Live Assist for Dynamics 365 Privacy Policy
Communication Business Avenue, Inc. and its affiliates value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who use our Live Assist for Dynamics 365 service (the “Service”), how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of, your access to, and how to update and correct your personal information.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using the Service, you are agreeing to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to you if you are a Customer who has subscribed for the Service, whether via a free trial or a paid subscription. This Privacy Policy also applies to you if you visit the website of one of our Customers (as defined below) if the Service has been implemented on that Customer’s website. This Privacy Policy also applies to you if one of our Customers uses the Service to initiate a co-browse, voice or video session or other communication service with you, or to otherwise engage with you while you are visiting, or after you visit, a social media website or other third party website. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of whether you are using a computer, a mobile device or another device.
Any questions regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to compliance@cba-gbl.com or by writing to Communication Business Avenue, Inc., 239-0847 3-4 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture YRP (Yokosuka Research Park) Center 1st Building Room 508, Attn: Information Security and Compliance Officer. This Privacy Policy does not apply to visitors to the CBA website at https://cba-gbl.com or its subdomains. For privacy terms applicable to those visitors, please see: Website Privacy Policy
Who are we?
CBA creates software that makes it amazingly simple for people to collaborate in ways that work best for them.
In this policy “CBA”, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ means;
Communication Business Avenue, Inc.
239-0847 3-4 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture YRP (Yokosuka Research Park) Center
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain various kinds of information about you when you use the Service. Some of this information you provide directly to us, such as when you sign up or submit feedback. Some of it we get by observing how you use the Service.
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain various kinds of information about you when you use the Service. Some of this information you provide directly to us, such as when you sign up or submit feedback. Some of it we get by observing how you use the Service.
What type of information is collected from you?
Voluntary Information
If you are our Customer, when you set up to use the Service and create an account, we collect personal information about you, including your name, email address, company name and password. We may also collect personal information from you when you request technical support or participate in one of our communities or message boards.
Automatic Information
As you use the Service, we may automatically collect certain information about your connection to our servers, your operating system, your IP address and your browser. This information is collected to aid in diagnostics and auditing.
Communication Products and Services
If you engage in a communication with an agent of our Customer using the Service, you may voluntarily provide, or otherwise be asked by the Customer to provide, personal information such as your name, contact information and other information to facilitate the Service.
You may also be asked by one of our partners who provides chat communication products or services in connection with the Service (the “Chat Partner”) to complete a pre- or post-interaction survey (“Survey”) hosted by the Chat Partner in order to allow the Customer and/or the Chat Partner to obtain valuable feedback.
The survey may ask for contact information (e.g. email address), demographic information (e.g., zip code, age or income level) and other information as determined by the Customer. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of the Chat Partner, which will be governed by its privacy policy which can be found at https://www.liveperson.com/policies/privacy.We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the Customer and the Chat Partner prior to giving content for these activities.
Information requested by the Customer
Depending on the Online Services subscribed to by the Customer, we may, on behalf of the Customer, provide feedback and run reports related to your browsing, purchasing and online behavior and activities.
The Customer may provide data to us (including data related to visitors to the Customer’s website) in order for us to combine such data with our data for purposes of analyzing such combined data, and providing feedback and running reports related to such combined data on behalf of the Customer.
The Company maintains records of all such analyses, feedback and reports for as long as we believe is necessary or desirable to fulfill our business purposes or to comply with applicable law, audit requirements, regulatory requests or orders from competent courts.
How is your information used?
We use the information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information, for the following purposes:
- to manage your account;
- to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
- to fulfill any other purpose for which you have provided the information;
- to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
- to notify you about changes to our products or services;
- in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
- to assist in debugging issues with third party service providers with respect to our service(s);
- to provide information specified by court or other legally binding order to the appropriate legal authorities; and
- for any other purpose with your permission.
How do we share your information?
We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties, and we will not share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We share your personal information with your consent or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide the service you have requested or authorized. We also share data (i) with our subsidiary, (ii) with vendors working on our behalf, such as third party service providers (for example, data storage by Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services) and the Chat Partner who assist us in making the Service available, (iii) when required by law or to respond to legal process, (iv) to protect our Customers, (v) to maintain the security of our products and services, and (vi) to protect our rights and property.
Third Party Processors
We partner with the Chat Partner who provides chat communication products or services in connection with the Service. In connection therewith, such third party will collect and use your personal information and will maintain transcripts of chats, emails and other written communications conducted between you and a Customer’s agents using the Chat Partner’s chat communication products or services (https://www.liveperson.com). This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of the Chat Partner, which will be governed by its privacy policy, which can currently be found at https://www.liveperson.com/policies/privacy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of the Chat Partner.
