Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2nd January 2022

GeopFX Consulting knows the significance you place on your privacy. We are dedicated to safeguarding your personal information and maintaining your privacy. Any information that can be used to identify you as an individual is considered personal data. This Privacy Policy covers how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with GeopFX’s business activities, such as conferences and events, and client services, as well as on GeopFX’s websites, applications, and messages that include a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). For additional information about our online terms and policies in general, please check our Terms of Use.

We gather information

In the course of its business operations, GeopFX gathers personal data, including in connection with various client services. Personal data is also collected when you register for or apply for jobs through the GeopFX Recruitment Portal, create a user profile, sign up for GeopFX newsletters and alerts, register for seminars and events, and/or participate in public user posting areas (such as discussion groups, and surveys) on the specific location of the sites. Information you submit, including your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and background information needed to apply for a job, is collected in a variety of methods.

We may also get information about the devices you use to interact with our sites automatically. URL address, device ID, information gateway, and browsing data collected by cookies, browser history, pixels, clear gifs, and other related technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Trail Technologies”) on our Sites are examples of the information we electronically gather. We may also obtain particulars about your work of the Sites automatically, like the content you have looked for and seen on the Sites. The data acquired automatically may be linked to a unique identifier as well as any other personal records you have furnished.

In the process of its operations, particularly in relation to certain client services, GeopFX may additionally obtain user data about you from third parties sources, like data researchers or aggregators. This includes socio-demographic, occupational, and other publicly available information online, plus info you’d like to share with the world via social networking platforms and other publicly accessible online methods. For benchmarking and data analytics purposes, we may combine this info with other facts we possess or use it on its own. We’ll definitely check to see if the third party provided accurate data on how it utilizes your information, including if it has shared it with third parties like GeopFX in a reasonable way.

Use of Information

GeopFX can use your personal data to respond to your inquiries, process your queries to take part in conferences and events, personalize the content you see or receive on the Sites, assess and improve our services, send you newsletters and alerts, recruit and evaluate job candidates, analyze the Sites’ performance and functionality, and submit your letters to the editor or comments, avoid fraud, administer our terms of service, comply with applicable laws and corporate reporting duties, enforce GeopFX’s agreements and complete other tasks you may request. Personal data may be required for the functioning of the Sites in some circumstances, or we may use it in the course of our commercial activities, such as in connection with specific client services. To assess and present you with the most appropriate information and services, we may blend and/or analyze personal data. Any of your personal information that you provide to us may be kept on file and can be used to contact you. GeopFX and its service providers may track and assemble data on how often you use our websites and services using first-party and third-party Cookies, also a variety of other Identification Technologies, such as pixel tags. GeopFX and its service partners may keep track of whether you open or click on any of the links in the knowledge, research, or event notifications you receive. This Privacy Policy’s information regarding cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. For more information on how we use cookies and other tracking technologies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Our websites do not keep track of your internet actions throughout or via the websites owned by third parties or online services in order to monitor you. In response to “do not track” signals from web browsers, we do not modify our data collecting and usage procedures.

Information gathered via mobile devices

GeopFX may employ third-party service providers to analyze user activity in connection with our mobile applications in order to repair issues, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. GeopFX also gets information about some issues that occur in mobile apps.

We process your personal data on the basis of the law

Our collection of your personal data for the aforementioned objectives is based on the following:

  • Our reasonable interests in promoting and defending GeopFX, as well as creating and maintaining relationships, are based in part on our legitimate interests. recruitment, as well as the provision of our services;
  • Partially, with your permission, or for business purposes that support web operations, such as understanding and improving the quality of your experience on our websites.
  • Partially, to comply with the law, where certain information is required to meet our legal or regulatory requirements.

Personal data disclosure: recipients and international data transfers

Personal data acquired during the conduct of GeopFX business operations, including in correlation with some client services, and on the sites may be passed to partners and their personnel throughout our organization, as well as to our third-party service providers, including some nations where local law may deny you privileges that you would have in your home nation. Unless otherwise required by law, GeopFX will not deliberately disclose or transmit your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties own marketing objectives or otherwise.

