Privacy Policy
Who we are and what this Policy covers
This policy explains how we collect, use, share, transfer, retain and protect personal data relating to:
- visitors to the Platform;
- customers who register an account or order our fixed fee reports online;
- clients who instruct us directly for investigation, surveillance, security or related services;
- representatives and contacts of our business customers, suppliers and partners;
- individuals who are, or may be, the subject of a customer order or report; and
- anyone who contacts us.
This policy should be read together with our Terms and Conditions and our Cookie Policy. Capitalised terms used but not defined in this policy have the meanings given in the Terms and Conditions.
If you have any questions about how we collect and handle personal data, wish to exercise a data protection right,or wish to make a data protection complaint, please contact us at admin@SIP-International.com or by post using the contact details in section 16. If your message is a data protection complaint, please include “Data Protection Complaint” in the subject line where possible. We will still treat a complaint as a data protection complaint even if you do not use those exact word.
How we handle personal data
Our own business purposes (SIP as controller)
We act as controller of personal data that we process to run our business and the Platform – for example your account details, orders, payments, communications with us, marketing preferences and compliance records. This policy is primarily about that processing.
Report subject data (SIP as processor)
Third party tools, source providers and databases.
To prepare reports and provide our services, we may use third-party open-source intelligence tools, licensed databases, data enrichment services, identity resolution services, social media intelligence tools, compliance and sanctions databases, corporate registry, court record and media databases, secure hosting providers and similar technical or data suppliers. Depending on the provider, the service and the particular processing, these third parties may act as our processors or subprocessors, our customer’s subprocessors, independent controllers, or suppliers of source data.
We identify categories of providers and recipients in this public policy rather than naming every individual provider. This is because providers and source systems may change over time and because disclosing specific investigative tools, source systems or operational methods could undermine confidentiality, misuse prevention, source protection, security, legal claims or the rights and freedoms of others. Where required by applicable law, and where we can do so without prejudicing those interests, we will provide further information about relevant recipients or safeguards on request.
Personal data we collect
During the course of providing our services, or our Platform, or when individuals visit our website or contact us, we may collect the following types of personal data:
- Account and registration data: name, email address, telephone number, organisation, role, country, login credentials and account settings.
- Identity, authority and compliance data: information we request to verify who you are, your authority to act for an organisation, the purpose of an order, and sanctions, anti-fraud or safeguarding checks.
- Order data: the details of each order, the acknowledgements and purpose confirmations you tick, the purpose you select, identifiers and context you provide about the subject of a report, and related audit records (including account identifier, order identifier, date and time, Terms version and selected purpose).
- Payment data: payments are processed by Stripe or another payment provider. We do not store full card numbers or card security codes. We receive and retain limited payment information such as payment status, transaction reference, card type and the last four digits, together with invoices.
- Communications: emails, telephone calls, messages, letters and meeting records when you contact us or instruct us directly.
- Data protection complaints and rights request data: information you provide when you make a complaint, raise a concern or exercise a data protection right, including your name, contact details, preferred contact method, identity or authority evidence, account or order details, report references where known, the nature of your complaint or request, supporting information, correspondence, internal investigation notes,decisions, outcomes, remedial actions and related audit records.
- Technical and usage data: IP address, device and browser information, log-in records, pages visited and actions taken on the Platform, API or dashboard logs, query or usage logs, and security logs. Some of this is collected through cookies and similar technologies – see our Cookie Policy.
- Marketing preferences: your choices about receiving updates from us.
When we prepare a report on a customer’s documented instructions, the categories of personal data processed about a report subject may include:
- Identifiers and search inputs: name, aliases, usernames, social media handles, email addresses, telephone numbers, addresses, dates of birth or age, photographs or other images, employer or company names, domain names, website addresses, location information and other identifiers or context provided by the customer.
