Privacy Statement

Updated June 8, 2023

Amane Advisors and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Amane”, “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 (“policy”) is intended to help you understand how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with Amane’s business activities, such as client services, conferences, and events, career opportunities, and on websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”), in our capacity as data controllers.

What data we collect

Amane collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some client services and in the maintenance of our expert network. We collect personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for Amane newsletters including Amane currents, sign up for conferences and events, when you apply for a job and when you register for our Expert Network.

This data may include:

Your personal information (e.g., name, company, title, email address, telephone) through form (e.g., registration) and download request submissions
Interests and preferences from website activity and voluntary submissions (e.g., downloads)
Background information and CV information required to apply for a job
Location, areas of expertise and preferred hourly rates to join our Expert Network

We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. 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 Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites.

Why we collect your data

Amane uses your personal data for several reasons:

To better understand client and customer needs and interests
To improve our services, products, and website
To provide information about Amane’s products, services, news, and events that we believe may be of interest to you
To confirm and process sales transactions, or contact you with questions or communications about a transaction
To contact customers with surveys, invitations to events, participation in market research activities, or to be involved with our expert network
To customize our website and access based on customer type (e.g., client, registrant, prospect)
To respond to customer service inquiries
To process job applications (For more information, please refer to our Recruitment Privacy Notice).
To contact you about relevant project opportunities (as in the case of our Expert Network)

Amane Advisors does not and will not lease or sell personal information to any third parties without consent. Our Sites do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services.

Safeguarding and securing your data

Amane is committed to securing personal and company data and maintaining its confidentiality. We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Amane personnel and third-party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions however, Amane Advisors cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.

Data retention

Amane retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.

We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, Amane will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Restricting the Collection of your Personal Data” section of this Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Websites

Amane may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Amane of the third party, the third-party website, or the information contained therein, and Amane shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

Unsubscribe

If you have registered for Amane newsletter or alerts, joined our Expert Network, or you receive invitations to survey or events from Amane and you prefer not to receive future email communications from us, please follow the instructions on the page of the Site where you have provided such information, subscribed or registered or write to contact@amaneadvisors.com to unsubscribe from Amane communications.

Restricting the Collection of your Personal Data

At some point, you might wish to restrict the use and collection of your personal data. If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at contact@amaneadvisors.com.

To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your personal data. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our privacy or security policies, please feel free to contact us at contact@amaneadvisors.com.

Consent; changes to Privacy Policy

By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.