Alapra Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

1.1  

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy, we explain how we will treat your personal information.

1.2  

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2. Collecting personal information

2.1  

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a)  

information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths);

(b)  

information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);

(c)  

information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use);

(d)  

information relating to any purchases you make of our goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website (including your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details);

(e)  

information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, your profile pictures, and the content of your posts);

(f)  

information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including [the communication content and metadata associated with the communication);

(g)  

any other personal information that you choose to send to us

2.2  

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

3. Using personal information

3.1  

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2  

We may use your personal information to:

(a)  

administer our website and business;

(b)  

personalize our website for you;

(c)  

enable your use of the services available on our website;

(d)  

supply to you services purchased through our website;

(e)  

send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

(f)  

send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);

(g)  

send you marketing communications relating to our business 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);

(h)  

keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

(i)  

verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service)

4. Publishing personal information

4.1  

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

5. Disclosing personal information

5.1  

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

5.2  

We may disclose your personal information:

(a)  

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)  

in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)  

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);

(d)  

to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e)  

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.

5.3  

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

6. International data transfers

6.1  

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in 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.

6.2  

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.

6.3  

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section.

7. Retaining personal information

7.1  

This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

7.2  

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

7.3  

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

(a)  

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)  

if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and

(c)  

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).

7.4  

Our Site is intended for ages 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 years old. When we become aware that information (or other information that is protected under applicable law) from a user under 18 (or such other age as may be restricted under local law) has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

8. Security of personal information

8.1  

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

8.2  

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

8.3  

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.

9. Your rights

9.1  

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

(a)  

the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

9.2  

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

9.3  

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

9.4  

In practice, you will usually either 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.

10. Third party websites

10.1  

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

10.2  

We have no control over and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11. Updating information

11.1  

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

12. Cookies

12.1  

Our website uses cookies.

12.2  

A cookie is a file containing 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.

12.3  

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web 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 web browser is closed.

12.4  

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

12.5  

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

13. Credit

13.1  

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com).