Privacy and Cookie Policy
Overview
On this site, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs your access to and use of this Website and associated content, software, and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”). This Privacy Policy also includes our Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our Website or use our Services and how we use the personal information, the conditions under which we may disclose your personal information to others, and how we keep personal information secure. This Privacy Policy also explains how we use cookies and similar technology on our Website and in connection with our Services.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By using our Website or our Service, you are agreeing to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
What Information Do We Collect
This site (“Site”, “We”, or “Us”) collects i) the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, ii) aggregate information concerning what pages users access or visit, iii) information volunteered by the user (such as survey information and/or site registrations); iv) financial information provided by the user for user syncing and information purposes only, and v) information related to your use of the Website and/or any mobile application, including IP address, geographical location, and date and time of your request.
How Do We Use the Information
This site uses collected information for these purposes:
To fulfil a contract or take steps linked to a contract, such as processing your registration on our Site or sending you information about changes to our terms or policies.
Where it is necessary for purposes which are in our or third parties’ legitimate interests such as:
- to provide the information or content you have requested;
- to contact you about our programs, products, features or services;
- for internal business purposes such as identification and authentication or customer service, portfolio tracking and user preference syncing between devices;
- to ensure the security of our Site, by trying to prevent unauthorised or malicious activities;
- to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and other policies;
- to help other organisations (such as copyright owners) to enforce their rights; and
- to tailor content, advertisements, and offers for you or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection.
Where you give us consent, such as:
- where you ask us to send marketing information to you via a medium where we need your consent, including alerts via mobile push notifications;
- where you give us consent to place cookies and to use similar technologies; and
- on other occasions where we ask you for consent, for a purpose which we explain at that time.
Where we are legally required to do so. We may also provide access to your personally identifiable information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of our Site, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors of the Site or the public.
How Do We Share Your Information?
We do not share or sell your personal data to other organisations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances.
It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
We may transfer information about you if this Site is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you before information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We provide such information to third parties who have entered into non-disclosure agreements with us.
We provide such information to a company or entity, controlled by, or under common control with, this Site, for any purpose permitted by this Privacy Policy.
We may aggregate, anonymize, and publish data for statistical and research purposes only. For example, we may compile and share information related to the popularity of certain products tracked by users. In any such instance, the information will not be able to be traced back to any individual.
Cookies and Web Beacons
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a Website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are required to use some of this Site’s services. This Site and its advertising partners use cookies to record current session information.
Our advertisement partners may also from time to time use web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIF’s). These web beacons are provided by our advertising partners and allow our advertising partners to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information on the cookies set by the advertising partners. Web beacons enable our advertising partners to recognise a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our Site.
With both cookies and web beacon technology, the information that we collect, and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, geographic location, telephone number, or email address.
You can opt out of Google Analytics data collection with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
You may also wish to refer to this website for additional information about disabling cookies from your browser – www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Data Storage
This site uses third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run this Site and any related mobile application. This Site and its related parties own the code, databases, and all rights to this Site and any related mobile applications and Services.
Retention of Your Personal Information
We retain information as long as it is necessary to provide the Services requested by you and others, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally by kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the Services or until you ask us to delete it, or your account is deleted, whichever comes first. Additionally, we may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information about you that is no longer necessary and relevant to provide our Services may be de-identified and aggregated with other non-personal data to provide insights which are commercially valuable to the Site, such as statistics related to the use of this Site and/or application.
Children
This service is not intended for children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18.
By using this Site and services, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old.
Consent to Worldwide Transfer and Processing of Personal Information
You agree that the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use will apply and you consent to the transmission and processing of your personal information in any jurisdiction.
EU and EEA Users’ Rights
If you are habitually located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you generally have the right to access, rectify, download, or erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. While some of these rights apply, generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited circumstances. We briefly describe these rights below.
You have the right to access your personal data and, if necessary, have it amended, deleted, or restricted. In certain instances, you may have the right to the portability of your data. You can also ask us to not send marketing communications and not to use your personal data when we carry out profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can opt out of receiving email newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those emails. Transactional account messages will be unaffected even if you opt out from marketing communications.
Complaints
Should you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority, although we hope that we can, firstly, assist you with any queries or concerns you may have about our use of your data.