Who We Are
Business Wire Inc. ("we" or "us") is responsible for, and controls the processing of, personal information which we hold about you and is, thus, considered a 'controller' for the purposes of data protection legislation in the European Union and its member states (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) or similar concepts in other jurisdictions such as the State of California (the “California Consumer Privacy Act” or “CCPA”). Your personal data will be collected, processed, and used by us only in compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
This Privacy Notice (the "Privacy Notice") relates to Business Wire Inc. and can be found at businesswire.com and its affiliated websites. We may make changes from time to time and will notify you about these changes accordingly. We take your privacy very seriously and we ask that you read this Privacy Notice carefully as it contains important information on:
- the personal information we collect about you if you are a member or just a visitor to the website;
- what we do with your information to administer your account, action your request, and make suggestions of content which might interest you;
- who your information might be shared with; and
- your rights.
What Information Do We Collect and Why?
Personal Information Provided By You
If you are a member
We collect and process personal information about you (such as your name, title, company name, email address, street address, telephone numbers, employer company profile, billing information, beat (for media users), and categories of interest) when you register with us as a member. We also collect personal information which you provide when you contact us, use the live chat function, or interact with us on social media.
If you are not a member
On our website, you might complete our contact form, request a copy of our white papers or research documents, or sign up to attend an event. We will need your name and email address to enable us to respond to your question, deliver the documents, or to register you for the event, where we also ask for your job title. We process personal information that you provide to us when you contact us, use the live chat function, or interact with us on social media for communication purposes only.
If you are just browsing our website, we will not collect personal data unless you consent to a cookie being set. If you accept cookies, we will collect your IP address for the purposes set out in the Cookie Policy. Such purpose might be, depending on the cookie, to track your usage of the website, recognize you if you return, and to make suggestions of other articles or services that we think will interest you, based on your viewing. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.
Personal Information About Other Individuals
If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can provide the information. Furthermore, you confirm that you informed the other person about the content of this Privacy Notice by providing him/her with a current version of it.
Information Collected on the Website
We collect information about usage of our website by all visitors. This information is statistical and aggregated and does not identify you. We collect this information so that we can:
- tailor and personalize user experience; and
- monitor our website usage to improve our services.
Use of Cookies
Please see our Cookie Policy to see what cookies we use on our website.
Why We Process Your Personal Data and Which Lawful Basis Do We Have?
We are allowed to process your personal data for example for the following reasons and on the following legal basis:
Performance of the contract
If you are a member, the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of the contract you have agreed to enter with Business Wire Inc. or any of its subsidiaries, so Business Wire Inc. can process your account and take payment, including fraud prevention, and to send services you request (such as your subscribed articles, news feeds and event information).
Please note, if we do not hold your personal information then we will not be able to provide our services to you.
Consent
We collect, process, and use your personal data for specific purposes if you have given your consent to the collection, processing, and use of specific personal data for such purposes. For example:
- to send marketing information and
- to improve our services by analyzing your usage of our services to determine changes we could make which would be beneficial to our members or offer them more options.
You may withdraw your consent any time.
Legitimate interest
If processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests to operate and administer our websites and services, to answer your questions, enquiries, or complaints, and to prevent abuse or other illegal activities, except where such interest is overridden by your interest.
Other legal grounds
Your personal data may also be collected, processed, and used without your consent, if the collection, processing, or use of the data:
- is required due to legal obligations or orders by public authorities or courts, or
- is necessary to substantiate or protect legal claims or to defend against lawsuits.
Keeping Your Information Secure
We will use appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:
- access to your account is controlled by a password and username that are unique to you;
- we store your personal data on secure servers; and
- we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure secure connections on our website and that data on our website is encrypted. This means that we convert your data into a computer code, which will make it harder for hackers to access your data on our website.
While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us (please see the "Contact Us" section below).
Who Will We Share Your Information With?
Like any business, we use service providers to operate our services, for example website hosting, customer relationship databases, and systems. Some of these service providers will process your data as part of the services they offer to us. We take steps to ensure that our service providers treat your data in accordance with the law, only use it in accordance with our contract with them, and keep it secure. If you want a list of the companies that we engage, please contact us (see “Contact Us” section below).
Transfers of Your Information Out of the EEA
Business Wire stores data about businesswire.com customers in the United States and we use these central systems for the processing of your data. Any transfer of your data will be carried out in accordance with the law, to safeguard your privacy rights, and in the unlikely event of a security breach, give you remedies, or any other similar approved mechanisms. We will ensure that any transfer of your personal data to the United States is done on the basis of EU Model Clauses in order to achieve an adequate level of data protection. To facilitate our global operations personal data may be accessed by the following Business Wire subsidiaries:
- Business Wire Europe Limited
- Business Wire France SARL
- Business Wire Canada Limited
- Business Wire China Limited
- Business Wire Japan K.K.
If you want more details about the safeguards put in place for international transfers, please contact us (see the "Contact Us" section below).
How Long Will We Keep Your Information For?
We will retain your personal data while we are providing our services to you and we will not retain your personal data for longer than is strictly necessary.
Marketing
If you are a member, we will only send direct marketing to you if you have given us your consent to do so and we will not transfer your personal data to third parties without your consent other than in the context of a sale of this website or a sale of our business.
Whenever you receive direct marketing by email you will be told how to unsubscribe electronically. You can opt out of receiving any of these marketing messages by going to the Preference Center on our website or see "Your Rights" for further information.
What Rights Do You Have?
