This website (the “Site”) is administered by Summit Tech Partners or its affiliates (“Summit Tech Partners” or “we”) in connection with the Summit Tech Partners | Summit Tech Partners brand. The primary purpose of the Site is to provide education and awareness of the services Summit Tech Partners provides in the marketplace. Additionally, this Site acts as a gateway for registering to attend publicly available Summit Tech Partners training events. We take the security and privacy of your information very seriously.

Your access and use of the Site may be governed by a separate written agreement entered into between Summit Tech Partners (or an Summit Tech Partners affiliate) and your employer (“Employer Agreement”), which agreement may be entitled “Master Services Agreement” or something similar. In such case, Summit Tech Partners’s privacy obligations to you are governed by that Employer Agreement.

The following provides an overview of how we protect your privacy during your visit.

What Personal Data Does Summit Tech Partners Process?

Summit Tech Partners will only collect personal data about you where necessary to achieve the purposes set out in this privacy statement.

Summit Tech Partners may be processing the following personal data:

Name

Email address

Job Title

Employer/Company Name

Phone Numbers

Billing Address

Username or ID for web application

Password for web application

IP address

Attendance history of Summit Tech Partners events

Photograph, and images/footage captured on CCTV or other video systems, voice recordings by Summit Tech Partners which you have separately consented to at Summit Tech Partners’s events

Any other personal data that you choose to provide Summit Tech Partners, its affiliates, and third party providers in connection with the Site or that is generated through your use of the Site.

What Sensitive Personal Data Will Summit Tech Partners Have Access To?

We do not generally seek to collect sensitive personal data through this Site. The term “sensitive personal data” refers to the various categories of personal data identified by European and other data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including in some circumstances the need to obtain explicit consent. These categories may include personal identity numbers, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or other similar beliefs, membership of a trade union or profession or trade association, physical or mental health, biometric or genetic data, sexual life, or criminal record (including information about suspected criminal activities). Your disclosure of your dietary restrictions to Summit Tech Partners to enable Summit Tech Partners to make the right meal selections for you at Summit Tech Partners events may be considered sensitive information.  Summit Tech Partners will only use such sensitive information for the original purpose you have disclosed such sensitive information.

Where Does Summit Tech Partners Obtain My Personal Data From?

The personal data that Summit Tech Partners processes as described in this privacy statement come from personal data submitted by yourself as part of your use of the Site.

Except for certain information that is required by law, your decision to provide any personal data to Summit Tech Partners is voluntary. You will therefore not be subject to adverse consequences if you do not provide personal data. However, please note that if you do not provide certain information, Summit Tech Partners may not be able to accomplish some or all of the purposes outlined in this privacy statement and you may not be able to access the Site or obtain services through the Site.

Why Does Summit Tech Partners Process Your Personal Data?

Summit Tech Partners may collect, use, transfer, disclose and otherwise process your personal data in the context of managing its relationship with you and providing this Site.

Specifically, Summit Tech Partners is processing your personal data for the following purposes:

Operation of this Site and provision of this Site(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized such as requests for certain services or content by Summit Tech Partners.

Identification of ways to improve the Site and make it more effective.

Compliance with laws and policies (including complying with requests from regulators).

Management of disputes.

Audits.

Providing you with important information about the product or Site that you are using, including critical updates and notifications.

Merging Site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content.

Summit Tech Partners will not use your personal data for any other purpose that is incompatible with the purposes listed in this privacy statement, unless it is required or authorized by law, authorized by you, or it is in your own vital interest (e.g. in case of a medical emergency) to do so.

On What Legal Basis Does Summit Tech Partners Process Your Personal Data?

Summit Tech Partners processes your personal data as permitted by applicable data privacy laws and its internal policies, including Summit Tech Partners’s Global Data Privacy Policy 0090.

