Source: https://www.megaport.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 18:57:02+00:00

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This policy explains how Megaport collects, uses, shares, holds and retains your personal information as required in the normal course and scope of Megaport’s business or permitted by law, whether you are a website visitor, employee, employment applicant, staff member of a Megaport customer, or other private individual whose personal information is affected by Megaport’s services or activities (Data Subject or you). (Personal information is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person as defined by privacy laws in each country that we operate).
Part 1 of this policy relates to Megaport’s customers and how we use the information that we collect from them, including any personal information and information transmitted via Megaport’s network in the course of providing the services according to the Global Services Agreement (Services).
Part 2 relates specifically to recruitment and recruitment-related personal information.
Part 4 applies generally (i.e. to customers, job applicants and website visitors) and sets out where your personal information may be stored or shared; how Megaport protects personal information; and what your rights as a data subject are.
Megaport may update this policy from time to time by posting the revised version on Megaport’s website.
records of each customer’s use of Services and that customer’s communications with Megaport.
The data controller with regards to the Collection Data and the related Services is the relevant Megaport entity providing the Services to the Customer.
Providing the Collection Data is voluntary and based on the free will of the individual or entity providing the Collection Data. However, if a customer does not provide Megaport with the information Megaport needs, Megaport may not be able to provide that customer with the Services that customer wants or Megaport may be restricted in the way that Services can be supplied.
informing our customer about special promotions that Megaport offers and which Megaport thinks may be of interest to customer, unless customer has requested Megaport not to do so. Megaport may tell customer about these services and offers via direct mail or electronic direct mail. You may opt-out of receiving direct marketing at any time by contacting Megaport at privacy@megaport.com. If Megaport wants to inform its Customers about promotions and news of third parties, it will not do so without Customer’s explicit prior opt-in consent as required by applicable direct marketing laws.
Collecting and processing the above Collection Data for the purposes specified above is necessary to fulfil the Services towards the Customerand to protect Megaport’s protected interests specified above.
a specified recipient to facilitate a purchase or potential purchase of the whole or any part of Megaport’s business.
Megaport will store your personal information in Collection Data only as long as needed to satisfy the above purposes for which it was collected (normally after your Global Services Agreement expired) or as required or permitted by law.
Apart from collecting and processing the Collection Data, Megaport will, while performing its Services to its customers, transmit data packets via its network (Transmission Data). Megaport is registered as telecommunications services provider at the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) and bound to the Secrecy of Telecommunication.
content data, i.e. the content of the data packets sent through Megaport’s network.
Transmission Data is only collected if a transmission of data packets through Megaport’s network is requested by Customer. Collection and processing of Transmission Data is a technical procedure and triggered by Customer’s request to transmit data packets through Megaport’s network or Services.
Megaport processes Transmission Data to the extent necessary to provide the Services to the Customer, in particular to build up the connection between sender and recipient of data packets and transmit these data packets and (if applicable) to calculate fees for the use of the Services if these are connected to the amount of data transmitted.
Megaport may also use certain technical Transmission Data in order to detect and resolve malfunctions in Megaport’s network and Services or in the case of factual indications for the unlawful use of the Services or the network to detect and prevent this unlawful use.
In no event will Megaport access the content data transmitted through our network or the Services.
Megaport will share Transmission Data with other network operators and service providers to the extent necessary for fulfilling the data transmission requested by Customer and to cooperate with government, law enforcement and regulatory bodies where this is required for Megaport to comply with Megaport’s legal obligations.
Megaport will delete all Transmission Data directly after the requested network connection has been terminated except where it is necessary to retain certain Transmission Data for billing purposes (where fees are connected to the amount of data transmitted) or for detecting and resolving malfunctions of the Services and Megaport’s network or in the case of factual indications for the unlawful use of the Services or the network to detect and prevent this unlawful use. Megaport may also be obliged to retain certain Transmission Data by domestic laws.
records of your communications with us.
If you provide us with personal information, this is based on your free decision and on your free will. However, if you don’t provide us with the personal information Megaport needs, Megaport may not be able to assess or proceed with your job application.
Megaport will only process sensitive personal data which you may provide to us of your free will (that is personal data relating to an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, political or trade union membership, philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation or criminal convictions).
Megaport usually collects personal information about you when you interact directly with us. For example, Megaport collects your personal details when you provide information to us in person, by phone or email, or when you enter your personal details on Megaport’s recruitment websites.
Megaport may also collect personal information about you indirectly, including from your referees, recruitment agencies and third parties Megaport engages to provide recruitment services on our behalf.
Megaport will process your personal information for these purposes solely to the extent this is necessary for the application process and/or your subsequent employment with Megaport, as required by our legitimate interests and applicable laws.
a specified recipient to facilitate a purchase or potential purchase of our business.
