IT Community of Uzbekistan

Privacy Policy

How the Association of Software and IT Service Vendors IT ALLIANCE SWS collects, stores and protects the personal data of visitors to itcom.uz.

Law ZRU-547 of 02.07.2019 Operator: IT ALLIANCE SWS

01General provisions

This personal data processing policy has been drawn up in accordance with the requirements of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan On Personal Data no. ZRU-547 of 02.07.2019 (the Personal Data Law) and defines the procedure for processing personal data and the measures taken to ensure the security of personal data by the Association of Software and IT Service Vendors IT ALLIANCE SWS (the Operator).

1.1

The Operator regards observance of the rights and freedoms of the individual and citizen in the processing of personal data, including protection of the rights to privacy and to personal and family secrets, as the most important goal and condition of its activity.

1.2

This Operator policy on the processing of personal data (the Policy) applies to all information that the Operator may obtain about visitors to the website https://itcom.uz.

02Key terms used in the Policy

2.1

Automated processing of personal data — processing of personal data using computer equipment.

2.2

Blocking of personal data — temporary suspension of the processing of personal data (except where processing is necessary to correct personal data).

2.3

Website — a set of graphic and information materials, together with computer programs and databases, that make them available on the internet at the network address https://itcom.uz.

2.4

Personal data information system — a set of personal data contained in databases together with the information technologies and technical means that ensure their processing.

2.5

Depersonalisation of personal data — actions as a result of which it becomes impossible, without the use of additional information, to determine whether personal data belong to a particular User or another data subject.

2.6

Processing of personal data — any action (operation) or set of actions (operations) performed on personal data with or without the use of automation, including collection, recording, systematisation, accumulation, storage, correction (updating, modification), extraction, use, transfer (distribution, provision, access), depersonalisation, blocking, deletion and destruction of personal data.

2.7

Operator — a state body, a municipal body, or a legal or natural person that, alone or jointly with others, organises and/or carries out the processing of personal data and also determines the purposes of processing, the composition of the personal data to be processed, and the actions (operations) performed on personal data.

2.8

Personal data — any information relating directly or indirectly to an identified or identifiable User of the website https://itcom.uz.

2.9

Personal data authorised by the data subject for distribution — personal data to which access by an unlimited number of persons has been granted by the data subject through consent to the processing of personal data authorised for distribution in the manner provided for by the Personal Data Law (personal data authorised for distribution).

2.10

User — any visitor to the website https://itcom.uz.

2.11

Provision of personal data — actions aimed at disclosing personal data to a specific person or a specific group of persons.

2.12

Distribution of personal data — any actions aimed at disclosing personal data to an indefinite group of persons (transfer of personal data) or at making personal data known to an unlimited number of persons, including publication in the mass media, posting on information and telecommunications networks, or providing access to personal data by any other means.

2.13

Cross-border transfer of personal data — the transfer of personal data to the territory of a foreign state, to an authority of a foreign state, or to a foreign natural or legal person.

2.14

Destruction of personal data — any actions as a result of which personal data are irrevocably destroyed with no possibility of further restoring their content in the personal data information system, and/or the material carriers of the personal data are destroyed.

03Rights and obligations of the Operator

3.1

The Operator has the right to:

  • receive from the data subject accurate information and/or documents containing personal data;
  • where the data subject withdraws consent to the processing of personal data, or sends a request to stop processing, continue processing without the consent of the data subject if the grounds specified in the Personal Data Law are present;
  • independently determine the composition and list of measures necessary and sufficient to ensure fulfilment of the obligations provided for by the Personal Data Law and the regulations adopted thereunder, unless otherwise provided by the Personal Data Law or other laws.
3.2

The Operator is obliged to:

  • provide the data subject, at their request, with information concerning the processing of their personal data;
  • organise the processing of personal data in the manner established by the current legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
  • respond to enquiries and requests from data subjects and their legal representatives in accordance with the requirements of the Personal Data Law;
  • report the necessary information to the authorised body for the protection of the rights of data subjects, at that body’s request, within 10 days of the date of receipt of the request;
  • publish or otherwise provide unrestricted access to this Policy on the processing of personal data;
  • take legal, organisational and technical measures to protect personal data against unlawful or accidental access, destruction, modification, blocking, copying, provision or distribution, and against other unlawful actions in relation to personal data;
  • cease the transfer (distribution, provision, access) of personal data, cease processing and destroy personal data in the manner and in the cases provided for by the Personal Data Law;
  • fulfil other obligations provided for by the Personal Data Law.

