Privacy Policy
Last
revised: January 29th, 2019
Principles of data protection
This Privacy Policy covers information we collect from users and
visitors of https://www.pmrepublic.com/ and
our related research and review services (collectively, the “Services”).
By using the Services or otherwise agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you
are consenting to the collection, use, disclosure, and other handling of your
information as described below. If you have any concern about providing
information to us or having such information displayed on the Services or
otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy, you should not
use the Services.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://pmrepublic.com
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the
site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP
address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from
your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service
to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available
here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your
profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website,
you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS)
included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data
from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site
you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These
are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again
when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you
visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your
browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded
when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up
several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If
you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If
you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an
additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no
personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.
It expires after 1 day.
Embedded
content from other websites
Articles on this site may include
embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from
other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the
other website.
These websites may collect data about
you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your
interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction
with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that
website.
Who we share
your data with
If you request a password reset, your
IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we
retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment
and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and
approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a
moderation queue.
For users that register on our
website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their
user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at
any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can
also see and edit that information.
What rights
you have over your data
If you have an account on this
site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the
personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This
does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or
security purposes.
Where your
data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through
an automated spam detection service.
The
Information We Collect.
Information/Review Submitted by You
Information about you. We collect information about you when
you participate in our research process and use the Services in a variety of
ways:
- When you create an account, you provide us
with information such as your name and email address either directly or
via your LinkedIn account. We may also ask for your credit card or
other banking details if you purchase from PM Republic. You can
provide additional information to enhance your profile such as your
location, industry, bio, picture, and phone number. If you believe
that someone has created an unauthorized account depicting you or your
likeness, you can request its removal by mailing details to us
- As
part of the review submission process, we will collect your name, company
name, phone number, and email address for our records, but this
information will not be made available to the public.
- For
posted reviews, you will have the option to either remain anonymous (e.g.,
only your generic job title, company description, industry, company size,
and location will be posted with your review) or attribute your comments
by providing information such as your name, company name, project details,
and your photo. If you choose to attribute your review, you agree
that we may publicly display such information in connection with your review
through the Services.
- When
you complete a survey, your responses will remain anonymous, and we will
only display the results along with a generic job title, department,
industry, company size, and location.
- When
you submit a project request form or consultation form, it is important to
be as accurate as possible and list as much relevant information as
possible. The more information you provide, the more appropriate will be
the recommended Vendor matches for your project. We will need, at the
least, your name, company name, project details, email contact details,
and preferred way for us to contact you. Please note that your email
address, phone number, and other submitted information would be provided
to the service providers as well as affiliate network and partner Vendors
who may best fit your project needs.
Information about others. You may provide
information about others (e.g. clients), including their names, emails, phone
numbers, and companies to support our reference check and review process. You
should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing PM Republic with their information. The
information you provide about others is only used in the reference check and
review process.
Information From Third Parties
We may collect, process, and store
your user ID associated with any social media account (such as your LinkedIn
account) that you use to sign in to the Services or connect with or use with
the Services. When you sign in to your account with your social media account
information, or otherwise, connect to your social media account with the
Services, you consent to our collection, storage, and use, in accordance with
this Privacy Policy, of the information that you choose to make available to us
through the social media interface. This could include, without limitation, any
information that you have made public in connection with your social media
account, information that the social media service shares with us, or
information that is disclosed as being shared during the sign-in process. Please
see your social media provider’s privacy policy and help centre for more
information about how they share information when you choose to connect your
account.
We may also obtain information about
you if it is contained in user-generated content that other users post to or on
our Services. For example, a user could include information about you in a
review they post.
Automatically Collected Information
We and third parties may use
automated means to collect information about you, your computer or other
devices, and your use of the Services. These automated means include
technologies such as cookies, Web server logs, Web beacons, and JavaScript.
Cookies are files that websites and
online services create and access on your computer or other Internet-connected
devices to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings
on your device to help us recognize you, improve your experience, increase
security, and measure use of our Services. Our Services may use HTTP cookies,
HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies, and other types of local storage (such as
browser-based or plugin-based local storage). Your browser may tell you how to
be notified when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or
disable certain cookies. You also may be able to delete your Flash cookies or
adjust your Flash cookie settings by visiting the Adobe Flash Website Storage
Settings Manager by following Adobe’s instructions here (link is external)(link is external) (instructions
vary depending on your operating system and version of Flash). Please
note, however, that without cookies or local storage you may not be able to use
all of the features of our Services.
In conjunction with the gathering of
information through cookies and other automated means, Web servers may log
information such as your device type, operating system type, mobile device
identifier provided by your mobile device operating system), browser type,
domain, and other system settings, the name of your ISP or mobile carrier, as
well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your
device is located. The Web server logs also may record information such as the
address of the Web page that referred you to our Services and the IP address of
the device you use to connect to the Internet. They also may log information
about your interaction with our Services, such as which pages you visit. To
control which Web servers collect information by automated means, we may place
tags on our Web pages called “Web beacons,” which are files that link Web pages
to particular Web servers and their cookies. We also may include Web beacons in
e-mail messages. We or third parties also may send instructions to your
device using JavaScript or other computer languages to store or gather other
details about your interactions with the Services.
