APEX BUSINESS PAGES PRIVACY POLICY
The importance of a Privacy policy cannot be over emphasized, to us as a company, it is as important as the client himself. The Platform is for business to business transactions and therefore is only made available for use by businesses and not for individual or personal use.
Please note that this Apex Business Pages Privacy Policy applies to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with the products and services offered by Apex Business Pages. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for the privacy policy that governs the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with the products and services that we offer.
This Privacy Policy sets out the ways in which Apex Business Pages collects, uses and discloses information in connection with its operation of the Platform including personal information about Platform visitors and representatives and employees of Buyers and Sellers (“you”). This Privacy Policy also applies to use of our Platform via a mobile device, either through mobile applications or mobile-optimized websites. For details of the personal information that we collect when you use or interact with other Apex Business Pages services, please refer to the applicable Privacy Policy to those services.
If you have any questions or concerns about the use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at section H “HOW TO CONTACT US” the bottom of this Privacy Policy. All capitalized terms not defined in this document shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use for the Platform, which can be found here.
2. Information provided to us by you
2.1 Representative or employees of any Buyer or Seller or a sole trader Buyer or seller will be asked to provide contact information that is necessary for the registering for a Platform account on behalf of a Buyer or Seller, including name, address, phone number, email address, job title and department;
2.2 you may be asked to provide certain identity information, tax registration and/or related information about your business, such as your company name, business type and industry, corporate registration details and information about your business license;
2.3. For Sellers Apex Business Pages may also ask you to provide details about the goods and products that you intend to sell via the Platform and details about your sales/transactions on Apex Business Pages .
2.4 If you are a Buyer we will also ask you to provide details or preferences about the goods and products that you may be interested in buying via the Platform and any details or preferences relevant to your purchases;
2.5 if you are successfully certified by Apex Business Pages as a blogger or an influencer, in addition to the information mentioned above, we may also collect your live stream videos, your social media account names and profile photos, and posts or comments made by other users of the Platform;
2.6 In connection with the facilitation of transactions, purchases and payments over the Platform, you will be asked to provide certain payment information. This might include bank account numbers, billing and delivery information, credit/debit card numbers, expiration dates and security code and tracking information from cheques or money orders to facilitate the sale and purchase as well as the settlement of purchase price of the products or services transacted on or procured through the Platform;
2.7 We will process any information provided to us in connection with disputes or to support complaints in connection with the Platform or goods and/or services purchased via the Platform. Please note, Buyers and/or Sellers may submit complaints regarding the products and services on the Platform and/or disputes between the Buyers and Sellers to the Platform and under such circumstances, we will process data provided to us by Buyers and/or Sellers that is relevant to the disputes or complaints submitted. This may include health data of end-users (which may include minors as applicable) of products purchased on the Platform to the extent relevant to the disputes or complaints that are being reviewed by the Platform and to the extent that the individual(s) has provided their explicit consent to their data being shared with us for the purposes of handling the complaints and/or settling the disputes.
2.8 Information you submit to the Platform for publication may be made publicly available on the Platform and therefore accessible by any internet user. You should exercise caution when deciding what information you submit to us for publication.
3 Information that we collect automatically
3.1 If you contact us (such as via our customer services department chat service, telephone or email), we may record a copy of your correspondence and may ask for additional information to verify your identity.
3.2 We will collect contact details and other information of users from publicly available sources for the purposes of verifying the users and performing due diligence on the users.
3.3 We will collect details of user activities, transactions and interactions on the Platform including information relating to the types and specifications of the products and services purchased, pricing and delivery information, dispute and complaint records, communications between users and any information disclosed in any discussion forum.
3.4 From time to time, we may also collect information about the existing and prospective users, during or in connection with trade shows, industry events and/or other functions. Including representative contact names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses.
3.5 If you visit our Platform, we will automatically collect certain information from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered as personal information under applicable data protection laws. Specifically this information may include IP addresses, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), browsing patterns and details of how you have interacted with our Platform and the goods and services available on it. In addition, we gather statistical information about the Platform and visitors to the Platform including, browser software, operating system, software and hardware attributes, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors. Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Platform, where they come from, and what content is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Platform. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under the section E “COOKIES” below.
