This Privacy Policy statement is made by the Useinfluence.co.
“Influence” is a brand owned by Target, Inc. (2035 - Sunset Lake Road,
Suite B-2, Newark, DE 19702, United States). Consisting of all the
entities listed here (collectively, "Influence",
"we", "us" or "our") and is effective as
of July 11th, 2019. The goal of this policy is to make explicit the
information we gather on our customers and users, how we will use it,
and how we will not. This policy is unfortunately longer than we would
like, but we must unambiguously address all the relevant cases. We
will try and keep the language simple and direct as much as
possible.This Privacy Policy applies to all Influence websites,
subdomains that link to it, unless notified. It also applies to the
products and services provided by Influence. This Privacy Policy does
not apply to any of the events/conferences that are listed on our
platform. Please refer to the privacy policies of the
event/conferences before you provide consent to share your information
with them.
Information that we collectThe data you hand over to us by your consent to analyze
the web traffic on your website and analyze the data to help you get
more leads and convert those leads.We collect information about you
only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. Influence
will have information about you only if:
1. You have provided the information yourself
2.Influence has automatically collected the information
3. Or Influence has obtained the information from a third party or
from your website to which you had provided consent to share the
data.
Below we describe the various scenarios that fall under each of
those three categories and the information collected in each one.
Information that you give us:Account signup:When you sign
up for an account to access one or more of our services, we ask for
information like your name, contact number, email address, company
name and country to complete the account signup process. You may be
required to choose a unique username and a password for accessing the
created account. You may also provide us with more information such as
your photo, Country and language.
Payment processing.When you make payment for our services/products, we ask
you to provide your name, contact information, and credit card
information or other payment account information.
When you
submit your card information, we store the name and address of the
cardholder, the expiry date and the last four digits of the credit
card number. We do not store the actual credit card number. For quick
processing of future payments, if you have given us your approval, we
may store your credit card information or other payment information in
an encrypted format by the third-party payment gateways.
Testimonials:When you subscribe to any products on our website you
authorize us to post testimonials/reviews about our products and
services the websites. You will be given an opportunity to review and
approve the testimonial before we post it. We may include
unidentifiable information only city and country when any subscription
on our website.
If you wish to update or delete your
testimonial, you can contact us at
[email protected]Interactions with Us:We may record, analyze and use your interactions with us,
including email, telephone, and chat conversations with our sales and
customer support professionals, for improving our interactions with
you and other customers.
Information that we collect automaticallyInformation from browsers, devices and servers:When you visit our websites, we collect information that
web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the
internet protocol address, browser type, language preference,
referring URL, date and time of access, operating system. We include
these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our
websites.
Information from cookies and tracking technologies:We use temporary and permanent cookies to identify users
of our services and to enhance user experience. We integrate script on
your website to be able to provide you with the features and services
of our product. cookies, and other similar technologies to identify
visitors, gather information about visitors and users, understand
digital marketing effectiveness.
Information from application logs and mobile analytics:We collect information about your use of our products,
services and mobile applications from application logs and may use
third party usage of analytics tools, and use it to understand how
your business can benefit and improve our products.
This
information includes clicks, scrolls, features accessed, access time
and frequency, errors generated, performance data, storage utilized,
user settings and configurations, and devices used to access and their
locations.
Information that we collect from third parties.Using 3rd party authentication service providers:You can log in to UseInfluence Services using
authentication service providers such as Google. These services will
authenticate your identity and give you the option to share certain
personal information with us, such as your name and email address.
Referrals:If someone has referred any of our products or services
to you through any of our referral programs, that person may have
provided us your name, email address and other personal information.
You may contact us at
[email protected] to request
that we remove your information from our database.
Information from our reselling/marketing partners and service
providers:If you contact any of our reselling partners, or
otherwise express interest in any of our products or services to them,
the reselling partner may pass your name, email address, company name
and other information to Influence.
Information from social media sites and other publicly available
sources:When you interact or engage with us on social media sites
such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram through posts, comments,
questions and other interactions, we may collect such publicly
available information, including profile information, to allow us to
connect with you, improve our products, or better understand user
reactions and issues.
