ADDS PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY.
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Effective, 01 FEB 2021.
ADDS privacy policy:
Here at ADDS, we take user’s privacy a top of concern. We request you, please take a moment
to read the privacy policy, which discloses the privacy practices of the ADDS websites,
including ADDS-CORP.com as well as our downloadable software applications for supported devices,
including mobile devices (collectively, the “Services” or “Websites”). Specifically, the policy
outlines the types of information that may be gathered when you register for or use the Services
and the ways in which that information may be used.
Transparency:
What data we collect from you and when we do so?
To enable you to enjoy certain features of our Services, we collect certain types of information,
including personally identifiable information. For example, we collect information when you:
Sign up to receive email newsletters:
When we send newsletters to subscribers, we may allow advertisers or partners to include
messages in those newsletters, or we may send dedicated newsletters on behalf of those
advertisers or partners. To unsubscribe from a particular newsletter, click the “unsubscribe” link
at the bottom of that email newsletter.
Register:
When you register to use forums or other Services, we ask you to provide certain information,
which may include your email address, office address, designation, state, zip code, phone,
country.
Member Information:
ADDS goal in collecting Member Information is to provide you with the best and most useful
content and services and to offer you opportunities to obtain other products and services from us
and our partners. Because we derive revenue from advertising, collecting information is essential
to keeping our services available to users.
We collect Member Information when you provide it to us through the following:
• When you register on one of our sites.
• Subscribe to an e-mail newsletter.
• Register for one of our events or access certain Content or through surveys, as well as
when you register to receive a demonstration or “test-drive” software products.
• Several of the services that we offer on our Sites may require registration as a condition
of use. Once you register with one of the ADDS Sites, you are no longer anonymous
to us. To the extent that we combine any Clickstream Data or Supplementary Information
with the information provided by you, it will be considered to be part of your Member
Information.
Clickstream Data:
When you access a site, a small file called a “cookie” is placed on your hard drive. If you register
as a Member, ADDS will use cookies to authenticate your identity when you visit the Sites,
collect the data generated in connection with your clickstream activity on the Sites and to
personalize your user experience on the Sites, including by serving and managing ads based on
your activity on the Sites.
In all cases, ADDS uses cookies to track the Clickstream Data of Members on the Sites and
to obtain non-personally identifiable information from Users, such as the number of visits to the
Sites that a certain User has made, the movement of the User through the Sites, and the searches
that the User conducts on the Sites.
Please note that ADDS does not collect Clickstream Data on any websites other than the
Sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some ADDS features
and services may not be available to you if your cookies are disabled. We use electronic images
known as “clear GIFs”
(sometimes called “transparent GIFs”, “Web bugs”, “pixel tags” or “beacons”) that allow us to track
general user traffic patterns. ADDS also automatically receives and records information from
our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time, and information about the
page you accessed.
To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information online, and how you can
exercise opt-out choices regarding that information email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM
How does ADDS collect Personal Information?
ADDS collects Personal Information online through websites and other online resources.
ADDS also offers online resources in collaboration with other online service providers, from it
may receive personal information about Users of such resources. These online collaborations are
governed by agreements that require Personal Information to be protected appropriately.
Trust:
Why does ADDS collect, use, and share Personal
Information?
ADDS collects Personal Information so that it can provide its users with valuable and useful
content and services, and to offer you opportunities to obtain other high-quality products and
services our partners. ADDS analyses Personal Information collected online to identify and
offer additional services and promotions that we believe you might find interesting.
Use and Disclosure of Information We Collect:
Member Information:
Certain ADDS Sponsors receive or are granted access to reports that may include your
Member Information and, in some instances, information about your areas of interest derived from
your Clickstream Data. If you do not want this information shared, you can exercise opt-out
choices regarding that information, email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM.
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, ADDS will not disclose any personally identifiable
Member Information to any third parties, unless we are required to do so by law, regulation or
court order.
Clickstream Data:
ADDS uses Cookies to collect Clickstream Data on the Sites. ADDS uses Cookies to link
User activity to their Member Information. Linking User activity to Member Information allows our
system to confirm a user’s identity on the Sites and to save and recognize Member log-in
information so that Members do not have to log in each time they visit the Sites or access content.
We use Clickstream data for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to: Help us recognize
your computer as a previous visitor, and save and remember any preference that may have been
set while you were visiting one of our Websites or a Co-Branded Site.
