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Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

The knowledgeX objective is to

  1. Assist professionals throughout their continuous learning journey in both their personal and professional environment through providing a rich content of glossary of definitions, articles and other learning interventions.
  2. Helping you build a global network with other professionals, allow you to communicate, share work experience based on the areas of speciality and interests.
  3. Act as a light house that guide both businesses and individuals through today’s rapid changing business environment and globally increasing competition through providing customised solutions to achieve the desired objectives.
Definitions

1. The KnowledgeX website, hereafter will be referred to as the "website", "site", "we" and "us".

2. Yourself as a user, hereafter will be referred to as the "User", "member" and "you".

To achieve the above objectives successfully, comes our commitment to be transparent about the data we collect, how we use and share it based on the below Privacy Policy (include our cookie policy).

Members & Visitors

When you access KnowledgeX service as a user or register and join as a member, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (includes our cookie policy)

The knowledgeX will use your first name and email address to contact you by email, and by clicking the button to subscribe to our emails, you will be agreeing to this use of your personal data. When you subscribe, we will also record your “IP Address” as this help us to guess your approximate location, so our sent emails arrive in a convenient time for you.

In addition, you may provide us with your job title and areas of speciality and interest, and this will help us be more specific and personalised in the information we send you that we believe it may be within an interest to you. We carefully select our newsletters and associated emails to ensure they are relevant to you and to your shared interests.

We have assessed our use of your personal data as having minimal on your privacy and will keep it this way.

We will not at any given time use your name or email address for any other purpose, nor will we pass it on to anyone outside of the knowledgeX group. Should you not wish us to use the personal information highlighted above, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the un-subscribe link at the bottom of any email we send you.

1. Data Collected

1.-1. Information you provide to us
Registration

In the process of creating your account, you need to provide us with data including your name, email address and/or contact number, and a password. The registration information is not displayed or viewed in the public profile.

Profile

The data in your profile is optional, such as education, work, experience, location, skills, areas of speciality, interests, and photo. You don’t have to provide this additional information on your profile. However, the profile information helps other members and professionals find and connect with you, it’s your sole choice whether you include sensitive personal information on your profile and to make it public.

Posting and Uploading

Any data that you share in posts is of your choice and it’s your choice to do so. You don’t have to post or upload data; though that may limit your ability to engage and benefit from your network views and experiences.

You allow us to collect your data if you choose to participate in posts, discussion boards, quizzes, surveys and polls. You may give us information about you by taking actions or filling in forms on the website, reporting a problem or providing us with feedback or testimonials.

1-2. Information we collect about you

With regards to your visits and activity on our website, we automatically collect the following information:

  • Technical information, including Internet Protocol “IP” address used to connect your computer to the internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-ins and versions, operation system and platform.
  • Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resources Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website; including services you viewed or searched for; pages response times, download errors, length of visit, page interactions (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse overs), methods used to browse away from the page as this contribute to helping us enhancing our website services.
  • You and other members may post contents that include information about you (posts, comments, articles, pictures and videos) on our services. We may collect the public posts information about you, such as; news, rewards, recognitions, etc.).
1-3. Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and tracking pixels to distinguish you from other users of the website. A cookie is a small text file sent to our computer or device. A pixel tag is an invisible tag placed on certain parts of the website; it does not leave a footprint on your computer/device. Pixel tags and cookies work together to tailor the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. Please refer to the cookies we use and the purposes of which we use them in the Cookie Policy.

1-4. How we use your data you gave us

How we use the data depend on which services you use. We use the data we have about you in the following ways;

  1. To provide a personalised experience, so that we can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
  2. Carry out our obligation arising from any contracts entered between us and you to provide you with the information and services that you request from us.
  3. To notify you about change to our services.
  4. To ensure that the content from our website is presented and utilised in the most effective manner to you and your computer.
  5. To contact you by email or SMS for any of the above purposes, where you have provided us the permit to do so. This can be modified in the setting areas under your profile settings.
1.5 How we use the data we collect about you
  • To administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and surveying purposes.
  • To improve our site to ensure that the content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
  • To allow us to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so.
  • As part of our continuous efforts to keep our site safe and secure.
1.6 Where do we store your Data

All the information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. We will ensure keeping your data secure through taking the appropriate technical and professional measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing, and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage.The data that we collect from you may be stored and transferred outside United States and the European Economic Area (EEA). In addition, it may be processed by staff outside the US & EEA who process technical, support and payment services. Transfers will only be made to countries which have entered into a binding non-disclosure contracts with us, and complying with the terms of this Privacy Policy and Data Protection Law.

By submitting your personal data, you agree to the above transfer, storing and processing procedure. KnowledgeX will take all the necessary reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance to the term of this privacy policy.

We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. In addition, any payments transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. Where we have given you or you have chosen a password which enables you to access parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password safe and secure. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via internet is not completely secure. Despite we will take all the necessary measures to protect your personal data, we can not warrant the security of your data transmitted to our site. There is no guarantee that the data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards. Any transmission is at your own risk.

2. Your Rights and obligations

  • Change and Correction right – the right to change and correct inaccurate personal data held by us.
  • Delete data – you can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g. if it no longer necessary to provide services to you).
  • Right to object – you can object to our processing of your data. We will stop processing the data unless you request the cancellation of the object or we have a legitimate ground not to do so.
  • Right to access and/or take your data: you can ask us for a copy of your personal data, and request a copy of your personal data you provided in a machine-readable form.

In addition to the above right and obligations; We will keep your personal data for no longer than necessary. The period will be determined by the criteria of the period of your service contract or newsletter subscription with us in addition to a reasonable administration period (not exceeding a further 2 years).

3. Account Closure

If you choose to discontinue or close your KnowlegeX account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of the account closure, except as noted below.We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Users Agreement. We will retain de-personalised information after your account has been closed.

Information you have shared with others (e.g. through posts, updates, InMail) will remain visible after you close your account or deleted the information from your own profile or mailbox, as we do not control data that other members copied out of our services. Ratings and reviews content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g. search engine results) until they refresh their cache.

4. Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any future changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page and where appropriate, notified to you by our available means of communication (e.g. email, notification service). We advise you to frequently check for any updates or changes to our privacy policy (including cookie policy).

5. Data Protection Law

This means (i) unless and until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is no longer directly applicable in the UK. The GDPR and any national implementing laws, as amended from the time to time and then (ii) any successor legalisation to the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 1998