CUSTOMER PRIVACY POLICY
This Customer Privacy Policy governs the collection and use of personal information relating to potential and existing customers of sourcingfocus.com by the publication and its related bodies, the National Outsourcing Association (NOA) and the OUT Group – the NOA’s commercial arm.
Sourcingfocus.com is committed to abiding by this Customer Privacy Policy, as well as the requirements of applicable laws, in the operation of its business. Please read this policy carefully as it explains the kinds of personal information we collect about you and how it is handled.
By your continued use of our services (including our website), you consent to the collection and use of your personal information for the purposes set out in this Customer Privacy Policy.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will generally let you know at the time of collection how we intend to use your personal information. Usually, we collect personal information about you which we require to respond to your inquires for the provision of goods and services to you. We also process your personal information where we are required to do so by law, and for the exercise or defence of legal claims. From time to time, we may contact you for research purposes, or to tell you about our special offers and other services in accordance with your contact preferences. Where appropriate, we will obtain your consent to do so. Personal information collected from you may include your name, payment processing information, postal address, email address, landline or mobile telephone number, delivery details as well as other non-sensitive personal information. If you use our website, we may also collect information about you or your computer when you browse, to allow you to use the services available.
WEBSITE USAGE & COOKIES
If you are using our websites, we will use your personal information to help you to log on to your account and into restricted areas of our websites and to permit future use of the websites. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, or to administer our websites. We may conduct analyses of user traffic to measure the use of our sites and to improve the content of our websites and our services. These analyses will be performed through the use of IP addresses and cookies. We may also use cookies to enable the signing in process after you have registered with us and to provide you with more tailored information when you return to our websites. A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance. If you reject the use of cookies please note that the efficient operation of the website that you are using may be affected. Most of the advertisements that you see on the websites are generated by third parties who may use cookies to track viewing of their advertisements and for other purposes specified in their own privacy policies. We have no access to or control over these cookies (although we may use statistical information provided to us – not containing personal information – arising from these third party cookies to improve the targeting of advertisements to you and other users of the websites). You can obtain further information about third party privacy policies or disable their cookies by visiting their websites.
REGISTRATION
By registering with sourcingfocus.com you consent to receive our regular weekly newsletter and be added to sourcingfocus.com and the NOA’s contact database. By consenting to be added to this database you are allowing yourself to be contacted with editorial and marketing related information from sourcingfocus.com, the NOA and the OUT Group. If at any time you wish to be removed from the database or unsubscribe from sourcingfocus.com, NOA or all contact, please contact editor@sourcingfocus.com.
THIRD PARTY
We will only disclose personal information about you internally and to third parties for the supply of goods and services, for website administration, or elsewhere when you have consented to such disclosures, or where such disclosures are required or permitted by law. Where you have agreed that we may do so, we may lease or rent your personal information to selected third parties for their postal or telephone marketing use.
We may track when content is downloaded and adverts clicked on and email addresses may be passed on to sourcingfocus.com advertisers and sponsors.
TRANSFER OF DATA
Third party data processors, advertisers, exhibitors and other such business relationships outside of the EEA, are required to take adequate technical and organisational safeguards to protect personal information. We also take measures to ensure that personal information transferred by us outside of the EEA is adequately protected.
EMAIL CAPTURE
Sourcingfocus.com may from time to time send updates about this product and other relevant products and services. Your email address will only be given to 3rd parties where outlined in the privacy policy. By providing your email address you consent to being contacted for direct marketing purposes by sourcingfocus.com, the NOA and the OUT Group.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use administrative, technical, and physical measures to safeguard personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised uses, access or modifications.
We take steps to regularly validate the personal information we hold to ensure that the information is accurate and, where necessary, up to date. Information that is no longer required for any valid business purpose, and that we are not required to keep pursuant to any applicable law, will be routinely destroyed by secure means.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may renew and update personal information that we hold about you by contacting us as detailed below.
CONTACTING US
If you wish to change your contact preferences with us or a third party, please follow the unsubscribe request details. Unsubscribing to sourcingfocus.com will stop us from contacting you in the future, but not the individual 3rd parties whom you have interacted with.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or no longer wish to receive anything from us, our partners or have your data made available to 3rd parties, you can email us at editor@sourcingfocus.com or call on 020 7292 8685.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to add to or amend this privacy policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice to you. Please review our privacy policy on a regular basis to make sure you have read the latest version and you understand what we do with your personal information. Your continued use of our services or our websites following the posting of changes to these terms means that you consent to those changes.