Track, accumulate and report information on our sites and content usage to our partners and
customers so that they can measure the effectiveness of advertisements and content viewed on
the Websites; Help us customize the content and advertisements you are shown while visiting our
Websites and potentially other websites online; Determine which features Users like best to help
us improve our Content and Sites, personalize your user experience, and measure overall Site
effectiveness; Share non-personally identifying information about your areas of interest to third
parties to allow targeted advertising elsewhere on the internet using Tracking Technologies; and
Disclose aggregated information as detailed below.
Co-Branded Websites:
Member Information collected when you register or log in on a Co-Branded Site, and Clickstream
Data collected when on the Co-Branded Site, are generally available both to ADDS and that
partner. However, each partner’s use of that Member Information is governed by that partner’s
privacy policy and may be used for follow up by telephone, email or other common methods. You
should contact these partners directly if you have any questions about their use of this information.
ADDS Event Registration Information: When you register to attend a vendor-sponsored
ADDS in-person event (including Conferences, Custom Media events and Editorial events),
your contact information is used to confirm registrations and send product information and
promotional material from ADDS and the event sponsors. This information may also be used
to compile broad demographic information.
ADDS may disclose Member Information provided during the event registration process
vendors sponsoring the event. The sponsoring vendor’s use of your Event Registration
Information is governed by the vendor’s privacy policy.
To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information online, and how you can
exercise opt-out choices regarding that information email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM
Your privacy control:
You can also control, ask and delete your data by contacting us.
To know more on how you can control, ask and delete data email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM.
storage:
We store the data for only six months from the date it is collected.
Keeping your information secure is our utmost priority:
ADDS has implemented reasonable security measures to protect information from loss,
misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Our security systems
include authenticated access to internal databases, audits of procedures, and regular reviews of
overall Web security.
Information we collect using technology:
Device Information:
We may collect information about the browser, computer, mobile phone, smartphone or another
device you use to access the Services to measure the effectiveness of those Services.
Cookies and Similar Technology. As further explained below, we may use cookies, pixel trackers,
server logs, and other Internet technology for purposes such as measuring the effectiveness of
the Services, emails we send you, and any advertising campaigns, as well as to target meaningful
content and ads (including through emails).
Sometimes, we may facilitate the use by third-party platforms of these anonymous cookies, or
similar technology, to help those third parties better target ads to you based on other websites
you may have visited. To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information
online, and how you can exercise opt-out choices regarding that information, see the below
Section titled “Information Collected by Third-Parties and Your Ad & Cookie Choices.”
Addresses:
We log Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or the location of your computer on the Internet. We use
this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to our Services (websites and mobile
applications), and may also use it to infer your location, as also discussed in the below section
titled “Geolocation Data.”
Analytics:
We may use third parties to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage and
browsing patterns of users of the Services. These reports contain aggregated or anonymous
data only and do not identify individual users to adds-corp.com.
Log Files:
We may also automatically log certain information about your use of the Services. This
information includes a reading history of the pages you view and a record of the sites from which
you clicked on a link to visit ours.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies Like many websites, and web and mobile
services, we may use (or work with third-party partners who use) a variety of technologies to learn
more about how people interact with our Services. This section provides more information about
some of those technologies and how they work.
Cookies:
Cookies are small files that websites and other online services use to store information about
users on the users’ own computers. Cookies can be used to store sign-in credentials so that you
don’t have to enter them each time you return to a website, or to store other information to make
web viewing more customized or efficient upon future visits. Cookies also may store a unique
identifier tied to your computer so that web services and advertising networks can recognize you
across visits to different websites. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time
a cookie is being sent or to refuse all or certain cookies completely.
We (or our partners) may use or support cookies for purposes including the following:
To collect information about your browsing activities in order to deliver customized or relevant
services, advertising or content to you (including regarding our own products and content), when
you browse our Website or other websites or open the emails we send you; To relate the
information collected by cookies to information we obtain from you directly or from commercially
available sources; to work with third parties that serve advertisements (through our Services or
across the Internet) or provide other services to us, such as providing users the ability to
comment on content, allowing users to share content, or tracking website usage statistics. We
do not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of
the third parties using such technologies.
To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information online, and how you can
exercise opt-out choices regarding that information email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM
Other Local Storage:
We (or our partners) may use other kinds of local storage, such as Local Shared Objects (also
referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with the Services. These
technologies are similar to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your computer
and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences. However,
these objects are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies. Your
browser may allow you to disable its HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in its
HTML5 local storage.
