Privacy Policy
SDI Events, LLC (“SDI” or “we”) is committed to the protection of your personal data. This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we collect and use personal data about you as part of our business activities related to the Space and Defense Innovation Reception (SDI) Event and SDI Website. In this Privacy Policy we use the words “personal data” to describe information that is about you and which identifies you.
SDI Website Usage Information
We collect information when you provide it to us, such as when you use any “contact us” features on the website or otherwise communicate with us (such as by email or via our social media or event registration pages).
SDI collects certain information automatically when you use the website, such as the IP addresses and domain names of visitors, browser type, history of pages viewed and other usage information about your use of the website. We collect this information for site administration purposes, such as to analyze this data for trends and statistics. We may share statistical or aggregated information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. This data is used to customize our website content and advertising to deliver a better experience to our users.
How do we obtain your Personal Data?
As noted above, we collect information from you in the course of your use of the SDI website, registration for events, products and services. For example, we collect information from you when you register to attend or apply to attend the Space and Defense Innovation (“SDI”) event from the SDI website, or from a HubSpot hyperlink on LinkedIn or sent via email. We collect information from you when you contact or communicate with us (including through the website, by email or otherwise). We gather information about you when you provide it to us, or interact with us directly, for instance engaging with our staff or registering for an event.
Who do we share your personal data with?
SDI reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer personal data to a third party if SDI has reason to believe that disclosing the personal data is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other website users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Additionally, SDI may disclose personal data in response to a subpoena, warrant or other court order, or when we believe in good faith that a law, regulation, subpoena, warrant or other court order requires it – or authorizes us to do so – or to respond to an emergency situation.
SDI reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer personal data to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession), lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of SDI, or of any of the business of SDI or a chapter/division thereof, in order for you to continue to receive the same products and services from the third party.
SDI may share personal data with third parties engaged to assist SDI in providing services to you or to carry out one or more of the purposes described above. We share your information with service providers, contractors and sub-contractors to help us provide the website, products, events and services. For example, we may use a service provider to process payment information, manage our events, provide a platform for our events, provide analytics or use third party software to manage our customer relationship management (CRM) system.
In addition to the uses and disclosure of personal data noted above, personal data of SDI members and registrants at our events may be shared with the following entities based on our legitimate interest to do so:
- We share your personal data with our event sponsors so they may contact you with information about the sponsor’s activities, services and products. For example, personal data of registrants and applicants to attend the SDI Event may be shared with sponsors of these meetings for promotional purposes. You will have the option to opt out of sharing this information by contacting info@distinctiveedge.partners at any time. The information provided will contain your name, title, company and email address.
Your Rights, including Removing, Correcting or Updating Personal Information
If you change your mind on how SDI discloses or uses your information, or wish to correct or update personal data, we will endeavor to correct, update or remove the personal data you give us.
Contacting SDI with Question
Should you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact SDI at info@distinctiveedge.partners.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Subject to any applicable legal and/or regulatory requirements, the updated Privacy Policy will take effect and be binding on you as soon as it has been updated.
SDI reserves the right to amend the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time at its absolute discretion.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 3 December 2024.