Last updated 22 May 2018
Sciondene Limited takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting it.
This policy sets out how we use and protect any personal information that you give us when you use this website. If you have any questions about this policy or do not agree to it, please contact us before using this website.
Scope of information collected
Information you provide to us:
This is information about you that you give to us when:
- submitting information via our site located at www.sciondene.com;
- corresponding with us by phone, email or in another way,
- interacting with us at events;
- providing us with your business cards;
- we provide services to our client for whom you work; and
- we receive services from our supplier for whom you work.
This information is provided by you entirely voluntarily and includes personal information you submit on any web forms on this website or that you provide to us in person. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with this website. If, at our request, you complete any surveys for research purposes, we will collect your personal information in such circumstances as well. The information you give to us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, enquiry details and other business and contact information, and may include records of any correspondence and responses to any surveys.
If you do not give this information to us, you may be unable to use or interact with certain parts of this website, communicate with us effectively, comply with the contractual obligations that the organisation for whom you work is under or allow us to comply with our own obligations if you work for an organisation that is our client.
Information we collect about you:
Cookies: When you access the website, a session cookie (a small data file stored on your computer’s hard drive or browser) may be saved on your computer. If you wish to find out more about the functions of cookies or configuring your browser in such a way that it allows all cookies, rejects all cookies or informs you when a cookie is being sent, please consult your browsers’ instructions or help pages. This website platform has been designed for using cookies so that the deactivation of the cookie function may reduce the website’s usability.
We may automatically collect the following information during your visits to this website: traffic data, location data, device data, weblogs and other communication data, and details of the resources you access. We also automatically collect technical information, including anonymous data collected by the hosting server for statistical purposes, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
We may also collect any personal information which you allow to be shared that is part of your public profile on third party social networks.
Information we may receive from other sources:
We may obtain certain information about you from other sources which may include our suppliers and our clients.
Purpose of information collected
We collect, process and use your personal data for different purposes, which include the following:
- to inform you about our services or offers;
- to address the purpose for which you have submitted your personal data to us;
- to improve our marketing and advertising activities, as well as to improve the contents and services offered on the website;
- to gain a better understanding of your needs and to enhance our products and services for you; and
- to make decisions about positions if you have supplied personal data to us as part of a job application.
We will not store your personal data any longer than required for the purpose described in this privacy policy or as otherwise agreed with you.
Sharing of information collected
We will not transfer, disclose, sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties other than as described in this Privacy Policy as reasonably necessary unless we have your permission or are required or permitted by law. Otherwise we will only share personal data without your consent in the following cases:
- if the transmission of your personal data is reasonably necessary in order to achieve the purposes outlined in the section titled, “Purpose of information collected”;
- if the transmission of your personal data to subcontractors or to our consultants is required to fulfill a contract which you entered into with us;
- if the transmission of your personal data – in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or other applicable law– is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests and is proportionate bearing in mind your interests and your fundamental rights and freedoms;
- to comply with or respond to governmental, professional and legal obligations or inquiries, carry out investigations and perform internal administrative activities; or
- if the transmission of your personal data is required or permitted by applicable law.
In the event that we transmit personal data to third parties who provide services to us, we will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that these third parties also comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws.
Transfer of information collected to other countries
We may transfer personal information we collect about you through this website to countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Inspecting or amending information collected
If you wish to inspect, change or update the personal data we have collected or if you wish to ask us to delete your personal data, you can contact Sciondene Privacy Management at the contact details outlined below. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access and we will be required to confirm the validity of any changes requested. You may request deletion of your personal information by us. We may be required to keep such information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We may also retain your information for fraud prevention or similar purposes.
Protection of information collected
We maintain reasonably appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect personal data collected by us against unauthorized access, unauthorized use and unauthorized change, as well as against illegal destruction. We will take reasonable steps to restrict access to personal data so that only those staff members who require knowledge about your data in order to fulfill the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy will have access to your personal data.
Minors
The Sciondene website is not intended for use by minors under the age of 13 and as such we request that minors under the age of 13 do not submit any personal information to us via the website. We will not ask minors to provide their personal data if we have knowledge of their minority.
Links to other sites
This website may contains links to other websites which are run by other organisations. This policy does not apply to those other websites‚ so we encourage you to read their privacy statements. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if you access them using links that we provide. In addition, if you linked to this website from a third party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party website and recommend that you check the policy of that third party website.
Transmission security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal information safe and secure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to this website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we put in place reasonable and appropriate controls to ensure that it remains secure against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorised access.
Contact details
Should you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact Sciondene Privacy Management at the following email:
Amendment of Privacy Policy
We are entitled to amend our Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. This policy was last updated on the date set out at the start of this page.