Compliance Datalytics

 COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

This Policy sets out how Compliance Datalytics LLC and its affiliates (“CD”) collect and use personal information, and your choices and rights regarding our use of your personal information. 

This Policy describes our practices when using your information when you: 

1. express an interest in or have signed up for our events, services or products including newsletters, apps, extensions, articles, bulletins, alerts, webinars, and e-books, or activate your CD user account and/or license;
2. attend a conference at which you obtain CD contact information; or
3. visit our websites (including our public and/or member-based websites) or social media sites.

Compliance Datalytics LLC and its affiliates (“CD”) may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information. Once you have given your consent to use cookies we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browsers settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies.

Types of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Used 

We use the following types of cookies:

“persistent cookies” to improve your experience when using the Site.

“session cookies” to enable your use of our Site and to remember your settings. Session cookies are deleted automatically at the end of your visit.

“web analytics cookies”. These cookies are used by us or third-party providers to analyze how the Site and our services are used, including the following types:

Google Analytics.  This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website and accepting the use of the cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. To find out more about Google Analytics, Google’s privacy policy and opting out of its cookies please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To opt-out of Google Analytics cookies on CD.com, click here. If you have previously opted-out of Google Analytics and would like to opt back in, click here. 

Adobe Analytics.  This website may also use Adobe Analytics, a web analytics and marketing service provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated (“Adobe”).  Adobe uses HTTP “cookies” and similar technologies to collect information to measure and understand how users use this website.  This includes user activity tracking on this website, including pages visited and links clicked. CD does this to provide you with experiences and marketing messages based on your likely interests. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Adobe. Adobe may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Adobe’s behalf. Adobe will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Adobe. You may opt-out of cookies by visiting: [Insert Opt-Out link here] You may also refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do opt-out you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. To find out more about Adobe Analytics, Adobe’s privacy policy and opting out of its cookies please visit: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html#customeruse

Web beacons. CD includes a web beacon, which is a graphic image, in a majority of the HTML email messages we send. CD uses web beacons, alone or in conjunction, with cookies to compile information about your usage of CD websites and interaction with emails from CD. We use the capability to determine whether or not an email has been received, opened, or when an URL has been clicked inside of an email that directs you to one of CD’s websites. These web beacons are used to: (i) operate and improve CD websites, services, and email communications, (ii) send emails in a format users can read and (iii) track the aggregate number of emails opened. The web beacon does not collect your personal information, however the information compiled by the web beacon allows us to tie a user to information CD has collected in data collection process as set out in our Privacy Policy. You may refuse the use of web beacons by selecting the appropriate settings on your email program to disable image and refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.

By continuing to browse or use our Sites and services, you agree that we can store and access cookies and other tracking technologies as described herein. To view a detailed list of cookies used on our websites, click here.

This Policy also applies to information we collect from you via our survey or diagnostic tools as outlined in more detail below. You may be shown an additional confidentiality notice before participating in a survey or diagnostic. Please note that in cases where the terms of any such survey- or diagnostic-specific confidentiality notice conflict with any terms in this Policy, the terms of that notice will take precedence over the terms in this Policy. We will not use information we collect via our survey or diagnostic tools to contact you for marketing purposes.

This Policy will apply whether you have provided the information directly to us or we have obtained it from a different source, such as a third party.    

Where we collect and use information for our legitimate interests as mentioned above, a legitimate interest will only apply when we consider that your interests or rights requiring protection of your personal information do not override our legitimate interests. For more information regarding our legitimate interests as applied to your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy. 

Our websites and online services are for individuals who are at least 18 years old. Our online services are not designed to be used by individuals under the age of 18.

In certain circumstances, if you do not provide personal information which is required, we will not be able to perform our contractual obligations or provide you with web-based products and services. When this is the case, we will make it clear. 

Communication with Colleagues

This site may now (or in the future) contain tools which allow you to send information from the site directly to a colleague. In order to fulfil this request, we will ask you for your and your colleagues’ names and email addresses. We will not retain this data after the email is sent. Please be aware that your name and email address may be included in the communication sent to your colleague.

Library, Resources and Knowledge Base materials

The Library section, Resources section, and/or Knowledge Base section of the websites allows visitors to view content, and share content and notes with colleagues. We may review information about the pages that you visit, the content that you share, and the resources and knowledge base materials that you access in the content, and we may use such information to recommend content, tools, or other CD services we think may be of interest to you. Information about your use of these materials will only be accessible to CD and will not be visible to or otherwise shared with other CD visitors or clients unless you choose to share it.

Restricted Areas

If you access any Restricted Areas of any of our sites (via browser or a CD app), we may collect information about your access to and use of research materials, decision-support tools, and other online and offline resources we offer.

General Benchmarking and Research Purposes

CD and its affiliates may use information disclosed through surveys or diagnostics or otherwise provided to or generated by CD or its Affiliates (collectively “Research Data”) for validation, research and benchmarking purposes and product development. Unless otherwise specified prior to collection, Research Data will be disclosed in the aggregate and presented in anonymous form and will not include (directly or by inference) any information identifying participating organizations or any identifiable individual as the source of such data. Access to Research Data will be restricted to those individuals who need such access to deliver CD products and/or services.