Denver Gold Group (DGG) Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. You may find controls to manage your information and protect your privacy and security at https://dgg.gold/events/ 

If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our Services.

Privacy Policy

Last modified: May 9, 2018

There are several ways you can use our services – to register for events, to communicate with other DGG customers and DGG itself, or to conduct and manage meetings at events.

Information we collect

We collect information to build and improve the services we provide such as seamless registration, event location usage, and meetings between event participants.

  • Information you give us. For example, many of our services require you to sign up for a DGG Account at which time we request personal information such as name, email address, telephone number, job title, and company name to store with your account. DGG may also collect personal information and other information from customers and website visitors. In some instances, we may combine other information with personal information.
  • Information we get from your use of our services. We collect information about the services that you use such as when you updated your account, which locations you used at on-site events, and which events you participated in:
    • Device information
      We do not directly collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version). Such data may be collected indirectly by third party services such as Google Analytics which DGG uses.
    • Log information
      When you use our services or view content provided by DGG, we automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This includes:

      • details of how you used our service, such as your search queries.
      • Internet protocol (IP) address.
      • device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
      • cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your DGG Account.
    • Location information
      DGG does not actively collect location information when you use DGG services. We may collect and process information about your general location when you attend a DGG event. We use RFID technologies to determine general location at some events.
    • Local storage
      We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.
    • Cookies and similar technologies
      We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit a DGG service, and this may include using cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device.

Information we collect when you are signed in to DGG, in addition to information we obtain about you from public sources, may be associated with your DGG Account. When information is associated with your DGG Account, we treat it as personal information. For more information about how you can access, manage or delete information that is associated with your DGG Account, login to your account at.

How we use information we collect
  • We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new services and products, and to protect DGG and our customers.
  • We use information collected from cookies to maintain login session security information.
  • We may combine personal information from one service with information, including personal information, from other DGG services – for example to record your meeting activity for an event.
  • We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.
  • DGG processes personal information on servers and networks that many be in more than one country, including one that is not in the country you live in.
Transparency and choice

You may view and control you information For example, you can:

  • Review and control certain types of information tied to your DGG Account.
  • Delete your account and its associated information.

You may also set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our services, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. However, it’s important to remember that many of our services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. For example, we may not be able to manage your session logins correctly for meetings.

Information you share

Some of the information you share is available to Member Companies of the Denver Gold Group. This information is not public and cannot be indexed by search engines.

Accessing and updating your personal information
Whenever you use our services, we aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes.

We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and will not remove information from our backup systems.

Information we share

We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of DGG unless one of the following circumstances applies:

  • With your consent
    We do not store, retain, or share sensitive personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of DGG. Where information does need to be shared we will seek your consent.
  • With DGG Member Companies
    We share your name, job title, and company name with a DGG Member Company if you attend a presentation conducted by it.
  • For external processing
    We provide basic personal information, but no contact information, to trusted businesses partners in order for us to deliver services such as registration check-in.
  • For legal reasons
    We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of DGG if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

    • meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
    • enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
    • detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
    • protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of DGG, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information, publicly and with our business partners – like hotel and venue services. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services.

Information security

We try to protect DGG and our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular:

  • We encrypt our services using SSL.
  • We offer two factor authentication when you access your DGG Accounts.
  • We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
  • We restrict access to personal information to DGG employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
When this Privacy Policy applies

Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by DGG and its affiliates and assets, but excludes services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you in the course of using DGG services, or other sites linked from our services.

Compliance and cooperation with regulatory authorities

We review our compliance with our Privacy Policy when necessary. We also adhere to several self regulatory frameworks, including the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks. When we receive formal written complaints, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up and resolve the issue.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of privacy policy changes).