Think Productive WESA (West & South Asia) respects the privacy of the people we deal with and we uphold high standards of privacy practice and security. This policy explains how we handle personal information and how we interact with you online.
Whenever we handle personal information, we take steps to ensure that appropriate standards of privacy practice and security are applied.
Our Privacy Policy sets out why we need to collect personal information, how we collect it, what we do with it, how it’s stored and who we might share it with. The Policy also describes how you can access or correct information we hold about you, how you can ask further questions or make a complaint, and information about our websites and online activities.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
For some products and services it is necessary for us to collect ‘personal information’ such as your name, email address, and other contact details.
EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
We collect personal information from you if you apply for a job with Think Productive WESA.
HEALTH INFORMATION
We do not collect your health information.
Sensitive Information
Generally, we do not collect sensitive information about you unless required by law or where you consent for us to do so (and in any event only where it is relevant to our service). We will not collect sensitive information about you where this is expressly prohibited by local law. Sensitive information includes information relating to:
- race
- political or religious beliefs
- sexual orientation and sexual life
- criminal convictions
- membership of professional or trade associations or unions
- biometric and health information
- information about your affiliation with certain organisations, such as professional associations.
WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information about you which is reasonably necessary to:
- provide you with quality products or services.
- consider applications and approaches you make to us
- conduct marketing and social functions
- maintain your contact details
- fulfil our legal obligations, such as those relating to taxation and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing or as otherwise authorised by you
Without such information, we may not be able to process your request or provide you with an appropriate level of service.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We collect personal information about you directly from you — this can be in person, in documents you give us, from telephone calls, emails, competitions you enter, your access to our website or from transactions you make. We take reasonable steps to be transparent about how and why we collect personal data.
HOW WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
We keep personal information in electronic records, at our premises and the premises of our service providers, which may include processing or storage in the cloud, which may mean in practice that this information is stored outside the United Arab Emirates. Where this occurs, we take steps to protect the security and integrity of personal information.
We also keep records of our interactions with you (including by telephone, email and online) and of your transaction history.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use personal information about you for the purpose for which it was provided to us, including to:
- process your request for service
- administer and manage our products and services (including monitoring, auditing, and evaluating those products and services)
- model and test data (in a controlled environment)
- communicate with you and deal with or investigate any complaints or enquiries
We may also:
- anonymise your data for our own purposes including market research, new product development and fraud mitigation
- use or permit our affiliates to use your personal information for related purposes to the extent that it is lawful to do so without your express permission. While we may sometimes – where it is lawful and with your permission if necessary – share personal information with companies we do business with (e.g. in product development, joint venture arrangements or distribution arrangements), we do not sell personal information for marketing purposes to other organisations or allow such companies to do this.
WHEN YOUR INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED
Subject in all cases to local law, we may share personal information within the Think Productive Group, and we will not disclose personal information outside the Think Productive Group…
- unless we are required by law or regulations, such as those relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing or as required by a regulator
- but to our service providers, who provide services in connection with our products and services (including archival, auditing, accounting, customer contact, legal, business consulting, banking, payment, delivery, data processing, data analysis, information broking, mailing, marketing, research, investigation, insurance, identity verification, brokerage, maintenance, trustee, securitisation, website and technology services)
KEEPING INFORMATION ACCURATE AND UP TO DATE
We take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we hold is as accurate as possible. You are able to contact us at any time and ask for its correction if you feel the information we have about you is inaccurate or incomplete.
KEEPING INFORMATION SECURE
We use security procedures and technology to protect the information we hold. Access to and use of personal information within Think Productive seeks to prevent misuse or unlawful disclosure of the information — this includes internal policies, auditing, training and monitoring of staff.
If other organisations provide support services, we require them to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure the privacy of the information provided to them.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
You can contact us to request access to or correction of your personal information. In normal circumstances we will give you full access or make the requested corrections to your information. However, there may be some legal or administrative reasons to deny these requests. If your request is denied, we will provide you with the reason why (if we can). Where we decide not to make a requested correction to your personal information and you disagree, you may ask us to make a note of your requested correction with the information.
DEALING WITH THINK PRODUCTIVE ONLINE
When you visit Think Productive websites you will generally browse anonymously unless you have logged into a client portal or accessed the website from a personalised communication from us.
For all visitors to our website, we use cookies and other web browser technologies to collect information such as the server your computer is logged on to, your browser type (for example, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox), and your IP address. (An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically and required for using the Internet). We may also derive the location associated with an IP address.
Once you have logged into a Think Productive portal, such as the Ninja Academy, accessed our website from an e-mail or other personalised communication sent to you, or provided us with personal information by completing a form online, we may be able to identify you and we may combine that with other information in order to provide you with a better online experience. If you would prefer not to be identified you can delete the cookies and reconfigure the cookie preferences on your internet browser (see below).
COOKIES
A ‘cookie’ is a packet of information placed on a user’s computer by a website for record keeping purposes. While cookies are not considered personal information, they are generally used on Think Productive sites to:
- access online services – if you log into our secure areas on our website we will use cookies to authorise your access and save your preferences
- manage advertising – when you see one of our ads on a third party website, cookies are sometimes used to collect anonymous information about the page you visit and the type of software you are using
- monitor traffic – we use anonymous information to track how people are using the Think Productive site. This may include time of visit, pages visited and some system information about the type of computer you are using
- monitor your use of our website – if we have identified you as a result of you logging into a Think Productive client portal, accessing our website from a personalised communication or providing us with personal information by completing a form online, we may use cookies to collect personal information about you.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. (Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences).
If you disable the use of cookies on your web browser or remove or reject specific cookies from Think Productive websites or linked sites, then you may not be able to gain access to all of the content and facilities on those websites.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or complaints regarding privacy or information handling, please write to Think Productive WESA at the current address on our website or contact us by phone. Please mark communications to the attention of our Privacy Officer. Thank you.