PRIVACY POLICY
Submitted Information
To avail certain services and offerings, to participate in certain activities and to make contributions at this web-site you may be asked to submit personally identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, your opinion on issues and items and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
At times you may also be submitting information about other people. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at this website include recipient’s name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
At certain parts of this website, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site’s activities and offerings.
You may also be submitting certain non-personally identifiable information such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
How We Use the Information
The information you submit will be used by us for communication and contact, to fulfill your submissions, to respond to inquiries and to offer other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you or to the person whose information you submit to us.
If you choose to submit your application, we will use the non-personally identifiable information that you submit to improve our website.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or summon. We may also disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements. In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we, or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company. Agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that you submit will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy policy
Collection of Information by Third-Parties
Our website may contain links to other websites whose information practices or policies may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
This website may offer content (e.g., contests or promotions) that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may have access to personally identifiable information that you may submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties’ use of such information. The site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will have access to such information.
This website may use a third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see on a web page. These third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies to facilitate such advertisements and their effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
The Site’s Use of Tracking Technologies to Collect Information.
By visiting the Site, whether as a registered user or otherwise, you acknowledge and understand that you are giving us your consent to track your activities and your use of the Site and other websites, applications or interactive services through these Tracking Technologies and that we may use Tracking Technologies in the emails we send to you.
Access to Information
Access to personally identifiable information that is submitted to our website may be accessible for a limited period of time from the point of submission.
You may also send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or address requesting access to or correction of your personally identifiable information. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name, e-mail address and the password you use for said service. Please write to [email protected]
Cookies and Other Website Functionalities
We may automatically collect the following information about you in connection with your visit(s) to our website:
- Technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
- Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) visited; date and time of visit; products or services you viewed or searched for; page response times; download errors; length of visits to certain pages; page-interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
When you visit our website, we may assign your computer (or any other device) with cookies (which are small text files created on your computer or device), Local Shared Objects (also known as flash cookies, which can store data more complex than simple text) and Web Beacons (tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are placed in the code of a webpage) (collectively, “Cookies”). By accessing our website, you agree that we can place Cookies on your computer or device.
The Cookies that we place on your computer or device may be used to facilitate your access to our website, gather statistical data, and personalise your online experience. We currently use Cookies on our website for purposes including, but not limited to, detecting your web browser’s multimedia capabilities, recognising you as a previous visitor and saving your website user preferences, maintaining login and password details on secure portions of the website, monitoring the traffic patterns of our website users, tracking which emails have been opened by you, and providing a unique identifier to your computer so that we can generate statistics regarding website usage.
You have the option of adjusting your browser settings to restrict or limit the use of various Cookies. However, if you choose to do so, the functionality of the website and your user experience may be affected.
Transfer of Personal Data Outside of Pakistan
In connection with the Purposes, your personal data may be transferred to countries outside of Pakistan including to our third-party data storage service providers whose cloud servers and data centres may be located overseas. In situations where we transfer your personal data to countries outside of Pakistan, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate levels of protection necessary to maintain the security and integrity of your personal data are in place.
Withdrawal of Consent
If you do not want your personal data to be collected, used, and/or disclosed by us in the aforementioned manner, you may withdraw your consent by writing to our Data Protection Officer at the address indicated below. Please note that we may not be able to continue to provide you with certain services in the event that you choose to withdraw your consent. Please write to [email protected]
Data Security
We take reasonable care and have implemented technical, administrative, procedural and other measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, we cannot assume responsibility for any unauthorized use of your personal data by third parties which are wholly attributable to factors beyond our control.
Changes to Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time without prior notice by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are familiar with any changes.
Your continued use of our website or mobile application and continued dealings with us for the provision of our products and services, after any changes to this Policy has been made, constitutes your acceptance to such changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions in relation to how your personal data is handled by us, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected]