This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected by Sales Is Art website which links to this Privacy Policy, via registration forms, surveys, online learning tools, competition entries, at events, if you contact us (online, by post, telephone or social media) and in the course of providing our services.

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This Privacy Policy is issued on behalf of Sales Is Art so when we mention “Sales Is Art”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to the Sales Is Art brand responsible for processing your personal data (being the “data controller”) as set out below:

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• Communications and Marketing brands 

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Your privacy is important to us and this Privacy Policy sets out how we will process your personal data and the rights you have in respect of your own personal data. We will safely store and process personal data which you have provided to us.

The aim of this Privacy Policy is to tell you how we will use any personal data we collect or you provide to us. Please read this carefully before you proceed.

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your overall rights in respect of your personal data, please contact us at info@salesisart.com. 

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A. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

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You do not have to give us any personal data in order to browse our website.

However, if you wish to register on our website, subscribe to our services, book places at our online events, request further information, contact us, complete any surveys, participate in any online learning tools, enter competitions, register for a course or network or provide content for inclusion on our websites (e.g. blogs or other online forums) we will collect certain data, including personal data.  The data we collect from you may include:

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• Email address, title, name, address, business phone number(s) and gender;

• your marketing preferences;

• your newsletter preferences;

• employment details, such as your current role and responsibilities, experience, seniority, salary and education;

• information about your organisation and the industry that you work in;

• areas of interest which you have notified us about, as well as what we can infer from your engagement with our products and services;

• information regarding materials that you might be interested in (for example, information regarding materials we share on our networking platforms);

• data collected from social networking sites;

• chat history (for example, any comments you make via the chat feature on our networking platforms); and

• any other information that you submit to us, including any information that you share on our networking platforms (for example, opinions or career updates you may post about, any information you provide when you comment on a post or your profile picture).

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We may receive the above information directly from you or from your colleague or corporate contact who registers for a certain Sales Is Art subscription, network or online event on your behalf. We may also receive personal data about you from third parties we have a contractual relationship with, for example, we will receive information about you from our services providers, for example we will receive information about you from our networking platform providers when you sign up for one of our online networking platforms.

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Please understand that not all of the information we request is mandatory to provide you with our services. 

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Your online posts and comments on our networking platforms: We will receive any information you provide as part of any social media posts you share on our networking platforms. Please keep in mind that any information you provide as part of any posts or comments will be available to other users on the relevant platform. If you choose to share any information that is of sensitive nature on one of our platforms, this will be your sole choice.

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When another person uploads information about you on one of our networking platforms, for example, via a post or via a comment on a post, we will receive that information about you, including any personal data.

We do not have control over such information that could be uploaded by any members of our networking platforms at the point at which they upload it.

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Any information that is shared or comments made that may be inappropriate by Sales Is Art - these might be removed from our networking platforms. If your behaviour on the said network is deemed inappropriate, we may remove your account and stop you from taking part in the said platform.

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Event filming and photography: There is a chance that we could photograph, film, broadcast or record our events meaning we may process information such as your likeness, voice and image if you are identifiable from such photograph, film, broadcast or recording.

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Financial Information: We will keep a record of any financial transaction that you decide to make with us. Online payments are made securely by third party payment providers.

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Device and browsing data: We may automatically collect information about any website that you came from or are planning to visit. We can collect information about the pages of our website that you visit, the links you click on, IP addresses, the type of browser you use and the amount of times you access our website. Some of this information could be aggregated and is not used to identify you personally however we also use some analytics programmes on our website which allow Sales Is Art to link information about your use of our website back to you, in the event you have logged into your account. We may from time to time observe your use of our website, as well as when you open emails that we have sent to you and/or online events that you attend and your activities at these online events. We may use certain information from these observations such as what other events, brands and subscriptions you or another person similar to you could be interested in. 

 

This information will be used for our own marketing purposes.

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Cookies: We use cookies to collect information about you online.

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B. HOW WILL YOUR PERSONAL DATA BE USED AND SHARED WITH SALES IS ART?

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In accordance with data protection legislation, Sales Is Art will only process your personal data where we have a lawful basis for doing so. These situations are: (i) where it is required for the performance of a contract we have with you; (ii) where you have given your consent; (iii) where it is required for us to comply with a legal obligation that we are required to carry out; or (iv) where it is in our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests and these are not overridden by your specific interests or legal rights and freedoms.

We’ve set out in this Privacy Policy the purposes of why we process your personal data and the lawful means in which we carry out such processing.

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The personal data we collect allows us to:

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• provide the services you have requested or signed-up to (necessary for a contract);

• give you the ability to connect with us and other individuals and companies via the chat functionality on our networking platforms (necessary for our contract with you)

• inform you of key information in relation to your subscription or network that you have joined or any online events you are attending, including via notifications on our networking platforms (required for a contract and legitimate interests, of our customers, to ensure they are up to date with necessary information);

• verify your personal identity and details of your purchase (where payments are required) (required to comply with our legal obligations);

• analyse the use of any account to stop, investigate and/or report fraud, security incidents, terrorism, misrepresentation or crime (legitimate interests, of us and our users, for security);

• aggregate information about you with other people (legitimate interests, of us, to better understand the specific services that our users are interested in);

• meet legal, regulatory and compliance requirements (necessary to comply with our legal duties);

• collect information to create statistical and trend analysis including to monitor user demographic (legitimate interests, of us, so we can improve our understanding of those that use our services and improve our online events, services and marketing practices);

• Make contact with you to gain your feedback (legitimate interests, of us, in helping us improve);

• monitor your use of our services and attendance at our online events, as well as your responses to marketing emails, in order to build up customer profiles (including through use of data analytics software) (legitimate interests, of us, to help us identify specific content and marketing materials which will be of interest to you and other clients like you);

• communicate with you including responding to your personal enquiries (required for a contract, or consent);

• investigate complaints about our website, services or online events (legitimate interests, for us and our customers, to ensure that we maintain a high service level);

• personalise your online experience of our website, services and online events, for example, by displaying targeted advertising and content which we believe likely to be relevant and of interest to you.

• give you the prize for competitions you enter and win (necessary for a contract) and to adhere with regulatory requirements to disclose the winner of any said competition with their name and location (necessary to comply with our legal obligations).

 

We may from time to time also process your personal data for other purposes in the future, but only if these purposes are suitable with those listed above and if we believe that the same lawful basis applies.

 

In some circumstances, you may be required to provide us with your personal data under a statutory or contractual requirement. Failure to provide Sales Is Art with personal data required under a legal, statutory or contractual requirement may stop us from performing our obligations under a contract with you or entering into a contract with you (for example, our networking platforms will not be available to you if you do not provide the necessary information for the registration form).

 

Marketing Communications

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Our own marketing: Sales Is Art may from time to time contact you via email, SMS, telephone or post about our services that may be of interest to you (legitimate interests, of us, to promote our services, and of our clients, to keep them up to date with promotions, online events and subscriptions which may be relevant to their career professions & job roles). Further information about such marketing is below.

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From the brand with whose website or event you registered: We will also use your personal data to send you business-to-business marketing about relevant services and online events of the brand whose website or event you have registered with.

Opting-out: Our clients and potential customers have the right to let us know if they no longer want to be contacted for marketing purposes. If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving such marketing communications from Sales Is Art, or would like to change the online channels that we use to contact you, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any emails you receive, or email us, stating your preferences, at info@salesisart.com 

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Third party marketing: We may share your registration information (including name, job title and contact details) with third parties for marketing purposes, where you have provided consent for us to do so or otherwise in the circumstances set out below and in the “other ways in which we use and share your personal data” section.

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Providing marketing and sales solutions to business customers:

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The other ways in which Sales Is Art use and share your personal data

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Group companies: We may sometimes share your personal data with other companies connected to Sales Is Art for the above purposes (legitimate interests, of us, for internal efficiencies).

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Online Events: Where you are attending an online event arranged by us, we may share your name, job title and company with the other attendees of the online event (including making this information available via the event app, on online social media sites and in our event guide). Often we will ask for your consent to share this specific information, but for some of our online events, we rely on legitimate interests to share this specific information because it is a fundamental part of such online events. Where you are attending an online event, we may use a third party technology service provider to help offer this, meaning the information you give us may also be shared with them (for the purpose of administering the online event).

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Where you register to attend certain online seminars or presentations at our online events hosted by a third party, we may share your registration information with the relevant third party (legitimate interests, of our partner hosts, so they know who has attended their events and so they can contact attendees about their products and services).

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Sponsored online webinars and whitepaper reports: Where you sign up for a sponsored webinar or to access sponsored content such as whitepapers, we share your sign-up details with that sponsor who may contact you (legitimate interests, of us, to enable us to offer our users premium business content free of charge, and of our sponsors, to facilitate business-to-business relationships). We use third party technology service providers to help facilitate this.  If you do not want your details to be shared with a sponsor we usually offer an alternative means of accessing this content.

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Event film recording and professional photography: We process your personal data comprised in the video, film, photograph, broadcast or recording of the said event so that we have a record of our events for our own internal requirements such as training (legitimate interests, of us, to help train our staff and help us better understand how best to run future online events), to create online marketing content for our promotion of future online events to support editorial content on an online event (legitimate interests, of us, to provide fuller and more engaging content).

 

Sales Is Art may also share this with future sponsor companies (legitimate interests, of us, to show potential sponsors what the online event is like and to encourage sponsorship) and existing partner sponsors and clients (legitimate interests, of us and our sponsors and clients, to share potential marketing material with our sponsors and clients so that they can promote their involvement in the online event).

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Your profiles on our social media networking platforms : Your profile will be visible to other members of the networking platforms that you use, unless you change your profile’s settings. Other members of the social media network will be able to find your online profile on the network, unless you decide to change the online settings on your profile. Any data you provide on posts or comments will also be visible to other online members of the network.

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Your employer: Where your subscription to our service is a part of a wider corporate group subscription (i.e. your employer obtains a subscription for all of its employees) we may share information about your use of the service with your employer (legitimate interests, of your employer, this is so that they can understand how their staff are making use of the specific resources that they have purchased).  We may also share personal information about your participation in any of our online learning tools unless you tell us that you would prefer not to have these details shared (legitimate interests, of your employer, so they can understand how their staff are making use of the resources that they have paid for).

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Service providers: We may employ the services of some third party service providers to help us in certain areas such as website hosting, maintenance, the operation of online events and customer relationship management which is required to track our marketing efforts. In some cases the third party may receive your personal data (legitimate interests, of us, to increase service efficiency and to benefit from third party expertise, and our clients so they experience a good quality of service). However, at all times, we will control the use of your personal data and we will try our best to ensure that our service providers meet their contractual obligations to only process your personal data in accordance with our specific needs. 

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Aggregate information: From time to time we may use aggregated information so we can improve the service of our website, analyse data trends and collect demographic information as well as detect suspicious transactions. Sales Is Art may pass this information on to third parties. In most cases this information will be anonymised.

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Online advertising: Sales Is Art may share some of your personal information with advertisers, ad servers and ad networks to deliver targeted adverts on our website but this will not include any of your personal contact information (legitimate interests, for advertising purposes). If you interact with an advert, you should note that the third party may take the decision that you meet the targeting criteria of the advert. These advertising activities may involve the use of cookies and other similar technologies. We will always ask you for your consent for the use of such cookies.  

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Surveys: If you decide to participate in a survey, unless we inform you otherwise, your answers will be anonymised for data research and analysis purposes. However, if you choose to give any information in your response to an online survey which identifies you (e.g. name, job title), there is a chance we may be able to identify you from this data. If you decide to submit your email address to win a prize connected to these surveys, this will be used to allocate the prize only and will not be connected to your survey responses. Sales Is Art may share your responses in an anonymised online form with third parties carrying out research connected to the specific topics covered in the survey or, if the survey relates to you using our subscription services.

Administration of justice: Sales Is Art may in the future be required by law, court order or governmental authority to provide certain types of personal data (necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or for legitimate interests in connection with a legal claim made against us).  Examples of the type of situation where this would occur would be:

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• where we have to defend ourselves legally.

• in the administration of justice.

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Other:

We process personal data about individuals who can feature in Sales Is Art publications and content including information we have researched from public sources for journalistic reasons.

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We also use publicly available sources to research prospect clients to send them marketing information about services relevant to their needs.

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If you choose to submit your personal data on behalf of another person or are submitting personal data which may be used publicly, you should only do so where you have the consent of the person where it is the responsibility to ensure that the individual is fully aware of our Privacy Policy and us processing their personal data.

 

C. SALE OF ORGANISATION

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In Sales Is Art is ever sold to another business, your details will be released to our new stakeholders and will be given to the new ownership of the organisation.

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D. FRAUD PREVENTION AND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING

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If incorrect or misleading information is given or detected, your details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies. Law enforcement agencies could decide to use this information for their own purposes. We may even decided to use this information to stop fraud and money laundering taking place.

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5. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE THE UK, IRELAND AND EEA

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Sales Is Art may decided to transfer your personal data to partner companies in the United States of America. We and third party partners (includes service providers processing personal data on our behalf), could transfer personal data to servers outside the UK, Ireland and EEA including in the United States of America for storage purposes. These other countries may not have the same data protection legislation to the UK, Ireland and EEA. At the same time if we use your personal data for these purposes we will do our best to ensure that security measures are in place so that your personal data is treated in ways that follow the UK, Ireland and EEA laws on data protection, including via standard contractual clauses.

