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Privacy Policy

Your privacy and the protection of your personal data are extremely important to us. We take great care to protect the privacy of customers and users of Marco’s’ website and landing pages. This privacy notice explains who we are, what personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, with whom we might share it and what rights you have.

INTRODUCTION 

 (the “Site” or “Website”) is a site operated by Marco Capital Holdings Limited (“Marco”; “we”; “us”; “our”), who also provides it on behalf of its subsidiaries.

This Cookies & Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is part of our website terms of use which set outs the rules for using our Site. Those terms of use are set out in full in the Legal Notice and, by continuing to use or access our Site, you shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by them. Both documents, that is this Policy and our website terms of use, should be read in conjunction with one another.

This Policy set outs how we, Marco, collect and use your personal data when viewing or using our Site (regardless of where you visit or use it from). It also explains what “cookies” we use and how we do so.

We do occasionally update this Policy, so please do return and review this Policy from time to time.

CONTROLLER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Marco Capital Holdings Limited having its registered office at 171 Old Bakery Street, Valletta VLT 1455, Malta is the controller of, and is responsible for, your personal data. If you have any questions about this Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights as a data subject, please contact us using the details set out below.

Contact details

Full name of legal entity: Marco Capital Holdings Limited

Email address: contact@marcocapital.net

Postal address: 171, Old Bakery Street, Valletta VLT 1455, Malta

Kindly use the words ‘Data Protection Matter’ in the subject line.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This Policy is limited to this website. 

Our Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling such connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. 

Those websites should have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to check and read. We have no control whatsoever over such websites and if you use a link to leave the Site and access a third-party website you accept and agree that we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you might provide, make available to or is otherwise collected by such third-party website. 

MINORS

Our Site is not intended for minors, and we do not knowingly collect information relating to minors. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that that your child (being a minor) has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

If we become aware that we have collected personal information about a minor without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In running and operating this Site, we may collect and process certain data and information relating to you and your use of the Site. This data and information are detailed below:

  1. Details of visits to our Site and the pages and resources that are accessed, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data that may assist us in understanding how visitors use this Site. We do not collect personal information from visitors to the website.
  2. Information that visitors provide to us as a result of filling in forms on our Site, such as when a visitor registers for information, or sends us an email. 
  3. Information provided to us when our visitors communicate with us electronically for any reason.

You also have the option on certain pages within the Site and on our landing pages to submit additional personal information to Marco, so that we might send you further information (e.g., on the “Contact Us” form). This could include your name, company name, e-mail address, your feedback and/or queries. We will use this information to respond to your email and provide you with your requested information. We may further keep a record of this correspondence, including to help us with responding to your further queries.

We may ask you for information when you report a problem with our website or landing pages.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

The information we collect is used for our own use in developing our Site. 

In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide you with information relating to our Site or the products or services you request from us. If you request specific types of marketing communications from us, we will use your data to deliver this to you.  Depending on your indicated wishes, this could include research, newsletters, events,  webinar invitations, information about new products and promotions.
  2. To provide you with information on other products that we feel may be of interest to you. 
  3. To meet our contractual obligations to you. 
  4. To improve the content and function of the Site.  For this reason, we may monitor traffic patterns and site usage to help us improve the Site’s design and layout and to tailor our website content.
  5. To notify you about any changes to our Site, including improvements, and service or product changes that may affect our Site.

If you are an existing customer, we may also seek to contact you with information about goods and services similar to those that you have expressed an interest in previously via our Site. 

We will do so on the basis of our business legitimate interests, provided you have not opted out of receiving marketing from us (see your right to object below).

If you are a new customer, we will only contact you only when you have provided consent and, only by those means you provided consent for. We may also use your data to provide you with information about related and / or unrelated goods and services which we consider are likely to be of interest to you.  We may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods for which you have given your consent.

You may change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time by emailing us at contact@marcocapital.net

IP ADDRESS

An IP Address would contain information regarding the location of your computer on the internet (your country of origin), and the name of your ISP. Such information, when combined with other available information, may then potentially lead to, or otherwise allow for, your identification. For these reasons, EU Data Protection Law treats IP Addresses as personal data with the resulting protections.

When we log your IP Address, the data collected is grouped up with the other logged IP Addresses in order to provide us with the statistics on the geographic location of visitors to our Site, how long they stay on the Site, which are the most viewed pages and for other statistical reasons that may be relevant to us.

We gather your IP address automatically and store it in log files. These files also contain information relating to your browser type, ISP, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data and the files viewed on the Site. Collecting this type of information allows us to generate aggregate information for the purposes of developing our Site, including in terms of overall user trends and activities online (such as the number of unique visitors, pages accessed and viewed most frequently or the search terms entered). It also allows us to administer the Website, diagnose any potential server problems, analyse visitor trends and statistics, and generally helps us to provide you with a better internet experience. 

IP Addresses are not stored for longer than necessary for the above stated purposes. 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  1. Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
  2. Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
  3. To assist fraud reduction and minimise credit risks.

In certain cases, we may need disclose your data if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, judgment or under an order from a court, tribunal or authority or in order to enforce or apply our website terms of use other agreements, or to protect our rights or property or those of our other users. This includes exchanging information with regulatory bodies in Malta or if applicable, overseas, public bodies including the Police and other organisations and may undertake credit or fraud searches with relevant agencies for the purposes of fraud detection and prevention. 

It may also sometimes be necessary to transfer your data outside of the EEA for these purposes. Should this be necessary, it will be done in accordance with the applicable regulations and with suitable safeguards in place, such as standard contractual clauses approved and published by the European Commission.

