STK Group Limited and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “STK Group”, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that can be used to identify you as an individual person. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with STK Group business activities, like conferences and events, client services, and websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Site”), in our capacity as data controllers. Please see our Terms of use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.
STK Group collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some client services. We also collect personal data on certain areas of the Site when you register to download materials or fill in the form and sign up to receive STK Group newsletters and alerts, participate in our activities, register to participate in conferences and events, and/or use public user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, fax number, and background information required to contact our experts.
We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Site. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our Site. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Site, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Site. The information automatically collected may be associated with a unique identifier as well as with any other personal data you have provided.
STK Group may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators, in the course of its business activities including in connection with some client services. This includes demographic, professional and other information that is publicly available online, including information you choose to make public through social media platforms and other public online forums. We may combine this data with existing information we have about you or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analytics activities (e.g., analysis of recruiting practices across an industry, detecting fraud patterns in connection with financial transactions, foot traffic in retail environments). We will always seek to confirm that the third party has provided transparent information about its use of this collected data, including its disclosure to third parties like STK Gropu, in compliance with applicable law.
STK Group uses your personal data to fulfil your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalise content that you view or receive via the Site, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, analyse the Site’s performance and functioning, publish your letters to the editor or comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce STK Group agreements, and accomplish other tasks you may initiate or request. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Site, or we may use it in the course of our business activities, including in connection with some client services: for example, to provide certain services or products such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyse personal data for evaluation to be able to offer you the most relevant content and services. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.
STK Group and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies, including web beacons, to manage our Site and our services and collect analytics about your way of using them. STK Group and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click any links inside the messages, letters or other communications that we send you. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to the aforementioned other tracking technologies.
Our Site does not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Accordingly, we do not alter our data collection and use applicable practices in response to the “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.
In connection with our mobile applications, STK Group may use third party service providers to analyse user activity to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, STK Group receives reports on some of our mobile applications’ aggregate usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events occurring within our Site. STK Group also receives reports on certain errors occurring within mobile applications.
In addition, our STK Group Site offers a personalised list of recommendations directing you to STK Group content that we think you will find interesting. Recommendations are based solely on what you have viewed on the Site. A unique user identifier that is generated by the Site helps personalise your Site experience and tracks the articles that you read on the Site. We do not share your viewing history or trends with other users or any external third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates or third party service providers of STK Group).
Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:
Personal data collected in the course of STK Group business activities, including in connection with some client services, as well as on the Site may be transferred from time to time to STK Group subsidiaries and affiliates and their personnel across our organisation, as well as to our third party service providers located throughout the world, including in countries where the local law may grant you fewer rights than you have in your own country. Additionally, the Sites may be viewed and hosted by STK Group and our third party service providers anywhere in the world. Where required by law, we have put in place legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate data protection of your personal data that is processed by STK Group subsidiaries, affiliates and third party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than the one in which you reside. If you would like more information on these legal mechanisms, which may include Russian Standard Contractual Clauses, please contact us using the address below. By using any parts of the Site and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to such transnational/crossborder transfer and hosting of such information.
STK Group will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorised or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise stipulated by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except in the following circumstances. STK Group may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by STK Group to provide services related to the Site as well as related to STK Group business activities, including in connection with some client services, in the manner agreed upon in our client services agreements. We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third party service providers is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.
We also may share your personal data with third party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.
You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. STK Group is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Site.
STK Group may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by STK Group of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and STK Group shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.
STK Group has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorised STK Group personnel and third party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions however, STK Group cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
STK Group retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.
We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, STK Group will make reasonable attempts to delete all of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
The Sites are not designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger, and STK Group does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.
Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to your personal data that we have collected for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or deleting said data. You may also have the right to request a copy of your personal data that we have collected and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.
If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct your personal data we have collected, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us tdsintekom@gmail.com. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your requests as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for complying with your request where allowed by applicable law, and/or deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.
In addition, and where granted by the local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
If you have signed up for STK Group newsletter or notifications/alerts, or you receive invitations to surveys or events from STK Group and you prefer not to receive email communications from us in the future write to tdsintekom@gmail.com to unsubscribe from all STK Group communications.
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, processing and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use your personal data that we have previously collected, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you would like to communicate with our Data Protection Officer or the Data Privacy Team, please contact us at:
STK Group
Legal Department
STK Group, 2b Shuvakishskaya street.,
Yekaterinburg, 620050,
Russian Federation.
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