CME Media Enterprises B.V., with its registered office at Zuidplein 168, 1077 XV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, together with its subsidiaries ("CME", "we", "us", "our" or the "Company") as data controller provides you with this Notice to explain how we collect, process and protect your personal data when you visit our website. We provide this Notice to you at the commencement of our interaction through our website.
1. What processing is covered by this Notice?
This Notice applies to the processing of personal data of visitors to our website available at www.cme.net (“website”).
It is important that you read this Notice together with any other privacy policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Notice supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
2. What information do we collect about you?
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed ("anonymous data").
We may collect, use and process your personal data when you interact with us. The personal data we may collect, use and process may include usage Data including information about how you use our website and services, or data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. We do not collect or process sensitive personal data related to you.
Each time you visit our website we automatically collect the following data:
technical data, for example this may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, device type and brand of mobile device; this data may be collected and processed on our behalf by third party cookies and you can find more information on this at our Cookie policy.
data about your visit, for example this may include the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and user behavior data.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from Google Analytics as an analytics provider.
4. How we use your personal data and under what legal basis?
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process your personal data with your consent; where we need to comply with a legal obligation; and where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests (and fundamental rights) do not override those interests.
We process your personal information for various technical, administrative and operational reasons, such as to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device; to improve our website including its functionality; for administration of our website; for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and/or survey purposes; and as part of our efforts to keep our website safe and secure.
In some cases, we will only process your personal data with your consent. In these cases, we will separately ask for your clear consent when you provide your personal data. You are able to withdraw your consent at any time via the ‘unsubscribe from email alerts’ feature on the website. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that occurred before your withdrawal of consent.
Provision of personal data is optional and you are not obliged to provide it.
We will keep these personal data until you notify us that you wish to withdraw your consent.
5. How and to whom we disclose your personal data?
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
Within the Company, only a limited number of personnel such as the Legal and IT Departments have access to your personal data on a need-to-know basis. Such personnel are subject to confidentiality obligations with regard to personal data. Appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken for the protection of personal data. Company personnel are only entitled to handle personal data upon the Company’s instructions and if necessary in connection with their job responsibilities.
Personal data may be shared with government authorities and/or law enforcement bodies if required by applicable law or if required to enforce our rights including our terms of use or for the protection of our legitimate interests (including legitimate interests of third parties) in compliance with applicable laws.
Your personal data may also be disclosed to third parties including:
service providers that provide administrative, professional and technical support to the Company for IT, security and business resources support; and
analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website.
The Company will also share personal data with external advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors) if necessary.
We may share personal data with our related companies and with other third parties in the context of certain types of transactions, including any transaction involving a change of control of the Company, the sale of substantially all of its assets, or business restructurings.
The Company seeks to perform appropriate due diligence in the selection of its third party service providers, and requires that such service providers maintain adequate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal data, and process the personal data only as instructed by the Company. Service providers will be entitled to use subcontractors in providing the services to the Company, subject to the subcontractor complying with the same data protection obligations as the service providers.
