Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2022

 

We, at Amman Chamber of Commerce (collectively, “Chamber”, “us” or “we”), understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that can identify you as an individual person.

 

This privacy policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with Amman Chamber of Commerce activities and services including everything we offer to our members, web site and portal users, as well as mobile app users (collectively, “users”) and other proposed electronic services (collectively, “sites” or “services”).

 

Please see our “Terms and Conditions” page also for more information about our online terms, conditions, and policies in general.

 

Information we collect

Amman Chamber of Commerce collects personal data in the course of its work and activities, including in connection with some client services. We also collect personal data on certain areas of our “sites” when you create a user profile, register for newsletters and alerts, sign up for news, circulars, reports and/or participate in public surveys.

 

The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, location address, e-mail address, telephone number, and mobile number.

 

We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our “sites”. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, and other similar technologies on our “sites”. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the “sites”, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the “sites”.

 

The information automatically collected may be associated with a unique identifier as well as with any other personal data you have provided.

 

Amman Chamber of Commerce may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators, in the course of its business activities including in connection with some member services. This includes demographic, professional and other information that is publicly available online, including information you choose to make public through social media platforms and other public online forums.

 

We may combine this data with existing information we have about you or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analytics activities (e.g., analysis of your interactivity with news and circulars, search queries, and detecting fraud patterns in connection with financial transactions).

 

We will always seek to confirm that the third party has provided transparent information about its use of this data, including its disclosure to third parties like Amman Chamber of Commerce, in compliance with applicable law.

 

Use of information

Amman Chamber of Commerce uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information and services, personalize content that you view or receive on the “sites”, evaluate and improve our “services”, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, analyze the “sites” performance and functioning, prevent fraud, enforce our terms and conditions, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, enforce Amman Chamber of Commerce’s agreements, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request.

 

In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the “sites”, or we may use it in the course of our activities and services, including in connection with some member services, for example, to provide certain services or products such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and offer content and services most relevant to you. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.

 

Amman Chamber of Commerce and its service providers may use first and third party cookies and other tracking technologies to manage our “sites” and our “services” and collect analytics about how you use them.

 

Amman Chamber of Commerce and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you. The information provided throughout this privacy policy about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies.

 

Our Sites do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services. Accordingly, we do not alter our data collection and use practices in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.

 

Use of information collected via mobile devices

In connection with our mobile applications, Amman Chamber of Commerce may use third party service providers to analyze user activity to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of our mobile app. For example, Amman Chamber of Commerce receives reports on some of our mobile applications’ aggregate usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, pages accessed, and other events occurring within our app.

 

A unique user identifier that is generated by the app helps personalize your app experience and tracks the pages that you read in the app. We do not share your viewing history or trends with other users or any external third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates or third party service providers of Amman Chamber of Commerce).

 

The legal basis by which we process your personal data

Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:

 

in part, on our legitimate interests in achieving Amman Chamber of Commerce goals and promoting it, building and maintaining relationships with our members, and providing our traditional as well as electronic services;

in part, on your consent, for example if you create a user profile, or register for our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations such as understanding and enhancing the quality of your experience on our “sites”;

in part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations.

Disclosure of personal data: data recipients and international data transfers

Personal data collected in the course of Amman Chamber of Commerce activities and services, including in connection with some member services, as well as on the “sites” may be transferred from time to time to our affiliates and their personnel we work with, as well as to our third party service providers. Additionally, the “sites” may be viewed and hosted by Amman Chamber of Commerce and our third party service providers anywhere in the World.

 

Where required by law, we have put in place legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate data protection of your personal data that is processed by Amman Chamber of Commerce affiliates and third party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than the one in which you reside.

 

By using any of the “sites” and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to such trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

 

Amman Chamber of Commerce will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. Amman Chamber of Commerce may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by Amman Chamber of Commerce to provide services related to the “sites” as well as related to Amman Chamber of Commerce’s activities and services, including in connection with some member services, in the manner agreed upon in our member services agreements. We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third party service providers is consistent with this privacy policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.

 

We also may share your personal data with third party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.

 

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

 

If we are required to do so by law or legal process;

To law enforcement authorities or other government officials;

When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;

If disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;

To enforce our Terms and Conditions;

To protect our property, services and legal rights;

To prevent fraud against Amman Chamber of Commerce, our affiliates and/or business partners;

To support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions; or

To comply with any and all applicable laws.

 

In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.

 

Link to third party sites

Amman Chamber of Commerce may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our “users”. If you use these links, you will leave the “sites”. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Amman Chamber of Commerce of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and Amman Chamber of Commerce shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

 

Security

Amman Chamber of Commerce has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions however, Amman Chamber of Commerce cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.

 

Data retention

Amman Chamber of Commerce retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship. We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, Amman Chamber of Commerce will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this privacy policy.

 

Children

The “sites” are not designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger, and Amman Chamber of Commerce does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.

 

Your Rights

Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.

 

If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your requests as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for complying with your request where allowed by applicable law, and/or deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.

 

In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

 

Consent; changes to Privacy Policy

By using the “sites”, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this privacy policy and elsewhere on the “sites”. We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this privacy policy. If we make material changes to this privacy policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our “sites”.

 

Contact us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at:

 

Phone: +962 (6) 5666151

Fax: +962 (6) 5666155

Email:    info@ammanchamber.org.jo

Web:     https://ammanchamber.org.jo

 

Address: Shmeisani, Prince Shakir Bin Zaid St., Building #9

 

P. O. Box: 287

Postal Code: 11118 - Amman, Jordan