Privacy Policy

Effective January 3, 2024

Apex Worldtrade Media Partners, LLP and its affiliates (“Apex Worldtrade”) provides sales, demand generation, and business growth solutions to help businesses scale revenue and access new opportunities. Apex Worldtrade values your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of your information.

This Privacy Policy (or “policy”) describes how Apex Worldtrade uses the personal information you provide and the rights you have. By using our Services, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This policy is governed by applicable laws in India.

1. Privacy Policy Overview

This Policy explains how we may Process your information. This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time, so please check it regularly for updates.

Apex Worldtrade owns, operates several interactive websites, mobile and connected applications, and other online interactive features and services, including, emails, newsletters, chat areas, forums, and communities (collectively “services”). This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected about you by Apex Worldtrade, regardless of how it is collected or stored, and describes, among other things, the types of information collected about you when you interact with the services, how your information may be used, when your information may be disclosed, how you can control the use and disclosure of your information, and how your information is protected.

This policy covers information collected through Apex Worldtrade and its affiliates:

Within Apex Worldtrade, our most important asset is our relationship with our user community. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of the personal information of our customers, and want you to know how we protect your information submitted or collected through your use of our service.

In part, the purpose of this policy is to notify users of Apex Worldtrade policies and practices with respect to their data. By using the services provided you have agreed to the Terms of Use (or ToU); and this policy is a part of the ToU.

2. Information we Collect, Receive and Create about You

We may collect or obtain information about you when you sign up, when you create profiles, pages or contributions, when you use and interact with our services and when you make your personal information public. In some cases, we may also receive information about you from third parties. We only collect information that is necessary to provide and improve our Services. We are committed to collecting only the minimum data necessary to deliver our services effectively.

Data you provide when you sign up: This is, for example, username, password, subscription information, and basic information about any other accounts you choose to associate with your registration, like your LinkedIn, Facebook, or Google account.

Data you provide when you create profiles, pages or contributions: This is user generated contributions, such as the contents of profiles, including your profile name, contact details and any demographic information you choose to provide; as well as any comments and posts made in forums. We seek to provide users with an opportunity to be a part of an online community and communicate and share with others. This can include personal information that users choose to share. We encourage all of our users to make conscious choices about what they share online. Apex Worldtrade, including its affiliates, subsidiaries and/or parent company, is not responsible for the information you disclose to the public using our services.

Inferences: We may infer data about you based on your interests, where you live, what language(s) you speak, and other data we have access to.

Data we collect through your use of our services: We make and keep records when we provide you support or assistance on our services. We may also collect information about how you interact with our various services (or parts of our services) or third-party content you see on our apps and sites. We also collect data on how you interact with the ads you see.

Data we receive from third parties: In some cases, we may receive information about you from third parties, for example, social networking sites. Please note that this policy does not cover the practices of third parties, including those that may disclose information to Apex Worldtrade.

3. Data Processing and Retention

We process your personal information in order to provide you the best experience of our services. We may also process your Information where the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal rights.

Below is a chart stating which categories of your personal information we process for which purposes specifically, and how long we retain that data. Our processing of your data is subject to your use of our service, your privacy preferences, and your account settings choices.

Personal Information
We may Process the following categories of Personal Information about you.

Categories of personal information collected (see below for more details)

Account Information (Personal Details): your name; postal address; telephone and/or mobile number; email address; employer; username or log in details; password; your public social media handles or profile(s); This information is focused on your professional information.

App Data. For more information about a particular App or Tool and the data it collects, please visit our website. Please note, we may collect information from third-party apps.

Audio, Video, and Other Electronic Data: audio, electronic, visual, or similar information such as photographs, video submissions and call recordings.

Consent Records: records of any consents you may have given, together with the date and time, means of consent and any related information (e.g., the subject matter of the consent).

Customer Records: electronic customer records containing personal information, such as name, signature, address, telephone number, or any financial information.

Customer Support: We may collect Personal Data through your communications with our customer support team. Please ensure that no sensitive personal data is submitted in connection with your requests for support (for example, health information, political or religious beliefs, information about minors, etc.).
NOTE: Please ensure that no sensitive personal data is submitted in connection with your requests for support (for example, health information, political or religious beliefs, information about minors, etc.).

