Privacy Policy

Effective date: 07/04/2025

How to use this Policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to tell users of our website the following:

Who we are
Data we collect from you;
How we use and store data;
Who we share data with;
Your rights as a site user; and
How we use cookies

1: Who we are, our role and responsibilities

The www.privtech.org website is owned and operated by Privtech Limited, a company number 10904680 registered at 82 St John Street, London, England, EC1M 4JN.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, by complying with the requirements under applicable laws and regulations. We are equally committed to ensuring all our employees, service providers and agents uphold these obligations.

As a Data Controller, this privacy notice will tell you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, your privacy rights and how the law protects you in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018. We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has in-depth information about the General Data Protections Regulation (GDPR) and how it applies to businesses within the United Kingdom https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/.

You accept this policy when you sign up for, access or use our services and by doing so, agree and consent to us using the information you have provided as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

2: Data we collect from you

We only collect data which helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.

Data Collected Automatically

When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information:

Clicked links; and
Content viewed.

Data Collected in a Non-Automatic Way

We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:

First and last name; and
Email address.

3: How We Use Data

Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.

The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes:

To contact you in response to an enquiry
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal, or regulatory, obligation.

When our legal basis for using your personal data is that you provided your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent by contacting info@privtech.org

How Long We Store Personal Data

User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved, after which point it will be deleted You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

In order to protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible to our employees. Our employees are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the employee's termination.

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

4: Who We Share Data With

5: Your Rights as a User

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

Right to be informed;
Right of access;
Right to rectification;
Right to erasure;
Right to restrict processing;
Right to data portability; and
Right to object to automated processing.

Children

We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, this data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian can contact our Data Protection Officer.

How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your data, if we have disclosed your data and to whom, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, and to exercise any of your other rights under GDPR, please contact our Data Protection Officer here:

info@privtech.org

82 St John Street, London, England, EC1M 4JN

6: How we use cookies

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Website. This helps provide you with a good experience when you use our services. We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies: required for the operation of our website and can include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas.
Analytical/performance cookies: allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works by ensuring users are finding what they are looking for easily.

All the cookies used on our website are first-party and associated with the security and system effectiveness of our content platform, Wix. You can learn more about these cookies here https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of the Policy. We recommend our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure you are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you can contact the ICO at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/contact-us-public/

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at: info@privtech.org