Privacy Policy
Privacy
Policy
This
Privacy Policy (“Policy”) covers information we collect from users and visitors
of https://gnovatech.co.uk/ and our related research and review services
(collectively, the “Services”). We use your Personal Information for providing
and improving the Service. By using the Services or otherwise agreeing to this
Policy, you are consenting to the collection, use, disclosure, and another
handling of your information as described below.
Unless
otherwise defined in this Policy, terms used have the same meanings as in our
Terms of Service, accessible at https://gnovatech.co.uk/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=5. If you have any concern about providing information to
us or having such information displayed on the Services or otherwise used in
any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Services.
1. The
Information We Collect.
Information
Submitted by You
Information
About You: We collect information about you when you participate in our
research process and use the Services in a variety of ways:
When
you create an account, you provide us with information such as your name and
email address either directly or via your LinkedIn account. We may also ask for
your credit card or other banking details if you purchase certain Services. You
can provide additional information to enhance your profile such as your
location, industry, bio, picture, and phone number. If you believe that someone
has created an unauthorized account depicting you or your likeness, you can
request its removal by contacting us
As part
of the review submission process, we will collect your name, company name,
phone number, and email address for our records, but this information will not
be made available to the public.
For
posted reviews, you will have the option to either remain anonymous (e.g., only
your generic job title, company description, industry, company size, and
location will be posted with your review) or attribute your comments by
providing information such as your name, company name, project details, and
your photo. If you choose to attribute your review, you agree that we may
publicly display such information in connection with your review through the Services.
When
you complete a survey, your responses will remain anonymous, and we will only
display the results along with a generic job title, department, industry,
company size, and location.
Information
About Others: You may provide information about others (e.g. clients),
including their names, emails, phone numbers, and companies to support our
reference check and review process. You should obtain the consent of other
individuals before providing Gnovatech with their information. The information
you provide about others is only used in the reference check and review
process.
Information
from Third-Parties
We may
collect, process, and store your user ID associated with any social media
account (such as your LinkedIn account) that you use to sign in to the Services
or connect with or use with the Services. When you sign in to your account with
your social media account information, or otherwise, connect to your social
media account with the Services, you consent to our collection, storage, and
use, following this Privacy Policy, of the information that you choose to make
available to us through the social media interface. This could include, without
limitation, any information that you have made public in connection with your
social media account, information that the social media service shares with us,
or information that is disclosed as being shared during the sign-in process.
Please see your social media provider’s privacy policy and help center for more
information about how they share information when you choose to connect your
account.
We may
also obtain information about you if it is contained in user-generated content
that other users post to or on our Services. For example, a user could include
information about you in a review they post.
Automatically
Collected Information
We and
third parties may use automated means to collect information about you, your
computer or another device, and your use of the Services. These automated means
include technologies such as cookies, Web server logs, Web beacons, and
JavaScript.
Cookies
are files that websites and online services create and access on your computer
or another Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to
store information or settings on your device to help us recognize you, improve
your experience, increase security, and measure the use of our Services. Our
Services may use HTTP cookies, HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies, and other types of
local storage (such as browser-based or plugin-based local storage). Your
browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of
cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. You also may be able to
delete your Flash cookies or adjust your Flash cookie settings by visiting the
Adobe Flash Website Storage Settings Manager by following Adobe’s
instructions here (instructions vary depending on your operating
system and version of Flash). Please note, however, that without cookies or
local storage you may not be able to use all of the features of our Services.
In
conjunction with the gathering of information through cookies and other
automated means, Web servers may log information such as your device type,
operating system type, mobile device identifier provided by your mobile device
operating system), browser type, domain, and other system settings, the name of
your ISP or mobile carrier, as well as the language your system uses and the
country and time zone where your device is located. The Web server logs also
may record information such as the address of the Web page that referred you to
our Services and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the
Internet. They also may log information about your interaction with our
Services, such as which pages you visit. To control which Web servers collect
information by automated means, we may place tags on our Web pages called
"Web beacons," which are files that link Web pages to particular Web
servers and their cookies. We also may include Web beacons in e-mail messages.
We or third parties also may send instructions to your device using JavaScript
or other computer languages to store or gather other details about your
interactions with the Services.
2. How
We Use Information.
What
legal basis do we rely on to process your data?