04Rights and obligations of data subjects

4.1

Data subjects have the right to:

  • receive information concerning the processing of their personal data, except in the cases provided for by law. The information is provided to the data subject by the Operator in an accessible form and must not contain personal data relating to other data subjects, except where there are lawful grounds for disclosing such data. The list of information and the procedure for obtaining it are established by the Personal Data Law;
  • require the Operator to correct their personal data, to block or destroy it where the data are incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, unlawfully obtained or not necessary for the stated purpose of processing, and to take the measures provided for by law to protect their rights;
  • put forward a condition of prior consent to the processing of personal data for the purpose of promoting goods, works and services on the market;
  • withdraw consent to the processing of personal data and send a request to stop processing;
  • appeal to the authorised body for the protection of the rights of data subjects, or to a court, against unlawful acts or omissions of the Operator in processing their personal data;
  • exercise other rights provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
4.2

Data subjects are obliged to:

  • provide the Operator with accurate information about themselves;
  • inform the Operator of any correction (update, change) to their personal data.
4.3

Persons who have provided the Operator with inaccurate information about themselves, or information about another data subject without that subject’s consent, bear responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

05Principles of processing personal data

5.1

Personal data are processed on a lawful and fair basis.

5.2

The processing of personal data is limited to the achievement of specific, predetermined and lawful purposes. Processing of personal data that is incompatible with the purposes of collection is not permitted.

5.3

It is not permitted to merge databases containing personal data that are processed for purposes incompatible with each other.

5.4

Only personal data that meet the purposes of their processing are processed.

5.5

The content and volume of the personal data processed correspond to the stated purposes of processing. Personal data that is excessive in relation to the stated purposes of processing is not permitted.

5.6

When personal data are processed, their accuracy and sufficiency are ensured and, where necessary, their relevance to the purposes of processing. The Operator takes the necessary measures, and/or ensures that they are taken, to delete or correct incomplete or inaccurate data.

5.7

Personal data are stored in a form that allows the data subject to be identified for no longer than the purposes of processing require, unless the storage period is established by law or by a contract to which the data subject is a party, beneficiary or guarantor. Processed personal data are destroyed or depersonalised once the purposes of processing have been achieved, or if the need to achieve those purposes is lost, unless otherwise provided by law.

06Purposes of processing personal data

Purpose of processing

  • informing the User by sending messages in the Telegram messenger
  • providing Users from other cities invited to offline events with accommodation (hotel booking), as well as rail and air tickets
  • ensuring fast registration and entry for Users invited to offline events, in accordance with the security requirements of the event venue

Personal data

  • surname, first name, patronymic
  • telephone numbers
  • year, month, date and place of birth
  • place of work and position
  • passport series and number
  • photograph of the passport

Legal grounds

  • the statutory (constituent) documents of the Operator
  • the User’s consent to the processing of personal data, expressed in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan on personal data

Types of processing

  • collection, recording, systematisation, accumulation, storage, destruction and depersonalisation of personal data
  • sending informational messages in the Telegram messenger
  • purchasing rail and air tickets for the User with their consent
  • booking a hotel for the User with their consent
  • transferring personal data to third parties (including hotels, transport companies and the security services of event venues) solely for the purposes specified in this policy and with the consent of the User

Special conditions

  • The processing of passport data, and the purchase of tickets and booking of hotels, are carried out solely in respect of Users who have reached the age of 16.
  • Persons under the age of 16 may take part in events that do not require passport data to be provided (for example, events in their city of residence).

07Conditions for processing personal data

7.1

Personal data are processed with the consent of the data subject to the processing of their personal data.

7.2

Processing of personal data is necessary to achieve the purposes provided for by an international treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan or by law, and to exercise the functions, powers and duties assigned to the operator by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

7.3

Processing of personal data is necessary for the administration of justice and for the execution of a judicial act or an act of another body or official subject to execution in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan on enforcement proceedings.

7.4

Processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, beneficiary or guarantor, and for the conclusion of a contract at the initiative of the data subject or of a contract under which the data subject will be a beneficiary or guarantor.