Summit Tech Partners processes your personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy for one or more of the following reasons: (i) because Summit Tech Partners is required to do so for compliance with a legal obligation to which it is subject, (ii) because such information is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, (iii) because the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Summit Tech Partners or by a third party (as described in the last sentence of this paragraph), (iv) where necessary in order to protect the vital interests of any person, or (v) where you have provided your specific consent. Summit Tech Partners has legitimate interests in collecting and processing personal data, for example: (1) to ensure that Summit Tech Partners’s networks and information are secure, (2) to administer and generally conduct business and (3) to prevent fraud.

In addition, Summit Tech Partners may process your sensitive data and/or make automated decisions concerning you, where permitted by applicable law and/or with your prior consent.

Who Has Access To Your Personal Data?

Access to your personal data within Summit Tech Partners will be limited to those employees who have a need to know the information for the purposes described in this privacy statement, which may include your managers and their designees, as well as personnel in Security, HR, IT, Compliance, Legal, Finance and Accounting, Corporate Investigations and Internal Audit. All employees within Summit Tech Partners will generally have access to your business contact information (e.g. name, position, telephone number and e-mail address).

Furthermore, your personal data may be transferred to other Summit Tech Partners offices and third parties, which may involve transferring your personal data to other countries.

As a global organization with offices and operations throughout the world, your personal data may be transferred or be accessible internationally throughout Summit Tech Partners’s global business and between its entities and affiliates. Any transfers of your personal data to other Summit Tech Partners offices (including transfers from within the European Economic Area (EEA) to outside the EEA) will be governed by Summit Tech Partners’s binding corporate rules.

Download a copy of Summit Tech Partners’s BCR. Summit Tech Partners’s BCR reflect the standards contained in European data privacy laws (including the General Data Protection Regulation). Having the BCR means that all Summit Tech Partners’s group entities which have signed up to the BCR have to comply with the same internal rules. It also means that your rights stay the same no matter where your data are processed by Summit Tech Partners.

Further information on Summit Tech Partners (and, if relevant, its representatives) can be found here. Any Summit Tech Partners entity located outside the European Union will for the purposes of compliance with data privacy laws be represented by Summit Tech Partners PLC.

Furthermore, where there is a need, Summit Tech Partners may share your personal data with third parties, such as service providers and public authorities as further described below. Before doing so, Summit Tech Partners takes steps to protect your personal data. Any third party service providers and professional advisors to whom your personal data are disclosed, are expected and required to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal data and may only use your personal data in compliance with applicable data privacy laws.

Will Summit Tech Partners And Its Affiliates Share My Personal Data With Third Parties?

In addition to transferring personal data to its affiliates and relevant internal staff, Summit Tech Partners may also transfer your personal data to the categories of unaffiliated third parties set out in the below table.

Category of third party            Explanation

Professional advisors. Accountants, auditors, lawyers, insurers, bankers, and other outside professional advisors in all of the countries in which Summit Tech Partners operates.

Service providers. Companies, contractors, and certification organizations such as International Consortium of Agile, Scrum Alliance Inc., and Scaled Agile Inc. that provide products and services to Summit Tech Partners to enable the operation of the Site or provide services including educational services to you that are requested through the Site.

For example, this Site may connect you to Eventbrite and Ning as part of your desire to sign up for certain Summit Tech Partners events. Your use of such third party services will be governed by that third party’s privacy policy.  The third party service provider is responsible for its use of your personal data in accordance with its privacy policy and applicable law.  For any access requests that you may have for your personal data which are facilitated through a third party service provider, you must submit your requests to that third party service provider.

Public and governmental authorities. Entities that regulate or have jurisdiction over Summit Tech Partners such as regulatory authorities, law enforcement, public bodies, and judicial bodies.

Corporate / commercial transaction.  A third party in connection with any proposed or actual reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of Summit Tech Partners business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). A third party in connection with any proposed or actual client project.

Before sharing your personal data with any of the aforementioned third parties, Summit Tech Partners takes steps to protect your personal data as required by applicable data protection laws and/or Summit Tech Partners’s internal policies. Any such third parties are expected and required to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal data and may only use your personal data in compliance with all applicable data protection laws. Any transfers of your personal data from within the EEA to third parties outside the EEA (that are not located in a country for which an adequacy decision has been issued) will be governed by the standard contractual clauses or as otherwise permitted by law.