Consent
- When you receive our promotional material, you consent that your data will be
processed by us and we rely on this consent. You have the right to withdraw
consent at any time. We will stop processing data after consent is withdrawn,
where consent is the only legal basis for processing.
When
you fulfill a contract – We will process your data when you take steps to enter
into a contract with us such as sign up for a free trial, use or purchase our
service or products, and for the performance of the contract that you have
entered with us.
Legitimate
Interest – We process your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do
this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection
rights.
Legal
obligation - We may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory
obligations such as preventing, investigating, and detecting crime, fraud, or
anti-social behavior and prosecuting offenders, including working with law
enforcement agencies. Your data may be processed to satisfy the applicable law
or enforceable governmental request. We use the information we collect about
you to:
Establish
your account and provide the Services;
Fulfill
your requests and provide customized content to you;
Communicate
with you through email, notices posted on the website, and other means
available through the Services.
Create,
tailor, deliver and study the effectiveness of advertising and promotional
material both on and off of the Services, as well as for analytics (including
as described in the Online Analytics, Advertising and Do-Not-Track section
below);
Improve
the Services and to research and develop innovative features and new services;
Provide
feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Services; and
Investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding unlawful or harmful activities, including
potential threats to the physical safety of a person, potential fraud, and
violations of our Terms of Service.
Please
note that we may anonymize and/or de-identify information collected through the
Services or via other means so that the information no longer relates to you.
Where we have appropriately anonymized and/or de-identified information so that
it no longer identifies you personally, our use and disclosure of such
information is not subject to this Privacy Policy and may be used and disclosed
to others without restriction.
3. How
We Share Information.
Information
about you may be shared for the following purposes:
Any
information included in your user profile and any content you post on Gnovatech
(e.g., your reviews) may be seen by others. When you post a review, your
content, including your name as the contributor (if the review is not
anonymous), may also be displayed in search engine results.
If you
provide any reviews or testimonials either about Gnovatech or service providers
covered in our research we may post those reviews or testimonials or portions
thereof. Reviews or testimonials and advertisements may include your name (if
the review is not anonymous), title, company, and other information that you
have provided.
When we
have your consent or where it is necessary to carry out your instructions;
As
reasonably necessary to provide Gnovatech features and functionality to you; We
may share your information with third-party vendors or business partners who
provide services on our behalf, which may include analytics, customer service,
survey providers, payment processing, marketing, and fraud prevention. We may
also authorize third-party vendors to collect information on our behalf,
including as necessary to operate features of our Services. Third-party vendors
have access to and may collect information only as needed to perform their
functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other
purpose.
In
connection with significant corporate events (for example, we may share or
disclose the information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all
or a portion of our business or assets — such as in connection with a merger,
acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution or liquidation — or take
steps in anticipation of any such event);
When we
believe in good faith that sharing is reasonably necessary to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding possible unlawful activities or to comply
with legal process or other legal requirements; when we deem disclosure
appropriate in situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of
any person, potential violations of our terms, or claims of violation of the
rights of third parties; or when we deem disclosure appropriate to protect the
rights, property, and safety of us, our employees, users, or another person or
entity (the disclosures described here may involve the sharing of your
information with, for example, law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or
other parties).
4.
Online Analytics, Advertising, and Do-Not-Track.
Online
Analytics Providers
To help
us better understand your use of the Services, we may use third-party
analytics. These third parties use the sorts of technologies described in the
“Automatically Collected Information” section above. The information collected
by this technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service
providers.
Advertising
Technology Providers
Data
about your activities on our Services may be collected by us or by advertising
technology providers for use in delivering online advertising tailored to your
characteristics, activities, interests, and other factors. These ad services
may track your online activities over time by collecting information through
automated means, including through the use of the various technologies
described above, and they may use this information, and other information they
receive from us or other sources, to deliver advertisements to you on our
website, our emails, and other websites. We and third-party vendors may use
first-party cookies and third-party cookies together, and other automated
technologies, and in some cases additional information, (i) to inform, optimize,
and serve ads based on past visits to our Services or other factors and (ii) to
report how ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with
these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Services or
other factors.
You may
visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s
Consumer Opt-Out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out page to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising based
on your Internet browsing activities from companies that participate in those
programs. Some of our advertising-related activities may involve the services
of companies that do not participate in those programs. For example, we use the
Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third-party websites
(including Google) to previous visitors to our Website. You can set preferences
for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page. The opt-outs apply only to the browser in which you set
them. For example, if you set the opt-out while using Firefox, but then use
Chrome, the opt-out will not be active in Chrome. To opt-out in Chrome, you
will need to repeat the opt-out process.
