Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

As an international business-to-business information services group, data and information is at the heart of what Kamikaze B2B Media does.

We take the privacy and protection of data and information seriously. We are committed to handling the personal information of all those we engage with, whether customers, suppliers, colleagues or any other community, in a way that is responsible and meets the legal requirements of the countries in which we operate.

As part of using Kamikaze B2B Media services, browsing our websites and contacting the business, data and information is collected. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") sets out Kamikaze approach to safeguarding and maintaining the privacy of that personal information, and explains what data is collected, how it is used, the legal basis for its use, and the rights individuals have over that data.

1:1. ABOUT KAMIKAZE B2B MEDIA

Kamikaze B2B Media is an international business-to-business information services group, operating in India. We serve commercial, professional and academic communities by helping them connect and learn, and by creating and providing access to content and intelligence that helps people and businesses work smarter and make better decisions faster.

2. What we collect

This section explains the personal information that may be collected when using our services, and the other personal data we may receive from other sources.

2:1. YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

In this Privacy Policy, the term "personal information" refers to the types of information we may collect and use, which includes:

  • • Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number;
  • • Nationality and professional background information;
  • • Payment information, such as a credit or debit card number;
  • • Comments, feedback, posts and other content you submit; &
  • • Location information (e.g. through mobile apps)

We collect and use your personal information in the following main categories:

  • • As customer / consumer data (transactional, prospect and analytics) including prospect data;
  • • As contact data which includes corporate customer contact data (i.e. contact details of account manager / key contact at corporate customers); and subscriber / user data;
  • • In connection with an event, for instance customer event and trade show visitors, exhibitors, speakers, conference visitors and attendee data

2:2. COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information when you:

  • • Buy a service from us, including buying online or over the phone
  • • Subscribe to newsletters, alerts or other services from us
  • • Ask us for more information about one of our events, including through live chat or by downloading a brochure, or contact us with a question or complaint
  • • Visit or browse websites owned and operated by Kamikaze B2B Media
  • • Attend our events, if you are scanned by us or an exhibitor
  • • We may also collect information about you from other organisations, where appropriate. These include fraud-prevention agencies, business directories including public networks such as LinkedIn and credit reference agencies.

3. How & why personal information is used

This section explains how and why we use personal information.

3:1. LAWFUL PROCESSING IN INDIA

As we collect and use personal information, the lawful bases we use for this activity in India, as required under GDPR data protection laws, are:

  • • Where it is necessary for entering into or performing a contract with you
  • • Where we have a legitimate interest to do so, provided your rights do not override these interests
  • • Where you have consented to its use
  • • Where our colleagues believe it is in your vital interests to share your personal details, for example with emergency services
  • • Where required to comply with our legal obligations

3:2. PRODUCT ENQUIRES, SALES AND ADMINISTRATION

As part of a purchase, product enquiry, request for information and for account administration, we collect information such as your name, country, job title, company information or academic affiliation, postal address, e-mail address & telephone number.

If you have made an enquiry about us or our products or services, either online or over the phone, we will use your personal information to respond to the enquiry or to take other steps at your request, before you enter into a contract. For example, we collect the e-mail addresses and additional contact details of those who send e-mails to request information. Where a sales representative speaks to you over the phone, the calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes only.

If you have registered for or purchased a product or services, including on a trial basis, your personal information will be used to provide that product or service, communicate about it and handle payments, as is necessary for the performance of the contract entered into.

For purchases, payment information, including credit/debit card number/bank details and billing addresses are also collected. Where payment card processors are used to facilitate payment card transactions on our websites, your data will be collected and used according to that data processors’ privacy policy.

If your personal information is relevant to certain products and is freely available through public sources, such as on a website related to your work or profession, we may use this personal information for providing customers with our products, as part of our legitimate interests as a commercial organisation.

3:3. EVENT AND EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT

If you have agreed to participate in one of our events as a speaker, sponsor, exhibitor or attendee, personal information is used in connection with the running of the event, to handle payments or for other purposes, as is necessary for performing the contract entered into. We will also use your personal information to maintain our databases, assess your qualities as a speaker or sponsor/exhibitor, promote events and encourage further engagement at our events, as part of the legitimate interests we have as a commercial organisation. At some of our events, your name badge may contain some of your personal information that you have provided to us, which may include your name, job title and company. When scanned, this information will be made available to us or the relevant exhibitor and processed in the manner as described above.

In addition, we sometimes take photos and videos at our events, which may feature attendees, speakers, sponsors or exhibitors. Where photos and videos are taken that feature you as an attendee, sponsor or exhibitor, we may use those photos and videos for promotional purposes.

3:4. MARKETING

We will use your personal information to send you newsletters, offers or other marketing emails to keep you up to date with our news, events and products that may be of interest. Depending on the nature of your interaction with us and the laws of the country where you live, you may have actively given your consent for this by opting in or we may be entitled to rely to legitimate interests to contact you with relevant marketing information. The opportunity to opt out of future marketing emails will always be provided, and information on how to do this is given when your personal information is collected and on every marketing email sent.

3:5. CUSTOMER AND PROSPECTS MANAGEMENT (INCLUDING ANALYTICS AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT)

We may use your personal information and contact you to maintain our customer database in order to keep your information accurate and up-to-date; as well as to carry out internal analysis of the usage of our products and services, in order to improve them, develop new products and events and predict future customer behaviour, as is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests as a commercial organisation. This may include automated profiling and campaign management techniques.

