ECHO MEANS BUSINESS (‘we’/‘us’) make the websites www.echomeansbusiness.com (‘Website’) available to you as a source of industry information (the “Content”). This privacy policy describes how we collect, store, use and distribute personal information via the Website and Content.
By using the Website and/or the Content you consent to the use of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may result in your inability to continue using the Website and/or the Content.
Collection of Information
We aim to collect, use and disclose only such information as is required to enable us to manage your account (if you create one with us), to provide the Content, to maintain our customer/visitor lists, to respond to your inquiries or provide feedback, for identification and authentication purposes and for service improvement. We will maintain the confidentiality of any contact information you provide to us on registering with the Website and/or accessing Content. We will use such information for the purposes for which we have collected it (subject to the exclusions and disclosures we have listed below), unless you agree that we may disclose it to other third parties. We do not sell customer lists.
- Registration: In order to register on the Website or subscribe for Content, you must create an account and provide certain information, such as your name and email address. In general, none of your account registration information will be shared with any other users of the Website by us.
- Transactional Notifications: We may provide notifications for the activities you engage in on the Website such as unsubscribing and registration confirmations. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you notices of changes to the Website we believe is relevant to you or your use of the Website.
- Statistics: we also collect statistics about the Content accessed through the Website. This information will be kept confidential, however, aggregate statistics that do not personally identify an individual will be kept by us and such aggregate statistics may be made available to other members or third parties.
- IP Addresses: Your IP address is reported by your web browser whenever you visit a page on the Website. This information is recorded together with your registration information on our databases. We use this to:
- Diagnose problems and any issues reported by other users that are related to the IP addresses controlled by specific parties
- Gauge how many users are visiting the Website from different geographical regions and using the Content.
If we plan to use your Personal Information in future for any other purposes not identified above, we will only do so after informing you by updating this Privacy Policy (see further 'Amendment of this Policy' below).
Disclosures & Transfers
We have put in place contractual and other organizational safeguards to ensure a proper level of protection of your Personal Information (see further Security below). As at the date of this Privacy Policy, we share Personal Information about you in respect of the Website only with select business partners for providing our Content to you. We may also engage third parties to help us improve the Website and/or the Content. These third parties may have limited access to databases of user or registered member information solely for helping us to improve the Website and/or the Content and they will be subject to contractual restrictions prohibiting them from using the information about our members for any other purpose.
Our servers are in North America and accordingly your Personal Information may be available to the US government or its agencies under a lawful order, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
Important Exceptions
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other users of the Content, or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law.
We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate re-organization, a merger or amalgamation with another entity, a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets or stock, including any due diligence exercise carried out in relation to the same, provided that the information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.
External Parties and Sites
Through the Website, you may be introduced to a variety of third party vendors and websites. The privacy policies of these third parties are not under our control and may differ from ours. The use of any information that you may provide to any third party, or the use of cookie or web beacon technology by any third party, will be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting. If you have any doubts about the privacy of the information you are providing on another website, we recommend that you contact that website directly for more information and review its privacy policy.
Security
We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment. We have implemented procedures designed to limit the dissemination of your Personal Information to only such designated staff as are reasonably necessary to carry out the stated purposes we have communicated to you. You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance, never give out your password, and remember to log out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished using the Website, so that other people using the same computer will not have access to your Personal Information.
Retention
We will keep your Personal Information for as long as it remains necessary for the identified purpose or as required by law, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. We may retain certain data as necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained personal information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you request that your name be removed from our databases, it may not be possible to completely delete all your Personal Information due to technological and legal constraints.
Amendment of this Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy in the future, we will post an appropriate notice on the Website's home page. Any non-material change (such as clarifications) to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date the change is posted and any material changes will become effective 30 days from their posting on the Website. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Information that we have about you and your account. The date on which the latest update was made is indicated at the bottom of this document. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website and Content signifies your acceptance of any changes.
Access and Accuracy
You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you to verify the Personal Information we have collected in respect to you and to have a general account of our uses of that information. Upon receipt of your written request, we will provide you with a copy of your Personal Information although in certain limited circumstances, we may not be able to make all relevant information available to you such as where that information also pertains to another user. We will endeavor to deal with all requests for access and modifications in a timely manner.
We will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date. As appropriate, this amended Personal Information will be transmitted to those parties to which we are permitted to disclose your information. Having accurate Personal Information about you enables us to give you the best possible service.
Contact Us
You can help by keeping us informed of any changes such as a change of address or telephone number. If you would like to access your information, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions of if you find any errors in our information about you, please contact us info@echomeansbusiness.com.
If you have a complaint concerning our compliance with applicable privacy laws, we will investigate your complaint and if it is justified, we will take appropriate measures.