PRIVACY POLICY

Machiavellic (hereinafter referred to as “we,” “our,” “us”) recognizes that you care how your personal data is collected and used. We have created this Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices regarding collection, use and sharing of personal data. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how it will be treated.

The practices described in this Privacy Policy apply to our processing of personal data of:

• Our customers collected through our website at machiavellic.io (“Site”) and
• Individuals other than our customers, employees and job applicants, including our contact points with vendors and other third parties which we do business with (“business partners”).

Our Site is referred to as “Services”. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Service.

This Privacy Policy is published in English but may be translated into additional languages for convenience of the reader. If this Privacy Policy is published in any language other than English, the English language version will be the governing agreement and shall control interpretation of all matters discussed below.

Processing of Your Personal Data 

1. What personal data do we collect and why?

We collect personal data from the users of our Services. What personal data is collected about you depends on your use of our Services.

When you use our Site, we gather information about your computer, including the following personal data:

• IP address;
• operating system; and
• browser type.

We also collect information regarding visitor traffic patterns and Site usage, which may be stored with an IP address, including details of:

• transactions you carry out through our Site;
• fulfilment of your orders;
• your visits to our Site, such as location data, traffic, weblogs, referring web addresses and resources you access, including pages visited and search terms entered.

Please read our Cookie Policy section below to learn more about how we use cookies and web analytics. 

As a general rule we collect personal data directly from you or indirectly, such as from your activity on our Site. We may, however, collect personal data about you from third parties through Web Analytics, as further described in the Cookie Policy section. 

1. How do we use your data and on what ground?

To Contact You

We may use your personal data to contact you. For example, we may send you email messages under the following circumstances:

• to respond to an inquiry or request for information;
• to thank you for contacting us;
• to welcome you to our Services;
• to communicate with you regarding your use of the Services; and
• to notify you about changes to our Services.

It may be necessary for us to contact you for the performance of our Services, but also for the purposes of our legitimate interests of maintaining our business relationship.

For Marketing Purposes

We may use your personal data for marketing purposes, based on our legitimate interest. For example, if you have opted in to receive them, we may use your email address to send you messages about new offerings, new features, announcements and other communications which we think you might be interested in, based on your opt-in preferences. We may also use your email address to enable us to display personalized ads to you via social media sites.

You can always opt out of receiving marketing messages from us by contacting us using the Contact Us form on our Site. 

We may also ask for your consent to send you marketing for the products and services of our business partners. When the collection and processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you can always withdraw the consent by using the Contact Us form on our Site. 

1. To whom is your personal data disclosed?

Disclosure To Third Parties

We may disclose your personal data to third party contractors, consultants and suppliers in relation to their work for us. Personal data may, for example, be disclosed to external parties which provide us with IT services and third parties which assist us in administering, operating, maintaining and supporting the Services, based on our legitimate interests of outsourcing such services. In these cases we ensure that these third parties process your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy based on a specific data processing agreement.

In the event you make a payment on our Sites through a payment service provider, we may transfer your contact details, that is name, address and email address, to the applicable payment service provider, where it is necessary for the execution of payment.

We may also transfer the email addresses of our Site visitors to social media platforms, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience’s platform, which enables us to display personalized ads to persons on our email list. This transfer is based on our legitimate marketing interests.

You can always opt out of the transfer of your email address to third parties by contacting us using the Contact Us form on our Site. 

We may disclose your personal data to law enforcement or other government officials, as we, in our sole discretion, deem necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible crimes or to respond to judicial, regulatory, agency or similar inquiries. Disclosure may also be necessary in emergency situations and to ensure the rights and safety of customers, our staff or third parties.

If the ownership or control of all or part of our Services changes, we may transfer your personal data to the new owner.

Aggregated Information

We may collect aggregated demographic information about our users. We may share certain aggregated demographic information with our business partners regarding the users of the Services. The aggregated information that we provide is not directly linked to you or any other identifiable person and is therefore not considered personal data.

D. Information about children

We do not knowingly collect any personal data from children under 18 years of age. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data without necessary parental consent, please contact us using the Contact Us form on our Site. 

E. How long do we keep your data?

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, we are committed to retaining your personal data only for as long as it is necessary for you to use our Services or until you request to have your personal data deleted, whichever comes first.

