Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

By using this website you signify that you have consented to our collecting and using the personal information that you provide to us in accordance with this privacy policy. You will also be deemed to have read and accepted this privacy policy.

Section 1: Data Collection and Use on the BusinessPro website

What information do we collect and why?

This policy applies to all information we receive from you, whether you are registering on our website or ordering any of our products. During the course of your use of this website, BusinessPro will collect two types of information:

  1. Aggregated Information - This website automatically gathers certain statistical information such as the number and frequency of visitors. This information is only used in the aggregate and individuals cannot be identified from it. This aggregated information helps us to measure how individuals use the website and our services, so that we can continually improve them.
  2. Personal Information - BUSINESSPRO requires personal information from you, such as name, e-mail address, telephone numbers, fax numbers and credit card data in order for us to perform the services offered by the site and to fulfil your requests. Some of this information is voluntary; the compulsory fields are clearly identified whenever you are asked to supply information. On occasions, BUSINESSPRO may also collect additional information from you on a voluntary basis.

This personal information may be used in a number of ways:

  • Identifying potential new customers and subscribers
  • Detecting and preventing fraudulent activity
  • As part of the account opening process for new customers, to verify your identity
  • We will also use the information for making a credit check on you and may share it with third parties to protect ourselves against fraud. We will carry out a search on the BusinessPro Credit Bureau. We will use a credit scoring or other automated decision making system when assessing your application
  • Providing you with the service that you have requested
  • We may from time to time send promotional e-mails to you with information about our products and services. If you would like to receive such information please click on the "I agree" button. We may also contact you via post, e-mail or telephone in relation to the administration of your account or to provide a service you have requested.
  • We may access and disclose personal information about you if you breach this privacy policy, and / or fail to comply with applicable laws, court orders and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly or to protect ourselves and/ or our other users.
  • We reserve the right to sell the database related to this website (including personal data relating to you) to a third party if we sell, assign or transfer the assets of our business.
  • We take all reasonable precautions to ensure that outside parties or affiliated companies are aware of our privacy policy and that they will treat the personally identifiable information in a similar manner. We cannot, however, be responsible for how such outside parties or affiliated companies use your personal information.
Data Retention

BUSINESSPRO will retain the information for as long as it is reasonably considers necessary for the purposes listed above. Once we have processed your transaction, we will only retain your full credit card data if you have asked BUSINESSPRO to do this, to make it easier for you to use the site for repeat purchases.

Use of Cookies

To enable you to sign in and personalise your online experience BUSINESSPRO uses "cookies".. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

BUSINESSPRO uses cookies to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to BUSINESSPRO's website.

When you sign in to a site using your BUSINESSPRO credentials, the Microsoft Passport Network stores your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. The Passport Network also uses cookies to improve the sign in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. You can set your browser to notify you when a web server attempts to write a cookie to your computer. This gives you a chance to accept or reject the cookie.

Section 2: BUSINESSPRO's approach to privacy and data protection

BUSINESSPRO's EU Privacy Principles
  1. We obtain personal information that is needed to provide our goods and services.
    When BUSINESSPRO collects information directly from individuals, we obtain the personal information that is needed to provide our goods or services, to provide customer service and to fulfil any legal or regulatory requirements. We also obtain personal information as a result of individual's financial transactions with BUSINESSPRO or with BUSINESSPRO business customers. When we obtain information about individuals from third parties, we use reputable sources, including public repositories. BUSINESSPRO employs appropriate measures to assure the quality of information which we collect.
  2. We will inform individuals about the general uses of their information.
    When we have a direct relationship with individuals, we will strive to make information available to them about the general uses of the information that we collect. This information is made available at the point of sale, through privacy notices on our websites, in other formats that are publicly available or through other means specified by applicable EU legislation and laws .
  3. We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of personal consumer information.
    Within BUSINESSPRO, access to personal information is limited to those employees of BUSINESSPRO and its affiliates who need it to fulfil their business responsibilities. Vendors and other outside contractors we engage are subject to contractual requirements to ensure personal information is safeguarded. We will disclose personal information in response to a lawful request issued by a court, government agency or regulatory authority with jurisdiction to make that request.
  4. We strive to give individuals choices about how their data will be used.
    When we obtain personal information as part of our direct relationship with individuals, we will not share this information with non-affiliated third parties except in accordance with these Privacy Principles.
  5. We respect individual's rights in relation to direct marketing
    Where BUSINESSPRO engages in any form of direct communication with individuals for the purpose of marketing of BUSINESSPRO's products or services, we will ensure that procedures are in place to stop the direct marketing at the individual's request. All electronic communications will comply with legislation governing unsolicited communications; where required, BUSINESSPRO will obtain consent before sending direct marketing material.
Information Security: How We Protect Your Privacy

BUSINESSPRO is committed to implementing the highest standards of information security to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized BUSINESSPRO employees. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure. Some of the other central features of our information security programme are:

