THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE INFORMATION THAT Compare BizTech COLLECTS AND HOW IT USES SUCH INFORMATION. PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. BY USING THE SERVICES OR SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Privacy Statement
Compare BizTech and its subsidiaries (collectively “Compare BizTech”) are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This privacy policy applies to Your information that Compare BizTech collects and receives. By using this website (“Website”) You agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read the following policy to understand how Your Personal Information will be treated as You use Compare BizTech’s Services. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. All capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as defined in Compare BizTech’s Terms of Use.
Personal Information Defined
For this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that is personally identifiable such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, or phone numbers, as well as other non-public information that is associated with a User. Compare BizTech collects and uses Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy from the Users of our Services.
Personal Information Compare BizTech Collects
Compare BizTech collects Personal Information upon Your consent. This information might be used to send you product recommendations, articles via a newsletter, or more information about a particular technology vendor, depending on the form you fill out and the consent you provide at the time you fill out that form.
Product Recommendations: Compare BizTech collects Personal Information from You in order to connect You with sellers of technology (“Services”) that You are searching for. When You give Compare BizTech access to Personal Information for this purpose, You consent to receive product recommendations and technology buying advice from Compare BizTech via email or phone call, and with your consent the Website may pass your data along to technology vendors who meet your requirements.
Email Newsletters: Compare BizTech collects email addresses to provide readers of our blogs with updates via email newsletters. These email newsletters contain links to blog posts, product recommendations, and links to research white papers that match your technology or industry interests.
Get Pricing: Should You request pricing details for a particular technology listed on the site, Compare BizTech will collect Personal Information such as:
- Email address
- Name
- Phone number
- Industry
- Company demographics
When You consent to receive pricing details for a technology, Compare BizTech will contact you with those pricing details. With your consent, the Website may pass your data along to technology vendors who meet your requirements.
Product Reviews: Compare BizTech uses your personal information to verify Your identity and to ensure you are not a current or previous employee of the technology company or their direct competitors.
Compare BizTech collects the following Personal Information that You submit voluntarily. You may provide Compare BizTech with additional information about You as You use the Services such as:
- physical addresses
- telephone numbers
- information regarding Your business (e.g., business name, revenue thresholds, etc.)
- information regarding Your business needs and technology requirements
- other personally identifiable information You affirmatively provide to us such as LinkedIn profile information
When You contribute posts and reviews, participate in Compare BizTech surveys (either directly, or through third party service providers), or provide any other Content to the Services through other means, Compare BizTech will collect all the information You provide. In connection with reviews, posts, and surveys, Compare BizTech (and/or its third party service providers) may collect a wide variety of product- and vendor-related information.
Please be aware that while some pieces of information that You provide to Compare BizTech would not be sufficient to identify You when seen by another User without any context, the combination of different pieces of information that You have provided for viewing by other Users, or any contextual information, may allow other Users and Compare BizTech to identify You.
When You contact Compare BizTech by sending Compare BizTech an e-mail or when You use any of our contact forms, Compare BizTech will collect any information that is contained in (and/or attached to) Your e-mail, text message, or that You enter into such forms.
Compare BizTech does not collect, process or control any sensitive personal information such as Physical or Mental Health, Political Beliefs or Genetics, etc.
Legal Grounds for Processing Information under GDPR
For our direct marketing activities, we employ Legitimate Interest as legal grounds for processing data.
Browsing the Website
If You browse through the Website without entering any Personal Information, Compare BizTech will automatically gather and store certain information about Your visit. This information does not identify You personally and cannot be linked back to You unless You decide at some point to identify Yourself. If You are only browsing, Compare BizTech may collect the following information (whenever possible): IP address, domain name, the type of browser and operating system used to access the Website, the date and time You access the Website, the pages You visit (click-through), and if You linked to the Website from another website, the address of that website as well as additional information related to Your visit. Compare BizTech uses Your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Website.
Cookies
Compare BizTech may place “cookies” on Your personal computer. “Cookies” are small identifiers sent from a web server and stored on Your computer’s hard drive, similar to a license plate, that help Compare BizTech to recognize You if You visit the Website again. Compare BizTech use cookies to record session information, such as record user-specific information on what pages You access or visit, record past activity in order to provide better service when You return to the Website, ensure that You are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, to customize Website content based on Your browser type, and to track how You found the Website. Cookies are not designed to be used to get data from Your hard drive, Your e-mail or any other personal data about You.
To protect Your privacy, Compare BizTech does not use cookies to store or transmit any Personal Information about You on the Internet. You can reject cookies by changing Your browser settings. Please note, however, that if You reject our cookies, it is possible that some web pages may not properly load, Your access to certain information might be denied or You might have to enter information about Yourself more than once.
Minors
Compare BizTech does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18. Do not fill out any forms on the site if You are under the age of 18 and do not provide Compare BizTech with any information regarding any individual under the age of 18.