If the processing of your personal data is subject to the GDPR, you have the following legal rights:
the right of access to personal data relating to you and to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of information collected about you, the categories of third parties with whom it is shared, and the categories of sources from which personal data is collected;
- the right to correct any mistakes in your information;
- the right to restrict or object to your personal data being processed;
- the right to receive and/or have your personal data ported to another data controller;
- the right to erasure/deletion;
- the right to data portability;
- the right to provide instructions regarding the processing of your personal data after your death;
- the right to stop receiving marketing emails.
Additionally, if you are a California resident you may have the right:
- to request the disclosure of the business purpose for collecting or selling personal information, the categories of personal information sold or shared about you, as well as the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category of personal information for each party to whom information was sold;
- not to be discriminated against for exercising the rights guaranteed by California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq.;
- the right to prevent the sale of your personal data;
- compensation for damage caused by contravention of the law;
- the right to notify the Privacy Enforcement & Protection Unit at the California Attorney General's Office or your local privacy enforcement body if you believe we have not handled your personal data in accordance with the laws.
Some of these rights are explained in more detail below, but if you have any comments, concerns, or complaints about our use of your personal data, please contact us (see the "Contact Us” section below).
In order to protect your privacy and the security of your information, we may verify your request by asking you to provide additional information for us to match against our records.
We will respond to any GDPR-related rights that you exercise within a month of receiving your request.
We will acknowledge the receipt of requests under the CCPA within 10 business days and will respond to your request within 45 calendar days of receipt after we have successfully verified your identity.
Right to Access Your Personal Data Relating to You
You may ask to see what personal data we hold about you and be provided with:
- a copy;
- details of the purpose for which it is being or is to be processed;
- details of the recipients or classes of recipients to whom it is or may be disclosed, including if they are overseas, and what protections are used for those oversea transfers;
- the period for which it is held (or the criteria we use to determine how long it is held);
- any information available about the source of that data; and
- whether we carry out an automated decision-making, or profiling, and where we do information about the logic involved and the envisaged outcome or consequences of that decision or profiling.
California residents have the right to request that we disclose:
- the categories of personal information we collect;
- the categories of personal information we have sold or disclosed for a business purpose (please note that Business Wire does not sell or disclose any personal information to any third party for a business purpose);
- the categories of sources from which we collect your personal information;
- our business or commercial purpose for selling or collecting your information (please note that Business Wire does not sell any personal information);
- the categories of personal information sold or shared about you, as well as the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category of personal information for each party to whom information was sold (please note that Business Wire does not sell any personal information);
- the specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
Delivery may take place electronically or by mail. We are not required to provide Personal Information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.
See the “Contact Us" section for details of who to contact to make a request for your personal data. To help us find the information easily, please give us as much information as possible about the type of information you would like to see.
Right to Correct Any Mistakes in Your Information
You can require us to correct any mistakes in your information, which we hold free of charge. If you would like to do this, please:
- email, call, or write to us (see the "Contact Us" section below),
- let us have enough information to identify you, and
- let us know the information that is incorrect and how it should be corrected.
Right to Restrict or Prevent Processing of Personal Data
You may request that we stop processing your personal data if:
- you do not think that your data is accurate. We will start processing again once we have confirmed that it is accurate;
- the processing is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase your data;
- we no longer need the personal data for our processing, but you need the data to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or
- you have objected to processing because you believe that your interests should override our legitimate interests.
Right to Ask Us to Stop Contacting You With Direct Marketing
You can ask us to stop contacting you for direct marketing purposes at any time. If you would like to do this, please:
- click on the “unsubscribe" button at the bottom of the email. It may take some additional amount of time for this to take place; or
- click on the link in the footer of any email you receive from Business Wire and use our preference center; or
- contact us (please see the “Contact Us" section).
Right to Prevent Sale of Personal Information to Third Parties
You have the right to prohibit Business Wire from selling your personal information to any third party. That being said, Business Wire does not sell any personal information to any third party.
Right to Deletion
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that businesses delete any personal information about you collect from you. Upon receiving a verified request to delete your Personal Information, we will do so unless otherwise authorized by law.
Authorized Agents
If you are a California resident, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. You must provide an authorized agent written permission to submit a request on your behalf, and we may require that you verify your identity directly with us. Alternatively, an authorized agent that has been provided power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4000-4465 may submit a request on your behalf.
What will happen if your rights are breached?
If your statutory data subject rights of the applicable data privacy laws are violated you may be entitled to remedies, including monetary compensation under the applicable privacy laws.
Complaints
If you do not think that we have processed your data in accordance with this notice, please contact us in the first instance, at the details in the “Contact Us” section directly below.
If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the California Attorney General's Office, or your local privacy enforcement body located in your jurisdiction. Information about how to do this is available at www.oag.ca.gov/contact. If you are located in the European Union, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a European supervisory authority.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our website, we do not have any control over third-party websites. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and review the Privacy Policy applicable to the website in question.
Children
The website and the Services are not intended for children under the age of 16. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally collect, sell, or process the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age.
How Do We Respond to Do Not Track Signals?
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Because there currently isn’t an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, effective from the date mentioned in the updated version of the Privacy Policy. Please check the website periodically to review such changes in the Privacy Policy. We may email periodic reminders of our agreements and policies in the event of a change.
Accessibility Statement
Click here to read our Accessibility Statement.
Contact Us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the information, we hold about you. Please call us at 212.295.1755, send an email to dpo@businesswire.com or contact us via mail:
Data Protection Officer
Business Wire, Inc.
101 California Street
20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States of America
You can also contact our representative in the European Union at (0) 1 56 88 29 40 or via mail:
Business Wire France SARL
Tour Franklin
100-101 Terrasse Boieldieu
CS 70395
92042 PARIS LA DÉFENSE CEDEX
France