Effective Date: Oct 15, 2018
Grotrend Consultancy Inc and affiliates (collectively, “Grotrend”, “us” or “we”) understand 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, collected via all websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with the Sites, in our capacity as data controllers. Please see Terms of Use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.
Grotrend collects personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for or apply for jobs through the Grotrend Recruitment Portal, register for Grotrend newsletters. The personal data collected varies across the Sites and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and background information required to apply for a job. For instance, by registering for Grotrend newsletters, you agree to receive the correspondence to which you have subscribed at the e-mail address that you provided at registration. Only Grotrend or its agents will contact you using this e-mail address. We will send e-mails to this address related to your registration. We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. 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 Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided.
The personal data we collect may be used where we have your specific consent to do so, or where Grotrend has a legitimate interest in or other legal basis for processing such information. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Sites or to provide certain services or products. Grotrend uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalize content that you view or receive on the Sites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the Sites’ performance and functioning, publish your letters to the editor or comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce Grotrend’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you. Grotrend may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details regarding our use of cookies. Our Sites do not collect personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Therefore, “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers do not apply to our Sites, and we do not alter any of our data collection and use practices upon receipt of such a signal.
In connection with our mobile applications, Grotrend may use third party service providers to analyze non- personally identifiable user activity to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, Grotrend receives reports on some of our mobile applications’ aggregate usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events occurring within our webpages. Grotrend also receives reports on certain errors occurring within mobile webpages. None of these third party service providers gathers information in a manner intended to identify any particular user personally.
Personal data collected on the Sites may be transferred from time to time to Grotrend affiliates and their personnel across our global organization, as well as to our third party service providers located throughout the world, including in countries where the local law may grant you fewer rights than you have in your own country. Additionally, the Sites may be viewed and hosted by Grotrend and our third party service providers anywhere in the world. Where required by law, we have put in place legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate data protection of your personal data that is processed by Grotrend affiliates and third- party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than the one in which you reside. By using any of the Sites and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to such trans-border transfer and hosting of such information. Grotrend will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. Grotrend may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by Grotrend to provide services related to the Sites, provided that such third- party service providers will first agree to maintain the strict confidentiality of such information and provide the same level of data security as provided by Grotrend. We also may 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. These third party service providers are not permitted to use or disclose your personal data except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements. In addition, we may disclose information about you:
If we are required to do so by law or legal process;
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.
In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale,
joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.
You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. Grotrend is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Sites.
Grotrend may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Grotrend of the third party, the third- party website, or the information contained therein, and Grotrend shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.
The Sites may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts including, but not limited to,
Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, with Grotrend. The Sites also may allow you to log in to a
Grotrend account using certain social network account credentials.
By associating your social network account with Grotrend or logging in to a Grotrend account using your
social network account credentials, you give us permission to access information that you have made
available in your public profile for that social network account. The information available in your public profile
varies based on the social network and your 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 Grotrend and other connected
applications and to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your
activities using our Sites.
If you would like to disconnect a social media account from us, refer to the settings of that social network
account and its provider.
Grotrend has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Grotrend personnel and third party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions however, Grotrend cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
Grotrend 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 should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, Grotrend will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
The Sites are not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and Grotrend does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.
By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Grotrend Consultancy Inc
Suite 8, 3252 Lawrence Avenue E
Toronto
M1H 1A4
info@Grotrend.com