Privacy Policy

11. INTRODUCTION

At Equlion("we", "us", "our" or "Equlion") we are committed to protect any data that we collect when you use our www.equlion.com website (the "Website") and the online product which you can log in through our Website.

By using our Website you agree to our use of the data that we collect in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as may be amended from time to time. If you accept this Privacy Policy on behalf of your employees, colleagues, or any other person, you hereby represent and warrant that you have obtained their consent to do so in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

22. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Equlion takes data privacy very seriously and is committed to protecting your privacy and your Personal Information. The term "Personal Information" mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Our primary goals in collecting Personal Information are to provide you with the information, services and products made available through the Website and Software, including but not limited to, communication with you and manage your registered user account.

We may receive your Personal Information from various sources as follows:

- Customer Data: Personal Information that we collect, process and manage to communicate with our clients via email, create accounts, or send marketing materials from time to time. We also collect data on behalf of our customers.

- User Data: Contact details of users using our website, provided when contacting us through the Website or upon registration and with respect to their usage and analytics.

When you contact us through the Website, we ask for information such as your name, company name or affiliation, password, and email address.

In order to complete the process of creating an account, we will send you an email requesting you to confirm your account registration. This information is used by Equlion to identify you as a user and provide you with access to use support or to meet any other contractual obligations.

We collect Information under the direction of our customers and often have no direct relationship with the individuals whose Personal Information we process.

In some cases another user (such as a system administrator) may create an account on your behalf and may provide your information, including Personal Information (most commonly when your employer requests to use our products). If you are providing information, including Personal Information, about someone else, you must have the authority to act for them and to consent to the collection and use of their Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy and under applicable data protection law.

We do not collect sensitive information such as medical, health, racial, ethnic, political, religious, philosophic, union membership or sexual orientation. If we are made aware that we have received such information, we will promptly proceed to its deletion.

You are not legally required to provide us with any of your Personal Information and may do so (or avoid doing so) at your own free will. If you do not wish to provide us with your Personal Information, or to have it processed by us or any of our services providers, please do not use our services.

33. LEGAL BASES FOR USING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION

The legal basis for using Personal Information:

(a) Contractual obligations – the processing is necessary for us to provide our customers with the service we are obligated to provide according to the commercial agreement signed between us;

(b) Legitimate interests – such as (a) maintaining and improving our Website, e.g. in understanding how our Website is used and how our campaigns are performing; (b) marketing, advertising and providing customer services, technical support and career opportunities; and (c) protecting and securing our users, customers, ourselves and our services.

(c) Consent – by entering and using our Website, you accept our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, and it will be deemed as your consent to the processing of your Personal Information for all purposes detailed herein, unless applicable law requires a different form of consent.

If you reside or are using our services in a territory governed by privacy laws under which "consent" is the only or most appropriate legal basis for processing Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, all processing pursuant to this policy will be deemed to be under your consent, and if you wish to revoke such consent, please contact us at info@equlion.com.

44. HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Equlion uses the information it collects from you to deliver Equlion services to you and continuously enhance your user experience, to communicate with you, fulfill your requests, customize the content, improve our products and services, protect our and your rights, and comply with laws and regulations, and as follows:

(a) Provision of service – for the provision and improvement of our services, including for support and to respond to your queries.

(b) Service announcements – we will use your Personal Information to communicate with you and to keep you informed of our latest updates to our services and offer you service offers.

(c) Marketing purposes – we may use your Personal Information such as your email address. We may also send you promotional material concerning our services or our partners' services (which we believe may interest you), including but not limited to, by building an automated profile based on your Personal Information, for marketing purposes.

(d) Analytics, surveys and research – from time to time, we may conduct surveys or test features, and analyze the data we have, so that we can develop, evaluate and eventually improve our service and features for our users.

(e) Protecting our interests – we may use your Personal Information when we believe it's necessary in order to take precautions against liabilities, investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, investigate and protect ourselves from fraud, protect the security or integrity of our services and protect the rights and property of Equlion, its users and/or partners.

(f) Enforcing of policies – we may use your Personal Information in order to enforce our policies, including but not limited to our Terms of Service.

(g) Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements – we may use your Personal Information to investigate violations, and as required by law, regulation or other governmental authority, or to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process.

