This Privacy Policy describes the information that we gather on or through our Services and how we use and process such information. For each processing purpose we will articulate the reason for requiring the data, what data we will process, the legal basis for processing the data and how long we will keep the data.

Where the legal basis of consent is to be used, this will be gathered freely, and we will use clear, plain language that is easy to understand, and you will be able to remove your consent at any point.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect/process information so that we can provide the best possible experience when you utilise our services. This section of the policy will describe the purpose for processing your personal data, the legal basis to do so and how long we will keep your data.

Our Product / Service

If you choose to use our service, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you, this will include your name, email address, job title, company name, company type, company size, business type, company turnover and company region. Other non-mandatory personal data may also be gathered.

We will process data using two legal rationales, if you are an individual and not associated with a contracted client we will ask for your consent. If you are associated with a contracted client we will use legitimate interest as the legal basis to process the data.

Personal data will be retained for a period of up to 2 years for a dormant account, ie an account which hasn’t been used.

Corporate

If you choose to use our service, personal data items such as Name, Email Address and Telephone number may be stored in our Corporate Cloud Storage, Corporate Email Platform or our Help Desk platform.

We will process data using two legal rationales, if you are an individual and not associated with a contracted client we will ask for your consent. If you are associated with a contracted client we will use legitimate interest as the legal basis to process the data.

Personal data will be retained for a period of up to 3 years for an active account, ie an account which has been used.

Marketing

We would like to send you information about products and services of ours which may be of interest to you. You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. The personal data will include names, addresses, email addresses, employer, job title and telephone numbers.

We will process data using the following legal rationales to send marketing information, if you are an individual and not associated with a contracted client we will ask for your consent. If you are associated with a contracted client, we will use contractual obligation as the legal basis to process the data. If you are associated with a previous contracted client, we will use legitimate interest as the legal basis to process the data. All of the above rationales for marketing information can be removed by informing us of your wish to remove consent. We will retain personal data for active customer leads for a period of up to 1 year, a lead will be active under the following circumstances

• An email sent by our organisation has not received an unknown account bounce back

• An email has been sent to our organisation from the data subject

Cookies

Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services. Website usage information is collected using cookies to monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed and web traffic routing on our Services. We will store the cookie values on our platform to allow us to perform our analysis, however this will not be used to target marketing material to an individual user.

We will process data under the legitimate interest legal basis as we only use the data to perform aggregated tracking analysis and will not target individuals based upon this analysis and you also need to accept our cookie policy to allow us to process the data.

We will retain active cookie data for a period of up to 1 year, a cookie will remain active if a user re-visits our platform.

Learn more about how we use cookies https://www.accountancyage.com/cookie-policy/

Updating These Terms

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not want to agree to these or any updated Terms, you can request an account deletion.

Your Rights

Accessing or Rectifying your personal data

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date and you have the right to request a copy and update the personal data that we hold about you. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. If you would like to invoke this right, please email or write to us at the below address.

Deletion

Based upon the retention periods described above we will remove your personal data from our platforms.

Object, Restrict or Withdraw Consent

You may wish to object to or restrict our ability to process your personal data, this can be done either via email or in writing, using the contact details below. Further context may need to be requested to ensure we can carry out the relevant tasks on our platforms to perform the request.

Portability

You may wish to port your personal data to another platform. This can be done either via email or in writing, using the contact details below.

Who we are and how to contact us

We are the data controller responsible for defining and managing how your personal data is processed.

Our company name is Contentive Limited Our company address is 5th Floor Translation & I Hub Building, Imperial College Campus

80 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ

Our email address is gdpr@contentive.com

To Whom We Disclose Information

Except as described in this Policy, we will not intentionally disclose the Personal Data or Client Data that we collect or store on the Service to third parties without the consent of the data subject. We may disclose information to third parties if you consent to us doing so, as well as in the following circumstances:

Unrestricted Information

Any information that you voluntarily choose to include in a Public Area of the Service, such as a public profile page, will be available to any Visitor or User who has access to that content. Service Providers We work with third party service providers who provide email hosting, core corporate applications, web hosting, maintenance, and other services for us. These third parties may have access to, or process Personal Data or Client Data as part of providing those services for us. We limit the information provided to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our contracts with them require them to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

Service providers include:

BC Foxtrot Limited, 1 Hammersmith Broadway, London W6 9DL; for the purpose of Hosting

Marketo EMEA, Limited, Cairn House, South Country Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland; for the purposes of Marketing and Email Campaigns

On24 Inc. Corporation Delaware, 201 Third Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94 103, USA; for the purposes of Webinar Marketing Campaigns

Mailchimp of The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA; for the purposes of Marketing and Email Campaigns

SurveyGizmo 4888 Pearl East Cir. Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301 USA; for the purposes of Marketing Surveys

SurveyMonkey UK Limited, 6th Floor, One London Wall, London, EC2Y 5EB; for the purposes of Marketing Surveys

Overseas transfers

The information you provide may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) that do not have similar protections in place regarding your data and restrictions on its use as set out in this policy. However, we will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. By submitting your information, you consent to these transfers for the purposes specified above.

