Privacy And Cookie Consent Policy
This Policy was last updated: 12th April 2024.
This
Policy document describes Our policies and procedures on💷 the collection, use and
disclosure of Your information when You use the Service, and tells You about Your
privacy rights💷 and how the law protects You. This policy encompases information
regarding Our use of Cookies and your rights concerning such💷 use.
We use Your Personal
Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the
collection💷 and use of information in accordance with Our Privacy And Cookie Consent
Policy set out herein.
Interpretation And Definitions
The words of💷 which the initial
letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions.
The
following definitions shall have the same meaning💷 regardless of whether they appear in
singular or in plural.
For the purposes of this Policy:
"You" means the individual
accessing or💷 using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of
which such individual is accessing or using💷 the Service, as applicable. Under GDPR
(General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or💷 as
the "User", as You are the individual using the Service.
"Company" (referred to as
either "the Company", "We", "Us" or💷 "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Zyis Limited, 9
Abbey Business Park, Monks Walk, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8HT. United Kingdom.💷 For the
purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
"Affiliate" means an entity
that controls, is controlled by💷 or is under common control with a party, where
"control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity💷 interest or other
securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing
authority.
"CMP" (Consent Management Platform) is means💷 by which We and other
publishers request, receive and store Users consent.
"Account" means a unique account
created for You to💷 access Our Service or parts of Our Service.
"Website" refers to
Friv, as accessible from friv
"Service" refers to the Website.
"Service Provider"💷 means
any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers
to third-party companies💷 or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the
Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to💷 perform services related
to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the
💷 purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
"Third-Party
Social Media Service" refers to any website or any social💷 network website through which
a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
"Personal Data" is any
💷 information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For the purposes
for GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating💷 to You such as a name, an
identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors
specific💷 to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social
identity.
"Cookie" is to mean a small file or files that💷 are placed on Your computer,
mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing
💷 history on that website among its many uses.
"Usage Data" refers to data collected
automatically, either generated by the User of💷 the Service or from the Service
infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
"Data Controller",
for the purposes💷 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the
Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with💷 others determines the purposes
and means of the processing of Personal Data.
"Do Not Track" (DNT) is a concept that
has💷 been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop💷 and implement a mechanism for
allowing internet Users to control the tracking of their online activities across
websites.
"Business" for the💷 purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act),
refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal💷 information
and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal
information, or on behalf of which such💷 information is collected and that alone, or
jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers'
💷 personal information, that does business in the State of California.
"Consumer" for the
purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act),💷 means a natural person who is a
California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual
💷 who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every
individual who is domiciled💷 in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or
transitory purpose.
"Sale" for the purpose of the CCPA💷 (California Consumer Privacy
Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available,
transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or💷 by electronic or other
means, a Consumer’s Personal information to another business or a third party for
monetary or other💷 valuable consideration.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data -
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data: While using Our Service, We may ask💷 You to
provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact
or identify You. Personally identifiable💷 information may include, but is not limited
to:
Email address
First name and last name
Telephone number
Address, State, Province,
ZIP / Postal code,💷 City
Usage Data
Usage Data: This is data collected automatically
when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your💷 Device's
Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages
of Our Service that You visit, the💷 time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those
pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You💷 access the Service
by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically,
including, but not limited to,💷 the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device
unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your💷 mobile operating system, the type
of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic
data.
We may also💷 collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our
Service or when You access the Service by or through💷 a mobile device.
Tracking
Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the
activity on Our Service and💷 store certain information. Tracking technologies used are
beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and💷 analyze
Our Service.
You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a
Cookie is being sent.💷 However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use
some parts of Our Service.
Cookies can💷 be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent
Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while
💷 Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both session
and persistent Cookies for the💷 purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
(Session Cookies) administered by Us. These Cookies are essential to provide You with
💷 services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features.
They help to authenticate Users💷 and prevent fraudulent use of User accounts. Without
these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided,💷 and We only use
these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance
Cookies (Persistent Cookies) administered💷 by Us. These Cookies identify if Users have
accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies Type (Persistent
Cookies)💷 administered by us. These Cookies allow Us to remember choices You make when
You use the Website, such as remembering💷 Your login details or language preference. The
purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience💷 and to avoid
You having to re-enter Your preferences every time You use the Website.
Tracking and
Performance Cookies (Persistent Cookies)💷 administered by Third-Parties. These Cookies
are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how Users use the
💷 Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify
You as an individual visitor. This is because💷 the information collected is typically
linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device You use to access the
Website.💷 We may also use these Cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or
new functionality of the Website to see💷 how Our Users react to them.
Targeting and
Advertising Cookies Type (Persistent Cookies) administered by Third-Parties. These
Cookies track Your browsing💷 habits to enable Us to show advertising which is more
likely to be of interest to You. These Cookies use💷 information about Your browsing
history to group You with other Users who have similar interests. Based on that
information, and💷 with Our permission, third party advertisers can place Cookies to
enable them to show adverts which We think will be💷 relevant to Your interests while You
are on third party websites.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal
Data💷 for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain Our Service, including to
monitor the usage of Our Service.
