1. Who are we?

We are a tech company providing lead generation services to our global client base. Our processing is based primarily on the use of publicly available data to identify sales prospects for our clients. As such, your privacy is important to us, we take our responsibilities seriously and will always respond quickly and courteously to any request. You can contact us using the details below:

By email to our: damjan@barkline.io

By telephone on: +1 (314) 916-9709

2. Barkline GDPR policy

2.1. We are dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and integrity of the personal information of users of our services, website visitors , and email recipients.

2.2. This policy applies where we are acting as a Controller with respect to the personal data of our service users, email recipients and personal data collected from public sources; Put differently, this is the process by which we decide why and how to process that personal data.

2.3. This policy is also applicable in situations where we collaborate with our clients and other businesses to decide on the goal and method of processing, or when we are processing data on their behalf as a Processor.

2.4. Any mention of a “data subject” refers to you, the natural person whose personal data we process in our capacities as a Data Controller, Joint Controller, or Data Processor.

3. How we use your personal data

In this section, we will discuss the general categories of personal data that we may process; if we process personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, we will explain where we got it and the purposes for which we may process it; and lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we will explain the legal bases of the processing that apply to both us and you. We want you to be aware of how we use your data.

3. The general categories of personal data that we may process:

3.1. Account Information. Your Account Data (“Account Data”) may be processed by us. Your name, email address, company details, and any other contact and related information we may gather about you could be included in the Account Data. Either you or your employer are typically the source of the Account Data. The processing of the Account Data may be necessary to deliver our services, guarantee the security of our website and services, keep backup copies of our databases, and correspond with you. The execution of a contract between you and us [or your employer] and/or taking action, at your request, to enter into such a contract serves as the legal foundation for this processing. When using your data, we may occasionally also rely on legitimate interest as our legal justification where we use your data for marketing purposes or in order to operate our business and improve our services.

3.2. Data Services. When you use our services, you may provide us with personal information about yourself (this is known as “Service Data”). Name, email address, phone number, and other pertinent data may be included in the service data. Either you or your employer is the source of the Service Data. For the purpose of interacting with you and offering our services, the Service Data may be processed. The execution of a contract between you and us or the actions taken, at your request, to enter into such a contract, serves as the legal foundation for this processing.

3.3. Request Information. Any inquiry you send us about products and/or services may contain information that we process (referred to as “Enquiry Data”). We may process your inquiry data in order to provide you with relevant offers, promotions, and sales of goods and/or services. The lawfulness of this processing is supported by your consent, which you can withdraw at any moment by getting in touch with us, a contract, or a legitimate interest if your requests are an invitation for us to provide you with information about our services.

3.4. Notification Information. In order to subscribe to our email notifications and/or newsletters, you may provide us with information, which we may process (“Notification Data”). The processing of the notification data might be done so that you receive the appropriate alerts and/or newsletters. Consent serves as the legal foundation for this processing, which you can always revoke by getting in touch with us.

3.5. Data Correspondence. Any correspondence you send us may contain information that we process (collectively, “Correspondence Data”). Your name, email address, the communication’s content, and any related metadata could all be included in the correspondence data. The metadata related to communications made through the website’s contact forms will be produced by our website. For record-keeping and correspondence with you, the Correspondence Data may be processed. Our legitimate interests, which include the appropriate management of our website, business, and user communications, serve as the legal foundation for this processing.

3.6. Accessible Information. Information from publicly accessible sources, including social networking profiles, and other sources may be processed by us (collectively, “Public Data”). Names, employment details, and career information are possible examples of this data. job title, educational background, and other pertinent data. Public Data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you and/or your employer. Our legitimate interests, which include managing our business, growing it, and turning a profit, serve as the legal foundation for this processing.

3.7. Data on Legal Claims. If it is required for the creation, pursuit, or defense of legal claims—whether in court proceedings, administrative proceedings, or out-of-court procedures—we may process any of your personal data listed in this policy (“Legal Claims Data”). Our legitimate interests, which include defending and upholding our legal rights as well as yours and others’, serve as the legal foundation for this process.

3.8. Data for Professional Use. When it comes to getting or keeping insurance coverage, managing risks, or getting professional advice, we may process any of your personal information listed in this policy (“Professional Use Data”). Our legitimate interests, specifically the appropriate safeguarding of our company against risks, serve as the legal foundation for processing Professional Use Data.

3.9. Third Party Data. Any of your personal information that we acquire from a third party may be processed by us. Name, address, email, phone number, other contact information, employment information, etc. are all included in this. When we buy data, we make sure the supplier complies with GDPR and has the necessary legal foundation in place. In order to use your data, we will also make sure that we have the proper consent evidence on file, or, if not, that we have another suitable legal basis and GDPR compliance procedures in place.

Apart from the particular objectives mentioned in this Section, we have the right to process any of your personal data if doing so is required to comply with legal requirements.

4. Our legitimate interest

Our lawful bases for processing include our Legitimate Interest to process your data. Regarding this, we have given great thought to your rights and privacy expectations as well as our own alongside the rights of our clients, to run our business. We have finished a data protection impact assessment to make sure we take the necessary precautions with all data, as well as a balancing assessment to evaluate the impact on the data subjects involved. We have also thought about how our processing of your data may affect your privacy. We were able to confirm that the processing of data in this manner is acceptable and that the rights of the data subjects are not unduly affected thanks to these Legitimate Interest and Data Protection Impact Assessments.

5. Where did your personal data come from?

To deliver our services, we draw on a variety of sources, such as social media and public domain materials. Our strategy is centered on carefully identifying potential business contacts and making offers we think they’ll find interesting. We carefully choose business representatives, and we only forward offers that are appropriate. We will make sure that the companies from whom we obtain data are GDPR compliant and that your rights are always upheld.

6. Data sharing

We don’t sell or share your data with other companies other than in order to provide our services to them and to meet our obligations as a company. As a prospecting and lead generation company, Barkline has obtained your information in order to serve our clients. We only share that information with that particular client. If this is the case, we will honor your right to information and make sure you have the choice to unsubscribe from receiving marketing communications both during our initial communication and in all upcoming ones. Our client’s contact information will be included in their privacy policy so you can always exercise your rights.

7. Retaining and deleting personal data?

This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

8. The rights of data subjects?

We have outlined your rights under data protection law in this section. Since some rights are intricate, not all the information has been covered in our summaries. For a complete explanation of these rights, you should thus read the pertinent laws and regulatory authorities’ guidelines.

According to data protection law, your main rights are:

-The right to be informed

-The right to access

-The right to rectification

-The right to erasure

-The right to restrict processing

-The right to object to processing

-The right to data portability

-Rights related to automated decision-making including profiling

-The right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

-The right to withdraw consent.