1. About this Notice
This Privacy and Cookie Notice provides
information on how Souqzman collects and processes your personal data when you
visit our website or mobile applications.
2. The data we collect about you
We collect your personal data in order to
provide and continually improve our products and services.
We may collect, use, store and transfer the following different kinds of
personal data about you:
- Information you provide to us:
We receive and store the information you provide to us including your
identity data, contact data, delivery address and financial data.
- Information on your use of our
website and/or mobile applications: We automatically collect and store
certain types of information regarding your use of the Souqzman
marketplace including information about your searches, views, downloads
and purchases.
- Information from third parties
and publicly available sources: We may receive information about you from
third parties including our carriers; payment service providers;
merchants/brands; and advertising service providers.
3. Cookies and how we use them
A cookie is a small file of letters and
numbers that we put on your computer if you agree.
Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and mobile
applications, which helps us to provide you with an enhanced browsing
experience. For example we use cookies for the following purposes:
- Recognising and counting the
number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they
are using it (this helps us to improve the way our website works, for
example by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for).
- Identifying your preferences
and subscriptions e.g. language settings, saved items, items stored in
your basket and primo membership
- Sending you newsletters and
commercial/advertising messages tailored to your interests.
Our approved third parties may also set cookies when you use our marketplace.
Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics
services, social media networks and advertising companies.
4. How we use your personal data
We use your personal data to operate, provide,
develop and improve the products and services that we offer, including the
following:
- Registering you as a new
customer.
- Processing and delivering your
orders.
- Managing your relationship with
us.
- Enabling you to participate in
promotions, competitions and surveys.
- Improving our website,
applications, products and services
- Recommending/advertising
products or services which may be of interest to you.
- Complying with our legal
obligations, including verifying your identity where necessary.
- Detecting fraud
5. How we share your personal data
We may need to share your personal data with
third parties for the following purposes:
- Sale of products and services:
In order to deliver your products and services purchased on our
marketplace from third parties, we may be required to provide your
personal data to such third parties.
- Working with third party
service providers: We engage third parties to perform certain functions on
our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services,
delivering packages, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance,
processing payments, transmitting content, assessing and managing credit
risk, and providing customer service.
- Business transfers: As we
continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or
services. In such transactions, customer information may be transferred
together with other business assets.
- Detecting fraud and abuse: We
release account and other personal data to other companies and
organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction, and to
comply with the law.
When we share your personal data with third parties we:
- require them to agree to use
your data in accordance with the terms of this Privacy and Cookie Notice,
our Privacy Policy and in accordance with the law
- only permit them to process
your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our
instructions. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use
your personal data for their own purposes.
6. International transfers
We may transfer your personal data to
locations in another country, if this is permissible pursuant to applicable
laws in your location. There are inherent risks in such transfers.
In the event of international transfers of your personal data, we shall put in
place measures necessary to protect your data, and we shall continue to respect
your legal rights pursuant to the terms of this Privacy and Cookie Notice and
applicable laws in your location.
7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security
measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or
accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents,
contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will
only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a
duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach
and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are
legally required to do so.
8. Your legal rights
It is important that the personal data we hold
about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal
data changes during your relationship with us.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in
relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correct or erase
your personal data, object to or restrict processing of your personal data, and
unsubscribe from our emails and newsletters.