4 Information that we receive from third parties
4.1 We may receive personal information about you from social media platforms if you choose to register for a Platform account via a social media account. Exactly what information we receive will depend on your privacy settings with the applicable platform, but it would typically include basic public profile information.
4.2 We may receive personal information about you from third parties that are engaged by us to assist with providing verification services and conducting suitable money laundering and KYC (know-your-customer) checks on users. This may include your name, email address, company details and contact information.
4.3 If you choose to participate in reviewing or rating products and/or services on Apex Business Pages, we may receive personal information about you from third parties that work with us to conduct reviews into our services and/or rate us.
5. USE OF PERSONAL DATA
I. We collect and use your Personal Data for the following purposes:
II. Verifying your identity; verifying your eligibility to register as a user of the Sites or become a blogger or an influencer of the Sites;
III. Processing your registration as a user, providing you with a log-in ID for the Sites and maintaining and managing your registration;
IV. Providing you with customer service and responding to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes;
V. Facilitating communication between buyers and sellers on the Sites, processing transactions and payments, assessing advance withdrawal requests from sellers and providing delivery services;
VI. Assessing account security and transaction risks of members, detecting and preventing fraud and other security incidents;
VII. Where we are required by applicable law, we will seek your consent prior to sending you communications for marketing purposes; and
VIII. We may also use your Personal Data for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
6 Disclosure of your Personal information
6.1 Information you submit to the Sites for publication may be made publicly available on the Sites and therefore accessible by any internet user. You should exercise caution when deciding what information you submit to us for publication.
6.2 We have established relationships with other parties and websites to offer you the benefit of products and services which we do not offer. We offer you access to these other parties and their websites either through the use of hyperlinks to these sites from our Sites or through offering “co-branded” sites in which both we and other parties share the same uniform resource locator (URL), domain name or pages within a domain name on the Internet.
6.3 In some cases you may be required to submit Personal Data to register or apply for products or services provided by such third parties or co-branded partners. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third party sites or co-branded sites. The privacy policies of those other parties may differ from ours, and we have no control over the information that you submit to those third parties. You should read the relevant privacy policy for those third party sites and co-branded sites before responding to any offers, products or services advertised by those parties.
7 Your Rights as regards your personal Data
7.1 Under the applicable laws, you may have the rights of access to Personal Data held by us and other rights. .If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or if you wish to access or correct your Personal Data, you may send your request to our customer care desk.
7.2 If and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge you a fee for the processing of any request you make regarding your Personal Data
7.3 We use “cookies” to store specific information about you and track your visits to the Sites, either through a compute or via a mobile device. It is not uncommon for websites to use cookies to enhance identification of their visitors
8 Cookies
8.1 A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Sites, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Sites and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage. The cookies will enable us to remember your information so you do not have to re-enter it every time you use the Site.
8.2 Apex Business Pages, like many other online companies, may want to use cookies. Cookies are used to manage the security of many sites including our own, to gather information about usage by users; to research visiting patterns and conduct interest-based advertising; to assist our partners to track user visits to the Sites and process orders; and to track progress and participation in promotions.
8.3 For these additional purposes identified above, you can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring the privacy setting of the browser you are using to access the Sites or the privacy setting of your mobile device. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. If you adjust the privacy setting in the browser, your mobile device will continue collecting data unless you adjust the privacy setting of the device, and vice versa.
8.4 You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you choose to set your web browser controls to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
8.5 Certain features of the Site depend on cookies. Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies may be lost.
9 Minors
9.1 Our Site and its contents are not targeted to minors (those under the age of 18) and we do not intend to sell any of our products or services to minors. If a minor has provided us with Personal Data without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact our customer care desk to remove the information
10. Security measures undertaken
10.1 As a prudent company, we have been employing commercially reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized access to the Sites, to maintain data accuracy and to ensure the correct use of the information we hold.
10.2 For registered users of the Sites, some of your information can be viewed and edited through your account, which is protected by a password. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Our personnel will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. If you share a computer with others, you should not choose to save your log-in information (e.g., user ID and password) on that shared computer. Remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished your session.
10.3 No data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. As a result, while we try to protect the information we hold for you, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
11. Update of the Privacy Policy
11.1We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments.
11.2 When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.
11.3 Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated by us posting an amended Privacy Policy on the Sites. Once posted on the Sites, the new Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.