Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Update: April 10, 2023

Introduction

Your privacy is important to us and we believe it is important for you(“Users”) to know what personal data we, Gravitas Factor[https://gravitasfactor.com] (“we”, “us”, “our”), collect from you (and third parties), why we collect it, how we use it, and what rights you might be entitled to as a data subject or consumer.
Please note: all information in this privacy notice is applicable to you unless otherwise. In this notice, the term “personal data” is used to represent any information relating to an identified or identifiable person or company.
We encourage you to read this notice, together with any additional and more specific information we may provide to you on various occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data on Gravitas Factor websites, products or applications, events, and initiatives so that you are aware of how and the purpose for which we are processing your personal data. (Please note: We issue a different privacy notice which applies where there is an employment relationship between Gravitas Factor and its employees.)

How we will use your personal data

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, respond to a survey, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, phone number, etc. Users may, however, visit our website anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personal information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. Our web servers or Affiliates who provide analytics and performance enhancement services may collect IP addresses, operating system details, browsing details, device and connectivity details, and/or language settings. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, and similar information. We use this information to measure website usage, improve the content and to ensure safety and security as well as enhance the performance and user experience of the website. In situations you decide to register, we will also collect your username and password. We may also obtain data from third parties, including:

  • Social networks, when you grant permission to us to access your data on one or more networks through our website.
  • Service providers, who help us to determine a location based on your IP address in order to customize offerings and content to your location.
  • Partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities

Cookies

Gravitas Factor uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our websites and to help collect data. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well. We use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may include:

  • Storing your Preferences and Settings: Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
  • Sign-in and Authentication: When you sign into our website using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
  • Security: We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.

Customize Cookies

We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices. If needed, in such situations, we will prompt you to revisit your cookie settings and submit your preferences again.

How to Control Cookies Manually

You can set your browser:

  • To allow all cookies
  • To allow only 'trusted' sites to send them
  • To accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using

We recommend not blocking all cookies because the gravitasfactor.com website uses them to work properly.

Please Read Below Points to Find Out How to Manage Cookies in the Major Browsers

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Menu” tab in the upper-right corner and then click on “Settings”.

To block cookies:

Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security, Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → To block cookies, Click on the toggle button next to this line “Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended)“ → This will block the cookies.

To check cookies:

Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security → Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → See all cookies and site data → Click on the website and check the cookies used in that particular site.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on the Menu tab in the upper-right corner → Click on Options → In the left side navigation, Click on Privacy and Security → Under History, Select “Use Custom setting for history” from the Drop down → Click on Show Cookies Buttons → Select the file which you want to remove and then click on remove selected button.

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tab → Click on Privacy tab → Under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies → Then click Apply.

Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tabs → Click on Privacy tab → Click on Sites button → Enter site name and then click Allow or Block button → If user clicks block button, that website is not allowed to use cookies in IE → Then click Apply.

Safari:

Open Safari → Click on Preferences from Safari menu → Go to Privacy tab → Click on “Remove all Website data” to remove all the stored data → Click Remove now button from the pop-up → Click on Details button under “Remove all Website data” → Select the sites you want to remove the data → Click Remove → Click Done.

Log Files

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this for the purposes of analytics and to improve site functionality.

Answer your queries, support and contact requests

If you contact us with queries, requests for more information about initiatives or products or other generic support inquiries, we may need to process personal data about you such as:

  • personal and contact details, like full name, company and role, email and address,
  • demographic data,
  • the content of your messages to us.

For information about managing your contact data, email subscriptions and promotional communications, please use the contact us form on the gravitasfactor.com or affiliate websites where you had given your Personal data.

Subscriptions to our promotional communications

If you sign up to receive marketing communications from Gravitas Factor, we may send these by email, post, telephone or any other means of communication. For information about managing your contact data, you may reach out to the contact details provided in the event privacy notice or in the emails you receive, or you may use the contact us form on the gravitasfactor.com or affiliate websites where you had given your Personal data.

