Privacy Policy
Verint Global Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 2021
Welcome to Verint’s Global Privacy Policy. The protection of your personal information is very important. Personal information may be any form of data that could be used to identify you, directly or indirectly. This Privacy Policy sets out important information on where and how we collect your personal information, what we do with it, how we protect it, and what your rights are. This policy generally applies to our global operations. We know that some jurisdictions have unique privacy laws and where applicable, we will comply with those local laws.
You can find out more detailed information below, but here are some key summary points we think you might want to know:
- Verint includes Verint Systems, Inc. and its global group of companies. We give you more information in Who are we?
- We operate in the business-to-business market, so we may collect personal information relating to employees or agents of business customers, partners, prospective customers and other businesses, where required to support our operations
- Your personal information is, where appropriate, shared within our global group
- We use third party vendors, where appropriate, who are located in different countries across the world to store and process personal information to support our business activities
- We do not sell your personal information
- We do send business-to-business direct marketing where we are allowed to, and this could include event and webinar invitations, knowledge leadership, and information on our customer solutions
- We use personal information to support our global operations, including sales, finance, customer service and other business operations
- Our websites and apps are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal information relating to children
- We never keep your personal information for longer than is necessary.
- Personal information we collect on our websites and applications
- Personal information we collect for marketing and business development activities
- Personal information we use for internal operations like finance and business operations
- Where we are a service provider and processor in a B2B (business-to-business) context and where these B2B customers use our solutions to collect or process data
- Where we collect or process data relating to our employees
- Where you apply for a job with us, a specific policy will be made available at the point of application
When we say ‘we’ or ‘us’ in this policy, we are referring to the companies that make up the Verint Systems, Inc. group of companies. Verint Systems, Inc. is a company publicly listed on the NASDAQ (NSDQ: VRNT). A list of our affiliates is published annually as part of our regulatory filings.
Depending on the circumstances, the region, and the purpose of processing, the legal entity which may be considered a data controller may vary but typically personal information will be collected by the regional company you choose for your Verint trading relationship which will be shared in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In some cases, multiple Verint entities could be considered joint-controllers. Usually, the primary data controllers in our regions are:
- Americas: Verint Americas, Inc. of 800 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005, USA
- EMEA: Verint Systems UK Limited, of 241 Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0RH, UK
- APAC: Verint Systems (Asia Pacific) Limited of Cyberport 3 100 Cyberport Rd Pok Fu Lam Hong Kong
This Privacy Policy sets out what we do with your personal information, what we do to keep it secure, from where and how we collect it, as well as your rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you.
This policy applies if you interact with us through our websites, on social media, or at events, trade shows or webinars. This policy also applies to our internal operations including sales, finance, marketing, procurement and legal. By providing personal information, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which our websites contain a link. The inclusion of a link on any of our websites does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us.
No. Where we are a service provider and data processor for our customers (in a B2B context), the applicable details on the processing operations we undertake for our customers is set out in our Global data processing agreement (DPA) which forms part of our customer contract. If you have any queries in relation to how our customer controls and processes your data, please navigate to that organization’s privacy policy as they are your service provider not Verint.
No. Where our customers use our solutions to collect data, we may be acting as their data processor. That customer will collect your data in accordance with their privacy policy so if you have any queries in relation to their data collection please visit their website and navigate to that organization’s privacy policy as they are your service provider not Verint.
Marketing and Business Development
- Information such as your name, address, email, job title, and telephone number which you provide to us through form submissions, events, feedback, and enquiries
- Information about the services that we provide to you, including event, virtual events, webinar registrations, white paper downloads and other information we share with you and you share with us as part of any related registrations
- If you register for a paid event, payment information will be collected through a trusted third-party provider and we will not receive your payment information
- Your account login details for our websites and apps, including your username and chosen password
- Information about whether or not you want to receive marketing communications from us and what your communication preferences are
- Information on how you interact with any of our emails or other communications, including if you have opened and engaged with the emails or other communications
- Information related to our social media and website activities, including how you use our websites to help us improve your experience. See the Cookies section below for additional information
- Information we get from third parties, including event organisers, our partners, service providers, your colleagues, and publicly available information.
- To ensure the data we hold is up-to-date we may periodically ask you to confirm this information or we may supplement this information with additional data we collect from other sources
Sales, Finance, Business Operations and Delivering Services
- We deliver services to enterprise customers and you may be an employee or representative of those customers who is involved in some aspect of the relationship we have with our customer
- Information you, your company or our partner provide to us such as your name, address, email, job title, and telephone number so we can deliver our services, provide proposals during a sales cycle and negotiate agreements, manage customer accounts and process and fulfil orders
- Information about training or other services we deliver to you, including administering our certification programs
- Information we collect as part of partner on-boarding, including information we obtain from third parties to complete on-boarding compliance checks
Information we collect to deliver support to our customers, including ticketing information and details of the support request - Information we obtain from you to improve our services
- Information captured by our CCTV if you visit any of our premises, visitor logs and other information we collect to ensure our premises remain safe and secure
- We will monitor customer usage of our services to ensure compliance with our customer agreements and this may include audits of named users or other inspections which involve the processing of personal information
- We may record calls, correspondence and other communication channels, including screen capture, for compliance, quality, training and other purposes
- We may video record or screen capture training seminars, presentations, webinars for compliance, quality, training and other purposes
- We may aggregate, anonymise and/or de-identify personal information such that it is no longer personal information for the purposes of enhancing our services and business practices
- Where we demonstrate our services and solutions to you, we may collect your personal information as part of a trial or test
- Where we demonstrate our voice biometrics services and solutions to you, we may collect special category data or sensitive data as part of the demonstration. In those circumstances our Biometric Policy shall also apply in addition to this Privacy Policy
Where we process your personal information, we do so in accordance with applicable privacy laws. The most common legal bases we rely on are:
- Consent: You have told us you are happy for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose
- Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for us to conduct our business, but not where our interests are overridden by your interests or rights
- Performance of a contract: We must process your personal information in order to be able to provide you with one of our products or services
Although less common, there may be circumstances when other legal bases are appropriate:
- Vital interests: The processing of your personal information is necessary to protect you or someone else’s life
- Legal obligation: We are required to process your personal information by law
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We only ever share personal information if we have appropriate confidentiality and data protection agreements in place.
Within our group:
We are a global organisation and our professionals who use personal information for the purposes outlined in this policy may be employed by any of our entities. Our entities have entered into binding inter-affiliate transfer agreements which recognise the standards of international data transfers (see the section below on “Do we transfer your data internationally?”).
With our partners:
We may deliver our services through a partner or assist a partner in their provision of services to you. Where required to deliver these services we may need to share information with our partners. EXCEPT IN JURISDICTIONS WHERE EXPRESSLY DEEMED SO, WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BY SUCH BUSINESS PARTNERS.
With our vendors:
- Marketing and Business Development: to deliver our marketing and business development campaigns we may share data with digital marketing providers, social media and advertising companies, market research partners, webinar hosts, venues, event organisers and registration providers, and other trusted vendors who assist in the performance of our marketing campaigns.
- Sales, Finance, Business Operations and Delivering Services: we use (a) third-party sales tools to track pipeline activity and order information, (b) finance and invoicing tools to assist in managing orders, customer billing and fulfillment, (c) legal and compliance tools to assist in our contracting and compliance activities, (d) consultants, contractors and other specialists to provide professional services, and (e) other vendors which support our business operations.
Law enforcement and legal compliance:
We also use and disclose personal information, as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our Affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our Affiliates, you or others; (g) if we are involved in any discussions related to the sale of all or part of our business, and (h) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information under our control. We implement security measures appropriate to the nature of the processing and regularly review these measures to ensure they remain appropriate.
If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the Contact us section below.
From time to time we transfer your personal information to our Group companies, partners or vendors based outside of the country in which the applicable data controller is based, including exporting data outside the US, EEA, APAC and Brazil, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy (please see the Who might we share your personal information with? section above for further details).
The international jurisdictions we transfer data to are primarily to the USA, Israel, UK, EEA, India and other jurisdictions, as appropriate. When we do this, your personal information will continue to be subject to one or more appropriate safeguards set out in the applicable law. These might be to a jurisdiction recognised as ‘adequate’, through an approved transfer scheme or through the use of standard contractual clauses in a form approved by regulators or other competent authorities..
We will keep your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable privacy laws and relevant regulations. We will never retain your personal information for longer than is necessary.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods includes:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you or our customer (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the services);
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
You may have a number of rights under applicable privacy laws which, in certain circumstances, you may be able to exercise in relation to the personal information we process about you. These may include:
- the right to access a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- the right to correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you;
- the right to restrict our use of your personal information;
- the right to be forgotten;
- the right of data portability; and
- the right to object to our use of your personal information.
Where we rely on consent as the legal basis on which we process your personal information, you may also withdraw that consent at any time.
Especially under Brazilian Federal Law nº 13,709/2018 (Brazilian General Data Protection Law – “LGPD”), you have some rights regarding data protection that you may be able to exercise in relation to the personal information we process about you. Those rights are the following:
- the right to request to request confirmation on the existence of processing of your personal information;
- the right to request access to your personal information Verint holds about you in a simplified format, or by means of a complete declaration;
- the right to request correction of your personal information;
- the right to request anonymization, blockage or deletion of unnecessary, excessive or unlawfully processed personal information;
- the right to request deletion of personal information lawfully processed with your given consent;
- the right to request information about the public and private entities with which Verint shared your personal information;
- the right to request information about the possibility of denying consent and the consequences of such denial;
- the right to request transfer of your personal data (data portability);
- the right to revoke your given consent at any time;
- the right to oppose the processing of your personal information, when in noncompliance with the LGPD.
If you are seeking to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in the Contact us section below. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we can fulfil any of your rights under data protection law. This helps us to protect personal information against fraudulent requests. We use a trusted third-party vendor to collect the information in the contact us form.
You may have the right to complain to a competent regulator or supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.
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If you would like to exercise one of your rights as set out in the Your rights section, or you have a question or a complaint about this policy, or the way your personal information is processed, please contact us by completing the form at this link. We use a third party privacy tool to help us manage your request.
We can only process subject access requests received through that form which have sufficient information to enable us to process your request. We may need to request additional information in order to complete your request. If you do not provide sufficient information initially and do not respond to our request for additional information, we may be unable to complete your request. If you send a request by email, we may ask you to complete the form in order to ensure your request is processed in accordance with applicable privacy laws.