We may also collect different types
of information about your location, including general information (e.g., IP
address, zip code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality
on mobile devices used to access the Services), and may use that information to
customize the Services with location-based information, advertising, and
features. For example, if you provide a zip code that indicates that you live
in New York, the Services may be customized with New York-specific information
and advertisements. In order to do this, your location information may be
passed along to our agents, vendors, or advertisers. If you access the Services
through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with GPS
location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other
location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to
do this. See your device manufacturer’s instructions for further details.
How We Use
Information
What legal basis do we rely on to
process your Personal data?
- Consent – When you receive our
promotional material, you consent that your Personal data will be
processed by us and we rely on this consent. You have the right to
withdraw consent at any time. We will stop to process data after
consent is withdrawn, where consent is the only legal basis for
processing.
- When you fulfil a contract – We will
process your Personal data when you take steps to enter into a contract
with us such as sign up for a free trial, use or purchase our service or
products, and for the performance of the contract that you have entered
with us.
- Legitimate Interest – We process your
data when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these
interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
- Legal obligation – We may process your
Personal data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations such as
preventing, investigating, and detecting crime, fraud, or anti-social
behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law
enforcement agencies. Your data may be processed in order to satisfy the
applicable law or enforceable governmental request. We use the information
we collect about you to:
- Establish
your account and provide the Services.
- Fulfil
your requests and provide customized content to you.
- Communicate
with you through email, notices posted on the website, and other means
available through the Services.
- Create,
tailor, deliver and study the effectiveness of advertising and promotional
material both on and off of the Services, as well as for analytics
(including as described in the Online Analytics, Advertising and
Do-Not-Track section below);
- Improve
the Services and to research and develop innovative features and new
services.
- Provide
feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Services; and
- Investigate,
prevent, or act regarding unlawful or harmful activities, including
potential threats to the physical safety of a person, potential fraud, and
violations of our Terms of Service.
Please note that we may anonymize
and/or de-identify information collected through the Services or via other
means so that the information no longer relates to you. Where we have
appropriately anonymized and/or de-identified information so that it no longer
identifies you personally, our use and disclosure of such information is not
subject to this Privacy Policy and may be used and disclosed to others without
restriction.
How We Share
Information.
Information about you may be shared
for the following purposes:
- Any information included in your user profile
and any content you post on PM Republic (e.g., your reviews) may
be seen by others. When you post a review, your content, including your
name as the contributor (if the review is not anonymous), may also be
displayed in search engine results.
- If you provide any reviews or testimonials
either about PM Republic or service providers covered in our
research, we may post those reviews or testimonials or portions thereof.
Reviews or testimonials and advertisements may include your name (if the
review is not anonymous), title, company, and other information that you have
provided.
- When
we have your consent or where it is necessary to carry out your
instructions.
- As reasonably necessary to provide PM
Republic features and functionality to you; We may share your
information with third-party vendors or business partners who provide
services on our behalf, which may include analytics, customer service,
survey providers, payment processing, marketing, and fraud prevention. We
may also authorize third-party vendors to collect information on our
behalf, including as necessary to operate features of our Services.
Third-party vendors have access to and may collect information only as
needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use
the information for any other purpose.
- In
connection with significant corporate events (for example, we may share or
disclose the information we have about you in the event we sell or
transfer all or a portion of our business or assets — such as in
connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy,
dissolution or liquidation — or take steps in anticipation of any such
event);
- When
we believe in good faith that sharing is reasonably necessary to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible unlawful
activities or to comply with legal process or other legal requirements;
when we deem disclosure appropriate in situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person, potential violations of our
terms, or claims of violation of the rights of third parties; or when we
deem disclosure appropriate to protect the rights, property and safety of
us, our employees, users, or another person or entity (the disclosures
described here may involve the sharing of your information with, for
example, law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or other parties).
Online
Analytics, Advertising and Do-Not-Track.
Online Analytics Providers
To help us better understand your use
of the Services, we may use third-party analytics. These third parties use the
sorts of technologies described in the “Automatically Collected Information”
section above. The information collected by this technology will be disclosed
to or collected directly by these service providers.
Advertising Technology Providers
Data about your activities on our
Services may be collected by us or by advertising technology providers for use
in delivering online advertising tailored to your individual characteristics,
activities, interests, and other factors. These ad services may track
your online activities over time by collecting information through automated
means, including through the use of the various technologies described above,
and they may use this information, and other information they receive from us
or other sources, to deliver advertisements to you on our website, our emails,
and other websites. We and third-party vendors may use first-party
cookies and third-party cookies together, and other automated technologies, and
in some cases additional information, (i) to inform, optimize, and serve ads
based on past visits to our Services or other factors and (ii) to report how ad
impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad
impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Services or other
factors.
