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Privacy Statement- Recruitment/Employees

Please read this privacy statement carefully. It contains important information you need to know on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and other organisations in the event you have a complaint.

1. INTRODUCTION

We are Help Unrivalled Limited. You can access full details of who we are such as our full company name, registered number and registered office address on our Contact Us page.

As part of the services we offer, we are required to collect, store and use personal data about our staff, our service users and in some instances, collect, store and use the personal data of the friends or relatives of our service users and staff.

Personal information means any information about you from which you can be identified.

As the ‘data controller’ of personal information, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.  The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which applies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union, sets out our obligations to you and your rights in respect of how we manage your personal information.

As the ‘data controller’ of your personal information, we will ensure that the personal information we hold about you is:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely.

Please note when we refer to:

  • A “public body” we mean any organisation in the United Kingdom which delivers, commissions or reviews a public service and includes (but is not limited to) the Ombudsman, local authorities, councils, unitary authorities, clinical commissioning groups, health and social care trusts, the National Health Service as well as their arm’s length bodies and regulators.
  • A “social or health care professional” we mean any person who provides direct services, acts as consultant or is involved in the commission of your healthcare or social care services, including (but not limited to) your General Practitioner (GP), dental staff, pharmacists, nurses and health visitors, clinical psychologists, dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, hospital staff, social workers and other care and support related professionals.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US

By using our website or communicating with the Group using any form of media or communication, you agree that we may collect information about you and you agree to the use of this data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

For clarity, we collect personal information directly from you, or if you are a job applicant, through the application and recruitment process, through your visit to our website (via our Contact Us form) or through an employment agency who submits your C.V for our consideration. We may also collect additional background information from third parties including former employers or other background checking agencies.

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, but we will only do so where this is required or permitted by law.

JOB APPLICANTS:

When you apply for a job with us, we may collect the following personal information which is either provided by you or obtained by third parties during the application and recruitment process:

  1. Your title, name, addresses, contact details (including your telephone number (s) & email address) and next of kin and/or emergency contact information (i.e. name, relationship and home and mobile numbers)
  2. Your date of birth and gender
  3. Your National Insurance Number
  4. Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process)
  5. Employment records (including job titles, work history, working hours, training records and professional memberships)

Copies of your Driving Licence and other necessary identity and proof of address documents.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect and use your personal information for the purposes of:

  • Making a decision regarding your recruitment or appointment
  • Assessing your right to legally work in the UK
  • Assessing your suitability for a regulated role
  • Assessing your fitness to work
  • To allow us to enter into an employment contract with you should your application and recruitment be successful
  • To enable us to comply with any legal obligations such as employment law
  • To enable us to conduct appropriate pre-employment checks including reference checks

Please note that if you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to continue to consider your application or progress with your recruitment.

EMPLOYEES:

If your application is successful then in addition to the information we have already collected about you during the recruitment process, we may also collect, store, and use the following additional categories of personal information which is either provided by you, obtained by third parties or compiled by us during the course of your employment in relation to job related activities:

  1. Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature in so far as they relate to providing you with suitable care).
  2. Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information
  3. UK bank details and tax status information
  4. Start date
  5. Performance information, disciplinary and grievance information
  6. Photographs of you which we have to keep on your personnel file and which may be displayed in our office.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect and use your personal information to:

  • Allow us to perform and administer our contract with you, business management and planning and accounting and auditing
  • Enable us to comply with our legal obligations
  • Allow us to contact your Next of Kin or emergency contact in the event of an emergency
  • Pay you and deduct tax, National Insurance and Pension contributions as applicable
  • Conduct performance reviews, manage your performance and determine performance requirements
  • Assess qualifications and experience for a particular task, including decisions about further training and development requirements
  • Managing sickness absence

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WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH AND WHY WE SHARE THIS

We will only share your information in the following circumstances:

  1. Where required to do so by law
  2. Where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you
  3. Where we have another legitimate interest to do so

