Last Updated: November 20th, 2024
We ("GlobalM", "we", "our" or "us") value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, process, and protect your information. We comply with applicable data protection laws, including the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") explains the types of personal data we process (Section 3), the legal grounds on which we process it (Section 5), how we collect (Section 3), and protect this information (Section 5.6) and where we store it/who we share it with (Section 5.7) in connection with our GlobalM iOS/Android application or the "App", the GlobalM website (globalm.media or the "Website"), our web application (the "Web App"), and plugins (together the "Services") as well as the rights you have (Section 6). For information about the cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to all users of our Services, including registered users ("Members") and unregistered users ("Visitors").
We may collect and process some or all of the following types of personally identifiable information about you (the "Personal Data" or "Data") on the following instances.
We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide, including:
Name
Contact information
Any additional details relevant to using our Services.
Use of Information Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:
To enhance and personalize your experience with our services.
To provide customer support and respond to inquiries.
To improve our platform based on user feedback and analytics.
To ensure the security of our platform and services.
We log your visits to our website and sites and use of our Services
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology (e.g., our off-site plugins), such as when you view or click on content (e.g., video), perform a search, install or update our App,. We use log-ins, cookies, device information, and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
We collect Data through cookies and similar technologies.
As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels, ad tags, and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off, and across different Services and devices. We also allow some third parties to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. You can also opt-out from our use of cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for third-party advertising.
We receive Data from your devices and networks, including location data. Location services must be enabled to accurately verify user contributions during live or file submissions as part of our verification protocol.
When you visit or leave our Services (including our plugins or cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next. We also get information about your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, and/or ISP or your mobile carrier. If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. The upload or streaming of content is not permitted unless the location service is activated.
We contact you and enable communication between Members.
We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get a connection request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages.
We offer settings to control what messages you receive and how often you receive some types of messages.
We collect Data when you visit websites that include our plugins, or cookies, or log in to others’ services with your LinkedIn account.
We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log in with our Services or visit others’ services that include our plugins, cookies, or similar technologies.
We may collect additional data required for new features. When this occurs, we will notify you about the type of data collected and its intended use.
Your Data will be used to support and help provide our Services. We do not sell your Personal Data.
Our use of Personal Data depends on which Services you use and how you use them. We ensure that cross-border transfers comply with applicable laws, including the implementation of standard contractual clauses or reliance on adequacy decisions.
Your Data will be used to authorize access to our Services.
- Access: Users can request a copy of their data.
- Correction: Users can request amendments to incorrect or incomplete information.
- Consent Withdrawal: Users can opt-out of data processing based on consent.
- Erasure: Users can request deletion of their data when it is no longer necessary.
- Data Portability: Users can request their data be transferred to another controller.
You will be contacted by us through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our Website or App, messages to your inbox and through other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about our Services and promotional messages from us and our partners. You cannot opt out of essential messages such as security alerts and legal updates, as these are necessary for your account and service safety.
We do not use your Personal Data for advertising purposes, as we do not feature advertisements on our Services.
We promote our Services to you and others.
We use data and content about Members for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services.
We rely on the following legal grounds (the "Legal Grounds") for the corresponding purposes (the "Purposes") of our processing.
To perform our contractual obligations or take steps linked to a contract with you.
To register you as a client as instructed by you or your organization.
To provide and administer Services as instructed by you or your organization.
To process payments, billing, and collection.
We may rely on your freely given consent at the time you provided your Personal Data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by contacting us via email.
To communicate information about our Services (including marketing material and newsletters).
We may rely on legitimate interests based on our evaluation that the processing is fair, reasonable, and balanced.
To administer and manage our relationship with you, including accounting, auditing, and other steps linked to the performance of our business relationship.
To analyze, improve, and personalize our Services and communications and to monitor compliance with our policies, including to provide and maintain our Website and App, protect their security, and to prevent and detect security threats.
To deliver the Services you have engaged us to provide.
- To meet regulatory and public interest obligations.
- To maintain records and conduct compliance checks, e.g. anti-money laundering, fraud and crime prevention.
- We have implemented technical and organizational measures in an effort to safeguard the Personal Data in our custody and control. Such measures include:
Using encryption to keep your Data secure while in transit.
Reviewing our Data collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems.
Restricting access to Personal Data to GlobalM employees, contractors, and agents who need that Data in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
While we endeavor to always protect our systems, sites, operations and information against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle and other risk factors, we cannot guarantee that any information, during transfer or storage, will be absolutely safe from interception.
We store Data of users based in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, North, Central, and South America, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Oceania on our servers in Ireland and Germany.
We store Data of users based in North, Central and South America on our servers in Ireland and Germany.
We may be legally required to disclose Personal Data to courts, arbitral tribunals or other authorities for the purposes of a legal or administrative proceeding. Where reasonably possible, we will inform you about such disclosure.
We retain Personal Data only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
We retain your Personal Data even if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We retain anonymized data following account closure to support ongoing analysis and operational improvements.
Information you have shared with others (e.g. through updates or group posts) will remain visible after you closed your account or deleted the information from your own Profile, and we do not control data that other Members copied out of our Services. Groups content or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your Profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g. search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
You have legal rights that you can exercise under certain circumstances with respect to your Personal Data that we hold.
We will respond to your request without undue delay, at the latest within one calendar month after receipt.
You have a right to request a copy of the Personal Data held by us as a data controller, which we will provide to you in an electronic form. At our discretion we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
You have the right to ask us to correct our records if you believe they contain incorrect or incomplete information about you.
If you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, and transfer of your Personal Data, you have the right to fully or partly withdraw your consent. This includes cases where you wish to opt out from marketing messages.
Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose(s) to which you originally consented unless there is another legal ground for the processing. To stop receiving emails from us, please click on the "unsubscribe" link in the email you received from us or use our contact form.
You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Data when it is no longer necessary for the Purposes for which it was collected, or when it was unlawfully processed.
You have the right to request the restriction of our processing of your Personal Data where you believe it to be inaccurate, our processing is unlawful, or where we no longer need to process it for the initial Purpose, but where we are not able to delete it due to a legal obligation or because you do not want us to delete it.
You have the right to request that we transmit your Personal Data to another data controller in a common format such as Excel, where this is data which you have provided to us and where we are processing it on the Legal Ground of your consent or in order to perform our contractual obligations (e.g. to provide our Services).
We may provide you with additional privacy notices where we believe that it is appropriate to do so. Such additional notices supplement this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your Personal Data or legal developments. We encourage you to visit our Website periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices.
If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.
You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.
Users Based in the European Economic Area and Switzerland
For users based in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the data controller responsible for your information is Paul Calleja, unless otherwise stated in a service-specific privacy notice. In other words, is the Swiss affiliate that is responsible for processing your information and for complying with applicable privacy laws.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
GlobalM SA
Chemin du Grand-Puits 38
1217 Meyrin, GE
Switzerland
Email: privacy@globalm.media
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