Are There Any Age Restrictions In The Use Of The Site

This Site is intended to be used by anybody who is above the age 13 for the purpose of informational and educational convenience only and is meant for personal use. In the event, that the Site is being used by a child less than 13 without parental consent, Summit Tech Partners reserves the right to delete the child’s information in its entirety and revoke the license to use this Site. If you are above age 13 and using this Site for a child who age is below 13, you agree that the child’s information will be stored on your device as well as its servers. In case Summit Tech Partners is made aware that you are not authorized to use this Site for a child (under age 13), Summit Tech Partners reserves the right to delete the child’s information and revoke your license to use the Site.

How Long Does Summit Tech Partners Retain Your Personal Data?

Summit Tech Partners will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Summit Tech Partners determines the retention period of your personal data based on the following retention criteria:

Summit Tech Partners retains your personal data as long as it has an ongoing relationship with you;

Summit Tech Partners retains your personal data where it is required to do so by a legal obligation to which it is subject;

Summit Tech Partners retains your personal data where this is advisable to safeguard or improve Summit Tech Partners’s legal position (for instance in relation to statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

Please keep your personal data at all times up to date and inform Summit Tech Partners of any material changes to your personal data.

What Rights Do You Have Concerning Your Personal Data Processed By Summit Tech Partners?

You have the right (in the circumstances and under the conditions, and subject to the exceptions, set out in applicable law) to:

request access to your personal data: this right entitles you to request access to personal data Summit Tech Partners processes about you, as well as to certain information on such processing;

request rectification of your personal data: this right entitles you to request the rectification or completion of any of your personal data that would be inaccurate or incomplete;

request erasure of your personal data: this right entitles you to request the erasure of your personal data, including where such personal data would no longer be necessary to achieve the purposes;

object to the processing of your personal data: this right entitles you to request that Summit Tech Partners no longer processes your personal data;

request the restriction of the processing of your personal data: this right entitles you to request that Summit Tech Partners only processes your personal data in limited circumstances, including with your consent;

request a copy or the portability of your personal data: this right entitles you to receive a copy of personal data that you have provided to Summit Tech Partners.

Please note, however, that certain personal data may be exempt from the above-mentioned rights pursuant to applicable data protection or other laws and regulations.

You have the right to withdraw such consent at any time by contacting Summit Tech Partners@Summit Tech Partners.com. Please note that this will not affect Summit Tech Partners’s right to process personal data obtained prior to the withdrawal of your consent, or its right to continue parts of the processing based on other legal bases than your consent.

If, despite Summit Tech Partners’s commitment and efforts to protect your personal data, you believe that your data protection rights have been violated, you have the right at all times to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, either in the country where you live, the country where you work or the country where you deem that data protection law has been infringed.

Yes, we use of cookies. For Summit Tech Partners’s policy on cookies, please see here. For this Site, Summit Tech Partners uses cookies from the following third party companies:  Google Analytics, Salesforce, Kissmetrics.

For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies: Google at Google Privacy & Terms, Salesforce at  Salesforce Privacy and  Kissmetrics at  Kissmetrics Privacy.

What Are Your Rights Regarding Marketing Communication?

You can exercise your right to prevent marketing communications to you by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your personal data, or by utilizing opt-out mechanisms in e-mails we send to you. You can also exercise the right to discontinue marketing communications to you, inform us of your opt-out preferences, or to have your personal data removed from our customer relationship management (CRM) databases at any time by contacting at Summit Tech Partners@Summit Tech Partners.com. In such cases, we will retain minimum personal data to note that you opted out in order to avoid contacting you again.

What If You Have Questions Or Want Further Information?

This privacy statement aims to give you complete and transparent information on how Summit Tech Partners processes your personal data.

If you have any further questions or concerns regarding how Summit Tech Partners processes your personal data, or if you wish to exercise any of your foregoing rights, please contact Summit Tech Partners@Summit Tech Partners.com or the data protection officer at dataprivacyofficer@Summit Tech Partners.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy in the future. We will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by placing a prominent notice on the Site.

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