Objective of this Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy covers the privacy and data protection principles followed by ValueMomentum and its entities across the globe with regards to the personal information of its customers (including products, outsourcing and other services clients), partners, employees (current or former employees, trainees), applicants, contractors, prospects, and vendors and current or former members of the Board of Directors, whose personal information are processed by ValueMomentum.

 

Scope of this Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy covers our information practices, including how we collect, use, share and protect the personal information individual provide to us, through our website that links to this Privacy Policy.

 

General

 

This website, accessible at https://valuemomentum.com , is operated by ValueMomentum. We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting and respecting individual privacy. ValueMomentum uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard sensitive and private information from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration, and destruction in accordance with the IT Act 2000, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act) 2023 of India, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of United States, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of European Union and other applicable national and international data protection laws.

 

Links to third party websites

 

ValueMomentum may provide links to third-party websites for convenience and informational purposes. If individuals access those links via our website, they will leave the ValueMomentum domain. We do not control these external sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from ours. We do not endorse or make representations about third-party websites. The personal information individuals choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties, including social media platforms featured on our website, is not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage individuals to review the privacy policies of any external websites before submitting personal information.

 

Social Network Plugins

 

ValueMomentum may offer social media features on its website that allow individuals to share content and interact with us on various platforms. Use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of personal information, depending on the feature. We recommend reviewing the privacy settings and policies of the social media platforms you engage with to understand how your information may be used or shared.

 

Children

 

Our services are not intended for children as defined by applicable regulations. In accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ValueMomentum does not collect personal data from individuals under 16 without parental consent. Additionally, to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), ValueMomentum does not collect personal data from individuals under 13 without verified parental consent. If any such data is unintentionally collected, we will promptly delete it. Accessing this website indicates an agreement to comply with these regulatory requirements.

 

How ValueMomentum collect the Information

• Direct Collection:We collect personal data directly from individuals through several channels, such as when individuals provide business cards, complete our online forms, subscribe to newsletters or our preference center, register for webinars, attend meetings or events we organize, visit our offices, or apply for available positions. Personal data may also be obtained directly during the establishment of business relationships, the provision of professional services under contract, or via our hosted software applications.

• Indirect Collection: We collect personal data about individuals from multiple sources, such as recruitment services and our clients. Personal data may be linked to customer relationship management records for the purposes of understanding and serving business clients, subscribers, and individuals, fulfilling legal obligations, or pursuing legitimate interests.
  • Public sources: Personal data can be collected from public registers, news publications, sanctions lists, and online searches.
  • Social and Professional Networking Sites: When you register or log in to our websites using social media platforms (such as LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, or Twitter) for authentication, your login credentials will be linked to our system. We collect only the information necessary for registration or authentication that your social media provider is authorised to share with us, which may include your name, email address, and, subject to your privacy settings, other relevant details. We encourage you to review your privacy settings with your social media provider to control the extent of information shared with us.
  • Business Clients: We may provide professional services that require sharing or processing personal data, including through our hosted software; such activities may follow separate privacy policies.
  • Recruitment services: Personal data about candidates may be collected from employment agencies, previous employers, and credit reference agencies.

 

Personal Information ValueMomentum collects

 

The personal data we collect may also include ‘sensitive’ or ‘special categories’ of personal data, such as details about:

• Name, job title, company name, email address, phone number, and location
• Job application details including resume, experience, and contact information
• Automatically collected data such as operating system, IP address, browser type, access times, and clickstream behaviour

 

Lawful Reasons for Collecting and Processing Personal information

We may rely on the following lawful reasons when we collect and use personal data to operate our business and provide our products and services:

• Contract: We may process personal data to perform our contractual obligations.
• Consent: We obtain explicit consent from individuals before collecting or processing personal data where required by law.
• Legitimate interests: We may rely on legitimate interests based on our evaluation that the processing is fair, reasonable and balanced. These include:
  • Delivering services to our clients: To deliver the professional services our clients have engaged us to provide.
  • Direct marketing: To deliver timely market insights and specialty knowledge we believe is welcomed by our business clients, subscribers and individuals who have interacted with us.
• Legal obligations and public interests: We may process personal data to meet regulatory and public interest obligations or mandates.

