This page describes how KAT-i Infotech Private Limited processes the personal data collected from data subjects (clients, prospects…). If you have any questions or concerns regarding this page, please contact privacy@kat-i.com
Effective Date: January 16th 2021
KAT-i Infotech Private Limited, collectively known as KAT-i / KAT-i Research (“us”, “we” or “our”) operates the www.kat-i.com website. KAT-i Research is a custom business to business list research, data as a service company. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our website and services and the choices you have associated with the data. We understand that you care about how your personal information is used. This privacy policy describes how KAT-i manages personal information collected, received, or maintained. We collect information pertaining to businesses and business people (“Business Information”) and all other types of information through our website and other online services (the “Site”).
At KAT-i Infotech, we take utmost care to protect your privacy, your personal data. This privacy policy pertains to the different means of how we collect your information and describes how your personal information is stored and treated.
You may access and browse this website without revealing any of your personal information. However, while downloading any of our material which have been developed by our internal Subject Matter Experts OR while subscribing to our blogs/newsletters OR while filling in a demo request form, we may collect your personal information such as your name, phone number or work / business e-mail id that may be necessary to help us provide better customer service and we maintain the highest levels of confidentiality pertaining to your information.
This portion of the policy applies to the Website. It does not apply to any website of any third party, even if the third-party website links to (or is linked from) the website. By accessing, using, and/or submitting information through the Website, you consent to the practices described in this policy with regard to the information collected thereby as described herein. If you do not agree with this policy, you must delete all cookies from your browser cache after visiting the website and refrain from visiting or using the website.
To browse the Website only, you are not required to provide any personal information. However, we may gather non-personally-identifiable information. Similar to many commercial websites, we utilize “cookies” and other technologies to collect non-personally-identifiable information on visitors to the Website. Cookies allow web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies store information accessed through your browser to streamline activities on related web sites, and make the online experience easier and more personalized. Information gathered through cookies and web-server log files may include information such as the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, IP addresses, links to/from any page, and time spent at a site.
Information collected from Website submissions will be used for KAT-i’s internal business purposes, including its investigations, sales, and marketing. We may use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
The website may include options for visitors to submit information to KAT-i, for example, to request a product demonstration, download an article, etc. Such forms may provide the option of submitting personal information, such as your name, job title, company, email address, or phone number. In addition, when submitting information on a Website, your submission will be associated with the IP address you are then using, which is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider.
If you have visited any of the Website and would like to know what information, if any, KAT-i has about you and would like to correct such information or have it deleted, you may contact us at privacy@kat-i.com. If you do not want us to contact you via phone, you can email us at privacy@kat-i.com and we will opt you out.
Visitors to our Site may choose to submit their name, email address and/or other information so that they can learn more about our services, register to take part in a KAT-i sponsored event, or participate in a survey, contest or sweepstakes, among other things.
In order to use KAT-i’s services, solutions, you may be required to register as a user. From time to time, we may use your email address to send you information and keep you informed of products and services in which you might be interested. You will always be provided with an opportunity to opt out of receiving such emails. Your contact information may also be used to reach you regarding issues concerning your use of our Site, including changes to this privacy policy.
Customer Information may be used for KAT-i’s legitimate business interests in connection with your use of the Services, including to respond to user enquiries and fulfill user requests, provide customer service, send administrative information, and to personalize user experience with the Services. We may use Customer Information to better understand our users in general and to improve the content and functionality of the Services. We may use Customer Information to contact you in the future to tell you about services, promotions, opportunities, and other general information about KAT-i Research we believe will be of interest to you. We may use Customer Information to investigate and prosecute potential breaches of KAT-i’s security or license agreements.
KAT-i will not disclose Customer Information to any third party except in connection with a legitimate use as set forth herein, in connection with a bona fide legal dispute to which such information is relevant, in response to valid, compulsory legal process, or as otherwise required by law. KAT-i will, whenever possible, obtain confidentiality agreements from any person or entity to whom Customer Information is disclosed and ensure any recipients are committed to employing appropriate technological security measures.
KAT-i Research employs reasonable security and back-up procedures to protect Customer Information. However, in the unlikely event there is a loss or corruption of Customer Information, KAT-i Research is not responsible or liable for such loss or corruption. We encourage our users to retain copies of all Uploaded Information on their own system.
“Business Contact Information” means any of the following information as used in connection with an individual’s business or profession: Name, Title, Company Name, Business Email Address, Business phone number, Work address, Public professional profile address, and/or supplementary information such as business role and responsibility designations.
Using human teams for desk based research, web research, secondary research and telephone research, KAT-i discovers, builds profiles of business people and companies as per clients requirement brief / criteria, which we call “Contacts” from different public sources including Company / Corporate Websites, Company News Releases, Company Press Release, Company News Feed, Company Blog, Company Annual Reports / Financial Statements, Social Networks, User Groups, Online Newspaper, Online Magazines, 3rd Party Business Information Sources, Paid Directories, Tradeshows, Conferences, User Groups, Publications, Associations, Trade Magazines, Journals, Newsletters, Professional and Social Networking Sites, Technical Papers, List Directories, Communities, Blogs, Press Releases, Company Reports and Search Engines, etc.
