PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY CAREFULLY. THIS POLICY DESCRIBES THE WAYS WE COLLECT, PROTECT, USE AND STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE WEBSITE https://alliedbits.com/ (“we”, “us”, “our”). YOU ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY BY USING OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ON OUR WEBSITE OR THROUGH ANY OTHER MEANS (COLLECTIVELY THE “SERVICES”).

We may amend this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. We will attempt to give a reasonable notice period upon making any changes; however, unless otherwise stated, the revised version will be effected at the time we post it.

In general, only legally capable people are allowed to use our website https://alliedbits.com/ (“Website”).

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the GDPR or applicable national laws put parental responsibility holder (“parents”) in control. The Federal Trade Commission, European Union data protection authorities, national consumer protection agencies enforce the rules, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. Usually, age threshold to be considered legally capable to make transactions without authorization from the parents is 13-16 depending on the jurisdiction. Please remember that we have the right to verify in such cases that the consent is given by the parent him- or herself, and you can be obliged to provide us with personal data on you and/or your child which we will have to process pursuant to legal obligation to do so.

We do not specifically target our advertising anywhere to children under 13. If you know that we process data of persons under the age of legal capacity, please inform us via the contact form at https://alliedbits.com/contacts/. Once we verify the authority of the person sending the request, we will delete the pointed personal data instantly.

When visiting our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to provide your name or other details or personal data to help you with your experience. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (also referred to as “data subject”). It may include any pieces of information allowing to identify you, regardless whether they are inserted deliberately or created automatically by your computer, smartphone or other device.

The website https://alliedbits.com/ itself does not collect any personal data. Notwithstanding the mentioned, we may put on an analytics tool in the future, including the Google Analytics tools which are off at the moment.

Also, we may collect your personal data when you have contacted us through a contact form placed on the site, sent us an email, or addressed our employees or contractors personally with requests that contained personal data, or from third parties such as analytics tools, social media sites or any other persons acting on your behalf or in connection with your request. The information about you, to which we have access, may vary by site or application we provide and is controlled by privacy policy on that site or application and data transfer/data portability infrastructure. The website itself is not granted access to personal data collected through the applications or other websites belonging to us.

We do not use cookies for any purposes.

We may use various technologies to collect and store information when you use the website, and this may include sending one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device. We also may use cookies and anonymous identifiers when you interact with the advertising services or marketplaces or application stores offering to download our applications or offering our services and in any other manner that we deem necessary for our business purposes. The data we may obtain is to be anonymized instantly or be collected anonymized already, and we do not intend to use it in any way to identify you or sell the information to any third parties. However, we will update the list of information and purposes to collect the personal data if new cookies are implemented.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies through your browser settings. These settings depend on the browser you use, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn how to modify your cookies. If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled that make your site experience more efficient and some of its features may not function properly.

To view the instructions for your browser, please click on the appropriate link below:

• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
• Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
• Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
• Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
• Safari iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677

If your browser is not mentioned in the list above, please use the Help button in your browser for further instructions.

There’s an opt-out browser add-on from Google that helps make opting out from Google Analytics easy and convenient for you: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We retain and process any personal data collected from you as long as you use the website if the cookies we use are not set otherwise.

We do not process any personal data collected through the website and required for conducting the accounting or compliance with other financial regulations. The information on the number of purchases and total sum of the products sold is anonymized and does not contain any retrievable or identifiable data.

Where the GDPR is applicable, you are entitled to:

• access to your personal data (right to know whether your personal data are being processed, the scope of your personal data processed and purposes of such processing as well as duration of the processing);
• rectify the inaccurate data;
• erase or be forgotten without undue delay;
• restrict the processing (if the data is inaccurate, or the processing is unlawful, etc.);
• be informed (you may ask us to inform you, concisely and in plain language, on conditions and grounds applied to collection, processing and retention of your data, as well as demand information on how the data is to be used, how long it will be kept and whether it will be shared with any third parties);
• data portability (you may reuse the data we collected from you pursuant your consent across different services);
• object to processing (if there are no compelling legitimate grounds to refuse to cease the processing of the data);
• not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing without the human involvement (provided that you did not consent to automated profiling).

You can enjoy your right by sending us a data subject request inform us via the contact form at https://alliedbits.com/contacts/. The fulfilled request is to be stored on our servers and mail clients for up to three years after filing. Despite this, we regularly delete the data we do not need. Please consult your national data protection laws as to contents of such a request.

If we download or set up any cookies or other marketing tools, or request you to provide us with sensitive data, we will ask you to consent to such collection and processing of the data.

You may withdraw the consent at any time you wish by contacting us using a data subject request via the contact form at https://alliedbits.com/contacts/. We will put best efforts to examine the request in shortest term possible, but it can take up to 72 hours after the receipt of the request.

We process all personal data maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. We maintain physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems and use safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption. We enforce physical access controls to our buildings, and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees, contractors or agents who require it to fulfill the responsibilities of their jobs and where it is strictly necessary. We also enter into non-disclosure agreements or include confidentiality clauses in our employment or services agreements.

We carry out malware scanning regularly.

Any personal data we can obtain is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems. In addition, all sensitive/credit information whether provided will be encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

If you are aware of breach of security of your personal data processing by us and leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed, you can send us personal data breach notification via the contact form at https://alliedbits.com/contacts/. We will do our best without undue delay and where feasible consider your notification and undertake all necessary steps to notify the persons concerned and restore the security of the personal data.

We may ask you to provide us with additional information to perform and improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide mandatory reporting. For example, we may use information to provide customer service and support, resolve disputes, prevent illegal activities, customize the services, reduce risk to all parties involved in our transactions, and verify the accuracy of information.

We may combine your information with information we collect from third parties and use it to investigate illegal activity and resolve the disputes arising from the operation of the website. We will share your personal data we collected and retained with any party when required by law or by a government request to do so or to combat fraud or criminal activity.

Newsletters and notifications. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can contact us using a data subject request via the contact form at https://alliedbits.com/contacts/ or click on “Unsubscribe” on the bottom of the newsletter/notification email, and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence lists.

Any personal data we collect is transferred to the Allied Bits Ltd. (office address is 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom). We don’t sell or rent your personal data to third parties unless you directly authorized us to do so.

We do not use Google Analytics tools. As to other analytics tools we use, all personal data they obtain is anonymized and we cannot restore the identifiers. The information which may be disclosed to us is anonymized and unsuitable to personalization or extracting personal data.

Advertising. Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. We have not enabled Google AdSense on our site but we may do so in the future provided that we will notify you of personal data processing with a respective cookies notice placed on the webpage.

Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a piece of software developed by Google that collects data on a website’s visitors like a server log. The purpose behind the use of Google Analytics record is to observe the sources of traffic (what websites lead the visitors to our website), user engagement (how long you stay for), popular platforms and devices (what kind of computer, tablet or smartphone shall be considered first when it comes to further development). We receive no personalized data but aggregate statistics about the number of visitors this site receives and browsers being used. Personal data collected with Google Analytics tools falls within the bounds of the Google Analytics Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy.

This Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy is valid from the day of its publication on the website and until it is updated or replaced with another Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy.

In case of invalidation of a provision of this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy, all other provisions remain applicable.

You must familiarize yourself with this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy regularly, for you to be aware of recent changes.