Terms OF USE & PRIVACY

TERMS OF USE

Last updated: 20 April 2022

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1          Introduction to our Terms of Use

Your use of this Website, including the content, materials and information (“Content”) available on or through this Website is governed by these Terms of Use (these “Terms”). By using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms.

2          Who We Are

GDPGuard is a trading name of Fidushield Group Ltd, a company incorporated in England (number 13333682), with its registered office at 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, United Kingdom, W1W 7LT.  

3          No warranty

ALL CONTENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” AND MAY NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND NOTHING CONTAINED WITHIN THIS WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Specifically, we make no representations or warranties with regard to the Website and/or its Content’s accuracy, completeness, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose. No Content shall be considered legal or other professional advice of any kind.

4          Third-Party Sites

We accept no responsibility for third-party sites, products or services available or linked to through this Website. Any access to, or use of, a third-party site is solely at your own risk.

5          Restrictions on Use; No License

We reserve all rights with respect to the design and Content of this Website. Nothing herein grants any license with respect to such design or content, except that you may download and use the Website solely for your own personal information.

6          Ownership of Trademarks, Etc.

All trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, graphics, articles and other Content on this Website are protected by United Kingdom copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. In particular, all trademarks, service marks, trade names and logos displayed on this Website are proprietary to us, or their respective third-party owners where we have utilised any third party trademarks under license. Nothing herein grants to you a license for any such content. 

7          Limitation of Liability

Except as expressly prohibited by statute, we expressly disclaim any liability to you for your use of the Website and/or its Contents.  Where limitation of liability is prohibited by law, we shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law.

8          Amendments

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Website after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

9          Important Legal Points

These Terms, and any disputes relating to these Terms or your use of this Website or the Content, shall be governed in all respects by the laws of England, without regard to conflicts of laws principles, and any disputes relating to these Terms shall be resolved exclusively in courts of England. 

These Terms set forth the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements relating to such subject matter.  These Terms may be superseded should you enter into a commercial agreement with us to receive our paid for services.

Our rights under these Terms may be waived by us only in writing. These Terms are binding on you as well as your successors and permitted assigns. In the event any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed severed from the remainder of these Terms and replaced with a valid and enforceable provision as similar in intent as reasonably possible to the provision so severed, and shall not cause the invalidity or unenforceability of the remainder of these Terms.

10        Contact

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding these Terms please visit our Contact page to find out how you can reach us.

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 30 April 2021

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1. Important introduction to our privacy policy

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This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and store your information when you visit, use or contact us through this website (the “Site”).

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When you use the Site, you are agreeing to our rules and policies, including this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and you consent to our collecting, processing and storing your information as described below. You must not access or use the Site if you do not agree with our Privacy Policy. When you contact us through this Site, you tick a box to confirm that you’ve read and accept this policy, and our lawful basis for processing your data is considered to be your consent, and in some cases, legitimate interests for the purposes of providing services to you, or responses to you, if you have contacted us or requested such services to be provided.

For the purposes of the data protection laws governing us in the UK, Fidushield Group Ltd is considered to be the “data controller”, meaning we manage and control the information you provide to us.

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You confirm you are over 18 years of age when using this Site.  We do not knowingly collect (or knowingly allow any third party to collect) personal information from persons under the age of 18. If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a person under the age of 18, we will delete this information and terminate the person’s account as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have personal information from or about a child under the age of 18, please contact us using the contact information below.

2. Data that we collect

We may collect information from you during your use of the Site, including your name, e-mail address, company name and phone number, along with any other information you choose to provide or allow us to access when you do certain things, such as completing our contact form, or email, call or otherwise contact us.

3. Cookies

When you use the Site, we may use persistent and session cookies and other similar technologies to: (a) analyse your use of the Site and/or (b) customise the Site to your preferences. We may also use other Internet technologies, such as web beacons or pixel tags and other similar technologies, to deliver or communicate with cookies and analyse your use of the Site. We also may include web beacons in e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether the message has been opened and for other analytics. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies by visiting your browser’s help page. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to use all features of the Site. By using our Site with your browser set to accept cookies you are consenting to our use of cookies in the manner described above.

4. How your data is used and why

We may use the information we receive from and about you for the following purposes:

·       To provide our services to you;

·       To process and respond to your inquiries, or to contact you;

·       To send you information about us;

·       To notify you about new features of the Site or our services, special events, or products, services, and special offers;

·       To keep the Site safe and secure and address any security issues;

·       To generate and review reports and data about our visitors and Site usage patterns;

·       To improve the content and features of the Site;

·       To safeguard our and others’ rights or property;

·       To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, involving potential threats to the physical safety of a person, prevention of fraud, and violations of our Terms of Use; and

·       To administer and troubleshoot the Site.

5. Your data, sharing and third parties

We don’t sell or share any personal information about you with third parties, except as provided in this Privacy Policy. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

·       To assist in providing the Site and our services;

·       To provide you with services or products that you have requested;

·       With companies that perform services on our behalf (including both third parties and our affiliates), such as content providers, providers of technical infrastructure (such as servers) or engineering or other support, technical services and features developers, research and analytical companies, and e-mail service providers;

·       When we believe in good faith that such sharing is permitted by law or is reasonably necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use;

·       In order to respond to the claims of violation of the rights of third parties and/or to protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our employees, or the public. This may involve the sharing of your information with law enforcement, government agencies, courts, and/or other organizations whether instigated by us or provided by us in response to their enquiries;

·       As we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets;

·       We may share your information in any other circumstances where we have your consent or are otherwise permitted to share it by law. 

6. Data retention and storage

Data subject to this policy is stored within the UK and Europe.  We keep your information and store it safely as long as you are using the Site or involved in any commercial relationship with us.  We will delete it within a short period following the expiry of any relationship, or at any time if you request us to.

7. Protection of your data

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to your information and to maintain data security. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, the internet and the Site are not 100% secure so we cannot assure you that personal information we collect or store will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. 

8. Your rights to access, amend and delete your information

a) The right to update your information: If any data is inaccurate you can contact us to correct it.

(b) The right to access your data: You can ask us, if you live in the UK or Europe, to provide a copy of the data we hold on you and we have strict time limits by law to respond to you.  There is no charge for this service, please contact us to arrange.

(c) The right to be “forgotten”: This means that if you ask us to delete all your information, we need to do that. Although, we are allowed to keep some of the information for security purposes in case we ever need to help the police with any criminal investigations, for example.

9. Third party links and services

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, including other social media services. Your use of these features may result in the collection, processing or sharing of information about you by a third party, depending on the feature. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites or services which may be linked to the Services. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites or services. The personal information you choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We strongly encourage you to read such third parties’ privacy statements.

10. Amendments to this policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our Site or services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes.  Save for urgent changes (such as those required by law) we will post such a notice on our website prior to the changes becoming effective. Please review the changes carefully. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will mean you consent to and accept those changes. If you do not consent to such changes, you can ask for your data to be deleted.

11. Complaints / Questions 

We take data protection very seriously. If you have concerns or complaints please address these to us as soon as possible.  If you are not happy with how we handle any complaint, you are able to raise a complaint at any time to your country’s national data protection authority, for example if you live in the UK, this would be the Information Commissioner’s Office.