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Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Commitments
Cross Border Ltd, Cross Border (USA) Inc and its subsidiaries ("Cross Border") respect the privacy of every person who visits, registers with or subscribes to our web sites and on-line publications, and is committed to ensuring a safe on-line experience. This Privacy Statement applies to all Cross Border’s web sites ("Sites") as listed below under the heading "Sites" and outlines the information Cross Border may collect and how we may use that information. This Privacy Statement also tells you how you can verify the accuracy of your personal information submitted to Euromoney through our Sites and how you can request that we delete or update it.
This Privacy Statement consists of a general section, which applies to all Sites, followed by specific sections on irmagazine.com, corporatesecretary.com and corpcommsmagazine.com events Sites that provide supplementary information about the personal information collected on those Sites.
For the purpose of this Privacy Statement "group company" shall mean Cross Border.
Please note that the Sites may contain links to external sites and may contain advertisements for, and/or the opportunity for you to purchase products or services from third parties. Please note that this privacy statement does not control the activities of such third parties, and users should consult those third party sites' privacy policies.
Information about Cross Border
Cross Border’s principal business activities are:
- Business-to-Business Financial Publishing
- Organisers of Think Tanks, Conferences and Awards for the financial markets industry
Cross Border Ltd Company Address:
Churchill House,
142-146 Old Street,
London EC1V 9BW
United Kingdom
Cross Border New York Company Address:
65 Broadway, Ste 605
New York,
NY 10006,
USA
Name of the Data Controller
The Data Controller is Cross Border Ltd in relation to all of our Sites (as listed below under "Sites").
Cross Border Ltd is subject to the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and is registered in the UK with the Information Commissioner to process your personal information.
Collection of Personal Information
Cross Border’s primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to give you an enjoyable customised experience whilst allowing us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs.
Euromoney gives you the option to access our Sites' home pages without subscribing or registering or disclosing your personal data.
We collect certain personal information from you, which you give to us when using our Sites and/or registering or subscribing for our products and services.
Where, as part of our Site services, we enable you to post information or materials on our Site, we may access and monitor any information which you upload or input, including in any password-protected sections, in order to fulfil our obligations to you and protect or comply with our legal rights and obligations.
We do not collect information about our Site visitors or online registered users or subscribers from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.
Please note that we do not collect any personal information from children under thirteen years of age and that no child under thirteen should submit any personal information to any of the Sites. Should we discover that any such personal information has been delivered to any of the Sites, we will remove that information as soon as possible.
Types of Personal Information Held and its Use
At some Sites, Cross Border collects personally identifiable information, such as your name, job title, work and/or home address, and telephone number and e-mail address. At other Sites, Cross Border may collect demographic information, such as your postcode, age, gender, purchasing preferences and interests.Some Sites may collect a combination of the two types of information.
Euromoney collects and uses your personal information to operate its Sites efficiently and to deliver the products and services you have requested.
Your personal information may be used for the purposes of:
- Customer Administration, i.e. part of the personal data is used for the provision of information, communications, or transaction services such as placing an order and delivering products and/or services to you.
- Marketing, i.e. parts of your personal data may be used by Cross Border and/or its other group companies to contact you by e-mail, fax, telephone and/or post for sending information or promotional material on the products and/or services of Cross Border and/or its other group companies.
Cross Border gives you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving marketing communications and will in certain circumstances need to obtain your consent before sending such communications to you. Further detail can be found on the applicable Site and in each marketing communication sent by Cross Border. - Trading in Personal Data, i.e. parts of your personal data may be collected and processed with the intention of selling it to other organisations, but only after consent has been given by you.
Any other purposes for which Cross Border wishes to use your personal data will be notified to you and your personal data will not be used for any such purpose without obtaining your prior consent.
Further detail as to the types of personal information which are collected at our SItes is set out at the end of this Privacy Statement.
Consents and opt-outs
You can give your consent to or opt-out of particular uses of your data as indicated above by:
- Indicating in a box at the point on the relevant Site where personal data is collected;
- Informing Euromoney by e-mail, post or phone; or
- Updating your preferences on the applicable Site.
Use of Cookies
All Cross Border's Sites use "cookies".
A cookie is a text file placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. They are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie.
Cookies are either used only during your session (“temporary” or "session state" cookies) or stored on your computers hard drive (“permanent” cookies).
