Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice is intended to inform visitors, users, members or registrants (“user”, “you” or “your”) about the collection and use of information or personal data about them that is collected directly or interactions with the Platform. It also explains the conditions under which we use and disclose that information, and your rights in relation to that information.
This privacy policy tells you about our online collection and use of data.The terms of this policy apply to all Voting Platform Vote websites, unless different terms are specified in a form or contract provided to you online or offline.By using this site, you understand and agree to the terms of this policy. This site is owned by Global Voting Platform and may be accessed in the United States,Africa and abroad. For data protection purposes, Global Voting Platform is the controller and, unless otherwise noted, is also the processor of data. Information collected may be retained, and may be stored, processed, accessed, and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction. This Privacy Notice is part of, and is governed by, the terms and conditions set forth in our Terms of Service.
Data Protection Principles
Global Voting Platform is committed to complying with the principles for the processing of Personal Data under Applicable Laws. In processing your Personal Data in accordance with these principles, we take steps to ensure the Personal Data we hold about you is:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date;
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
Payment Information
If a user requests services for which payment is required, the user is asked to provide payment information. This information is collected and processed by an external payment processor; it is not accessed or stored by the Global Voting Platform.
Social Media
Our Platform offers integration with third-party social media platforms. These services collect the user’s IP address and which page of our Platform the user is visiting. They may set a cookie to enable their features to function properly. Social media features and widgets are hosted by a third party or directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are at your sole discretion, and are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature. If you post any comments, reviews, photos or other information on our Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest pages, we may display those comments, reviews, photos or information on the Site. In addition, your use of these social media services may result in the collection or sharing of information about you by these social media services. We have no control over, and decline all responsibility for, the use of your personal data by these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings on the social media services with which you interact to make sure you understand the information that may be collected, used, and shared by those social media services.
Interest-based Advertising
We use information collected about a user’s use of our Platform to arrange for advertisements about our service to be served to a user on third party’s websites in accordance with our e-Marketing Policy. To do so, our advertising service provider places or recognizes a unique cookie on the user’s browser and uses other techniques, such as pixel tags. If you would like more information about this practice and to learn about your choices, please visit http://www.aboutads.info or http://www.networkadvertising.org
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as disclosed in this privacy policy, Global Voting Platform does not share your personal information with any outside parties. We may share your personal information within our corporate group, including with our subsidiaries and divisions, all of whom may use your information for the purposes disclosed herein. We may share your personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf. For example, we may hire other companies to handle the processing of payments, to provide data storage, to host websites, to fulfill orders and shipments, to assist in direct marketing, to conduct audits, etc. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to provide the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. Information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, or sale of the company and/or its assets, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. We will notify you of such an occurrence as described in the “Changes to This Privacy Policy” section below. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers, or the public.
Google Analytics
Users of the Platform who have JavaScript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Unless the Google Analytics feature is blocked, as explained below, it collects the following types of information from the user:
- Type of user agent (web browser) used software manufacture and version number.
- Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number
- Type of operating system
- Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)
- JavaScript support
- Flash version
- Screen resolution
- Network location and IP address
- Country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data
- Hostname
- Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
- Time of visit
- Pages visited
- Time spent on each page of the website
- Referring site statistics
- The website (URL) visited before arriving at the Site
- Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)
The data collected by Google Analytics is primarily used to optimize the Site for our visitors.
Accessing Your Personal Information
If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, you may access your information in the “Profile” section of the website. Your Account Executive can also assist you in making any changes, as well as in exercising your right to have your personal information deleted. If you need additional assistance, please contact us at info@votinglatform.net You can expect a response from us within 3 calendar days. Please be advised that you cannot change your username without re-registering.
Security of Personal data
We use commercially reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative safeguards to protect information within our control against unauthorized or unlawful access, use, modification, destruction, processing or disclosure, and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage. We believe that these measures are reasonably adapted to the nature of the information in our custody.
We limit access to our users’ personal data to only those employees and third parties who reasonably need access to it to perform the activities attached to their job responsibilities.
However, due to the realities of data security, no security system or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% effective or secure. Thus, we cannot guarantee that any information provided to us, collected by us or transmitted by us will not be accessed, hacked, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by unauthorized parties.
Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics to collect information that permits evaluation of the use of the Website, analysis of user’s behavior and improvement of user experience. Third Party Cookies
We also use cookies owned by third parties. For further information on how these third parties use information, please refer to their privacy policies:
DoubleClick: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/2839090?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage and https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies#
Web Beacons
A "Web Beacon" is an object that is embedded in a web page. It is usually invisible to you but allows us to check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email communication. We place Web Beacons on pages of the Platform, such as on our website and in emails we send to you. You may not decline Web Beacons.How to Block or Disable Cookies
You may choose to block our Platform and other sites from setting cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Please note that blocking or disabling certain cookies may interfere with certain functionalities of some parts of our Platform.(a.) To learn more about cookies:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Cookie Central: http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
http://networkadvertising.org/.
(b.) To obtain information specific a particular browser:
Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Safari iOS: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1677
Android: http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1722193
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/32004/Turn_off_cookies_in_the_browser_60_1072866_11.jsp
Windows Phone: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings.aspx
