PRIVACY POLICY
At GlobalStep, LLC we hold your right to privacy to be of the highest priority. This Privacy Statement stipulates our privacy practices and seeks to elaborate the following:
- What personal data/information is collected by GlobalStep, LLC
- How and Why GlobalStep, LLC may collect, use, store and/or share personal data/information
- Your rights with respect to data collection and its usage.
We may accumulate, store, or use your personal data/information as described in this privacy policy, or at the time of data accumulation.
Kindly note that we reserve the right to review, alter and amend this policy without advance notification. Therefore, you are requested to check our website regularly for any changes that are made.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Most of our services do not require any form of registration, allowing you to visit our site without telling us who you are. However, some services may require you to provide us with Personal Data/Information.
Since the term Personal Data/ information has varied definitions across the world, we define it as a detail that may help identify an individual.
‘Personal Information’ is any data which relates to an individual who may be identified from that data, or from a combination of a set of data, and other information which is in possession of GlobalStep”
We may collect and use Personal Data/information to provide you with details on products and services, to bill you for products and services you request, to market products and services which we think may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you for other purposes which are evident from the circumstances or about which we inform you, when we collect Personal Data from you with your consent.
HOW DO WE GATHER AND USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We gather personal data/information through various means which primarily includes:
Information you share with us when you:
- Visit our websites
- Register for an account
- Use our applications
- Contact us
- Engage in a contract with us
- Engage with us via Social Media
- Choose to purchase a product from us, wherein, we or our third-party payment processors will collect your payment related details
- Are officially introduced to GlobalStep, LLC by an individual for the purpose of fulfilment of any Contractual / Business obligations.
The information that is shared as above may include your:
- Name
- Designation
- Address
- Email address
- Contact number
Information from your computer or device: We also collect certain information automatically from your device or computer when you visit our website. This includes information pertaining to:
- Websites you visit just before and after visiting our website
- Web pages and advertisements, you view
- Any links you clicked on
- Information we collect using identifiers such as cookies
- Information regarding your internet service provider and your IP address.
- Standard server log information
- Information about your computer or mobile device itself, e.g., type of operating system you use, type of web browser you use, your IP address that can identify your device
- Unique device identifiers (UDID) that are present in certain mobile devices
- Advertising identifiers that are assigned to your mobile device by your operating system provider
- Crash Data
Information through Social Media: Information/Data we receive if you link a third-party tool to our application (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WeChat or Google)
- We may collect your online behaviour, public profiles, chats, data pertaining to our products and services
- Respond to your comments and questions
- Provide Individual support
- Most of these sites have their own privacy policies. It is advisable to review these beforehand to ensure their terms are acceptable to you.
This information is used by GlobalStep, LLC to identify the Individual and provide them with support services, mails, sales and marketing actions, billing and to meet contractual obligations including technical consultancy, development and testing services and technical support for you and your customers.
USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that website can remember who you are.
We may use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners/ vendors who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services.
You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally exclude and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
USING SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use sensitive personal data under certain circumstances with your explicit written consent where we need to
- Fulfil our legal obligations, or other company internal policies in strict adherence with our Data protection policy.
- Form, exercise or defend any legal claims when courts are acting in their judicial capacity.
- If we have asked for your consent to collect and use or in any way handle certain types of personal information/data, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting GlobalStep, LLC.
DATA SECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION
GlobalStep, LLC is concerned with Protecting your privacy and data, and the said goal could be attained by adhering to the following points:
- We will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the personal information that we hold, from misuse, loss, or unauthorized access.
- We deploy a range of appropriate security practices and procedures, technical controls and organizational measures, in order to safeguard your personal information. These include measures to deal with any suspected data breach.
- However, kindly note that that where you are transmitting information to us over the internet, it can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
- If you suspect any misuse or loss of, or unauthorized access to your personal information please inform us immediately about the said unauthorized disclosure. Details on how to contact us can be found in the “contact us” section of this Privacy Policy.
DATA RECIPIENTS, TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your personal information is used with your consent:
- When we have your consent or the consent of your parent or guardian (such as allowing you to register for an account on our sites or applications or to provide you with advertising or marketing materials). You or your parent or guardian can withdraw consent at any time, but keep in mind that withdrawing consent does not affect the legality of the processing of your data before the consent was withdrawn.