Use of Personal Information
Personal Information You submit to Compare BizTech, or to third parties that support us in collecting information, is used by us to provide You and other Users with the Services, to respond to requests that You make, to improve our Services, and to operate, maintain, and improve the features, functionality, performance, and support of the Services.
Compare BizTech uses the Personal Information that it gathers about You for the following purposes:
- To provide our Services to You, to communicate with You about Your use of the Services, to respond to Your inquiries, to fulfill Your orders, and for other customer service purposes, which may include communicating with You via email
- To tailor the content and information that Compare BizTech may send or display to You, personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize Your experiences while using the Website or the Services
- For customer loyalty programs
- To share with website affiliates, and/or vendors of products You have given us consent to contact You regarding products or services as a means of establishing communication between both You and such vendors or affiliates.
- For marketing and promotional purposes. For example, Compare BizTech may use information You provide to contact You in the manner(s) You request at the time that data is collected. Compare BizTech may collect your email address to send You news and newsletters, special offers and promotions, or to otherwise contact You about products or information You expressed interest in. Compare BizTech also may use the information that Compare BizTech learns about You to assist us in advertising our Services on third party websites.
- To better understand how users access and use the Website and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, to improve the Website and Services and respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes
Public Postings
One of the purposes of the Services is for Users to share product- and vendor-related information with other Users. Therefore, You should assume that any information (including any Personal Information You may choose to provide, but excluding Your registration information) that You post will be made available to other Users of the Services. Compare BizTech may provide You the ability to anonymously post certain comments, in which case Compare BizTech will not include Your contact information (i.e., name, username, email address, or postal address) on the Website in connection with such comments. However, You should know that Compare BizTech’s internal records may associate Your contact information with such comments.
Feedback
If You provide feedback about the Services, Compare BizTech may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided Compare BizTech does not associate such feedback with Your Personal Information. Compare BizTech will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, Compare BizTech does not disclose to or share Your Personal Information with third parties, unless You ask or authorize Compare BizTech to do so. Compare BizTech may provide Your Personal Information to third party service providers and suppliers who work on behalf of or with Compare BizTech to provide You with some of the services and features of the Services and to help us communicate with Users. However, these service providers and suppliers do not have any independent right to use this information except to help Compare BizTech provide the Services. Compare BizTech may share some or all of Your Personal Information with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), in which case Compare BizTech will require Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
Data Retention
Unused data and data that falls outside of categories we deem commercially viable will be deleted. To ensure the accuracy of our recommendations and the privacy of Personal Information, Compare BizTech analyzes all records annually and deletes any that have gone untouched, unprocessed, and unreferenced in a timespan of 5 years. Data that has been requested to be forgotten will be deleted promptly.
Mergers
In the event Compare BizTech goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, Your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Compare BizTech or its assets may continue to use Your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Obligation to Disclose
Compare BizTech may (and You authorize us to) disclose information Compare BizTech has collected from and about You (including Personal Information) if Compare BizTech believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (b) to enforce our Compare BizTech Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; or (c) to protect and defend the rights or property of us, the users of our Services, or third parties.
Security
Compare BizTech works hard to protect Information You provide from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. These steps take into account the sensitivity of the Other Information we collect, process and store, and the current state of technology. Compare BizTech has deployed all of these requirements in our systems and processes both internally as well as with upstream data providers to ensure the security of Personal Information:
- Hardware-level and/or software-level encryption
- Data minimization
- Data pseudonymization
- Data encryption at rest
- Data encryption in transit
Information Sharing
On occasion Compare BizTech will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted regarding visitors to the Website. Compare BizTech may count, track, and aggregate visitor activity into our analysis of general traffic flows to the Website and may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. In such case, Compare BizTech will only provide demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual reader information.
Links to Other Web Sites
- The Website may contain links to Third Party Sites that are not owned or controlled by Compare BizTech. The provision of such links is for Your convenience and does not signify Compare BizTech’s endorsement of such web sites or location or its contents. Compare BizTech has no control over, does not review and is not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on Third Party Sites. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to Third Party Sites.
- DISCLOSURE: Compare BizTech may have affiliate marketing agreements set up with a portion of the products mentioned in blog posts or other pages on the site. If a user clicks through to a product from this Website and makes a purchase, Compare BizTech may be entitled to a portion of the revenue generated from this purchase.
Notification of Privacy Statement Changes
From time to time, Compare BizTech may use Personal Information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Policy. If Compare BizTech’s information practices change at some time in the future Compare BizTech will post the policy changes to this Website to notify You of these changes and provide You with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If You are concerned about how Your information is used, You should check back at this Website periodically.
Contacting the Compare BizTech Data Protection Team
If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or Your dealings with this Website, please contact the Compare BizTech Data Protection Officer at info@comparebiztech.com.