Temporary cookies are a mechanism for maintaining continuity between pages during your visit. These cookies are maintained in your browser’s active memory and are terminated at the conclusion of the Site visit. Permanent cookies are used to recall on subsequent visits your login information and your agreement to our terms and conditions.
Cookies are integral to the functioning of all Cross Border Sites. By using your browser’s options to block cookies you will effectively prohibit effective use of Cross Border sites. If you still wish to control the operation of cookies, then functionality is available through your browser. Generally you have the options to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Below are instructions on controlling cookies in the most recent version of Windows Explorer (Users of other browsers should contact their manufacturer for instructions).
Windows Internet Explorer 6.x
Select Tools Internet Options then Privacy Tab then Advanced
Check Override automatic cookie handling
Click Accept, Block or Prompt then OK twice
As outlined above, disabling cookies may prevent Cross Border Sites from operating fully.
Disclosures
Information collected at one Site may be shared within Cross Border Sites for the purposes listed above.
Your personal data may also be sold to other companies in the form of lists and directories, but only after permission from you in accordance with the provisions above.
Cross Border may also disclose your personal data to third parties, including, without limitation, professional advisers, or governmental or State institutions or authorities, where necessary in order to exercise or defend its legal rights or where required by law.
Please note that the Sites may contain links to external sites and may contain advertisements for, and/or the opportunity for you to purchase products or services from third parties. Please note that this privacy statement does not control the activities of such third parties, and users should consult those third party sites' privacy policies. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here: http://www.advertising.com/Privacy.html
Transfers outside the EEA
Cross Border may transfer your personal data, for the purposes listed above, to other group companies or other third parties which may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area, whose laws are not recognised by the EU Commission as providing adequate level of protection to personal data.
Confidentiality Security of Your Personal Information
Cross Border is committed to keeping the data you provide us secure and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.
We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- unauthorised access
- improper use or disclosure
- unauthorised modification
- unlawful destruction or accidental loss
All our employees and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal data on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our Site visitors' personal data.
We also give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us personal data identifiers, such as credit card details and bank account number.
How to Access, Update and Erase your Personal Information
If you wish to know whether we are keeping personal data about you, or if you have an enquiry about our privacy policy or your personal information held by Cross Border, you can contact us by:
- sending postal mail to this address in relation to all the Sites run by Cross Border Ltd: Data Protection Officer, Cross Border Ltd, Churchill House, 142-146 Old Street, London EC1V 9BW, UK,
- calling Robert Lyall at this telephone number : +44 (0)20 7251 7500
- sending an email to Robert Lyall at the following address : webmaster@thecrossbordergroup.com
Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you. We may require proof of your identity and may charge a small fee to cover administration and postage.
Cross Border allows you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate in accordance with applicable laws, you may have your personal information:
- erased
- rectified or amended
- completed
Changes to this Privacy Statement
Cross Border will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect new legislation or industry practice, group company changes and customer feedback. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be informed of how Cross Border is protecting your personal information.
Sites
This Privacy Statement applies to the web sites located on the World Wide Web , including but not limited to, the following sub-domains:
Cross Border Ltd Sites
thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazine.com
irmagazine.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazineaustralia.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinebrazil.com
irmagazinebrazil.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinecanada.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinecanadathinktank.com
irmagazinechina.com
irmagazinegreaterchina.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinehongkong.com
irmagazineindia.com
irmagazineireland.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinenordic.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinesingapore.com
irmagazinethinktank.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazinethink.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazineuk.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazineus.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazineusthinktank.thecrossbordergroup.com
irmagazineghongkongandtaiwan.com
irmagazinesoutheastasia.com
irmagazinecontinentaleurope.com
singapore.thecrossbordergroup.com
store.thecrossbordergroup.com
corporatesecretary.com
corpcommsmagazine.com
corpcomms.thecrossbordergroup.com
corpcommsawards.com
corporatesecretarymaagzine.com
corporatesecretarymagazine.com
corporatesecretarythinktank.com
europe.thecrossbordergroup.com
help.thecrossbordergroup.com
Further detail as to the information which is collected at thecrossbordergroup.com is set out below.
General Information
Personal data from the above listed websites which is held by Cross Border.
Below is a table of personal data collected and the purposes for which it may be used.