You may visit the Network
Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out page (link is external)(link is
external) or the Digital
Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out page (link is external)(link is
external) to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising based on
your Internet browsing activities from companies that participate in those
programs. Some of our advertising-related activities may involve the
services of companies that do not participate in those programs. For example,
we use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third-party
websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our website. You can set
preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google
Ad Preferences page (link is external) (link is external). The
opt-outs apply only to the browser in which you set them. For example, if
you set the opt-out while using Firefox, but then use Chrome, the opt-out will
not be active in Chrome. To opt-out in Chrome, you will need to repeat the
opt-out process.
The opt-outs described in this
Privacy Policy do not block or delete cookies or prevent the use of cookies or
other technologies for purposes other than selecting ads based on your
interests as inferred by your online behaviour. If you opt-out, data may still
be collected about your web browsing activities and you will still see advertisements.
Ads may be delivered based on other factors, such as the content of the web
page in which they are shown, or demographic information obtained through other
means.
Do Not Track Disclosure
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy
preference that users can set in certain web browsers to inform websites and
services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits
collected over time and across websites or online services. However, we do not
recognize or respond to browser initiated DNT signals, as the internet industry
is still working to determine what DNT means, how to comply with DNT, and how
to create a common approach to responding to DNT.
Information
Access, Correction, And Deletion Options.
You have a right to (1) access, modify,
correct, or delete certain aspects of your information regarding your user
profile, and (2) close your user account. You can also contact us regarding any
account information which is not on your profile or readily accessible to you.
If you close your account, your information may be removed or unpublished from
the Services within a reasonable amount of time.
Once you submit a review and the
review has been approved for posting, it cannot be edited or removed. You
will have the ability to submit a revision to appear below your original
posting and to revise your star ratings.
Note that information that others
have copied may remain visible and you may not be able to access, correct, or
eliminate any information about you that others copied or exported out of PM Republic, because this information may not be in our
control. Your information may be displayed in search engine results until the
search engine refreshes its cache.
Data Retention
We retain your information as long as
your account is active or as needed to provide you services or because we have
an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. We also retain and use your
information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes
and enforce our agreements. We store your information as long as is necessary
for the purpose for which we have collected it. When we have no ongoing
legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either
delete or anonymise it or, if it is possible (e.g., your personal information
is stored for backup archives) then will securely store your personal
information and isolate if from any further processing until the
deletion/erasure is possible.
Security.
We have implemented various
technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect your information.
These safeguards vary depending on the sensitivity of the information at issue.
Third-Party
Links and Services.
The Services may contain links to
third-party websites, applications, and services, including social media
services, as well as embedded images or other third-party content and features.
Your use of these features may result in the collection, processing or sharing
of information about you, depending on the feature. We are not
responsible for the content, features, security, or practices of any third
parties. We do not vet, endorse, or make any representations about third
parties or their websites, applications, or services. The information you
choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties is not covered
by our Privacy Policy.
Changes To
This Policy.
This Privacy Policy may be modified
from time to time as our business practices and legal requirements evolve.
If this Privacy Policy is modified, we will provide appropriate notice of
the change, and we will include the effective date of the update. Please
review the changes carefully. If you disagree with the Privacy Policy, you must
stop using the Service. If you continue to use PM
Republic after we publish or communicate a notice about any
changes to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to such changes.
Children’s
Privacy.
The Services are not intended for use
by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect (or knowingly
allow any third party to collect) personal information from persons under the
age of 13. If we become aware that personal information has been collected from
a person under the age of 13, we will delete this information and terminate the
person’s account as quickly as possible.
International
Users.
The Services are hosted in the United
States and are governed by United States law. If you are using the Services
from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be
transferred to, stored and processed in the United States, where our databases
are operated, or Canada, where our servers are located. The data protection and
other laws of the United States and Canada might not be as comprehensive as
those in your country. By using the Services, you consent to your information
being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third
parties with whom we share it as described in our Privacy Policy.
Your Rights
Within The EU
Whenever you use our services from
within the EU the following rights apply to your user account:
The right to be informed, the right
to access, The right to rectification, The right to erasure, The right to
restrict processing, The right to data portability, The right to object, and
rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
If you wish to exercise any of the
above rights, please contact us using the contact details set out below. For
the protection of your privacy and security, our Data protection team shall
take every reasonable step to ensure that your identity is verified before
granting access, or rectification, or deletion.
No Rights of
Third Parties.
We do not disclose your personal
information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without
your consent. If you have any questions regarding this policy or would like to
change your preferences, you may contact us using the information in Section 14
below.
This Privacy Policy does not create
rights enforceable by third parties.
How to Contact
Us.
If you have any questions about these
Terms and Conditions, you can contact us at email: info@pmrepublic.com
Please send your feedback, comments,
and requests for technical support by email: feedback@pmrepublic.com.