PRIVACY POLICY
TAXUS DFTS LTD values your privacy and trust, so we provide this Privacy Policy, which explains how, when, and for what purposes we collect and use the information about you that specifically identifies you and the information about your activities during the use of the Website.
TAXUS DFTS LTD is committed to complying with the data protection principles and all relevant provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation). This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection and use of your personally identifiable information by any third parties who operate the websites links to which may be contained on the Website and does not cover any information that may relate to TAXUS DFTS LTD outside of the Website.
In this Privacy Policy Personal Data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from people under the age of majority in their state/country of residence. If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of majority in their state/country of residence, we will immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database.
By accessing or using our Website you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. Please note that by submitting information about yourself to us, you are agreeing for TAXUS DFTS LTD to process and store such information.
When the Privacy Policy makes a reference to ‘we’ or ‘us’, that is a reference to TAXUS DFTS LTD, company number 14681259, with its registered address at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
All capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings provided for those terms in our Terms of Use.
PERSONAL DATA AND PURPOSES OF ITS USE
We may collect the following types of information during your use of the Website:
– identity information (such as first name, last name);
– contact information (email address, telephone number);
– correspondence or communications with you;
– technical information (details of the device you use to access our Website, your internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform);
– website usage information (how and when you use our Website, how you moved around the Website, what you searched for, Website performance statistics, traffic, location, and other communication data);
– marketing and communications information (your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences).
During your use of the Website, we don’t collect any sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to (but is not limited to) information about race or ethnic background, religious or political affiliations, trade union affiliations, sexual orientation, criminal background or health background.
The legal basis for processing Personal Data may be:
– to perform a contract (where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract);
– legitimate interests (where the processing is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of Personal Data);
– your consent (where you have given us consent to process your Personal Data for specified purposes);
– comply with the law (where the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation).
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
– to comply with and enforce legal requirements, agreements, and policies;
– to prevent and detect prohibited behaviour, and criminal activity;
– to provide our Website to you;
– to improve our Website;
– to secure our Website;
– to provide customer support and to respond to your requests, questions, and comments;
– to provide consulting and information services;
– to conduct market and consumer research and analyses;
– to achieve purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection;
– to communicate with you;
– for any other purpose with your consent.
Below you may find more details about the types of information we may process and the legal grounds for it in the specific cases.
1. If we need to process the service order made by you, we may use your identity information and contact information. In such a case the legal ground will be the completion of the contractual agreement.
2. If we need to inform the users about any amendments to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, or Cookie Policy, we may use your identity information and contact information. In such a case the legal ground may be:
– completion of the contractual agreement;
– satisfying legal requirements.
3. If we need to protect our business and Website by performing Website tests, applying security updates, assessing any cybersecurity threats and analysing our databases, we may use your identity information, contact information, technical information, and Website usage information. In such a case the legal ground may be:
– satisfying legal requirements;
– our legitimate interest of protecting our Website and business from malicious usage, preventing cybercrime, completing technical website audits and increasing our network security.
4. If we need to email you and communicate with you to request feedback or market services, we may use your identity information, contact information, Website usage information, and marketing information. In such a case the legal ground may be:
– completion of the contractual agreement;
– satisfying legal requirements;
– our legitimate interest of studying how you interact with our Website, and how this can be further enhanced.
5. If we need to provide our Website, Services and improve them, we may use your identity information, contact information, technical information, and Website usage information. In such a case the legal ground may be:
– satisfying legal requirements;
– our legitimate interest of studying how you interact with our Website, and how this can be further enhanced.
You may receive marketing communications from us if you have:
– requested information from us;
– purchased goods or services from us;
– provided us with explicit consent for us to send you marketing communications.
You can ask us to cease sending you marketing communications at any time, by emailing us.
Non-personally identifying information may be collected by Website logs so that it may be compiled and analyzed to track Website traffic and for statistical analysis purposes. This is done to assist us in determining user interest and improving Website content. However, we protect the confidentiality and security of this information. We do not provide or sell any of this information to third parties except otherwise is specified by us, or required by law.
YOUR RIGHTS
Your rights concerning collected and processed Personal Data may vary depending on the local data protection laws in your country, but in general, these rights may include one or more of the following rights:
1. The right to withdraw consent: enables you to withdraw previously given consent to the processing of your Personal Data.
