Privacy Policy: Business Times

This Privacy Policy is governed by https://businesstimes.org/ (‘Business Times’ or ‘we’) websites, apps, and other services.

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We are committed to protecting the privacy of each user following this Privacy Policy. We take the assortment of individual data from our clients truly. We use the term used to include any person who accesses and uses any of our Services, including 

  • Subscription to the print and digital editions of Business Times (‘Magazine’); 
  • Our websites, digital applications, and online services, including businesstimes.org (the ‘Website’); 
  • Live events and conferences (if applicable); 
  • Our Premium Services, if applicable 
  • Surveys (if applicable), 

Business Times owns and operates the Services. You can contact us directly if you have any questions about the content and content on the Website or have any questions about our Privacy Policies.

Data controller

The data controller for the information you provide or collect following this Privacy Policy is: Bussiness Times

Collect information

We provide various informational, educational, and recreational features as part of the Services. To work these highlights, we gather certain non-individual and individual data from our clients for explicit purposes. For activities related to a website that requests personal information, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself. 

We may organize contests, sweepstakes, and/or special events through the Websites. To participate in these events, you must meet specified criteria for participation and minimum age requirements (for example, twenty-one (21) years of age or older) for the specific event.

How the information is used

To assess the effectiveness of the Websites, we may collect non-personal information about our users, such as Internet server and browser identities, Internet service providers, click stream information, Web pages visited, Web pages from which a person enters our site, the duration of the visit and the domain type. 

Depending on the event, users either give their consent to how their information is used before it being collected (‘opt-in’) or to the use of their information for additional purposes (‘opt-out’). We may also survey users about a variety of topics, including how we can improve our websites and services. 

Business Times Policy for disclosing your information to other parties 

We share or disclose your personal information with companies other than https://businesstimes.org/ only when required by law, the disclosure is necessary to operate the Services, to protect the safety of our users, employees, or property and/or when the disclosure is consistent with the https://businesstimes.org/ practices for its services. 

We may share personal information with our parent company, partners, affiliates, or other entities for other purposes in the future. If we decide to enter into such a sharing arrangement, we will state in this Privacy Policy the name of our users and each entity with whom we will share the information, how the information will be used, what type of information will be shared, and How to contact us. The information does not generally include personal information about any individual user. 

Information use and collection by operational providers

For the convenience of our users, we may provide an opportunity to purchase certain goods, merchandise, and services through the Services. Companies other than https://businesstimes.org/ may handle some of these transactions. We refer to those companies as ‘Operational Providers’ of our e-commerce operations, order fulfillment, and/or contract services. 

The voluntary presentation of your personal information to these operating providers, including your order or request, is governed by the specific operating provider confidentiality and other terms. 

To facilitate an order or request, we may share information with an operational provider. The operating provider may also share your information with us. In most cases, we request that our operational providers comply with the provisions of this Privacy Policy and only share Users’ personal information with us, unless necessary to fulfill a User’s request or order. 

We also request that these providers use personal information only to make a sale or fulfill a requested service or order. However, you should read an operating provider’s privacy policy to determine what limits the use and disclosure of your personal information collected by you. 

Business Times, its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are not responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure practices of the operating providers, nor is https://businesstimes.org/ responsible for the products or services provided by the operating providers.

Use of tracking devices and cookies

Our websites use cookies or other tracking tools. A ‘cookie’ can store information such as the type of browser you use, data about your computer, and the number of times your computer visits a certain site. 

Cookies enable us to track how often users visit our website and certain pages, the estimated audience size of sponsors and advertisers, the number of tickets for certain events, and user preferences. You do not need to enable cookies to use most websites.

Business Times, its parent, and subsidiaries are not responsible for the use of explicit GIFs by other website operators. Users are required to share the confidentiality of other website operators to determine the type and extent of tracking devices used.

Third-party cookies 

We use third-party links to websites. In addition, we may share usage information about users of the Websites with these companies to manage and target advertisements and conduct market research analysis on the Websites and other websites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may note certain pages you visit on the Websites through the use of GIFs. 

The collected data is used to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to users of websites and other interactive media and is used to keep track of user responses to each advertisement. 

Some of these companies may use non-personal information (including your name, address, telephone number, or email address) to provide targeting recommendations and data about your visits to the Websites and other websites, based on which we can provide advertisements about goods. 

Security procedures

Only supervisors and employees with specific authority have access to the database containing the user’s personal information. If we decide to share User Information with other members of the Business Times, the receiving entity will also maintain the integrity and security of that User Information. The security or integrity of the information you disclose online because, while highly unlikely, a sufficiently powerful attack by an unauthorized third party could compromise your information.

Children’s privacy

Business Times respects your child’s privacy and we would like to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of thirteen (13) years old. If a parent or guardian discovers by notification, or by other means that a child under the age of thirteen (13) has registered incorrectly using false information, we may immediately suspend the child’s membership and/or participation will cancel and delete the child’s personal information from our website. 

Your choice of information

If you wish to review, update, correct, restrict, suppress or delete personal information previously provided to us, or if you wish to obtain an electronic copy of your personal information to transmit it to another company (If this right to data portability is granted to you by law), you may contact us at our official email.

Privacy Policy Changes

All changes will take effect when we publish the revised privacy policy