7.5

Processing of personal data is necessary to exercise the rights and legitimate interests of the operator or third parties, or to achieve socially significant purposes, provided that the rights and freedoms of the data subject are not thereby infringed.

7.6

Processing is carried out of personal data to which access by an unlimited number of persons has been granted by the data subject or at their request (publicly available personal data).

7.7

Processing is carried out of personal data subject to publication or mandatory disclosure in accordance with the law.

08Collection, storage, transfer and other processing of personal data

The security of the personal data processed by the Operator is ensured through the implementation of legal, organisational and technical measures necessary to comply in full with the requirements of the current legislation on the protection of personal data.

8.1

The Operator ensures the safekeeping of personal data and takes all possible measures to prevent access to personal data by unauthorised persons.

8.2

The User’s personal data are not transferred to third parties, except in the cases provided for by the current legislation and by this Policy, and except where the data subject has given the Operator consent to transfer the data to a third party for the performance of obligations under a civil law contract.

In the cases provided for by this Policy, Users’ personal data may be transferred to third parties (hotels, transport companies and the security services of event venues) solely in order to enable Users to take part in offline events, and only with their consent.

8.3

If inaccuracies are found in personal data, the User may update them independently by sending the Operator a notification to the Operator’s email address itcommunityuzbekistan@gmail.com marked “Updating personal data”.

8.4

The period of processing of personal data is determined by the achievement of the purposes for which the personal data were collected, unless a different period is provided for by contract or by current legislation.

The User may at any time withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data by sending the Operator a notification by email to the Operator’s address itcommunityuzbekistan@gmail.com marked “Withdrawal of consent to the processing of personal data”.

8.5

All information collected by third-party services, including payment systems, means of communication and other service providers, is stored and processed by those persons (Operators) in accordance with their User Agreement and Privacy Policy. The Operator is not responsible for the actions of third parties, including the service providers named in this clause.

8.6

Prohibitions established by the data subject on the transfer (other than the granting of access), and on the processing or the conditions of processing (other than obtaining access), of personal data authorised for distribution do not apply where personal data are processed in state, public and other public interests defined by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

8.7

When processing personal data, the Operator ensures the confidentiality of personal data.

8.8

The Operator stores personal data in a form that allows the data subject to be identified for no longer than the purposes of processing require, unless the storage period is established by law or by a contract to which the data subject is a party, beneficiary or guarantor.

8.9

Grounds for terminating the processing of personal data may include achievement of the purposes of processing, expiry of the data subject’s consent, withdrawal of consent by the data subject or a request to stop processing, and the discovery of unlawful processing of personal data.

09Actions performed by the Operator with the personal data received

9.1

The Operator carries out the collection, recording, systematisation, accumulation, storage, correction (updating, modification), extraction, use, transfer (including the granting of access to third parties in the cases provided for by this Policy), depersonalisation, blocking, deletion and destruction of personal data.

9.2

The Operator carries out automated processing of personal data with or without the receipt and/or transfer of the information obtained via information and telecommunications networks.

10Cross-border transfer of personal data

10.1

Before starting any activity involving the cross-border transfer of personal data, the Operator is obliged to notify the authorised body for the protection of the rights of data subjects of its intention to carry out such a transfer (this notification is sent separately from the notification of the intention to process personal data).

10.2

Before submitting the above notification, the Operator is obliged to obtain the relevant information from the authorities of the foreign state and the foreign natural or legal persons to whom the cross-border transfer of personal data is planned.

11Confidentiality of personal data

The Operator and other persons who have obtained access to personal data are obliged not to disclose personal data to third parties and not to distribute personal data without the consent of the data subject, unless otherwise provided by law.

12Final provisions

12.1

The User may obtain any clarification on questions of interest concerning the processing of their personal data by contacting the Operator by email at itcommunityuzbekistan@gmail.com.

12.2

This document will reflect any changes to the Operator’s personal data processing policy. The Policy is valid indefinitely until it is replaced by a new version.

12.3

The current version of the Policy is freely available on the internet at https://itcom.uz/privacypolicy.

Questions about your data

Write to the Operator at the address below. Use the exact subject line so your request reaches the right process.

itcommunityuzbekistan@gmail.com

To correct your data

Updating personal data

To withdraw consent

Withdrawal of consent to the processing of personal data