- Source data and report findings: information from publicly available and other compliant sources, including social media and online profiles, online content and metadata, web pages, articles and media, address and contact information, corporate registry and business records, property or land records where accessible, sanctions, watchlist, PEP, regulatory and adverse media records, court, insolvency or bankruptcy records where accessible, domain and website exposure, images, posts, timestamps, potential family or associate links, and data breach indicators or leaked credential references where lawfully available and relevant to the customer’s documented purpose.
- Special-category, criminal-offence or other sensitive data: a report may contain data that is sensitive under applicable laws where it is relevant to the customer’s documented instructions and permitted by applicable law. The customer is responsible for determining and documenting the lawful basis and any additional legal condition required before instructing us to process that data.
We aim to collect and process only the information reasonably required for the relevant order, report, compliance purpose, security purpose, complaint, rights request or legal claim. We do not bypass privacy settings, access closed or private accounts, hack systems or unlawfully intercept communications when preparing reports.
Sources and collection methods for reports
Our reports may be prepared using a combination of open-source intelligence, analyst review, customer-provided identifiers, publicly available materials and other compliant sources. These may include public web sources, social media and online profiles, global compliance and regulatory indices, sanctions and restrictive watchlists,government and regulatory bodies, corporate registries, court and public record databases, media archives,proprietary or licensed databases and subscriber databases.
We may submit limited identifiers, search parameters or query information to third-party platforms, databases or tools in order to retrieve, match, verify, structure or enrich information for a report. Those tools may return query results, link analysis, source references, screenshots, extracts, metadata or other information relevant to the order.
Our researchers and analysts may use automated or AI-assisted tools to identify, retrieve, de-duplicate, link, classify, translate, summarise or structure information. We do not use these tools to make a legally binding decision about a report subject on SIP’s own behalf. Any decision made using a report is the responsibility of the customer as controller.
Information from public sources and third-party databases can be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date or matched to the wrong person. We apply reasonable checks appropriate to the nature of the service, but we do not independently audit every source record. Customers must verify critical findings before relying on a report.
How we use your personal data
Where UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, we rely on the lawful bases set out below. Where UAE data protection law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) applies, we process personal data on the equivalent bases recognised under that law. Where other local data protection laws apply, we will handle personal data in accordance with the applicable requirements.
We may process personal data for the following purposes:
- To perform our contract with you (or take steps at your request before a contract): creating and administering your account, accepting and fulfilling orders, delivering reports through the dashboard, taking payment, and providing customer support.
- To prepare reports and provide services on customer instructions: receiving identifiers and context, running searches, using public-source, licensed and subscriber databases, matching records, reviewing and structuring results, preparing reports, carrying out quality checks, maintaining audit records and delivering the report to the customer.
- To comply with legal obligations: keeping tax, accounting and corporate records, responding to lawful requests from courts, regulators and law enforcement, complying with sanctions and other applicable laws, and taking steps required by relevant data protection laws.
- For our legitimate interests (balanced against your rights): securing the Platform, preventing and investigating fraud, misuse and prohibited use of our services, keeping evidence of the acknowledgements and purpose confirmations made with each order, enforcing our Terms and Conditions, establishing and defending legal claims, managing our group, maintaining service quality, improving our services, and carrying out supplier due diligence.
- With your consent: sending you marketing communications where consent is required and placing nonessential cookies (see our Cookie Policy). You can withdraw consent at any time.
- To handle data protection rights requests and complaints: receiving, identifying, acknowledging, assessing, investigating, responding to, recording and resolving data protection rights requests, complaints and concerns, including complaints made directly to us under UK data protection law. We may process this information to comply with legal obligations, to protect rights and safety, to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, and for our legitimate interests in handling complaints fairly, improving our services, preventing misuse and maintaining compliance records.
Where we process report subject data as processor, the customer is responsible for determining its own lawful basis and, where required, any additional condition for special-category, criminal-offence or other sensitive data.We may separately process limited account, order, audit, security, compliance and complaint-handling records as controller for the purposes described in this policy.
We do not use personal data from our Platform or reports to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects for website visitors, account holders or report subjects on SIP’s own behalf.