We may transfer your personal information to the following which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows:

Marketo EMEA, Limited, Cairn House, South Country Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland; for the purposes of Marketing and Email Campaigns

On24 Inc. Corporation Delaware, 201 Third Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94 103, USA; for the purposes of Webinar Marketing Campaigns

Mailchimp of The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA; for the purposes of Marketing and Email Campaigns

SurveyGizmo 4888 Pearl East Cir. Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301 USA; for the purposes of Marketing Surveys

Marketo, On24, Mailchimp and SurveyGizmo have each provided the following safeguards to ensure the safety of your personal data, and it shall be processed to at least the same standards as set out by the General Data Protection Regulations: Marketo, On24, Mailchimp and SurveyGizmo each participates in The Privacy Shield framework, which is accepted by the European Commission as evidence that an adequate level of protection exists for the personal data in the country, territory, or organisation where it is being transferred, in this case, the United States.

You can obtain a copy of the safeguards and any other of Mailchimp’s data protection documentation by visiting https://mailchimp.com, or applying via post to Mailchimp, The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA.

You can obtain a copy of the safeguards and any other of Marketo data protection documentation by visiting https://www.marketo.com, or applying via post to Marketo EMEA, Limited, Cairn House, South Country Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland.

You can obtain a copy of the safeguards and any other of On24 data protection documentation by visiting https://www.on24.com, or applying via post to On24 Inc. Corporation Delaware, 201 Third Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94 103, USA.

You can obtain a copy of the safeguards and any other of SurveyGizmo data protection documentation by visiting https://www.surveygizmo.com, or applying via post to SurveyGizmo 4888 Pearl East Cir. Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301 USA.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may make non-personally-identifiable information available to third parties for various purposes. This data maybe automatically-collected and would be analysed to create an aggregated view of the data, ensure the reported information was anonymous.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process and Compliance

We may disclose Personal Data or other information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a facially valid court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.

Change of Ownership

Information about data subject, may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets and only if the recipient of the personal data commits to a Privacy Policy that has terms substantially consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Our Data Security

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

The following security procedures, and technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal information have been put in place:

• In cases where personal data is being processed in third countries or third parties, a rigorous data protection impact assessment is being performed to ensure that your data is always secured.

• Our application platform is hosted in ISO 27001 certified secure data centres in the UK.

• Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus and anti-malware and backup and disaster recovery is in place to prevent data loss or deletion.

• 24/7 security guard, closed circuit television and a door access control system to authorized personnel secures our offices and data centres.

• Our applications are engineered by following industry standards to minimise security vulnerabilities and updates on a regular basis.

• Intrusion detection and prevention secures the network traffic to the servers and applications.

• Anti-malware and anti-virus software is deployed to all of our servers and regularly scan and update with the latest anti-malware and virus signatures.

• We regularly apply critical, security patches and firmware updates to operating systems and physical hardware to minimise the risk of vulnerabilities

• Our employees undergo background screening and selection processes, with a restricted list of employees having access to secure areas of the applications, databases and physical infrastructure. The access to the secure areas are logged and auditable.

• We will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via the Internet.

• We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

• We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

This privacy policy was last updated on 10 May 2018.

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Introduction

Our website uses cookies.

We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website. By using our website, you are agreeing to this policy, and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies.

A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).

A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Our cookies

Here are details about the cookies we use

Third party [and analytics] cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies. Our advertisers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:

• to track your browser across multiple websites;

• to build a profile of your web surfing; and

• to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you. In addition, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers.

The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. We may at some point publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests.

To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using the DART cookie. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google’s Ads Preference Manager, available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

You can opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ or by using the NAI’s (Network Advertising Initiative’s) multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

However, these opt-out mechanisms use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

Cookies and personal information

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”. Click on “Override Automatic Cookie Handling” and choose “Block”

• in Firefox (version 56) you can block all cookies by clicking “Customise”, “Options”, “Privacy and Security”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the History drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”

• in Chrome (version 61), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control Google Chrome” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced” and “Privacy and Security” and “Content settings” and “Cookies”, and then selecting “Block third-party cookies”. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on this website.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on this website.

Deleting cookies

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;

• in Firefox (version 56), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy and Security” and then “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”;

• in Chrome (version 61), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control Google Chrome” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced” and “Privacy and Security” and “Content settings” and “Cookies”, and under “All cookies and site data” select “Remove All”

Again, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Contact us

This website is owned and operated by Contentive Limited.

If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy, please contact us:

(a) by email to gdpr@contentive.com;

(b) by post to Contentive Limited, Att: Data Protection Officer, One Hammersmith Broadway, London, W6 9DL.

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