Demographic Information: gender; age/date of birth; nationality; salutation; job title, company information, education, work experience and other professional information; language preferences.

Location Information: location data that describes the precise geographic location of your device (“Precise Location Data”). This may include your physical location and movements that allows us to periodically determine your geolocation, such as your location in your state/province, city, or neighbourhood.

Profile Information and User Contributions: For certain Services, you may choose to create a public profile, a project page or a profile page, and to share Personal Data or make user contributions as part of the same. You may provide topics of interest and a photograph (if you or another user posts a photo on the Service). Please be aware, any Personal Data or contribution you choose to share in this way, will be published, and made generally available to other users and third parties via the websites. This user generated content is publicly available and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the other users or third parties who may view and use that information. If you do not want your Personal Data or user contributions to be accessible in this way, please do not post it. If you would like to contribute to our platform or services via a profile, a project page or a profile page, but do not want to be identifiable to other users, you may use an alias or other pseudonym to protect your identity, provided that the information you provide as part of your Account Information must always be correct, accurate, and up-to-date.

Inferences: such as inferences drawn from personal information to create a profile reflecting preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behaviour, and attitudes.

Transaction Information: information on how you interact with the Services, including records of products or services purchased, obtained or considered ; other information about how you use our Services, email, and other communications, and applications; and other purchasing or use histories or tendencies, or searches for and interactions with e-commerce opportunities, such as how you interact with our merchants, business partners, and service providers, including, in some cases, the items you purchase from those merchants.

Views and Opinions: any views and opinions that you or other users choose to send to us, or publicly post about us on social media platforms or in the Services, including on forums.

Advertising Identifiers: A user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a device (e.g., iOS uses the Identifier for Advertising (IDFA) and Android uses Google Advertising ID).

Cookies: Information collected through the use of cookies, eTags, Javascript, pixel tags, device ID tracking, anonymous identifiers and other technologies, including information collected using such methods and technologies about (i) your visits to, and interaction and engagement with, the Services, Subject to your privacy choices and settings, content and ads on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels (“Channels”), and (ii) your interaction with emails including the content and ads therein (collectively, “Online Data”).

Engagement Data: Information about (i) your visits to, and interaction and engagement with the services, content and ads on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels (“Channels”), and (ii) your interaction with emails including the content and ads therein (collectively, “Online Data”), which are collected through the use of cookies and cookie like technologies.

4. Sensitive Personal Information

We may process your precise location data where we have, in accordance with applicable law, obtained your consent prior to processing your sensitive personal information.

We do not seek to collect or process other sensitive personal information, such as, race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, or sex life. Where users choose to disclose sensitive personal information within profiles, contributions or other free-text fields available through Apex Worldtrade, we do not use the sensitive information for any additional purpose without consent, unless required to comply with laws, or prevent crimes.

5. Direct Marketing

We may use the contact details you provided us to reach out to you with information regarding services that may be of interest to you, for example, upcoming promotions. You may unsubscribe from the Apex Worldtrade newsletter and email lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. We will not send you any emails from a list you unsubscribed from, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of other Services you have requested or for additional emails you have signed up for.

6. Behavioural Advertising

Apex Worldtrade and third parties, subject to your privacy choices and settings, may collect data about your behaviour while using our services in order to provide you with more relevant interest-based advertising on other websites and applications, as well as our partners’ platforms and media channels. If you do not wish to receive this advertising, you can change your preferences by email on privacy@apexworldtrade.com

7. Cookies

We may collect information about you through the use of cookies and similar technologies on our sites and apps, or your devices. We also may permit our third-party service providers to perform various analytics functions and to provide you with more relevant or interest-based advertisements using cookies.

Some third parties may choose to use their own cookies for the purposes of collecting information relating to the viewing of their advertising. To learn more about how we use cookies, and to manage your preferences, please see our Cookie Policy . This policy, and our Cookie Policy, are only intended to cover the use of cookies as they relate to Apex Worldtrade businesses.

8. Information We Share with Third Parties

Apex Worldtrade and its affiliates: We share your information with other businesses owned by Apex Worldtrade to assist us in the operation of our services, improve them, and further develop them.