Order acknowledgements and compliance records
Because of the nature of our services, we keep a record of the acknowledgements, confirmations and purpose selections made with each account registration and order, together with related audit details. We keep these records to evidence the lawful basis and purpose of each order, to prevent and investigate misuse, and to establish or defend legal claims. We rely on our legitimate interests and, where applicable, legal obligations for this.
Marketing
We only send marketing emails about SIP services to people who have opted in to receive them, or where we are otherwise permitted to do so under applicable laws and regulations.
Who we share personal data with
We may share personal data with the following organisations from time to time:
- SIP group companies, where needed to provide the services, administer accounts and manage our business, handle support, maintain compliance records or respond to rights requests and complaints.
- Customers, where the information forms part of an order or report prepared on the customer’s instructions,or where we need to refer a report-related rights request or complaint to the customer as controller.
- Report support providers and source providers, including open-source intelligence platforms, social media intelligence tools, data enrichment and identity resolution services, people and business data providers, compliance, sanctions and watchlist databases, court, registry and media database providers, translation, link analysis, web capture and similar technical tools. We may share only the identifiers, search parameters, query data, results, metadata or other information reasonably needed for the relevant service.
- Service providers including third parties who provide us with hosting, cloud infrastructure, dashboard, storage, email, CRM, cybersecurity, customer support, accounting, document management,, analytics providers, AI-assisted research tools, and our payment providers including Stripe for payment processing (which acts under its own terms and privacy notice in relation to your card data).
- Professional advisers such as lawyers, accountants, auditors and insurers, under duties of confidentiality.
- Courts, regulators, law enforcement and other authorities where disclosure is required or permitted by law, or necessary to protect rights, safety or security.
- Data protection complaints, rights requests and related records kept for as long as necessary to handle the complaint or request, maintain an audit trail, comply with legal or regulatory obligations, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Unless a longer period is required or justified, we normally keep complaint and rights-request records for up to six years after closure. We may retain limited metadata, correspondence and outcome records even where the underlying Report, Working Materials or Subject Data have been deleted or anonymised.
- A buyer or successor in connection with any sale, merger, reorganisation or transfer of our business, subject to appropriate protections.
International transfers
We are established in the UAE. Personal data we hold may be processed and stored in the UAE and, depending on the service, source system and providers used, in the United Kingdom, the EEA, the United States and other jurisdictions where our group companies, customers, service providers, data suppliers, source systems, public records or licensed databases are located.
Where report preparation involves third-party platforms, data providers, cloud systems or source systems located outside your country, identifiers, query data, query results, extracts, report materials, service logs or related metadata may be transferred internationally as necessary to provide the services, maintain security, troubleshoot the service, comply with law or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Where personal data protected by UK GDPR or EU GDPR is transferred to a country without an adequacy decision or adequacy regulation, we put in place appropriate safeguards where required. These may include the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, a recognised transfer framework such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or UK Extension where applicable to the relevant provider, transfer risk assessments, contractual controls, encryption, access controls and other technical and organisational measures. We may also rely on another lawful transfer mechanism where available.
You can request information about the relevant safeguards by contacting us. We may redact commercially sensitive,security-sensitive, source-sensitive or confidential information, where permitted by law.
How long we keep personal data
We retain personal data for different retention periods, depending on why we process it:
- Reports on your dashboard: once a fixed-fee report is first opened it remains available for 14 days and is then removed from the dashboard. If a report is not opened within 30 days of upload, we may delete it. You are responsible for downloading any report you lawfully need to keep.
- Working materials created in preparing a report are normally deleted or anonymised within 90 days of delivery, unless longer retention is required for legal, audit, security or compliance reasons.
- Third party platform records, query logs and provider held materials may be retained by the relevant provider in accordance with its own terms, privacy notice, data processing agreement, security obligations and legal retention requirements. Where we can configure, instruct, or request deletion of provider-held materials, we do so in accordance with the applicable contract, law and operational requirements.
