Data Oversight & Collection, GDPR Compliance Review
As part of our Services, we collect, use, transfer, and distribute publicly-available data on investors for our clients and partners. MarketCurrents uses data hosting service providers located within the United States. Accordingly, all personal information described under this privacy policy may be rerouted outside the European Union (EU) borders. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide personal information to us via the Websites and/or request for Services, please be advised such providing of information serves as your consent to: (i) the transfer of your personal information from regions outside the United States to the United States, where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction / country you reside, and (ii) the use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For avoidance of doubt, by using the Websites and/or its Services, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States, and agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed in accordance with the governing law set forth in our Visitor Agreement, and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with your use of the Websites will be in accordance with terms set forth in the Visitor Agreement.
MarketCurrents is subject to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses that delimit the agreements between such service providers and their clients. The clauses provide a framework regarding the nature of the interaction between you and us to ensure your data flows within the confines of established regulations and guidelines and relevant legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). We have collected publicly available information as part of our data intelligence gathering research as we regard it to be useful to our clientele. Given the amount of data we collect, it is not achievable to contact you independently to inform you of your rights under the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, or its successor legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) if you are an EU or UK data subject. While the GDPR currently only applies to EU and UK citizens, we hope this notice will be helpful to all the data subjects who may be under other applicable data protection laws or may just want to know how we are processing their data and of their right to review and make corrections. Accordingly, we are providing this notice to you on our Websites as written here. We are a B2B data, news and events organizer focusing on trending industries. Our Services generate a global audience for investors, family offices and the professionals who do business with them. We complement the quality of the events with critical market intelligence and data on the markets on our radar. We disseminate the insights via online news and e-reports and publish impactful analyses that identify patterns, trends, and primary insights. We also collect data on investors globally and provide readily available information on them in a consolidated offering. Our customers are decision-makers in their respective stations and industries who need regular updates on major themes like regulation, technology, risks, demands, and emerging issues. They include senior-level executives like chief executive officers, chief financial officers, business analysts, and entrepreneurs. We tailor our research to help customers properly calibrate their scope of opportunities and risks. As a data subject, you are a valuable target for these customers, where some could already be your business partners; in such a case, they might want to use the insights we provide to elevate the business relationship to a higher dimension. Also, some of the customers hope to build new business relationships, which could be with you should you establish a common ground. As part of our investor research, we use data generated directly from the investor subject, as well as publicly accessible sources including but not limited to: Directories Public Registers Print and broadcast media Internet company websites Trade References Event attendance information & speakers found publicly.
As required by the GDPR, we require that all processors and sub-processors of the data we collect fully comply with the obligations of the GDPR and do not infringe on your privacy rights in any way. In particular, you have the following rights:
Right to Access. You have the right to see any personal information we have collected about you as well as the purpose of our collection and processing of it and whether we plan on sharing such personal information with anyone.
Right to Correct. You have the right to correct any inaccurate personal information in our possession. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed by providing a statement to us at info@marketcurrents.co.
Right to Erase. You have the right to have your personal information erased from our data stores without undue delay. Additionally, we will erase personal information without undue delay if:
- The personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected;
- You withdraw consent and there is no other legitimate basis for the processing;
- You object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing;
- The personal information has been unlawfully processed; or
- The personal information must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation.
Right to Restrict. You have the right to restrict processing of your Personal Information.
Right to Port Data. You have the right to request your personal information be ported over to another controller. However, please be aware that we may not have the technical means to port the information automatically. If this is the case, we will recommend simply deleting the personal information instead. If you really want your personal information transferred to another party, we’ll email data fields directly to the new controller and let you know via email when it is complete.
Right to Object. You have the right to object to the collection or processing of personal information at any time if you believe data was collected or processed unlawfully. Our team will work with you to investigate the claim and take appropriate action.
For EU residents, the GDPR conditions the processing of personal information on three primary items: (1) the processing is not required by law, but there is a clear benefit to it, (2) there is little risk of the processing hurting data subject’s privacy, and (3) the data subject should reasonably expect their data to be used in that away. As part of our obligation under the GDPR and other similarly worded regulations in the jurisdictions that we operate, we have done an exhaustive appraisal of our data processing activities regarding privacy impact assessment and are satisfied that our processing is legitimate. Furthermore, we are convinced that our processing of your data helps MarketCurrents achieve its legitimate interest and that our way of using the information outweighs any prejudice to your privacy.