We also partner with a third party (https://www.zuora.com/) that provides billing services in connection with the Service (the “Billing Partner”) and a third party (https://www.firstdata.com) that provides a payment gateway in connection with the Service (the “Payment Gateway Partner”). This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of the Billing Partner, which will be governed by its privacy policy, which can currently be found at https://www.zuora.com/privacy-statement/, or the information practices of the Payment Gateway Partner, which will be governed by its privacy policy, which can currently be found at https://www.firstdata.com/en_us/privacy.html. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the Billing Partner and the Payment Gateway Partner.
If you are a Customer and have any questions on these partnerships, please contact your CBA account manager.
How long do we retain your Information?
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (for example, to comply with obligations relating to invoicing and taxes). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is specified in any relevant contract between you and us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not reasonably possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information on hardened servers that are hosted on highly secure data centers, and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Your choices
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email or phone except (i) as necessary to enter into a contract or fulfil our obligations under a contract, (ii) with your permission, or (iii) for legitimate purposes permitted by applicable law. We will provide an unsubscribe option on all marketing emails you receive from us. You may also contact us info@cba-gbl.com to unsubscribe or if you have any other questions or concerns regarding your receipt of marketing materials from us.
Accessing and correcting your information.
You may contact us at info@cba-gbl.com with any request to access, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We make good faith efforts to honor reasonable requests to access, correct or delete your personal information. If you request that we delete your personal information, your Service account information will also be removed. We may not accommodate a request to remove personal information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure, hardened servers that are hosted on highly secure data centers. Access to this data is protected by multiple layers of controls, including firewalls, authentication mechanisms and monitoring.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Service or our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Service. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service.
Use of Cookies
We may use cookies and other identification technologies for record keeping purposes and to enhance your experience, if you choose to visit our websites.
Our websites, apps and Services may use the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies – these cookies are essential to enable you to browse our websites, apps and Services and use the available features.
Performance Cookies – these cookies collect information about how you use our websites, apps and Services. For instance, these cookies track which pages you visit most. This data may be used to help optimize our websites, apps and Services and make it easier for you to navigate within them. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you; all information is aggregated and anonymous.
Functionality Cookies – these cookies allow our websites, apps and Services to remember choices you make while browsing, such as geographic location and preferences such as text size and fonts. The information collected by these cookies will not personally identify you.
For e.g. our chat partner, LivePerson, uses information stored in cookies to maintain session data and to identify returning visitors by saving LivePerson-specific data, such as visitor ID and last chat date. It is important to note that the cookies do not contain any private customer data or any data that can be accessible or useful outside of LiveEngage.
Children’s Privacy
We encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate parental or guardian consent. If you believe that we may have collected personal information from someone under the applicable age of consent in your country without proper consent, please contact us at info@cba-gbl.com and we will take appropriate measures to investigate and address the issue promptly.
Consent to transfer, process and store Personal Information
As CBA is a global organization, we may transfer your personal information to CBA in the United States, to our subsidiary in the United Kingdom, or to third parties and business partners as described above that are located in various countries around the world. By using the Service or providing any personal information to us, where applicable law permits, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of such information outside of your country of residence where data protection standards may be different.
We safeguard and enable the transfer of personal information from the European Union (EU) to the US by participating in, and certifying our compliance with, the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and Principles as set forth by the US Department of Commerce, which relates to the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the EU to the US. CBA is committed to subjecting all personal data received from EU member countries, in reliance on the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about these Privacy Shield Frameworks, visit the US Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield site at https://www.privacyshield.gov.
CBA is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. We comply with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, including the onward transfer liability provisions. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the US-EU Privacy Shield Principles, we commit to resolve complaints about privacy and our collection or use of the personal information of EU individuals. If you believe we retain your personal data within the scope of our Privacy Shield certification, you may direct any queries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield certification or compliance to the address above. We will respond to any inquiries or complaints within 45 days at no cost to you.
If you feel we failed to provide an adequate response, you may contact JAMS (https://www.jamsadr.com), which provides an independent third-party dispute resolution mechanism. Under certain conditions more fully described on the Privacy Shield website (https://www.privacyshield.gov), you may be entitled to invoke binding arbitration through the Privacy Shield Panel when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
We are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission with respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.
Additional Terms that may Apply to your Information.
Customers’ Websites and other Third-Party Websites.
The Service is used by Customers on it websites. We are not responsible for and do not control the privacy practices of any Customer. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of Customers, which will be governed by their respective privacy practices and policies. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of each Customer with which you interact.
In addition, the Service operates in connection with, and may link to, websites, products and online services from third parties (including Microsoft Corporation) with different privacy practices. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third-party websites, which will be governed by their respective privacy practices and policies. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of such third parties.
Last updated: 24/05/2022
