At Global Headwinds, we are committed to delivering rigorously verified information on the complex interplay of geopolitics, climate change, energy, food security, and their collective impact on global economic and financial landscapes. Our aim is to not only keep you informed with the latest developments but also to provide balanced, impartial analysis to help forecast potential future trends.
To enhance the quality of our content and services, we collect certain information from our users. This data is crucial for the continuous improvement of the services offered through Global Headwinds’ website, mobile applications, products, and content. We take your privacy seriously and believe in maintaining transparency about how we handle your information. This document outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, processing, and protection of your data, as well as your rights concerning the management of this information.
If you do not consent to these terms, please refrain from using our services.
Outline
How you interact with GLOBAL HEADWINDS
This Privacy Policy covers all information we collect when you visit our website, use our web-based applications, install and use our software products, or interact in any other way with our organisation (e.g. attending events organised by us).
These "Services" include but are not limited to our:
•Websites
•Community forums
•Web applications
•Customer support channels
•Chrome Extension
•Google Docs Add-on
•iOS App
•Android App
•Desktop App and Word Plugin for Windows and MacOS
What information we collect
The amount and type of information that we collect depends on the nature of the interaction with our Services. We are not in the business of collecting and selling information. In each case, we collect only the minimum amount of information necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of your interaction with our Services.
For example, you can browse our websites anonymously but we ask for your email address when you sign up for a trial of our web-application, and we ask for your billing information when you subscribe to a paid subscription.
Information provided by you
Some of the information we collect is directly and actively provided by you. You can always refuse to supply any of this information, with the caveat that it may prevent you from using some of our services.
•Content you provide by visiting our websites: Some of our websites have interactive features. For example, you can post content on our community forums or take part in a survey.
•Profile information: Some services require that you register for an account. We collect your email address and your name (either your real name or a pseudonym).
•Information you provide through our support channels: When you contact our support team by any of the channels we provide (email or WhatsApp Chat) you can choose to submit information like screenshots or log files that helps us to solve your problem.
•Payment information: When you sign up for a paid subscription we collect payment and billing information necessary to process your payments. We never collect or store credit card numbers directly but only through our payment processor. (See - Third Party Service Providers).
Information collected automatically
Some information is collected automatically when you interact with our Services:
Website visitor logs: Like most website operators, we collect information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the date and time of the visit, the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the browser type, language preference, referring site.
Usage information: We collect information about your interaction with our Services. For example, we track which features you use, which elements in the user interface you click on, or from which sources you add references to your library.
Device information and crash data: We collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and crash data. What kind of information is collected depends on the type of the device and its settings.
(As a policy we restrict the use of more than one device under the same user name)
Cookies: Global Headwinds and our Third Party Service Providers use cookies or similar tracking
technologies (web beacons, pixels, device identifiers) to recognize you across different Services and devices and to add functionality to our Services.
How we use the information
We only collect and use your information if:
• We need it to provide you the Services, including operating the Services, providing customer
support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services;
• It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the Services and to protect our legal rights and interests;
• We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.
In the following we explain in more detail and with examples how we use your information.
To operate the Services:
We use your profile information (email and name) and cookies to identify you. We also use your
email and name to identify you, when you comment on an article. We may identify your affiliation
from the domain of your email address in case you purchase a subscription plan.
To improve our Services and help research for new products and features:
All software has bugs and our goal is to fix them as quickly as possible. We use crash data to identify and analyze problems. We combine this information with usage information to find out what actions triggered a problem. We collect usage information to understand which features of our Services are used and how. It informs us how to allocate our resources (e.g. we want to spend more resources on improving popular features and remove features that are not used). We use the services of Google Analytics for this purpose, which require cookies for their functionality.
To communicate with you about the Services:
We use your email address to send you information that's essential during your use of our Services. For example, on sign-up we send you your account information and instructions how to sign-in; when you sign up for a paid subscription we send you payment confirmations and receipts. In addition to these automatic messages sent automatically by our applications, we may send you
technical notices about service interruptions due to planned maintenance, security alerts, and other administrative messages. Some of these messages are essential for the Services and cannot be opted out (you can always delete your account).
To educate, market, promote, and drive engagement with the Services:
We use your email address to send you information about how you can make the most out of our
Services and your paid subscription. We may send you messages on how to get started after signing-up with our products; about features you may not be aware of but which are likely to be useful for you; about new features or products we recently added; or other topics, which we think enhance your experience with our Services and are of interest to you (e.g. company events such as local user group meetings, current promotions like coupon codes, new content on our blog).
You always can opt out of these messages either by clicking the provided unsubscribe link in the
email or in your account settings.
To provide customer support:
To protect the safety and security of the Services: We use some of the information we collect (e.g.
website visitor logs, IP addresses, device identifiers, cookies, usage information, cookies, device
identifier) to verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity and to identify violations of Service policies.
To protect the safety and security of the Services:
We use some of the information we collect (e.g. website visitor logs, IP addresses, device identifiers, cookies, usage information, cookies, device identifier) to verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity and to identify violations of Service policies.
