privacy policy

This Privacy Policy includes the practices of PEX HEALTH AND FITNESS, LLC and its business partners, subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter collectively referred to as “PEX”, “us” or “we”) with respect to the data collected by PEX from or in connection to “https://pexhealthandfitness.com/”or from any website of PEX’s affiliates, or from any other interaction (such as emails, applications, newsletters, or forms) where we display or link or refer to this Privacy Policy.

PEX understands and supports the importance of your data privacy. PEX respects your privacy and is eager to protect your personal data, which is defined as any content or information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person.

This Privacy Policy describes how PEX processes and protects your personal data in connection with PEX’s activities, services, business and websites, social media, applications, and communications that includes a link or refer to this Privacy Policy (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Sources”), in PEX’s capacity as the data controller.

We collect personal data during and based on our business activities, including in connection with our services. We also collect personal data on certain areas of the Sources when you register for or apply for positions, promotions or any kind of online commitment through PEX or Sources, create a profile, register for newsletters and alerts, participate in activities, sign up for conferences, webinars and events, and/or participate in public user posting areas (including but not limited to bulletin boards, forums and surveys). The personal data collected can vary from time to time and may include information that you provide, such as your business’ industry, name and surname, mailing address, your occupation(s), e-mail address, telephone number, and background information when required.

PEX may also gather relevant personal data from third parties, in the course of PEX’s business, operations and activities. Aforementioned data collection may include demographic, professional and other information that is publicly available and/or online, including the content you choose to share/make public through social media platforms and other online platforms. PEX can use or merge this data together with the pre-existing information or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analytics activities). PEX aims to do its best effort on being sure that the third party has provided transparent information concerning the usage of this data.

PEX may use your personal data to comply with your requests on information, to process your requests to participate in webinars and events, to personalize information or content that you view or receive from/on the Sources, to enhance and evaluate its services, to send you newsletters and notifications, to recruit and vet job applicants, to analyze Sources’ performance and functioning, to prevent fraud or infringement, to implement internal terms and regulations to the extent possible, to comply with the law and relevant obligations, to enforce the agreements where PEX is a party or undertaker, and to accomplish other claims you may initiate or request.

The collection or retention of personal data may be required for the operations of the Sources or PEX, or we may use it in the course of the business, to provide certain services or products from time to time. PEX reserves the right to merge and/or combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and offer the most relevant content and services to you. We may keep any of your personal data on our records and use it to contact you.

PEX processes your personal data with below mentioned legal bases and/or concerns:

i. to protect, market and support PEX, to build and maintain relationships, to conduct recruitment or any related hiring including but not limited with mergers and acquisitions, and to provide services;

ii. on/with your consent, as explained hereby in this Privacy Policy;

iii. to comply with the law, when providing, sharing or taking any necessary action on some specific content/information is or becomes necessary to satisfy the relevant legal or regulatory obligations.

The above-mentioned personal data collected, may be transferred from time to time to PEX subsidiaries and affiliates and their shareholders, managers, directors, employees across our organization and to the third party service providers located throughout the world. Please note that those third party service providers can be located in countries where the relevant or local law may or will grant you less rights or independance than you obtain in your applicable or origin country.

PEX undertakes to make its best effort to not intentionally disclose, share or transfer your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise required/permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows.

PEX will take reasonable cautions to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of your personal data .

PEX 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.

Furthermore, PEX may disclose information about you arisen from below mentioned causes:

– In case PEX is required to disclose your personal data by law or juridical/legal process;
– To law enforcement authorities or other government officials when duly requested by theforetold authorities/officials;
– In case PEX decides that disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent monetary ormaterial loss/damage or in connection with an investigation or arisen from an ongoing
illegal activity;
– If disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;

– To enforce PEX’s internal policy or regulations to the extent possible;
– To protect the property, benefits, interests, services and legal rights of PEX ;
– To prevent fraud or infringement;
– To support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions;
– To comply with all applicable laws.In addition, PEX may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a (whether internal or external) reorganization, investment, acquisition, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of the business.
PEX may contain or provide links to third party websites or social media platforms or information to our users. If you click on these links, you may leave the Sources. Such links do not constitute or imply an approval, implicit approval, sponsorship, or recommendation by PEX of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and PEX is not responsible or liable for any possible damages. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

PEX has implemented high standards of technological and operational security to protect personal data from theft, loss, misuse, alteration, or unwanted destruction. Only relevant and expert PEX employees and third party service providers are provided access to your personal data, and these employees and service providers are contractually required to treat this information as confidential. Although PEX takes relevant and reasonable measures and precautions it should not be interpreted as a guarantee that unauthorized or unwanted persons will not obtain access to your personal data.

PEX retains your personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship and PEX’s activities. PEX reserves the right to retain your personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it in order to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or retro-active record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request us to destroy your personal data, PEX will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety.

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 extinction of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data. In certain circumstances, you may also request us to cease processing your personal data.

If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct your personal data, or to examine, learn or discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at kaan.koker@valens-research.com. To help protect your privacy and security, we may 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. Depending on the legislation; 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.

If you are registered to PEX’s communication channels such as newsletter or alerts, or you receive invitations to survey or events from PEX and you prefer not to receive future communications, please write to kaan.koker@valens-research.com to unsubscribe from all PEX communications.

If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a user of any of the Sources where this Privacy Policy is posted, California Business and Professions Code Section (22581) permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. Please send an email to kaan.koker@valens-research.com to make such a request. Please be informed that such a request does not ensure full removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.

As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), this Privacy Policy states and explains the categories of personal data received, processed, and disclosed by PEX, the categories of sources for that data, and the purposes for which that data is collected, processed, and disclosed.

In addition, under California law, you may have the right to request more information about PEX’s collection, usage, disclosure and sale of personal data about you including:

i. The type(s) of your personal data that PEX has collected in the last 12 months and the categories of sources of that information;
ii. The type(s) of sources from which PEX has collected that information in the last 12 months, iii. The commercial or business bases PEX has gathered, collected, used, disclosed the information and

iv. The type(s) of third parties to whom PEX has disclosed that information in the last 12 months.

In addition, upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, establishing your identity, you may have the right to know about the specific pieces of personal data that we have collected about you and/or shared with third parties in the last 12 months.

You may also have the right to request the extermination of personal data about you that we have collected or maintain, which we will comply with subject to certain limitations set forth in CCPA or other relevant law.

If you would like to exercise your privacy rights or if you are a California consumer, you can contact us from kaan.koker@valens-research.com. When we process your aforementioned request, we require you to provide certain personal data (first and last name, email address, physical address, telephone number or other information needed to verify yourself) in order to verify your identity in accordance with requirements under CCPA.

By using our Sources, you consent to usage, collection and storage of your personal data as it is explained, detailed and described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere in the Sources. PEX reserves the right to make unilateral changes to this Privacy Policy. We will notify you on 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.

Please see our Cookie Policy and Terms of Use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you would like us to contact you, please reach us from:

Sincerely yours,

PEX Team

PEX HEALTH AND FITNESS, LLC

Boston, Massachusetts For legal queries: kaan.koker@valens-research.com