- Account data, order records, purpose confirmations and invoices: kept for the life of your account and then for no longer than six years, unless a longer period is required or justified for legal, tax, audit, security, compliance or legal claims purposes.
- Data protection complaints, rights requests and related records are kept for as long as necessary to handle the complaint or request, maintain an audit trail, comply with legal or regulatory obligations, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Unless a longer period is required or justified, we normally keep complaint and rights-request records for up to six years after closure. We may retain limited metadata, correspondence and outcome records even where the underlying report, working materials or subject data have been deleted or anonymised.
We keep personal data in a form that identifies you for no longer than necessary for the purposes described in this policy, after which we delete all personal data or otherwise anonymise it.
Security
We maintain technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including access controls, least-privilege access, authentication, encryption or secure transmission where appropriate, logging and monitoring, supplier due diligence and staff confidentiality obligations.
When using third party platforms, databases or service providers, we consider available security and compliance information, such as data processing terms, security documentation, audit materials, certifications and trust centre materials where available. We require appropriate protections where the provider processes personal data for us or our customers.
No system can be guaranteed completely secure, and you are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for the security of reports once downloaded.
Your rights and data protection complaints
You can make a data protection complaint by emailing admin@SIP-International.com or by writing to us using the postal address in section 16. You do not need to use a specific form, and you do not need to refer to this section for your complaint to be valid. If you contact us through another channel, we will take reasonable steps to identify and route the complaint appropriately. Please do not send sensitive personal data through social media or other insecure channels; if you contact us that way, we may ask you to use a more secure contact method before we discuss details.
Where UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, you have rights to: access your personal data; have inaccurate data corrected; have data erased in certain circumstances; restrict or object to processing, including objecting to processing based on legitimate interests and to direct marketing; data portability in certain circumstances; and withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. Where UAE data protection law applies, you have the equivalent rights granted under that law. Other local data protection laws may provide additional rights, and we will handle such requests in accordance with applicable law where those laws apply to our processing.
You may make a data protection complaint to us if you are concerned about how we collect, use, disclose, retain, delete or otherwise process personal data. This includes complaints about our processing of account data, platform data, communications, marketing data, payment-related records, compliance records, complaint records, or other personal data for which SIP acts as controller. It may also include concerns about how we have handled a data protection rights request or a previous data protection concern.
To help us investigate your complaint, please provide, where relevant and available:
- your name and contact details;
- your preferred contact method;
- whether you are complaining about your own personal data or on behalf of someone else;
- evidence of authority if you act on behalf of another person;
- any relevant account, order, report, invoice or correspondence reference, if known;
- a clear description of your concern;
- any relevant dates, emails, screenshots or supporting information; and
- the outcome you are seeking.
You should not delay making a complaint merely because you do not have all of this information. We may ask you for further information where we need it to understand, verify or investigate the complaint.
We will acknowledge receipt of a data protection complaint within 30 days of receiving it. Our acknowledgement may confirm that we have received the complaint, ask for further information, ask for identity or authority evidence, identify the person or team handling the complaint, or explain the next steps. Asking for further information does not prevent us from acknowledging the complaint.
We will consider and investigate data protection complaints without undue delay. The steps we take will depend on the nature, seriousness and complexity of the complaint, but may include reviewing relevant records, checking our systems, speaking to relevant personnel or service providers, comparing the complaint with information we hold, reviewing applicable terms, policies and legal obligations, and considering whether remedial action is appropriate.
We will keep you informed about the progress of our investigation without undue delay, particularly if the complaint is complex, if we need further information, or if we need more time to complete our enquiries. Where appropriate, we may provide an indicative timeframe or a further update date.
We will tell you the outcome of your complaint without undue delay after we have completed our investigation. The outcome may include, as appropriate, whether we uphold or reject the complaint, any action we have taken or propose to take, any explanation we can provide, whether the matter has been referred to a customer or another controller, whether an exemption or legal restriction applies, and information about your right to complain to a supervisory authority.