PURPOSE TO USE YOUR INFORMATION
In addition to the purposes mentioned above, we may use your
information for the following purposes:
1. To communicate with you (such as through email) about
our products and services that you have signed up for, changes to this
Privacy Policy, changes to the Terms of Service, or important
notices
2. To keep you posted on new products and services,
upcoming events, offers, promotions and other information that we
think will be of interest to you
3.To ask you to
participate in surveys, or to solicit feedback on our products and
services
4.To understand how users, use our products and
services, to monitor and prevent problems, and to improve our products
and services
5.To provide customer support, and to analyze
and improve our interactions with customers.
6.To detect
and prevent fraudulent transactions & other illegal activities, to
report spam, and to protect the rights and interests of influence,
Useinfluence's users, third parties and the public.
7.To
update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and
provide products and services that may be of interest to you
8.
To analyze trends, help increase traffic, convert the leads and track
visitor navigation on our and client websites to understand what
visitors are looking for and to better help them
9. To
monitor and improve marketing campaigns and make suggestions relevant
to the user.
Legal processing bases applicable to Influence:If you are an individual from the European Economic Area
(EEA).
Our legal basis for information collection and use
depends on the personal information concerned and the context in which
we collect it.
Most of our information collection and
processing activities are typically based on :
1. Contractual
necessity.
2. One or more legitimate interests of
Influence or a third party that are not overridden by your data
protection interests, or
3. Your consent.
Sometimes,
we may be legally required to collect your information, or may need
your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of
another person.
Withdrawal of consent: Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis, you
have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but this will not
affect any processing that has already taken place.
Legitimate interests notice:
Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis and those
legitimate interests are not specified above, we will clearly explain
to you what those legitimate interests are at the time that we collect
your information.
Your Discretion in information use:Opt out of non-essential electronic communications: You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other
non-essential messages by using the ‘unsubscribe’ link included in all
our emails. However, you will continue to receive notices, essential
transactional and account related emails as long as you have an active
account with us.
Disable cookies: You can disable browser cookies before visiting our
websites. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain
features of the websites properly.
Optional information: You can always choose not to fill in non-mandatory fields
when you submit any form linked to our websites.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH:We share your information only in the ways that are
described in this Privacy Policy, and only with parties who adopt
appropriate measures with respect to the use of your information.
Employees and independent contractors: Employees and independent contractors of our group
entities may have access to the information covered on a need-to-know
basis. We require all employees and independent contractors of
Influence group entities to follow this Privacy Policy for personal
information that we share with them.
Third-party service providers: We may need to share your personal information and
aggregate or de-identified information with third-party service
providers that we engage, such as marketing and advertising partners,
event organizers, web analytics providers and payment processors.
These service providers are authorized to use your personal
information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Reselling and marketing partners:
We may share your personal information with our authorized
reselling partners in your region, solely for the purpose of
contacting you about products that you have downloaded or services
that you have signed up for.
EEA If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have
the following rights with respect to information that Influence holds
about you. Influence undertakes to provide you the same rights no
matter where you choose to live.
Right to access:
You have the right to access (and obtain a copy of, if
required) the categories of personal information that we hold about
you, including the information's source, purpose and period of
processing, and the persons to whom the information is shared.
Right to rectification:
You have the right to update the information we hold
about you or to rectify any inaccuracies. Based on the purpose for
which we use your information, you can ask to update the information
about you in our database.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your
personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no
longer necessary for the purpose for which it was originally
collected.
Right to restriction of processing:
You may also have the right to request to restrict the use
of your information in certain circumstances, such as when you have
objected to our use of your data but unless we have legitimate grounds
to use it.
Right to object: You have the right to object to the use of your
information in certain circumstances, such as the use of your personal
information for direct marketing
Right to complain: You have the right to complain to the appropriate
supervisory authority if you have any grievance against the way we
collect, use or share your information. This right may not be
available to you if there is no supervisory authority dealing with
data protection in your country.
RETENTION OF INFORMATIONWe retain your personal information for as long as it is
required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we
may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or
required by law, such as to prevent abuse, if required in connection
with a legal claim or proceeding, to enforce our agreements, for tax,
accounting, or to comply with other legal obligations. When we no
longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will
delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We
will also securely store the information and isolate it from further
processing on backup until deletion is possible.
Information entrustedInformation provided in connection with services:You may entrust information that you or your organization
(“you”) control, to influence for the purpose to use our services or
to request technical support for our products/services. This includes
information regarding your customers and your employees (if you are a
controller) or data that you hold and use on behalf of another person
for a specific purpose, such as a customer to whom you provide
services (if you are a processor).The data may either be stored on our
servers when you use our services, or transferred or shared to us as
part of a request for technical support or other services.
