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Privacy Policy

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) is committed to compliance with data protection laws. This policy (Privacy Policy) sets out the IDF's personal information collection and sharing practices.

This website may contain links to other third party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy is intended to explain our privacy practices and covers the following areas:

  1. Information we may collect about you
  2. Uses made of your personal information
  3. Disclosures to third parties
  4. Security of your personal information
  5. Your rights & contacting us
  6. Changes to our Privacy Policy

1. Information we may collect about you

1.1 We may collect and process personal information about you in the following ways:

(a) If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence or details of any conversation we may have with you.

(b) From details of your visits to our website and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies including, but not limited to, your IP address and domain name, your browser version and operating system, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access.

2. Uses made of your personal information

2.1 We may use your personal information in support of our efforts to improve the site and IDF’s work.

3. Disclosures to third parties

3.1 We may permit selected third parties and agents to access your personal information, for the purpose set out in paragraph 2 above. All such exchanges will be made in accordance with applicable laws.

3.2 We and other organisations may also access and use this information to prevent fraud and other crime. We may disclose your personal information to third parties, the courts and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or in order to enable IDF to comply with its regulatory requirements or dialogue with its regulators as applicable.

4. Security of your personal information

4.1 No data transmission over the Internet or website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection legislative requirements.

4.2 All information within our control is stored on our secure servers (or secure hard copies) and accessed and used subject to our security policies and standards.

4.3 Your personal information may be accessed by staff or authorized third parties and, transferred to, and/or stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA) where the data protection laws may be of a lower standard than in the EEA. Regardless of location or whether the person is an employee or contractor we will impose the same data protection safeguards that we deploy inside the EEA.

5. Your rights & contacting us

5.1 Applicable data protection laws may give you the right to access certain personal information held about you. We will comply with our obligations to provide you with access to your personal information and to rectify any inaccuracies we are informed of in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Where permitted to do so, complying with your request may be subject to a fee to meet our associated costs.

5.2 We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal information is accurate. In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal information that you have provided to us by updating your details by contacting us at the address below.

5.3 We can be contacted in relation to your rights or any questions you may have in respect of this Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal information by the following means:

David Rylatt

Email: contact@theidf.org

Office: +44 20 7933 7000

6. Changes to our Privacy Policy

6.1 We may change the content of our website without notice, and consequently our Privacy Policy may change at any time in the future. We therefore encourage you to review it from time to time to stay informed of how we are using personal information.