Promotion of Gravitas Factor brand, products, initiatives, and values with marketing communications

Gravitas Factor has a strong legitimate interest in promoting its brand, products, initiatives, and values. In order to further such goals, we process personal data about our business contacts, including existing and our potential clients, third parties and intermediaries Gravitas Factor interacts with within the course of doing business. We may collect details about you, including name, contact details and other information such as your job title, employer, areas of business interest and other business details. We may process such data using software or platforms which allow us to manage our client relationships. We collect such data directly or indirectly from you, or from third parties, such as business partners, data brokers, social networks, marketing companies, and publicly available sources such as social media sites where lawful to do so. In such cases, we will also comply with any additional restrictions imposed by the region in which your data was collected as well as the source of the data. We may also collect data from our email and calendar systems concerning interactions between our associates or third parties.

We use your data in part for administering, managing and developing our business and services; such as identifying existing and potential client business needs, analyzing and evaluating the strength of our interactions with certain business contacts, performing analytics, including producing metrics such as relationship maps for our business leadership and limited profiling for the purposes of helping us to develop and offer appropriate products and services to existing and potential clients. Analytics may be performed by us using algorithms that help us analyze and rank interactions with you depending on interaction frequency and duration. We may also send you marketing communications and surveys to carry out market research or provide information to you about us and our services which we have reason to believe would be of interest to you in your professional capacity.

When reaching out to you, we may do so through different channels, such as email, phone calls, posts or any other means of communication, such as through social media sites such as LinkedIn. We will only send electronic marketing communications to business contacts in a business-to-business context, where we have your prior consent or where it is otherwise lawful to do so in the jurisdiction you are located in. You can opt-out from receiving such communications at any time using our website, gravitasfactor.com or affiliate websites where you had given your personal data, or by any other given method provided from time to time (for example: unsubscribe link included at the bottom of emails).

From time to time, we may use your name, quotes, pictures or videos to promote and amplify Gravitas Factors’ brand and activities. In any such case, you will receive appropriate additional information about the usage of your personal data.

How we will keep your information safe

We have put in place appropriate technical, organizational and security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

How long we will keep your information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

Beware of Phishing Attempts and Interest Scams

While email is convenient and has good business use, it can also be misused by criminals for scams and various other fraudulent purposes. "Phishing emails" are frequently used by criminals to entice the recipient to visit a fraudulent website where they try to convince the recipient to provide personal & confidential information. Some of these fraudulent websites may also be virus laden and can be used to download malware to your computer. Fraudulent websites often look identical to the legitimate website, so it's important to look very closely at the website address. Below we have listed a few tips to help protect your personal information on the Internet:

  • Always be wary of links in emails, especially any links in emails purporting to be from this Exchange.
  • Bookmark financial websites and use these bookmarks every time you visit the website.
  • Whenever you enter personal information like your access ID or passcode, always look for the lock symbol or https: in the address bar. Always click on the lock symbol and review the certificate details.
  • Update your Internet browser. Most browsers now offer free anti-phishing tool bars that can help alert you of fraudulent websites.
  • Make sure that your computer always has up-to-date versions of both anti-spyware and antivirus software.
  • If you receive an e-mail that you think could be a scam, delete it immediately or contact the helpline numbers of the Website.
  • If you have any questions about the legitimacy of an email, especially an email from this Website, you can also contact us at the numbers or email id provided on our website.

Changes To This Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.

Disclaimer of liability for User Information Security

We take appropriate measures of the Privacy Policy for the protection of the User Information. All the employees, consultants, screening committee members, mentors, and officers shall always be kept updated on the security and privacy protection procedures or methods. (We take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy and confidential responsibilities. We have established training programs to educate our employees about the importance of customer privacy and to ensure compliance with our policy requirements.)

Notwithstanding the aforesaid, despite our efforts to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the User Information, we may not be able to protect or prevent unauthorized access or use, software failure or fault, or other factors that may compromise the security of the User Information.

You agree and understand that the Internet is not a secure source; therefore, we cannot guarantee the protection of such User Information.

If any User Information is compromised despite our efforts to prevent the occurrence of the same, you shall not hold us liable for such breach of privacy protection under the Privacy Policy of the Website.