Privacy Policy

Global Privacy Policy

 

GLOBAL DATA PRIVACY POLICY

 

1. Introduction

• One Degree IBC Limited is committed to ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations.
• This Data Protection Policy complies with the principles and requirements of global data protection as informed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation and similar legislation in accordance with the adequacy requirements set out therein as enacted in other jurisdictions.
• This Policy describes how and why we collect and process your personal data, as well as your rights with regard to the processing of your personal data.

2.   Scope and Supplement

• This Policy applies to One Degree IBC Limited as incorporated in Seychelles, and its subsidiaries worldwide. This Policy applies to the processing of personal data obtained through any channel of communication or by any means, including but not limited to email, file transfer, feeding personal data into applications and tools, websites or mobile apps, social media pages and
• This Policy may be supplemented by specific data protection and privacy notices and statements that relate to specific forms or purposes of data Anonymized data (non-personal data), e.g. for statistical evaluations or studies, is not subject to this Policy.
• In countries where the data of legal entities is protected to the same extent as personal data, this Policy applies equally to data of legal
  
  

3.  Application of national laws

 

While the GDPR is applicable throughout the EU and is the global standard for data protection, there may be laws and regulations in some countries that specify further data protection requirements, in particular conditions for lawful data processing.

 

1. Glossary and definitions
   
   

       A glossary of specified terms and definitions shall be included in Appendix A to this Policy.

 

2.  Personal Data we process

Purposes, and Legal Basis. This section of our Policy describes what personal data we collect and process and for what purposes and on what legal basis.

 

• Handling orders and fulfilling contractual obligations
• When you purchase goods or services from us, or if you request information about products and services prior to placing an order, or if you request support regarding the product or services you have ordered, we will process personal data that is necessary to negotiate and execute a contract to fulfil any contractual obligations, and to exercise our rights under the contract. This also includes advisory services under the contract if this is related to the contractual purpose.

 

• For this purpose, we process personal details (including name, title, email, telephone, postal address, shipping and billing address, educational qualifications and employment history), order and customer information (including goods and services ordered and provided, instructions regarding the order, customer business activities and interests and order history), financial information (including invoice data, preferred payment options, term of payment, bank account and credit card information).

 

• Browsing or registering on our websites, social media pages or platforms.

 

• When you browse our websites, social media pages or platforms, we may use Cookies and other tracking technologies to capture and understand how you use our websites, social media pages and platforms.

 

• Not all of our websites employ Cookies and tracking technology that collects personal data. Depending on the Cookies and tracking technologies in use, we collect information about your online browsing behavior on our websites, social media pages, or platforms, including information on how to react to adverts and offers. We may also collect information about the device you have used to access our websites, social media pages, or platforms, (including device model and operating system, browser type, IP address, and mobile device identifiers).

 

• Specific information regarding the Cookies and tracking technology in use on our respective websites, social media pages, and platforms is being provided in our Cookie Policy. This includes information on how to disable Cookies in your browser and how to prevent tracking of your browsing behavior.

 

• When you register on one of our websites, social media pages, or platforms we will additionally process personal details (including name, title, email, telephone), and account details (including username, password, login-/logoff data).

• Communication, marketing, and feedback
• When you contact us for any sort of inquiry or request, we will process your personal details (including name, title, company or organization you work for, email, telephone, and other contact information), as far as this is necessary to deal with your inquiry or request and to respond to.

 

• When you have purchased goods or services from us, or if you have indicated to us that you are interested in certain goods or services, we may process your personal details (including name, title, company or organization you work for, email, telephone, other contact information) to contact you and to send you information about our or our business partners’ goods and services, new technological developments, special offers and other

 

• Legal obligations and compliance

As a business operating globally, we are subject to various laws and regulations that impose legal obligations on us. Some of these laws and regulations may require the collection and processing of personal data (e.g. tax laws, commercial laws, trade and export compliance regulations, customs codes, and anti-money-laundering laws). Compliance with these legal obligations represents a legitimate interest and the legal basis for processing personal data is the purpose of ensuring compliance with our policies, codes of conduct, and regulations.

 

• Recruitment and application

When we recruit people we will process the personal data that you provide as part of your application. Data processing for the purpose of recruitment and carrying out the application process will generally comprise personal details (including name, title, email, telephone, postal address) and CV and qualification data (including graduation, university degree, training certificates, advanced education certificates, credentials, and skills). After completion of an application process, we may continue to process (store) the personal data of applicants for a certain period of time where necessary to ensure we are able to exercise rights or defend against claims in the context of the recruitment process.

