Updated: August 30, 2023

CallForSpeakers.Net Privacy Policy – CallForSpeakers.Net understands that you care about how information about you is used. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) explains how we collect information pertaining to businesses and business people (“Business Information”) and all other types of information through our website and online services (the “Site”); how we maintain, use and share that information; and how you can manage the way information about you is handled.

How does CallForSpeakers.Net Collect and Use Information?

Visitors to our Site may choose to submit their name, email address and/or other information so that they can learn more about our services, register to take part in a CallForSpeakers.Net-sponsored event, or participate in a survey, contest or sweepstakes, among other things. By accessing, using, and/or submitting information through the Site, you consent to the practices described in this Policy with regard to the information collected thereby as described herein. If you do not agree with this Policy, you must delete all cookies from your browser cache after visiting the Site and refrain from visiting or using the Site.

In order to use certain CallForSpeakers.Net products and services, you may be required to register as a user. From time to time, we may use your email address to send you information and keep you informed of products and services in which you might be interested. You will always be provided with an opportunity to opt out of receiving such emails. Your contact information may also be used to reach you regarding issues concerning your use of our Site, including changes to this Policy. A more detailed description of how we may collect and use customer information is found below under “Customer Information Collected.”

If you choose to use our referral service to invite a friend to join CallForSpeakers.Net, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. CallForSpeakers.Net will use this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and will not store your friend’s name or email address.

CallForSpeakers.Net may aggregate collected information about our users in a form that does not allow users to be personally identified for the purpose of understanding our customer base and enhancing the services that we and our strategic partners and customers can provide you.

If you purchase one of our online subscription-based services, you will need to provide credit card information. We will use that information solely for the purpose of fulfilling your CallForSpeakers.Net purchase request. We will not store credit card information in any encrypted form, we use Stripe offsite payment system and will not sell, share or use it again without your prior consent. (The only exceptions are described in the sections below on “Disclosures to Service Providers,” “Disclosures for Legal Reasons,” and “Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company”).

CallForSpeakers.Net will use personal information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual about whom the information pertains. CallForSpeakers.Net will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is relevant to its intended use, accurate, complete and current.

We also collect information using cookies, as described below.

Cookies

Most websites, including our Site, use a feature of your browser to set a small text file called a “cookie” on your computer. The site placing the cookie on your computer can then recognize the computer when you revisit the site to allow auto log in and track how you are using the site.
When you visit our Site, our servers and/or those of our service providers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends, such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, time and date of use and other information.
We may link this information to information that you submit while on our Site, which does allow you to be personally identified.

You are free to decline cookies. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. Electing to reject or disable cookies may substantially limit your ability to use our Site.

CallForSpeakers.Net may adopt other technologies that serve similar functions as cookies. If we do so, we will disclose it in this Policy.

Third Party Cookies

The use of cookies and similar technologies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, service providers is not covered by this Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company and service providers may use session ID cookies in order to:

• personalize your experience
• analyze which pages our visitors visit
• provide website feature such as social sharing widgets
• measure advertising effectiveness
• track which areas of our site you visit; in order to remarket to you after you leave

To disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to the third-party’s relevant website.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., on our Site. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the Site, compile reports on the Site’s activity, and provide other services related to Site activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website. The Site does not use Google Analytics to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.

Do Not Track Signals

Your browser or device may include ‘Do Not Track’ functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide to visitors, will continue to operate as described in this Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

Web beacons

Our Site contains electronic images known as “web beacons” (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.

Customer Information Collected

CallForSpeakers.Net may collect the following information from or regarding its customers: (1) personal contact information regarding users of the Services (“User Information”); (2) information uploaded to our system by a user of the Services (“Uploaded Information”); (3) and usage logs regarding the use of the Site, including logins and other actions taken, time stamps, IP address, and other usage data (“Usage Logs”) (collectively, “Customer Information”).

You may be a user that has been provided access to the Site through your company license agreement. Your employer may require that one or more users have global rights to access any and all information of every user that has access through the company. If you have questions or concerns regarding the rights of other individuals in your company to access your User Information, Uploaded Information, or Usage Logs, you should raise those concerns with the appropriate person at your company.

Use of Customer Information

Customer Information may be used for CallForSpeakers.Net’s legitimate business interests in connection with your use of the Site, including to respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests, complete transactions, provide customer service, send administrative information, and to personalize user experience with the Site. We may use Customer Information to better understand our users in general and to improve the content and functionality of the Site. We may use Customer Information to contact you in the future to tell you about services, promotions, opportunities, and other general information about CallForSpeakers.Net we believe will be of interest to you. We may use Customer Information to investigate and prosecute potential breaches of CallForSpeakers.Net’s security or license agreements.

