Privacy Policy

This website is owned and managed by App AE Ltd. For the Data Protection, Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) the data controller is App AE Ltd.

In this document, “we” or “us” refers to App AE Ltd.

This privacy policy defines how we manage any personal information we accumulate about you when you use our services.

This is a notice to inform you about our policy about all the information that we collect about you and how we use it.

Our policy is both explicit and strict. It complies with UK law and as a data controller, is bound by the specifications of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

 

You accept that we are allowed to collect, manage and prepare the information you furnish to us to allow us to bring out the services you have requested.

 

Personal data relates to any information about you which may include:

  • Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Occupation
  • Contact Information (address, email, and telephone numbers)
  • The IP address (automatically collected)
  • Cookie Information
  • Referring to Website Information

How this information is used

We know that all users of our web site are considerably fairly concerned to understand that their data will not be utilized for any objective unintended by them and will not casually fall into the hands of a third party.

 

We will only use your data when the law obliges us to do so, and most generally to permit us to present the requested services to you:

  • To give you the services which you request
  • For validating your status for legal and regulatory compliance
  • Service updates about our services and products

We may collect data from you to identify you and where you live such as a copy of your passport and proof of address such as a utility bill to meet our know your client and money laundering requirements.

 

Our work producing a requested service to you may expect us to use third-party software. These may include, but not limited to:

We may also use software embedded in our website (such as JavaScript) to get knowledge about which sides you view and how you approach them, what you make when you visit a page, the period you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you.

 

Data security

To prevent unapproved access, manage data efficiency, and secure the correct method of information, we have put in place proper physical, electronic, and managerial systems to safeguard and defend the information we collect online.

 

See our Security Policy for full information.

How you can access or correct your information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by sending us an email to help@theoffice.support. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

 

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows an error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

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

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make web sites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Like all other users of cookies, we may request the return of information from your computer when your browser requests a web page from our server. Cookies enable our web server to identify you to us and to track your actions and the pages you visit while you use our website. The cookies we use may last for a single visit to our site (they are deleted from your computer when you close your browser) or may remain on your computer until you delete them or until a defined period has passed.

 

Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website. Here are the ways we may use cookies:

  • To record whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our web site. This is solely to comply with the law. If you have chosen not to accept cookies, we will not use cookies for your visit, but unfortunately, our site will not work well for you.
  • To allow essential parts of our web site to operate for you.
  • To operate our content management system.
  • To operate the online notification form – the form that you use to contact us for any reason. This cookie is set on your arrival at our web site and deleted when you close your browser.
  • To enhance security on our contact form. It is set for use only through the contact form. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
  • To collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to improve your experience of our site and enable us to increase sales. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
  • To record that a user has viewed a webcast. It collects information in an anonymous form. This cookie expires when you close your browser.
  • To record your activity during a webcast. For example, as to whether you have asked a question or provided an opinion by ticking a box. This information is retained so that we can serve your information to you when you return to the site. This cookie will record an anonymous ID for each user, but it will not use the information for any other purpose. This cookie will last for a while after which it will delete automatically.
  • To store your personal information so that you do not have to provide it afresh when you visit the site next time. This cookie will last for some time after which it will delete automatically.
  • To enable you to watch videos we have placed on YouTube. YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information when you use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.

Information relating only to your credit card or debit card

This information is never taken by us either through our website or otherwise. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website of WorldPay that page may be dressed in our “livery”, but it is not controlled by us. Our staff and contractors never have access to it.

Calling our office

When you call our office, we may collect Calling Line Identification (CLI) information. We use this information to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our helpline.

Third-party advertising

Third parties may advertise on our web site. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects your IP address when they send an advertisement that appears on our site to your browser. They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalize the content of and to measure the performance of their adverts. We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

Complaining

When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and, if we do, what that information is.

 

We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

Job application and employment

If you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to three years in case we decide to contact you at a later date. 

 If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout your employment. This information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. After your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it.

Information we obtain from third parties.

Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we do receive data that is indirectly made up of your personal information, from software services such as Google Analytics and others. No such information is identifiable to you.

Affiliate information

This is information given to us by you in your capacity as an affiliate (or reseller) of us or a customer or client of ours. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect any affiliate to agree to reciprocate this policy. As an exception to this, we have the right to disclose your first name and URL of your affiliate connection to other affiliates and any other person or organization, on and off-site. The reason is sole to enable us to mention winners and others whose performance as an affiliate is in some way outstanding.

Disclosure to Government and their agencies

We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorization.

Data may be “processed” outside the UK

Our web sites are hosted in the EU. We also use outsourced services in countries outside the EU from time to time in other aspects of our business. Accordingly, data obtained within the UK may be “processed” outside the UK and data obtained in any other country may be processed within or outside that country.

Compliance with the law

This privacy policy has been compiled to comply with the law of every jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, we should like to hear from you, but ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

 If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.

 We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our web site immediately. Except as set out above, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected on our websites.

Updated: 01.10.2019