Consumer Privacy News Inc. (“Consumer Privacy News”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect, use and share personal information collected from individuals themselves or from other third parties, and provides information about individuals’ rights with respect to their personal information. Consumer Privacy News is not in the business of marketing any of your private information, but it is possible that during the course of Consumer Privacy News’s business activities, we may come into the possession of personal or personally identifiable information. The use of personal or personally identifiable information is regulated by applicable federal, state and/or local laws and regulations. Consumer Privacy News regularly reviews its privacy policies to help ensure compliance with these laws or regulations.
While we do not at any time directly market or commercialize personal or personally identifiable information (generally, “personal information”), we may use personal information provided to us for any of the purposes described in the relevant section of this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.
Our goal is to process personal information as necessary for our legitimate business purposes in a transparent manner. If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, please contact us as set forth in the Contact Us section below.
Business Contacts
Information collection
We collect and use business contact details for individuals associated with existing and potential Consumer Privacy News clients to manage and maintain our relationship with those individuals. The collection of personal information about contacts and the addition of that personal information to the management system is initiated by Consumer Privacy News staff and may include name, employer name, title, phone, email and other business contact details.
When we send you emails, we may use technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and whether the links contained within the message have been clicked on. We may combine information collected through these means with other information we maintain about you to measure interest in our specific offerings and email campaigns, improve our offerings to specific target audiences, and tailor our interactions with you.
Third Party Processors
Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below (We do not in the normal course of our business collect personal information for any resale purposes.):
· Digital Marketing Service Providers – We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the indirect processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:
o Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: https://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: [email protected].
Information use
We use this information for the following business purposes:
· Administering, managing and developing our business and services – We may process personal information to run our business, including:
o Managing our relationship with clients;
o Providing services and customer support to our clients;
o Developing our business and services, such as identifying client needs and improvements in service delivery and learning more about a client relationship opportunity we have an interest in;
o Analyzing and evaluating the strength of interactions between Consumer Privacy News and a contact;
o Performing analytics, including producing metrics for Consumer Privacy News leadership, such as on trends, relationship maps, sales intelligence, and progress against account business goals;
o Maintaining and using IT systems;
o Hosting or facilitating the hosting of events; and
o Administering and managing our website, systems, and applications.
· Providing information about us and our range of services – Unless we are asked not to, we use client business contact details to provide information that we think will be of interest about Consumer Privacy News and our services. For example, we may send you industry updates and insights, information about other services that may be relevant to you, and invites to events.
Please review the Your Choices section below for information about how you may unsubscribe from our mailing lists and exercise other rights.
Information retention
Personal information will be retained by Consumer Privacy News for as long as we have, or need to keep a record of, a relationship with a business contact. Personal information may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law, regulation, or professional standards and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Clients
Our business does not rely upon our direct collection or sale of personal information. Our policy is to collect only the personal information necessary for agreed purposes, and we ask our clients only to share personal information with us when it is needed for those purposes. When we need to process personal information to provide our services, we ask our clients to provide the necessary information to the data subjects concerned regarding how Consumer Privacy News will process that personal information, as our clients are typically in the appropriate position to communicate this information to the data subjects (e.g., our clients’ employees or our clients’ customers).
Information collection
Given the diversity of services we provide to clients, we process many categories of personal information, which may include:
· Personal details (e.g., name, age/date of birth, gender, marital status, country of residence);
· Contact details (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address);
· Financial details (e.g., salary, payroll details and other financial-related details such as income, investments and other financial interests, benefits, tax status);
· Job details (e.g., role, grade, experience, performance information and other information about management and employees); and
· For certain client engagements, we may process sensitive or special categories of personal information (such as in performing know your client checks, which may involve us processing government identification documents that may contain biometric data).
Information use
We use the above personal information for the following business purposes:
· Providing professional services and products – We provide a diverse range of professional services and products. Some of our services require us to process personal information to provide advice and deliverables.
· Administering, managing and developing our businesses and services – We may process personal information to run our business, including:
o Managing our relationship with clients;
o Developing our businesses and services (such as identifying client needs and improvements in service delivery);
o Maintaining and using IT systems;
o Hosting or facilitating the hosting of events; and
o Administering and managing our website and systems and applications.
· Security, quality and risk management activities
o Personal information may be processed as part of the security monitoring that we undertake to detect, investigate and resolve security threats — for example, automated scans to identify harmful emails (e.g., phishing attempts).
o We monitor the services provided to clients for quality purposes and risk management purposes, which may involve processing personal information stored on the relevant client file.
o We collect and hold personal information as part of our client engagement and acceptance procedures, including carrying out searches using publicly available sources — such as internet searches and sanctions lists — to help identify politically exposed persons and heightened risk individuals and organizations and checking that there are no issues that would prevent us from working with a particular client — such as sanctions, criminal convictions, conduct or other reputational issues, including with respect to company directors.
· Providing our clients and prospective clients with information about us and our range of services – With consent or otherwise in accordance with applicable law, we use client contact details to provide information that we think will be of interest about us and our services — for example, industry updates and insights, other services that may be relevant and invites to events.
· Complying with any requirement of law, regulation or a professional body of which we are a member – As with any provider of professional services, we are subject to legal, regulatory and professional obligations. Subject to these obligations, we need to keep certain records to demonstrate that our services are provided in compliance with those obligations, and those records may contain personal information.