  • A dedicated group - the Information Security Department - that designs, implements, and provides oversight to our information security programme;
  • The use of specialized technology such as firewalls;
  • Testing of the security and operability of products and services before they are introduced to the Internet, as well as on-going scanning for publicly-known vulnerabilities in the technology;
  • Internal and external reviews of our Internet sites and services;
  • Monitoring of our systems infrastructure to detect weaknesses and potential intrusions;
  • Implementing controls to identify, authenticate and authorize access to various systems or sites;
  • Protecting non-public communications through encryption or other means; and

We hold ourselves accountable under our Privacy Principles

A senior BUSINESSPRO official (the EU Data Compliance Officer) serves as the company-wide privacy officer, with responsibility for administering the BUSINESSPRO privacy programme, including implementation of these Privacy Principles and for ensuring that BUSINESSPRO complies with applicable EU laws and regulations concerning the collection, use and storage of personal information.

The EU Data Compliance Officer, working closely with individual subsidiaries, is responsible for:

  • Overseeing employee privacy training and employee compliance programmes related to this Online Privacy Statement
  • Conducting periodic assessments of BUSINESSPRO's compliance with this Online Privacy Statement, as well as specific implementation of policies and procedures
  • Ensuring that BUSINESSPRO actively participates in appropriate privacy activities and regularly reviews its privacy practices and policies.

BUSINESSPRO's Privacy Principles guide us in the collection and use of information and reinforce the role our employees play in protecting individual privacy.

Updating the Privacy Policy

To keep up with the rapidly evolving EU Compliance legislation and Internet environment, we reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time and, if we do so, your continued use of the website will be taken as acceptance of any such change. Therefore, we advise you to check this policy on a regular basis. If we change or modify our privacy policy we shall post these changes on this page.

Privacy Questions and Access

If you have a question about this statement, you can send an email to the BUSINESSPRO - EU Data Compliance Officer. The address for this is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You can also contact us at this address if you have a question about BUSINESSPRO's handling of your information or if you wish to obtain a copy of particular information you provided to BUSINESSPRO

Before BUSINESSPRO is able to provide you with any information or correct any inaccuracies, however, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request. We will endeavour to respond within an appropriate timeframe.

Complaints

All complaints or concerns and appropriate resolution relating to the practices of handling personal information will be logged. Any complaints should be made to the EU Data Compliance Officer at the email address given above.

Contact Details:

The operator of this website is:

BusinessPro
5 Schoolhouse Lane,
Dublin 2,
EIRE

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your access and use of this BUSINESSPRO web site and its related sites (collectively, the "BUSINESSPRO Site"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using the BUSINESSPRO Site. By using the BUSINESSPRO Site, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not use the BUSINESSPRO Site.

For purposes of this BUSINESSPRO Site, "BUSINESSPRO" means BUSINESSPRO Ltd., its subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, contractors and all of its and their data sources and suppliers. These Terms of Use are in addition to the specific terms and conditions that apply to the products or services offered by BUSINESSPRO.

BUSINESSPRO does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of any of the data and/or programs ("Information") available at this BUSINESSPRO Site. The Information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement.

In no event will BUSINESSPRO or its affiliates be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or other damages for any use of or reliance upon the Information found at this Web Site, or on any other linked web site, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data, even if BUSINESSPRO is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

You will be responsible for the content of any material you enter on the BUSINESSPRO Site. BUSINESSPRO has no responsibility for the content of any messages or information posted by users, or for the content of information of third parties on the Internet, even if accessed through the BUSINESSPRO Site. However, BUSINESSPRO retains the right, which it may or may not exercise in its sole discretion, to review, edit or delete any material that BUSINESSPRO deems to be illegal, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

BUSINESSPRO, the BUSINESSPRO logo and the BUSINESSPRO products referenced in a BUSINESSPRO Site are either trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property of BUSINESSPRO or its affiliates ("BUSINESSPRO IP"). Other products and company names mentioned in a BUSINESSPRO Site may be the intellectual property of their respective owners. You may not use any BUSINESSPRO IP without the consent of BUSINESSPRO. You may not use, frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any BUSINESSPRO IP, including the images found at this BUSINESSPRO Site, the content of any text or the layout/design of any page or form contained on a page without BUSINESSPRO's consent. Except as noted above, you are not conveyed any right or license by implication, estoppel, or otherwise in or under any BUSINESSPRO IP or the intellectual property of any third party.

You may not robotically or otherwise automatically harvest information from a BUSINESSPRO Site.

BUSINESSPRO has the right to amend these Terms of Use at any time and without notice to you. Such amendments shall be effective immediately upon posting. You agree to review the BUSINESSPRO Site periodically to be aware of any such amendments. Your continued use of a BUSINESSPRO Site after such amendments have been made shall constitute acceptance of the amendments.

No part of the BUSINESSPRO Site may be reproduced, modified, or distributed in any form or manner without the prior written permission of BUSINESSPRO.

 
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