ITreader Ltd, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “ITreader”, or “we”, “us”, “our”) respect the privacy and security of your personal data.

This Privacy Policy details the information that we may collect through registration forms, resource libraries, advertising units, widgets, websites and web pages, whether accessed via computer, mobile, tablet device or ­­­­­­other technology (collectively, the “Platform”) as well as the collection and licensing of data through our third-party partners. It also sets out how such information may be used and/or shared with others, how such information is stored and safeguarded by us, and your rights in relation to its use in connection with our marketing activities. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, personal data refers to information or pieces of information that could identify you, such as your name, job description, date of birth, e-mail address or mailing address (“Personal Data”). If you are a California resident, please review the “Additional Information for California Residents” [LINK] below for important information, as required by California privacy laws, about the categories of personal information we collect and disclose and your rights under California privacy laws.

By interacting with us, whether on the phone or online through this website, you agree to the collection, use and processing of your personal data in the manner and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Our purpose in collecting information is to help us provide you with better service, for example through notifications about special offers and promotions or other relevant content delivered through targeted advertising.

You may choose to use our services or to receive additional information from us, for example by submitting a registration form containing certain information in order to access free content. When you request our services or register to receive information, we collect the following Personal Data: your name, address, email address, and telephone number. We may also receive this information through one of our business partners. To help us to promote content that is relevant to you, we may add to this data any business profile information that we receive about you from other sources, such as your industry, company size and job title.

ITreader may use the information we obtain, license and collect about and from you for a number of business purposes, including, for example, to: better tailor our website and promotional content to visitor interests; verify your profile information; deliver targeted advertising; inform our partners and Clients of your business-related interests; improve the Platform for internal business purposes; help our advertising partners and Clients better understand the audience they are reaching; and for any purposes we disclose at the time you provide your Personal Data or your consent to our use of the same.

We will only ask for Personal Data that is adequate, relevant and not excessive for these purposes.

Whenever we process your Personal Data, we do so for a specific purpose on the basis of a legal justification. Processing of your Personal Data may be justified on one or several of the following bases:

1) Performance of a contract with you
In order to perform the services you request from us, as set out in the section “ITreader Services”, we use in particular the following data:
Contact details: your name, telephone number and e-mail address.
Account data: your Platform account data and other electronic identification data such as IP address and the data you add to your account such as your password, date of birth, gender and other information you share with us.
Communication data: your requests, any complaints you might have as well as any data you share with us if we communicate with you via e-mail, telephone or social media.

2) Legitimate interest of us or a third party:
Beyond the processing of your Personal Data for the performance of a contract with you, we process your Personal Data to safeguard our or third parties’ legitimate interests provided such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights or freedoms. Therefore, we process your Personal Data in particular for the following purposes:
advertising and market- and opinion research purposes, provided you did not object against such use of your data (see section “Updating Personal Data and your Data Subject Rights” below);
improvement of our products and services including our website;
prevention and investigation of criminal offences (in particular fraud); and
defense or enforcement of legal claims.

3) Your consent
As far as you provide us with your explicit, informed consent (e.g. when you have consented to receive marketing e-mails from us and/or third parties we work with for certain products and services) for the processing of Personal Data, such consent presents the legal basis for the processing. You may withdraw your consent at any time by following the steps outlined below in the section “Updating Personal Data and your Data Subject Rights”. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent only has effect for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before your withdrawal.

4) Compliance with a legal obligation
Any information referred to above under the section “Data Collection” may be used to maintain appropriate business records, to comply with lawful requests by public authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law.

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We, ITreader, and our publishing partners, Clients, affiliates, or analytics or service providers, use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer websites, track users’ movements around websites, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis. As to information submitted to, through or on our website, we may likewise use service providers to host content, host or implement blogs and forums, or conduct data and marketing analytics with respect to information captured.

ITreader may use a variety of technologies, including “cookies” that automatically or passively collect information from your computer, mobile device or other technology, when you visit ITreader, partner or Client websites. We may also collect information in this way on a third party’s behalf when we serve advertisements and store your Personal Data in log files. Information collected may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, your responses to advertisements delivered by us, date and time, referring URLs and other information normally transmitted in HTTP requests (“Usage Information”).

Usage Information may also be associated with anonymous business profile information about you, such as your industry, company size, and job title. The purpose of this information is to keep the Platform updated and interesting to our users and to tailor content to each individual’s interests. ITreader does not use this information to discern your identity or to disclose your identity to any third party. ITreader stores Personal Data in a separate database from any Usage Information.

A cookie is a small file stored on a user’s device containing information about the user. We may use cookies to reduce or pre-populate registration fields so that you can receive free content more easily, deliver targeted advertising, or understand your interests and focus areas of research. We believe this enables us to provide users with a more meaningful online experience.

We use Local Storage Objects (“LSOs”) such as Flash to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use LSOs such as HTML5 and Flash to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here:

https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117118

We may use third-party vendors to enhance the Platform (e.g. for purposes of retargeting). We do not share Personal Data with these third parties, but they may set and access their own cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies on your device and they may otherwise collect or have access to anonymous Usage Information.

When you use the opt-out mechanism, ITreader will no longer use or share any of your Personal Data or anonymous Usage Information, with the exception of Personal Data submitted within the last 30 days to access free content, which the Content Provider may access.

When you opt out of the Platform, we place a cookie on or otherwise identify your browser or device (and/or employ similar technology) to prevent future collection of Usage Information. Opting out of the Platform is not the same as blocking cookies. When you opt out of ITreader’s Platform, we will place a special ITreader cookie on (or otherwise identify) your device or browser in a way that informs our systems not to record information related to your business research activities. If you browse the web from multiple devices or browsers, you will need to opt out from each device or browser to ensure that we prevent personalization tracking on all of them. For the same reason, if you procure a new device, change browsers or delete the ITreader opt-out cookie (or clear all cookies), you will need to perform this opt-out task again. Please note: This opt-out relies on a cookie and so if you wipe all of your cookies, we will no longer know that you have opted out.