In general, we collect information, including personal data, when you communicate with us, when you use our Website, engage with our social media platforms, participate in our surveys, or as part of our regular business activities and operations. There are instances where we invite or request participants to provide personal data, through our Website, social media platforms, or surveys, and we may also collect certain information automatically.
Personal Data You Provide Us
Depending on how you interact with us, you may provide us with the following personal data:
- Identifying and contact information, such as your name, online identifiers, email address, mailing address, home address, work address, company name, phone number, identifier number, passport and other national identity details, or other similar identifiers. For example, we collect such information when you register at http://www.icd-ps.org.
- Information related to your interactions with us, such as the searches you carry out on the Website, information about your visits to the Website, written communications between you and us, notes related to in-person meetings or telephone calls between you and us, queries sent to us, username, password, online identifiers and information related to your IP address or other device identifiers when using our Website or electronic delivery portals.
- Personal details, such as gender, date of birth, religion, nationality, or marital status.
- Information related to the provision of our services to you, such as fees and billing information, records related to acts we take on your behalf, notes regarding your service preferences, and transaction-specific information.
- Information related to your finances and financial accounts, for example your source of funds/wealth, net worth, gross assets, investment sophistication and goals, financial or bank account information, wire instructions or a signature, asset/investment-specific information, creditworthiness, income, trust and estate information, tax status, tax identification number and other relevant tax information, and transaction-specific information.
- Information related to your various activities and relationships, such as information related to your businesses and professional engagements, professional relationships, familial relationships, charitable activities, personal undertakings, and service providers.
- Information related to your affiliations, for example, information related to your business(es) or professional engagements, education information, professional or employment-related information, occupation, employer, title and information related to your relationship with any of our clients or investors.
- Audio (e.g., voicemail), Video electronic, visual or similar information, such as quotes, interviews with speakers, documentary or success stories.
- Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting your preferences or similar information.
For example, if you contact us via the "Contact Us" form (available here: https://icd-ps.org/en/contact-us), you are required to provide us with certain personal data such as your name, phone number, company name, and email address solely for the purpose of responding to your request or query. A copy of this correspondence may be kept. We may also ask for your information where you report a problem on our Website or otherwise contact us. Any information you provide in this way is used by the ICD in line with the purposes set out below. If you do not provide the requested information, we may not be able to respond to questions or requests that you submit to us.
Similarly, when we conduct client survey (effectiveness or satisfaction), you are required to provide us with certain personal data such as your name, phone number, company name, and email address solely for the purpose of the survey and its analytical part. A copy of this correspondence may be kept.
Personal Data Collected from Third Party Sources
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect certain information about you from third parties, including:
- Identifying and contact information, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email and other types of contact information.
- Information related to your affiliations, for example, information related to your business(es) or professional engagements, and information related to your relationship with the ICD, but not including special categories of information as described below.
- Information related to your finances and financial accounts, such as financial account information, and transaction-specific information.
- Information related to your various activities and relationships, for example, information related to your businesses and professional engagements, your professional relationships, your familial relationships, your charitable activities, and your personal undertakings.
We may also collect personal data from different sources such as consultants, administrators, identity verification services, and credit reference agencies, sources designed to detect and prevent fraud. We may also collect personal data through publicly available sources such as public websites or other publicly accessible directories and sources, including bankruptcy registers, tax authorities, governmental agencies and departments, sanctions screening databases, and regulatory authorities.
Personal Data Collected Automatically
Depending on how you interact with us, we may gather information about you automatically through your use of the Website, social media platforms or interactions with us, such as your IP address, browser type, browsing behavior, and device information and how you navigate our Website or following ICD in different social media platforms. We may collect information about you by using cookies, tracking pixels and other technologies (collectively, "Cookies"). We use this data to enhance your user experience, analyze website performance, and for security purposes. The basis for this is our legitimate interest in improving our services and ensuring the security of our Website. You have the option to accept or reject cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Please note that if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our Website.
We may use third-party web analytics services on the Website, including Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how people are using our Website. Google Analytics has its own cookies that it uses to track and aggregate this information. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Website by downloading and installing the browser plugin.
Depending on how you interact with us, we may automatically collect personal data through these tools, including the following:
- Log Data. This includes information that your browser sends whenever you visit our external or internal sites ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. When you access ICD's Website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device's unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, your location information, and other statistics.
- Website Browsing Data. This includes information gathered while you browse our sites, including technical, usage, and navigational data that shows what pages you have visited and how long various features are used.
- Device Information. Such as information about the device you use to access our sites, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
Social Media Data: Many social media platforms provide Application Programming Interfaces(APIs) that allow developers to access certain types of data such as user profiles, posts, likes, followers, events, insights, user media and comments.
Special Categories of Personal Data
We do not directly request or intend to collect special categories of information, including information about your health, race, religion, political opinions, philosophical beliefs, genetics, or biometric data. However, please note that certain other types of information we collect may allow us to indirectly infer or refer to the corresponding special category of information notwithstanding that we are not collecting or otherwise processing such information.