 

E. LINKS

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Our site contains links to other websites that Sales Is Art have no control over. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or data practices that these other websites operate when you choose to link from our website. Sales Is Art encourages you to review the privacy policies that these other websites have so you can understand how they decide to collect, use and share your personal data.

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F. SECURITY

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Sales Is Art has measures mde to secure your personal data from unauthorised access. That being said we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to use your personal data for incorrect purposes.

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G. YOUR PERSONAL RIGHTS

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Under legal circumstances you have the following consumer rights in relation to your personal data:

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• the right to object to processing your personal data where we depend on legitimate interests for a certain purpose and you believe you are unjustifiably prejudiced by this process and where we cannot overcome such an objection;

• the right of access to your personal data held by us;

• a right to receive your personal data in machine-readable format;

• a right to ask us not to process your personal data for direct marketing purposes and you can find out more information about how to unsubscribe or adjust your marketing preferences.

• the right to object to decisions decided by automated means.

• where we have gained your consent to use your personal data for a certain purpose, a right to withdraw your consent at any time you choose. You can do that by the methods set out in this enclosed Privacy Policy or by any other method we inform you of when seeking your approval;

• the right in particular circumstances to have personal data corrected, rejected, erased or destroyed; and

• the right to complain to your data protection office.

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All of these stated rights can be taken by you contacting us at info@salesisart.com. In order to protect your rights, we reserve the right to check your identity before processing a request of this nature.

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If you are uncertain about your personal consumer rights you should contact your local data protection office.

If you decide to contact us on the subject of your rights, Sales Is Art will do our very best to address your specific requests or objections. 

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California Residents and ‘Do Not Sell My Personal Data’ link

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California residents have the rights to access, receive a copy of & request the removal of their personal data, as described above. We provide you with the following additional information on these specifc rights:

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• You have the option to request (up to two times each year), for us to disclose to you (1) the categories & specific pieces of personal data that we have collected from you, (2) the specific categories of sources from where your personal data is collected, (3) the business need or commercial purpose for collecting such personal data from you, (4) the specific categories of third parties with whom we sold or disclosed your personal data to for a business or commercial purpose, and (5) the business or commercial purpose for selling or disclosing your personal data.

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• You have the option to request that we delete your personal data that we have collected from you. If we are not able to erase all of your data, we will let you know the reason why, in the event of needing to complete a transaction for you, identfy and protect against fraudulent & illegal activity, exercise our legal rights or adhere to a legal obligation.

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• You do have the option to opt out of our disclosure of your personal data to third parties for their marketing purposes. If you choose to opt out, going forward in future, we will not share your data with such third parties to use for their purposes, unless you direct us to do so on your behalf.

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Sales Is Art will respond to your access or erasure request within 45 calendar days unless we require more time - in such an event, we will let you know. To adhere to these rights, please contact us at info@salesisart.com For verification purposes, you will be required to provide a clear photocopy or scanned image of government identification that clearly shows your full name and California address. We greatly respect your privacy and will not discriminate in response to you choosing to exercise your privacy rights.

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Please note also:

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• Sales Is Art collects the following categories of personal data: Identifiers/contact information (including data defined as “personal information” in the California Customer Records law or as a protected classification under California or U.S. federal law), specific commercial information, marketing preferences, internet or other electronic network activity information, audio or visual information, professional or employment-related information and education information.

• In the future, we may choose to sell the following categories of personal data: Identifiers/contact information (including data defined as “personal information” in the California Customer Records law or as a protected classification under California or U.S. federal law), commercial information, marketing preferences, internet or other electronic network activity information.

• We may choose in future to release the following categories of personal data for a business purpose: Identifiers/contact information (including data defined as “personal information” in the California Customer Records law or as a protected classification under California or U.S. federal law), commercial information, marketing preferences, internet or other electronic network activity information, audio or visual information.

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H. UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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You may choose to review, correct, update or change your personal data at any time in the future by contacting us at info@salesisart.com. Many times, you may have signed up for an online account on our website. 

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I. RETENTION

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Sales Is Art will keep your personal data for the period required to complete the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted legally.  At the same time your personal data shall be maintained for up to seven years following the end of the services we provide to you or your last contact with us. 

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J. CHANGES TO THE SALES IS ART PRIVACY POLICY

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If our Privacy Policy changes, Sales Is Art will place an updated version on this page and we will take the necessary steps to make you aware of any specific material changes to it. 

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K. HOW TO CONTACT US

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If you have any questions about this statement or your personal data, feel free to contact us at info@salesisart.com