Full Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Aegate Limited ("Aegate", "we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through http://www.aegate.com/, http://www.aegate.be/, http://www.aegate.gr/ or http://www.aegate.it/ (the "Websites") will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Aegate Limited of 5th Floor, Liscartan House, 127-131 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9AS, United Kingdom.
1. Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- any information that you provide to us through the use of on-line forms and when you e-mail us your details or your enquiries;
- automatic information about your visits to the Websites or any other websites owned or controlled by Aegate or its affiliates;
- details of how you use our services;
- any other correspondence and communication that we have with you if you contact us;
- the results of any surveys that you complete for us for research purposes (although you do not have to respond to any request to complete them).
2. Uses made of the information
All of our collection and usage of data gathered through the Websites is designed to help us to improve our service offering. In doing this we may use your data to:
- To analyse our services and improve them;
- personalise our services;
- deal with your enquiries and requests;
- provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for analytics, marketing and strategic development purposes.
To serve the purposes above we will retain the personal information we collect from the Websites for 7 years
3. Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser. You can find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
We use our own cookies to identify you when you visit the Websites and to keep track of your browsing patterns, to build up a demographic profile and to understand who has seen which of the pages on the Websites in order to determine the most popular areas of the Websites so that we can improve and develop it. Our use of cookies also allows registered users to be presented with a personalised version of the Websites and to access information about their account.
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your hard drive. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to do this. However, should you decide to disable any cookies we place on your computer you may not be able to use certain services or facilities on the Websites. Switching off cookies may restrict your use of the Websites.
4. Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our
group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company
and its subsidiaries.
Additionally, we may disclose your personal information to the following third parties:
- suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf; and
- the prospective seller or buyer of our business or assets, in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets
Finally, we may disclose or share your personal information if we are under a duty to do so in order to: (i) comply with any legal obligation; (ii) enforce or apply any agreements between us; or (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of Aegate Limited, our customers or others.
5. International transfers and security
The personal information that we collect from you may be
transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European
Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for
one of our suppliers. By visiting the Websites, you acknowledge
our processing of personal information in this way. However, we
will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your
personal information is treated in accordance with strict data
protection standards.
6. Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal
information for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you
(before collecting your information) if we intend to use your
information for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your
information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise
your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on
the forms we use to collect your information. You can also
exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@aegate.com.
7. Other websites
The Websites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.
8. Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you.
Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.
Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet Our
costs in providing you with details of the information We hold
about you.
8. Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be
notified to you by posting them on the Websites. You should
therefore check the Websites for any changes in this policy on a
regular basis.
9. Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are
welcomed and should be addressed to info@aegate.com