Last Updated: March 2024
Sophistec and its affiliated entities are deeply committed to safeguarding our users' personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how Sophistec processes the personal information of its users and other visitors browsing the Site ("users") in connection with the Site and other services provided by Sophistec, as well as privacy practices applicable to affiliates, influencers, and other collaborators.
By accessing or using our website, mobile applications, services, and related platforms, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. We may update this Policy periodically, with changes being posted on our website and other relevant platforms. We recommend checking the Policy periodically for updates or changes.
Information Collection: Gathered directly from users during sign-up and service usage, and automatically through site navigation and third-party sources.
Legal Basis: All processing of personal information is based on legal requirements stipulated by relevant laws.
Usage of Information: Personal data is used to ensure quality service, operate the platform, fulfill responsibilities, bolster security, and for marketing efforts and legal compliance.
Data Retention: It is stored for the duration necessary to fulfill its purpose, with some exceptions allowing for longer retention periods.
Age Restrictions: The platform is intended for users aged 18 and above; minors require parental consent to access services.
Third-Party Sharing: Personal data is shared with third parties for operational, service delivery, and legal compliance purposes.
Cookie Usage: Using cookies and similar technologies to enhance user experience, analyze site performance, and support marketing efforts.
Do Not Track Policy: The site does not acknowledge Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
External Links: Links to third-party websites are not governed by Privacy Policies; users are advised to review third-party privacy policies.
Information You Provide: When you join our platform, whether by signing up, completing forms, participating in surveys or events, or enrolling in affiliate programs, we ask for personal details like email addresses, names, profile information (such as pictures and expertise), contact details, transactional data, payment information, and more. We also collect and process information from your interactions with Sophistec, including posts on our platforms and communications with other users.
Information We Collect Automatically: As you navigate our platform, we automatically gather data about your activities, such as transactions, searches, page views, and clicks. This includes details like geo-location, IP address, device information, session duration, and browser data. Additionally, we utilize technologies like cookies to enhance your experience on Sophistec.
Information We Receive from Third Parties: We may receive data from third-party vendors or publicly available sources to supplement the information you provide. This includes fraud alerts, organization details, and job titles. If you link your account to third-party services like Google or LinkedIn, we may receive registration and profile details. We also gather information from reports or complaints submitted by third parties, as well as from integrations with other systems or products.
In agreement with appropriate laws, we have grounds for preparing your data. Regularly, this handling happens since:
1. You've allowed us authorization to utilize your data for a specific reason.
2. We require your data to fulfill a contract with you, such as giving administrations you've acquired.
3. It's basic to follow lawful or administrative commitments, such as avoiding extortion.
4. Handling underpins our authentic trade interface, such as upgrading our administration. In any case, we continuously guarantee this adjusts together with your rights and interface, guaranteeing reasonableness all through.
We employ your personal information for various purposes:
1. Providing quality service and ensuring security, which includes operating the Site, fulfilling our commitments to you, and refining and personalizing our services. This involves tasks like verifying your identity, setting up your account, monitoring your activity, facilitating communication with other members, and offering customer support.
2. Safeguarding marketplace integrity, preventing fraud, and maintaining a secure environment for our users. This entails monitoring and thwarting illegal and fraudulent activities, ensuring the integrity of content, investigating security issues, authenticating user-provided information, and enforcing our Terms of Service and applicable laws.
3. Contacting you as per your requests or approvals, or as permitted by this Policy.
4. Maintaining necessary business records, adhering to requests by public authorities, and complying with applicable laws and regulations.
5. We always seek your consent before utilizing information for purposes beyond those outlined in this Policy.
We follow a common rule of holding individual data as it were for the length essential to fulfill the reason for which it was collected. Be that as it may, there are occasions where we may get to hold your individual data for longer periods. Individual data is held for the taking after reasons:
1. It's kept as long as necessary and relevant for our operations, ensuring accurate records of your interactions with us for potential disputes or complaints.
2. Information from closed accounts is retained to adhere to legal requirements, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, collect outstanding fees, aid investigations, enforce our Site terms, and take lawful actions.