We may share your information with affiliated entities or service providers where necessary for the purposes of targeted advertising. If you would like to opt out of the sharing of your data for marketing or advertising purposes with other Apex Worldtrade affiliates, you can write to us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com

Other Third Parties: We may also share your personal information with the following:

• Relevant third-party provider, where our services use third party advertising, plugins or content, subject to your privacy choices and settings, and our ToU.

• Merchants, business partners, or advertisers where you consented and chose to participate in offers, or other activities.

• third party Processors (such as analytic providers; data centres; etc.), located anywhere in the world, subject to the requirements and limitations;

• legal and regulatory authorities, upon request, or for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation;

• Any party as directed by a law enforcement agency or court, to the extent necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal rights;

• Law enforcement for the purposes of prevention, detection, or investigation of criminal offenses and any legal proceedings associated with them.

• In the case of a full or partial acquisition, relevant third parties.

• Data a customer agrees to share, such as survey data.

On occasion Apex Worldtrade will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted regarding visitors to the Website. Apex Worldtrade may count, track, and aggregate visitor activity into our analysis of general traffic flows to the Website and may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. In a case, Apex Worldtrade will only provide demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual user information.

9. Data Security and Breach Handling

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unlawful destruction, loss alteration, misuse, or unauthorized access while in our possession. All parties we contract with must agree to provide reasonable data security measures for the customer information we share with them, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

If we learn of a security breach that affects our users, we may send an email or other direct communication to you, or post a blog to notify the public on our Help and Support Security Center. If you have any reason to believe that your data with us has been compromised (for example, there has been unauthorized access to your account), please contact us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com

10. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this policy, and in accordance with applicable laws. For more details on how long data is retained see the table in Section 3

11. Your Rights with Respect to Your Personal Information

Many privacy regulations afford consumers a number of specific rights. The EEA, Brazil, California, Colorado, Virginia, and several other U.S. states grant specific rights to people living under their jurisdiction. Apex Worldtrade aims to treat all our customers fairly affording users in all other regions similar privileges.

Your rights

• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where you are requested to consent to the processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

• Right to Know: You have a right to know what personal information we collect, process, and share or sell. This policy is meant to provide transparency with regard to your data. If you have additional questions, you can email us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com .

• Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal information we have collected about you from us.

• Right to Delete/Erase: You can request us to delete all the information we have collected about you. It is important to note that by exercising your right to deletion you may lose access to your account and any purchases, points or features associated with it. If you wish to cancel your account you may reach us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com .

• Right to Request Rectification: If you find that any of your information that we are processing is inaccurate, you can contact us to have your information corrected. In response, we will cancel or remove your information but may retain and use copies of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. For certain requests, we may require additional information.

• Right to Object to the Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to object to our use of your sensitive personal information. Sensitive personal information is information about your health, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, political opinions or philosophical beliefs. You should always be mindful about the personal information you share online, especially when it is sensitive in nature.

• Right to Object to Automated Processing: You have a right to object to the processing of your data for the purposes of automated decision making about you.

• Right to Complain (EU, UK, Switzerland): Should you wish to raise a complaint about the collection or use of your information, you have the right to do so without prejudice to any other rights you may have. You may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

• Right to not be Discriminated Against: You have a right to not be discriminated against by Apex Worldtrade for exercising your rights.

• Right to an Authorized Agent (CA): If you would like to make a request on behalf of a California consumer who is a current or former customer, please provide an email from the email address we have on file for the customer authorizing the request. You may also make a request under the California Consumer Privacy Act on behalf of a California consumer if you provide (1) a signed, written permission from the consumer to act on your behalf, and the consumer verifies their own identity directly with us; or (2) proof that the consumer has provided you with power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465. We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by the consumer to act on their behalf.

In order to make privacy requests please email us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com . Our contact information can be found in the “Contact Details” section below. We will respond to all requests within a reasonable timeframe in accordance with applicable laws.