2. The right to be informed: enables you to ask us to provide information about what Personal Data concerning you is being processed and the basis for such processing.
3. Right to restriction of processing: enables you to obtain from us restriction of processing.
4. The right to data portability: enables you to receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transfer it to another data controller.
5. The right to object: enables you to object to the processing of your Personal Data.
6. The right to object to automated processing: enables you to object to a decision based on automated processing.
7. The right to rectification: enables you to request changes to your Personal Data if you believe that your Personal Data is out of date or inaccurate.
8. The right to access: enables you to access your Personal Data.
9. The right to be forgotten: enables you to request the erasure of your Personal Data.
10. The right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority.
SECURITY
In order to protect your Personal Data, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in compliance with laws and applicable ethics rules.
Please note that transmission of information over the Internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the Internet (whether by email, via our Website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk.
We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA AND ITS TRANSFER
We retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or not prohibited by applicable law.
The collected Personal Data may be transferred to, stored, and processed in any country in which we or our affiliates or processors maintain facilities. The transfer of your Personal Data to countries that do not belong to the European Union and that do not ensure adequate levels of protection will be performed only after the conclusion between us and said subjects of specific agreements, containing safeguard clauses and appropriate safeguards for the protection of your Personal Data, or if other appropriate safeguards have been implemented.
In the absence of an adequacy decision or of appropriate safeguards, a transfer or a set of transfers of Personal Data to a third country shall take place only on one of the following conditions:
– you have explicitly consented to the proposed transfer, after having been informed of the possible risks of such transfers for you due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards;
– the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us or the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at your request;
– the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in the interest of you between us and another natural or legal person;
– the transfer is necessary for important reasons of public interest;
– the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
– the transfer is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or vital interests of other persons, where you are physically or legally incapable of giving consent.
Such transfers shall take place only in accordance with data protection laws and only in cases permitted by such laws.
By visiting our Website, or providing us with any information, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the transfer of your Personal Data as specified above.
HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We share the information we obtain with:
– our affiliates and subsidiaries;
– third parties as part of a merger or acquisition;
– service providers (to provide services or handle transactions on our behalf, email distribution, list processing, postal mailing, analytics, digital content or print subscription performance measurement, ad serving);
– providers of notifications services;
– providers of message and customer service tools;
– cloud storage providers;
– advertisers, advertising- and marketing-related service providers and partners;
– Google Analytics – a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. Google utilizes the information collected to track and examine the use of our Website, to prepare reports on its use. Google may use the information collected to contextualize and personalize the ads. Its privacy policy is accessible at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en;
– other analytical service providers which help us to understand how users use our Website, find us (for example, who was the advertiser that delivered an ad to you, which led you to our Website), to measure the effectiveness of some features of our Website and ads, etc.;
– as necessary to protect our rights (if it is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend our legal rights, the privacy or safety of our employees, users of our Website or other individuals and entities, or to comply with or enforce applicable industry standards, law or legal process, including responding to court orders, warrants, subpoenas and other requests from public and government authorities);
– third parties with your consent or otherwise at your direction.
PROVIDERS OF WEB ANALYTICS SERVICES
We use certain providers of web analytics services, including (but not limited to) Google Analytics, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this Website. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies on both an individual and aggregated basis.
For more information concerning the processing of information by Google Analytics, please read also the privacy policy of Google Analytics accessible at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
OTHER RULES
Your use of the Website is also governed by our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy available to you.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content or practices of those websites. The collection, use, and disclosure of your information will be subject to the privacy policies of the third-party websites or services, and not this Privacy Policy. We urge you to read the privacy and security policies of these third parties.
If you use our services accessible at https://banking.taxus.tech/site/home, please be aware that processing of your Personal Data during such use is governed by our seperate privacy policy and privacy policies of our partners.
MISCELLANEOUS
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time and indicate the date of the last amendments below. Your continued use of the Website after any such amendments shall constitute your consent to and acceptance of such amendments.
If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries about these practices, please contact us by e-mail at contact@taxus.tech or via Contact Form.
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Last modified on: 30th March, 2023.