Introduction
Your privacy is important to us and we value it. This privacy statement explains the personal data Indepth Research Institute (IRES) collects, how IRES processes it, and for what purposes.
This statement should be read together with the Terms and Conditions of Use for other IRES products and services. Where there is a conflict, this statement will prevail.
This statement applies to all customers, suppliers, agents, merchants, dealers, and all visitors using any of IRES products and services.
Information Collected
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for the services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services when you participate in activities on the services, or otherwise when you contact us.
This may include your name, email address, contact information, and job designation. We do not process sensitive information like personally identifiable numbers.
All personal information that you provide must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. Some information such as your internet protocol (IP) address or browser and device characteristics is collected automatically when you visit our web services.
How Information is Collected
We automatically collect information when you visit, use, or navigate our services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information such as your IP address, operating system, language preferences, and location.
This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
We may also collect information from third-party sources for the express purpose of providing, administering, or marketing our services.
Use of Information
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, for marketing purposes, and to comply with the law.
We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
Third-Party Sharing
We may share or transfer your information in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
User Rights
Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. These are:
- Right to be informed that we are collecting personal data about you;
- Right to access personal data that we hold about you and request information about how we process it;
- Right to request that we correct your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Right to request that we erase your personal data noting that we may continue to retain your information if obligated by the law or entitled to do so;
- Right to object and withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data. We may continue to process if we have a legitimate or legal reason to do so;
- Right to request restricted processing of your personal data noting that we may be entitled or legally obligated to continue processing your data and refuse your request.