STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC AND BEST ASSOCIATION® PRIVACY POLICY
STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC, has updated its privacy policy its privacy policy applicable to our STEVENS-STEVENS.COM and BESTASSOCIATION.COM online websites and the services we provide. Please read the full privacy policy included below. If you have any questions or would like more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at 6315 N Delaware Street, Indianapolis, IN 46220 USA or via email at info@stevens-stevens.com.
STEVENS & STEVENS values our users and their privacy. This privacy policy is provided to you so that you may understand our online information practices and the choices you may make about the way your information is collected and used by STEVENS & STEVENS through using our websites and in conjunction with signing up or using the services we provide (collectively, the “Services”).
STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC may be referenced herein as “STEVENS & STEVENS,” “we,” “us,” and “our.” References to “you” or “your” means the individual web user navigating the STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC websites including STEVENS-STEVENS.COM and BESTASSOCIATION.COM.
The Information STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC Collects
STEVENS & STEVENS receive information that you directly provide to us, including personal information or personal data (hereinafter “personal information”), which is provided by you when you register for services including the Best Association Index. This information includes data that is passively or automatically collected from you, including information about your browser or computing device.
In conjunction with offering our Services, STEVENS & STEVENS will collect information from you such as, your first name, last name, full name, job title, company name, mailing address, city, state, zip code, country, work phone number, home phone number, email address. This information, including personal information collected from you as part of the registration process, is required for us to provide the survey and reporting to you and help us to determine if you are a legtimate organization, not a hacker or spammer. When you supply the information, you opt-in to receiving informative communication from us, and you may withdraw your consent to such communication at any time by contacting us. The information you provide in registering is kept and stored by us until you contact us with instructions to update or delete this information, which you may choose to do at any time. Once we have received your instruction to delete your personal data, however, we will no longer be able to provide services to you.
If at any point fees and payments are needed via a credit card processor, they require you to provide certain personal information to us or our credit card processor that is necessary for purposes of completing the applicable credit card transaction.
We use Google Analytics and Advertising Features via the Google Analytics tracking code, which uses automated means to collect information about your internet browser type, computer device, network, internet protocol address (“IP address”), the name of your internet service provider, and domains used by such provider, location information, device identifiers, device settings, web pages visited on our websites, web history, content and advertisements you have accessed, viewed, or clicked on. You may opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features we use by accessing the Google Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out). Google Analytics’ also offers a plug-in for opting out web browsers.
Our Use of the Information it Collects
We maintain a data base of your registration, any survey information collected and the personal information associated with it. We may also share your personal information with an email service for the limited purpose of contacting you with communications regarding updates or new offerings. You may withdraw your consent for these services at any time by contacting us. We do not sell, rent or lease your personal information to any third parties.
Notice to Persons Located in the EU
On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) goes into effect. If you are a data subject located in the EU, please be advised of your rights.
Right of Access
You have a right to access to your personal information under the GDPR. You have the right to request confirmation from us, pursuant to Article 15 of the GDPR, as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and to have access to that personal data. You may contact us at the address provided at the top of this privacy policy.
Right to Rectification
You have the right to have us rectify inaccurate personal data about yourself and you have the right to have incomplete personal data, completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement as provided in Article 16 of the GDPR.
Right to Erasure or Right to be Forgotten
You have a right to have us erase your personal data if one of the following applies to the personal data: (a) the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; (b) you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing; (c) you object to the processing in accordance with your rights; (d) the personal data has been unlawfully processed; (e) the personal data has to be erased for compliance with an obligation under EU or member state law that we are subject to; or (f) the personal data has been collected in relation to an offer of information society services in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
Right to Restriction
You have the right to obtain a restriction of processing from us where one of the following applies: (a) you contest the accuracy of the personal data, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of your personal data; (b) the processing is unlawful and you oppose to the erasure of your personal data and requests a restriction on its use instead; (c) we no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of process, but is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or (d) You have objected to the processing, pending the verification of whether there are legitimate grounds of STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC that override yours.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive personal data concerning yourself, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and you have the right to transmit that data to another controller without hindrance from us where the processing is based on your consent or pursuant to contract and the processing is carried out by automated means.
You may also have us transmit the data directly to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to Object
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your personal situation, at any time, to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR.
You may object to processing at any time by us for direct marketing purposes, which includes profiling related to direct marketing. Your objection requires that we stop processing your personal data for the direct marketing purpose.
Right to Withdraw Consent
You have the right to withdraw the consent you have provided us, at any time, by contacting us at the address and/or email address provided at the top of this Privacy Statement.
Updates to Privacy Policy
Updates to this STEVENS & STEVENS, LLC privacy policy will be necessary from time-to-time. Notice that we have made changes to our privacy policy will be communicated on the main page of our website. This notice of change will remain on our website for a period of 30 days.