The
opt-outs described in this Privacy Policy do not block or delete cookies or
prevent the use of cookies or other technologies for purposes other than
selecting ads based on your interests as inferred by your online behavior. If
you are opt-out, data may still be collected about your web browsing activities
and you will still see advertisements. Ads may be delivered based on other
factors, such as the content of the web page in which they are shown, or
demographic information obtained through other means.
Do Not
Track Disclosure
Do Not
Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set in certain
web browsers to inform websites and services that they do not want certain
information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites
or online services. However, we do not recognize or respond to
browser-initiated DNT signals, as the internet industry is still working to
determine what DNT means, how to comply with DNT, and how to create a common
approach to responding to DNT.
5.
Information Access, Correction, and Deletion Options
You
have a right to (1) access, modify, correct, or delete certain aspects of your
information regarding your user profile, and (2) close your user account. You
can also contact us regarding any account information which is not on your
profile or readily accessible to you. If you close your account, your
information may be removed or unpublished from the Services within a reasonable
amount of time.
Once
you submit a review and the review has been approved for posting, it cannot be
edited or removed. You will have the ability to submit a revision to appear
below your original posting and to revise your star ratings
Note
that information that others have copied may remain visible and you may not be
able to access, correct, or eliminate any information about you that others
copied or exported out of Gnovatech, because this information may not be in our
control. Your information may be displayed in search engine results until the
search engine refreshes its cache
Data
Retention
We
retain your information as long as your account is active or as needed to
provide you services or because we have an ongoing legitimate business need to
do so. We also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our
legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We store your
information as long as is necessary for the purpose for which we have collected
it. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal
information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if it is possible (e.g.
your personal information is stored for backup archives) then will securely
store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing
until the deletion/erasure is possible.
6.
Security.
We have
implemented various technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to
protect your information. These safeguards vary depending on the sensitivity of
the information at issue.
7.
Third-Party Links and Services.
The
Services may contain links to third-party websites, applications, and services,
including social media services, as well as embedded images or other
third-party content and features. Your use of these features may result in the
collection, processing, or sharing of information about you, depending on the
feature. We are not responsible for the content, features, security, or
practices of any third parties. We do not vet, endorse, or make any
representations about third parties or their websites, applications, or
services. The information you choose to provide to or that is collected by
these third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy.
8.
Changes to this Policy
This
Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time as our business practices and
legal requirements evolve. If this Privacy Policy is modified, we will provide
appropriate notice of the change, and we will include the effective date of the
update. Please review the changes carefully. If you disagree with the Privacy
Policy, you must stop using the Service. If you continue to use Gnovatech after
we publish or communicate a notice about any changes to this Privacy Policy,
you are consenting to such changes
9.
Children's Privacy
The
Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not
knowingly collect (or knowingly allow any third party to collect) personal
information from persons under the age of 13. If we become aware that personal
information has been collected from a person under the age of 13, we will
delete this information and terminate the person’s account as quickly as
possible.
10.
International Users
The
Services are hosted in the United States and are governed by United States law.
If you are using the Services from outside the United States, please be aware
that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the
United States, where our databases are operated, or Canada, where our servers
are located. The data protection and other laws of the United States and Canada
might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Services,
you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the
facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in our Privacy
Policy.
11.
Your California Privacy Rights
We do
not disclose your personal information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes without your consent. If you have any questions regarding
this policy or would like to change your preferences, you may contact us using
the information in Section 13 below.
12.
Your Rights within the European Union.
Whenever
you use our services from within the EU the following rights apply to your user
account:
The
right to be informed, The right to access, The right to rectification, The
right to erasure, The right to restrict processing, The right to data
portability, The right to object, and the rights to automated decision making
and profiling.
If you
wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact
details set out below. For the protection of your privacy and security, our
Data protection team shall take every reasonable step to ensure that your
identity is verified before granting access, or rectification, or deletion.
13. No
Rights of Third-Parties
This
Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.
14. How
to Contact Us
If you
live in the EU, the Controller of your data is Gnovatech with its principal
place of business at 1146 19th Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036.
If you
have any requests, questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy
Policy or practices, please contact us at info@gnovatech.co.uk
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