Privacy policy.
Effective Date: July 1, 2019.
B2B Growth Consulting Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “B2BGC”, “us”, “our” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with B2BGC’s business activities, like conferences and events, and client services, and on websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”), in our capacity as data controllers.
Information we collect
We collect personal data in the course of our business activities, including in connection with some client services. We also collect personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for or apply for jobs, register for B2BGC’s newsletters and alerts, sign up for conferences and events, and/or participate in public user posting areas (such as blogs and surveys). The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information.
We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided.
Use of information
We use your personal data to fulfil your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalize the content that you view or receive on the Sites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the sites’ performance and functioning, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws, enforce B2BGC’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request. We may combine and/or analyse personal data to evaluate and offer content and services most relevant to you. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.
B2BGC and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies, including web beacons, to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. B2BGC and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details regarding our use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Our Sites do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. Accordingly, we do not alter our data collection and use practices in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.
The legal basis by which we process your personal data
Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:
in part, on our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting B2BGC, building and maintaining relationships. recruitment, and providing our services;
in part, on your consent, for example, if you create a user profile, or register for our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations such as understanding and enhancing the quality of your experience on our websites;
in part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations.
Data recipients and international data transfers
Personal data collected in the course of B2BGC business activities, including in connection with some client services, as well as on the Sites may be transferred from time to time to B2BGC subsidiaries and affiliates and their personnel across our global organization, as well as to our third-party service providers located throughout the world, including in countries where the local law may grant you fewer rights than you have in your own country. Additionally, the Sites may be viewed and hosted by B2BGC and our third-party service providers anywhere in the world. By using any of the Sites and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to such trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.
B2BGC will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. B2BGC may provide access to your personal data to third-party service providers engaged by B2BGC to provide services related to the Sites as well as related to B2BGC’s business activities, including in connection with some client services, in the manner agreed upon in our client services agreements. We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third-party service providers is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
If we are required to do so by law or legal process;
To law enforcement authorities or other government officials;
When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
If disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;
To protect our property, services and legal rights;
To prevent fraud against B2BGC, our subsidiaries, affiliates and/or business partners;
To support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions; or
To comply with any and all applicable laws.
In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.
User forums
You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. B2BGC is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Sites.
Link to third party sites
B2BGC may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by B2BGC of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and B2BGC shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.
Social Networking
The Sites may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts including, but not limited to, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, with B2BGC. The Sites also may allow you to log in to a B2BGC account using certain social network account credentials.
By associating your social network account with B2BGC or logging in to a B2BGC account using your social network account credentials, you give us permission to access information that you have made available in your public profile for that social network account. The information available in your public profile varies based on the social network and your settings but may include your email address, real name, profile picture, gender, and location. We use the information we receive from your social network account in accordance with the social network’s terms of use and this Privacy Policy. Please refer to the privacy settings in your social network account for information about what data is shared with B2BGC and other connected applications and to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your activities using our Sites.
If you would like to disconnect a social media account from us, refer to the settings of that social network account and its provider.
Security
B2BGC has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized B2BGC personnel and third-party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, however, B2BGC cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
Data retention
B2BGC retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.
We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, B2BGC will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in its entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
Children
The Sites are not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and B2BGC does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.
Your rights
Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.
If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at info@b2bgrowthconsulting.com.
Unsubscribe
If you have registered for the B2BGC newsletter or alerts, or you receive invitations to survey or events from B2BGC and you prefer not to receive future email communications from us, please write to info@b2bgrowthconsulting.com to unsubscribe from all B2BGC communications.
Consent; Changes to Privacy Policy
By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
B2B Growth Consulting Ltd.
4 College Way
Northwood, HA5 2BL
info@b2bgrowthconsulting.com