If your complaint is also a request to exercise a data protection right, such as an access, correction, erasure, restriction or objection request, we will handle the rights request under the applicable statutory rights procedure and the complaint under this complaints process. The time limits and legal rules for rights requests and complaints may differ.
If your complaint relates to information processed for a customer’s order or report, the customer, and not SIP, will usually be the controller of the relevant subject data. In those circumstances, we may forward the complaint to the customer, seek the customer’s instructions, assist the customer in responding, or respond directly where the law requires or permits us to do so. We will also consider whether any part of the complaint relates to personal data for which SIP acts as controller, such as account, order, payment, audit, compliance, security or complaint-handling records.
We may be unable to disclose certain information in response to a complaint or rights request, including the identity of a customer, the existence or contents of a report, source information, third party provider names, operational methods, legal advice, privileged material, confidential information, information relating to another person, or information whose disclosure would prejudice legal claims, crime prevention, safety, source protection, security,regulatory compliance or the rights and freedoms of others.
We will keep a record of data protection complaints, acknowledgements, relevant communications, investigation steps, outcomes and remedial actions where necessary for compliance, audit, legal, regulatory, security, dispute-resolution and accountability purposes. We will not keep complaint records for longer than necessary.
You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the UK, you can complain to the Information Commissioner. In the EEA, you can complain to your local data protection authority. In the UAE, you can complain to the UAE Data Office or other competent UAE authority, where applicable. We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns first, but you are not required to complain to us before contacting a supervisory authority.
If you are the subject of a report
Our customers instruct us to collect and compile information from publicly available and other compliant sources about the subjects of their orders. For that information, the customer – not SIP – is the controller. The customer is responsible for having a lawful basis, for any required notices and for responding to requests to exercise data protection rights in respect of the report.
Depending on the customer’s documented purpose and the sources available, a report may include information such as identifiers, contact details, addresses, online profiles, social media activity, images, posts, timestamps, business and company information, domain and website information, adverse media, sanctions, watchlist or PEP indicators, regulatory records, court or insolvency records, potential family or associate links and other information from public, licensed, subscriber or compliant sources.
We may use third-party platforms, data providers and technical tools to search for, retrieve, match, enrich, verify, structure or present report subject data. We do not name all of those tools or data providers in this public policy for the reasons explained in section 2.4, but the categories are described in sections 2, 4, 8 and 9.
If you contact us about information processed for a customer’s order or report, including by making a data protection complaint or exercising a data protection right, we may forward your request or complaint to the customer, seek their instructions, assist them in responding, or respond directly where the law requires or permits us to do so. We do not disclose our customers’ identities except where legally required or where we consider disclosure lawful and appropriate in the circumstances. We may also retain and use limited records about your request or complaint as controller for compliance, audit, security, legal claims and accountability purposes.
We retain limited records about orders (such as the order, purpose confirmation and audit records described in section 6) as controller, to evidence compliance and to establish or defend legal claims. Exemptions under applicable law – for example relating to legal claims, crime prevention or the rights of others – may limit the information we can provide.
We do not bypass privacy settings, access closed or private accounts, hack systems or unlawfully intercept communications when preparing reports.
Where information about you remains available at the original public source, social media platform, public record, third-party database or independent data supplier, you may need to contact that source directly to exercise rights in relation to its own copy of the data.
Children personal data
The Platform and our services are for adults. You must be at least 18 to register an account or place an order, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from users under 18.
We do not accept online orders where the subject of a report is, or is believed to be, under 18. The limited circumstances in which we may accept a direct instruction concerning a person aged 13 to 17 for safeguarding purposes are set out in the minors as subjects provisions within our Terms and Conditions. We do not provide services or reports in respect of any child aged under 13.