We are continually looking for ways to help our clients and improve our business and services. Where agreed with our clients, we may use information that we receive in the course of providing professional services for other lawful purposes, including analysis to better understand a particular issue, industry or sector, provide insights to our clients, improve our business, service delivery and offerings and develop new Consumer Privacy News technologies and offerings.
Information retention
We retain the personal information processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, however, it is our policy that any personal information we receive from our clients as part of our certification process will be removed from our servers following the termination of the client engagement, however, personal information may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law, regulation, or professional standards and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Information sharing
We may share personal information with third parties as described in the Information Use section below. In addition, we may share personal information with:
· Third party organizations that assist us in providing services – On certain client engagements, pursuant to our agreements with such clients, we may engage or otherwise work with other providers to help us provide professional services to our clients.
· Our clients – Where we need to process personal information to provide professional services to our clients, we may share personal information in our deliverables.
Users of Our Websites and Applications
This section describes our privacy practices with respect to Consumer Privacy News.com and other Consumer Privacy News websites, applications and online services that link to this privacy statement (together referred to as the “Site”).
Information collection
When you access or otherwise use our Site, we will collect information about you and how you interact with our Site. We collect information about you through: (1) information you provide; (2) automatic tracking technologies; and (3) third parties.
Information you provide
When you access our Site, you may choose to provide information about yourself such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, fax number, job title, and company name. By way of example, you may choose to provide your information in the following circumstances:
· Subscription or ordering newsletters and/or publications;
· Participation in “join our mailing list” initiatives;
· Participation in bulletin boards, discussion, or message forums;
· Entering quick surveys, quizzes or benchmarking surveys;
· Registration for events and conferences;
· Registration for premium online services;
· Contacting us for further information;
· Visiting our Site while logged into a social media platform.
Automatically collected information
We may use online identification technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, or pixels on some pages of our Site (“Tracking Technologies”). The information we collect using these technologies includes: IP address, browser type and language, access time, and referring website. Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing a more customized website experience. For example, a cookie can be used to store registration information in an area of the website so that a user does not need to re-enter it on subsequent visits to that area. Consumer Privacy News may use Tracking Technologies from marketing partners on our Site, third party sites, and social media platforms. These Tracking Technologies help to measure the efficacy of our marketing and awareness campaigns and to understand how visitors navigate to our Site from a Consumer Privacy News ad. We use these technologies to compile aggregated statistics about visitors who interact with Consumer Privacy News online content, to gauge the effectiveness of our ads and to better provide more pertinent information to our visitors.
Third-Party Analytics
Consumer Privacy News also uses website analytics providers which may, if permitted, set cookies in your browser. Site activity information collected by these analytics providers may be combined with personal information held by Consumer Privacy News.
To properly manage our Site we also log anonymous information on our operational systems and identify categories of visitors by items such as domains and browser types. These statistics are reported in the aggregate to our webmasters. This is to improve the web experience of our Site’s visitors and to provide us with an effective information resource.
When we send you emails, we may use technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and whether the links contained within the message have been clicked on. We may combine information collected through these means with other information we maintain about you in order to measure interest in our specific offerings and email campaigns, improve our offerings to specific target audiences, and tailor our interactions with you.
Information use
We use the information we collect as described above for various purposes depending on the context in which we collected the information. For example, it may be necessary for us to process your information in order to process a transaction or provide a service you have requested or otherwise in accordance with a contract between us, or we may process your information in accordance with your prior consent (where you have provided such consent).
We also use the information we collect for the following business purposes:
· Operating and improving the Site;
· Fulfilling your orders and requests;
· Managing your registration preferences;
· Customizing the Site for you;
· Understanding how the Site is being used;
· Exploring ways to develop and grow our business;
· Maintaining and improving the safety and security of the Site;
· Preventing and enhancing protection against fraud, spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime and security risks;
· Sending you renewal notifications and/or service notifications;
· Conducting customer satisfaction surveys;
· Improving our products and services;
· Running our operations;
· Complying with law and legal obligations;
· Responding to your inquiries; and
· Sending communications about Consumer Privacy News products, services, and events.
Third party sites
Our Site may link to other websites which do not operate under Consumer Privacy News’s privacy practices. When you link to other websites, Consumer Privacy News’s privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage you to review each site’s privacy policy before disclosing any personal information.
Children
Consumer Privacy News understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The Site is not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 18 years. It is Consumer Privacy News’s policy never to knowingly collect or maintain personal information about children under the age of 18.
Your Choices
Unsubscribe
Should you wish to unsubscribe from our mailing list or any registrations or, to the extent permissible, opt-out of data collection of your information, you may provide us with your wish to do so by contacting us and completing the information on this site, Consumer Privacy News.com, or by calling and leaving a message for us at (650) 242-5048.
Managing cookies
If you are concerned about cookies, most browsers permit individuals to decline cookies. In most cases, you may refuse or delete one or more cookies and still access our Site, but Site functionality may be impaired. After you finish browsing our websites, you may delete Site cookies from your system if you wish.
Do not track
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to send a message to the website operator requesting not to be tracked. Currently, we do not respond to these DNT signals. For more information about DNT, visit allaboutdnt.com.
Security
Consumer Privacy News has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security designed to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized Consumer Privacy News personnel and the third parties described in this privacy statement are provided access to personal information and these employees and third parties have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
Consumer Privacy News may update this privacy statement at any time by publishing an updated version here. You can access the most current version of this privacy policy statement at any time on this Site.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy statement or about our privacy practices, please contact us at: privacyquestions@Consumer Privacy News.com.