Account Management: to manage💷 any registration as a
User of the Service. The Personal Data You may provide may give You access to different
💷 functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
To
contact You: To contact You by email,💷 telephone, fax, telegram, text, or, in extremis,
homing pigeon. Additionaly via other forms of communication, such as a mobile
application's💷 push notifications regarding updates or informative communications
related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including security
updates, when necessary💷 or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with
news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events
💷 which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired
about unless You have opted💷 not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests:
To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
We may share Your personal💷 information with
the following parties and in the following situations:
With Service Providers: We may
share Your personal information with Service💷 Providers to monitor and analyze the use
of Our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain💷 Our Service,
to contact You, to advertise on third party websites to You after You have visited Our
Service or💷 for payment processing.
For Business transfers: We may share or transfer
Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of,💷 any merger,
sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business
to another company.
With💷 Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates,
in which case We will require those affiliates to honour this💷 Privacy Policy.
Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture
partners or other companies that We control💷 or that are under common control with
Us.
With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to
💷 offer You certain products, services or promotions.
With other users: when You share
personal information or otherwise interact in any public💷 areas with other users, such
information may be viewed by all Users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You
💷 interact with other Users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your
contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service💷 may see Your name, profile, pictures
and description of Your activity. Similarly, other Users will be able to view
descriptions💷 of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
Retention of
Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data💷 only for as long as is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and💷 use Your
Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for
example, if We are required💷 to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws),
resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will💷 also
retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Please be aware that Usage Data (as
stored in the form of💷 access logs on our server(s)) is typically retained only for 3
days before being automatically deleted - except when this💷 data is used to strengthen
the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally
obligated💷 to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal
Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the💷 Company's operating
offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are
located. It means that💷 this information may be transferred to, and maintained on,
computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental
💷 jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your
jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by💷 Your submission of such
information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps
reasonably necessary to ensure💷 that Your data is treated securely and in accordance
with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data💷 will take place to an
organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the
security of💷 Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal
Data
Business Transactions: If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition💷 or
asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice here before
Your Personal Data is transferred💷 and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
You are advised to revisit and review Our Privacy Policy regularly for💷 any changes.
Law
enforcement: Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your
Personal Data if required to do💷 so by law or in response to valid requests by public
authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal💷 requirements: The
Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to:
Comply with💷 a legal obligation.
Protect and defend the rights or property
of the Company.
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the
💷 Service.
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.
Protect
against legal liability.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security💷 of Your Personal
Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet,
or method💷 of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We💷 cannot guarantee its absolute
security.
Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their
tasks on Our behalf💷 and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other
purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor💷 and analyze the
use of Our Service.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that
tracks and reports💷 website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor
the use of Our Service. This data is shared💷 with other Google services. Google may use
the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising
💷 network. You can opt-out of having made Your activity on the Service available to
Google Analytics by installing the Google💷 Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on
prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information with Google Analytics
about Your internet💷 activity. For more information on the privacy policies and
practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy And Terms web💷 page.
Advertising
We
may use Service providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain
Our Service.
Google AdSense And DoubleClick💷 Cookie Google. Asa third party vendor,
Google uses cookies to serve ads on Our Service. Google's use of the DoubleClick💷 cookie
enables it and its partners to serve ads to Our Users based on their visit to Our
Service or💷 other websites on the internet. As Google is an important third party
vendor, We recommend that You read Google's policies💷 in relation to partner sites of
which We are one.
You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie💷 for
interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page. Additionally,
You can opt out of the cookie functions💷 of a very wide array of third party vendors at
the About Ads website.
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data💷 under
GDPR. We may process Your Personal Data under the following conditions:
Consent: You
have given Your consent for US to💷 process Your Personal Data for one or more specific
purposes.
Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for💷 the
performance of an agreement with You and / or for any pre-contractual obligations
thereof.
Legal obligations: The processing of Personal💷 Data is necessary for compliance
with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
Vital interests: The
processing of Personal💷 Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests, or
those of another natural person.
Public interests: The processing of💷 Personal Data is
related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of
💷 official authority vested in the Company.
Legitimate interests: The processing of
Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate💷 interests pursued by the
Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis
that applies💷 to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal
Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a💷 requirement necessary to enter
into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the
confidentiality of Your Personal💷 Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your
rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if💷 You are within the
EU, to:
Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the
information💷 We have on You. Whenever made possible, You can access, update or request
deletion of Your Personal Data directly within💷 Your account settings section. If You
are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This
💷 also enables You to receive a copy of any Personal Data We hold about You.
Request
correction of any Personal Data💷 that We hold about You. You have the right to to have
any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about💷 You corrected.
Object to
processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a
legitimate interest as💷 the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about
Your particular situation, which makes You want to object💷 to Our processing of Your
Personal Data on these grounds. You also have the right to object where We are
💷 processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
Request erasure of Your
Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us💷 to delete or remove Personal Data when
there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
Request the transfer💷 of Your
Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have elected, Your
Personal Data in💷 a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that
this right only applies to any automated information which You initially💷 provided
consent for Us to use, or where We used the information to perform a contract with
You.