All the contacts and business information collected from public sources through our custom web and desk based research + telephone research is specifically built for our clients as per their criteria are 100% telephone validated / telephone verified for its accuracy and relevancy. The resulting database of Contacts is then made available to our clients / customers and strategic partners.
KAT-i collects information regarding companies and their employees, including business contact information on company executives, decision makers, and other employees. The information collected is like that which is typically included on online professional profile, a business card, or business email signature etc. including: name, company name, job title, business email address, business phone number, business address and corporate website URL. KAT-i custom builds the database, discovers the contacts, verifies the contacts and builds the data / contact database as per its client’s custom requirement brief / marketing strategy for its marketing, demand generation, brand building and sales purposes.
KAT-i discovers the contacts / data for its client’s database through a combination of web research, desk based research, secondary research, first-hand research, including telephone research, telephone interviews and publicly available resources, third-party sources / third party licensors etc. All the business contact information that KAT-i Research discover / obtains through any of the foregoing means is telephone verified / telephone validated by KAT-i Research’s in-house research team, call center and information that is found to be inaccurate or irrelevant to the purposes of the Services is removed and deleted. KAT-i endeavors to discover and deliver highly accurate, relevant business contact information on influencers and decision makers and other agents and employees of the companies it profiles.
KAT-i Research complies with the recent GDPR regulation by processing data along the GDPR norms. Under GDPR there are six grounds to process personal data, these are equally valid. There are two of these which are relevant to our business (direct B2B marketing) they are: consent or legitimate interest. As Recital 47 of the GDPR states that “The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest.” Using legitimate interest as the basis for B2B marketing involves ensuring key conditions are met:
“The processing must relate to the legitimate interests of your business or a specified third party, providing that the interests or fundamental rights of the data subject do not override the business’ legitimate interest.”
“The processing must be necessary to achieve the legitimate interests of the organization.”
Along with the above compliance, KAT-i Research does not share personal data with customers / partners, records all data processing activities, do not source any sensitive information such as religion, political inclinations, gender, age etc., has an EXPLICIT OPT-IN, OPT-OUT process.
As a ‘data processor’, KAT-i Research follows the following data privacy requirements honoring the GDPR law (Article 13 and 14). KAT-i Research provides notice to all data subjects as required by GDPR Article 13 or 14, as appropriate, and honors the rights of data subjects provided in Articles 12-23, including the right to be forgotten.
KAT-i Infotech / KAT-i Research is a custom B2B List Research Company and we custom built B2B contact databases as per our client’s custom criteria / requirement brief, with our clients’ permission, we on behalf of our client speak with the contact and inform the individuals about the collection and use of their personal data, seek opt-in for our clients email marketing communication, retention periods for the data, and who it is shared with. This is a key transparency requirement under the GDPR, provides privacy information to individuals at the time of collecting their personal data. When KAT-i obtains personal data from other sources, we provide individuals with privacy information within a reasonable period of obtaining the data and no later than a month. If any EU resident information is sourced in KAT-i database then KAT-i will provide such individual with a notice detailing the information KAT-i has on such person, the purpose for which it will be used, and informing such person of their rights with respect to such information, including the right to know what information KAT-i / its client possesses on them, to correct such information, or to opt out of data collection entirely. Such persons may opt out of the KAT-i database by emailing privacy@kat-i.com
Information we provide to people is concise, transparent, intelligible, easily accessible, and in clear and plain language. We conduct regular review, and where necessary, update our privacy information. If there are any new uses of an individual’s personal data, we make sure to bring it to their attention before we start processing.
For information received under the Privacy Shield, KAT-i Research will require third parties to whom KAT-i Research discloses personal information to safeguard that personal information consistent with this Policy by contract, obligating those third parties to provide at least the same level of protection as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles. EU and Swiss individuals may choose to opt-out of such disclosures.
In compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles, KAT-i Research commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union individuals with enquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact KAT-i at privacy@kat-i.com
We may make any Business Information that our users contribute for inclusion in our Directory, that we collect from public web sources or that we license from third parties available to users of the Site, to our strategic partners and to our customers.
We may disclose collected information, including Business Information, to a third party if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or desirable: (i) to comply with lawful requests, subpoenas, search warrants or orders by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) to address a violation of the law, (iii) to protect the rights, property or safety of KAT-i, its users or the public, or (iv) to allow KAT-i Research to exercise its legal rights or respond to a legal claim.
If our company or substantially all of our assets are acquired, or in the event of a merger or bankruptcy, information about you and/or information you provide to KAT-i / KAT-i Research / KAT-i Infotech may be among the transferred assets. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
In cases of onward transfers of data, received pursuant to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield, KAT-i Infotech is potentially liable. If you register for a KAT-i event with a third-party speaker, your information will generally be shared with the speaker.
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