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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.