CallForSpeakers.Net will not disclose Customer Information to any third party except in connection with a legitimate use as set forth herein, in connection with a bona fide legal dispute to which such information is relevant, in response to valid, compulsory legal process, or as otherwise required by law. CallForSpeakers.Net will, whenever possible, obtain confidentiality agreements from any person or entity to whom Customer Information is disclosed and ensure any recipients are committed to employing appropriate technological security measures.

CallForSpeakers.Net employs reasonable security and back-up procedures to protect Customer Information. However, in the unlikely event there is a loss or corruption of Customer Information, CallForSpeakers.Net is not responsible or liable for such loss or corruption. We encourage our users to retain copies of all Uploaded Information on their own system.

When does CallForSpeakers.Net Share Information?

Disclosures of Public Profiles

We may make any Business Information that our users contribute for inclusion in our Directory, that we collect from public web sources or that we license from third parties available to users of the Site, to our strategic partners and to our customers.

Disclosures to Service Providers

CallForSpeakers.Net may from time to time disclose Business Information or other collected information to service providers, solely for providing functions related to our operation of the Site and for no other purpose. For example:

• CallForSpeakers.Net uses service providers to process credit card payments on our Site. When you use a credit card to pay for CallForSpeakers.Net services, information such as your name, billing address, phone number, email address and credit card Information will be submitted to service providers for verification and to manage any recurring payments.
• CallForSpeakers.Net uses software hosted by a service provider to provide us with information regarding our visitors’ activities on our Site. When you visit our Site, that service provider may set cookies on our behalf and may receive information about your browsing activity on our Site.

Disclosures for Legal Reasons

We may disclose collected information, including Business Information, to a third party if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or desirable:

(i) to comply with lawful requests, subpoenas, search warrants or orders by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) to address a violation of the law, (iii) to protect the rights, property or safety of CallForSpeakers.Net, its users or the public, or (iv) to allow CallForSpeakers.Net to exercise its legal rights or respond to a legal claim.

Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company

If our company or substantially all of our assets are acquired, or in the event of a merger or bankruptcy, information about you and/or information you provide to CallForSpeakers.Net may be among the transferred assets. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

Other Disclosures

If you register for a CallForSpeakers.Net event with a third-party speaker, your information will generally be shared with the speaker.

If you provide information, including Business Information, in creating or updating your Public Profile, that information will be included in the Directory and thus can be viewed by third parties.

We post customer testimonials on our Site which may contain the customer’s name. We always get consent from the customer prior to posting any testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at callforspeakers.net@gmail.com

Our Site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any content you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. You can request the removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, by contacting us at callforspeakers.net@gmail.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

CallForSpeakers.Net may have liability to you in case of failure to comply with the law or this Policy in handling onward transfer of your Information to third parties.

How Can You Change or Delete Your Information?

Remove Your CallForSpeakers.Net Profile Completely

If you wish to completely remove your existing individual profile from the Directory, please email callforspeakers.net@gmail.com. If you make this choice, your name, employment history, web references and contact information (including email address) will be removed from our search results as soon as possible.

If any of the company information is incorrect, please update your company profile.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

How Can You Opt Out of Certain Uses of Your Information?

CallForSpeakers.Net gives you the opportunity to “opt out” of having your information used for certain purposes.

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication. After we receive your request, we will send you an email message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed.
CallForSpeakers.Net will not share information about you that you submit when you register for our services with third parties for promotional uses unless you opt in to such sharing within your CallForSpeakers.Net account or CallForSpeakers.Net has separately acquired such information from other sources, in which case CallForSpeakers.Net will give you the opportunity to opt out via email.

If you have registered for a CallForSpeakers.Net account and opted in to share your personal information with CallForSpeakers.Net subscribers, you may opt out by signing in to your CallForSpeakers.Net account and changing your preferences by clicking “Edit” next to your contact information on the Profile page.

If you have subscribed to CallForSpeakers.Net Community and opted in to share your business contacts with CallForSpeakers.Net in exchange for free access to our premium services, you may opt out of any further sharing of business contacts by uninstalling the Software. If you uninstall the Software, your subscription to CallForSpeakers.Net Community will immediately expire and CallForSpeakers.Net will no longer collect Business Information from you through this method (however, you will not be able to ‘unshare’ the Business Information you have previously provided to CallForSpeakers.Net).

You may also communicate your opt-out request to CallForSpeakers.Net by postal mail by using the contact information at the bottom of this Policy.

How Do We Keep Your Information Secure?

