Cabot Properties, Inc. (along with its affiliates, “Cabot”) is focused on preserving the confidentiality of individually identifiable and proprietary information about our investors and clients, potential investors, and employment candidates. By visiting or submitting data through this Website, you are accepting and consenting to the provisions set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers only data collected through the Website (“Data”) and not any other data collection or processing, including, without limitation, data collection practices of other webpages to which we link or data that we or our affiliates collect offline or through web pages that do not display a direct link to this Privacy Policy. Depending on the nature of our relationship with you, in the past twelve months we may have collected the following types of personal information about you:
As a result of your use of this Website, Cabot may, itself or through a third-party vendor, passively collect technical and usage Data from you, the User, pertaining to your computer and/or Internet connection. Such Data may include internet or other network activity (e.g., the number and frequency of your visits to this Website, information regarding websites accessed immediately before and after your visit to this Website, your Internet browser type, and your preferences on our Website), and identifiers (e.g., your IP address). The technical and usage Data may be used to assist Cabot’s web design team in maintaining and improving this Website, and to enhance and/or personalise your visits to this Website.
Cabot may also collect and store Data, or engage a third party vendor to collect and store Data, voluntarily provided by you while visiting this Website. User provided Data may include identifiers such as contact information or professional or employment-related information (e.g., information provided while seeking employment at Cabot, including but not limited to your resume or other personal information).
Cabot collects your personal Data for the purpose of establishing and managing our business relationship with you or your organization, understanding the market in which Cabot operates, management reporting, website management, and managing security, risk and crime prevention.
Cabot processes your Data on one or more of the following legal grounds, where appropriate:
Cabot will not sell or rent your personal and/or proprietary Data to anyone. We also share your Data with agents and service providers who use the Data, under confidentiality agreements, for our purposes only and only under our instructions, e.g., third parties who provide us on-site web analytics services (for example, website tracking, content delivery, etc.). Depending on the nature of our relationship with you, we may disclose Data as described above to any of these third parties for our business purposes. We may share your Data as required by law or in the interest of protecting or exercising our or others’ legal rights, e.g., without limitation, in connection with requests from law enforcement officials and in connection with court proceedings. Also, we reserve the right to fully use and disclose any Data collected via the Website that is not in personally identifiable form.
We may share your information with the following types of service providers:
To the extent provided by the law of your jurisdiction or as otherwise applicable to our processing of your information, you may have certain rights regarding your data. These rights may include: the right to access the personal information that we hold about you, including the purpose for processing the Data, the categories of recipients of that data, and the source of that information. You may also have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain limitations.
Cabot is committed to the protection of personal Data in line with the data protection principles set out in the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). This section describes the steps Cabot takes to protect the personal Data that it processes about customers, business partners, and residents that reside in the UK or EU.
Where Cabot uses your email to communicate marketing information to you, we will seek your prior consent where required to do so by law.
If and when transferring your Data outside the EU, we will do so using one of the following safeguards:
The GDPR provides you with certain rights in relation to the processing of your personal data, including:
These rights are not absolute and are subject to various conditions under the laws and regulations to which Cabot is subject.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection Supervisory Authority, if you are not happy with how Cabot processes your personal Data and we could not provide you with a satisfactory resolution to your request.
The California Privacy Protection Agency, as enforced by relevant privacy laws (namely, Title 1.81.5 California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018), requires Cabot to make certain additional disclosures and provides California residents with certain rights regarding their personal information. If you are a California resident, this section describes those rights, how you may exercise them, and what Cabot will do in response.
If you are an individual who resides in California and whose personal information is collected and processed by Cabot, your rights are:
Cabot follows the requirements of California Civil Code § 1798.125 and will not discriminate against any consumer who exercises their rights set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Cabot will keep and process your personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected in connection with your relationship with use, unless we have a legal right or obligation to retain the Data for a longer period, or the data is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Transmissions over the Internet are never 100% secure or error-free. However, with respect to our internal security procedures, Cabot takes reasonable steps to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in order to protect your personal Data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Cabot also requires third party companies that we hire and to whom we disclose Data to keep such information confidential and to use it only to perform the services for which we hire them and only under our instructions.
Cabot may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law or in our practices. Such changes will be applicable as of the effective date set out in this Privacy Policy.