Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for websites axia- consulting.co.uk and axiatemplates.com which are published by Axia Consulting Ltd. INFORMATION COLLECTION We will only collect, hold, use or process your personal information where we are legally allowed to do so. We will ensure that your personal information is processed lawfully, collected for legitimate purposes, accurate, relevant and only kept for as long as necessary. WHY WE PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION We process your personal information for the following purposes: • To enable you to buy or use our products and services • To provide you with product support and assistance • To send you details of product updates (where appropriate under law) • To send you our marketing materials (where appropriate under law) • To contact you if you have requested communication from us We only process your personal information in accordance with the law / UK/EU General Data Protection Regulation. See the full privacy notice below for more details. LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING DATA The lawful basis for processing data which we rely on will be one of the following: Contractual performance. We (or our online shop) will collect and process your personal information to enter into or perform a contract with you. This includes enabling us to take steps you request prior to entering into a contract – and once in a contract, to enable us (or our online shop) to perform the contract and provide you with the products and services. Legitimate interests. We will collect and process your personal information for the following legitimate interests: • Providing support for our products and services, • Marketing purposes, including direct marketing, if you have given specific consent for direct marketing communications. You can opt out at any time by contacting us. Consent. We will rely on your consent to process your personal information if you provide us with a testimonial, which may be used for marketing purposes. INFORMATION WE PROCESS We process the following personal information in the case of invoicing directly from Axia Consulting Ltd: title, name, job title, business name, address, country, VAT number, email address and telephone number. Customers may also purchase our products via our online shop (provided by MyCommerce Share-it / Digital River Inc) with payment by credit / debit card. We (Axia Consulting Ltd) do not have any access to and cannot see your personal credit / debit card details, and therefore do not hold any personal credit / debit card details. Your personal details excluding credit/ debit card details are kept on record for accounting records and providing customer support. We do not process any sensitive personal information and you should not provide us with such personal information. Axia Consulting Ltd’s products and services are for business use. Consequently, our websites and this privacy policy are not designed for or intentionally targeted at children (aged 13 or less years old). It is not our policy to collect information about anyone under the age of 13. RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA Axia Consulting Ltd may retain your personal data for as long as you continue to use our websites, and thereafter as permitted or required by law. Where you place an order or enter into a contract, we will keep your information for the duration of the order / contract and thereafter for such a period as permitted by law (eg to comply with financial legislation) or for so long as necessary for the establishment or defence of legal claims. Where you make an enquiry, but do not order or enter into a contract, we will keep your information until that enquiry is resolved. Where you expressly consent to marketing or other communication, we will keep your information whilst your consent is valid. Where we no longer need your personal information and no longer have a basis for keeping it, we will delete it within two years. INFORMATION SECURITY We have in place reasonable technology and operational security to protect personal information provided by visitors and customers. COOKIES Axia Consulting Ltd’s websites (axia- consulting.co.uk and axiatemplates.com) make use of cookies. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer by your web browser when you first visit a website. Axia Consulting Ltd’s websites use a cookie control system that allows the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer. We (and the services we use) may use cookies to automatically collect non-personal information about you, eg the type of browser you use and the way you arrived at our websites (eg directly or via a referring website). You cannot be identified from the information collected in this way, which is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our websites and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use and to improve our websites. You can erase or block cookies from your computer if you wish, and you should still be able to view our websites. INFORMATION SHARING We will never sell or rent your personal information to a third party. We will only share your information with a third party or transfer your data outside the UK / EU for one of the following reasons. Where we do this we will comply with all of our legal obligations and will ensure that there are adequate protections in place to protect your information. Organisations with which we may share your personal information include: • MyCommerce Share-it / Digital River Inc. for the purpose of using their online shop and other services. • Google Inc. for the purpose of using Google Analytics, Google Ads and other services. • Microsoft Inc. for the purpose of using Microsoft Bing ads and other services. • Law enforcement, regulatory, legal case or other government agencies where we are required to share by law. AXIA CONSULTING LTD’S ONLINE SHOP (PROVIDED BY MYCOMMERCE SHARE-IT / DIGITAL RIVER INC.) Axia Consulting Ltd sells downloadable products via an online shop provided by MyCommerce Share-it with customer payment by credit / debit card. MyCommerce Share-it is a subsidiary of Digital River Inc. USA. Axia Consulting Ltd may also sell products and services directly from our websites, using our own order forms or on receipt of purchase orders from customers. The link for the MyCommerce Share-it / Digital River’s privacy policy is https://www.mycommerce.com/privacy-policy/ GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND ADS Axia Consulting Ltd’s websites use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our websites. We do this to ensure our websites are meeting visitor’s needs and to understand how we can improve our sites. Google Analytics stores information about page views, sources, clicks and time spent on our websites via the use of a cookie. This information cannot be tracked back to any person as it is displayed as anonymized data, so as to help protect your privacy whilst using our websites. Axia Consulting Ltd uses Google Ads to see which pages lead to visitors enquiring about or purchasing our online products. This allows us to improve our marketing campaigns and enhance our paid search advertising. The link to Google’s privacy policy is https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en- GB&gl=uk MICROSOFT BING ADS Axia Consulting Ltd uses Microsoft Bing ads to see which pages lead to visitors enquiring about or purchasing our online products. This allows us to improve our marketing campaigns and enhance our paid search advertising. The link to Microsoft’s privacy policy is https://privacy.microsoft.com/en- gb/privacystatement LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES This privacy policy does not cover external links within our websites to other third party websites. We only look to include quality, relevant and useful external links. However, Axia Consulting Ltd has no control over other third party websites and as such, we are not responsible for their content or reliability. We provide links to these websites for your convenience only, but do not endorse the material on these sites. When you visit one of their pages, you may be sent cookies from their website (which we have no control over). Please read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION If you would like to request a copy of your personal information, have inaccurate or incomplete personal data rectified, request erasure of your personal data, restrict processing, object to processing personal data, withdraw consent previously given, please send us a request using the details in the ‘How to contact us’ section of this privacy policy. If you contact us, we may ask you for additional information to verify your identity, prior to providing you with any personal information. In all cases, we will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We may amend this privacy policy from time-to- time. This privacy policy was last updated on May 17, 2022. HOW TO CONTACT US If you wish to contact us, please email us at info@axia-consulting.co.uk Axia Consulting Ltd, 17 New Road Avenue, Chatham, Kent ME4 6BA, United Kingdom.