Privacy policy
Our Privacy Policy provides the mandatory information indicated in the Data Protection Act 2017 on personal data management carried out during your use of our website(s), also during your use of services provided by our company and by providing us with personal data for other purposes. By visiting this internet website and/ or by using information and/ or services contained therein, you acknowledge and confirm that you have been introduced with the below information on the personal data management.
Our Privacy Policy provides thee conditions applied to businesses and individuals that visit our internet website, carry out communication with our company, or submit their personal data. Please regularly read this relevant version of the document because its content may be subject to change in the near future. Our website may also contain links to external websites (third parties’ websites) that you voluntarily access, and we emphasize that we shall not be responsible for the protection of any information you provide to the said external websites. External websites are not governed by our Privacy Policy.
The following information may be collected from you, and it is at your discretion to disclose the information to our company:
- Name of Directors
- Contact information including email address
- Company name, address, website and turnover
- Other relevant information
We collect the above information solely to assess your business requirements and to provide advice prior we onboard you as our client or merchant and such information shall be used solely for our internal records, improve our products and services (in case of surveys or feedback forms) as well as to send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we personally believe shall be of interest to you using the email address.
We shall not use your personal information to sell or distribute or lease to third parties unless we have your permission. If you wish our company to delete your personal information or make changes to the information submitted to us, you may contact us at our head office or email us on business@worldcardpay.com.
Data Security: Our company is a PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant with data security as our key priority. Beyond robust encryption protocols and tokenization, we harness the power of machine learning to detect, prevent and block suspicious transactions. We have also put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect online
What principles of personal data protection do we follow?
When collecting and using your personal data submitted by you on our website or by email or other means and received from other sources, the following principles are being followed:
- Registration with the Data Protection Office and complies with the Data Protection Act 2017
- Principle of legality, good faith and transparency: Your personal data are managed in a safe, honest and transparent manner;
- Principle of limitation of purpose: Your personal data are collected for established, clearly defined and legal purposes and are not further managed in a way that is not harmonised with these purposes;
- Principle of decrease in number of data Your personal data are adequate, appropriate and only such that are necessary in order to achieve the purposes, for which they are managed;
- Principle of accuracy Managed personal data are accurate and, if necessary, updated;
- Principle of limitation of duration of storage Your personal data are kept in such a form that the identity is determined for no longer than it is necessary for the purposes that your personal data is managed for;
- Principle of integrity and confidentiality Your personal data are managed in a way that in applying respective technical and organizational means, the appropriate safety of personal data is ensured, including the protection against the data management without permission or illegal data management and from accidental loss, destruction or damage.
The use of cookies on our website
Cookie is a small file made of letters and number that is recorded in your browser or hard-disk drive. Different cookies are used for different purposes. Cookies also help to distinguish you from other internet website users, therefore ensure more pleasant experience of Internet website use and allow improving Internet website.
The majority of browsers allow rejecting all cookies and certain browsers provide the possibility to reject only cookies of third parties. So, So, it is at your discretion to accept or reject. Notwithstanding, blocking of all cookies will have negative effect on the use of the Internet website and without cookies you will not be able to use all services provided in the Internet website.
Our Internet website uses the following cookies:
- performance improvement (session) cookies. They are intended for the improvement of Internet website and collect general (anonymous) information on Internet website use;
- analytical (observation cookies from Google Analytics). These cookies allow recognizing and counting website visitors and observing how visitors navigate through the Internet website and use it. This helps improving performance of the Internet website, for example, ensuring that the users are able to freely find what they are looking for. The grounds for management of data collected by these cookies is consent;
- functional cookies. These cookies are used to recognize Internet website visitors when they return to the Internet website. This allows providing the content adapted to the needs of website’s visitors in social medias, to remember the information relevant to the clients. The grounds for management of data collected by these cookies is the consent provided by clients.
Controlling cookies:
Your browsers may be set to automatically accept cookies. It is your discretion to keep cookies or turn them off in your browser under your settings. However, if you reject cookies, you may not be able to make use of certain functions. In addition, our website may allow third parties to set and reach cookies on your computer. In such a case, privacy policy of third parties shall apply to the use of cookies.
Disclosure of information
We will only disclose your personal data if:
- The law requires it or such personal data is exempted from data protection laws;
- Such disclosure is for the administration of justice or in the public interest or relates to the use of a unique identification number to facilitate sharing information and avoid multiple registrations among public sector agencies;
- Such disclosure is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to enable you to enter into a contract; or
- Such disclosure is required to protect your own vital interests;
- You agreed that we may disclose your data for the purposes for which such data has been collected and of which you have been informed.
We may be required from time to time to disclose your personal information to Governmental, or judicial bodies or agencies or our regulators, but we will only do so under proper authority. We shall exercise all reasonable efforts to narrow the scope of any such requirement and furnish only that portion of personal information which we are compelled to disclose and exercise all reasonable efforts to obtain assurance that such personal information will be handled in all confidence.