3. If necessary, we preserve information to serve as evidence within the statutes of limitation.
Our site is aimed at clients who are 18 a long time of age or more seasoned and legitimately qualified to enter contracts. Minors between the ages of 13 and 18 can get to the location with parental or legitimate gatekeeper’s assent. Those under 13 are not allowed to utilize our administrations. We don't intentionally collect individual data from children under 13. Guardians and gatekeepers ought to screen their children's online exercises. In case we find that we've incidentally collected individual data from a child under 13, we'll instantly erase it. On the off chance that you have got concerns approximately your child's incantation, it would be ideal if you contact us at privacy@sophistec.dev.
We need to be straightforward approximately how we share your data:
With Other Clients: After you enlist, a few subtle elements like your username and movement are visible to everybody. Data you share with other clients is at your claim hazard.
With Association Clients: We may share limited information to make strides interactive between clients. In case, if you are a buyer, we might share that it's your to start with buy to assist the vendor tailor their administrations to your needs.
With Benefit Suppliers: We work with benefit suppliers to run the location and give extra administration. These incorporate facilitating, installment preparing, and extortion anticipation. We guarantee they handle your information safely.
Report or Complaint Entries: If you record a report or complaint approximately another client, we may share your data to ensure everyone's rights.
For Legitimate Reasons: We may share your data in reaction to lawful requests or to anticipate extortion or security breaches.
Installment and Extortion Location: Your information may be shared with installment processors and extortion location offices to handle installments and avoid unauthorized transactions.
With Social Media Accomplices: Certain social media highlights may collect data about you when you connect with them on our location.
With Corporate Partners: We share data with our corporate associates for trade purposes, such as working with our administrations and avoiding extortion.
Corporate Exchanges: If there's a corporate alteration like a merger or procurement, your data may be exchanged as a portion of that process.
We're committed to keeping your data secure and in line with our approach.
We utilize cookies and comparable innovations to upgrade your encounter on our location, analyze its execution, and for showcasing purposes. Our cookies fall into categories like "basic," "analytics," and "showcasing." To get more about cookies and how you'll be able to control them, it would be ideal if you allude to our Cookie Arrangement.
A few web browsers offer a highlight called Don't Track (DNT), which permits clients to select out-of-site following. Whereas we do not particularly honor DNT demands, you'll be able oversee your cookie inclinations through our Cookie Approach to control the following.
It's vital to know that our Location incorporates joins to third-party websites. If you press on one of these joins and give data to that location, how that information is utilized is past Sophistec's control and isn't secured by our Approach. Each location you visit may have it possess security arrangements, so it's astute to audit them. Keep in mind, our Approach as it were applies to individual data collected on our Location. In case you share substance, like individual data, on a social arrange and tag Sophistec, it's subject to that network's terms and approaches, indeed if you post on an official Sophistec page. We haven't assessed these terms and arrangements, so it's best to audit them sometime recently sharing any individual data.
We take measures to defend the security of our Location, administrations, and your data to avoid unauthorized get to, misfortune, or abuse. We utilize industry-standard innovations and inside methods to secure your information. For occasion, we keep up a PCI DSS certification for credit card installments. We moreover guarantee that any third party dealing with your data keeps up secrecy and information keenness. Be that as it may, whereas we endeavor to keep your data secure, it would be ideal if you were mindful that transmitting information over the web isn't secure. Once we get your information, we utilize strict methods and security highlights to avoid unauthorized get. Clients who enlist on our Location concur to keep their watchword private and not share it with others. If you’d like more points of interest almost our information security hones, feel free to reach out to us for advanced data.
We endeavor to preserve precise and current individual data in our records, and we offer you the chance to keep your points of interest up to date through your account settings. In case you accept any of your data is off base if you don't mind illuminate us instantly. We'll explore and redress any mistakes as quickly as conceivable unless we're required to hold the data for genuine commerce or lawful reasons. When overhauling your subtle elements, we'll confirm your character for security purposes. If you experience any issues erasing your data, reach out to Sophistec's Client Back, and we'll make sensible endeavors to address your concerns in agreement with pertinent privacy laws.
You'll be able to get to and alter your data by logging into the Location and exploring your account profile page.
To work out your rights concerning your data, if it's not too much trouble yield a Client Relations ticket, giving all pertinent subtle elements for appropriate handling. We'll prepare your demands in agreement with nearby laws and our arrangements. Then again, you'll be able to reach us at privacy@sophistec.dev.
For requests or comments approximately this Arrangement, mail us at privacy@sophistec.dev and we'll endeavor to reply instantly.
