis for Processing

IIAC processes personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • Contractual Necessity: To fulfil a contract with you
  • Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations or statutory requirements.
  • Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate event management and business purposes, provided your rights are not overridden.

 

Consent

Any consent by individuals to the collection and use of their personal data must be given freely and in response to clear information about the intended use of the data. You can withdraw your consent at any time without undue complications.

 

Rights of the Individual

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • Right to Access: You may request access to and receive a copy of your personal data that IIAC holds.
  • Right to Be Informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data — including purposes, retention periods and data sharing.
  • Right to Rectification: You may request correction or update of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You may request deletion of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected or processed, and where there is no overriding lawful basis for its retention.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You may request that IIAC restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • Right to Data Portability: You may request portability of your personal data in a structured, commonly used format, where applicable.
  • Right to Object: You may object to processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.

 

Choices of the Individual

IIAC informs you clearly when to use your personal data for marketing purposes. We respect your choice to:

  • Only receive marketing communications if you have provided explicit prior consent (where required).
  • Opt-out at any time from marketing communications by following unsubscribe instructions or contacting us directly.

 

Ensure Data Quality

IIAC collect, store and process only personal data which is relevant, up-to-date, accurate and proportionate for its intended use. We take reasonable steps to ensure that data is corrected or updated as required.

 

Sensitive Personal Data

IIAC recognize that certain categories of personal data are inherently more sensitive (e.g., health data, biometric data, racial origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation). We collect and process such sensitive data only when:

  • You have given explicit consent; or
  • IIAC are required to do so for employment, legal or regulatory reasons; or IIAC need to protect the vital interests of an individual (e.g., in an emergency).

 

Manage Data Responsibly and Securely

IIAC implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including:

  • Security measures to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.
  • Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments when our processing is likely to present a high risk to individuals.
  • Adapting our IT systems, procedures and staff training to the nature of the data and processing operations.

 

Notification of Data Breaches

In the event of a breach which compromises personal data, IIAC will promptly notify affected individuals and report to the relevant data protection authority, where required by applicable law.

 

Supplier and Partner Compliance

IIAC ensures our suppliers, subcontractors, exhibitors, sponsors and business partners adopt appropriate security and confidentiality measures. They must comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws when processing data on our behalf.

 

Employee Confidentiality

Access to personal data is restricted to our employees who are required to perform specific tasks. IIAC provide relevant awareness and confidentiality training to ensure that personal data is not shared or disclosed to unauthorized person.

 

International Transfers

Where it is necessary to transfer personal data across national borders (for example, from the UAE to another jurisdiction for processing or storage), IIAC will ensure adequate safeguards are in place to protect the data in line with applicable data protection regulations.

 

Adherence to Data Controllers’ Instructions

In instances where IIAC act as a data processor on behalf of clients, exhibitors or sponsors (data controllers), IIAC comply with their instructions and relevant data-processing agreements.

 

Secondary Usage or Further Processing

IIAC may use your personal data for secondary purposes or further processing, provided the new purpose is compatible with the original one — or else IIAC will seek new consent or establish a lawful basis for the new purpose.

 

Storage Limitation

IIAC stores personal data only for as long as required for its original purpose, until the relevant retention period expires, or until data is deleted, destroyed or anonymised in accordance with our retention policy.

 

Minimize Risk Impact to Individuals

When processing is likely to present high risk to individual rights and freedoms (e.g., large scale profiling, new technologies), IIAC carry out Data Protection Impact Assessments and integrate privacy by design into our services.

 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

IIAC may update this Privacy Policy from time to time for operational, legal or regulatory reasons. IIAC will notify you of any significant changes by posting the revised version on our website (www.iiac.ae) and updating the “Last Updated” date.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like to exercise your rights under this policy, please contact us at:

International Indo Arab Conference (IIAC)

Website: www.iiac.ae 

Email: info@iiac.ae

Mob: +971 56 271 3530

Address: Sharjah Research and Technology Innovation Park, Sharjah, United Arab Emirate.

