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PRIVACY PAGE

Startup Core Strengths (Heretix Limited) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data and which rights and options you have in this respect. Please also refer to our Cookie Policy below which explains the use of cookies and other web tracking devices via this website.

Startup Core Strengths (Heretix Limited) is responsible for your personal data.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

The personal data we collect may include:

  • Contact information, such as your name, job title, address, telephone number, and email address;

  • Payment data, such as data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information;

  • Further business information necessarily processed in a project or client contractual relationship with Heretix or voluntarily provided by you, such as payments made, requests, and projects;

  • Information collected from publicly available resources, integrity databases and credit agencies;

  • Special categories of personal data. In connection with the registration for and provision of access to an event, we may ask for information about your health for the purpose of identifying and being considerate of any disabilities or special dietary requirements you may have. Any use of such information is based on your consent. If you do not provide any such information about disabilities or special dietary requirements, we will not be able to take any respective precautions; and/or

  • Other personal data regarding your preferences where it is relevant to the services that we provide.

  • From time to time, it may include personal data about your membership of a professional or trade association or union, health personal data and details of dietary preferences when relevant to events to which we invite you.

WHICH PERSONAL DATA  DO WE COLLECT?

We may collect personal data about you in a number of circumstances, including:

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  • When you or your organisation seek advice from us;

  • When you or your organisation browse, make an enquiry or otherwise interact on this website;

  • When you attend an event or sign up to receive training from us; or

  • When you or your organisation offer to provide or provide services to us.

In some circumstances, we collect personal data about you from a third party source. For example, we may collect personal data from your organisation, other organisations with whom you have dealings, government agencies, a credit reporting agency, an information or service provider or from a publicly available record.

HOW DO WE COLLET YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

As a general principle, you will provide us with your personal data entirely voluntarily; there are generally no detrimental effects for you if you choose not to consent or to provide personal data. However, there are circumstances in which Heretix cannot take action without certain of your personal data, for example because this personal data is required to process your instructions or orders, provide you with access to a web offering or newsletter or to carry out a legally required compliance screening. In these cases, it will unfortunately not be possible for us to provide you with what you request without the relevant personal data and we will notify you accordingly.

ARE YOU REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA?

We may use your personal data for the following purposes only (Permitted Purposes):

  • Providing services or things you may have requested;

  • Managing and administering your or your organisation’s business relationship with Heretix, including processing payments, billing and collection, and support services;

  • Compliance with our legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), compliance screening or recording obligations (e.g. for financial and credit check);

  • To analyse and improve our services and communications to you;

  • Protecting the security of and managing access to our IT and communication systems, online platforms, websites and other systems, preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;

  • For insurance purposes;

  • For monitoring and assessing compliance with our policies and standards;

  • To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests;

  • To comply with court orders and exercises and/or defend our legal rights; and

  • For any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your personal data was provided to us.

  • Where you have expressly given us your consent, we may process your personal data also for the following purposes:

  • Communicating with you through the channels you have approved to keep you up to date on the latest developments, announcements, and other information about Heretix services and products as well as Heretix events and projects;

  • Customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analysis or other promotional activities or events; or

  • Collecting information about your preferences to create a user profile to personalise and foster the quality of our communication and interaction with you (for example, by way of newsletter tracking or website analytics).

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With regard to marketing-related communication, we will – where legally required – only provide you with such information after you have opted in and provide you with the opportunity to opt-out anytime if you do not want to receive further marketing-related communication from us. We will not use your personal data for taking any automated decisions affecting you or creating profiles other than described above.

Depending on for which of the above-Permitted Purposes we use your personal data, we may process your personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:

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  • Because processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or your organisation;

  • To comply with our legal obligations (e.g. to keep records for tax purposes); or

  • Because processing is necessary for purposes of our legitimate interest or those of any third party recipients that receive your personal data, provided that such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

In addition, the processing may be based on your consent where you have expressly given that to us.

FOR WHICH PURPOSES WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We may share your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • We may disclose your contact details on a confidential basis to third parties for the purposes of collecting your feedback on our service provision, to help us measure our performance and to improve and promote our services;

  • We may share your personal data with companies providing services for credit risk reduction and other fraud and crime prevention purposes and companies providing similar services, including financial institutions, credit reference agencies and regulatory bodies with whom such personal data is shared;

  • We may share your personal data with any third party to whom we assign or novate any of our rights or obligations;

  • We may share your personal data with courts, law enforcement authorities, regulators or attorneys or other parties where it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal or equitable claim, or for the purposes of a confidential alternative dispute resolution process;

  • We may also instruct service providers within or outside of Heretix, domestically or abroad, e.g. shared service centres, to process personal data for the Permitted Purposes on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions only. Heretix will retain control over and will remain fully responsible for your personal data and will use appropriate safeguards as required by the applicable law to ensure the integrity and security of your personal data when engaging such service providers;

  • We may also use aggregated personal data and statistics for the purpose of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop our website and our services.

