Welcome to the Top Sales Awards site. We want you to know what information we learn about you when you visit the site and what we do with that information.
This privacy policy covers the information that Top Sales Awards collects, why we collect the information and what we use it for. By using our services and agreeing to this privacy policy you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of information as described below.
Top Sales Awards comes under the umbrella of Top Sales World, which acts as a controller of your personal data, you can contact us here: Hill Farm View, Dullingham, Cambridge, CB8 9FF, UK
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
We use gravity Forms to provide our contact form and we collect your name, email address and message.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We do not rent, sell or share information that we collect, from our site visitors.
We will disclose information and data relating to you to any regulatory or government authority in response to a lawful request received from them.
We may also disclose data if we transfer our rights and duties under our agreement with you.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We treat all your information in strict confidence and we will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the security risks of providing information and dealing online over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We employ Jetpack and Akismet to keep the site free from spam and potential hackers. We have an SSL certificate in place, provided by our hosting company 1&1, who also have procedures in place to prevent data breaches from occurring.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None at this moment in time.
What third parties we receive data from
Please be aware that our site may link to other websites which may be accessed by clicking a link on our site, including social media services, as well as embedded images or other third-party content and features. We are not responsible for the content, features, security or practices of any third party and you will not be covered by our privacy policy when visiting an external website. You will need to check the privacy & data policies on the external website.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
If you complete a sign-up form, on Top Sales Leadership, you are giving consent to us to add you to our mailing list and we can use that as our legal basis for contacting you.
If you send us a message we are also using consent as our legal basis for collecting, and storing, information you have provided.
Children
Top Sales World site is not directed to, nor we do knowingly collect information from, children under the age of thirteen (13).
How Can I Contact You?
If you have any comments or queries in connection with our privacy policy or would like to know what information we are holding for you and how we use this, please contact us here.
Changes to This Policy
We may amend and update this policy from time to time. Any changes in the future will be posted on this page. The date of the latest update to this privacy policy is set out at the top of this policy.
This privacy policy applies to the entire contents of this World Wide Web Site under the domain name topsalesawards.com and to any correspondence by email between us (the “Site”).