We at The Independent Investor (“we”, or “us”) are committed to protect and respect your personal data privacy

Services offered

Our website (https://theindependentinvestorph.flywheelstaging.com) offers news articles, opinions, insights, commentaries, events and other updates concerning key acquisitions, corporate restructuring, investments, financial transactions and important developments related thereto within the Philippines. We will soon offer corporate advertorials and social media posts, event planning, subscription services and other customized services for readers and corporate partners

Personal information collected

• Whenever you post comments and send us inquiries, we will request you to identify yourself by providing your name and email address.
• Whenever you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your name and email address so we may send you updates.
• To track your preferences, in using our website, we collect your IP address, search terms you use, pages and internal links you click on our site, the date and time of your visit, your geolocation, the referring site or platform which led you to our website, your operating system, and browser type.
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Purpose of collection and use of your information

The information you provide us, and that which we gather based on your activity, helps us to deliver more relevant content as well as create a more seamless experience across the products and channels through which you may access that content.

We collect and store some information about you in order to deliver products and/or services to you. We share some of that information with trusted suppliers (including payment providers and postal services) to ensure the delivery of those products and services, or to give personalized recommendations on things we think will be of interest to you. We also collect information when you use our website and further details are provided below.

• We collect personal information to deliver the services offered by our website.
• We also collect personal information to determine trends and relay up to date and relevant information to readers.
• We use the personal information you provide in relation to the services we offer.
• We will not share your personal information without your express consent. From time to time, however, we may share aggregated data concerning traffic and user engagement to third parties, such as advertisers and analysts. Please be assured that such data will only reflect demographics and not personally identifiable information.

Information we collect

Information you provide us which we need in order to provide you with our services and products.

There is certain personal information that we need in order to provide the products and services that you have chosen. Examples of details we collect in order to fulfil a subscription to The Independent Investor include:

• Name
• Postal Address (including postal code)
• Email Address
• Payment Details

In addition to the above, examples of the details we collect for our business database and The Independent Investor (“TII”) could include:

• Job Title
• Work Email
• Company
• Country
• Industry

Information we collect through your use of our products

When you use any of our online platforms or apps we collect information that helps us to deliver the service you have chosen and to improve your experience. This is done through cookies and other technologies. Examples of the type of information we may collect are:

• Browser
• Email Provider
• The pages you read on our websites and how you got to them
• Device
• IP address
• Internet Connection
• Location (in some cases)

You can also volunteer to disclose additional information which may not be essential for us to deliver a service to you. By providing it you help us to ensure we communicate with you in a way that’s most relevant, useful and engaging for you. We may collect and ask for additional information when you order, purchase, register, subscribe or make use of our products or services in any way, for example in person, via our marketing campaigns, via phone or mail orders, or our websites.

Information we do not track

We do not track or collect any sensitive information about you. This includes race, religion, ethnicity, and political opinion.

How we use your information

We primarily use your information for the purpose of delivering the products and services that you have chosen and to personalize our interactions (including advertising) with you. For further details about this, and other ways we may use your information, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@theindependentinvestorph.com.

Social media

The Independent Investor publishes content through our official social media platforms – LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter through both “organic” and “paid” methods to reach current and potential readers:

• “Organic” methods describe where content and/or offers are published onto a social platform so that they may appear in your social platform’s content, without being promoted or forced to appear more prominently, e.g. The Independent Investor’s Facebook Page.
• “Paid” methods describe where content and/or offers are published onto a social platform so that they will appear more prominently, or be shown to users that do not currently follow The Independent Investor social pages.

We may place one or more social media platform “tags” on our website in order to better understand how The Independent Investor may be of best value to you by providing you with the most relevant content available according to what you have chosen to read on our own websites. These tags only record information around events to help us understand if you are registered or subscribed with us, so that we may use your reading preferences to provide more relevant content and/or offers to you, on social media platforms, e.g. removing subscription offers from your feed if you are a current subscriber.

We do not have direct access to your personal data on your social media platforms.

Storage and Retention Policy

We securely store your information, and hold it for as long as we need to in order to provide our services and products to you in accordance with (i) applicable law, or (ii) as long as is set out in any relevant contract you have with us.

We review our retention periods for personal information regularly. If you have not interacted with us(or our website) in any way, we will generally no longer hold your information after two (2) years (although this may be shorter for individual businesses (you can confirm by contacting us)). Sometimes we may need to keep it for longer periods such as tax and other financial regulatory reasons, this would typically be five (5) years or more. We would only keep it for longer than this if we are required to by law.

If you request for us to no longer contact you, for example with marketing communications, we will retain the minimum amount of information about you so that we can ensure we remove you from any future communications. Please note that if you ask us to completely remove all information about you, and you subsequently use our products and services at a later date, we will no longer be able to recognize your previous request not to be contacted, which is why we would keep it and suppress it in line with industry standards.

• Personal information we collected from you will be stored, processed, and eventually disposed of electronically from our internal servers located at a secure third party database. Your personal information will only be kept for two (2) years from the date of collection.

Protection

• We take information security seriously and have policies and procedures in place to ensure the information we hold on you remains safe. We limit who has access to your information and ensure that those who do are bound by contracts to keep your information availability restricted and safe.

• We protect and safekeep the personal information we collect from you by implementing reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical and technical measures.

The care we provide to you, your personal information, and other data only extends to our website and its sub-domains. We cannot guarantee that the other websites you visit will provide you with the same level of protection and assurances as ours.

Your data subject rights

• We recognize your right to be informed, to object, to access, to correct, to erase, or to file a complaint with the relevant regulatory agency with respect to any of your personal information collected through this website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. It is your responsibility to be informed of any changes we make to our Privacy Policy.

Inquiries

• If you wish to access, correct, limit, or update the personal information you provided to us, make any inquiries or complaints about how we process your information, or exercise your rights as a data subject, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@theindependentinvestorph.flywheelstaging.com.