Megaport will share your personal information with the above third parties only to the extent this is required for the application process or your subsequent employment with Megaport.
Megaport will delete your personal information directly after the application process is finished unless you are employed afterwards at Megaport or have consented to retention of your data for future employment offers.
Information that you provide to us: you may voluntarily provide us with information about you by filling in forms on the Website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register with the Website, subscribe to our Services and when you report a problem with the Website.
Information that Megaport automatically collects about you: With regard to each of your visits to the Website we may automatically collect information that is automatically transferred to us when you visit our Website as specified above.
Megaport will use the above information only to the extent required for Megaport’s protected interests, or where this is necessary to provide requested Services to you.
We may share your personal information with suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of our Services or where it is required to enable you to use our Website.
Megaport will only share your pseudonymized technical information with these third parties including its group companies only where such transfer is justified under Megaport’s protected marketing and improvement interests.
You may object to such transfer of data by email to privacy@megaport.com or by using a respective “do not track” tool in your web browser.
For the above purposes, Megaport will not share any directly identifying information (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.) without your explicit prior consent except where this is necessary to provide any Services requested by you or to process any of your requests.
Megaport retains your personal information only to the extent this is required for the purpose it has been collected for and as required or permitted by law.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you give your respective consent upon the first visit of our Website.
Cookies help Megaport to collect information about visits to Megaport’s websites for marketing and statistical purposes to improve the way Megaport interacts with customers and with its other Website users.
All accesses to pages on Megaport’s websites are “logged”. The logged information contains such things as a list of the pages accessed and the sort of browser used. This information is used to check for attempts at “hacking”, or other fraudulent activity, to indicate missing pages or other web server problems. Megaport also uses it to provide general statistics such as the number of people viewing particular parts of the site.
The Megaportal cookie is used to authenticate customer access or to make sure customer is the same person over a given “session” time.
Megaport uses third party cookies (e.g. Google Analytics or Intercom cookie) to track how Megaport’s Website is used. We may provide a limited amount of your information to these third parties.
You can find more information about the individual cookies, which data is processed by them, how we use them and the purposes for which we use them and how to opt-out from them here.
You can usually remove or block cookies by using the settings in your browser, but this may affect your ability to use Megaport’s websites.
Megaport operates in various countries globally and the organisations that Megaport may share your information with may be located in countries both within and outside of the European Union (“EU”), including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan and the United Kingdom. Note that the personal data protection and privacy laws in certain non-EU countries may not be as protective of your data as they are within the EU and may thus expose you to certain risks (such as a lower standard of protection applying to the processing of your information, or your having fewer rights to access your information, or there not being a regulatory body dedicated to personal data protection in that country that you can approach). Megaport will take all reasonable steps to ensure that recipients in such countries comply with a level of data protection that is considered to be adequate from the perspective of EU data protection laws (such as being covered by the EU-US Privacy Shield or standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission), but you nevertheless acknowledge the aforesaid potential risks and hereby consent to your data being processed in such countries.
Megaport treats your personal information as confidential. Megaport stores your personal information electronically and/or in hard copy form. Megaport takes a range of measures to protect the security of your personal information, including by storing electronic information in password-protected servers that are in restricted and monitored areas. Megaport does not store full credit card details on its own systems, but instead makes use of a PCI DSS-compliant payment service provider.
Your personal information can be accessed via your Megaportal account or by contacting Megaport at privacy@megaport.com.
Megaport takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information Megaport holds about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. You can access and correct most of your personal information (such as your contact details) using your Megaportal account. You can also contact Megaport at privacy@megaport.com if you wish to access or correct personal information that Megaport holds about you.
You have the right to request information about the data we store, to demand the correction of incorrect data, and to demand its deletion or the blocking or restriction of the processing of data. You also have the right to data portability in certain situations.You are also entitled to object to the processing of your data, provided the reason for the objection lies in your special situation and provided it is data we process to protect one of our protectable interests.
You can exercise the above rights at any time by contacting us at privacy@megaport.com.
If our data collection or processing is based on your consent, you may at any time freely withdraw your consent with effect for the future by email to privacy@megaport.com.
If you have an enquiry regarding privacy, or you wish to raise a complaint, you can contact the Privacy Officer by email at privacy@megaport.com.
 E.G. by Art. 4 (1) of the GDPR.
 E.G. under Art. 6 para 1 lit f) of the GDPR.
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 E.G. under Art. 6 para. 1 lit f) of the GDPR.
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 E.G. under Art. 15 of the GDPR.
 E.G. under Art. 16 of the GDPR.
 E.G. under Art. 17 of the GDPR.
 E.G. under Art. 18 of the GDPR.
 E.G. under Art. 21 of the GDPR.

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