- We need to use your personal information to perform our responsibilities under a contract with you (e.g., providing the products or services you have requested, or allowing you to enter a promotion or a competition, or inform you that you’ve won).
- To facilitate any application, you make to GlobalStep, LLC
- To respond to your queries and requests
- To communicate with you about our services; and to prevent fraud or unlawful behavior.
- To analyze and monitor use of our service and the social features
- To moderate chats either automatically or manually
- To carry out administration tasks within GlobalStep, LLC
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights
- To comply with our legal, regulatory and professional obligations
- To process your data for additional purposes, such as using your GPS location to highlight local events.
International Transfers of Personal Data – We and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, other countries where the laws may not provide levels of protection for your personal data equivalent to the protection provided by the laws of the European Union. When we do this, we take steps to ensure that your personal data receives an appropriate level of protection through contractual requirements imposed on the recipient of the information
Our applications and tools may have provisions to interact with other individuals. In most cases, if you connect through a social network (for example, Facebook), your social network friends who may also connect with us will see all your personal details along with other information you have shared with us.
In addition, other Individuals, regardless of whether they are your social network friends, will be able to see your Individual profile (as mentioned above); view descriptions of your interactions; communicate with you within our Services; and send you related information or friend requests through our Services or the related social network.
Thus, we primarily use the personal information/data to operate, maintain, enhance and provide all features of the service, to provide the services and information that you request, to respond to comments and questions and to provide support to individuals of the service.
We may also use a visitor’s or individual’s email address or other personal information to contact that visitor or individual (i) for administrative purposes such as customer service, to address intellectual property infringement, right of privacy violations or defamation issues related to the Personal Data posted on the service or (ii) with updates on promotions and events, relating to products and services offered by us and by third parties we work with. You have the ability to opt out of receiving any promotional communications by reaching out to us via the “Contact Us” section provided below,
In connection with the purposes and on the lawful grounds described above and in addition to the recipients of your information as described above, we will share your personal information when relevant with third parties such as:
Our service providers: third parties we work with to deliver our business (including, for example, hosting or operating the website and our databases and site analytics);
Sub-agents, advisors and service companies, where applicable.
Prospective sellers and buyers of our business: any prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets, only in the event that we decide to sell or buy any business or assets; and
Other third parties (including professional advisers): any other third parties (including legal or other advisors, regulatory authorities, courts, law enforcement agencies and government agencies) where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law.
- If you have any questions or query about our processing or if you wish to withdraw consent you have previously given us, please see the “Contact Us” section below.
AUTHENTICITY
GlobalStep, LLC shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the information and it is your duty to ensure that the information provided is authentic.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We respect your privacy rights and provide you with reasonable access to the Personal Data that you may have provided through your use of our services. If you wish to access or amend any other Personal Data we hold about you, or to request that we delete any information about you that we have obtained from an Integrated Service, you may reach out to us via the “Contact Us” section as is stipulated below. At your request, we will have any reference to you deleted or blocked in our database subject to statutory or regulatory requirements.
We may retain all information you submit for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud or abuse, analytics, satisfaction of legal obligations, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.
ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US
We respect your privacy rights and provide you with reasonable access to the Personal Data that you may have provided through your use of the Services. If you wish to access or amend any other Personal Data we hold about you, or to request that we delete any information about you that we have obtained from an Integrated Service, you may reach out to us via the “Contact Us” section as is stipulated below. At your request, we will have any reference to you deleted or blocked in our database subject to statutory or regulatory requirements.
We may retain all information you submit for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud or abuse, analytics, satisfaction of legal obligations, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.
DATA RETENTION
We only retain the Personal Data collected from a individual for as long as the individual’s account is active or otherwise for a limited period of time as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes for which we have initially collected it, unless otherwise required by Law. We will retain and use information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
GlobalStep LLC may change the data privacy practices and update this privacy statement as and when the need arises, and the same will be made available on the website. But our commitment to protect the privacy of website individuals will continue to remain
WE ARE EASY TO REACH
If you have any concerns, questions or comments in relation to this Privacy Notice or about your data, you may address them to: info@globalstep.com
or contact us at:
GLOBALSTEP, LLC
5956 SHERRY LANE,
SUITE 1850
DALLAS, TEXAS 75225, US