In accordance with the U.S. Data Protection Laws and GDPR version 1.1, we at
innovate 360 are big on data security. That is why we aim to make our
Privacy Policy clear, concise and understandable so that you know exactly
how your data is being managed and respected.
Who are we?
We are innovate 360 LLC. based in 1Glen Allen Virginia (United States).
innovate 360 is committed to providing a range of services to small to
mid-sized firms to aid their digital transformations and turning their ideas
into great software products. Driven to cultivate long-lasting
relationships, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy. This website
therefore serves as a marketing tool and any personal data acquired via this
website is only intended for marketing purposes. This Policy makes it clear
the choices available to you regarding the use of, access to, and how to
update and correct your personal information. Our Privacy Policy is part of
the website’s Terms of Use. We regularly update our Policy
so please make sure to read it from time to time. If you have any questions
regarding this Policy, please email us at
marketing@innovate 360.com.
What is in this Privacy Policy?
What personal data do we collect?
We only gather that information that is necessary for us to allow you to use
the website or to contact us. The information collected is only used in
accordance with this Policy.
Information we obtain from you:
When you get in touch via the contact us form or the email, you provide us
with your name, phone number, email address, company information,
communication content and data associated with the communication. For
instance when you apply for a vacancy, you share with us your name, email,
contact number, location and any other information listed on your CV. You
may also choose to provide similar details about an individual you want to
refer. innovate 360 also occasionally receives information from third
parties like LinkedIn if you have given them the consent to use and transmit
your information. We therefore recommend reviewing the privacy policies of
such third-party websites as well before making your information public on
their platform.
Information obtained from your use of our website:
The following information may be gathered when you visit our
website:
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Information about your visits to and use of this Website, including your
IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, referral
source, page views and Website navigation paths.
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Information about your device(s), in particular, hardware model, version
of the operating system.
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Cookies: For more information on the type of cookies and how to opt out,
please continue reading.
Simply put, we may be interested in the following information:
- Your full name
- Your email
- Your phone number
- Your geographical location
- Your designation
- Your Company
- Company Location
- Your LinkedIn profile
- The fact that you have visited our website
- What website referred you to ours
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Whether you have downloaded any marketing materials from our website
How do we use and share your personal information?
We process your information by way of obtaining, collecting, organizing,
using, retrieving, consulting, aligning or erasing. We may disclose your
information to our subsidiaries or affiliates.
We may also share it with third party service providers, vendors and agents
who facilitate us with website management, technical support, data analysis
and hosting. We make sure that they also abide by data protection policies
like we do.
We may also disclose your personal data:
- As required by and to the extent of the law
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
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To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, including providing
information to others with the aim of fraud prevention and reducing credit
risk
How long is your information kept for?
We will delete your personal data as soon as we no longer have a need or a
legal basis to process it. What does this mean?
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We’ll always delete your data when we receive a request from you to do so
(see below). In the unlikely event that we are still obliged under the law
to keep your data, we’ll inform you about that.
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We will not store or otherwise process your data for “unlimited period” in
other cases. If we rely on legitimate interest for processing, your data
will be kept as long as we are in a business relationship with you. If we
don't start a business relationship with you, your data will be stored in
our systems for some limited time for our analytics to be done. In no case
we will keep it for more than 1 year, the period which is necessary for
communicating with your company as our potential client and after which we
treat old analytics outdated, so your personal data is not needed anymore.
Do we use cookies?
When you visit our website, innovate 360 may place cookies and similar
analytical codes (collectively, “Cookies”) on your device, browser or the
webpage you are viewing, in order to personalize your experience, understand
usage patterns and provide, improve, and secure our website. Cookies are
small pieces of text that are stored on your device when you visit a
website. This allows the website to tailor its content to suit your needs
whenever you visit it next. Cookies do not typically contain any information
that personally identifies someone, but personal data that we store about
you may be linked to the information obtained from cookies.
This may be done for a few reasons
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Functional: when cookies are used to tailor your
experience. These Cookies make sure you can view the websites and use them
in a proper way. Examples of functional cookies: SID, PHPSESSID,
wp-settings-X, wp-settings-time-X, etc. For instance, cookies permit:
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Our website to remember the details you’ve provided when filling in
forms – so that you don’t have to enter the same information multiple
times.
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You to share website pages on social networks like Facebook, Twitter
and LinkedIn.
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Performance: when cookies are used to analyse how you use
our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to
identify and fix any issues that arise quickly. For example, we use Google
Analytics cookies to keep track of which pages are the most popular,
collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website and to
"remember" what a user has done visiting other pages on the website. We
might also use cookies to highlight articles or offerings that we think
will be of interest to you based on how you use our website.
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Advertising: when cookies are used to target you with our
advertising. We do not allow third-party advertisements on our websites,
but we do advertise our offers and services on other sites. Some of the
sites on which we advertise may use cookies to store information about
offers and services in which you have shown an interest as you browse the
web. The information from those cookies allows the third party site to
display the most appropriate advertisements for you. Examples of
third-party cookies include bcookie, sb, fr, spin, wd, xs, etc.
