This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Fountech.ai Limited (Company, We/Our/Us) collects, uses, shares and stores personal data.
We collect data about users of our website and recipients of our services, about individuals who contact us through our channels of communication, about individuals who attend events organized or hosted by us or other entities, about our clients or prospective clients or their employees, agents and representatives, about potential recruits, and about others who carry on business with us. (You/Your)
This Policy applies to you in relation to our website www.fountech.ai, applications, products, and our services (as provider of consulting, research and development service provider) and any other sites or applications, products and services that link or relate to us or the website, and your engagement or interaction with us (collectively, “Services”). By using the Services, you understand and agree that we will collect, process, and use your personal data as described in this Policy.
It is important that you read this Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
Name and Contact Details
We are Fountech.ai Limited, a limited liability company incorporated and registered in the Republic of Cyprus, with registration number HE 372766, and registered office at Foivis 11, Office 101, 3116 Limassol, Cyprus.
If you have any questions about this Policy or how we process your personal data or our privacy practices, please contact us:
Email: info@fountech.ai
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, the Cyprus regulator for data protection issues. Still, we would appreciate you coming to us with your complaint in the first instance to give us a chance to resolve it.
Changes to the policy and your duty to inform us of changes
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. We encourage you to check this Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of its latest version.
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.
Third Party links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins (such as social media plug-ins) and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Personal data means any data about an individual that relate and can identify that individual either directly from that data or indirectly by reference to other information we have access to. We may collect, use, process, store and transfer personal data about you. We may collect and process data that includes:
We also collect data that is anonymous in that such data does not, by itself, allow the identification of individuals. This anonymous data includes aggregated (such as statistical or demographic data) and de-identified data. One example is where we may aggregate data relating to your use of our website to calculate the share of our users who access a specific webpage. If we combine or connect anonymous data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data, that we will process and use in accordance with this Policy.
Failure to provide data
Where we need to collect your personal data because of a legal obligation or based on the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you. If this is the case, we may have to cancel a Service you have with us. We will notify you if this happens.
We collect and hold information relating to you from different sources. The information we hold comes essentially from the information you personally provide us or that was transferred to us from a Controller pursuant to a relevant agreement. We may, however, collect your data from other sources. We set these out below.
If you provide information to us about another person, you must ensure that you comply with any legal obligations that may apply to your provision of the information to us, and to allow us, where necessary, to share that information with our service providers.
To collect personal data automatically, we use cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
Some of these third-party sources may include publicly available sources of information.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in these circumstances:
We do not generally rely on consent to process your personal data although we will get your consent to send you direct marketing communications to you via email or text. You have the right to withdraw your consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
We will only process special category data for specified purposes where you have given your explicit consent.
Purposes and Bases for Processing
In general, we may use your personal data to provide, fix, and improve our Services, develop new Services, and market our Services.
Below, we explain the ways we plan to use your personal data and the grounds we rely on. We may rely on more than one ground to use your data. The below list is non-exhaustive. You can contact us any time to ask for more details on the grounds we are relying on to use your data.
Change of Purpose
We will use your personal data for the purposes for which we collect it or where we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason only if this reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Marketing and Promotional Offers
In case you agree, we will send you marketing messages in relation to our Services or new Services that we think you may want or need or may be of your interest.
Third-party Marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.
How to stop Marketing Messages from Us or Third Parties
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing material and messages any time. You can use any of the following methods:
Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, you will not stop receiving service communications, such as updates regarding the Services you use.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more details, see our Cookie Policy.
We may disclose your information to our employees, and agents to perform services for us. We may disclose your information to third parties, such as:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make your personal data commercially available to any third party, except with your prior permission.
We may need to transfer your data to locations outside the EEA. Where we transfer your data outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection with that in the EEA and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is afforded by implementing appropriate safeguards and measures.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
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. 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 keep your personal data for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. The length of time for which we retain personal data depends on the purposes for which we collected and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws. Generally, this means we retain your personal data to comply with any retention or statutory limitations or for purposes of performing a contract with you. Where there are technical limitations that prevent deletion or anonymization, we safeguard personal information and limit active use of it.
We provide information relating to the rights you have under certain circumstances under the applicable privacy laws as well as the exercise of these rights.
You may complain with the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection if you are not satisfied with our handling or response to your complaint.
We may make changes to this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our website. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements or where we change the cookies we use or how we use cookies. Where it is practicable, we will notify you by email of any significant changes. However, we encourage you to review this policy periodically to be informed of how our website uses cookies.