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We take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs your access to and use of the services offered through the website www.pronety.com (the "Website"), operated by VCMC Technologies Ltd ("Pronety”). Pronety acts as the data controller in respect of personal data collected through the Pronety platform. Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.This Privacy Policy sets out the policies and procedures governing the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information and data when you use our Services and applies to the activities of Pronety and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “we” or “us”). If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you must discontinue access to our Website and cease using our Services.
We collect information that you provide to us, as well as information that is collected automatically when you access our Website and use our Services.
We collect technical information, including your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone settings, device type, and operating system. We also collect the date and time of your access to our Website or use of our Services, the pages you visit, the duration of your visit, and the address of the referring website or the website you visit after leaving our Website.
As described in our Cookie Policy, we collect certain information through the use of cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device at the request of our Website in order to recognize you and enable us to remember your settings and preferences, login details, and other information. You may disable, block, or delete cookies as described in our Cookie Policy, however, doing so may affect your ability to log in to your account or use certain parts of our Services. We also permit third parties, as described in our Cookie Policy, to place their own cookies to collect, track, and analyse usage and statistical information from users.
When you create an account on Pronety, we collect personal information that you provide. Depending on the type of account, we may collect the following:
Guest - full name and email address. To complete your profile you may also select the areas (country, provinces) and skills (profession, expertise) that you would like to follow.
Information contained in Professional and Business profiles constitutes public information and is visible to all users of the Pronety platform. Professional or Business profile owners may also elect to permit their profiles to be indexed by search engines (such as Google and Bing) so that they may appear in search results generated by those search engines.
As a Professional or Business member, you may publish content and information in a publicly accessible section of the Website (“public page”), including your CV and articles. Such content and the associated information in your profile are collected and are visible to other users. Your publication on a public page constitutes your explicit consent to the public disclosure of such information. Additionally, at your election, your profile and articles may be indexed by search engines (such as Google and Bing). In such case, you acknowledge that such content and information may be widely disseminated via search engines and similar tools.
The questions, answers, and chats between users of the platform also form part of the user-generated content that is collected and stored, however, such content does not constitute publicly available information and is not visible to other users.
Upon registration of a new member account or when logging in, you may elect to use a linked network (such as Google or Facebook). In such cases, we collect certain profile and account information from the linked network, including your full name, email address, and avatar image.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties for their own marketing purposes. We collect and process your personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so, including where you have provided your consent, where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract (to deliver the services you have requested), and where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that such interests do not override your rights and freedoms. Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw or decline such consent at any time. Where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object at any time.
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We use your personal data to facilitate and personalise your use of the Services. This may include processing your requests, filtering and tailoring the content and information that we send or display to you, and enabling others to find your profile and communicate with you. In addition, we may use the data collected to notify you of changes to the Services or additional services that may be offered on the Pronety platform, to respond to your enquiries, and for other customer service purposes.
Personal data collected automatically through cookies and other tracking technologies may be used to analyse usage metrics in order to better understand how users access and use the Pronety platform. Such information assists us in improving the Services, providing better customer service, diagnosing technical issues with our Website, and developing new services.
We may communicate with you regarding the availability of our Services, security matters, and other related issues. We may contact you by email, telephone, notices posted on our Website, or other methods through the Services. Please note that you may not opt out of receiving service-related, security-related, and legal notices.
Personal data is used for system administration and internal operations, data analysis, testing, and statistical purposes, as well as to comply with legal obligations and to maintain the security of our Website and Services.
We may send you newsletters containing news and updates relevant to your areas of interest and expertise, in accordance with your stated preferences. </br>We may also send you promotions relating to new products and services and provide suggestions and recommendations that we believe may be of interest to you. </br>You may opt out of receiving marketing and promotional communications at any time.
The content you provide including your CV and articles, together with your associated profile information (such as name, email address, profile picture, and contact information) is publicly accessible. At your election it may be indexed by search engines (such as Google and Bing), and appear in search results generated by those search engines.
Where we engage third-party service providers (including hosting providers, advisers, consultants, customer support providers, and advertising and marketing partners) in connection with our Services or to assist us with advertising and marketing, we may share your information with such service providers to enable them to perform services on our behalf.
Your information may be disclosed where required by law or where necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Service.
We may share aggregated statistics and anonymised reports (without identifying information) with third parties for research, marketing analytics, and other purposes, and to assist us in improving and optimising our Website.
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our Services and your user experience, we may add, remove, or modify features of our Services. This may result in the collection of new data or changes to the manner in which data is collected and used. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that there has been a material change to the personal data collected, the methods of collection, or the use of personal data, we will notify you and update this Privacy Policy accordingly.
Your profile data and User Content will generally be retained for as long as you maintain an account with us. If you delete your account, we may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, retain your personal data where reasonably necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and to resolve disputes. Upon deletion of your account, your information will be removed. Depending on your membership type, this may include personal profile information, contact details, CVs, business connections, articles, answers and messages exchanged. Any questions you have asked will remain on the Website, however, your username will no longer be displayed in connection with such content. Following account deletion, your profile data may continue to appear in third-party services (such as search engine results) until those services refresh their data. Cached or other references to your data in third-party services may not be removed where such services are outside our reasonable control.
If you are a registered member, you may access, amend, or delete (through your account dashboard) some or all of your personal data and User Content, or exercise certain opt-out rights. You may request that we correct or delete your personal data, and you have the right to object to, limit, or restrict our use of part or all of your personal data. You may also request a copy of your personal data in a commonly used format. Further information regarding your rights may be obtained from the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.
Please direct all requests to privacy@pronety.com, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law.
You have the right to file a complaint with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority regarding our use of your personal data. If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, we encourage you to contact us first at privacy@pronety.com so that we may seek to resolve the matter.
Pronety has implemented appropriate technical and organisational safeguards to protect your data and to prevent security breaches. However, no website or internet transmission is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee that your personal data will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed as a result of a breach of our security measures.
We and our service providers may transfer, store, and process your data in countries with data protection laws that differ from those in your country of residence. By submitting your personal data to us, you consent to such transfers. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which it is processed and stored.
You may link to our Website, provided that you do so in a fair and lawful manner and not in any way that is intended to damage our reputation or take unfair advantage of it.
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites and resources. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the information practices of such third-party websites, which are governed by their own policies and not by this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at privacy@pronety.com.