We may use the personal data we hold about you, combined with publicly available data and your demographic data to better understand our customers and to improve the products and services we deliver.

3:6. COMPLIANCE WITH OUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

To ensure compliance with international trade sanction laws and regulations, we screen customers, vendors and suppliers against US, OFAC, BIS, UN, EU and UK sanctions lists. Should any screening checks flag an issue where we cannot continue in a contract with a customer or supplier, they will always be informed.

4. How we protect personal information

Any personal information given to us will be treated with the utmost care and security. This section sets out some of the security measures in place.

A variety of physical and technical measures are used to keep data safe and prevent unauthorised access to, or use or disclosure of personal information.

Electronic data and databases are stored on secure computer systems and we control who has access to information, using both physical and electronic means. Our colleagues receive data protection training, and we have detailed security and data protection policies that colleagues are required to follow when handling personal data.

All reasonable steps are taken to ensure that your personal information is kept secure from unauthorised access, but we cannot guarantee it will be secure during the transmission process to this website because this transmission is not controlled by us. We make use of HTTPS (HTTP Secure) whereby the communication protocol is encrypted via Transport Layer Security for secure communication over a computer network. The website is loaded via HTTPS, represented by the lock icon in your web browser, which ensures the transmission is secure and is demonstrated by a certificate issued by an official security certificate authority to us.

5. Cookies

We use cookies (small text files stored in your browser) and other techniques such as web beacons (small, clear picture files used to follow your movements on our website). These collect information that tells us how our websites, web-related products and services are used.

This, in turn, helps us make our website relevant to your interests and needs. We may use a persistent cookie (a cookie that stays linked to your browser) to record your details to recognise you if you visit our website again.

6. Who we share personal information with

As an Service Marketing company providing you with services and products, we may share your information for specific reasons. This section explains how and why we share personal data with our partners and other third parties.

6:1. SHARING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may share your personal information with third parties to assist in providing our products and services, including:

  • • Email marketing providers,
  • • Web hosting providers,
  • • Registration companies, or

We only share personal information with such third parties to the extent necessary for them to provide such assistance.

6:2. SHARING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS

We may share your personal information with trusted media partner organisations for their marketing purposes in accordance with local data laws.

6:3. THIS IS CO-HOSTED BY KAMIKAZE B2B MEDIA AND ORACLE

Both companies will process your personal information. Each party will be responsible for managing their own use of your personal information.

By filling and submitting this form you understand and agree that Oracle processes your personal information in accordance with the Oracle Privacy Policy. Additional details regarding Oracle’s collection and use of your personal information, including information about access, retention, rectification, deletion, security, cross-border transfers and other topics, is available in the Oracle Privacy Policy.

7. How long information is kept

We will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary and as permitted by applicable laws.

We will retain your personal information while we are using it, as described in the section above and may continue to retain it after these uses have ended where we have a legitimate business purpose. For example, if you have opted out of marketing communications from us, we will retain limited details about you to ensure the opt-out request is honoured. We may also continue to retain your personal information to meet our legal requirements or to defend or exercise our legal rights.

The length of time for which we will retain personal information will depend on the purposes for which it is retained it. After we no longer need to retain your personal information, it will be deleted or securely destroyed.

8. How to update your information and marketing preferences

We want to ensure you remain in control of your personal information. We try to ensure that the personal information held about you is accurate and up-to-date, and will always give you the opportunity to opt out of future marketing communications.

We will process your data to send marketing information that we believe is targeted and of interest to you. Information on how to opt out will be given when your personal information is collected and specified on every marketing email sent.

9. Your Rights

Kamikaze B2B Media operates with data protection laws that may provide individuals the right to be able to access and control their information. We always will enable you to exercise those rights as provided by data protection laws.

India data protection laws give individuals a number of rights, where their data and information is processed by companies established in the Country. Under General Data Protection Regulation these are:

  • • The right to confirmation whether or not we have your personal data and, if we do, to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold. This is known as a subject access request;
  • • The right to have inaccurate data rectified;
  • • The right to have your data erased. This does not however apply where it is necessary for us to continue to use the data for a lawful reason;
  • • The right to request the restriction or suppression of personal data. We will stop using the data but we may continue storing it
  • • The right to obtain your personal data that you have provided to us, on the basis of consent or performance of a contract, and where technically feasible, transmitted in a common electronic format to you or directly to another company.
  • • The right to object to the use of your data. Specifically, you have the right to object to our use for marketing and in relation to automated decision making, including profiling where there may be legal or similarly significant effects.

There are exceptions to the rights above. We will always try to respond to your satisfaction, although there may be situations where we are unable to do so.

10. Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our use of your information, please contact us by email mangesh@kamikaze.co.in or write to us at: Kamikaze B2B Media, 103, opp Andheri sports complex, veera desai road, Andheri west, Mumbai 58

11. Changes to Privacy Policy

To keep up with changing legislation, best practice and changes in how we process personal data, this Privacy Policy may be revised at any time without notice by posting an updated version on this website. Checking back periodically will mean you are aware of any changes.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 31st August 2023.