In accordance with the terms of our client service agreements, GeopFX may allow personal data access to third-party service providers contracted by GeopFX to offer services linked to the Sites as well as related to GeopFX’s business activities, including info related to some client services. We have procedures in place to guarantee that any personal data processed by third-party service providers conform with this Privacy Policy and ensure that your personal information is kept private, accessible, and secure.

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who perform services and operations on our behalf to make our interactions with you more convenient.

Furthermore, we may disclose the following information about you:

  • If we are forced by law or legal action to do so;
  • To law enforcement authorities or other government officials;
  • When we feel that disclosure is necessary or reasonable to avert physical injury or financial loss, or in conjunction with a suspected or actual illegal activity investigation;
  • If disclosure is required to preserve a person’s essential interests;
  • To uphold our Terms of Use;
  • To safeguard our assets, services, and legal rights;
  • To prevent GeopFX, affiliates, and/or business partners from being defrauded;
  • To assist with auditing, compliance, and corporate governance.
  • To comply with any and all applicable laws.

Furthermore, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a reorganization, acquisition, sale, joint – ventures, transfer, or other transfer or disposition of all or any part of our business.

User-generated content

You should be mindful that any publicly shared information on the internet can be acquired and used by others. GeopFX is not liable for any third-party actions or practices that gather the information that users publicly post in any such forums on the Sites.

Link to third party sites

As a courtesy to our users, GeopFX may provide links to third-party websites or information. If you access these links, you will exit the Sites. Such links do not imply that GeopFX endorses, promotes, or recommends the third party, the third party website, or the information included therein, and GeopFX is not responsible or liable for your use of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein. Such usage is governed by the terms of service and privacy policies that apply to such sites.

Social Networking

The Sites may allow you to sign in and link your social media accounts, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, to your GeopFX account. You may be able to log in to a GeopFX account using your social network account credentials if you use the Sites. You give us permission to access information that you have made accessible in your public profile for that social network account by connecting your social network account with GeopFX or logging in to a GeopFX account using your social network account credentials. Your email address, real name, profile photo, gender, and location may all be visible in your public profile, depending on the social network and your choices. We use the information we collect from your social media account in line with the terms of use of the social media platform and our Privacy Policy. Kindly verify the privacy settings on your social media account to see what information is provided with GeopFX and other associated programs, also just how to restrict the data that is shared through your account, which may include information about your activities on our Sites.

If you want to disengage from us, go to the settings of that social media account and its provider.

Security

To defend personal information against theft, misuse, alteration, or destruction, GeopFX has implemented generally acknowledged technical and operational security standards. Personal data is only accessible to authorized GeopFX staff and third-party service providers, and these employees and service providers are expected to treat it as confidential. Despite these safeguards, GeopFX cannot guarantee that unauthorized individuals will not gain access to your personal information.

Retention of data

GeopFX stores personal data for so much longer than is required by the relevant business relationship. If we need to protect ourselves against legal action, utilize it for analytical or historical record-keeping, or conform with our information management policies and plans, we may keep personal data for longer than the period of the business relationship.

Children under the age of sixteen (16) are not targeted or intended for the Sites, and GeopFX does not gather or maintain personal information on purpose about anybody under the age of 16.

GeopFX Career page

You can apply for roles with GeopFX Recruitment or sign up to be alerted of any future job vacancies or any similar opportunities that you might be interested in.

Unsubscribe

If you have signed up for GeopFX’s newsletters or alerts, or if you have received invitations to GeopFX’s surveys or events, and you do not want to receive future email messages from us, please unsubscribe using the instructions provided in the email.

Changes to the Privacy Policy; Consent

By using the Sites, you agree to us receiving, storing, and retaining your personal data in the ways set out in this Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. From time to time, we reserve the right to make modifications to our Privacy Policy.

Contact us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you would like to get in touch with us, please drop an email to [email protected].