Cookies
For information about the cookies and similar technologies used on the Platform and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on the Platform and, where changes are material, take reasonable steps to bring them to your attention. The date at the top shows when this policy was last updated.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy or our handling of personal data, please get in touch with us at admin@SIP-International.com or by post or our office address:
SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC
The Exchange Tower
Level 19
Business Bay
Dubai
UAE
Complaints process under the Data (Use and Access) Act (applicable only to individuals residing in England and Wales)
If you reside in England and Wales and wish to make a data protection complaint, please contact us email admin@SIP-International.com. Please use the subject line “Data Protection Complaint” where possible.
We have a data protection complaint form that we can provide to you via email upon request.
We will not reject a complaint merely because you do not use our compliant form.
If you are contacting us about a specific account, order or report, please include the relevant reference if you have it. If you do not have a reference, you can still contact us and we will take reasonable steps to identify the relevant information.
Privacy Notice & Cookie Policy
SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC
& SIP International Global Group of Companies
Privacy, Cookie & Legal Policies
Introduction
The respective privacy, cookie and legal policies stated herein relates to SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies – website www.SIP-international.com
This document explains what cookies are and how and why they may be stored on and access from your device when you access our website. The controls in place over your privacy and our commitment to the protection of your data and your legal rights.
SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, adheres to data protection policies of the GDPR. The GDPR is recognized internationally, and the majority of Countries worldwide have and/or are in the process of unifying their own policies in line with the GDPR.
About Us & Our Privacy Commitment
SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC, represents companies within the SIP International Global Group, which specialises in Investigations, Cybersecurity, Risk Threat Assessments, Protective Security, Digital Forensics etc, and operates on a global scale. In the course of the performance of our services, we may process personal information pertaining to our client and also third parties for the purpose of completing an assignment.
The privacy policy (the “Policy”) sets out important information about your rights in relation to the processing of your personal information in the course of using our services. The Policy also outlines the basis on which any personal information, we collect from you or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with your use of our services.
We are firmly committed to respect your right to privacy and take seriously our responsibilities in relation to the processing of personal information. We do not collect or process personal information unnecessarily and we do not solicit or receive information from children.
What Information Do We Collect?
The policy primarily related to personal information collected and processed in order to operating our business. We collect information as name and contact details in order to communicate and facilitate the provision of our services with our clients, potential clients, or suppliers. Initial information about you can be provided by the company you are working for. You may provide us information by using our services or by phone, email or otherwise.
Other occasions during which he provided us information is when searching for a product, place an order, report a problem, or engage with any other form of communication with us. We may collect information to respond to inquiries regarding our products and services or to provide you with information, reports, or updates.
When you visit our websites or use our platforms, we may collect information about your visits such as your IP address, login information, browser type, time zone setting and the pages you visited and when you use our services, we may collect information on how you use those services. Our website and online platforms May use cookies from time to time. Cookies may be used to save your personal preferences, so you do not have to re-enter them each time you access our services. For more about our use of cookies and how you can decline them, please refer to our cookie policy. In the course of providing our services to our clients, they engage us on a wide range of matters to help us mitigate risks such as conducting due diligence on a potential partner, supplier, or acquisition target. The personal information we process in the performance of services for and on behalf of our clients includes but is not limited to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individuals, for example, the individual’s name, contact information, education information, work history, directorships, financial information, as well as, where necessary, data concerning criminal convictions and offences. We treat all such information within the strict confines of the GDPR.
The lawful basis for such data processing is defined by our clients and will vary depending on the nature of the information and the project, but will include (i) consent, (ii) necessary for the purpose of our or our clients’ legitimate interests, (iii) necessary for the prevention or detection of an unlawful act; (iv) and the information has been made public by the individual.
What We Do With Your Information?
We will only process personal information when the law allows us to. Where we process your personal information to register you as a customer/user, accept your orders, deliver services to you, collect our fees, we do so on the basis that it is necessary to perform our obligations under contract with you or a company you work for. It may also be necessary to comply with certain legal obligations. Where we process your personal information to send you newsletters, respond to your questions, improve the contents of our website and marketing efforts, conduct research and analysis and display content based on your interests, we do so on the basis that it is necessary for our legitimate business interests. These interests include the interests of ensuring our clients receive premium service, growing our business to best satisfy changing market needs, and ensuring continual improvements to our suite of product and services.
