Effective date: October 17, 2022
professionaldesignations.com (the "Site") is owned and operated by Professional Designations Corp. Professional Designations Corp is the data controller and can be contacted at:
info@professionaldesignations.com
1600 Golf Road, Suite 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL, 60008, USA
The purpose of this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") is to inform users of our Site of:
This Privacy Policy applies along with the terms and conditions on our Site.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer because we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.
By using our Site users agree that they consent to:
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.
We rely on the following legal basis to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without first notifying you.
When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information:
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site.
This data may be collected using the following methods:
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes.
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:
We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We may share user data with the following third parties:
We may share the following user data with third parties:
We may share user data with third parties for the following purposes:
Third parties will not be able to access user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.
User data will be stored; anonymous user data is only retained during the session for statistical analysis; logged-in user data is retained indefinitely.
You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
To protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible by our employees. Our employees are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the employee's termination.
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains a risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore, we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
We transfer user personal data to the following countries:
When we transfer user personal data, we will protect that data as described in this Privacy Policy and comply with applicable legal requirements for transferring personal data internationally.
If you are located in the United Kingdom or the European Union, we will only transfer your personal data if:
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data, their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here:
Felipe Villegas
info@professionaldesignations.com
1600 Golf Road, Suite 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL, 60008, USA
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time and across third-party websites and, therefore, do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. We are not responsible for and cannot guarantee how any third parties who interact with our Site and your data will respond to DNT signals.
In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data specified below:
A cookie is a small file stored on a user's hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user's browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.
We use the following types of cookies on our Site:
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are aware of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK, the Dutch Data Protection Authority in The Netherlands, or any other regional data protection authority in Europe.
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer, Felipe Villegas, at:
info@professionaldesignations.com
1600 Golf Road, Suite 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL, 60008, USA