MEDCON Privacy Policy

At MEDCON FZC , we respect your privacy. We want to ensure that you get the information, content, and experiences that matter most to you. MEDCON FZC  is committed to protecting the privacy of its members, customers, volunteers, and other contacts.

On this page:

Scope

This privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by full-time and part-time employees, volunteers when acting on behalf of MEDCON FZC , contractors and partners doing business on behalf of MEDCON FZC , as well as all legal entities, all operating locations in all countries, and all business processes conducted by MEDCON FZC .

Information collected


What information do we collect?

MEDCON FZC  collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section:

– Your name and contact details
– Date of birth
– Online profile data/usage
– Emergency contact information
– Social media profile information
– Copies of identification documents
– Education and professional information
– Communication information including MEDCON FZC  Online Support and Contact Center communications
– Purchasing and payment information
– Registration and participation in MEDCON FZC  events and activities
– Subscription preferences
– Information about the device(s) you use
– Information about service usage
– Cookies
– Authentication data
– Location information
– Author and peer review information
– Other information you upload or provide to us

 

 

How do we use your information?

MEDCON FZC  uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:

To process transactions. MEDCON FZC  uses personal information such as name, physical address, telephone number, email address, and company/institution to engage in interactions with you, including contacting you about your order, donation, subscription, event participation, or membership. We use financial/credit card and payment information to process your order and may need to share some of this information with delivery services, credit card clearing houses, and other third parties to complete the transaction.

To provide support or other services. MEDCON FZC  may use your personal information to provide you with support or other services that you have ordered or requested. MEDCON FZC  may also use your personal information to respond directly to your requests for information, including registrations for newsletters, webinars, or other specific requests, or pass your contact information to the appropriate MEDCON FZC  distributor or reseller for further follow-up related to your interests.

To provide information based on your needs and respond to your requests. MEDCON FZC  may use your personal information to provide you with notices of new product releases and service developments.

To provide online forums and social networks. Some services available on the websites permit you to participate in interactive discussions, post comments, opportunities, or other content to a bulletin board or exchange, or otherwise engage in networking activities. Some of these services are moderated; all may be accessed for technical reasons (for example, for improvements or fixes). MEDCON FZC  does not control the content that users post to these forums or social networks. You should carefully consider whether you wish to submit personal information to these forums or social networks and tailor any content you submit appropriately and in accordance with the relevant terms of use. You should also review any additional terms and conditions that may govern your use of these services, including terms related to sharing your personal information and receiving communications.

To administer products. MEDCON FZC  may contact you if you purchase products to confirm certain information about your order (for example, that you did not experience problems in the download process). We may also use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution.

To select content, improve quality, and facilitate use of the websites. 
MEDCON FZC  may use your personal information, including the information gathered as a result of site navigation and electronic protocols and cookies (including third-party cookies), to help create and personalize website content, improve website quality, track marketing campaign responsiveness, evaluate page response rates, conduct usability testing, and facilitate your use of the websites (for example, to facilitate navigation and the login process, avoid duplicate data entry, enhance security, keep track of shopping cart additions, and preserve order information between sessions).

To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements, and we may use any of the non-personally-identifiable attributes we have collected to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. When you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and that your attributes meet the criteria the advertiser selected.

To assess usage of MEDCON FZC  products and services. MEDCON FZC  may track your usage of MEDCON FZC  products and services to determine your level of usage, and those usage statistics may be made available to MEDCON FZC ’s content licensors and your company/institution.

To communicate with you about a meeting, conference, or event. We may communicate with you about a meeting, conference, or event hosted or co-sponsored by MEDCON FZC  or one of our business associates. This may include information about the event’s content, event logistics, payment, updates, and additional information related to the event. Information you provide when registering for or participating in a conference managed or co-sponsored by parties, other than or in addition to MEDCON FZC  may be shared with those parties, and the treatment of such information is further subject to the privacy policies of those parties. MEDCON FZC  and its conference co-sponsors may contact you after the event about the event, subsequent iterations of the event and related events. Please note that MEDCON FZC  conference, meeting or event organizers, co-sponsors, exhibitors, and other third parties may directly request your personal information at their conference booths or presentations. Providing your information to them is optional, and you should review their privacy policies to address your particular needs and concerns about how they will treat your personal information.

