Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Editage, a brand of Cactus Communications that operates through various group entities including, but not limited to, entities located in Singapore, Japan, China, Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Your privacy is important to us, and the Cactus Communications Group (“CACTUS,” “the Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy whilst providing a personalized and valuable service. We take matters of Data Privacy seriously and respect our relationship with our customers, clients, suppliers, including authors, societies and institutions.

This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing, and usage practices. It is designed to allow the Data Subject (“you”) to make an informed choice regarding use, access, and correction of your Personal Information. If you have any requests concerning your Personal Information or any queries about these practices, please contact us by e-mail on privacy@cactusglobal.com or you can contact us by writing to Cactus Communications Private Limited, A/703, Satellite Gazebo, Guru Hargovindji Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400093

  • Personal Data That We Collect

    We collect from you Personal Information such as full name, gender, date of birth, address, job title, company information, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, identification details, and referral source, and if you are a Service Provider, we will also collect payment information (including bank, credit/debit card details, and electronic payment ids) billing address, and work and education profile. This data may include IP Address, operating system, and browser type. We may also have acquired your Personal Information from a third-party Service Provider or publicly available data source.

  • How We Use Your Personal Data

    As Data Controller:

    We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party without your explicit consent. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your Personal Information to (a) assist you with service, partnership, or employment request; (b) send to you information that we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means; (c) send you marketing communications relating to our business (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing); (d) respond to an enquiry, question, or concern that you may have raised; or (e) perform analytics and create a database to improve your browsing experience and enhance the functionality of our services.

    We may share Personal Information with trusted Service Providers or our group companies for payment processing, supplementing the information you provide us in order to provide you with better service, perform statistical analysis, provide marketing assistance, host the site and index user profile pages and usernames as part of the URL and customer support. Such third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with these third parties, contact us at privacy@cactusglobal.com.

    To facilitate our global operations, we may transfer and access Personal Information from around the world. This Privacy Policy shall apply even if we transfer Personal Information to countries outside the European Union.

    If you give us banking, debit card, credit card, or other payment mode details, we solely use such details for payment related purposes. The third-party payment processors we use also collect, use, and process your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies.

    To ensure that the security and integrity of the Site is safeguarded, CACTUS may monitor your Personal Information. CACTUS may under certain circumstances engage a trusted third-party Service Provider for the purpose of managing the technical operations involved in hosting the Site. Information you submit to us via the contact form on our Website or application will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third-party hosting provider’s servers in Singapore. To the extent that it may be necessary, and solely for the purposes of providing the service available on the Site to you, we may disclose to such third party any of your Personal Information that may be necessary for the procurement of services from the third party.

  • Children’s Personal Information

    CACTUS does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Information through our Websites, Applications or Service(s). We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through our Service(s) or Websites without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us through our Websites, applications or Service(s), please contact us at privacy@cactusglobal.com, and we will endeavor to delete that information and terminate the child’s account from our databases.

  • Sensitive Personal Information

    What Is Sensitive Personal Information?

    “Sensitive Personal Information” is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health, or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

    We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive Personal Information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive Personal Information to us.

    If, however, you inadvertently or unintentionally transmit sensitive Personal Information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive Personal Information.

  • Retention of Personal Information

    We retain Personal Information that you provide us as long as an Account is active or as needed to provide the Service(s) or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate financial and other records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to terminate your Account or request that we no longer use Your Personal Information, please contact us at privacy@cactusglobal.com.

    Criteria for determining retention periods

    In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

    • the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);
    • whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
    • whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);
    • how valuable your information is (both now and in the future);
    • any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;
    • the levels of risk, cost, and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;
    • how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and
    • any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you)
  • Use of Cookies & Similar Technologies

    Cookies are data files that are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.

    We use cookies, including essential, functional, and analytical cookies. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy. You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our Website by changing your browser settings, but doing so can impair your ability to use our Website or some or all of its features.

    For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings and other ways in which you can reject cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or see our cookies policy.