We may share your personal information with law enforcement or other authorities for the purposes of compliance with our legal obligations. This includes:

  • Information required by public bodies to evidence our compliance with the applicable regulatory framework.
  • Sharing personal information with external social or health care professionals, including public bodies, competent authorities, the courts, local safeguarding groups (in some circumstances)
  • Sharing personal information as otherwise required by law

We may share your personal information with third party providers who carry out a process on our behalf as follows:

  • Pre-employment screening providers such as The Disclosure & Barring Service for purposes of a criminal records check.
  • The company payroll provider
  • The company pensions provider if applicable
  • The company training providers
  • Auditors
  • IT and Telecoms Support companies – to ensure the safe, secure and resilient operation of our IT infrastructure including computers, servers, phones and mobile devices
  • Software support companies – to provide specialist support and resolve issues with the software that we run, for example the systems we use to store and manage your customer records

We may share limited personal information with other employees where appropriate.

We may share limited personal information with our Clients where you will be assigned to provide care and support for purposes of introduction.

We may share your information with future and prospective employers.

We will not share, sell or trade your personal information with any other third party.

SPECIAL CATEGORY (SENSITIVE) INFORMATION

Through the application, recruitment and employment process, we may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information as follows:

  1. Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions
  2. Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records.
  3. Information about criminal convictions and offences

We may process this information to enable us to carry out our obligations under employment law and comply with regulatory body requirements and where it is necessary to assess your working capacity.

How we use your special category information

  • We will use information relating to leaves of absence, which may include sickness absence or family related leaves, to comply with employment and other laws.
  • We will use information about your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to provide appropriate workplace adjustments, to monitor and manage sickness absence and to administer benefits.
  • We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
  • We will use information about criminal convictions and offences to assess your suitability for a regulated role and where necessary, to protect the interests of all parties (including us, you, our clients, other employees and third parties)

Please note that if you fail to provide certain information, personal or sensitive, when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.

LEGAL BASIS:

We rely on the following grounds within the GDPR:

  1. Article 6(1)(b) – processing is necessary for the performance of our contracts to provide individuals with care and support services and you with employment
  2. Article 6(1)(c) – processing is necessary for us to demonstrate compliance with the law or regulatory frameworks
  3. Article 6(1)(f) – in pursuit of legitimate interests
  • To analyse and report on the performance and compliance of the business
  • Providing access to company equipment, vehicles and facilities (including phone, vehicles, software and applications)
  • To send, receive and analyse employee feedback.

GDPR recognises that additional care is required when processing special category (sensitive) data such as your health. We process this under the following grounds within GDPR:

  1. Article 9(2)(h) – Provision of health or social care or management of health or social care systems or services.
    1. Article 9(2)(b) – Legal obligations under employment or social benefit law
  1. Article 9(2)(f) – Establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or court.
YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during the application and recruitment process and thereafter.

HOW LONG YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT

We will hold your personal information and records for as long as required in line with the Information Governance Alliance recommendations and/or the Companies regulatory requirements.

KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION OUT OF THE EEA:

We do not, as a matter of course, transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights. In summary, those include rights to:

  1. Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
  2. Access to your personal information
  3. Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
  4. Require the erasure (i.e. deletion) of personal information concerning you, in certain situations. Please note that where we are obliged to keep your personal data due to a regulatory or legal requirement, we will not be able to delete the data and will continue to retain it.
  5. Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
  6. Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing – we do not process your personal information for marketing purposes
  7. Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
  8. Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
  9. Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
  10. Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • Email, call or write to us
  • Let us have enough information to identify you (eg: your name and address)
  • Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
  • Let us know the information to which your request relates, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them
HOW TO COMPLAIN

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. However, if you do have any concerns about our handling of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. All other changes will be updated on our website.