 

1. Personal Data of Children

 

One Degree IBC Limited’s operations are focused on business-to-business engagement. Therefore, we do not intentionally solicit personal data from children or send them requests for personal data. If we notice, following a notification by a parent or guardian, or after discovery by other means, that a child under 16 years has been inappropriately registered on one of our websites, social media pages or platforms, we will cancel the account and registration and delete the child's personal data from our records.

 

1. Sharing Personal Data with Service Providers and Third Parties

 

• Not all processing of your personal data will be carried out by One Degree IBC Limited Sometime we will make use of service providers and vendors (“processors”) who will process personal data for us, on our behalf and under our instructions. Such processors can be external companies or affiliates of One Degree IBC Limited (group companies). Any such outsourcing of data processing will follow a service provider/vendor due diligence and monitoring protocol and will be governed by a Data Processing Agreement.

 

• As far as we use service providers and vendors as processors to process personal data on our behalf, your personal data may be shared with the following categories of recipients:

 

• IT service providers, application service providers, Internet service providers, platform and website host service providers, data disposal companies, marketing agencies, market research agencies, advertising partners, order and account management service providers, payment service providers, and customer care service providers.

 

• Apart from sharing personal data with service providers and vendors, it may be necessary to share your personal information with third parties, because there is a legal obligation to do so, or because there is a legitimate interest to ensure compliance with policies and regulations, or to facilitate business cooperation and collaboration. In such cases your personal data may be shared with the following categories of recipients:

 

• Public authorities and administrative bodies, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies, courts, lawyers, tax accountants, accounting and auditing firms, credit reference agencies, payment card, and insurance providers and resellers.

 

• If you use our websites, social media pages, or platforms, and if you choose to link your social media accounts to us or if you are logged in to your social media account, your personal data may be shared with the operators of those social media pages and platforms.

 

• If we sell or buy any business or assets or transfer an area of our business to a new owner, we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets or any third party who acquires our assets or to whom the business is transferred to.

 

1. Storing periods for Personal Data

 

• We keep personal data for no longer than is necessary for pursuing or achieving the purposes for which the personal data is processed. However, in most circumstances, personal data is processed for more than one purpose, g. if the data processing takes place in the context of a service we process personal data for the purpose of delivering the services, invoicing and payment, and providing customer care afterward. Yet, as a company, we are also subject to record-keeping obligations and have to comply with finance and commercial laws that require much longer retention of certain documents and files that may contain personal data.

 

• If we process personal data for the purpose of handling orders and fulfilling contractual obligations we will keep your personal data for as long as you have a customer or business relation with Personal data that is included in documents or files that are subject to tax laws will be kept for 10 years (unless statutory provisions or pending lawsuits or tax proceedings require longer retention), personal data that is included in documents or files that are subject to commercial laws will be kept for 7 years (unless statutory provisions or pending lawsuits require longer retention).

 

• If we process personal data for the purpose of understanding your online browsing behavior we will keep personal data only for as long as necessary to create user statistics and analytics reports that use aggregate data (non-personal data). Specific information as to how long such personal data will be kept is being provided in our Cookie Policy.

 

• If we process personal data forth purposes of communication, marketing, promotion, event, and feedback purposes, we will keep the data for as long as we need the data to communicate with you, or for as long as we have a legitimate interest to provide you with business, product, and service information, or marketing materials, but only where you have opted in to receive such

• If we process personal data for the purpose of compliance with laws and regulations that impose legal obligations on One Degree IBC Limited, we keep personal data for as long as such laws and regulations

 

• If we process personal data for the purpose of recruitment and carrying out the application process, we keep personal data for as long as necessary to review and assess the applications, to select applicants, to negotiate and execute an employment contract, and to exercise rights or defend against claims in the context of the applications process. If an application is successful, your personal data – as far as necessary for carrying out the employment contract – will be kept for as long as you are employed with One Degree IBC Limited and after the termination of your employment, for as long as necessary to comply with retention requirements, or for as long as forthcoming or pending lawsuits require longer If your application is not successful we will keep your personal data for up to six months for the purpose of defending us against potential claims and lawsuits.

 

• If your application was not successful, but you have agreed that we keep your personal data on file for future opportunities, we will keep your personal data for up to two years unless specified otherwise on our careers websites, recruitment platforms, or job portals, or in a job advertisement.

 

1. Transfers of Personal Data to other countries

 

• Most territories provide requirements to which One Degree IBC Limited must comply relating to the export of personal data from such territories to a third party

 

• As far as such data transfers involve recipients in third-party countries, we will ensure that the transfers will be made in compliance with the data protection provisions that restrict the transfer of personal data outside the territory in which it was originally captured, and which require that appropriate safeguards are implemented to ensure an adequate level of data protection.

