Privacy policy.

Last updated: 14 April 2022

Your privacy is important to us. It is Consequence's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, www.consequence.world, and other sites we own and operate.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent.



Information we collect

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

When you visit our websites
We collect personal data from you when you submit web forms or interact with our websites, for example subscribing to our blog, signing up for a webinar, or requesting customer support. We may ask for your email address, first and last name, job title, and other similar business information. You are free to explore some of our website without providing any personal data about yourself.

Account and user information
We collect personal data when you sign-up for a Consequence account, create or modify user information, set preferences, or provide any other related information to access or utilise our Subscription Service.

Payment information
We collect payment and billing information when you register for paid products or services. For example, we may ask you to provide a billing address, or a billing contact for your Consequence account. If you give us payment information, we use it solely as authorised by you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

You may also provide payment information, such as a credit card number or bank account numbers, when purchasing products or services. We use secure third-party payment service providers to manage payment processing, which is collected through a secure payment process.

Customer testimonials
We post customer testimonials and comments on our websites, which may contain personal data. We obtain each customer's consent via email or through other agreements between customers and Consequence prior to posting the customer's name and testimonial.

Log data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Third-party integrations
You may connect third party integrations to your Consequence account, which may ask for certain permissions to access data or send information to us. It is your responsibility to review any third party integrations you authorise and the data that may be shared.

Any permission(s) granted by you, grants these third parties access to your data, which may include (but is not limited to) granting third-party applications access to view, store, and modify your Consequence account data. We are not responsible for the practices of third party integrations, so please carefully review the permissions you grant to third-party applications.



Use of Information

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

  1. to enable you to customise or personalise your experience of our website
  2. to contact and communicate with you
  3. for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
  4. to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
  5. for internal record keeping and administrative purposesfor security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use

Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.



Security of your personal information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. We secure the personal data you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. All personal data is protected using appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures.



Retention of personal data

How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information and how we collect and store it.  After a reasonable period of time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.

We retain personal data that you provide to us where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal data, we securely delete the information or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will delete this information at an earlier date if you so request, as described in the section "How to access & control your personal data" below.



Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to:

  1. a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
  2. third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms
  3. our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
  4. our existing or potential agents or business partners
  5. sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
  6. courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
  7. third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you third parties to collect and process data



International transfers of personal information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.



Your rights and controlling your personal information

You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.



Use of cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified.



Advertising

We partner with third party ad networks to display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.  If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by using these services: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or https://optout.aboutads.info/ (or if located in the European Union, by clicking here: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/). Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising you will continue to receive generic ads.



Limits of our policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.



Changes to this policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.