PRIVACY POLICY & COOKIES
Welcome to nicl.lums.edu.pk (“Website”) also hereby known as “we”, “us” “they” “our” or “NICL”.
We have developed this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how and why we collect, use, and disclose information from and/or about you when you use the Website or our services. In this Privacy Policy, “User”, “Users”, “you” or “your” refers to any person or entity registering on and /or using or accessing the Website.
We respect your privacy and values, the trust you place in it. Set out below is our ‘Privacy Policy’ which details the manner in which information relating to you is collected, used and disclosed.
All visitors to the Website are advised to read and understand our Privacy Policy carefully, as by accessing the Website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, storage and use of information relating to you as provided herein.
By using the Website, you agree that we can collect and use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you agree to the contents of this Privacy Policy give your irrevocable consent to us for collecting your personal information.
Our Privacy Policy explains:
· What information we collect and why we collect it.
· How we use that information.
· The choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
We have tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you are not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Your privacy matters to us so please do take the time to get to know our practices and if you have any questions feel free to contact us by sending an email to niclahore@lums.edu.pk.
A. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
To provide the best experience to you, we collect and store personal information provided by you from time to time on the Website. When you contact us, we keep a record of your communication to help solve any issues you might be facing while using our Website. The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
i. Information You Provide to Us
If you are a Company:
· you may be asked to provide certain contact information that is necessary for the registering for a Website account, including name, address, phone number, email address, department, the number and type of business; and
· 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;
If you are an individual you will be asked to provide certain contact information that is necessary for the registering for a Website account, including name, address, phone number, email address, and specialty.
Information you submit to the Website for publication may be made publicly available on the Website and therefore accessible by any internet user. You should exercise caution when deciding what information you submit to us for publication.
ii. Information That We Collect Automatically
· If you contact us via our customer services department i.e. chat service, telephone or email, we may record a copy of your correspondence and may ask for additional information to verify your identity.
· We may 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.
· We may collect details of the User activities, transactions and interactions on the Website including information relating to your specifications and what type of expertise you retain, dispute and complaint records, communications between Users and any information disclosed in any discussion forum.
· From time to time, we may also collect information, including representative contact names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses, about the existing and prospective Users, during or in connection with trade shows, industry events and/or other functions.
· If you visit our Website, we will automatically collect certain information from your device including the 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 Website and the services available on it. In addition, we gather statistical information about the Website and visitors to the Website 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 Website, 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 standard of our Website. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under the section F “COOKIES” below.
iii. Information That We Receive from Third Parties
· We may receive personal information about you from social media Websites if you choose to register for a Website account via a social media account. Exactly what information we receive will depend on your privacy settings with the Website, but it may include, without limitation to, basic public profile information such as:
a. Your user name or nickname;
b. Your profile picture;
c. Contact details etc.
· 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.
B. DISCLOSURE OR SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose (or provide access to) personal information to the following categories of recipients:
a. Third party business partners, service providers and/or affiliates of NICL engaged by us or working with us to assist us to provide services to you or who otherwise process personal information for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information. Categories of these partners or service providers may include:
· Users of NICL and their respective affiliates and/or their designated service providers that work with us to provide processing services such as software, tools, systems and messaging services for purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
· our business partners;
· marketing and advertising Websites, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and providers of analytics services relating to users’ behavior, in order to tailor the content you see when visiting our Website. These Websites may combine information they collect on our Website with data on their Websites and data they collect from other websites or through other sources in order to conduct targeted advertising. The processing activities of these third party marketing Websites are governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy;
· cloud computing service providers to provide cloud storage services; or
· risk control service providers to assess the security of Users’ accounts.
b. To our professional advisers, law enforcement agencies, insurers, government and regulatory and other organizations where we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or protect your vital interests or those of any other person, we may also disclose and transfer your personal information or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws.
c. To an actual or potential User (its agents or advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the User it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
d. To any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
We may provide aggregated or anonymized data to third parties, but when we do so, the information we share is in a de-identified format that does not personally identify you.
C. WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
We will normally collect and process personal information about you only where it is:
· necessary for providing the services pursuant to the agreement between you and NICL and/or its affiliates (for example, to provide you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you may use the Website);
· necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement);
· necessary for our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights; and/or
· where it is based on your consent.
If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our Website and services, manage our relationship with you and communicate with you as necessary to provide our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest, for instance, when responding to your queries, improving our Website and our services, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of ensuring the security of our Website and services and detecting or preventing illegal activities such as fraud.
D. WHAT ARE YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS?
We make sure that you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every User is entitled to the following:
a. The right to access
You have the right to request us for copies of your personal data, chargeable at a rate.
b. The right to rectification
You have the right to request us for correcting any information you believe is inaccurate and completion of any information you find to be incomplete.
c. The right to erasure
You have the right to request us to erase, remove or delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
d. The right to restrict processing
You have the right to request us to process your data as specified in this Privacy Policy.
e. The right to object to processing
You have the right to object us to process your data, unless and until it interferes with our rendering of services to other Users of the Website.
f. The right to data probability
You have the right to request us to transfer data that we collect directly to you or other Users as provided in this Privacy Policy.
E. RETENTION
We may retain your personal information as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, for example, to provide services to you, or as required or permitted by applicable laws, such as tax and accounting laws.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we may either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
F. COOKIES
This section explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Website.
i. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that uniquely identify your browser or device. The cookie is stored on your browser by website or apps that you visit. When you return to that website or app (or visit websites or apps that use the same cookies) these Websites recognize the cookies and your browsing device.
ii. Why we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical and/or security reasons in order for our Website to operate. We refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. First party cookies are mainly served to enable basic functionality on our Website; including web analytics cookies that help us understand how users use our web pages and how we can improve their use.
In addition we also use social media cookies. You may register for Website membership and "share" Website content through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes we embed videos from websites like YouTube. These websites have their own privacy policies which govern their use of information, which you can find on the respective websites.
We also use cookies to enable us to track and target the interests of Website visitors to enhance the experience on our Website by researching visiting patterns and conduct interest-based advertising; assisting our partners to track user visits to the Websites; and to track progress and participation in promotions. We use first and third party cookies for these purposes.
iii. How to delete cookies?
We use cookies on the Website to make sure you can use the Website easily and enjoy the services available on the Website.
You can change your preferences by changing the settings in your browser. Most browsers will allow you to choose the level of privacy settings you want. This lets you control your cookie settings so that you can:
· See what cookies or other locally stored data you have got and delete them on an individual basis;
· Block third party cookies or similar technology;
· Block cookies or similar technology from particular sites;
· Block all cookies or similar technologies from being set; or
· Delete all cookies or similar technologies when you close your browser.
Deleting cookies or similar technologies means that any preference settings you have made on the Website will be lost. Blocking all cookies or similar technology means functionality on the Website will be lost. Please note that if you choose to refuse cookies or pixels you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.
G. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. 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 when this is required by applicable data protection laws.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated by us posting an amended Privacy Policy on the Website. Once posted on the Website, 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 the Privacy Notice.