Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

(IDEACARBON) is strongly committed to protecting your privacy online and has taken steps to protect the information you share with us. Requests and information are transmitted via a secure server, which encrypts all input prior to being sent, and all information is securely stored. To help us protect your privacy, please maintain the secrecy of the logon ID and password you may have set up in connection with your participation in any IDEACARBON service.


Collection of Information

IDEACARBON may collect and process information about you, including information which you provide by filling in a registration form, information that you might provide to us in the course of contact between us of any type, details of transactions that you or your employer may undertake and details of visits to our site.

We may also collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. 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 our 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 site.
 

Use of Information

The information we collect about you may be used by us and persons acting on our behalf:

  • to process registration and subscription requests for our services, and other customer relationship management activities, 
  • to provide you with any services to which you subscribe, and any service-related activities such as collecting subscription fees, monitoring usage and notifying you or contacting you regarding any problem with, or the expiration of, such services
  • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you and to discuss this with you.

It may be necessary for IDEACARBON to disclose your personal information to one or more agents and contractors of IDEACARBON, but such agents and contractors will be required to agree to use the information obtained from IDEACARBON only for the same purposes as IDEACARBON.
It may also be necessary for IDEACARBON to transfer this personal information to other territories for the purpose of or in the course of providing these services. By using this website, and by providing this information to us, you confirm that you consent, in accordance with applicable data protection legislation in any relevant territory, to the collection, processing and use of this personal information by IDEACARBON, our affiliated companies and our authorised agents, contractors and third parties.

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination inside or outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers, including in connection with customer relationship management. Such staff maybe engaged in any of the above uses including the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We and our suppliers will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries and associated companies.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • if IDEACARBON or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of IDEACARBON, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@ideacarbon.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

IDEACARBON reserves the right to change this statement at any time by posting revisions on this Web site. This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. You may notify us at any time of any corrections or changes in your personal information by contacting us at info@ideacarbon.com.