Information from mobile devices: We provide you complete control of your service data by
providing you the ability to
1, Access your data
2.
Share your data through supported third-party integrations.
3. Request export or deletion of your data.
Who we share data with - Third-party sub-processors: In order to provide services and technical support for
our products, the contracting entity within the Influence engages
other and Third Parties (hyperlink to data sub processors).
Collaborators and other users: Some of our products or services allow you to collaborate
with other users or third parties. Initiating collaboration may enable
other collaborators to view some or all of your profile information.
For example, when you edit a document that you have shared with other
persons for collaboration, your name and profile picture will be
displayed next to your edits to allow your collaborators to know that
you made those edits.
Retention of information: We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to
use Influence Services. Once you terminate your Influence user
account, your data will eventually get deleted from active database
during the next clean-up that occurs once in 6 months. The data
deleted from active database will be deleted from backups after 3
months.
Data subject requests:
If you are from the European Economic Area and you believe
that we store, use or process your information on behalf of one of our
customers, please contact the customer care if you would like to
access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to processing, or export
your personal data. We will extend our support to our customer in
responding to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Minor’s personal information:
Our products and services are generally not directed to
individuals under 18(minor) Influence does knowingly collect personal
information from minor only if there are conference listed on the
platform which accept minors. If we become aware that a minor has
provided us with personal information, we will take steps to ensure we
collect only the bare necessary. In any other case If you believe any
minor has provided personal information to us, please write to
[email protected] with the details, and we will take the necessary
steps to delete the information we hold about that minor.
Cookies: In order to enhance your online experience and track the
performance of the Site, our Site uses cookies. Our cookies help us
improve your online experience, allow you to personalize your pages,
enable us to customize our offerings. Cookies do not tell us who you
are and contains non-personal information. For administrative
purposes, we also collect IP addresses and are not connected to any
personally identifiable or on-line contact information like a name and
address unless you order or register at our site; however, if you
register, all information we have about you will be associated with
your customer account. You have the ability to accept or decline
cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, if you choose
to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the
interactive features of this or other websites you visit. However,
cookies are not pre-requisite for using our website.
How secure is your information?
We make every reasonable effort to ensure that your data
is secured. All the data transfer takes place over a secured socket
layer (SSL).
Data Protection OfficerWe have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee
our management of your personal information in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our
privacy practices with respect to your personal information, you can
reach out to our Data Protection Officer by sending an email to
[email protected] or by writing to:
Data protection officer Influence.
Address: iPleaders 33-A, Mehrauli-Badarpur Rd, Saidulajab, New Delhi
(110030), India.
Locations & international transfersWe share your personal information and service data with
conference/events you opt for on our website. By accessing or using
our products and services or otherwise providing personal information
or service data to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and
storage of your personal information or Service Data within the United
States of America, the European Economic Area (EEA) and other
countries where Influence operates. Such transfer is subject to a
group company agreement that is based on EU Commission’s Model
Contractual Clauses.
Legal obligations for disclosure:We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your
personal information and service data to comply with any applicable
law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to
meet national security requirements. We may disclose personal
information and service data to a third party if we believe that such
disclosure is necessary for preventing fraud, investigating any
suspected illegal activity, enforcing our agreements or policies, or
protecting the safety of our users. We may modify the Privacy Policy
at any time, upon notifying you through a service announcement or by
sending an email to your primary email address. We will notify you via
email or through a prominent notice on our website of any change in
ownership or in the uses of your personal information and service
data. We will also notify you about any choices you may have with
respect to your personal data. If we make significant changes to the
Privacy Policy that affect your rights, you will be provided with at
least 30 days' advance notice of the changes by email to your
email address on our records. If you think that the updated Privacy
Policy affects your rights with respect to your use of our products or
services, you may terminate your use by sending us an email within 30
days. Your continued use after the effective date of changes to the
Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the modified
Privacy Policy. You will not receive email notification of minor
changes to the Privacy Policy.
If you are concerned about
how your personal information is used, you should check back at
https://useinfluence.co/privacy-policy periodically.
We
make every reasonable effort, to ensure that personal information you
provide is used in compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have
any concerns or the manner in which your personal information is used,
kindly write to us
[email protected] with PRIVACY in subject line.
We'll respond to effectively address your concerns within
reasonable time.
For GDPR related query, please contact us:
[email protected]