Privacy Policy

 

Think Mathematics Competition (TMC) is a worldwide math competition organized by International Youth Mathematics Organization (IYMO), a charitable entity registered in the State of California.  Information below intends to describe the personal data we collect, the legal basis on which we collect the personal data, and how we would use your personal data.

 

The IYMO is headquartered in California in the United Sates. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please direct your query to the IYMO’s data protection officer. The IYMO’s data protection officer’s name and contact information are as follows:

 

          Name
          contact information

 

  1. Personal Information We Collects
  2. Create a TMC account

When you register a TMC account, we collect information including but not limited to your cell phone number, email address and may allow you to provide additional information in your account, such as information about your education background, school grade, and related personal information.

 

We process your personal information for account administration, to deliver math learning resources and information, and to inform you of IYMO events, content and other education opportunities that we think you may be interested.

 

Personal Data Categories

Purpose

GDPR Lawful Basis

Name and contact information

Set up and administrate TMC account, including access to our content and fulfill subscriptions.

Send you learning resources, information and opportunities.

With your consent ((Article 6(1)(a)))

 

Contractual necessity (Article 6(1)(b))



Education information, grade, in school

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Participate in the TMC

When you participate the TMC math competition hosted by IYMO, we collect information about you or your child, including participant’s first and last name, birthday, grade, country/region, and city of residence, your name and contact information, advisor’s name, and email.

                    

                         

Personal Data Categories

Purpose

GDPR Lawful Basis

Name and contact information

To identify participant and notice the result

With your consent ((Article 6(1)(a)))

 

Contractual necessity (Article 6(1)(b))

Education information, grade, in school

Provide education resources, inform registrant

With your consent ((Article 6(1)(a)))

 

IYMO’s legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))

Payment Information

To register for competition

With your consent ((Article 6(1)(a)))

 

Contractual necessity (Article 6(1)(b))
Your Consent

 

 

  1. Publication and Newsletter

In addition to producing original content, the IYMO also subscribes to news feeds and blogs produced by others, which we often link to from our website and within our newsletters. This means you may find yourself on the IYMO website or reading an email from the IYMO publications team and we will offer you a link to another organization’s website where you will find content on privacy or data protection that we find relevant and useful to you. At these times, you will be leaving the IYMO website. The IYMO is not responsible or liable for content provided by these third-party websites or personal information they may happen to gather from you.

 

To receive IYMO newsletters by email, you will need to create a “profile” with us which involves providing the IYMO with at least your first name and last name, an email address, and the country in which you live. The purpose of processing this data is to have the necessary information to deliver the IYMO’s newsletters by email. You may at your own option choose to subscribe to IYMO News and Updates which may be considered direct marketing. You may unsubscribe at any time from newsletter subscriptions as well as marketing messages.

 

The IYMO uses third-party service providers to manage our subscriptions. Services like this are necessary because it helps us send emails, manage subscribe/unsubscribe features, and improve the effectiveness of our emailing services. Emails contain a unique link to a transparent image which is loaded when the email is opened. We track the requests to download this hosted image. When you click on a hyperlink in the email, the unique redirect URL will reach our service for tracking and then immediately forward you to the target destination. The IYMO uses this information to better understand what information is of interest to its subscribers so it can produce more of that information for them. These third-party services do not use or sell this information.

 

As noted above, you may manage your IYMO subscriptions by subscribing or unsubscribing at any time. If you have any difficulties managing your email or other communication preferences with the IYMO, please contact us at _______________.

   

Personal Data Categories

Purpose

GDPR Lawful Basis

Contact information

To send you email newsletter; direct marketing

IYMO’s legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))

 

  1. Your correspondence with IYMO

If you correspond with us by email, the postal service, or other form of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it and use it to respond to your inquiry or to keep a record of your complaint, accommodation request, or similar concern. As always, if you wish to have the IYMO “erase” your personal information or otherwise refrain from communicating with you, please contact us at__________________________.