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information 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 information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with this Policy, where this is required or permitted by law.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The period of time for which we store your personal information may depend on the type of information we hold and the purpose. For personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purpose test for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. For example, we may hold personal data as needed for our accounting or tax compliance purposes or where needed for our compliance with anti-money laundering regulations in accordance with their respective statutory periods.
Disclosure of Your Information
We only share your personal information with their consents are in accordance with this notice. We will not otherwise share, sell, or distribute any of the information you provide to us except as described in this notice. We may disclose information to any department or authorized person within our company or any affiliated company within our group and selected third-parties only in the circumstances where it is necessary, and the supplier has agreed to the same standards in terms of privacy as set out in the Policy.
We will disclose your personal information to third-party recipients in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of our business or assets or if we are under a duty to disclose or share personal information in order to comply with any law, legal obligation or court order, or in order to enforce rights under the GDPR or to apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
International Transfers
Personal information may be transferred to our trusted partners and service providers who maintain their servers outside of their European Economic Area (“EEA’). this is only for the purposes of providing, and to the extent necessary to provide, our services.
We comply with the special requirements provided by the GDPR in order to regulate such data transfers and ensure that adequate security measures are in place to safeguard and maintain the integrity of your personal information on transfer.
Security Measures
We use accepted standards of physical and technical measures and require our hosting partners to use the same standard of care in order to protect personal information. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Despite our best efforts to protect personal information, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Your Rights
The GDPR establishes certain rights of individuals in relation to their personal data. These rights include the right to request access to the personal data that we hold about you; The right to have us correct and update your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete; the right to have us deleted your personal data column the rug to our processing of their personal data; The right to ask to restrict the processing of their personal data; The right to ask that we transfer your personal data; And the right to withdraw consent to our processing of their personal data.
Third Party Material
We always endeavour to deal with vendors and other third parties who are GDPR compliant or, in the case of the third party located outside of the EEA, who are certified as compliant with the EU -US Privacy Shield, as applicable, or who have adequate security measures in place to safeguard the security of personal information. That said, we, our employees, agents, holding company and subsidiaries, accepts no liability howsoever arising for the content of reliability of any third-party materials or websites referenced by hyperlinks or other means on our website/platforms or for the data collection and used practices or security measures used by such third parties.
Changes to This Policy
Any changes made to this policy from time to time will be published at the platform. Any material or other change to the data processing operations described in this policy which is relevant to our impacts on you, or your personal data will be notified to you.
In this way, you will have an opportunity to consider the nature and impact of the change and exercise your rights under the GDPR in relation to that change (e.g., to withdraw consent or to object to the processing) as you see fit.
Questions or Complaints
Any queries or complaints relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority applicable in your jurisdiction.
Cookie Policy
This Policy covers our use of cookies, IP addresses, and other technologies.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are other online tracking technologies are small bits of data or code that are used to identify your devices when you use and interact with our website and other services. They are often used for remembering your preferences, to identify a popular web site or apps pages.
What Cookies do we use and how do we use them?
Essential cookies and similar technologiesThese are vital for the running of our services on our website and apps. Without the use of these cookies parts of our website would not function. For example, the use of cookies may help us identify the location and or authenticity of a client and protect SIP International Project Management LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, from misuse, malice or fraud.
Analytics cookies and similar technologies
These collect information about your use of our website and apps and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, analytics cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the website allowing us to provide the most popular news articles further up the page. They help us record how you interact with our website, such as how you navigate around pages and from page to page; Identifying improvements we can make to the visitor’s journey. They also help us identify any difficulties you have accessing our services, so we can fix any problems. Additionally, these two keys allow us to see overall patterns of usage at an aggregated level.
Functional/preference cookies and similar technologies
These cookies collect information about your choices and preferences, and allow us to remember things like language, your username (so you can log in faster), text size, and location, so we can show you relevant content to where you are. They allow us to customize the pages, products, or services you have accessed.