To consider you for a higher member grade or an MEDCON FZC  award. MEDCON FZC  may use personal information such as your name, education, work history, and volunteer activities to consider you for a higher member grade or for an MEDCON FZC  award. MEDCON FZC  may need to share this information with your nominators, references, judges, and other parties involved in evaluating your eligibility.

To include you in MEDCON FZC  Member Directories. If you are an active member of MEDCON FZC , one of its Societies, or MEDCON FZC  Standards Association, at your request, we may include your information in MEDCON FZC  Member Directory in MEDCON FZC  Collabratec, and, if applicable, the Fellows Directory and MEDCON FZC  Society Directories. We may also enable private member to member messaging (your email address is never shared). Active members can customize their member directories visibility preferences any time in account settings.

To document standards development participation. If you are a participant in MEDCON FZC  standards development, MEDCON FZC  uses your personal information to comply with policies and procedures, legal and accreditation requirements, and evaluation of patent claims by patent offices. MEDCON FZC  must capture your personal data for these purposes, and provides information about activities related to standards development groups in which you participate. MEDCON FZC  standards development participation is documented through various methods, e.g., rosters, submission documents, email reflectors, records of meeting attendance, responses to ballots, publicly available participation lists, and declaration of affiliations.

To assist in your participation in MEDCON FZC  activities. MEDCON FZC  will communicate with you, if you are participating in certain MEDCON FZC  activities such as MEDCON FZC  conferences, authoring or reviewing an MEDCON FZC  periodical article, or MEDCON FZC  humanitarian activities. MEDCON FZC  may send you information such as newsletters related to those activities.

To update you on relevant MEDCON FZC  benefits, programs, and opportunities. MEDCON FZC  may communicate with you regarding relevant MEDCON FZC  benefits, programs, and opportunities available to you, through your membership(s) with MEDCON FZC .

To engage with third parties. MEDCON FZC  may share your personal data with third parties in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with MEDCON FZC . These third parties are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for MEDCON FZC  or for the collaboration in which they and MEDCON FZC  are contractually engaged (for example, hosting an MEDCON FZC  database or engaging in data processing on MEDCON FZC ’s behalf, or mailing you information that you requested). These third parties are carefully selected by MEDCON FZC  and obligated to keep your data secure. From time to time, we may also share your information with third parties whom we think might provide content, products, or services of interest to you.

To protect MEDCON FZC  content and services. We may use your information to prevent potentially illegal activities and to enforce our terms and conditions. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and to screen content to prevent abuse, such as spam. These efforts may, on occasion, result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users

To get feedback or input from you. In order to deliver products and services of most interest to our customers, from time to time, we may ask members, customers, volunteers, and website visitors to provide us input and feedback (for example through surveys, usability studies, focus groups).

To protect MEDCON FZC  information assets as well as your own personal data. The MEDCON FZC  Information Security Program protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of MEDCON FZC  information assets by following a risk management approach based on policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures to meet security objectives while supporting business and operational goals.

How can you control your information?

You can control the information we have about you and how we use it in several ways.

  • If you are a registered user, you can review, revise, and correct the personal data that you have provided to MEDCON FZC  via www.iiac.ae User profile
  • Use the unsubscribe method provided in our various communications

Personal data about minors and children

MEDCON FZC  does not knowingly collect data from or about children under 16 without the permission of parent(s)/guardian(s). If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us.

How will you know if the Privacy Policy is changed? 