How to reject and delete cookies?
You can adjust your browser settings to delete some of our cookies or
cookies set by third parties. Most web browsers automatically accept
cookies. However, you do not have to accept cookies and you can reject or
block the use of cookies and delete all cookies currently stored on your
device. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by
clicking “help” on your browser’s menu.
Where is your data processed?
Your data is processed in the US and may be transferred to the EU or PK -
all entities abiding by the GDPR policies. Nevertheless, your data will
always be safe and under GDPR protection, despite where it is processed.
Such transfer and processing are possible only as reasonably necessary for
the purposes set out in this Policy and within the scope of legitimate
interest of innovate 360, abiding by contractual clauses so that your data
does not fall outside the scope of the GDPR.
What are your rights?
As a data subject, you have the right to:
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Request information about whether we hold personal information about you,
and, if so, what that information is and why we are holding or using it.
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Request access to your personal information. This enables you to receive a
copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we
are lawfully processing it.
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Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you.
This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold
about you corrected.
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Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us
to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for
us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete
or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to
object to processing.
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Object to the processing of your personal information where we are relying
on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is
something about your particular situation which makes you want to object
to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we
are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
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Object to automated decision-making, including profiling, that is not to
be subject of any automated decision-making by us using your personal
information or profiling of you.
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Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This
enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information
about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the
reason for processing it.
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Request transfer of your personal information in an electronic and
structured form to you or to another party. This enables you to take your
data from us in an electronically useable format and to be able to
transfer your data to another party in an electronically useable format.
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Withdraw consent.You have the right to withdraw your consent to the
collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a
specific purpose at any time. Once we have received notification that you
have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information
for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have
another legitimate basis for doing so in law. The withdrawal of consent
will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its
withdrawal.
Should you want to exercise any of the above mentioned rights, please
contact us at marketing@innovate 360.com. Before proceeding with your
request, we may need to request specific information from you to confirm
your identity and to ensure your right to access the information. Abuse of
rights may hold you liable.
Do we profile you?
We will only undertake profiling to the extent if you have given your
consent to receive marketing materials from us. We will use your personal
information as described in this Policy.
Is your data secured?
innovate 360 is ISO-27001 certified. Therefore we don’t allow any unreliable
practices regarding the security of the information we deal with.
Consequently, we take all appropriate technical and organisational measures
to keep your data safe, as required by the GDPR. We do this through:
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All our employees, affiliates, consultants or any recipients of your data
are bound by confidentiality (non-disclosure agreement) and are not
authorised to process your data for purposes other than described in this
Policy. We take full responsibility for that.
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We follow the Information Security Policy, which is mandatory and applies
to all our consultants, contractors, and all other individuals who have
authorised access to information resources.
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All our security practices and documents are reviewed on a yearly basis,
approved by the executive management and are implemented throughout the
group as well as are communicated to all our employees and consultants.
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Our Information Security Policy applies to all the information stored on
physical or electronic data carriers, as well as any software and hardware
that we possess or use temporarily.
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We conduct mandatory training for all our employees and consultants on
privacy and security.
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Our servers, workstations and internet gateway devices are updated
periodically with the latest antivirus definitions that include zero-day
anti-malware protection.
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We ensure authentication and authorisation controls are robust and
properly treated.
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We continuously gather and analyse data regarding all the new and existing
threats and vulnerabilities, actual attacks on other organisation, as well
as the information about the effectiveness of the existing security
controls.
- We conduct risk assessment on a yearly basis.
At innovate 360, we constantly strive to align our customer needs and
requirements with our core business values and industry best practices
advocating highest service and product quality and maintain confidentiality,
integrity and availability of information based on risk-based approach. We
produce quality and security as functions in the products and services that
we deliver that is defined customer requirements and designed, and developed
accordingly.
innovate 360 has developed a service strategy and delivery mechanism for
internal and external IT infrastructure support. We create this through our
effective leadership that is passionate about creating best value for its
external and internal stakeholders.
At innovate 360 all employees are encouraged to get involved in achieving
overall customer satisfaction, quality of service and information security
in following the processes and delivering the products and services. We can
only do this by ensuring periodic and on need-based training at organization
level and individual level. This is also to ensure that the teams stay
abreast with evolving market trends and technologies.
We continually improve our systems following a Deming cycle using process
approach in our QMS, ISMS and ITSM. Our processes support our system
approach to management through factual decision making based on defined
criteria that also encourages the involvement of all affected groups in the
organization for the respective decision. innovate 360 abides by all local,
national and international legal requirements and regulations that we
operate in.
Legal Disclaimer
In certain situations, innovate 360 may be required to disclose personal
data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet
national security requirements as well as instances requiring cooperation
with law enforcement agencies where mandated by law.
As further required by Law (including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,
or asset sales, but only if the acquiring organization agrees to this
Policy’s protections ), we may also disclose your personal information as
required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process,
when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or
respond to a government request.
Further Questions:
If you would like to ask something regarding this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at marketing@innovate 360.com any time.