This Policy provides an overview of how AforBusiness Private Limited, together with its subsidiaries (collectively hereinafter referred to as “AforBusiness”), collect your personal data, how they handle it, and how they protect your privacy.

AforBusiness is a group of companies that act as joint controllers of your personal data. It means that the companies of the group jointly determine the purposes and means of personal data processing.

AforBusiness data protection officer can be contacted at privacy[at]AforBusiness.com.

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

When submitting your request/inquiry on AforBusiness 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 AforBusiness through live chats on its 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 AforBusiness your personal data in live chat, we assume that you consent to processing it by AforBusiness.

By using cookies, AforBusiness may collect details of your visits to its 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 AforBusiness policy to collect only the minimum information required to handle and complete your request/inquiry or to reach other purposes for which AforBusiness processes your personal data. If you believe AforBusiness websites have collected excessive information about you, please contact AforBusiness through the request/inquiry form to raise your concerns.

AforBusiness does not intend to collect sensitive information through its 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. AforBusiness asks that you do not provide sensitive data of such nature when using its websites.

When you submit your request/inquiry on AforBusiness websites, AforBusiness uses your data on the basis of your consent. In other cases, when you voluntarily exchange business contact details with AforBusiness, AforBusiness sends you information or marketing communications on the basis of its 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 AforBusiness legitimate interest described below.

AforBusiness 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 it organizes, to share with you information you might be interested in and/or to inform you about its services. AforBusiness may also use your personal data to comply with law, regulations, public authority requests or court orders.

These are examples of purposes for which AforBusiness may use personal data you provide to it:

• to administer and manage AforBusiness websites;
• to understand how people use the features and functions of its websites in order to improve user experience;
• to determine the company, organisation, institution, or agency that you work for or represent or with which you are otherwise associated;
• to develop its businesses and services;
• to analyze the usage of AforBusiness websites;
• any other purposes for which you provided information to AforBusiness.
• AforBusiness websites do not collect or compile personally identifying information for sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes.

Cookies are small text files that may be placed and stored on your computer/device allowing internet access when you visit AforBusiness websites.

AforBusiness uses cookies to collect your IP address and browsing information. AforBusiness websites also remember your system and preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer/device only if you consent to it, unless cookies are necessary for strictly technical functionality of AforBusiness websites.

In order to record and analyze how visitors use AforBusiness websites as well as to improve visitors’ experience, AforBusiness collects details of your visits by using Google Analytics. Google Analytics places and uses cookies that allow AforBusiness to track website traffic and users’ interaction with AforBusiness websites.

AforBusiness may use cookies to record your consents on its websites (e.g. the consent to the use of cookies).

AforBusiness uses a third-party provider Drift to enable and support live chats on its websites. Cookies in these chats allow AforBusiness to see the pages you visit, the browser you use and its version, your operating system and its version, your IP address as well as your city and state. This technology helps AforBusiness compile analytics to improve its websites and their functionality.

AforBusiness uses cookies on the basis of its legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality of its websites. When AforBusiness uses cookies to remember your choices or for analytics, the legal basis for the use is your consent. You can opt-out from analytics by disabling cookies through your browser settings or by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

If you want to disable other cookies, you can learn how to do it by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, AforBusiness websites or their parts may become inaccessible, not function properly or you may not be able to use some of the interactive features of AforBusiness websites.

Cookies are small text files that may be placed and stored on your computer/device allowing internet access when you visit AforBusiness websites.

AforBusiness uses cookies to collect your IP address and browsing information. AforBusiness websites also remember your system and preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer/device only if you consent to it, unless cookies are necessary for strictly technical functionality of AforBusiness websites.

In order to record and analyze how visitors use AforBusiness websites as well as to improve visitors’ experience, AforBusiness collects details of your visits by using Google Analytics. Google Analytics places and uses cookies that allow AforBusiness to track website traffic and users’ interaction with AforBusiness websites.

AforBusiness may use cookies to record your consents on its websites (e.g. the consent to the use of cookies).

AforBusiness uses a third-party provider Drift to enable and support live chats on its websites. Cookies in these chats allow AforBusiness to see the pages you visit, the browser you use and its version, your operating system and its version, your IP address as well as your city and state. This technology helps AforBusiness compile analytics to improve its websites and their functionality.

AforBusiness uses cookies on the basis of its legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality of its websites. When AforBusiness uses cookies to remember your choices or for analytics, the legal basis for the use is your consent. You can opt-out from analytics by disabling cookies through your browser settings or by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

If you want to disable other cookies, you can learn how to do it by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, AforBusiness websites or their parts may become inaccessible, not function properly or you may not be able to use some of the interactive features of AforBusiness websites.

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

Statistical data about AforBusiness websites’ visitors may be accessed by

• AforBusiness employees in marketing and/or IT departments who are responsible for analysing such data and for improving AforBusiness websites
• other companies of AforBusiness (some of them are located outside the European Union)
• third-party service providers

AforBusiness is a multinational group of companies. For this reason, your personal data may be transferred to and stored outside the country where you are located. This includes countries outside the European Economic Area with no adequate level of personal data protection (third countries).

As some of the countries where our offices are situated are not yet recognized by the European Commission as countries with an adequate level of personal data protection, these offices have access to personal data on the basis of instruments that cover the European Union requirements for the transfer of personal data to data controllers/processors outside the European Union (Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission). You may ask AforBusiness to inspect copies of these clauses by contacting its data protection officer.

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

AforBusiness works 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 AforBusiness and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.

AforBusiness will retain your personal information in its systems only for as long as AforBusiness needs it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law.

Under your local laws and the European Union legislation, you may exercise the following rights by submitting your request/inquiry on AforBusiness websites:

• right to require access to your personal data,
• right to require rectification of your personal data,
• right to require erasure of your personal data,
• right to withdraw your consent regarding processing of your personal data.

In some cases, you may also have a right

• to request restriction on processing of your personal data or
• to object to processing of your personal data.

There are cases when AforBusiness can retain copies of the personal data you requested it to erase. They concern the necessity to protect legitimate interests of AforBusiness or third parties, comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, or enforce any agreement you have formed with AforBusiness.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator if you think your privacy rights have been violated.

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