Questions and comments regarding this privacy statement are welcomed and should be addressed to www.Help Unrivalled.co.uk

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

Please see the companies’ Terms and Conditions for the Disclaimer Statement and the Cookies Policy accessed through the Home tab at www.Help Unrivalled.co.uk

PRIVACY STATEMENT – CLIENTS

Please read this privacy statement carefully. It contains important information you need to know on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and other organisations in the event you have a complaint.

1. INTRODUCTION

We are Help Unrivalled Ltd. You can access full details of who we are such as our full company name, registered number and registered office address on our Contact Us page.

As part of the services we offer, we are required to collect, store and use personal data about our staff, our service users and in some instances, collect, store and use the personal data of the friends or relatives of our service users and staff.

Personal information means any information about you from which you can be identified.

As the ‘data controller’ of personal information, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.  The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which applies in the United Kingdom and across the European Union, sets out our obligations to you and your rights in respect of how we manage your personal information.

As the ‘data controller’ of your personal information, we will ensure that the personal information we hold about you is:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely.

Please note when we refer to:

  • A “public body” we mean any organisation in the United Kingdom which delivers, commissions or reviews a public service and includes (but is not limited to) the Ombudsman, local authorities, councils, unitary authorities, clinical commissioning groups, health and social care trusts, the National Health Service as well as their arm’s length bodies and regulators.
  • A “social or health care professional” we mean any person who provides direct services, acts as consultant or is involved in the commission of your healthcare or social care services, including (but not limited to) your General Practitioner (GP), dental staff, pharmacists, nurses and health visitors, clinical psychologists, dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, hospital staff, social workers and other care and support related professionals.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US

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, but we will only do so where this is required or permitted by law.

CLIENTS & CLIENTS’ FAMILIES:

When you enquire about our care and support services and for the duration of providing care and support services to you, we collect the following personal information including special category information, which is either provided by you, obtained by third parties or compiled by us during the course of the provision of your care:

  • Your name, home address, date of birth and contact details (including your telephone number (s) & email address) and emergency contacts (i.e. name, relationship and home and mobile numbers)
  • Needs assessments and financial assessments from any appropriate external social or health care professionals, including any relevant public body regardless of whether you are publicly funded
  • Your allergies and any medical, physical or mental conditions and in particular, your care and support needs. This information may also be obtained from any appropriate external social of healthcare professional, including your GP.
  • Your likes, dislikes and lifestyle preferences (including your religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature in so far as they relate to providing you with suitable care).
  • Any accidents and incidents or near misses you may have been involved in whist on our premises or whilst our employees are delivering a regulated service to you – this may include details of injuries and treatment you may have received.
  • Any other relevant information provided by an Attorney or Deputy if applicable
  • Any other relevant information necessary for the provision of a safe service that meets your care and support needs
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect and use your personal information for the purposes of the performance of a contract, for the provision of social care services and to demonstrate compliance with our regulatory framework and the law as follows:

  • To prepare, review and update a suitable care plan, describing the nature and level of care and support services which you have requested we supply to you.
  • To communicate with you, your representatives and any appropriate external social or health care professional about your individual needs and personalise the service delivered to you
  • To make reasonable adjustments, when required, to meet your individual needs
  • To invoice you for the care and support services in accordance with our Terms and Conditions

We also use your information to carry out quality assurance procedures, review our service and improve our customer service. Please note that feedback can also be provided anonymously.

Who we share your personal information with and why we share this

We will only share your information in the following circumstances:

  1. Where required to do so by law
  2. Where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you
  3. Where we have another legitimate interest to do so

We may share your personal information with law enforcement or other authorities for the purposes of compliance with our legal obligations. This includes:

  • Information required by public bodies to evidence our compliance with the applicable regulatory framework.
  • Sharing personal information with external social or health care professionals, including public bodies, competent authorities, the courts, local safeguarding groups (in some circumstances) to ensure your safety.
  • Sharing personal information as otherwise required by law

We may share your medical information with appropriate external social or health care professionals (including your GP and pharmacist) and any individuals you have nominated as your representative. This data sharing enables us to establish the type of care and support you need. It also allows us to design the right care package to suit your individual circumstances, including if (in future) you decide to receive care from an alternative provider.