However, we may keep your personal data for longer for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will make sure your personal data is anonymised and non-traceable to you as a person. We may also keep your personal data for longer if required to do so for legal or regulatory reasons.

Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?
   Cookies are small files that reside on your data storage device (such as a computer or smartphone) and store information about your use of our Site. Cookies help us to improve our Site and deliver a more personalized service. Generally speaking, cookies enable us to:
   • estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
   • store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customize our Sites according to your individual interests;
   • speed up your searches; and
   • recognize you when you return to our Site.
2. How do we use cookies?
   We use the following specific types of cookies on our Sites:
   • “Strictly necessary cookies”: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. 
   • “Analytical/performance cookies”: These types of cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when using it. This assists us in improving the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that you find what you are looking for easily.
   • “Functionality cookies”: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. They enable us to personalize our Site’s content and remember your preferences/
   • “Targeting cookies”: These cookies record your visits to our Site, the individual pages visited and the links followed. If the cookie is set by a third party (for example, an advertising network) which also monitors traffic on our Site, this type of cookie may also be used to track your movements across different websites and to create profiles of your general online behavior. Information collected by tracking cookies is commonly used to serve users with targeted online advertising.

We use these cookies to collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and Site usage, which may be stored with an IP address, including details of:

• transactions you carry out through our Site;
• fulfillment of your orders;
• your visits to our Site, such as location data, traffic, weblogs, referring web addresses and resources you access, including pages visited and search terms entered.

This personal data is collected indirectly from you, via your activity on our Site. We may, however, collect information about you from third parties through Web Analytics.

Some of our business partners may show our advertisements on sites across the internet. In connection with these advertisements and our Site, we may use certain web analytics services provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) and other partners. Web analytics help us understand how users use our Site and help us advertise online. Such services include, but are not limited to, “Remarketing with Google Analytics” and “Google Display Network Impression Reporting”.
To facilitate these web analytics, we often use cookies. Specifically, we and our business partners, including Google, use analytical and targeting cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie and the DoubleClick cookie) to:

• inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site; and
• report on how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Site.

Please note that third parties, such as advertisers, may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

1. On what grounds do we use cookies?
   Some cookies are simply required for the operation of our Site. The analytical/performance cookies, functionality cookies and targeting cookies are however,  not necessary in order for us to provide Devices on our Site. We therefore ask for your consent to apply these cookies when you use our Site. You can always withdraw your consent by changing your browser settings or communicating the withdrawal to our Data Protection Team.
   With respect to services provided by Google, you may opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads using the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
2. To whom is your cookie data disclosed?
   The information generated by cookies about your use of our Site (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by our business partners on their servers. 

Our partners will use this information to evaluate your use of our Site, compile reports on Site activity for us and provide us other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Our business partners perform these services for us under written confidentiality and data protection obligations. From time to time, our partners may be required to transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where third parties process the information on our or our partner’s behalf.

1. How long do we keep your data?
   Cookies can be “persistent”, remaining on your device after you have left our Site or can be “session” cookies that are deleted when you close your browser.
   Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, we are committed to retaining your personal data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the personal data was collected.

 

Change of Control

If we experience a “Change of Control” (defined below), then we may amend our privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy. We will disclose your personal data to the company or other legal entity that succeeds our operation of the Services. The privacy policy of the succeeding legal entity will then govern the personal data that we have collected from you under this Privacy Policy. However, if applicable law prohibits the succeeding legal entity’s privacy policy from governing your personal data, then this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern. “Change of Control” means any of the following events:

• a reorganization, merger, consolidation, acquisition or other restructuring involving all or substantially all of our voting securities and/or assets, by operation of law or otherwise;
• insolvency;
• a general assignment for the benefit of creditors;
• appointment of a receiver for our business or assets;
• we become subject to any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, whether domestic or foreign; or
• our liquidation, voluntarily or otherwise.

Links To Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for and shall not have any liability arising from the privacy practices or the content of other websites.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we manage your personal data, please contact ys by using the Contact us form on our Site.

Revisions to this Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our legal or regulatory obligations or to the manner in which we process your personal data. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective from the time they are posted on our Site or under our Terms of Service, as applicable.