Privacy Policy
Overview
This website privacy policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes our use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of the domain, www.equinequality.com, including all linked domains integrated within the site, (hereinafter together referred to as “Site” or “Website”). The terms “we”, “us” or “our”, refer to the Site. When you use the service available at our Website, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide while on such third-party websites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies on those third-party websites before providing any of your information on such sites.
We reserve the right to update, change, amend or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and said changes will be effective upon posting. Every time there is a change, we will display a notice on our Site thereof. We may also notify you by email, in our discretion. We will use your personal information in a manner consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time you submitted the information unless you consent to the new or revised policy.
The GDPR enforces cross-border data protection mechanisms for businesses with operations in multiple EU member states. Acting as a central supervisory authority, the GDPR governs data protection issues for all global businesses processing personal data.
We are committed to providing secure products and services by implementing and adhering to prescribed compliance policies, both as a data controller and processor.
1. Introduction
1.1 Your privacy is important to you and to us. So we’ll protect the information you share with us. To protect your privacy, the Site follows different principles in accordance with worldwide practices for customer privacy and data protection.
1.2 We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognise your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us. For purpose of this Policy, Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit the Site’s web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself. If however, Personal Information is revealed to us, we won’t sell or give away any content of your Personal Information to anyone and use state-of-the-art security measures to protect your information from unauthorised users.
2. Information we Collect
2.1 When you visit or use our service, we collect and store information about you, your computer or mobile device and your activities. This information may include, but is not limited to:
2.1.1 your computer’s IP address; technical information about your computer or mobile device (such as the type of device, web browser or operating system);
2.1.2 your mobile device’s unique ID number (when available), your mobile device’s geographic location (specific geographic location if you’ve enabled collection of that information, or general geographic location automatically);
2.1.3 your provided full name, email address, post code and other information you may provide with your account, such as your gender and birth date;
2.1.4 how long you visited our service and which features you used;
2.1.5 you agree to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection regulations. Further, you agree to not use our service to send us sensitive information where unauthorised disclosure could cause material, severe, or catastrophic harm or impact to us, any data subjects or relying parties. Sensitive Information includes, passwords, authentication/authorisation credentials, information under strict regulatory or contractual handling requirements (e.g., PCI) such as, credit card information, credit card numbers, CVC numbers (three digit codes for Visa and MasterCard, four digit code for American Express) and magnetic stripe information, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, government issued identification numbers, financial account information, health data, biometric data, personally identifiable information knowingly collected from children under the age of 13 or from online services directed toward children, real time geolocation data which can identify an individual, business secrets deemed highly confidential (e.g., highly-confidential business strategies and communications, sensitive attorney-client privileged and confidential communications). We collect, store, and use your user data on our servers to provide you with the ability to better maintain and improve your services. We may also use data in an aggregated form for our own purposes. Our services transfer data to servers that store user data in the United Kingdom (“UK”) and outside the UK.
2.2 Additionally, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user’s account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.
2.3 We use the information to improve the Service’s functionality, quality and also personalise your experience. We also use this information to display relevant advertising, provide support, message you, and comply with legal obligations.
2.4 Please note that some of this information is automatically collected without you voluntarily choose to provide this information to us.
3. Notices
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you create a registration or login ID on the Site or when you connect or browse connected sites, linked or listed on our Website, or join a limited-access premium site. We use your Personal Information for four primary purposes:
(i) to make the site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once;
(ii) help you quickly find services or information that you are looking for;
(iii) to help us create content most relevant to you;
(iv) to alert you to special offers, updated information and other new services available on our Site.
4. Third Party Services
We may from time to time pass your details to third parties to provide you with the service(s) you require, but this shall only be done with your full approval.
5. Correction or Removal of Personal Information
If you would like to request that your personal data be removed from our database, please contact us at info@equinequality.com
We acknowledge that you have the right to access your personal information. Some of our Service(s) collect information on behalf of our customers. In these instances, we have no direct relationship with the individuals with whom our customers may interact using the Service(s). If you are a customer of one of our customers (“End-Customer”) using our Service(s) and would no longer like to be contacted by that customer, please contact the customer that you interact with directly. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data should direct his query to us. If requested to remove data, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.