We may also share your information with:

  • The relevant members of our staff including field-based staff (Carers/Nurses) who need to know this information in order to provide our services to you or your family. We will only share such of your information as our staff need to know in order to carry out their job.
  • Our office personnel involved in the management and administration of the care services which you or your family are receiving
  • Other health and/or social care professionals and emergency services where appropriate.

Third parties

In order to deliver our service to you we rely on third parties to provide specialist support to us. To provide this support they will have access to, or a duty of care over your personal information. These providers are:

  • IT and Telecoms Support companies – to ensure the safe, secure and resilient operation of our IT infrastructure including computers, servers, phones and mobile devices
  • Software support companies – to provide specialist support and resolve issues with the software that we run, for example the systems we use to store and manage your customer records

We will not share, sell or trade your personal information with any other third party.

Please note that without collecting and processing certain personal data including any data required from you, your family or next of kin, we will be unable to assess your care needs or provide any care services to you.

The provision of your name, home address is required so that we can arrange a care worker to attend your home to deliver the services and so that we can invoice you for the fees.

HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT:

We will hold your personal information and records for as long as required in line with the Information Governance Alliance recommendations and/or the Companies regulatory requirements.

KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Please note that upon commencement of our service, a copy of your Care Plan/Assessment will be placed in your home for the carer/nurse to access for information and for purposes of record keeping.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION OUT OF THE EEA:

We do not, as a matter of course, transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights. In summary, those include rights to:

  1. Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
  2. Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
  3. Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
  4. Require the erasure (i.e. deletion) of personal information concerning you, in certain situations. Please note that if you ask us to delete any of your personal information which we believe is necessary for us to comply with our contractual or legal obligations, we may no longer be able to provide care and support services to you
  5. Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
  6. Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing – we do not process your personal information for marketing purposes
  7. Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
  8. Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
  9. Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
  10. Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • Email, call or write to us
  • Let us have enough information to identify you (eg: your name and address)
  • Let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)

Let us know the information to which your request relates, including any account or reference numbers, if you have them

HOW TO COMPLAIN

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. However, if you do have any concerns about our handling of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. All other changes will be updated on our website.

Questions and comments regarding this privacy statement are welcomed and should be addressed to

Contact@care4cous.com

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

Please see the companies’ Terms and Conditions for the Disclaimer Statement and the Cookies Policy accessed through the Home tab at www.Help Unrivalled.co.uk

4. COOKIES

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
  • cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
  • PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED IN CUSTOMERS)
  • wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
  • wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

If you are not a registered client for our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself.

If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:

  • Our system administrators.
  • Our supporters when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts and access.
6. THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data with in order to provide the services you expect from us. Please see below:

ENVATO PTY LTD

For the purpose of validating and getting your purchase information regarding licenses for our theme, we send your provided tokens and purchase keys to Envato Pty Ltd and use the response from their API to register your validated support data. See the Envato privacy policy here: Envato Privacy Policy.

TICKSY

Ticksy provides the support ticketing platform we use to handle support requests. The data they receive is limited to the data you explicitly provide and consent to being set when you create a support ticket. Ticksy adheres to the EU/US “Privacy Shield” and you can see their privacy policy here: Ticksy Privacy Policy.

7. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

When you submit a support ticket or a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. SECURITY MEASURES

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.

In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.

9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GENERAL RIGHTS

If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.


You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).

If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.

GDPR RIGHTS

Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. AncoraThemes permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of AncoraThemes to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.

10. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

AncoraThemes may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by AncoraThemes, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.

All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties, unless you explicitly click on them.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. AncoraThemes bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

11. RELEASE OF YOUR DATA FOR LEGAL PURPOSES

At times it may become necessary or desirable to AncoraThemes, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.

Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.

12. AMENDMENTS

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.