Global Touch Privacy, Terms & Policies
(Revised August 2020)
Data Privacy Notice For Individuals Outside of the European Union
Scope
For purposes of this Privacy Policy (the "Policy"), Global Touch, Inc. shall be referred to as “Global Touch”, a California corporation. The Policy covers personal information which you share with Global Touch as you register for, visit or participate in of our website or online venues which are hosted on servers located in the United States (notably www.globaltouch.com), and volunteer or post information, whether through social media or otherwise. We will attempt to post or display a link to this Policy on all forms and online pages to which it applies.
Our website may allow you to publish or share content, including personal information which identifies you and/or your company. This Policy will govern how Global Touch uses the information you provide and what choices you have about its publication.
Global Touch’s business aims to be at the heart of the commercial or professional communities it serves. Our business includes creating opportunities for you to access other companies' information and resources. Our Policy will govern our collection and use of information about you. We recommend that you read the partner's Policy as well, if applicable, to learn how that company will treat the information you provide.
Information That Identifies You
We rely on the information you provide to us — as you register, contact us, participate in surveys, post comments to public areas of and interact with our websites, respond to our email campaigns, complete applications for award and recognition lists, and participate in webinars or online events. Generally, the basic contact information includes name, company, title/position, address, telephone number, and email address, but it may also include other information such as business preferences and affiliations. We may also supplement basic contact information with additional data from external sources.
We may work to expand our communities by acquiring names and contact details from other sources that have compiled contact information. This information might be public information or data you provided with necessary permissions. We may also invite you to join our communities through third party social and professional networking sites.
Automatic Data Collection Technologies
We may also use cookies and common data collection technologies, including web beacons and clear GIFs associated with cookies, on our web pages, in newsletters, and in our email campaigns to collect information both on an aggregate and individual basis.
Our website may use Adobe Flash to provide video content, and the Adobe Flash Player has the ability to separately store information about that particular Flash application. We do not associate this Adobe Flash stored information with you as an individual. Please see the Adobe Flash Player Help page for additional information about controlling the settings of the Adobe Flash Player on your computer.
We gather date, time, certain information about a user's browser and system or device configuration and capabilities, navigation history and IP address for all visitors to our websites. We use this information for our internal security audit log, for trend analysis and system administration and to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations.
Please see More Information About Cookies (below) for additional details about how we use cookies that identify you and how to control cookies.
How We Use Information That Identifies You
We may use information about you for the following purposes:
Provide the services,resources, and information you request, as well as to manage your account with us.
Deliver or display content that matches your professional interests and responsibilities.
Contact you with information about and invitations for products and services, ours and other companies', directed to your professional interests and responsibilities.
Offer you opportunities to connect directly with your peers and with partners of technology that may be of interest to you.
Data Privacy Notice For Residents Of The European Union
1. Your personal data – what is it? Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession, or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data for residents of the European Union (“EU”) is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).
2. Who are we? Global Touch is a data controller of certain personal data. This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.
3. How do we process your personal data? Global Touch complies with its obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
To maintain our own accounts and records;
To inform you of news, events, activities and services provided by Global Touch.
For event registration
4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data? Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services.
5. Sharing your personal data: Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other entities for the foregoing purposes. We will only share your data with third parties with your consent.
6. How long do we keep your personal data? We keep data for two years from the date that we acquire such data.
7. Your rights and your personal data: Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
The right to request a copy of your personal data which Global Touch holds about you;
The right to request that Global Touch correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Global Touch to retain such data;
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
The right to request that Global Touch provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller (known as the right to data portability), where applicable;
The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
The right to object to the processing of personal data, where applicable; and
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.
8. Further processing. If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Privacy Notice, we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.
9. Contact Details. To exercise all relevant rights, or for more information, please contact Global Touch at globaltouch@globaltouch.com or +1-510-237-5500
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Compliance
Global Touch complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (the "Privacy Shield") as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries. Global Touch has certified that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice; Choice; Accountability for Onward Transfer; Security; Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation; Access; and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. Global Touch is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. If there is any conflict between the policies in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification page, please visit privacyshield.gov/.
