Privacy Policy
Levin & Riegner is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes the way in which your personal data will be treated and your choices regarding the use, access, and correction of personal data. This Privacy Policy was last reviewed and updated 19 February 2020.We may update our policies to reflect changes to our data privacy practices. If we make any material changes, we will post a notice on this website prior to the changes becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Levin & Riegner is committed to complying with all global privacy data requirements in connection with the use of personal data received. This privacy policy describes how the firm collects, uses, shares, and secures personal data, such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Levin & Riegner collects this data through direct contact with clients, potential clients, related parties, candidates, or otherwise-interested individuals. The firm is committed to complying with all global privacy data requirements in connection with the use of personal data received.
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Who We Are and Contact Information
1.1 Who are we?
This privacy policy applies to Levin & Riegner LLC.1.2 Contact Information
Inquiries and concerns relating to our privacy practices can be directed to the following physical and email addresses:Physical contact address:Levin & Riegner
ATTN: Data Privacy
20 Jay Street #924
New York, New York 11201
Email Address: info@levinriegner.com
Why We Process Personal Data and How it is Shared
We only process personal data for the purposes in which it was obtained and avoid processing it for other purposes. If we share your data with third parties, they are required to act only on our instructions and only for the purposes that we communicate to them.
In certain situations, Levin & Riegner may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including those made in accordance with national security or law enforcement requirements. This further includes circumstances in which we believe, in good faith, that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, safeguard your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to requests made by administrative agencies.
Your personal data will not normally be disclosed to third parties, except as identified below and in connection with the fulfillment of our obligations to you and other purposes identified in this policy.
This privacy policy covers the following data processing activities:
Providing services you have requested from us
The primary purpose for processing your data is to provide you with services you requested from us when we collected your data. This includes registering you for the use of our after-conference events guide.
For this purpose, we collect the following categories of data from you:
1. Name
2. Company name
3. Email address
We share this data with our web developers who collect the data on our behalf, and our customer relationship management (CRM) system.
Direct marketing
Where we have received your consent, we process your data in order to you up to date with relevant data and business activities. If you would like to discontinue receiving these communications, you may update your email preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in emails we send to you or by contacting us at info@levinriegner.com.
The following data is used for this purpose:
- Name
- Contact information
- Marketing preferences
Understanding how you interact with our website
We process data that is recorded when you visit our website for the purposes of analyzing trends in the aggregate and administering the website so that we can best serve you as part of our legitimate interests. Most of this data is anonymous, however some cookies may set a unique identifier so it can recognize you when you return to the website. For more information, please see the section below relating to Cookies
Handling Your Data, Retention & Security, and Your Rights
1.4 How do we handle your data?
Levin & Riegner will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your personal data is accurate and kept up to date and that any personal data that is transferred to others will be processed securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. In order to provide you with requested services or data, we may need to transfer your personal data to firm locations and/or service providers based in various countries. This does not diminish your rights. Levin & Riegner only transfers personal data to third parties when appropriate legal considerations and agreements have been put into place before the personal data is transferred.We will not sell, resell, lease, or license your personal data to any third parties. However, we may, if required for the purpose(s) for which your personal data was collected and processed, share it with our service providers, for the specific scope of their provision of services on our behalf to help with our business activities. These companies are authorized to use your personal data only as instructed by us in a manner that is necessary to provide these services to us.We reserve the right to transfer any data we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the transferee use the personal data you have provided through the website in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy.
1.5 Data retention and data security
We only retain data for as long as necessary for us to provide the services you have requested from us.The security of your personal data is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the data submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. Levin & Riegner has policies and technical measures in place designed to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, accidental loss, and improper use and disclosure. If you have any questions about the security of your personal data, you may contact us at info@levinriegner.com.Our data security standards are compliant to the standard necessary for each of our operating client regions.
1.6 Your rights
Levin & Riegner endeavor to act on all requests we receive from individuals in relation to our data processing activities, irrespective of where they reside. An individual can access, correct or request the deletion of their personal data via the email address at the end of this section.However, EU data subjects have certain rights afforded to them as data subjects under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Levin & Riegner’s compliance with the GDPR is overseen by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Data subject rights include:- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- The right to make a complaint to the Supervisory Authority (Information Commissioner’s Office)
You may submit a request to exercise these rights by sending the request to our Data Protection Officer via one of the contact methods identified at the beginning of this privacy policy.
Access
Levin & Riegner will respond to any inquiries regarding whether we hold any of your personal data. You may access, correct, or request the deletion of your personal data by contacting us at info@levinriegner.com. In certain circumstances, we may retain your personal data in order to continue providing necessary services or to comply with legal requirements. We will respond to these requests within a reasonable timeframe.
Location-Specific Data Transfer Compliance
2.1 EU-U. S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U. S. Privacy Shield
Levin & Riegner participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (together, the Frameworks). Levin & Riegner is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Framework, to the Frameworks’ applicable principles. To learn more about the Frameworks, and to view our certification, visit the Privacy Shield List maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce at https://www.privacyshield.gov/list.
Levin & Riegner takes responsibility for the processing of personal data received under each Privacy Shield Framework, including with respect to any transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Levin & Riegner complies with the Frameworks’ principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward-transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Frameworks, Levin & Riegner is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data-use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
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When EEA users first access our website, we provide you the opportunity to actively consent or not consent to cookies used on our site before any, other than those that are strictly necessary, cookies are downloaded to your device. Consent is obtained via a pop-up window whereby clicking ‘I Accept,’ indicates that you consent to our use of cookies.
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However, please note that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences and some of our pages might not display properly. It is highly recommended that for the most secure and efficient user experience when visiting our site that you accept our use of cookies.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are widely used on websites to ensure the most efficient and secure user experience possible. Cookies are small, text files that are downloaded on to your personal device when you access a website and stored by your browser. They allow the website to recognize the user’s device and store some data about the user’s preferences or past actions.Cookies usually also have an expiration date. For example, some cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (session cookies), while others can be stored longer on your computer, sometimes until you delete them manually (persistent cookies). This site utilizes both session and persistent cookies to provide a consistent, streamlined user experience.
Why do we use cookies?
We utilize cookies produced by trusted, commonly used third-party vendors to help us provide an optimal user experience.The cookies we use fall into the following two categories:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: Strictly necessary cookies are utilized on this website in order to enable basic functionality. This includes page navigation, access to secure areas of the website and the search function. This website cannot function optimally without these cookies, and therefore we enable them without your consent.
Performance Cookies: Performance cookies help us understand visitor interactions with websites by collecting and reporting data anonymously. This allows us to learn from the statistics produced from user interaction and develop a better performing website.
Controlling cookies
Non-EEA users (as well as EEA users, if they choose to use this method instead of the method described above) can control how we use cookies using settings in their web browser.Most web browsers also allow a user to control their cookies through their respective browser settings.
Web browser settings can be adjusted to perform one or more of the following actions: delete all cookies, block all cookies, allow all cookies, block third-party cookies, clear all cookies when you close the browser, open a “private” browsing session, install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality as it pertains to cookies.
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Who can I contact with questions and concerns about cookies?
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