How we share the information
We do not share or disclose any of your information with others except in some limited and well defined scenarios:
Contractors and Employees:
We have employees and contractors who extend, improve, or maintain parts of the Services. We disclose personal information only to those employees and contractors that (i) need access to that information for their work and (ii) have signed a Data Processing Agreement certifying that appropriate technical and organizational measures are implemented to meet the same privacy standards and requirements as laid out in this Privacy Policy.
In aggregate and de-identified form:
We may disclose information if aggregated or de-identified so it is no longer associated with an identified or identifiable person. For example, we may publish usage statistics like the average number of stored articles per user on our blog or share it with potential new customers for marketing purposes.
With your consent:
We may disclose your information with your consent. For example, we publish testimonials and case studies on our website that include name and affiliation of the customer.
To comply with laws, to enforce our rights, prevent fraud and for safety:
In exceptional circumstances, we may disclose your information when required to do so by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of our company, third parties or the public at large.
How we store and secure the information
Global Headwinds takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, disclosure, use or loss of your information. However, given the nature of communications and information processing technology, we cannot guarantee absolute security of that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care.
How long we keep the information
If you delete your account or instruct us to delete your information, we will delete your profile information, your content stored in our Services and other information we have collected from you. We try to make sure the deletion process is simple, fast and complete. Please note some important details of our data retention policy:
Legal requirements: We will retain some minimal information required as necessary to comply with legal obligations or to resolve disputes (e.g. for tax audits or to handle refunds after a customer has deleted his or her account).
Usage information: We may retain some usage information in de-identified form to be included in aggregate statistics.
Data information in Comments section:
Any comments made by you and published in the comment section or even not published, will be retained for purposes of records.
Backups:
We delete your information immediately from our main databases, but it can take some time until the information is deleted from our backups. Those backups are stored separately from our main database and it's technically not possible to delete individual data records from them. Your information will be deleted within a reasonable timeframe as part of our routine backup deletion schedule.
Your rights and choices: How to access and control your information
The type and amount of information we collect depends on how you interact with our Services. You can always decide not to use our Services or only a subset of our Services and features.
You have the right to request a copy of your information, to object to our use of your information
(including for marketing purposes), to request the deletion or restriction of your information, or to request your information in a structured, electronic format.
You can exercise some of these rights by using the settings and tools in our Services or by contacting us (see Contact). We will respond to requests about your Privacy within a reasonable timeframe.
Here is a summary of some ways to access and control your information:
Access and update: You can always sign in to your account and view your information which we have stored for you. Most of the information can be directly edited or deleted. Some of our services use profile information from your Google Account and cannot be changed directly from within our Services (you need to update your profile in your Google account).
Delete:
You can choose to delete your account at any time in your account settings or by contacting us. We will delete your information from our systems. Please note, however, that we may retain certain information for record keeping purposes, to complete transactions or to comply with our legal obligations (See - How long we keep the information).
Transfer:
You can export the information stored in our Services and use it with other software. We provide structured, machine-readable exports of your bibliographic data in two common industry standards RIS and BibTeX. Unfortunately, there is no common agreed upon data exchange format that covers all types of information stored in our Services (like labels, folders or notes). So, while we try hard to provide useful data exports that can be directly imported to other software, it's not possible for all data and with all software. To make data transfer easier in that cases, we provide all data not included in RIS or BibTeX data files also as JSON formatted data file, another structured machine-readable format.
Opt out of communications:
You can opt out of receiving promotional messages by using the unsubscribe link within each email, changing your account settings or contacting us. Some non-promotional messages (See - How we use the information) are required for the Service and you will receive such transactional messages unless you stop using and delete your account.
Disabling and deleting cookies:
You can instruct your browser to delete existing cookies and stop accepting cookies. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all aspects of our Services. To opt out of receiving personalized advertising see Third Party Service Providers and visit
http://www.aboutads.info, http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including meeting national security or law enforcement requirements.
Third Party Service Providers:
We disclose some of your information with, and receive some of your information from, selected third parties. We limit the amount of information being disclosed depending on the nature of the service. We only work with Third Party Service providers who strictly adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation.
Global Headwinds and Google Services
Our Services connect to your Google account and interact with some of your Google services. We only access information from your Google account as described in this Privacy Policy. We limit the access to your Google account as much as technically possible.
We have created a separate document with all the details how Global Headwinds interacts with your Google Services.
Age Limitations
Our Services are not directed to individuals under 16. Please contact us (see Contact) for questions on age restrictions and use of our Services in schools. Depending on local privacy laws, additional privacy policies might apply.
Privacy Policy changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the changes to this page and encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will provide additional notice, such as via email or through the Services.
If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Policy, you need to stop using our Services and delete your account.
Contact
Feel free to contact us under the address below if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices.
Email: info@globalheadwinds.com
WhatsApp: +91- 827 296 1169
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