 

  1. Web and digital analytics

We use Google Analytics to track how often people gain access to or read our content. Provided you have opted-in to analytics cookies, we use this information in the aggregate to understand what content our members find useful or interesting, so we can produce the most valuable content to meet your needs.

 

Personal Data Categories

Purpose

GDPR Lawful Basis

Anonymous website usage intelligence

Anonymous website usage intelligence

IYMO’s s legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))

Cookies data

Business intelligence

Consent (Article 6(1)(a))

 

  1. Use of MTC Website

The MTC website collects certain information automatically and stores in the log files. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other usage information about the use of the IYMO’s website, including a history of the pages you view. We use this information to help us design our site to better suit our users’ needs. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences.

 

IYMO has a legitimate interest in understanding how members, customers and potential customers use its website. This assists the IYMO with providing more relevant products and services, with communicating value to our sponsors and corporate members, and with providing appropriate staffing to meet member and customer needs.

 

Cookies and web beacons

 

The IYMO makes available a comprehensive Cookie Notice that describes the cookies used on the IYMO website and provides information on how users can accept or reject them. Click here to view the notice.

 

Do not track

 

The IYMO tracks users when they cross from our official website by logging in with their user name and password, as well as when visitors to our website enter through a marketing landing page. But the IYMO does not track users to subsequent sites and does not serve targeted advertising to them. The IYMO does not, therefore, respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.     

 

  1. What happen if you don’t provide your personal data

You can access many IYMO information without providing your personal data. However, you will not be able to participate competition or receive our newsletter and subscription.

 

  1. Sensitive personal information.

We ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Service, or otherwise to us.

If you provide us with any sensitive personal information to us when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.

 

  1. When and how we share information with others

Information about your TMC account is maintained in association with your profile account. The personal information we collect from you is stored in one or more databases hosted by third parties located in the United States. These third parties do not use or have access to your personal information for any purpose other than cloud storage and retrieval. On occasion, the IYMO engages third parties to mail information to you, including items like books you may have purchased, or material from an event sponsor.

 

We do not otherwise reveal your personal data to non-IYMO persons or businesses for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) to demonstrate the participants' outstanding performance in TMC by publish the honor roll; (3) the information is provided to comply with the law; (4) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (5) it’s in connection with fulfil our contract obligations as described above; (6) to address emergencies; and (7) to address disputes, claims, or to persons demonstrating legal authority to act on your behalf. We may also gather aggregated data about our members and Site visitors and disclose the results of such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to our partners, service providers, advertisers, and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

 

 

  1. Transferring personal data to the U.S. and China

The IYMO has its headquarters in the United States and some of its team members are based in China. Information we collect about you will be processed in the United States. By sign up for the website, the math competition or the newsletter, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in the United States and China, depending on the circumstances, that may involve a transfer of your information to the United States. The IYMO provides safeguards by entering binding, standard data protection clauses where appropriate for the data subjects’ location. The IYMO also enters into data processing agreements and model clauses with its suppliers whenever feasible and appropriate.

 

  1. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

 

  1. Data Subject Rights

European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. If you are located within the European Union, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

  • Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
  • Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
  • Delete. Delete your personal information.
  • Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice.
  • Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Object. Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the basis of our processing of your personal information that impacts your rights.

You may submit these requests by email to __________________________ or our postal address provided above. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request.

Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or our response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.

 

  1. Data storage and retention

Your personal data is stored by the IYMP on its servers, and on the servers of third party cloud-based database management services the IYMO engages, located in the United States. The IYMO retains data for the duration of the your relationship with the IYMO and for a period of time thereafter to allow you to recover accounts if they decide to renew, to analyze the data for IYMO’s own operations, and for historical and archiving purposes associated with IYMP’s history as a membership association.

  1. Questions, concerns or complaints

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact the IYMO’s data protection officer:

Name
Contact Information Questions, concerns or complaints