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Data Protection Policy


This Data Protection Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal data. This Data Protection Policy was last updated on the 29th of February 2020.

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This Data Protection Policy applies to the services of Automated Excel Solutions . If you live in the European Economic Area, Automated Excel Solutions is the Controller of your personal data.

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This Data Protection Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data and the choices available to you regarding collection, process, access, and how to update, correct and delete your personal data. Additional information on our personal data practices can be found in our contractual terms. This Data Protection Policy is intended for you as a user of our website and services.

Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Data”).

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We may collect data or ask you to provide certain data when you use our website and services. The sources from which we collect Personal Data are:

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Data collected directly from you or your device relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”) and may include direct identifiers such as name, address, email address, phone number.

Data collected online or through indirect identifiers such as login account number, login password, payment details, or IP address.

Data collected that is linked, for example if you have used our service and later choose us again, we will link your data and treat that linked data as Personal Data.

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We organise collected Personal Data as Account Data, Billing Data and Exchanged Data.

Account Data is everything we need to set up your account and includes your email address and username, and information connected with our services, such as your First and Last Name, your Business address and phone number.

Billing data is everything we need to set up your payment including your name, email address, masked credit card number and in certain circumstances, your billing address and your phone number if this is not already collected.

Exchanged Data is everything that is contained within the spreadsheets you might send when requesting us to modify or automate your worksheets.

As described above, we link data and if we have already collected some of your data, we will only ask you for the remaining data that is necessary to carry out the service contracted for.

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We use your Personal Data for the following purposes and on the following grounds:

On the basis of fulfilling our contract (when you buy our service)

On the basis of your consent (when you subscribe to our newsletter)

On the basis of legal obligations (for obligations such as tax, accounting, anti-money laundering, or when a court or other authority asks us to)

On the basis of our legitimate interest (for communications about security, privacy and performance improvements of our services. or for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights.)

Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests we balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.

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We disclose your Personal Data in response to your business enquiry or your request for information within our Company in order to provide the best service possible and within our legitimate interest.

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We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this Data Protection Policy and who may process such data on our behalf and in accordance with this Data Protection Policy, to support this website and our services. For example, with our legal other professional advisors.

We may also share information with our secure payment gateway provider, and you may need to provide credit or debit card information directly to the provider in order to process payment details and authorise payment following a secure link. The information which you supply to in such cases is not within our control and is subject to the payment gateway provider’s own Privacy Notice and Terms and Conditions.

In relation to information obtained about you from your use of our website, we may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website which is subject to our Cookies Policy.

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We may disclose personal information in other circumstances such as when you agree to it or if the law, a Court order, a legal obligation or regulatory authority ask us to. If the purpose is the prevention of fraud or crime or if it is necessary to protect and defend our right, property or personal safety of our staff, the website and its users.

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We will only keep the information required to provide our service as long as you are a client. So that we can meet our contractual obligations and for a period after that to identify issues, respect claim limitation periods and to resolve any legal proceedings.

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You can learn how long your information is held and when it is destroyed from our Data Retention Policy which you can request using our contact form.


Your Rights


You have the right to:

·        information about the processing of your personal data

·        obtain access to the personal data held about you

·        ask for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data to be corrected

·        request that personal data be erased when it’s no longer needed or if processing is unlawful

·        object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation

·        request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in specific cases

·        receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’)

·        request that decisions based on automated processing concerning you or significantly affecting you and based on your personal data are made by natural persons, not only by computers. You also have the right in this case to express your point of view and to contest the decision

Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time through our contact form.

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If you feel that your request is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority. The Commissioner for personal data protection is the supervisory authority in Cyprus and relevant to Automated Excel Solutions.

The information on this website is intended to give you general information on matters that you may find interesting. Although, we made every effort to offer up-to-date and accurate information, errors may occur. Furthermore, this Site may contain references to certain laws and regulations. Laws and regulations will change over time and should be interpreted only in light of particular circumstances and the date the article was published. The Site, and content available within it, is for informational purposes only. Neither the Site nor the content available within it constitutes professional advice, and neither should be relied upon by you or any third party. Before making any decision or taking any action, you should consult with professional advisers.

