PRIVACY POLICY
Updated January 29, 2020
This Privacy Policy is issued by the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR) to inform you of the data relating to you that we collect and use in connection with this website, and its integrated third-party platforms. CLEAR is not responsible for the content or privacy practises of any linked sites. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms “you” and “your” refer to both you individually and to any entity on whose behalf you are accessing CLEAR’s website, and its integrated third-party platforms.
CLEAR headquarters is located at:
108 Wind Haven Drive, Suite A1. CLEAR’s Internal Data Contact and Personal Data Supervisor
Our Data Protection Officer oversees how CLEAR collects, uses, shares and protects your information.
You can contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@clearhq.org or by writing to them at CLEAR, 108 Wind Haven Drive, Suite A, Nicholasville, KY 40356, United States of America.
2. Questions / Concerns
If you are a data subject in the European Union, you also have the right to make a complaint at any time to a supervisory authority.
If you are a data subject elsewhere and you believe that our website or app is not following our policy, you may contact us at the above address, or state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau.
3. Collecting personal data
CLEAR collects information as a way to further its purpose to:
a) bring together individuals, agencies and organizations involved in or affected by professional and occupational regulation;b) encourage and provide for the exchange of information and ideas;
c) provide education and training regarding professional and occupational regulation;
d) improve functionality of CLEAR’s website;
e) provide a central clearinghouse of information pertinent to professional and occupational regulation; and
f) improve practices regarding professional and occupational regulation.
Your data may be collected from several collection points on CLEAR’s website, and its integrated third-party platforms. This data may include, but is not limited to: name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, employer, professional title, date of birth, username and password, photographs and education, payment information.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
CLEAR will also collect personal information when you request that we, or give permission for us to, contact you via e-mail, mail, or telephone.
Website users from outside the United States are advised that their information may be accessed by individuals located in other jurisdictions, where the level of data protection may differ from their home jurisdiction. When providing CLEAR with your personal data, you consent to its use under this privacy policy, including its transfer across international boundaries to any location globally, as is permitted by law.
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Purpose/Activity | Type of Data |
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest | Retention Period |
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To register for an account with us or interact with our services |
(a) Identity Data (b) Contact Data |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business) |
3 years after we have ceased to provide you with goods or services |
To communicate with you for the purpose of marketing | (a) Identity data (b) Contact data (c) Marketing data |
The consent of the data subject | Until consent is withdrawn |
To understand how you use our website and app | (a) Technical Data (b) Usage Data |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our website and app updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) | 7 years after we have ceased to provide you with goods or services |
Notifying you about changes to our privacy notice | (a) Identity Data (b) Contact Data |
(a) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation | 3 years after we have ceased to provide you with goods or services |
5. Children
CLEAR does not offer its services or promote its website or app to, nor does it intentionally collect or retain personal data from children who are younger than 18 years of age.
CLEAR will retain your personal data only for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement or to comply with our obligations under applicable law. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are set out in the table above.
7. The recipients of your personal data
CLEAR may share your personal information with third parties in the following ways:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes, outside of the marketing purposes contemplated herein, and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
8. The rights available to you in respect of the processing
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, or “GDPR”), individuals in the EU are afforded specific rights with respect to their Personal Information, or “personal data” as defined under the GDPR. For the purposes of this Policy, the Company operates as a data controller. You may always withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data as described below.
CLEAR may update this privacy policy and you should take time to review the document each time you visit the website, and its integrated third-party platforms.