Privacy Policy

Beyond Group and its affiliates (collectively, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important. We are committed to respecting your right to privacy and protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on beyondgroupconsulting.com (the "Site"), including the Site subscription pages or other websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement. In addition, information that you submit to us in response to an email request for information or other outreach from Beyond Group, or through Beyond Group’s employment application processes, will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.

1. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy:
By visiting Beyond Group website and expressly consenting where required, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

2. What information do we collect?

2.1. Information automatically collected

  • In general, you can browse our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.  The only information we gather during general browsing is from standard server logs. 

  • You should know that this website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including: your IP address, information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

  • Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

  • Information gathered may also include details about your use of this website to power our site analytics, such as: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.

  • We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

2.2. Collection of personally identifiable information:

  • We collect information from you when you subscribe for email newsletters, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, or register for conferences and other Beyond Group-sponsored events. 

  • The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, financial information, subject of interest, demographic information and background information required to apply for a job.

  • In addition, we may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Site listed in paragraph 2.1.
     

3. How do we use your personal information?

3.1 We use the information we collect or receive to:

  • Contact you, either in response to an inquiry or suggestion, or to mail newsletters, or solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services;

  • Inform you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by Beyond Group that may be of interest to you;

  • Manage and process your job application;

  • Remember your online profile and preferences;

  • Help you find information that is relevant to you based on your interests, and help us create site contents most relevant to you;

  • Undertake statistical analysis;

  • Understand the Site’s user population, identify subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors;

  • Measure and improve the effectiveness of Beyond Group marketing programs across different channels;

  • Protect our Services: we may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).

3.2 Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based on:

  • Our legitimate business interests in promoting and protecting Beyond Group, building and maintaining relationships.

  • Your consent, for example if you create a user profile, or register for our newsletter, apply for employment. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

  • For compliance with our legal obligations. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.

4. How do we share your personal information?

Beyond Group does not sell, share or rent or otherwise make available any personally identifiable information volunteered on the Beyond Group site to any third party without prior consent. We do, however, share some user information with third parties who perform services on our behalf and have a need to access the information in connection with those services.  Any third parties will only process this information to the extent to which and within the limits that Beyond Group itself is permitted to process that data.

The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website include:

  • our subsidiaries or affiliates; 

  • our advisors;

  • our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services and marketing and events services;

  • our business partners for publications and events co-organized by Beyond Group and them;

  • law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order;

  • inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Beyond Group.

In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.

5. Do we use Cookies and other tracking technologies?

This website uses cookies and similar technologies (like web beacons and pixels), which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.


6. Email marketing:

We may send you marketing emails, which you can, at any time, opt out of receiving by using the unsubscribe information provided in these marketing emails, or you may get in touch with us via communications@beyondrd.com.

7. How long do we keep your information?

We retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). We may retain your personal information for longer if they may be the subject of a legal claim, or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. How do we keep your information safe?

We have implemented a range of techniques and security measures to protect the information maintained on our system from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. 

Only authorized employees and third-party service providers will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or third-party service providers having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally-identifiable information, Beyond Group cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.

9. Do we collect information from minors?

Beyond Group understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at communications@beyondrd.com

10. Are we responsible for privacy policies of third party sites?

You should note that through this site you may reach or be directed to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. Beyond Group does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

11. What are your privacy rights?

Based on the laws of some countries, you may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information.  If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it. You also have the right to require us to erase your personal data, stop processing your personal data, restricting the processing of your personal information, right of portability of your personal information and/or to withdraw your consent to processing.  This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

12. Do we make updates to this policy?

Beyond Group may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

13. How can you contact us about this privacy policy?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact communications@beyondrdcom