Otherwise, we will only disclose your personal data when you direct us or give us permission when we are required by applicable law or regulations or judicial or official request to do so, or as required to investigate actual or suspected fraudulent or criminal activities.

WITH WHOM WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

If you provide personal data to us about someone else (such as one of your directors or employees, or someone with whom you have business dealings) you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that personal data to us and that, without our taking any further steps, we may collect, use and disclose that personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. In particular, you must ensure the individual concerned is aware of the various matters detailed in this Privacy Policy, as those matters relate to that individual, including our identity, how to contact us, our purposes of collection, our personal data disclosure practices (including disclosure to overseas recipients), the individual’s right to obtain access to the personal data and make complaints about the handling of the personal data, and the consequences if the personal data is not provided (such as our inability to provide services).

PERSONAL DATA ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE WHICH YOU PROVIDE TO US

We will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, disclosure of and access to personal data. Personal data may be kept on our personal data technology systems, those of our contractors or in paper files.

Transferring your personal data abroad
We may transfer your personal data abroad if required for the Permitted Purposes as described above. We will ensure that any such international transfers are made subject to appropriate or suitable safeguards as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or other relevant laws. This includes entering into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses which are available here. You may contact us anytime using the contact details below if you would like further information on such safeguards.

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We will also require our agents, consultants and sub-contractors and others who are outside the European Economic Area and to whom we transfer your personal data to ensure a similar level of data protection.

When doing so we will comply with applicable data protection requirements and take appropriate safeguards to ensure the security and integrity of your personal data.

KEEPING PERSONAL DATA ABOUT YOU SECURE

If any of the personal data that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address or if you wish to cancel any request you have made of us, or if you become aware we have any inaccurate personal data about you, please let us know by sending an email to hello@heretix.co. We will not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete Personal Data that you provide to us.

UPDATING PERSONAL DATA ABOUT YOU

Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer reasonably required for the Permitted Purposes or you withdraw your consent (where applicable) and we are not legally required or otherwise permitted to continue storing such data. We will, in particular, retain your personal data where required for Heretix to assert or defend against legal claims until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been settled.

FOR HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Subject to certain legal conditions, you have the right to request a copy of the personal data about you which we hold, to have any inaccurate personal data corrected and to object to or restrict our using your personal data. You may also make a complaint if you have a concern about our handling of your personal data.

If you wish to do any of the above please send an email to hello@heretix.co. We may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification in order for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorised disclosure of data. We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your data, and for any additional copies of the personal data you request from us.

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We will consider any requests or complaints which we receive and provide you with a response in a timely manner. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to the relevant privacy regulator. We will provide you with details of your relevant regulator upon request.

YOUR RIGHTS

This Privacy Policy was last updated in September 2018. We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. In case of any such changes, we will post the changed Privacy Policy on our website or publish it otherwise. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

A ‘cookie’ is a small text file which is stored on the user’s hard drive or mobile device. Cookies perform a number of functions associated with browsing websites and are used for a variety of different purposes, such as tracing users from page to page on an internet site, thereby enhancing a user’s browsing experience. They are generated by web servers when the user enters an internet page, and are passed to the user’s computer or mobile device and stored for subsequent future access.

We only use cookies in certain areas of this website and the purposes for which they are used are detailed below. You are not obliged to accept a cookie and you can modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. However, if you do so this may affect your browsing experience and certain functions within this website may not work.

This website uses the following cookies:

OUR USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER INFORMATION-GATHERING TECHNOLOGIES

Session cookies are used to temporarily store information about logged in users. These cookies do not collect information from the user’s computer, and do not identify the user.

SESSION COOKIES

Permanent cookies are used to enhance a user’s browsing experience by ‘remembering’ that user on subsequent visits.

PERMANENT COOKIES

We record whether a user has accepted the cookie policy. The cookies expire one year after the last page was requested.

ACCEPTANCE OF COOKIES

These cookies are used by Google Analytics, which monitors traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website. Google Analytics stores internet protocol (IP) addresses on its servers in the US. An IP address is a unique number assigned to each device (such as your computer) that allows it to communicate with other devices on a computer network (such as modems, printers or other computers). Neither Heretix nor Google associate your IP address with any information that can identify the user personally.

These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session.

GENERIC GOOGLE ANALYTICS COOKIES

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