Privacy Policy

You can choose which, if any, of our online resources you wish to participate in. GlobalValidity only shares personal information in the following limited circumstances:
We provide such information to our subsidiaries and affiliated companies where it is necessary to meet the purpose for which you have submitted your personal data and in particular if necessary for the provision of services, account administration, sales, marketing, and support. We take steps to ensure that GlobalValidity and their partners follow our data protection policy, this privacy notice, and applicable local law when handling personal data. This includes having in place proper data transfer mechanisms such as EU standard contractual clauses.

Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics and online advertising, payment processing, fraud detection and improvement of GlobalValidity’s features) or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties may have access to your Personal Information to perform these tasks on our behalf. They may also perform certain functions on behalf of GlobalValidity, such as sending email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, and processing credit card payments, direct marketing services, and cloud hosting services. These parties only have access to such information as necessary to perform their functions and may not use it for any purpose other than to provide services to us.
GlobalValidity is required to respond to lawful requests from law enforcement bodies to access our premises and systems for purposes relating to national security. This will be strictly limited to the data relevant to the scope of a request and data subjects covered by the legal jurisdiction of requests.
We may also process personal data directly relevant to investigating and handling a criminal or civil lawsuit or to take action to prevent fraud, abuse, or other violations of our Site Terms of Use.
For other lawful purposes that may arise such as due to any merger, acquisition, financing, sale of company assets or interests in the company, or transition of service to another provider, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
Safeguarding your information
GlobalValidity uses commercially reasonable efforts to employ security measures designed to protect your personal information from loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. These include, but are not limited to:
Physical safeguards such as locked doors and file cabinets, controlled access to our facilities, and secure destruction of media containing your personal information.
Technology safeguards, like the use of anti-virus and endpoint protection software, and monitoring of our systems and data centers to ensure that they comply with our security policies.
Organizational safeguards, like training and awareness programs on security and privacy, to make sure employees understand the importance and means by which they must protect personal information.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
How long the data is needed to provide you with our products or services or to operate our business
If you have an account with us. In this case, we will keep your data while your account is active or for as long as needed to provide the services to you.
Are we subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation to retain your data? Examples can include mandatory data retention laws in the applicable jurisdiction, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or data that must be retained for contract or litigation.
Accessing and Controlling Your Information
You have the following rights in most circumstances:
The right of access—The right to know whether data concerning you is being processed and if so, the right to gain access to it with a few exceptions.
The right to rectification—The right to ensure data held about you is accurate, and if it is not, have it corrected.
Where GlobalValidity does not have an overriding legal basis to retain your personal information – the right to eliminate your data.
In some circumstances, you have the right to limit how GlobalValidity processes your personal information if we do not have an overriding legal basis to continue processing.
The right to be informed—GlobalValidity has a responsibility to provide you with the information contained in this privacy notice and to answer questions if you ask for more detail about anything contained here.
The right to data portability—The right to obtain a copy of the personal data you provided to GlobalValidity, in a format you can easily take away and load onto another device.
The right to object—You have the right to withdraw consent or object to processing when processing is based upon consent or legitimate interest as the lawful basis, with some exceptions.
For many of our services, we provide mechanisms for you to electronically access and update your personal information by logging into your online accounts. You may opt-out of promotional email communications from us by clicking on a link provided in our promotional email messages or sending us an email with Opt-Out in the subject line. After opting out, you will no longer receive marketing or promotional communications but will continue to receive other messages, such as important notices or communications regarding services you have ordered from GlobalValidity. For cookies/trackers, you can click the ‘More Information’ link on any GlobalValidity cookie banner to check that preferences are correct. You can selectively provide consent and withdraw consent via that link.