In addition we may contact you, via any email address you provide to us, with transactional or relationship messages such as account status, security updates or notifications of changes in the terms of your account or the Equlion services. These types of transactional or relationship email messages are not optional.

55. WITH WHOM INFORMATION IS SHARED

Equlion does not share Personal Information collected from your use of Website with others, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We will never sell your Personal Information.

Equlion may share Personal Information with service providers and third parties for our operational purposes to enable the provisions of our services and with other service providers who provide crucial functions such as: customer support platforms, hosting service providers, payment processors, analytics partners, third party account providers, security and/or social media service and in particular on the following circumstances:

(a) In the course of operating our business, it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your Personal Information to others such as our service providers, contractors and selected vendors so that we can operate the Equlion service and our business.

(b) To respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights, to defend against legal claims or in such circumstances where, in our judgment, disclosure is required or appropriate in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

(c) If we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our various terms of service or as otherwise required by law.

(d) As part of a business transaction- Equlion may sell all or part of its business, and Personal Information collected from users is generally one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred Personal Information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.

(e) To bill our customers for subscription fees- Equlion uses the services of a credit card processing companies. These third parties do not retain, share or store the personally identifiable information other than for the purpose of providing its payment processing services and are bound by strict agreements limiting their use of such information. We use commercially reasonable efforts to only engage or interact with third party service providers and partners that post a privacy policy governing their processing of Personal Information.

66. DATA RETENTION

We may retain communications with you in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Website and/or the services we provide. Unless instructed otherwise by a customer or user, by default we do not retain identified usage data. We also periodically review and delete or de-identify inactive data and related Personal Information that have been inactive for five years.

77. HOW INFORMATION IS PROTECTED

Your Equlion accounts may be secured by user-created passwords, in which case reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that your account information is kept private. You are responsible for keeping your passwords confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

In the event that Personal Information is compromised as a breach of security, Equlion will promptly notify its customers in compliance with applicable law.

88. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

Please be aware that information you provide to us, or we obtain as a result of your use of the Website, may be processed and transferred to other countries. We and our affiliates generally process and access the Personal Information from Turkey and the U.S. This information may also be processed by staff working for us or for one of our suppliers. The privacy and data protection laws in such countries may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using our website, or by providing us with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in countries.

Equlion strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, Equlion intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy. See our Data Transfer Policy for further information.

99. DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, Equlion wishes to maintain it accurate and up to date. Where we collect Personal Information from you, our goal is to provide a means of contacting Equlion should you need to access, update or correct that Information.

Contact us at info@equlion.com and we will make reasonable efforts to promptly provide you with the information or assistance you need free of charge.

Further, if you notify us that such information is incorrect, or you wish to have such information removed, we will correct, amend, or delete your Personal Information as soon as practicable. Your Personal Information will be removed without the requirement to state a reason for discontinuing your account with us.

1010. MINORS

Equlion, its websites and services, are not designed nor structured to attract children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under the age of 13 or knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to register for the Equlion service. If you are under 13, do not register or attempt to register for any of the Equlion service or send any information about yourself to us. No one under the age of 13 may provide any Personal Information to, on or through the Equlion service. If we learn that we have collected or have been sent Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that Personal Information as soon as reasonably practical. If you believe that we might have collected or been sent Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, please contact our Support team at info@equlion.com as soon as possible.

1111. TRACKING TOOLS

Cookies and other tracking technologies.

Cookies are small files that a website or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the websites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.

While Equlion uses cookies to track your visits, and our web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, this information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided Equlion with Personal Information.

Some cookies are associated with your account and Personal Information in order to remember that you are logged in. Other cookies are not tied to your account but are unique and allow us to carry out analytics and customization, among other similar things. Cookies can be used to recognize you when you visit this Website or use our services, remember your preferences, and give you a personalized experience that's consistent with your settings. Cookies also make your interactions faster and more secure.

1212. THIRD PARTY LINKS

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our Website. These third-party services have separate and independent privacy policies on their websites. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Website and welcome feedback about these third-party websites.

1313. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Equlion reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice or acceptance by you, so please check this page frequently for updates and changes. Your continued use signifies your acceptance to any change in this policy.

1414. QUESTIONS

You may contact us at info@equlion.com for any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy.