Honoring Your Privacy Rights
This Privacy Policy outlines how we handle personal data collected through various interactions with our company, including but not limited to service usage, website visits, communications, and participation in promotions, surveys, events, or newsletters. It is crucial to read this policy alongside any other specific privacy notices we may provide on particular occasions to ensure you understand how and why we use your data. This policy is intended to complement—and not replace—any other notices.
○ Procurement of Personal Data
We collect information about you directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of our Services or interactions with us. We may combine the information we collect from these various sources.
Directly Collected Information
We collect Personal Information that you provide to us voluntarily (online or offline), including when you: respond to an advertisement; participate in a survey or a drawing; request information; set up a Social Network or other Site profile; use our Services or one of our Apps; use the chat, SMS, or email functionality on our Site to contact us; or otherwise interact with us online or offline. The exact nature of the Personal Information may vary depending on the type of response or service requested, but could include name, contact details, date of birth, financial information, demographic information, and other information.
○ Your Data: Usage and Access
We share your personal data under the following circumstances:
- Service providers and business partners: We share your personal data with our service providers and business partners whp perform marketing services and other business operations for us for the purposes set forth above. For example, we partner with companies to process secure payments, fulfill orders, optimize services, serve online behavioral advertising, send newsletters and marketing messages, support email and messaging services, and analyze information. We may also partner with other companies such as management system providers, information technology providers. These service providers and business partners include advertising agencies and fraud prevention agencies which will use your personal data only in the ways described in this policy.
- Within our organization: We share personal data within our organization for the purposes set out above. To the extent we collect information in person outside of our country.
- Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators, government authorities or other third parties: We may share your personal data with these parties where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
○ Data Collection by External Services
We may share your data including email addresses with other data processors to provide targeted advertising. For users with a Premium membership sponsored through an organisation we will not share your data for advertising purposes. We also use analytical tools which in some cases may see your personal data such as IP addresses.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Please remember that whenever you disclose personal information online, that information can be collected and used by others. By posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties as a result.
We may also disclose your personal information to companies within our group company.
○ Ensuring Your Data Security
Secure Data Management Practices
We store your personal information on secure servers within protected facilities. Your data may be transferred, stored, or processed by our staff or those of our suppliers, with all necessary precautions taken to ensure its security in line with this Privacy Policy. You consent to these actions when you provide your personal data to us.
○ Regulatory Obligations for Data Protection
We rigorously adhere to privacy laws to ensure your information is handled properly according to both national and international standards. Our practices are designed to safeguard your data, respecting the legal requirements and rights of individuals.
○ Supplemental Rules
We are committed to using your personal information exclusively for fulfilling our contractual obligations, ensuring that no third-party access is granted without a clear legal basis or your explicit consent. Upon the complete fulfillment of our contract, your data will be securely blocked from further use and subsequently deleted following the required retention periods mandated by tax and commercial law, unless you opt for continued use.