Effective date: 1, 2022 .
CEIP (collectively, “CEIP”, “we”, “us” or “our”) understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that can identify you as an individual person. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with CEIP’s business activities and on the website, applications and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Site”), in our capacity as data controllers. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our general online terms and policies.
Information we collect
CEIP collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some customer services. We also collect personal data in certain areas of the Site when you register or apply for jobs through the CEIP Jobs section, create a user profile, register for CEIP newsletters and alerts, register for conferences and events. The personal data collected varies and may include information you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information needed to apply for a job.
We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Site. 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 Site. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Site, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Site. Information collected automatically may be associated with a unique identifier, as well as any other personal information you have provided.
CEIP may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators, in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some customer services. This includes demographic, professional and other information that is publicly available online, including information that you choose to make public through social media platforms and other public online forums. We may combine this data with existing information we have about you, or use it independently, for the purpose of our benchmarking and data analysis activities (e.g., analysis of hiring practices in an industry, detection of fraud patterns in connection with financial transactions, foot traffic in retail environments). We will always seek to confirm that the third party has provided transparent information about its use of this data, including its disclosure to third parties such as CEIP, in accordance with applicable law.
Use of information
CEIP uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, customize the content you view or receive on the Site, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the performance and operation of the Site, post your letters to the editor or comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce CEIP’s agreements, and accomplish such other purposes as you may initiate or request. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be necessary for the operation of the Site, or we may use it in the course of our business activities, including in connection with some customer services, for example, to provide certain services or products such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and deliver content and services more relevant to you. We may keep any of your personal information on file and use it to communicate with you.
CEIP and its service providers may use our own and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies, including web beacons, to administer our site and services and to collect analytics about how you use them. CEIP and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click on any links in the awareness, research or event communications we send you. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for more details on our use of cookies and other tracking technologies.
Our site does 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.
Use of information collected through mobile devices
In connection with our mobile applications, CEIP may use third-party service providers to analyze user activity to correct errors, monitor usage and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, CEIP receives reports on aggregate usage and browsing patterns of some of our mobile applications, including information about the type of device used, items accessed and other events occurring within our applications. CEIP also receives reports of certain bugs that occur within mobile applications.
The lawful basis on which we process your personal data
Our processing of your personal data for the above purposes is based on:
- In part, from our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting CEIP, building and maintaining relationships. contracting and rendering of our services;
- In part, on your consent, for example, if you create a user profile, or register to receive our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations, such as understanding and improving the quality of your experience on our website;
- In part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.
Disclosure of personal data: data recipients and international data transfers
Personal data collected in the course of CEIP’s business activities, including in connection with some customer services, as well as on the Site, may from time to time be transferred to CEIP’s subsidiaries and affiliates and their personnel throughout our global organization, as well as to our third party service providers located around the world, including in countries where local law may give you fewer rights than you have in your own country. In addition, the Site may be viewed and hosted by CEIP and our third party service providers anywhere in the world. Where required by law, we have implemented legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate protection of your personal data that is processed by CEIP’s subsidiaries, affiliates and third party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than the one in which you reside. If you would like more information about these legal mechanisms, which may include EU Standard Contractual Clauses, please contact us at the address below. By using any of the Sites and providing information on any of the Sites, you voluntarily consent to such cross-border transfer and hosting of such information.
CEIP will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise. except as follows. CEIP may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by CEIP to provide services related to the Site, as well as related to CEIP’s business activities, including in connection with some customer services, in the manner agreed to in our customer service 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.
We may also share your personal data with third-party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
- If we are required to do so by law or legal process;
- To law enforcement 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 the disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of an individual;
- To enforce our Terms of Use;
- To protect our property, services and legal rights;
- To prevent fraud against CEIP, our subsidiaries, affiliates and/or business partners;
- To support audit, compliance and corporate governance functions; or
- To comply with any and all applicable laws.
User forums
You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. CEIP is not responsible for any actions or policies of third parties that collect information that users publicly disclose in such forums on the Site.
Link to a third party site
CEIP may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by CEIP of the third party, the third party’s web site or the information contained therein, and CEIP shall not be liable for your use of them. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those Sites.
Social networks
The Site may allow you to log in and associate your social media accounts, including but not limited to Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, with CEIP. The Site may also allow you to log in to a CEIP account using certain social network account credentials.
By associating your social network account with CEIP or logging into a CEIP account using your social network account credentials, you give us permission to access the information you have made available on your public profile for that social network account. The information available on your public profile varies by social network and its 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 CEIP and other connected applications and to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your activities while using our Site.
If you wish to disconnect us from a social network account, please refer to the settings of that social network account and its provider.
Security
CEIP has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized CEIP personnel and external service providers have access to personal data, and these employees and service providers must treat this information confidentially. However, despite these precautions, CEIP cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not gain access to your personal data.
Data retention
CEIP 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 if we need to retain it to protect against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record keeping, or to comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, CEIP will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in its entirety. For access, correction or deletion requests, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
Children
The Site is not designed for or directed to children under the age of 16, and CEIP does not knowingly collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.
CEIP Recruitment Portal
Through CEIP’s recruiting portal, you can apply for positions at CEIP or sign up for a CEIP recruiting program where you can receive notifications about potential openings or other similar opportunities that may be of interest to you. The Recruitment Privacy Notice describes in more detail how CEIP and our subsidiaries and affiliates handle and protect the personal data we collect in connection with the recruitment process.
Your rights
Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data we have collected about you in order to review, amend or request deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data we have collected about you and to have inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we stop processing your personal data.
If you would like to make a request to access, review or correct personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at hola@ceip.com. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requesting a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to investigate, fulfill or respond to your requests promptly, as required by applicable law.
Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or fully complying with your request depending on the circumstances and the request, such as when the production of your information may reveal the identity of another person. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for fulfilling your request where permitted by applicable law, and/or to deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unjustified under applicable law.
In addition, and where permitted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
Unsubscribe
If you have registered to receive CEIP alerts or newsletters, or if you receive invitations to CEIP surveys or events and would prefer not to receive email communications from us in the future, please review the communications settings in your profile on CEIP.com, follow the instructions on the page of the Site where you have provided such information, subscribed or registered, or write to hola@ceip.com to unsubscribe from all CEIP communications.
Consent; privacy policy changes
By using the Site, you consent to our collection, use and storage of your personal data in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will provide you with notice of such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent by sending an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Site .
Contact us at
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you would like to contact our team, please contact us:
hola@ceip.com