The security of your information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of Internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by CallForSpeakers.Net. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage when you leave our Site to be aware and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Policy applies only to information collected by this Site or in the method(s) otherwise discussed herein.

Social Media Widgets

Our Site includes social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and “Widgets”, such as the “Share” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our Site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

EU Residents

In the course of obtaining data to be included on the Site, if CallForSpeakers.Net obtains business contact information regarding an individual that CallForSpeakers.Net has reason to believe is based in the European Union, CallForSpeakers.Net will provide such individual with a notice detailing the information CallForSpeakers.Net has on such person, the purpose for which it will be used, and informing such person of their rights with respect to such information, including the right to know what information CallForSpeakers.Net possesses on them, to correct such information, or to opt out of data collection entirely. Such persons may opt out of the CallForSpeakers.Net database by emailing callforspeakers.net@gmail.com.

Information for Users in Europe and Elsewhere Outside the U.S.

If you use our Site outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your personal information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the U.S. regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your state or country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

Users in the European Union (EEA) and Switzerland: If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, the following information applies.

Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing: As explained above, we process personal data in various ways depending upon your use of our Sites. We process personal data on the following legal bases:

1. with your consent;
2. as necessary to perform our agreement to provide Services; and
3. as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the Sites where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy.

CallForSpeakers.Net’s collection of Business Information, and the creation and licensing of CallForSpeakers.Net’s Public Profiles and Directory, are within CallForSpeakers.Net’s legitimate interests to organize and make available business contact information given the limited impact of this data on an individual’s private life and that this information, unlike personal contact details, is widely disclosed. CallForSpeakers.Net has put in place safeguards to protect personal privacy and individual choice, including disclosures of its data processing activities, the use of consent or opt-outs wherever possible, and the implementation of a privacy center:.

Right to lodge a complaint: Users that reside in the EEA or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.

Transfers: Personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities. Per the applicable requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the GDPR. Please see “Privacy Shield Frameworks” below regarding our compliance with the EU- and Swiss-US Privacy Shields.

Individual Rights: If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to the following rights under the GDPR. Please note: In order to verify your identity, we may require you to provide us with personal information prior to accessing any records containing information about you.

• The right to access and correction. You have the right to request access to, and a copy of, your personal data at no charge, as well as certain information about our processing activities with respect to your data. You have the right to request correction or completion of your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete. You have the right to restrict our processing if you contest the accuracy of the data we hold about you, for as long as it takes to verify its accuracy.
• The right to request data erasure. You have the right to have your data erased from our Site if the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
• The right to object to our processing. You have the right to object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) 2016/679

CallForSpeakers.Net endeavors to comply with the provisions of the GDPR as to any information in its possession regarding European Union-based persons (“data subjects”). As such, CallForSpeakers.Net only processes personal information on data subjects where it has a lawful basis to do so, which may include the consent of the person (especially in the case of website visitors who provide their information), performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, or the legitimate interest of the controller or a third party. CallForSpeakers.Net provides notice to all data subjects as required by GDPR Article 13 or 14, as appropriate, and honors the rights of data subjects provided in Articles 12-23, including the right to be forgotten. For any opt-out requests or other inquiries related to privacy, please email callforspeakers.net@gmail.com.

Privacy Shield Frameworks

CallForSpeakers.Net complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States. CallForSpeakers.Net has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the policies in this Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, any rights you may have to binding arbitration before a Privacy Shield Panel, and to view our certification page, please visit  https://www.privacyshield.gov.

For information received under the Privacy Shield, CallForSpeakers.Net will require third parties to whom they disclose personal information to safeguard that personal information consistent with this Policy by contract, obligating those third parties to provide at least the same level of protection as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles. EU and Swiss citizens may choose to opt-out of such disclosures. CallForSpeakers.Net may have liability to you in case of failure to comply with the law or this policy in handling onward transfer of your information to third parties.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, CallForSpeakers.Net commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and its collection or use of your personal information. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this Policy should first contact CallForSpeakers.Net at callforspeakers.net@gmail.com. European Union and Swiss individuals have the right to access their personal data.

CallForSpeakers.Net further has committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to JAMS (Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Services), an independent alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and recognized for this purpose by the US Department of Commerce. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield for more information, and to file a complaint.

The Federal Trade Commission has enforcement authority regarding CallForSpeakers.Net’s compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles.

Changes to this Policy

CallForSpeakers.Net reserves the right to modify this Policy from time to time, so please review it regularly. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, and/or by means of a notice on our homepage prior to the changes becoming effective.

Non-Privacy Shield Related Questions or Complaints

If you have an unresolved privacy data or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us at callforspeakers.net@gmail.com

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at callforspeakers.net@gmail.com