At Psychics-Advisor.com, your privacy is of utmost importance to us. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information and ensuring a safe browsing experience. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
By consenting to our use of cookies in line with this policy when you first visit our site, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit Psychics-Advisor.com.
1. Collecting Personal Information
We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:
- Device Information: Details about your computer or device, including IP address, geographic location, browser type, and operating system.
- Usage Information: Information about your visits and use of this site, including referral source, visit duration, pages viewed, and navigation paths.
- Communication Information: Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata.
- Other Information: Any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
2. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:
- Consent: Where you have provided your consent for us to process your data for specific purposes.
- Contract Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
- Compliance with Legal Obligations: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, provided that such interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
3. Using Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Administering Our Website: Ensuring the website functions smoothly and is user-friendly.
- Personalizing Your Experience: Customizing the website for you.
- Communication: Sending you non-marketing commercial communications and email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- Improving Our Services: Analyzing and improving the website’s usability and content.
4. Cookie Compliance
Our use of cookies and similar technologies is in compliance with the EU ePrivacy Directive and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). We obtain your consent before placing cookies on your device, except where cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our Website. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or our cookie consent tool. For more details, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
5. Disclosing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Additionally, we may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.
- To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
6. International Data Transfers
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, including countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. In such cases, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), to protect your data.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.
7. Retaining Personal Information
This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes, taking into account the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing, as well as the need to comply with legal obligations and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.
8. Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
9. Your Rights
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR, you have the right to:
- Access your personal data.
- Rectify inaccuracies in your personal data.
- Erase your personal data (right to be forgotten).
- Object to or restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Data portability.
- Withdraw consent at any time (without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal).
- Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling.
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
If you believe that our processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR or UK GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EU Member State or the UK where you reside, work, or where the alleged infringement occurred.
10. Automated Decision-Making
We do not engage in automated decision-making, including profiling, that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. If this changes, we will inform you and provide details about the logic involved, as well as the significance and consequences for you.
11. Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
12. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
13. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this privacy policy or the way we handle your personal information, please feel free to contact us using the following details:
- By Email: contact@psychics-advisor.com
- By filling the form on the “Contact” page of our website
We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible and are committed to resolving any concerns you may have regarding your privacy.