Centro Systems Ltd Privacy Policy
We care about your privacy and the information you share with us and want you to understand how we are using and protecting the information we collect about you. CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD is respectful of data privacy and adopts best practice in compliance with applicable privacy law and regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Use of this website
This privacy policy describes the information we collect from you and how it may be stored and processed.
This website, and associated CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD events and publications provide products, content, and services for a professional and consumer audience and is not intended for individuals under the age of 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect or store personal data provided by anyone under 16 years of age.
What information we collect
CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD collects data about you that is limited to the kind of information that can be found on a typical business card: first name, last name, job title, employer/company name, work address, work email, and work phone number. In some cases, we may ask you to provide additional professional information such as the size of the company you work for, and industry type.
To enhance and/or update the information that you have provided to us, we may combine it with professional information or personal data that we collect from third party sources. The personal data that we refer to in this document is the personal and professional information you provide, as well as information that we obtain from third party sources, both of which we typically combine as one user record.
This site also collects and stores certain information automatically using cookies and similar technologies, including IP addresses, the region or general location of a computer or device accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, page view history, and other usage information. See our Cookie Policy for further details.
However, to the extent that any cookie can uniquely identify a computer, mobile device, or tablet (“Device”), or the person using that Device, and you are a EU resident, under the GDPR, this is personal data. Therefore, this privacy policy shall apply to such personal data collected by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD.
How we collect it
We may collect your personal data when you register to receive any of the products, content or services offered by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD such as publications, subscriptions, newsletters, memberships, premium content, webcasts, video, white papers, online seminars, conferences and events.
What happens if you don’t provide personal data?
In order for us to provide the products, content or services you request, we need your personal data. Therefore, if you do not provide such personal data, we cannot deliver the products, content or services.
Centro Systems Ltd Group
This website is one of many that CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD and its group of undertakings operates. Where permitted by law, we may share the personal data we collect about you with another Centro Systems Ltd company so that we can provide you with information about products, content and services that might interest you, and for internal analytical and business development purposes.
How do we safeguard your personal data?
Security of your personal data
CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD maintains safeguards which include technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized use, access, inadvertent disclosure, alteration, and destruction, and we require the third parties we contract with to support CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s business operations to employ reasonable security measures as well (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).
We update and test security on an ongoing basis and restrict access to your personal data to only those who need to know in order to provide CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s products, content or services to you.
Storage of your personal data
We may store your personal data using CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your personal data may also be stored by third parties, via cloud services or other technology, to whom CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD has contracted with, to support CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s business operations (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).
These third parties do not use or have access to your personal data other than for cloud storage and retrieval, and CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD requires such parties to employ at least the same level of security that we use to protect your personal data (see “Security of your personal data” above).
What we do with the personal data we collect
We use the personal data that we collect to communicate with you, deliver what you request, improve our service, and to present other information and offers that may be of interest.
To communicate with you
We may use your personal data to send you important notices, such as communications about your registration, transactions, and changes to CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s terms, conditions, policies, and/or other internal purposes.
The legal basis we have for processing your personal data
The GDPR requires data collectors, such as CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD, to have a legal basis to use the personal data of EU residents. Therefore, this section shall apply to any such personal data collected by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD.
CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD uses the personal data that you provide to supply you with high-quality products, content and services as you request, to send important notices, and for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to provide you with the information you need to make the most informed technology purchasing decisions.
We may also use your personal data to offer you products, content or services that may be of interest to you, based upon your interests or the preferences you shared with us.
The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent. In certain circumstances we may otherwise process your personal data if CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD has a legitimate interest in doing so and CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD is not infringing any of your rights and freedoms.
When CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD processes your personal data for CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s legitimate interests, CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection and any other relevant law. Our legitimate business interests do not override your interests. CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD will not use your personal data in circumstances where your rights and freedoms override our legitimate interests, unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law.
When and how we share your personal data with others
CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD may share your personal data to deliver content and services from our sites, affiliated companies and third parties services that might interest you, including sponsored content and events, for business operations, and to comply with valid legal processes.
If you are an EU resident, CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD will only share your personal data with third parties with your consent.
For business operations
We may also share your personal data with third parties we have contracted with to support CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s business operations including delivery, fulfilment, payment processing, email deployment, suppression list management and data processing.
As required by law
Your personal data may be shared when authorised by law or necessary to comply with a valid legal process.
In the event of new ownership
If part or all the ownership of CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD or any of its products or services are sold or transferred, your personal data will be transferred to the new owner.
How long we keep your personal data
We retain your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us, and we hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it, unless we have obtained your consent to use for another or similar purpose.
Your rights and preferences
If you inform us that you want your personal data erased (if you are an EU resident), or that you no longer wish for us to communicate with you for marketing purposes, or to otherwise restrict CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s processing of your personal data, we may retain some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future, and to keep a record of your request and our response.
Confirming your personal data
This section shall apply to any personal data collected by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD from EU residents.
To confirm that CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD is processing your personal data, or to access, update or correct the personal data CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD holds about you, or to obtain a copy to reuse for your own purposes, please send an email to: info@centro.co.uk
Erasing your personal data
This section shall apply to any personal data collected by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD from EU residents.
If you want your personal data erased, please send an email to: info@centro.co.uk
To opt-out of marketing communications
If you want CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD to stop communicating with you for marketing purposes, please send an email to: sales@centro.co.uk
To restrict processing of your personal data
If you want to otherwise restrict CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s processing of your personal data, please send an email to: info@centro.co.uk
Questions, concerns or complaints:
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD’s personal data practices or this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer.
If you believe you have suffered harm due to a breach of your rights by CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD under this Privacy Policy, and CENTRO SYSTEMS LTD has not handled your complaint in a reasonably sufficient manner, any EU resident may also file a complaint with the applicable supervisory authority.