 

• Such safeguards could either be an adequacy decision in respect of the recipient third party country in that it is deemed to have adequate data protection laws in place, or the execution of a data processing agreement to ensure contractual compliance with the required data protection

 

1. Security of Personal Data

 

• We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data we process against accidental or unlawful manipulation, destruction or loss, alteration, and against unauthorized disclosure or access by third parties. Such security measures include authentication tools, firewalls, monitoring of IT systems and networks, pseudonymization, and encryption of personal data.

 

• The technical and organizational security measures are reviewed and adjusted on an annual basis, taking into account the industry best However, given the dynamic context of security measures, advances in technology, threats, and risks, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

 

1. Marketing Preferences

 

• As outlined in this Policy, we may have a legitimate interest to process your personal details(including name, title, company or organization you work for, email, telephone, workplace type, rate other contact information) to provide you with marketing information about us or our business partners’ goods and For these purposes, we may use your personal details provided you have provided us with your consent to do so.

 

• You can instruct us to stop sending you product and service information and marketing messages at any time should you have opted

 

• If you instruct us to stop sending you product and service information and marketing messages it might take some time for all our systems and applications to be updated, so you might still get messages from us while we fully process your

 

• Please note that instructing us to stop sending marketing messages will not stop our other communication with you, such as operational

 

1. Your Rights over your Personal Data

You have many rights over your personal data and how it is used. These rights are summarized below. In order to assert the rights, any of these rights you may contact the One Degree IBC Limited legal entity or the Data Protection Officer/ Information Officer, if applicable.

 

• Right to access your Personal Data

 

You have the right to request a confirmation as to whether or not we process personal data concerning you.

 

If we process personal data about you, you have the right to request access to the personal data and to obtain further information regarding the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside One Degree IBC Limited might have received the data, including recipients in third countries; any available information what the source of the data was, if you did not provide it directly to us; the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period. You may also request a copy of the personal data undergoing processing.

 

• Right to rectify your Personal Data

You have a right to rectify (correct) the record of your personal data processed by us, if it is inaccurate or incorrect.

 

• Right to erase your Personal Data

You have the right to request the erasure (deletion) of your personal data. However, there may be reasons and legal grounds for keeping your personal data despite your request,

e.g. if you still have a business relationship with us and we need the data to fulfill orders or other contractual obligations, if record-keeping obligations prevent the erasure, or when we handle an ongoing complaint. If we need to continue to process your personal

data we will tell you why we need to do this when we respond to your request.

 

• Right to object to the processing of your Personal Data

 

You have the tight to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation and circumstances. However, there may be reasons and legal grounds for processing your personal data despite your objection. If we refuse your request we will provide you with information explaining why we have refused your request.

 

As far as we use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to opt out at any time.

 

• Right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data

 

You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. This means that under certain conditions you can limit the way we process and use your personal data. The right to restrict the processing may in particular be exercised if you have issues with the content of the personal data we hold or how it is processed, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the personal data we hold and we are verifying the accuracy of the data, the processing may be restricted for the time of verification.

 

• Right to withdraw Consent to process your Personal Data

 

Where consent is the legal basis for the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, withdrawal of consent takes typically effect for the future only. Any past processing of personal data that was legitimately based on consent may be subject to other provisions or obligations that require and legitimize further processing of the personal data.

 

• Right to portability of your Personal Data

 

You have the right to request us to move, transfer or copy personal data you have provided to us so that you can use the personal data in a different service or with a different provider. You can request to receive a copy of the personal data in a commonly used and machine-readable format, so you can store it for further personal use. You can also request that we transmit it directly to another organization.

 

However, the right to data portability may be subject to limitations due to the technical feasibility of a transmission. The right to data portability does not create an obligation for us to adopt or maintain processing systems that are technically compatible with those of other organizations

 

• Right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority

 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Data Protection Authority if you believe that we have not handled your personal data correctly and lawfully or if you believe that we have not dealt appropriately with your requests.

 

The relevant Data Protection Authority where the complaint should be made is the one that is competent for the place of your habitual residence or place of work, or the one

that has jurisdiction over the place where the alleged infringement has occurred. When you have lodged a complaint, the Data Protection Authority will inform you of the progress and outcome of the complaint.

 

1. Data Controller and Responsibility

 

• Unless indicated otherwise, the One Degree IBC Limited entity that collected your personal information is the Data Controller of your personal It determines the purposes and means for processing your personal data and is responsible for compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations and the requirements of this Policy.

 

1. Amendments to this Policy

 

We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time.