DATA PROTECTION POLICY
FPTlink respects your privacy and is deeply committed to protecting your personal data and empowering you to control how it is used.
This Data Protection Policy (hereafter “Policy”) applies to residents of EU states and certain other customers in states whose governments adopt Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regards to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data “General Data Protection Regulation” (“GDPR”). This Policy is intended to ensure that Customer Personal Data (defined as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”) is collected, maintained and used in accordance with the GPDR and associated data protection and privacy laws.
This Policy describes what kinds of Personal Data FPTlink will collect from our European Customers, and how FPTlink maintains and uses our Customers’ Personal Data in connection with the services we provide to them.
This Policy is hereby expressly incorporated into our User Agreements governing the provision of Services by FPTlink to our Customers residing in states subject to the GDPR (our “European Customers”). This Policy supplements our Contract and is effective as of 25 May 2018. This Policy shall supersede any directly conflicting data provisions in other FPTlink agreements, but only for European Customers. The Policy shall have no effect in geographical areas not subject to the GPDR; our existing Privacy Policy will remain in effect for customers in those areas.
Personal Data FPTlink may collect from its Customers.
FPTlink collects Personal Data as described in the Contract, in particular from application forms, contact forms, and/or other interactions with Customer.
The customer should be aware that application fields are mandatory fields because FPTlink needs this information to comply with statutory, legal or contractual requirements, internal procedures or to respond to Customer requests.
Fields: FPTlink may request include but are not limited to Email, Mobile Phone number, Name, Home address, and other. If Customer contacts FPTlink , FPTlink will keep a record of that correspondence for the legally required retention period.
Personal Data that Customers provide to FPTlink should not include any of the following data types, and Customers hereby expressly warrant that they will not provide any of the following:
FPTlink may use Customer Personal Data to send direct marketing to our Customers via e-mail only when Customer has given express prior consent in the relevant contact form. Customer may at any time withdraw approval to receive marketing communications by expressly withdrawing consent via their individual FPTlink interface.
FPTlink will not rely solely on automated Customer onboarding processes or transaction monitoring, including profiling, with respect to its decisions regarding a Customer’s ability to transact business via FPTlink .
How does FPTlink use Customer Personal Data?
Customer Personal Data is collected and handled by FPTlink for the following purposes:
Does FPTlink transfer European Customer Personal Data outside the European Union?
We do not transfer any European Customer Personal Data to anyone. We take your privacy first.
Data retention.
FPTlink will retain Customer Personal Data for as long as (i) necessary for the respective purpose, (ii) necessary to deliver services and carry out FPTlink business relationship with Customer in accordance with the Contract, (iii) Customer has consented to, and/or (iv) required by applicable retention laws.
IP addresses and cookies.
FPTlink collects information about a Customer’s computer[s], including (where available), an IP address, operating system and browser type, and other hardware information needed for system administration and security. For the same reason, FPTlink may obtain information about a Customer’s general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on Customer’s device.
Data Security.
Although FPTlink will do its best to protect Customer Personal Data, every Customer should be aware and is hereby informed that the transmission of information via the internet is not inherently secure. CRIMINAL HACKERS AND OTHER BAD ACTORS WILL ATTEMPT TO STEAL YOUR DATA AND DIGITAL ASSETS! FPTlink cannot guarantee the security of Customer Personal Data transmitted to FPTlink or any third party; for this reason, ANY TRANSMISSION IS AT CUSTOMER’S OWN RISK.
FPTlink will use industry standard (or better) technical and organizational security measures safeguard against unauthorized access, change, transmission or deletion of Customer Personal Data..
The term 'FPTlink.com' or 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner of the website 'FPTlink.com'. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website. The term 'Content' refers to the website you are using in conjunction with the Service.
We at FPTlink.com respect the privacy of our visitors and are committed to preserving your online safety by preserving your privacy at any time you visit or communicate with our site. Our privacy policy has been provided and reviewed by the solicitors at Legal Centre who specialize in online internet contracts.
Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy offers you a thorough explanation regarding your personal data provided to us or any data we may collect from you.
This Privacy Policy is updated from time to time; therefore, it should be reviewed occasionally.
1. Collected Information
Data can be collected and processed during the operations of our website. The following are ways we may perform these actions:
1.1 Data regarding your visit(s) to our website and any resources used are collected. The following is included and not limited to: location data, weblogs, traffic data, and any other communication information.
1.2 Any forms you filled out on our site allows us to collect data such as registering for information or when you complete a purchase.
1.3 If for any reason you communicate with our personnel or site we may collect information.
2. Cookie Usage
There are instances where we may use cookies to gather information regarding our services in a mathematical collection for our website and our advertisers.
Any information collected will not have any identifying data. It is statistical data about our visitors and how they have used our site. No personal details will be shared that could identify you.
We may assemble information about your common internet use with a cookie file. When used, the cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. The cookie is stored on the hard drive, with transferred information. The data sought by the cookie helps us improve our website and any service offered to you.
Your browser has the ability to decline cookies. This is done by setting your browser options to decline all cookies. Note: if you do decline the download of cookies, some aspects of our site may not work or allow you access.
Our advertisers may download cookies to which we have no control. If used, these cookies are downloaded by clicking on an advertisement found on our website.
3. Our Use of Your Information
Information stored or collected regarding you helps us improve and offer services you need. The following list contains how we might use your data:
3.1 Any request you make of our site or personnel allows us to use information you provided us with, relating to the products or services we have. We may also send information on products or services you may be interested in, as long as consent has been received.
3.2 Contract Commitments: To meet any Commitment we make to you.
3.3 Changes or Improvements made to the site can warrant use of your information, with regard to notification of such changes.
3.4 An existing customer may be contacted regarding products and services related to any item of previous sale you made on our site.
3.5 We may use data or allow third parties to use information that is not related to goods or services you may be interested in. We or third parties contact you only if consent has been provided by you at anytime, based on information we collected.
3.6 Any new customer can only be contacted by us or third parties if consent has been offered via our site. We only send communications you have consented to.
3.7 Anyone who does not wish to give consent for our site or third party use has the opportunity to decline. Once we receive your withhold for consent we will remove your details from any mailings or third party communications.
3.8 None of the information collected about you will offer identifiable characteristics. Information shared to a third party is statistical only. We will not reveal who you are, only mathematical information about our visitors.
4. Personal Data Storage
4.1 Information we are provided will be stored on secure servers. Transaction data is encrypted for your safety.
4.2 You should understand data via online transmission is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee full protection and security data, only that we take all reasonable action to protect information sent to us electronically. Transmission of any data by you is at your own risk. Where applicable you may be given access to sections of our site that require a password. You are responsible for the passwords safety and confidentiality.
5. Information Disclosure
5.1 At times we may disclose personal information to persons in our group. This can include subsidiaries, holding companies, or any other subsidiaries involved in our business, if applicable.
5.2 Third Party disclosure may occur for the following reasons:
5.2.1 Selling any or all of our business to a third party may result in sharing your information.
5.2.2 At any time when we are legally required to we may disclose information about you and your visits to our sites.
5.2.3 To prevent fraud and help in fraud protection in order to reduce credit risk, we may disclose information.
6. Third Party Links
Third party links may be discovered on our site. These third party links have their own privacy policy, which you agree to when you click on the link. We are not responsible nor do we accept responsibility for third party links. Our liability covers us only on our site, and thus we do not accept liability for third party links as we have no control over them.
7. Information Accessibility
We cannot withhold data we collect about you, as per The Data Protection Act 1998. This act provides you with access to any information we may hold on you. If you wish to have access about our data collection on you please pay our fee of $10. The fee covers our costs for processing your request and getting the data to you. Please use the 'contact us' to formulate your data access request.
8. Invalid Traffic Payment
Sometimes we process the payment without checking the traffic and account activity in this case we have rights to reverse the payment which we paid for the invalid traffic.