Web Beacons:
We (or our partners) may use technologies called web beacons that communicate information
from your Internet browser to a web server. Web beacons can be embedded in web pages,
videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your
browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and
determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the web beacon, the IP
address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the web beacon was viewed.
These web beacons may be used for a variety of purposes, including to analyse the use of the
services and in conjunction with cookies to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.
How We May Use and Share the Information We Collect?
Providing the Services, You Request:
We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of the Services, fulfil your
requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and
enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, contests, and message boards. We
reserve the right to disclose your opt-out information to third parties so they can suppress your
name from future solicitations, in accordance with applicable laws. In addition, if you request that
we send your information to a third-party service, such as for earning rewards points or other
benefits, we may do so and use of that information by the third party is subject to their privacy
policy.
Statistical Analysis:
We use the information, including analytics and statistical information, to analyse the use of the
services so that we may improve them. We also use this information to generally inform
advertisers about the nature of our user base.
Customizing Your Experience:
We use the information that we collect to allow advertising to be targeted to the users for whom
such advertising is most pertinent. We may also use this information to customize certain
features of the Services to provide you with an enhanced experience based on information such
as the type of device, you are using to access the Services, your activities on the services, or
your location or geo-location. We may also use this information to provide you with the services
you have requested.
Our Parent Company:
Awiclo Data Driven Solutions Pvt Ltd. is a wholly-owned operating company. We share information we
collect with our affiliates (entities that are under common ownership or control) to better
understand our users (their demographics, what they do on our Websites, what Website features
they like, how they use them, etc.), to serve ads on other IAC websites, and to improve the content
and answers delivered on the services and on affiliate services.
Communication with Guides, Experts and other Contributors to the Services:
The Services feature content provided by people who are independent contractors and not
employees of about, including content provided by contributors including those we call “Experts”
or “Guides.” If you contact an Expert or Guide (or another contributor) directly by email through
the Services (including via a adds-corp.com) or otherwise then that communication is independent
of the Services, and thus not subject to this Privacy Policy. Although ADDS contractually
requires its Expert and Guide contributors to maintain information from ADDS users in
confidence, ADDS cannot and does not guarantee that they will do so, and is not responsible
for what our contributors may say, or how they may use the information you have freely provided
to them. Likewise, your communications with a contributor are not private or confidential, nor are
such communications protected by attorney-client, doctor-patient, or any other privilege.
Other Privacy Considerations:
We may transfer your information to a third party if we or any of our affiliates are involved in a
transfer or all or part of our business or assets (e.g., a sale, merger, dissolution, liquidation or
reorganization) or are taking steps in anticipation of such a transaction (e.g., participating in due
diligence).
Do Not Track Browser Disclosure:
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is
a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about
their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services.
We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on
our websites for third party purposes, and that is why we provide the NAI “Consumer Opt-out” link
and the DAA opt-out link above. However, we do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated
DNT signals, as the internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT
means, what it means to comply with DNT and a common approach to responding to DNT.
To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information online, and how you can
exercise opt-out choices regarding that information email us at INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM
Information from Children Under 18:
We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 18. If we
determine that a user is under 18, we will delete all personally identifiable information collected
from that user.
Compliances and Regulation – We respect boundaries of
countries, continent and unions.
Regardless form where we are operating from, we always follow privacy regulations of laws of
your country.
California Privacy Rights:
Under the California “Shine the Light” law, California residents may opt-out of the disclosure of
personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes (as those concepts are defined
in that law) However, we do not currently engage in the type of sharing covered by that law.
GDPR:
We are GDPR compliant and we strictly follow the GDPR regulations and law for the maximum
protection of EU user’s data.
Compliance with Legal Process:
We may disclose personal information (1) if we believe such sharing is appropriate to comply with
the law or with legal process; (2) to protect and defend our rights, services or property; (3) to
protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Services; or (4) to protect the safety or property
of our users or any member of the public (among other things, this means that if we believe you
have provided false information or attempted to pose as someone else, information about you
may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your action.
Contact:
Awiclo Data Driven Solutions UK Limited.
Address: 27, Old Gloucester Street, London, England, WC1N 3AX
Company Reg.no: 13378864
ICO Reg.no: ZB058581
Phone Number: +44 20 39875226
You can always ask us your privacy and data concerns. For more info, please mail us at
INFO@ADDS-CORP.COM