This Policy provides an overview of how Encourage collects your personal data, how it handles it, and how it protects your privacy.
Personal information we collect and use
Encourage acts as a controller of your personal data. It means that the company determines the purposes and means of your data processing.
Encourage may collect your personal data that you provide to it, for example, when you contact Encourage electronically or respond to an email from Encourage. Encourage may collect your business contact details when you exchange business cards with Encourage representatives at meetings and events, or when you provide your contacts to sign up for Encourage events.
When submitting your request/inquiry on Encourage website, 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 Encourage through live chats on its website, 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 Encourage your personal data in live chat, we assume that you consent to process it by Encourage.
By using cookies, Encourage may collect details of your visits to its website 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 stat to raise your concerns.
Encourage does not intend to collect sensitive information through its website 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. Encourage asks that you do not provide sensitive data of such nature when using its website.
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It is Encourage policy to collect only the minimum information required to handle and complete your request/inquiry or to reach other purposes for which Encourage processes your personal data. If you believe the Encourage website has collected excessive information about you, please contact Encourage through the request/inquiry form submit your request/inquiry on Encourage website, Encourage uses your data on the basis of your consent. In other cases, when you voluntarily exchange business contact details with Encourage, Encourage 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 Encourage
Purposes for which Encourage uses your personal data
Encourage 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 the information you might be interested in, and/or to inform you about its services. Encourage may also use your personal data to comply with law, regulations, public authority requests, or court orders.
These are examples of purposes for which Encourage may use personal data you provide to it:
- To administer and manage Encourage website
- To understand how people use the features and functions of its website 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 its businesses and services
- To analyze the usage of Encourage website
- Any other purposes for which you provided information to Encourage
Encourage website does not collect or compile personally identifying information for sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that may be placed and stored on your computer/device allowing internet access when you visit Encourage website.
Encourage uses cookies to collect your IP address and browsing information. Encourage website also remembers your system and preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer/device only if you consent to it unless cookies are necessary for technical functionality of Encourage website.
In order to record and analyze how visitors use Encourage website as well as to improve visitors’ experience, Encourage collects details of your visits by using Google Analytics. Google Analytics places and uses cookies that allow Encourage to track website traffic and users’ interaction with Encourage website.
Encourage may use cookies to record your consents on its website (e.g., the consent to the use of cookies).
Encourage uses a third-party provider HubSpot to enable and support live chats on its website. Cookies in these chats allow Encourage 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 Encourage compile analytics to improve its website.
Encourage uses cookies on the basis of its legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality of its website. When Encourage 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/.
Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, Encourage website or its parts may become inaccessible, not function properly, or you may not be able to use some of the interactive features of Encourage website.
Who may access your personal data
Encourage 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 Encourage (some of them are located outside the European Union), (3) third-party service providers.
Statistical data about Encourage website visitors may be accessed by (1) Encourage employees in marketing and/or IT departments who are responsible for analyzing such data and for improving Encourage website, (2) third-party service providers.
Transfers to third countries
Encourage is a global company. 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 Encourage to inspect copies of these clauses by contacting its data protection officer.
How long we retain your data
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For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Third-party providers
When Encourage 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 website and associated systems, and/or other internal or administrative purposes. Encourage also may transfer personal data to third parties providing identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and storage services.
Encourage 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 Encourage and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.
Retention of your personal data
Encourage will retain your personal information in its systems only for as long as Encourage needs it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law.
Rights in relation to your personal data
Under your local laws and the European Union legislation, you may exercise the following rights by submitting your request/inquiry on Encourage website:
- The right to require access to your personal data
- The right to require rectification of your personal data
- The right to require erasure of your personal data
- The right to withdraw your consent regarding the processing of your personal data
In some cases, you may also have the right (1) to request restrictions on the processing of your personal data or (2) to object to the processing of your personal data.
There are cases when Encourage can retain copies of the personal data you requested it to erase. They concern the necessity to protect the legitimate interests of Encourage or third parties, comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, or enforce any agreement you have formed with Encourage.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator if you think your privacy rights have been violated.
Contact Encourage
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy and Cookies Policy, you can contact Encourage data protection officer at [email protected].