Privacy Policy

This Policy provides an overview of how ProfSquad collects your personal data, how it handles it, and how it protects your privacy.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Personal information we collect and use

We may collect your personal data that you provide to us, for example, when you contact us electronically or respond to our email. We may collect your business contact details when you exchange business cards with our representatives at meetings and events, or when you provide your contacts to sign up for our events.

When submitting your request/inquiry on our websites, you may be asked for information such as, but not limited to, your full name, email address, phone number, company you work for or own and/or country where you reside or work.

When contacting us through live chats on our websites, you may be asked for information such as, but not limited to, your name and email address. This is needed when we are not ready to answer you immediately and need more time to handle your request. When you give us your personal data in live chat, we assume that you consent to processing it by ProfSquad.

By using cookies, we may collect details of your visits to our websites such as, but not limited to, the pages you visited, the date, time and duration of your visit and/or your IP address as well as the browser you use and its version, your operating system and its version, your city and state.

It is our policy to collect only the minimum information required to handle and complete your request/inquiry or to reach other purposes for which we process your personal data. If you believe our websites have collected excessive information about you, please contact us through the request/inquiry form to raise your concerns.

We do not intend to collect sensitive information through our websites unless it is legally required to do so. Examples of sensitive information include race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, genetic data, biometric data, sexual life or sexual orientation, and criminal records. We ask that you do not provide sensitive data of such nature when using our websites.

When you submit your request/inquiry on our websites, we use your data on the basis of your consent. In other cases, when you voluntarily exchange business contact details with us, we send you information or marketing communications on the basis of our legitimate interests in maintaining a business relationship with you or companies you work for or represent and/or on the basis of your consent (when it is technically possible to collect your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent). Cookies are used on the basis of your consent and/or our legitimate interest described below.

Purposes for which we use your personal data

We may use your data to interact with you and/or respond to your requests/inquiries, to negotiate, perform, or facilitate a contract with you or related to you, to send you invitations to events we organize, to share with you information you might be interested in and/or to inform you about our services. We may also use your personal data to comply with laws, regulations, public authority requests, or court orders.

These are examples of purposes for which we may use personal data you provide to us:

• to administer and manage our websites;
• to understand how people use the features and functions of our websites in order to improve user experience;
• to determine the company, organization, institution, or agency that you work for or represent or with which you are otherwise associated;
• to develop our businesses and services;
• to analyze the usage of our websites;
• any other purposes for which you provided information to us.

Our websites do not collect or compile personally identifying information for sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes.

Who may access your personal data

We may disclose your personal data to (1) our employees who are in contact with you or who are responsible for marketing, (2) our affiliated companies (some of them are located outside the European Union), (3) third-party service providers.

Statistical data about our websites’ visitors may be accessed by (1) our employees in marketing and/or IT departments who are responsible for analyzing such data and for improving our websites, (2) our affiliated companies (some of them are located outside the European Union), (3) third-party service providers.

Third party privacy policies

When we transfer personal data, we do so for the purposes for which the information has been collected/submitted, for the purposes listed above, for the administration and maintenance of our websites and associated systems, and/or other internal or administrative purposes. We also may transfer personal data to third parties providing identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and storage services.

We work only with those third-party providers that are bound to maintain appropriate levels of security and confidentiality, to process personal data only as instructed by us and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.

Retention of your personal data

We will retain your personal information in our systems only for as long as we need it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law.

CCPA privacy rights (do not sell my personal information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR data protection rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Contact us

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy and Cookies Policy, you can contact us via the request/inquiry form on this website.