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Privacy Policy

Geobear is committed to maintaining and respecting your confidentiality. Any information you submit will be used within the Geobear network including our regular subcontractor network.

It may also be used by advertisers to improve personlisation of ads such as Google. You can view Google’s Privacy & Terms on their website.

Disclaimer

The information and materials contained in or accessed through this website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and are of a general nature. Geobear is not providing this information and materials in relation to the making of any specific investment, business, financial or commercial decision. The information and materials are provided for general information only. Please seek professional advice and obtain independent verification of the information and materials contained herein before making any decision based on any such information or materials.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the statements presented on the website are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.

Geobear does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy, completeness or reasonableness of the information and materials contained in or accessed through this website and expressly disclaims liability for any errors in, or omissions from, such information and materials. No warranty of any kind, implied, express or statutory (including but not limited to, warranties of title, merchantability, satisfactory quality, non-infringement of third-party intellectual property rights, fitness for a particular purpose is given in conjunction with such information and materials, or this website in general.

How to Contact Us

Geobear technologies and services are available in over 38 countries. Our headquarters are in London. We can be contacted at the following address:

Geobear,

Euston House, Suite 105, 24 Eversholt St London NW1 1AD

Alternatively please submit your details to our website and you will be contacted by a representative for your area. Please direct any requests related to the rights to you have with respect to you rights as set forth below to the email address [email protected].

ABOUT COOKIES

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

 

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

Our site uses cookies for:

  • to remember users’ actions,
  • to identify the user, and
  • for online advertising

This website uses Google Analytics, a third-party web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to measure how users interact with website content. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. This information will be used for the purpose of evaluating 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. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website users.

This website also uses remarketing, a Google Analytics’ Display Advertiser feature for Google AdWords. Therefore, a third-party DoubleClick cookie is used in addition to the other cookies described in this document. The Google AdWords service is a third-party web analytics service provided by Google. Cookies are used to run ads and track sales and other conversions on the website. The Google AdWords service is used to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors of our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. This website may use also other third party remarketing applications and banners.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

Website cookies will not be used for any purpose other than stated above.

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, you consent to the processing of data about you in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see

 

aboutcookies.org

 

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

 

 

 

PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

All processing of personal data shall be in compliance with following principles:

  • The processing of personal data shall take place in a lawful, fair and transparent way;
  • The personal data shall be accurate and where necessary, kept up to date;
  • Personal data shall be kept confidential and stored in a manner that ensures appropriate security;
  • The collecting of personal data shall only be performed for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; and
  • The collecting of personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purpose for which they are processed.

 

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

According to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), the data subject has several rights with respect to the data concerning him/herself. All requests concerning GDPR data subject rights shall be made via email to (email address). Each business unit and/or function shall assist in ensuring that the rights are respected in relation to the processing of personal data.

The person responsible for data protection in Geobear shall be notified on every request based on GDPR and made by data subject. All customer interfacing personnel and HR personnel shall be trained to promptly forward any request related to the exercise of rights of the data subject to the person responsible for data protection in Geobear. All customer interfacing personnel and HR personnel shall be trained to reply to data subject with the information that Geobear is working on the request and responds as soon as reasonably possible.

Any request based on GDPR data subject rights shall be handled as follows:

  • Verify if Geobear is the controller of the data subject’s data. If Geobear is merely a data   processor, the person handling the request shall inform the data subject and refer them to the actual controller.
  • Verify the identity of the person requesting the right of access. One piece of photographic ID and another significant identifying document used by data subject shall be an adequate verification of data subject’s identity. Other means of verification can be used if they are appropriate.
  • Verify the nature of request. Deny the right of access if the request is unfounded, excessive or repetitive.
  • Inform the data subject about receipt of the request. Inform the data subject, if Geobear does not process the data requested.
  • If the data requested involves data on other data subjects, either filter the data or, if not possible, ensure that other data subjects have consented to the supply of their data.
  • Respond to the request without delay or within one month. If the request is complex, an extension of two months is permissible. If the request is complex, inform the data subject about the extension within one month.
  • If Geobear does not act on the request of the data subject, inform the data subject without delay or within one month.
  • Include following information to the response, if Geobear processes personal data on data subject:
  • the purposes of the processing;
  • the categories of personal data concerned;
  • the recipients or categories of recipients to whom personal data has been or will be disclosed, in particular in third countries or international organisations, including any appropriate safeguards for transfer of data, such as Binding Corporate Rules or EC model clauses;
  • where possible, the envisaged period for which personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
  • the existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
  • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
  • if the data has not been collected from the data subject: the source of such data; or
  • the existence of any automated decision-making, including profiling and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

 

Right of access

Each data subject may request access to personal data concerning him/herself.

Right of rectification

The data subject shall have the right to obtain the rectification or inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. This rectification shall be conducted without undue delay.

Right to data portability

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:

(a)  the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) or point (a) of Article 9(2) or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of GDPR; and

(b)  the processing is carried out by automated means.

Right to erasure

The data subject shall have the right to have the controller erase any personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay. Geobear does not have the obligation to erase any personal data that is necessary for a legitimate purpose.

Right to restriction of processing

The data subject shall have the right to restrict processing of his/her personal data in accordance with the applicable law.

Right to object

The data subject has the right to object to processing of personal data related to him or her at any time. Geobear shall no longer process the personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

 

Automated decision-making impacting the rights and obligations of an individual, including profiling

The data subject has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.