Privacy Policy

1 – INTRODUCTION

1.1 This privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’) is issued by Foscom FZE. It sets out the basis on which any personal information/data we collect from you, or that you provide us through this website or elsewhere (‘Your Information’), will be used and protected by us. This privacy notice tells you how we look after your personal data when you visit our site www.foscom.com (“Site”) (regardless of where you visit it from) and tells you about your rights and how the law protects you.

Foscom FZE is the data controller in respect of any information you provide to us or that we collect from you on our Site.

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2 – CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

2.1 We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time so please check that you have seen the latest version.

3 – THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

3.1 Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

3.2 The only personal information that we will collect about you is the information you provide to us when you get in touch with us via the Site or otherwise.

3.3 Provision of personal information is voluntary but failure to provide certain personal information requested may render you unable to use or access certain services or parts of this Website.

3.4 The type of personal information we require will be set out on the relevant page of the Website at the time you register with us and may include your name, phone, email. This personal information is referred to in this Privacy Policy as ‘Your Information’.

4 – HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

4.1 We will only use your personal information to respond to an enquiry you make where you have asked us to do so. When responding to an enquiry, our lawful basis for processing will be legitimate interests: Our legitimate business interest is to respond to the enquiry you have made.

4.2 We may use Your Information and other information we gather about your use of this Website for the purposes of:

– providing you with marketing communications regarding our legal, regulatory services and advisory services (provided you have given consent to receiving such materials).

4.3 We may also contact you for other purposes that you consent to from time to time.

4.4 Your information will not be shared with any third parties without your express prior consent.

5 – LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

5.1 We will collect and use Your Information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations and other relevant legislation.

6 – DATA SECURITY

6.1 We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.

7 – DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

7.1 We do not sell, trade, or rent Your Information to others. We do not disclose Your Information to third parties without your consent unless we are legally required to do so or where such disclosure is necessary to enable third parties with whom we work to assist us in providing our services to you or to respond to your enquiry.

8 – HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY INFORMATION FOR?

8.1 We will only retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.

8.2 Where we have collected your information to respond to your enquiry, we will retain the information for so long as we need it to respond to your enquiry and any subsequent resulting enquiries you may have, if you do not proceed to instruct us to represent you, we will then retain it for a period of 6 months after we cease to hear from you.

9 – YOUR DATA RIGHTS

In accordance with your legal rights under the DPA 1998 and the GDPR 2016 and other applicable law, you may:

9.1 Request access to your information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

9.2 Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

9.3 Request erasure of your information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove information. There are certain circumstances where we may not be able to comply with your request (where we are obliged to keep it for statutory purposes) of which we will notify you at the time of a request.

10 – SECURITY TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

10.1 We employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect Your Information from being accessed by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We also endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect Your Information from external threats. However, please be aware that there are inherent security risks of sending information by public networks or on public computers and we cannot therefore 100% guarantee the security of any data disclosed or transmitted over the internet.

11 – OTHER WEBSITES

11.1 From time to time, this Website contains links to third party operated websites. If you access such other websites using the links provided, the operators of those websites may collect personal information about you in accordance with their own privacy practices. These practices are likely to differ from ours, so you should check the terms of any applicable privacy policy or terms of use when you visit such third party websites.

12 – CONTACT

12.1 If you have further comments, queries and requests relating to how we use Your Information please contact us at: legal@foscomfze.com