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We are a global business that provides its services all around the world. In some instances, these may be countries outside of the European Economic Area. Regardless, we provide the same level of protection to all Personal Data it processes and rigorously apply the GDPR principles across our Company.

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At the same time, when we transfer Personal Data outside of the EEA, we always make sure to have appropriate and suitable safeguards. For example, standardised contracts that are approved by the European Commission and specific documents that legally bind the receiving party to adhere to a high level of data privacy and data protection. As well as encryption and several algorithms such as Blowfish, Triple DES and RSA encryption. 

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We protect your data using state of the art technical, and physical safeguards and operate a firm system of policies, confidentiality agreements, digital safeguards and procedures to ensure the highest level of administrative protection.

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In more detail to access our database the user must be authorised, is challenged through a two-way authentication system and use an encrypted VPN. Also, the removal of Personal Data from our location is forbidden and made by using a complex encryption system very difficult. We use cutting edge antivirus and anti-malware software and up-to-date firewall protection. Moreover, authorised personnel must have a legitimate need to know interest such as being your point of contact or service your user account.

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The data we collect from you may be stored, with appropriate technical and organisational security measures applied to it, on in-house servers in Cyprus. In all cases, we follow generally high data protection standards and advanced security measures to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.


California Privacy Rights


Sources and Categories of collected personal information

·        you can find all sources and categories of collected personal information above

Business or commercial purpose for collecting information

·        you can find all purposes of processing personal information above

Categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information

·        you can find all categories of recipients of personal information listed above

 

To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any questions or complaints about our use of your Personal Data and this policy, please contact us using our contact form.


Changes


This Data Protection Policy and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal data can result in changes to this Data Protection Policy. Please regularly review this Data Protection Policy to keep up to date with any changes.


Cookie Policy


This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.

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However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.

Regardless of the duration set, you can manually delete cookies in your browser. In some browser settings, the acceptance of cookies is present without restrictions. You can allow or disallow temporary and saved cookies independently of one another in the security settings of your browser. In addition to a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies, you can also deactivate cookies.

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If you are using a mobile device, you can activate the setting “No ad tracking” (iOS) or “Disable personalized advertising” (Android) on the device with the corresponding operating system. This is to prevent the Advertising ID (a non-personal device identifier) from being used to provide interest-based advertising.

If you use the option in your browser to delete all cookies or set blocking cookies, remember that the corresponding settings or the setting of blocking cookies may have to be made again!

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We also suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

Accepting cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our website. If you do not accept or deactivate cookies, however, certain options (e.g. services, purchase options, shopping cart storage and information) may not be available on our website and some websites may not be displayed correctly.


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What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site or place an order. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or mailing address.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways: To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs) To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you) To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs) To process transactions Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested. To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature To send periodic emails The email address you provide for order processing, will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to?keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders by contacting customer service. Google Analytics We use Google Analytics on our sites for anonymous reporting of site usage and for advertising on the site. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on our sites please use this link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/)

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Registration

The minimum information we need to register you is your name, email address and a password. We will ask you more questions for different services, including sales promotions. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions. We may also ask some other, voluntary questions during registration for certain services (for example, professional networks) so we can gain a clearer understanding of who you are. This also allows us to personalise services for you. To assist us in our marketing, in addition to the data that you provide to us if you register, we may also obtain data from trusted third parties to help us understand what you might be interested in. This ‘profiling’ information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared. You can choose not to have such data shared with the Guardian from these sources by logging into your account and changing the settings in the privacy section. After you have registered, and with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you. Newsletters may be personalised based on what you have been reading on theguardian.com. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’. Logging in using social networking credentials If you log-in to our sites using a Facebook log-in, you are granting permission to Facebook to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used to form a Guardian identity. You can also use your picture from Facebook as part of your profile. This will also allow us and Facebook to share your, networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook account settings. If you remove the Guardian app from your Facebook settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a Google log-in, you grant permission to Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth, sex and location which we will then use to form a Guardian identity. You may use your picture from Google as part of your profile. This also allows us to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Google account settings. If you remove the Guardian from your Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Updating your personal information

We offer a ‘My details’ page (also known as Dashboard), where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the ‘My details’ link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
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