General Information
Welcome to our Privacy Policy page! When you use our web site services, you trust us with your information. Our privacy policy covers issuers details as well their member organizations data. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what data we collect, why we it, and what we do with it. When you share information with us, we can make our services even better for you. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can your privacy. This is important; we hope you will take time to read it carefully. Remember, you can find controls to manage your information and protect your privacy and security. We’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible.
Data Protection Rights
Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request for copies of your personal or corporate data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that the relevant Certificate Issuer correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request the relevant Certificate Issuer to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request to erase your personal and corporate data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data and corporate data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: crm@websiteseals.com
Right to Data Access
We work primarily with seal issuers which may include regulatory bodies and corporate membership associations who in turn work with member organizations. We consider the issuers as well as their member organizations as our customers. The primary data we store relates to issuers and their member organizations.
Our customers have the right to access, correct and delete data relating to them, and to object to the processing of such data, by addressing a written request, at any time. We make every effort to put in place suitable precautions to safeguard the security and privacy of issuer and corporate membership data, and to prevent it from being altered, corrupted, destroyed or accessed by unauthorized third parties. However, we do not control each and every risk related to the use of the Internet, and therefore warns our customers of the potential risks involved in the functioning and use of the Internet.
Our Site may include links to other web sites or other internet sources. As we cannot control these web sites and external sources, we cannot be held responsible for the provision or display of these web sites and external sources, and may not be held liable for the content, advertising, products, services or any other material available on or from these web sites or external sources.
Management of Data
Issuers and member organizations can view or edit their corporate data data online for many of our related services. You can also make choices about our collection and use of your corporate membership data. How you can access or control your data will depend on which services you use. You can choose whether you wish to receive promotional communications from our web site by email, SMS, physical mail, and telephone. If you receive promotional email or SMS messages from us and would like to opt out, you can do so by following the directions in that message. You can also make choices about the receipt of promotional email, telephone calls, and postal mail by visiting and signing into Company Promotional Communications Manager, which allows you to update contact information, manage contact preferences, opt out of email subscriptions, and choose whether to share your contact information with our partners. These choices do not apply to mandatory service communications that are part of certain web site services.
Data We Collect
The primary data we collect and store relate to issuers and their member organizations and can be termed as corporate data.
Our service collects data to operate effectively and provide you the best experiences with our services. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you make service enquiries or support requests. We get some of it by recording how you interact with our services by, for example, using technologies like cookies, and receiving error reports or usage data from software running on your device. We also obtain data from third parties (including other companies). For example, we use services from other companies to help us determine a location based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your location. The data we collect depends on the services and features you use.
We take the privacy and security of corporate data as seriously as we take personal data security.
Data Collection Channels
Issuers and their member organizations provide us with data when you register on our website, submit email for newsletter, request support, sign up to our service or make a payment for our service. We may also receive your data indirectly from Certificate Issuers that use our service to provide your with their real-time digital seals and certificates to validate their award of qualifications, licenses, membership, enrolment and other data.
Information Use
Our web site uses the data we collect for three basic purposes: to operate our business and provide (including improving and personalizing) the services we offer, to send communications, including promotional communications, and to display advertising. In carrying out these purposes, we combine data we collect through the various web site services you use to give you a more seamless, consistent and personalized experience. However, to enhance privacy, we have built in technological and procedural safeguards designed to prevent certain data combinations. For example, we store data we collect from you when you are unauthenticated (not signed in) separately from any account information that directly identifies you, such as your name, email address or phone number.
Information Sharing
We share your personal data with your consent or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide any service you have requested or authorized. For example, we share your content with third parties when you tell us to do so. When you provide payment data to make a purchase, we will share payment data with banks and other entities that process payment transactions or provide other financial services, and for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction. In addition, we share personal data among our controlled affiliates and subsidiaries. We also share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this statement. For example, companies we’ve hired to provide customer service support or assist in protecting and securing our systems and services may need access to personal data in order to provide those functions. In such cases, these companies must abide by our data privacy and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal data they receive from us for any other purpose. We may also disclose personal and corporate data as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.
Cookies
Your trust is our top priority and how we use cookies is integral to keeping that priority. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how to control your cookies. In the “Cookies” section of our Privacy Policy, we state that we use cookies. By continuing to use our Websites, you are agreeing to the use of cookies for the purposes described in this policy.
Like many other Websites, our Website uses cookies to improve your online experience. “Cookies” are small pieces of information sent by an organization to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow the website to recognize you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. This helps us improve our Websites and deliver a more personalised service.
We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie is only stored on your device during a single visit to the site (“browser session”) and is deleted when you close your browser to end the session. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our websites.
A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. When you click a check box asking us to remember you, we use persistent cookies to remember you, so you don’t have to log in every time you use our websites.
Our websites and services gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click-stream data. This information is used to administer and improve performance, diagnose server problems, and to help ensure the security of our websites and services.
We do not use third party cookies.
You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “settings”. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Websites.
Service Offering Name Variations
Website Seals, Digital Compliance Seals, Verification Seals, Business Trust Seals, Privacy Seals, Membership Trust Seals, Corporate Member Website Seal, Dynamic Trust Seals, Dynamic Website Seals, Industry organizations website seal or badge