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Privacy

Proqis Values Your Privacy 

Proqis values the privacy of those who provide personal information to us.  This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes how and why we collect, store and use personal information, and provides information about individual’s rights.

This Policy applies to both personal information supplied to us either by an individual or by others.  We may use personal information supplied to us for any of the purposes as set out in this Policy, or as otherwise disclosed at the point of collection.

This Policy is an important document. We recommend that you read it carefully and print and keep a copy for your future reference.

Your rights in relation to Personal Information and how to exercise them

 Under certain circumstances you have the following rights:

To exercise such rights (bar withdrawing from marketing emails – as described above) and if you have any questions about how we collect, store and use Personal Information, then please contact us using the details as set out in the “contact information” section below.

What basis do we have for processing your Personal Information?

We will only process personal Information where we have a lawful reason for doing so.  The lawful basis for processing Personal Information by us will be one of the following:

What Personal Information do we collect and process?

We aim to be transparent about why and how we process Personal Information.  For further information on our processing activities please review the relevant section below:

Business contacts

Collection

Personal Information is collected and added to Hubspot includes:  name, email address, job title, telephone number, area of business, job role, jurisdiction, language, seniority and other business contact information.  The Personal Information may also be collected by virtue of us providing our services to you or at a networking event.  In addition Personal Information is also be collected via the BTOES Insights, Proqis website, and our event sites, when you complete a form. Please visit http://insights.btoes.com/ , http://proqis.com/ and http://btoes.com/

Use

Retention

Personal Information is retained on coHubspot for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out above (being the length of the business relationship).  If a business contact requests to be forgotten their contact details will be deleted from Hubspot.  If a business contact opts out of receiving marketing materials their details will still be retained (as our lawyers may still be in contact) but marketing materials will no longer be sent.

Clients and individuals associated with clients

Collection

We request that our clients only provide Personal Information which is necessary for us to carry out our services.

If we need Personal Information in respect of individuals associated with clients in order to provide content or event information we ask our clients to provide this Policy to the data subjects.

In the majority of circumstances we will collect Personal Information from our clients or from third parties acting on behalf of our clients.

Use 

Retention

Our general retention period for documentation created for the purpose of providing content or event information is 12 years.  In some instances there are legal and regulatory exceptions which may require documentation to be held for longer or shorter periods.  If you require further information please contact us using the details as set out in the “contact information” section below.

Job applicants

Please refer to information made available when applying online for further details as to how Personal Information is collected, processed and how long it is retained for.

Journalists

Collection

Personal Information, including name, email address, telephone number and other business contact information, may be collected from PR agencies or from databases that we subscribe to.

Use

Retention

Personal Information will be retained for as long as it is necessary for the purposes of the above, or if you advise us you no longer wish to be contacted your Personal Information will be removed from our contact lists.

Suppliers (including individual contractors)

Collection

Personal Information, including name, email address, telephone number and other business contact information, is collected to receive services from suppliers, to manage the relationship with the supplier, and for the provision of services to our clients.

Use

Retention

A general retention period of 12 years will be applied unless there are any legal and or regulatory exceptions which may require documentation to be held for shorter or longer periods.  If you require further information please contact us using the details as set out in the “Data Controller contact information” section below.

Staff

Personal Information in relation to staff will be held on various internal systems and applications.  A privacy notice which sets out the purposes for which Personal Information will be processed and contains information on data subject rights is provided to staff at the commencement of employment.  If further information is required please contact your local Human Resources department.

Visitors to the Proqis, BTOES Insights & BTOES websites

Collection

 Personal Information will be collected if you sign up to attend any of our events and/or to receive our marketing literature.

Use

Who else may have access to your Personal Information?

On occasion, we may need to share your Personal Information with third parties.  We will only share Personal Information where we are legally permitted to do so.

Where you supply us with Personal Information as a client, we will assume, unless you instruct us otherwise in writing, that we can disclose your Personal Information in such manner as we believe is reasonably necessary to provide our services (including as described in this Policy), or as is required under applicable law. This might be because, for example, we may pass your Personal Information to third parties such as:

International transfers of Personal Information (including to outsourced service providers)

From time to time, we may need to transfer your Personal Information to other Proqis or BTOES events, who may have offices that are located in territories outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), including in the USA, in order to provide you with the services required.

Please note that the legal regimes of some territories outside of the EEA do not always offer the same standard of data protection as those inside the EEA, although we will ensure that your Personal Information is only ever treated in accordance with this Policy.

Where necessary, we have entered into standard European Commission approved form model data protection clauses with other Proqis or BTOES eventss who have offices that are located in territories outside of the EEA (if a transfer is to the United States a service provider must either enter into the standard European Commission form approved data protection clauses or be Privacy Shield certified), to provide you with the service required and with our external service providers and business partners in relation to services that they may provide that involve processing data from locations outside of the EEA for which we are Data Controller.

How we look after your Personal Information

We have in place appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your Personal Information against unauthorised or unlawful use, and against accidental loss, damage or destruction.

We put in place strict confidentiality agreements (including data protection obligations) with our third party service providers.

Links to other websites

The Proqis website, BTOES Insights, , and our event sites, http://insights.btoes.com/ , http://proqis.com/ and http://btoes.com/ may link to other, unaffiliated third party websites.  Please note that Proqis is not, and cannot, control or be responsible for the content or privacy and confidentiality practices of any third party websites.  You must always carefully review the privacy and confidentiality policy of any third party website that you may visit in order to understand how the operators of that website may collect, store and use your Personal Information.

Updates to this Policy

This Policy was last updated in February 2020 in line with UK-GDPR.  Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates to this Policy.

Contact Information

Proqis, BTOES Insights or BTOES events

Global Media Research Ltd T/as Proqis

8 St James's Square, London. SW1Y 4JU

UK: +44 203 435 8367 US: +1 312 496 6621 

Email: info@proqis.com

 

 

Please feel free to contact us with any concerns or issues.