JANUS Consulting GmbH (“JANUS Consulting GmbH“, “JANUS Consulting“, “JANUS“, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person.
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with JANUS Consulting GmbH’s business activities, like conferences and events, and client services, and on websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy, in our capacity as data controllers. Please see our Terms of use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.
JANUS Consulting GmbH collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some client services. 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, and background information required to apply for a job.
We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our site. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our Site. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Site, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Site. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided.
JANUS Consulting GmbH may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators, in the course of its business activities including in connection with some client services. We may combine this data with existing information we have about you or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analytics activities. We will always seek to confirm that the third party has informed you in advance about its, and JANUS Consulting GmbH’s, use of this data.
JANUS Consulting GmbH uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, personalize content that you view or receive on the Site, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the Sites’ performance and functioning, publish your letters to the editor or comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce JANUS Consulting GmbH’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request.
In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Site, or we may use it in the course of our business activities, including in connection with some client services, for example, to provide certain services or products such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and offer content and services most relevant to you. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.
JANUS Consulting GmbH and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies, including web beacons, to manage our Site and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. JANUS Consulting GmbH and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you. The information provided throughout this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies.
Our Site do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Accordingly, we do not alter our data collection and use practices in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.
The legal basis by which we process your personal data
Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:
- in part, on our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting JANUS Consulting GmbH building and maintaining relationships. recruitment, and providing our services;
- in part, on your consent, for example if you register for our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations such as understanding and enhancing the quality of your experience on our web-sites;
- in part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations.