MarketingMinds - Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is of utmost importance to us, and we are dedicated to safeguarding it. This policy outlines how we handle your personal information.

By consenting to our use of cookies in alignment with the terms outlined in this policy during your initial visit to our site, you authorize us to utilize cookies each time you access the site.

B. Credit

This document was initially crafted utilizing a template provided by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and has been adapted by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com) for our specific needs.

 

C. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

• Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.

• Information about your visits and use of the website, including the source of referral, duration of visit, page views, and your browsing paths on the website.

• Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering on our website.

• Information you enter while creating a profile on our website—such as your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and employment details.

• Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletter.

• Information entered while using the services on our website.

• Information generated during site usage, including when, how much, and under what circumstances you use it.

• Information related to any purchases, services used, or transfers made on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information.

• Information that you post on our site with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments.

• Information contained in messages you send to us by email or through our website, including the content of the message and its metadata.

• Any other type of personal information you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another individual, you must obtain that person's consent for both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
 

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes outlined in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Website and business management: Managing our website and business operations.

• Personalization of the website: Tailoring the website for your preferences.

• Service usage: Allowing you to use the services available on our website.

• Order fulfillment: Sending you goods purchased through the website.

• Service provision: Providing services purchased through the website.

• Billing and reminders: Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.

• Non-marketing commercial communications: Sending you non-marketing commercial communications.

• Specific email notifications: Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested.

• Newsletter distribution: Sending our newsletter to you by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).

• Marketing communications: Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).

• Statistical information: Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).

• Complaints and inquiries handling: Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.

• Website security: Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.

• Service terms compliance: Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service).

• Other uses: Other uses.

Before using personal information for any other purposes not listed here, we will notify you and obtain your consent where required by law.
 

E. Publication of Personal Information

If you provide us with personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

You can use your privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our website, and you can adjust these settings using website privacy controls.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.

F. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law.

• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.

• In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

• To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.

• To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

G. International Data Transfers

• Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

• Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

• Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

• You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section G.
  
  Z. Retention of Personal Information

• This section outlines our data retention policy and procedure, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

• Personal information processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

• Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section Z-2, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law.

• If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.

• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

• H. Security of Your Personal Information

• We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

• We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).

• All financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

• You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

• You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

• I. Amendments

• We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
  
  Y. Your Rights

• You can instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

• Payment of a fee {insert fee if applicable}.

• Supply of appropriate evidence of your identity ({adapt text to reflect your policy for this, usually we accept a copy of your passport certified by a notary public, together with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).

• We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

• You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

• In practice, you will usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

• Z. Third Party Websites

• Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third parties.

• Z. Third Party Websites

• Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third parties.

• AA. Updating Information

• Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
  
  
  Cookies

• Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by your browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Generally, cookies do not contain any personal information that identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. {Choose the precise phrasing: We only use session cookies / We only use persistent cookies / We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.}

• The names of the cookies we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

• We use Google Analytics and Adwords services on our website to identify a computer when a user {include all applicable uses for cookies on your site: visits our website / tracks users as they navigate the website / enables us to use the shopping cart on the website / improves the usability of the website / analyzes the use of the website / manages the website / prevents fraud and improves the security of the website / personalizes the website for each user / targets advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / specify the purpose(s)}.

• Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";

• in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and then unchecking "Accept cookies from sites";

• in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
  
  Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

• You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

• in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," and "Privacy," then selecting "Use custom settings for history," clicking "Show Cookies," and then "Remove All Cookies";

• and in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," "Clear browsing data," selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data," and finally clicking "Clear browsing data."

• Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.