  • Security of Your Personal Information

    CACTUS has put in place the following security practices and procedures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure:

    • a. We secure the Personal Information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure
    • b. All our Information security processes are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 compliant.
    • c. All our employees and Service Providers have signed confidentiality agreements where they have undertaken that they will not make any Personal Information available to anyone, unless authorized in writing by the user.
    • d. Personal Information will not be made available to any third party, except as provided herein or by obtaining your prior written consent.
    • e. All documents submitted are managed through a secure online job management system; the documents that are sent to us can only be viewed by service professionals working on your assignment.
    • f. Payment-related Personal Information:
      • i. The Site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption when accepting paymentrelated Personal Information, to ensure that your payment-related Personal Information is secure.
      • ii. In order to protect your credit card information, all online transactions are conducted using a secure 256-bit SSL encryption signed by VeriSign. Encryption ensures that no information is accessible to unknown parties. CACTUS hereby undertakes not to store your credit card information, thereby reducing the possibility of fraudulent charges being made by CACTUS.
  • Testimonials & Public Forums
    • 8.1. We post on our Websites customer testimonials/comments/reviews that may contain Personal Information. Prior to posting the testimonial, we obtain the customer’s consent to post their name along with their testimonial. If you want your testimonial removed, please contact us at privacy@cactusglobal.com.
    • 8.2. Our Websites offer publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or discussion board posts. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. You agree and acknowledge that the use of such information is not confidential, does not constitute Personal Information, and is not subject to protection under CACTUS’s Privacy Policy.
  • Corporate Events

    In the event CACTUS goes through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account and personal data will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice of any such change in ownership or control. During such event, we may also disclose your Personal Information to any other third party with your prior consent.

  • Responsibility with You

    When you submit any Personal Information to us, you represent that you have the lawful right to submit the Personal Information and agree that you will not submit any information unless you are legally entitled to do so and that such Personal Information is true, complete, and accurate. You may not use a false email address or other identifying information to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content. Any improper collection or misuse of Personal Information is in violation of this Privacy Policy and of the applicable terms and conditions of use. You agree not to misuse any Personal Information available on our Site or to gather it or use robots or other automated scripts, codes, or functionalities to do so. We may immediately suspend or terminate your access to our Site without notice if we become aware that you are in breach of applicable terms and conditions of use or of this Privacy Policy.

  • Your Rights

    Upon request, CACTUS will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. We allow users of the Service(s) or Website to access, update, or modify their information by clicking on the My Account link in the CACTUS navigation menu. If you provide us with your Personal Information, you have the following rights with respect to that information:

    • To review the user information that you have supplied to us
    • To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us
    • To request that your user information not be used to contact you
    • To request that your user information be deleted from our records
    • To withdraw your consent to our use of your information; please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the legal basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent
    • 11.1. To Unsubscribe from Our Communications

      Your registered email address will be automatically subscribed to our weekly newsletter, which will contain information on industry updates, author resources, upcoming webinars, latest offers, and new services by CACTUS. You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our e-mails, or by sending us an email at privacy@cactusglobal.com. Customers cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to their account with us.

  • Amendments to Privacy Policy

    We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to keep up with changing legislation and best practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the Website prior to the change becoming effective. Provided that we will not notify you if we amend the Policy to make addition, deletions, or modifications to the list of cookies from time to time, to keep the list of cookies current and accurate. Your continued use of this Websites or the Service(s) following the posting of any amendment, modification, or change to this Policy shall constitute your acceptance of the amendments to this Policy. You can choose to discontinue use of the Websites or Service(s) if you do not accept the terms of this Policy or any modified version of this Policy.

  • Legal Disclosure

    We reserve the right to disclose your personal data as required by applicable law, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including meeting national security or law enforcement requirements and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court refund, or other legal process served on us.

  • Contact Us

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the data we hold about you or you wish to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and kept up to date, please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy@cactusglobal.com.

    If you wish to exercise the above data subjects rights, please contact us at privacy @cactusglobal.com or by postal mail to Cactus Communications Private Limited, A/703, Satellite Gazebo, Guru Hargovindji Marg, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400093, Attention: Privacy Team. We will respond to your request within reasonable timeframe and notify you of the action we have taken.

Effective Date: June 29, 2018