Tracking, advertising cookies and similar technologies
These types of technologies provide advertisements that are more relevant to visitor’s interests. This can be done by delivering online adverts based on their previous web browsing activity, known as online behavioural advertising” (OBA). Cookies are placed on their browser, which will remember the websites they have visited.
Advertising
Based on what they have been looking at is then displayed to them when they visit websites who use the same advertising networks SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, does not use such technology.
Web beacons
These are bits of data that count the number of users who access a website or web page and can also allow us to see if a cookie has been activated. Web beacons used on web pages or in emails allow us to see how successful an article has been or that an email message was successfully delivered and read in a marketing campaign or newsletter. Web beacons are also used to verify any clicks through to links or advertisements contained in emails. We may use this information to help us identify which emails are more interesting to you and to inform advertisers how many customers have clicked on their adverts (this information is aggregated and does not identify you individually.)
Flash Cookies
We may, in certain situations, use Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation period to improve your user experience, Local Shared Objects (commonly known as Flash cookies) Are used to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are managed through an interface different from the one provided by your web browser.
Tracking URLs
Tracking URLs are a special web link that allows us to measure when a link is clicked on. They are used to help us measure the effectiveness of campaigns and advertising and the popularity of articles that are read.
We also use cookies and similar technologies:
When you access and interact with our services cookies may collect certain information about those visits. For example, in order to permit your connection to our website, our servers receive and records information about your computer, device, and browser, including potentially your IP address, browser type, other software or hardware information, and your geographic location.
If you access our services from a mobile device
We may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geo-location data, and other transactional information for that device.
Usage of services
To collect, use and store information about your usage of our services, website and apps, such as pages you have visited, content you have viewed, search queries you have run, and advertisements you have seen or interacted with.
To provide relevant content
The content on our website and in our communications with you may be adjusted depending on what we know about the content, products, and services that you like. This means we can highlight content and articles that we believe will be of interest of you. we provide personalization by using cookies, IP addresses, web beacons, URL tracking and mobile app settings.
Managing cookies
Most modern browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you can change your settings to notify when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether.
Please consult the “Help” section of your browser.
Controlling OBA cookies
The “Your Online Choices” website http://www.youronlinechoices.com provides morein formation about controlling cookies. It also provides an easy way to opt out behavioural advertising from each (or all) of the networks represented by the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.
Controlling Flash Cookies
You can manage the use of flash technologies with the flash management tools available at Adobe website. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/privacy.html.
Controlling web beacons
You can prevent web beacons from tracking your activity, although you won’t be able to decline receiving them in emails. For information about managing your cookie options: https://www.allaboutcookies.org
It is important that you understand, that by declining or blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content, or personalization available on our website, or apps.
Legal Policy
SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, posts on its website newsletters and additional content which may be discussing legal, legislative and security developments. This content is purely for informational purposes, it does not provide or should be construed as legal advice.
Clients and readers of the material published on our website, must direct questions about legal issues and legislative matters to their own legal counsel or advisors, before acting upon any of the information that may be published. By accessing and/or using the Site, the user acknowledges this disclaimer and agrees to be bound by the further terms and conditions set below.
Notice on Warranties
- SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, makes no warranties or representations as to the accuracy or timelines of information on this Site.
- SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this Site. Information on this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.
- SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, may make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described in this site at any time without notice. Your use of this Site is at your own risk.
- SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, makes no warranties or representations as to the accuracy or timelines of any information on any third-party sites that are linked to this Site.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall SIP International Commercial Information Services LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies, shall be liable for any damages suffered by any user, including any incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages. (Including, without limitation, any Lost profits or damages for business interruption, loss of information, programs, or any other data) That result from access to, use of, or inability to use this site or due to breach of security associated with the transmission of information through the Internet, even if SIP International Project Management LLC and other SIP International Global Group of Companies was advised of the possibility of such damages.