6. Retention of Personal Information
We retain Personal Data we process for as long as an Account is active or as needed to provide the Products or Services. If you wish to terminate your Account or request that we no longer use Your Data, please contact us at info@equinequality.com. We will retain Your Data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate financial and other records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We delete all Your Data on the expiry of 30 days after the termination of your Account, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable law.
7. Processing Personal Information
EQ acts as both Controller and Processor. Data we save includes: Name, Phone, Email, Address.
8. Analytics
We use Google Analytics and other tools to measure and evaluate access to and traffic on the Public Area of the Site and create user navigation reports for our Site Administrators. All metrics information collected from your usage of the Service(s) shall be transmitted to the analytics provider. This information is then used to evaluate how users use our Service(s), and to compile statistical reports on activity for us. We further use the same statistical analytics tool to track or to collect your Personally Identifiable Information (PII). We will use this information in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Service(s) and to personalise the experience for you. Google operates independently from us and has its own privacy policy, which we strongly suggest you review. Google may use the information collected through Google Analytics to evaluate Users’ and Visitors’ activity on our Site. For more information, see Google Analytics Privacy and Data Sharing.
10. Use of Cookies
When you use our Websites or Service(s), we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file/technologies. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive. We do not use cookies to spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy. They cannot invade your hard drive and steal information. We use cookies to help you navigate the Websites and Service(s) as easily as possible and to remember information about your current session. These are the Session Cookies and they are removed from your system when you close the web browser or turn off the computer. You must enable cookies on your web browser to use the Service(s).
Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for the basic functionalities offered by the Service(s). These class of cookies helps in keeping a user logged in to the Service(s) and remember relevant information when they return to the Service(s). These cookies are essential for the basic functionalities offered by the Service(s). These class of cookies helps in keeping a user logged in to the Service(s) and remember relevant information when they return to the Service(s).
Insight Cookies: These are used for tracking the user activities within the Service(s), which in turn helps us in improving your user experience.
Marketing Cookies: These are used for providing you with customised and interest-based ads based on your browsing behaviour and other similar activities on our Websites.
11. Social Media Features
Our Website may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, the “Share This” button or interactive mini-programs. Where we have your consent, these features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Websites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly.
12. Data Protection Officer
We have a “Data Protection Officer” who is responsible for matters relating to privacy and data protection. This Data Protection Officer can be reached at the following e-mail address: info@equinequality.com
13. Correction or Removal of Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you create a registration or login ID on the Site or when you connect or browse connected sites, linked or listed on our Website or join a limited-access premium site. We use your Personal Information for four primary purposes:
(i) to make the site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once;
(ii) to help you quickly find services or information that you are looking for;
(iii) to help us create content most relevant to you;
(iv) to alert you to special offers, updated information and other new services available on our Site.
14. Consent
If you choose not to register or provide Personal Information, you can still use most of the Website. However, you will not be able to access areas that require registration. If you decide to register, you will be able to select the kinds of information you want to receive from us by subscribing to various services, like our electronic newsletters. If you do not want us to communicate with you about other offers regarding the Site’s programs, events, or Services by email, postal mail, or telephone, you may select the option stating that you do not wish to receive messages from us. By accessing our Site you agree to allow us to share data lawfully, with third parties who work on our behalf to provide your services, to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process (provided, we will endeavour to notify you if we have received a lawful request for your information), to protect the rights and property of ours, our agents, customers and others including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use, in an emergency, including to protect the personal safety of any person; and for the purposes of a business deal (or negotiation of a business deal) involving sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets (business deals may include, for example, any merger, financing, acquisition, divestiture, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding).
