Privacy Policy

This website (https://www.theinfotechbeat.com) is owned by BlueWhale Research, Inc. (bluewhaleresearch.com). It is operated at our behest by us or our subcontractors.

BlueWhale Research Inc and its affiliates (collectively, “BlueWhale Research,” “us” or “we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This site is operated by us for the purpose of marketing products and services of our customers. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information or personal data (as such terms are understood under applicable law).

This Privacy Policy applies to this website. Other sites owned and operated by BlueWhale Research or our subcontractors may have differing policies.

1. Information You Provide to Us This microsite hosts web forms provided by our clients or developed by BlueWhale Research at the client’s request. When you submit information through these forms, that data is collected by BlueWhale Research as a Processor on behalf of the client (the Data Controller). The use of that specific data is governed by the Data Controller’s privacy policy, which is linked at the point of collection.
2. Automated Technical Logging for Compliance Consistent with our Security and Privacy Incident Management protocols, our servers automatically log certain technical information when you visit this site. This information includes:
   • System Metadata: Including browser type, operating system, and the date/timestamp of your visit.
   • Referrer Data: The web address of the site from which you arrived at this microsite.

3. Purpose of Collection and Retention In accordance with our internal security controls, this technical data is stored in a secure, central log server. It is used exclusively for:
   • Security Monitoring: Detecting and investigating potential security or privacy incidents.
   • System Administration: Ensuring the functional integrity and reliability of our delivery platforms.
   • Legal Compliance: Fulfilling our obligations to provide audit trails in the event of a suspected data breach.

We do not use this technical information for marketing, persona profiling, or any form of automated decision-making. These logs are retained for a limited period only, typically as long as necessary for security auditing, and are purged in accordance with our data retention schedule.

4. Cookies and Tracking This site utilizes Strictly Necessary Cookies only. These are first-party functional cookies required for the site to operate securely and efficiently.
   • No Marketing Trackers: We do not use third-party tracking pixels, clear GIFs, or advertising cookies on this microsite.
   • Cookie Consent: Because we limit our use to “strictly necessary” functional cookies, we do not deploy a marketing cookie banner; however, you may manage cookie settings through your browser.

The technical information we collect about you during your visit is logged in our central log server and may be reviewed by our security staff or referenced in investigations of security incidents or other routine purposes. It will not be stored indefinitely, nor used to cross reference with other data to track your activity for any other purpose.

The very limited data associated with your visit to this site will be stored in secure cloud based data servers. The data is regularly archived and deleted in accordance with our data retention policies.

BlueWhale Research has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to help protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of collected information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure, and BlueWhale Research assumes no liability for any damage suffered by you caused by the interception, alteration, or misuse of information during transmission.

This site is not designed to collect the personal information of children. If we discover that anyone contacting us is under the age of 16, we will delete any data we may have gathered.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and we will post any changes to it on this page. Your continued use of this site following such posts will signal your acceptance of such changes. The date this Privacy Policy was last updated appears at the bottom.

This site does not collect personal information from you. Rights apply to personal data as defined by local law. Technical data collected for system administration is handled as described above. Information which you input to forms hosted on this site is subject to your rights as explained in the privacy policy associated with the form where you input the information. This policy does not pertain to this information.

We have appointed Privacy Representation Ltd. as the representative in the EU for data protection matters for BlueWhale Research Inc. While you may also contact BlueWhale Research, Inc., if you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you may contact Privacy Representation Ltd. on matters related to our processing of Personal Data in the EEA. To contact Privacy Representation Ltd, please use these coordinates:
Privacy Representation Ltd.
13 Adelaide Road,
Dublin 2, D02 P950, Ireland
bluewhaleresearch@privacyrepresentation.ltd.

We have appointed UK Privacy Services Ltd. as the representative in the UK for data protection matters for BlueWhale Research Inc. While you may also contact BlueWhale Research Inc, if you are located in the United Kingdom, you may contact UK Privacy Services Ltd. on matters related to our processing of Personal Data in the UK. To contact UK Privacy Services Ltd., please use these coordinates:
UK Privacy Services Ltd.
Kemp House, 160 City Road,
London, EC1V 2NX
bluewhaleresearch@uk.privacyservices.ltd

If you wish to determine what personal data BlueWhale Research may or may not have about you, or wish to enforce your privacy rights for the jurisdiction in which you live, please fill out a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) form by clicking here and selecting Data Subject Access Request in the footer.

If you have any questions on this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@bluewhaleresearch.com.