 

How ValueMomentum use Individual’s Information

 

ValueMomentum use the information they collect primarily:

• To provide better services to all our customers,
• To provide, maintain, protect, and improve our current products and services,
• To improve website and how we operate our businesses,
• To understand and enhance an individual’s experience using our website, products, and services,
• To provide customer support and respond to an individual’s requests, comments, and inquiries,
• Send individual, related information, including confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support, and administrative messages
• To communicate with individual about promotions, upcoming events, and news about products and services
• ValueMomentum may process individual’s personal information without his / her knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation for the purposes of verification of identify or for prevention, detection, investigation, including of cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences
• To protect, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.

 

Sharing of information with third parties

 

ValueMomentum does not disclose personal information to affiliates, partners, service providers, group entities, or non-affiliated companies except in circumstances where products or services have been requested by the individual, when consent has been provided by the individual, or under the following specified situations:

• Information may be accessible in a limited manner by ValueMomentum’s other members, third-party providers only to perform their functions to maintain the website but may not use it for other purposes. Further, the third-party provider must protect the information in accordance with this privacy policy and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.
• ValueMomentum may share information with statutory authorities, government institutions, law enforcement agencies or other bodies where required for compliance with legal requirements.
• ValueMomentum may use the information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• ValueMomentum may share information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or act against any illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
• Anyone to whom we may transfer our rights and/or obligations under the terms
• ValueMomentum may share information where we believe it is necessary to protect or enforce ValueMomentum’s rights, usage terms, intellectual or physical property or for safety of ValueMomentum or associated parties.
• Any other person or organisation after a restructure, sale or acquisition of any member of the ValueMomentum, as long as they use your information for the same purposes we did.
• Credit reference agencies or other organisations that help us make credit decisions and reduce the incidence of fraud; and

 

Transfer your personal data

 

Information we hold about you may be transferred to countries:

• Where we do business
• Which are linked to your engagement with us
• From which you regularly receive or transmit information or
• Where our third parties conduct their activities.

Some countries have different privacy laws, which may result in information being governed by their local regulations and disclosure requirements. Such requirements can include sharing data with governmental bodies, regulatory agencies, or private individuals. Additionally, certain countries have agreements for the exchange of information with other nations for purposes such as law enforcement and taxation.

 

We may also transfer your personal data when:

• You have consented to the transfer
• Necessary for the performance of a contract with you or for pre-contractual steps taken at your request
• Necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims
• Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedom
• Necessary to protect the vital interests of you or another person.

When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your personal data outside the originated country or outside of your country of residence, we will impose contractual obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your personal data to the standard required in the applicable data protection laws. We will ensure that any international transfer of personal data is carried out in compliance with applicable data protection laws. If we transfer your personal data outside the originated country in other circumstances (for example, because we have to comply the law), we will make sure it remains adequately protected.

 

 

We may share non-personal, anonymised and aggregated information with third parties for several purposes, including data analytics, research, submissions, thought leadership and promotional activity.

 

Data Protection Measures

 

ValueMomentum has deployed reasonable and adequate organizational, physical, technical, and administrative security controls to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. ValueMomentum conducts Data Protection Impact Assessments for high-risk processing activities to ensure compliance with GDPR and other applicable laws. However, no internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you provide to the services.

 

ValueMomentum discloses information to third parties only for legitimate purposes such as our service providers and agents who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of personal information and may not use the information for any unauthorized purpose.

ValueMomentum will ensure through formally executed contracts that the service providers are committed to “same level of data protection” as applicable data protection laws and regulations.

 

While we implement appropriate safeguards to protect personal data, it is important to note that no method of transmission over the internet (including e-mail) can be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, we cannot assure the absolute security of data transmitted to or from us.

 

Your Data Protection Rights

 

Your data protection rights are outlined below and may be exercised in accordance with applicable data protection laws regarding the personal or sensitive personal information you have provided.

