Privacy Policy
Welcome to the privacy policy of BUSINESS ZONE.
BUSINESS ZONE respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights.
Where this Policy refers to “we”, “us” and “our” we mean BUSINESS ZONE, and where this Policy refers to “you” and “your” we mean the user of the Website.
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how BUSINESS ZONE collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you purchase a product or service or otherwise interact with this website. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them. We are responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below. Contact details If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact support@businesszone.com. Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes We keep our privacy policy under regular review. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. Third-party links This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
2. Information Collection and Usage
While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Therefore, we may gather two types of information about you:
(a) Personal information
Personal information including but not limited to, your name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, and payment information, which may be collected from you when you voluntarily provide the same through the following, by the following methods, including but not limited to:
- registering and creating a membership account;
- participating in surveys and other promotions available on the Website;
- communicating with us through the Contact Us information provided on our Website or through the Customer Service Live Chat or via telephone;
- interaction with us on our social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) or Website;
- other sources such as third parties where it is reasonably necessary for our normal business practices to do so; and
(b) Aggregate information
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but may not be considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy. We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses. If you fail to provide personal data Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- apply for our products or services;
- create an account on our website;
- subscribe to our services or publications;
- request marketing to be sent to you;
- enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
- give us feedback or contact us.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Technical Data from analytics providers, advertising networks and search information providers
- Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
- Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators.
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
4. Our legal basis for processing your personal data
When we use your personal information we may be required to have a legal basis for doing so. There are various different legal bases upon which we may rely, depending on what personal information we process and why. The legal bases we may rely on include:
- consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
- contract: where our use of your personal information is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract
- legal obligation: where our use of your personal information is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations)
- legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests).
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table (Purposes for which we will use your personal data).
- Other companies in the Digital Asset Business Center group.
- Our integration partners.
- Service providers.
- Professional advisers, including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- Tax authorities, regulators and other authorities.
- (a) Salesforce (b) Pardot (c) MailChimp
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
6. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for? We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
8. Your rights
You may have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:
- transparency over how we use your use personal information
- access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this privacy policy is already designed to address
- requiring us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- requiring the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- receiving the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- objecting at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- objecting to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- objecting in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
9. Credit card payments
BUSINESS ZONE has a ‘Secure’ transaction system in place to verify and protect your credit card information. Online payments for events are conducted through a secure and powerful 228 bit encryption to protect your details.
10. Online payments
- All credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.
- BUSINESS ZONE will not pass any debit/credit card details to third parties.
- BUSINESS ZONE takes appropriate steps to ensure data privacy and security including through various hardware and software methodologies. However, (www.businesszone.com/) cannot guarantee the security of any information that is disclosed online.
- Refunds will be done only through the Original Mode of Payment.
- BUSINESS ZONE is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites to which it links. If you provide any information to such third parties different rules regarding the collection and use of your personal information may apply. You should contact these entities directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
- The website Policies and Terms & Conditions may be changed or updated occasionally to meet the requirements and standards. Therefore, the Customers’ are encouraged to frequently visit these sections to be updated about the changes on the website. Modifications will be effective on the day they are posted.