You may be required to verify your identity before we can give effect to these rights. If you are making a request on behalf of a user, we require a signed authorization letter from the consumer

12. How to Change Your Preferences

Access to Your Personal Information. Upon request Apex Worldtrade will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by emailing us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com , regardless of your citizenship or location. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Your Newsletter and Email Subscriptions. You can opt out or unsubscribe to a newsletter or other email list at any time by following the instructions at the end of the newsletters or emails you receive. Please allow five to ten business days for changes to take effect. On some Services, member service-related communications are an integral part of such Services to which you subscribe and you may continue to receive emails as part of that particular portion of the Services unless you cancel your account, even if you opt out of the newsletters or email list. If you have provided more than one email address to us, you may continue to be contacted unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided.

Direct Mailings, Push Notifications, and Unsubscribing. Where you have consented to receive marketing communications from us, we will send you emails and/or push notifications (depending on what you have consented to). You may withdraw your consent for email marketing communications (i.e. unsubscribe) at any time by (i) clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in a marketing communication email we send you; or (ii) using the “Notifications” or “Settings” page in the account area. You may withdraw your consent for web-related notifications (i.e. unsubscribe) at any time through your browser settings. You may also withdraw your consent by emailing our support team(s) at the email addresses below. Please allow two working days for this instruction to take effect in all of our systems.

Opting Out of Tracking. Currently, our Services do not recognize browser do-not-track signals. However, you may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Social Media. You can manage the sharing of certain personal data when you register with us through a social media platform or application, such as through Facebook Connect or Google. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media platform or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between us and your social media account. By registering with us through a social media platform, you grant us permission to access all of the elements of your social network profile information that you have chosen to share with us and to use it in accordance with the social media platform’s terms of use and this privacy notice.

Location Based Services. You may opt-out of having your Precise Location Data collected by Apex Worldtrade at any time by editing the appropriate setting on your mobile device (which is usually located in the Settings area of your device).

California Residents. In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we may collect Personal Information about your online activities when you use the Services. While we give our users many avenues to opt out of providing Personal Information, we do not respond to Web browsers’ “do not track” signals. California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, permits our users who are California residents to periodically request and obtain certain information about any Personal Information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request or if you wish for us to refrain from gathering your Personal Information, please submit your request in writing to the contact details set out in Section 14 below.

EU Residents. GDPR provides certain rights for EU residents. You may decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide some of the features and functionality of the Services. These rights include, in accordance with applicable law, the right to object to or request the restriction of processing of your information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your own information. Where we process your information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent (noting that such withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of any Processing performed prior to the date on which we receive notice of such withdrawal, and does not prevent the Processing of your Personal Information in reliance upon any other available legal bases). Requests should be submitted by contacting us using by email. If you have any further questions upon receipt of your completed DSAR or if you would like to appeal in case your DSAR is denied, please resubmit a DSAR request by emailing us at privacy@apexworldtrade.com . If you are an EU resident and have any unresolved privacy concern, you have the right to contact the appropriate EU Supervisory Authority and lodge a complaint.

Contact and Complaints. If you are in the UK or EEA, you have the right to make a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority in your country, the details of which are available via the links below. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach a supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and may be addressed by (i) writing to us via the contact details set out in Section 14 below; or, (ii) email to privacy@apexworldtrade.com with the words “FAO: the Legal Department” at the start of the message or directly to our DPO, who can be contacted at dpo@apexworldtrade.com .

13. Contact Details

You may contact us by emailing privacy@apexworldtrade.com .

Apex Worldtrade Media Partners, LLP

505, 2nd floor, Tower 5

World Trade Centre

Opp. EON Free Zone,

Kharadi, Pune, Maharashtra 411014

If you are an EU resident, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@apexworldtrade.co

14. Children

These services are not intended for use by children, especially those under 16. We reserve the right to remove a user’s account at any time, when necessary, if we discover that a user is under the required age limit for the service. If you have reason to believe we have collected personal information from someone under 16, please report it to us so we can take appropriate steps to rectify this.

15. How this Privacy Policy May Change

This policy may be amended or updated from time to time at our discretion. Any updates will be effective at the time of publication, unless specified otherwise. Your continued use of our services after the publication of a policy update constitutes your consent to the changes. We will notify you prior to making policy updates that materially change the way we treat your personal data, and will not use your data in a materially different manner without your consent.