MEDCON FZC  may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email if you have an MEDCON FZC  Account, or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices

Technical and regulatory information

Logging practices

MEDCON FZC  automatically records the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors. The IP address is a unique number assigned to every computer on the internet. Generally, an IP address changes each time you connect to the internet (it is a “dynamic” address). Note, however, that if you have a broadband connection, depending on your individual circumstance, the IP address that we collect may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. This is because, with some broadband connections, your IP address doesn’t change (it is “static”) and could be associated with your personal computer.

As well as recording the IP addresses of users, MEDCON FZC  may also keep track of sites that users visited immediately prior to visiting MEDCON FZC ‘s website and the search terms they used to find it. We keep track of the pages visited on MEDCON FZC ‘s website, the amount of time spent on those pages and the types of searches done on them. Your searches remain confidential and anonymous. MEDCON FZC  uses this information only for statistical purposes to find out which pages users find most useful and to improve the website.

MEDCON FZC  also captures and stores information that you transmit. This may include:

  • Browser/Device type/version
  • Operating system used
  • Media Access Control (MAC) address
  • Date and time of the server request
  • Volume of data transferred

 

External links behavior

Some of MEDCON FZC ‘s websites link to other sites created and maintained by other public- and/or private-sector organizations. MEDCON FZC  provides these links solely for your information and convenience. When you transfer to an outside website, you are leaving the MEDCON FZC  domain, and MEDCON FZC ‘s information management policies no longer apply. MEDCON FZC  encourages you to read the privacy statement of each external website that you visit before you provide any personal data.

 

Cookies and web beacons

Cookies and web beacons are electronic placeholders that are placed on your device by websites to track your individual movements on that website over time. MEDCON FZC  uses both session-based cookies (which last only for the duration of the user’s session) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device and provides information about the session you are in and waits for the next time you use that site again). 

These cookies and web beacons provide useful information to MEDCON FZC , enabling us to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user’s access to and use of our sites, allows us to track usage behavior, and to balance the usage of our websites on all MEDCON FZC  web servers. 

Tracking cookies, third-party cookies, and other technologies such as web beacons may be used to process additional information, enable non-core functionalities on the MEDCON FZC  website and enable third-party functions (such as a social media “share” link). We may also include web beacons and other similar technology in promotional email messages to determine whether the messages have been opened. 

Do Not Track (DNT)

The online advertising industry has self-regulatory initiatives designed to provide consumers a choice in the types of ads they may see online and to conveniently opt-out from online behavioral ads served by some or all of the companies participating in these programs. Our websites do not respond to DNT consumer browser settings.

Collaboration with authorities

MEDCON FZC  has appointed and mandated a privacy officer who represents the regulatory authorities inside the MEDCON FZC  organization, and in return represents the MEDCON FZC  organization to regulatory authorities.

The MEDCON FZC  privacy officer will ensure proper communication with the relevant regulatory authority for privacy. The privacy officer will lead investigative action, complaint handling and data breach notification. The privacy officer will also monitor regulatory changes and consult the regulatory authority where implementation of a regulatory or technological change leads to doubt. 

Transfer of information to other countries 

As a global organization, MEDCON FZC  engages in a number of international activities.  In connection with the management of those activities, MEDCON FZC  may transfer information to other countries. By submitting your information to MEDCON FZC  via the websites, or in connection with your interactions with MEDCON FZC  offline, you consent to such transfers and to the processing of this information in other countries.

Responses to legal requests

MEDCON FZC  reserves the right to share your information to respond to duly authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law. 

In the event of bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.

MEDCON FZC  complies with all applicable data privacy laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under these laws and regulations, you may have certain rights to your data. Should you wish to exercise any of these rights, please send an email request to privacy@iiae.ac with “Data Privacy Request” in the subject line and in the email please identify the specific privacy right you request assistance with. Please note additional information may be requested prior to fulfilling a request and MEDCON FZC  reserves the right to charge a fee, with respect where permitted, to cover the cost of certain requests.

How do I contact you if there is an issue?

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or about the use of your personal information, please feel free to contact us by email at privacy@iiac.a3 

Date
28 April 2022 

Contact Information:
privacy@iiac.ae

Medcon FZC,

Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park

Sharjah

Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park