Withdraw / revoke💷 Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on our
use of Your Personal Data. If You withdraw💷 Your consent, We may not be able to provide
You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service. You💷 can at any time
revoke or manage Your consents.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may
exercise Your rights of💷 access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by
contacting Us. Please note that We may ask You to verify Your identity before
💷 responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try Our best to respond to
You as soon💷 as possible. Our contact details are available to the bottom of this
document.
You have the right to complain to a💷 Data Protection Authority about Our
collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the
💷 European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority
within the EEA.
Your CCPA Rights
Under this Privacy Policy, and💷 by law if You are a
resident of California, You have the following rights:
The right to notice. You must be
💷 properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the
purposes for which the Personal Data is being💷 used.
The right to access / the right to
request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company💷 information
regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12
months by the Company💷 or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party’s direct
marketing purposes.
The right to say no to the sale💷 of Personal Data. You also have the
right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third💷 parties. Please see
Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section below.
The right to know about Your
Personal Data. You💷 have the right to request and obtain from the Company information
regarding the disclosure of the following:
The categories of Personal💷 Data collected.
The sources from which the Personal Data was collected. The business or commercial
purpose for collecting or selling💷 the Personal Data. Categories of third parties with
whom We share Personal Data. The specific pieces of Personal Data We💷 collected about
You.
The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion
of Your Personal💷 Data that has been collected in the past 12 months.
The right not to
be discriminated against. You have the right💷 not to be discriminated against for
exercising any of Your Consumer rights, including by:
Denying goods or services to You.
Charging💷 different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of
discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties. Providing💷 a different level or
quality of goods or services to You. Suggesting that You will receive a different price
or💷 rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or
services.
Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
In💷 order to exercise any of Your
rights under the CCPA, and if You are a California resident, You should refer💷 to visit
Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section below, and You may contact Us via the
methods located💷 at the bottom of this document.
The Company will disclose and deliver
the required information free of charge within 45 days💷 of receiving Your verifiable
request. The time period for providing the required information may be extended once by
an additional💷 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Do Not Sell My
Personal Information
We do not sell personal information. However,💷 the Service
Providers We partner with (for example, Our advertising partners) may use technology on
the Service that "sells" personal💷 information as defined by the CCPA law.
If You wish
to opt out of the use of Your personal information for💷 interest-based advertising
purposes and these potential sales as defined under the CCPA law, You may do so by
following the💷 instructions below.
Please note that any opt out is specific to the
browser You use. You may need to opt out💷 on every browser that You use.
Website: You
can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by Our💷 Service Providers
by visiting the About Ads website.
Any opt out will place a cookie on Your computer
that is unique💷 to the browser You used to opt out. If You change browsers or delete the
cookies saved by Your browser,💷 You may need to opt out again.
Your mobile device may
give You the ability to opt out of the use💷 of information about the apps You use in
order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests. Instructions💷 will vary
across devices, but You should search for "Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt out
of Ads Personalization"💷 on Android devices and "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices.
You
can also disable the collection and sharing of location information💷 from Your mobile
device by changing the preferences on Your mobile device.
Do Not Track (CalOPPA)
Do Not
Track (DNT) is a💷 concept measure within the California Online Privacy Protection Act
(CalOPPA). Be aware that as with most others, Our Service does💷 not respond to DNT
signals.
Some third party websites do however accept signals for DNT. If You are
visiting such websites,💷 You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform
websites that You do not want to be tracked.💷 You can enable or disable DNT by visiting
the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
California Shine The Light
Under
💷 California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light law), California
residents with an established business relationship with Us can💷 request information
once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties'
direct marketing purposes.
If💷 You would like to request more information under the
California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California💷 resident, You can contact
Us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor
Users
The California Business and Professions💷 Code, section 22581, allows California
residents under the age of 18 who are registered Users of online sites, services, or
💷 applications, to request and obtain removal of content or information they have
publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and💷 if You are a California resident,
You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
Be aware that Your
request💷 does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information
posted online and that the law may not permit💷 or require removal in certain
circumstances.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of
13. We do not💷 knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under
the age of 13. We provide a general audience Service, which is💷 broadly appropriate for
all age groups. Where Children under 13 use Our Service, We advise that they first and
on💷 each occasion obtain the permission of a parent or guardian. Parents or guardians
may clear their browser cache of cookies💷 and take other steps highlighted in this
policy if they wish to limit data collected. If We need to rely💷 on consent as a legal
basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent,
We may💷 require a parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to
Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other💷 websites that are not operated by
Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to💷 that third party's
site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We
have no💷 control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or
practices of any third party sites or services.
Connect💷 With Us
If You have any
questions or concerns about Our Privacy Policy or Our use and storage of personal data,
💷 You can reach out to Us using Our secure Feedback form.
Changes to this Privacy
Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy💷 from time to time. You are advised to revisit
and review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Changes to💷 this Privacy
Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. When any change is made, We
will update💷 the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
Your Right To
Complain
If You have a concern about how💷 We have used or stored Your personal
information, or You believe that You have been adversely affected by Our handling💷 of
Your data, You may at any time contact the Information Commissioner online or in
writing at: Information Commissioner's Office,💷 Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF, United Kingdom.
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