15. Access
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal Information is correct and current. You may review and update this information at any time at the login section (where applicable to you). There, you can:
(i) view and edit personal information you have already given us;
(ii) tell us whether you want us to send you marketing information, or whether you want third parties to send you their offers by postal mail;
(iii) sign up for electronic newsletters about our services and products; and
16. Security
16.1 We have taken strong measures to protect the security of your Personal Information and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honoured. We take proven precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
16.2 All our live Sites and Services are encrypted with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and further protected by anti-hacking hardware and software, they are inherently secure. However, we do not guarantee that any e-commerce transactions will be entirely safe and secure. If you make a financial transaction through any affiliate / connected web links, you must ensure that you are: a) compliant with the linked website’s terms of use; and b) have agreed to their privacy policy and online security framework. Should infringement or violation happen as a result of you accessing web pages that have been listed on our Site, we do not take responsibility for any security lapse.
16.3 You also have a significant role in protecting your information. No one can see or edit your Personal Information without knowing your username and password, so do not share these with others.
16.4 Data Security: In addition to the above, we will maintain security procedures and practices to store in a secure fashion and protect all personally identifiable information regarding the end user (“PII”) that is collected by us and stored in a database owned or controlled by us (the “Database”), against accidental or unlawful destruction or loss, unauthorised disclosure or access. Such security procedures and practices shall be implemented in accordance with all applicable data protection laws and shall be appropriate to the nature of the information collected and shall be aligned with industry standard practices for the management, transport, and storage of PII.
17. Notice to Parents
We want to help you guard your children’s privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children (below 13 years) about safe and responsible use of their Personal Information while using our Site. The Site does not publish content that is harmful, derogatory or pornographic in nature. However, the Website shall not incur any liability should your children provide us with any Personal Information without parental consent. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at info@equinequality.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information without parental consent, we shall take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
18. Registration
If you are granted access and login to the Site’s secure pages, we may ask you to register yourself electronically. When you do, we merge your registration information with any information you’ve already left with us (we call that information your personal profile). If you haven’t previously registered with us, we create a personal profile for you from your registration information. If you ever want to review or update that information, you can visit the Site, click on update profile, and edit any of the Personal Information in your profile.
19. What we do with the Information you Provide
19.1 As a customer, you may provide us with your contact information, including your name and email address. We use this information to send you updates about our services, questionnaires to measure your satisfaction with our service and announcements about new and exciting services that we offer.
19.2 We may disclose your Personal Information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ours; and (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
20. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not rent or sell Personal Information about you with other people (save with your consent) or non-affiliated companies, except to provide services you’ve requested, under the following circumstances:
(i) we respond to court orders, legal proceedings or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
(ii) we believe 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 the Website’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
(iii) we shall transfer information about you only if we are acquired by another company or individual. In this event, the Website will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
(iv) we may need to contact you to comply or co-operate with a legal request. For this purpose, we will use the email address provided to us by you. All communications sent by us at such email address shall be deemed to have been communicated to you.
22. Confidentiality and Security
22.1 We limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
22.2 We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere we provide our services to protect personal information about you. We seek to ensure compliance with applicable technology laws to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy. Additionally, we follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
23. Legitimate Interest
We may send information to you which we believe is in your legitimate interests and apply the following stipulations:
☐ We understand our responsibility to protect your interests.
☐ We have conducted a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) and kept a record of it, to ensure that we can justify our decision.
☐ We have identified the relevant legitimate interests.
☐ We have checked that the processing is necessary and there is no less intrusive way to achieve the same result.
☐ We have done a balancing test, and are confident that the individual’s interests do not override those legitimate interests.
☐ We only use individuals’ data in ways they would reasonably expect, unless we have a very good reason.
☐ We are not using people’s data in ways they would find intrusive or which could cause them harm.
☐ If we process children’s data, we take extra care to make sure we protect their interests.
☐ We have considered safeguards to reduce the impact where possible.
☐ We have considered whether we can offer an opt out.
☐ If our LIA identifies a significant privacy impact, we have considered whether we also need to conduct a DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment).
☐ We keep our LIA under review and repeat it if circumstances change.
24. Privacy Policy Concerns
If you have any concerns or grievance relating to the processing/usage of information provided by you or the Site’s Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at: info@equinequality.com