Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
When you visit and interact with our website, or communicate with or contact us, we may collect, use, share and process information about you ("Personal Data"). This Privacy Policy outlines our approach to processing personal data and the rights that apply to you.
Purposes for which we process personal data.
We collect and process personal data for a variety of purposes, including the following:
• Process your name and contact information to provide you with information about our products, manage your registration for and participation in our online events and seminars or office visits, manage your registration for contests or promotions, provide customer service or otherwise communicate with you;
• Process device and usage data to improve and personalize our website and ensure its security and continue to function properly;
• Process billing information to complete your transactions when you purchase our products or services;
• Display personalised ads to you and to send you marketing communications about us, our products and services; and
• Comply with our legal obligations under applicable law and cooperate with public authorities and government agencies.We will collect and process your personal data only to the extent necessary for the fulfilment of these purposes and to the extent we have a legal basis for the processing. If necessary, we will obtain your prior consent to the processing.
Who do we share your personal data with?We may share personal information with individuals, including:
• Our contracted service providers who process personal information on our behalf for IT and systems administration, hosting, credit card processing, research and analytics, marketing, customer service and data enrichment;
• Affiliates within our group of companies who process personal information for customer service, marketing, technical operations and account management;
• Sponsors of events, webinars or contests for which you register;
• Third-party social media and advertising networks, who typically act as separate controllers to allow us to advertise on third-party platforms;
• Professional consultants who provide consulting, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services, or if we are involved in a merger, restructuring, sale of assets or business combination, as applicable;
• Public authorities and government agencies to the extent that we are required to disclose personal information to comply with a legal obligation;
Rights regarding your personal informationYou have certain rights in relation to your personal information under local data protection laws. These rights may include:
• Access to the personal information we hold about you (Right of access);
• Correcting inaccurate personal information and ensuring its completeness, taking into account the purposes for which the personal information was processed (Right of rectification);
• Erasing your personal information to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws (Right to erasure); Right to be forgotten)
• Restriction of the processing of your personal data to the extent permitted by law (Right to restriction of processing)
• Transfer of your personal data to another controller, where possible (Right to data portability)
• Object to any processing of your personal data that is based on our legitimate interests (Right to object) If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes or share it with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you can exercise your right to object to such processing at any time without providing any grounds for such objection, and
• Withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on consent prior to such withdrawal, where we collect, process and share your personal data based on your consent.
