PRIVACY POLICY FOR CLIENTS
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at SPI Researchers LLP. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@spiresearchers.com.
When you visit our website, www.spiresearchers.com, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any times in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our services.
SPI Researchers has adopted this privacy policy to establish and maintain an adequate level of personal data privacy protection. This policy applies to the processing of personal data that SPI Researchers obtains from clients and consumer located in the European Union and Switzerland.
This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as www.spiresearchers.com) and/or any related services, sales, marking, or events (we refer to them collectively) in this privacy policy as the “Sites”).
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT
In Short: Information our client instructs us to collect.
This may vary from client to client. For more information about what information is being collected and why, please speak with the organization that requested the services.
Who we share your personal information with and why
We share your personal information with the client that requested it, any third party that we need to contact to collect or validate your personal information, and service providers that we use to complete services and manage our infrastructure.
What we don’t do with your personal information
We don’t sell or disclose your personal information to governments, marketing or advertising services, other clients, or anyone else except as outlined in this statement or required by law.
Information collected from other sources.
In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, and other outside sources.
We may obtain information about you and from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, as well as other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include social media profile information, marketing leads, and other search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with the client, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests ("Business Purposes"), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you ("Contractual"), with your consent ("Consent"), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations ("Legal Reasons"). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
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To provide background checks, including criminal and civil record searches and document retrieval for relevant case files.
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To track the use and security of our secure platform.
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3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
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Compliance with Laws. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
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Vital Interests and Legal Rights. We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved
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Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include data analysis, email delivery, and hosting services.
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Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, the sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company
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With your Consent. We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent
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4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case www.spiresearchers.com) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties.
Our service platform, which we use to collect information from our clients, do not use third-party cookies. They may use first-party session cookies to track your use of the sites and first-party persistent cookies to remember any preferences you select, such as your location.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Where strictly necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services such as viewing certain areas of the site or using web forms cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
Performance
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a site, for instance, which pages visitors go to and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a person, as all information these cookies collect is anonymous and is used to improve how our site works.
Functionality
These cookies allow our site to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing or commenting on content on the site. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymized.
Please consult your web browser’s ‘Help’ documentation or visit www.aboutcookies.org for more information about how to turn cookies on and off for your browser.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
We keep personal information that was collected from or on behalf of a client for as long as the client asks us to keep it, or as long as we need to keep it to comply with our legal obligations. To understand how long we will store your personal information, please contact us or the client on whose behalf we collected it. We do not delete personal information unless instructed to do so by our client.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
7. HOW CAN YOU CHOOSE HOW AND WHETHER WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short: providing your information to us is voluntary.
The list below explains how to make choices about the collection and use of your personal information for various purposes, and the consequences of your choice not to provide your personal information.
Whenever our legitimate basis for collecting and using personal information is your consent, you can withdraw or modify your consent for future collection or use of your personal information at any time, and we will explain the consequences of doing so.
8. HOW CAN YOU ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, REQUEST THAT IT BE DELETED, OR ASK FOR IT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER ORGANIZATION?
You can also ask about:
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whether and why we have your personal information;
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how we got your personal information;
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what we have done with your personal information;
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to whom we have communicated your personal information;
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where your personal information has been stored, processed or transferred;
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how long we will retain your personal information, or how that retention period will be determined; and
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the safeguards in place to protect your information when it is transferred to third parties or third countries.
Finally, you can ask us not to collect or use your personal information for certain purposes, you can ask us to delete your personal information, or you can ask us to provide your personal information to a third party.
We may refer any of these requests to our client if your personal information was collected on behalf of that client.
Depending on which laws apply to your personal information, we or our client may only be able to do some of these things for you. If you request one of these things and we refuse to do it, we will explain your legal rights, the reason for our refusal and any recourse you may have.
9. HOW CAN YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT ABOUT HOW WE HAVE HANLDED YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OR RESPONDED TO A REQUEST TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS?
In Short: We commit to investigating and resolving complaints about our collection or use of your personal information.
Please contact us at:
SPI Researchers LLP
765 NW Summercrest Boulevard
Suite 101
Burleson, TX 76028
Tel: 254-694-5878
Fax: 254-694-5907
Email: info@spiresearchers.com
SPI Researchers commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your local EU Data Protection Authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident of Switzerland and believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). You can find their contact details here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html.
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may call us at 254-694-5878, email us at info@spiresearchers.com, or send a message by post to:
SPI Researchers LLP
Attn: Privacy Policy Compliance
765 NW Summercrest Boulevard
Suite 101
Burleson, TX 76028
Updated 10.22.2018