• Right to be informed: You can ask us how your data is collected and being used.
• Access: You can ask us to verify whether we are processing the personal or sensitive personal information about you, and if so, to provide more specific information.
• Right to Rectification/Correction: You can ask us to correct our records if you believe they contain incorrect or incomplete information about you.
• Erasure: You can ask us to erase (delete) your personal or sensitive personal information after you withdraw your consent to processing or when we no longer need it for the purpose it was originally collected.
• Processing restrictions: You can ask us to temporarily restrict our processing of your personal or sensitive personal information if you contest the accuracy of your personal or sensitive personal information, prefer to restrict its use rather than having us erase it, or need us to preserve it for you to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim. A temporary restriction may apply while verifying whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to process it. You can ask us to inform you before we lift that temporary processing restriction.
• Data portability: In some circumstances, where you have provided personal or sensitive personal information to us, you can ask us to transmit that personal or sensitive personal information (in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format) directly to another company if it is technically feasible.
• Automated Individual Decision-making: You can ask us to review any decisions made about you which we made solely based on automated processing, including profiling, that produced legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affected you.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent that you have previously given to one or more specified purposes to process your personal or sensitive personal information. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. It may mean we are not able to provide certain products or services to you, and we will advise you if this is the case.
• Ability to opt out of its processing: ValueMomentum identifies and handles sensitive personal information separately and provides users with the ability to opt out of its processing, as required under CCPA / CPRA.
• Right to Object to Direct Marketing including Profiling: You can object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling.
• Do Not Sell My Personal Information: In accordance with California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and in the preceding twelve months, we have not sold personal information. We do not sell personal information; however, we recognize that certain state privacy laws define “personal information” broadly, and under those definitions, some data sharing necessary to provide personalized advertisements may be considered a “sale,” even if no monetary exchange occurs. Visitors to our website can choose to accept or reject advertising cookies through the website banner. See our Cookie Policy for more information.
• Right of no Retaliation (non-discrimination): ValueMomentum does not discriminate against you or take adverse action against you for exercising any of your (Data Subject) rights.
• Transmissibility of Rights of the Data Subject/ Right to nominate any other individual, who shall, in the event of your death or incapacity, exercise your rights in accordance with the provisions of the applicable data privacy laws.
• Right to damages: You have the right to be indemnified for damages sustained due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of personal data.
• Right to log complaint: You can lodge a complaint with ValueMomentum’s Data Protection Officer via an email to DataProtectionOfficer@valuemomentum.com . You can also lodge a complaint as a third-party beneficiary with data protection authority of your respective country.

You can exercise your data protection rights by sending a mail to DataProtectionOfficer@valuemomentum.com  or submitting your request through  Contact Us – ValueMomentum.

 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information or to exercise any of your other rights. This helps us to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. No fee is required to make a request unless your request is clearly unfounded or excessive. Depending on the circumstances, we may be unable to comply with your request based on other lawful grounds.

 

Usage of Cookies

 

Cookies may be utilized on our websites. When cookies are employed, your browser will receive a notification outlining their use. For additional details, please consult our cookie policy.

 

Retention of personal information

 

 

ValueMomentum will retain an individual’s personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services an individual has requested, to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy, or for other essential purposes such as legitimate business purposes, performance of a contract, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our policies.

 

Communication Preferences

 

 

You can decide how ValueMomentum uses your personal information for communication, marketing, personalized ads, and whether to keep you signed in.

 

You can manage how ValueMomentum contacts you, set your member communication preferences, and select which newsletters and promotions you receive.

 

Marketing

 

If you prefer not to receive marketing communications from ValueMomentum, you may unsubscribe using the link provided in the email, adjust your communication preferences within ValueMomentum, or specify your preferences in direct communications with us. ValueMomentum does not sell or rent personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without explicit consent.

 

Changes to this Website Privacy Policy

 

The Website Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated annually to ensure continued compliance with applicable laws. Any changes will be posted on this Website. If you do not accept these updates, please discontinue using our Website. In the event of significant revisions to this Statement, users will be notified either by email or through a prominent notice displayed on this Website.

 

This Privacy Policy was last revised on 24 Dec 2024.

 

Contact

 

ValueMomentum has formally appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to oversee compliance with data protection laws. For any privacy-related concerns, individuals may contact the DPO at DataProtectionOfficer@valuemomentum.com