We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors
and service users.
This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect
to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other
words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that
personal data.
By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use
of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Big Tech Platforms Inc.
This privacy policy is version 1.0 published on the 25th of May 2018.
How we use your personal data
In this Section 2 we have set out: (a) the general categories of
personal data that we may process; (b) in the case of personal data that we
did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of
that data; (c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and (d)
the legal bases of the processing.
We may process data about your use of our website and services
("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP
address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system,
referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths,
as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your
service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system.
This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of
the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is consent or
our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and
services.
We may process your account data ("account data"). The
account data may include your name and email address. The source of the
account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for
the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the
security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases
and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the
use of our services ("service data"). The service data may
include payment card details, your postal address, contact email and
telephone numbers. The source of the service data is you or your
employer. The service data may be processed providing our services,
ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of
our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this
processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or
taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us
regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The
enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and
selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this
processing is consent.
We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of
subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters
("notification data"). The notification data may be
processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or
newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a
contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter
into such a contract.
We may process information contained in or relating to any communication
that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The
correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata
associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata
associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The
correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with
you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our
legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and
business and communications with users.
We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where
necessary. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests,
namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights
and the legal rights of others.
In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your
personal data set out in this Section 2, we may also process any of your
personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a
legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital
interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we
prompt you to do so.
Providing your personal data to others
We do not disclose or pass on your personal data to any third parties.
Financial transactions relating to our services are handled by direct bank
transfer, cheque, cash, and online payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe
(https://stripe.com/gb/checkout/legal)
and GoCardless (https://gocardless.com/legal/privacy/).
You can read about the privacy policies of these payment gateways from the
corresponding links.
In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this
Section 3, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is
necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject,
or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of
another natural person.
International transfers of your personal data
We do not transfer your data to any countries. However, we do have
development offices in India where some of our developers are based and
they will be able to access your details for design, development, coding
and maintenance purpose through secure access from USA based computers
through remote desktop sharing.
The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United Kingdom.
The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the
data protection laws of USA. Storage of data in this facility will be
protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data
protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission.
Retaining and deleting personal data
This Section 5 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 data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be
kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
We will retain your personal data from the time a work is confirmed with
us until the service is rendered. (a) After the service is rendered your
contact details including name, address, email address, and telephone
number will be retained for a maximum period of 10 years.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 5, we may retain your
personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal
obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital
interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
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 are happy with any
changes to this policy.
We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through displaying
on our website with specific version numbers.
Your rights
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
payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and (b) 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).
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 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.
About cookies
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.
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.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally
identifies a user.
Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes: (a) security – we use cookies
as an element of the security measures to protect our website and services
generally (cookies used for this purpose are: wordfence_verifiedHuman; (b)
analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of
our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are: Google
Analytics Cookies); and (c) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your
preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally (cookies used
for this purpose are: Statistics Cookies).
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on
your computer when you visit our website. (The service providers who use
cookies are: Facebook.com, Google-analytics and MMG
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google
Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The
information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports
about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of
many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our
website.
Our details
This website is owned and operated by Big Tech Platforms Inc.
Our principal place of business is at , 8101 College Blvd Suite 100, Overland Park, KS 66210
You can contact us: (a) by post, to the postal address given above; (b)
using our website contact form; (c) by telephone, on the contact number
published on our website from time to time; or (d) by email, using the
email address published on our website from time to time.
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