Cookies
Introduction
The protection of your privacy is important to Global Message Services AG and its affiliates, (hereinafter, “GMS”, “we” or respectively “us” / “our”).
Our privacy mission is to establish and maintain strong data protection and privacy practices that safeguard personal information and build trust in our messaging services.
Our privacy vision is to be recognized as a privacy and data protection leader in the telecommunications industry, by providing compliant, secure and transparent messaging services that enable our customers and partners to communicate with confidence.
This Data Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) applies where GMS acts as a data controller i.e. determines the purposes and means of processing of personal data of the visitors of our website https://www.gms.net/.
This Privacy Notice explains how we use your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”), such as name, telephone number, address, e-mail address, title/role and/or your IP address and other tracking data that we collect when you visit and browse our website.
The Privacy Notice does not apply to services we provide or buy under separate contractual agreements with our business partners.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Notice on a regular basis and whenever you intend to provide personal data to us. We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our information handling practices as well as to follow applicable law and legislation.
How we use your personal data?
GMS collects, processes, uses, stores, discloses, transfers or otherwise makes available (“Processing”, “Process” or “Processed”) your Personal Data as legally permitted under EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and other applicable data privacy laws.
Any Personal Data, whether sensitive or not, is Processed confidentially and under the terms stipulated below.
Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Web site as follows:
- By use of our corporate name; or
- By use of the uniform resource locator (Web address) being linked to; or
- By use of any other description of our Web site or material being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site.
- By use of the uniform resource locator (Web address) being linked to; or
- Any Personal Data, whether sensitive or not, is Processed confidentially and under the terms stipulated below.
- By use of the uniform resource locator (Web address) being linked to; or
- Any Personal Data, whether sensitive or not, is Processed confidentially and under the terms stipulated below.
What Personal Data do we collect?
When you visit and use our website, GMS may collect and Process the following types of Personal Data:
- name, company name, title/ position/ role and contact details (telephone number, e-mail);
- your consent choices and preferences (to process Personal Data / use cookies / receive newsletter and other services requested by you);
- IP address, user-agent information, cookie identifiers and settings, your behavioral data (pages visited, interactions), tracking data (for details please see the Cookie Notice);
Third-party Tools
Third-party Service | Third-party Provider | Tool/Service description | Link to Privacy Policies and Opt-Out and Settings Preferences |
Google Analytics | Google, Inc | Tool for tracking and reporting the website traffic | Privacy policy Opt-out |
Google Tag Manager | Google, Inc | Tool for Managing JavaScript and HTML tags used for tracking and analytics on website | Privacy policy Opt-out |
Google Search Console | ConsoleGoogle, Inc | Tool for monitoring the website traffic and performance | Privacy policy Opt-out |
Google Data Studio | Google, Inc | Tool for creation of internal reports | Privacy policy |
Google Optimize | Google, Inc | Tool for testing the effectiveness of website variations | Privacy policy |
Scalability | Hotjar Ltd | Tool for evaluating the visitor’s experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click) and enabling to build and maintain the website with this feedback | Privacy policy |
Facebook button Facebook “Share” button | Facebook Inc. | Social media plug-ins for promotion of social media profiles and increase of website traffic through social media | Privacy policy |
Contacting us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Notice or you have any feedback or suggestions to improve this Privacy Notice, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer via email dataprotection@gms.net