To the extent that your data is transferred, Global Touch exclusively uses third parties that are Privacy Shield-compliant to ensure the integrity and privacy of your data. In these instances of "onward transfer" of your data, Global Touch remains potentially liable for subsequent violations of the Privacy Shield. We shall not be responsible, however, for the compliance of our customers or licensees with Privacy Shield, or their compliance with data privacy laws and regulations of the European Union or any other country.
Your Choices
In keeping with one of the Privacy Shield's core principles, Choice, you always have a choice about whether to opt in or opt out.
Connecting directly with other companies for marketing purposes. In addition to providing you with our own editorial content, we offer you the opportunity to access others' branded content and expertise. When you choose to take advantage of that content or expertise, you choose to have your name and contact details transferred directly to that other company. We may put you in direct contact with another company or companies when you choose to:
Register for certain registration-only, or “gated” communities. Access to technical resources provided or sponsored by another company is contingent on your agreement that your contact details may be shared with the other company. We may track your interest in that company's content or our own content over time and disclose your interest to that company.
Register for a specific webcast, online event, website, newsletter, or other offering which is sponsored or co-sponsored by another company.
Receiving email marketing messages from us.
You may opt out of our email marketing lists by following the instructions near the footer of our promotional emails. Please note that we have a number of brands and products, and therefore often allow you to opt out selectively. To remove a specific email address from all email marketing from Global Touch, you may send a request to globaltouch@globaltouch.com.
More Information about Cookies
Global Touch uses cookies in this website. By using the website or any portion thereof (for residents of the European Union, by consenting to this policy), you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Website, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
What are cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in the user’s computer and enables the Website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Website more useful to you.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies act as described above, while session cookies may be stored in memory and deleted based upon browser settings.
How we use cookies
When you use and access the Website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Website, to provide analytics and to store your preferences.
Essential uses
We use these technologies in a way that is essential for the operation of the Website or parts of it. For example, we may use cookies to determine where to route your traffic to effectively distribute the Website workload across numerous servers. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit the Website and evaluate their capacity.
Performance/Analytics
We use these technologies to monitor the Website and to analyze how you use the Website. We may place cookies that allow us to measure the time of your requests to our servers and our responses, to test new features, to record statistics about usage, to track your activities on the Website, and to track the places from which you come to the Website or Database. We may also use third-party cookies to collect information about behavior on the Website for these Performance/Analytics purposes.
Functionality
We use these technologies to allow us to provide certain functionality on the Website and to remember your preferences. For instance, cookies allow us to auto-populate certain information. If you disable or delete cookies, you may not be able to use some functions of the Website.
What are your choices regarding cookies?
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Where can you find more information about cookies
You can learn more about cookies through a third-party website:
All About Cookies: allaboutcookies.org/
Disclosure of Information about You
We reserve the right to disclose information about you to third parties in certain circumstances to entities that present valid legal process, protect human safety or our networks or property, or as part of a corporate merger or sale of our business assets.
Please note that we may be required to disclose an individual's personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Data Security
We collect and process information on servers around the world. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information against theft, loss, or misuse. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or storage can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information about you and your professional interests, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you submit to us. You remain responsible for protecting your user name and passwords and for the security of information in transit to us over the Internet.
This Privacy Policy covers how we use information you provide. We cannot control how others may use information you may make public on our sites, for example, on professional networking sites or sites inviting user-generated content, in forums, at virtual events, or user-generated blogs.
Please note that virtual events may automatically display certain information about you to other participants in the event. We cannot control how other participants use that displayed information, so please take a moment to make sure you understand how a particular virtual event works and what information you are choosing to share within that particular environment.
Changes
We will post and date any changes to this Privacy Policy. Please check here periodically. Your continued use of our products and services covered by this Policy constitutes your consent to the practices in place at the time of your use.
Dispute Resolution
In compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, Global Touch commits to resolve complaints free of charge about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact:
Denise Sangster
President & Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +1-510-237-5500
globaltouch@globaltouch.com.
Or by mail to:
Global Touch, Inc.
1140 Arlington Blvd.
El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA
Global Touch has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles to BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, a non-profit alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers/ for more information and to file a complaint.
Please note that if your complaint is not resolved through these channels, under limited circumstances, a binding arbitration option may be available before a Privacy Shield Panel.