SECURITY

We are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the information that you provide to us and we have put in place, including on the Site, appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect against any unauthorised access or damage to, or disclosure or loss of, your information.

You should also be aware that communications over the internet, such as e-mails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Websites and social media links may contain links to third party websites. These other websites will be subject to their own privacy policies which may differ from this Policy. You should carefully read the privacy policies of these websites before submitting any personal information.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. 

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction (rectification) of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at contact@marcocapital.net.

  • Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation that your information is being processed and to obtain access to your information, e.g. by receiving a copy of it.
  • Rectification: You have the right to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion or removal of your information in certain circumstances.  Please note that there may be circumstances where it is not possible to fulfil the request for your information to be deleted, e.g if there is a legal reason to retain it.
  • Object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest or those of a third party, and you want to object to that processing as you feel that it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.  You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Restrict: You have the right to request that the processing of your information is restricted in certain circumstances.  Again, there may be cases where we are legally entitled to refuse such a request.
  • Data Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide that personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. This right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. 
  • Withdrawal: You may withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. This will not however affect the lawfulness of any processing which we carried out before you withdrew your consent. Any processing activities that are not based on your consent will remain unaffected. Once we have been made aware that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal data for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

Kindly note that none of these data subject rights are absolute and must generally be weighed against our own legal obligations and legitimate interests. If a decision is taken to override your data subject request, you will be informed of this by our data protection team along with the reasons for our decision.

COOKIES

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

We have implemented and activated cookies on our Site to help distinguish you from other users. These cookies allow us to analyse trends and administer our Site, to help provide you with a good experience when browsing through our website pages and to also improve them at the same time.

A cookie is a “small file” of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or on your mobile device, if you agree to let us do so. A cookie enables our Site to remember users that have already visited. Without a cookie, every time you open a new web page, the server where that page is stored will treat you like a completely new visitor. 

So-called “first party cookies” are cookies which are served by the entity operating the domain through which the cookie is served. Our own cookies are therefore “first party cookies”. In case we allow others to service cookies through our Site, these cookies are so-called “third party cookies”. In addition, there is also a difference between “session cookies” and “permanent cookies”. Session cookies will only exist until you close your browser. Permanent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted once you close your browser. 

Cookies are used for different purposes. They allow you to be recognised as the same user across the pages of a website, between websites or when you use an app. Cookies allow us to remember your custom preferences such as your language preference and allow you to complete tasks without having to re-enter your information when browsing. The types of information that we collect through cookies include IP address, device ID, viewed pages, browser type, browsing information, operating system, internet service provider, timestamp, whether you have responded to an advertisement, the referring URL and features used or activities engaged in within the Website.

Our Site uses cookies for different purposes. 

COOKIES WE USE

Below are the individual cookies we use and the purposes which we use them:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. By way of illustration, they include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site.
  • Analytical Cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the Site when using it and gain insight on how our visitors use it. This means we can find out what works and what doesn’t, optimize and improve our Site, understand the effectiveness of advertisements and communications, and ensure we continue to be interesting and relevant. The data we gather can include which web pages you have viewed, which referring/exit pages you have entered and left from, the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you enter into various fields. This helps us to improve the manner in which our Site works, such as by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking in a seamless and straightforward manner. 
  • Functionality Cookies. These are used to recognise you when your return to our Site, to help you to use it efficiently and effectively. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region) and searches. These functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our Website, but they add functionality and enhance your experience as user or visitor.
  • Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website, together with the advertising displayed on them, more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this particular purpose.
  • Technical Cookies: We try to give our visitors an advanced, user-friendly website and app that adapt automatically to their needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our Website, to make it function correctly. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our Website and App to function properly, i.e. a ‘strictly necessary cookie’.
  • Third Party Cookies. These are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie. We sometimes embed content from other third-party sites.  As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites.  We do not control the dissemination of these cookies.  You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.
  • Commercial Cookies: We use third-party cookies as well as our own to display personalized advertisements on our websites and on other websites. This is called “retargeting,” and it is based on browsing activities, such as the items you have been searching for.

In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our Site (including advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services). 

Those third parties may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our Site and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed. 

Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. We do not control these cookies and to disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third party’s website. These cookies are likely to be analytical and performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We strive to serve cookies or allow the serving of cookies with a maximum lifespan of one (1) year. Only in exceptional circumstances, such as for security purposes and where absolutely necessary, will a cookie have a longer lifespan than that.

MANAGING COOKIES AND YOUR CHOICES

You do not have to accept cookies to use our Site.

How to delete and block our cookies

You can change your cookie preferences when you visit our Site by going to the Cookie Preference Centre by clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this Policy. You can also control or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site or use some of its functions.

Changing your cookie settings

You can change your cookie settings by going to the Cookie Preference Centre by clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this policy.

Please note that many browsers allow you to browse privately, whereby cookies are automatically erased after you visit a site. In the settings for browsers such as Internet Explorer, Safari or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use. Use the “Help” function in your browser to locate the settings you need. For your guidance, the following is a list of the most common browsers and the way in which you can activate private browsing:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and later versions: In Private
  • Safari 2 and later versions: Private Navigation/Browsing
  • Firefox 3.5 and later versions: Private Navigation/Browsing
  • Google Chrome 10 and later versions: Incognito

Can I withdraw my consent?

If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete your cookies using your internet browser settings or clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this policy and change your settings.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.com and the help section of your browser. 

YOUR CONSENT

Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.

For performance, functionality, targeting and social media cookies, we request your consent before placing them on your device. You can give your consent by continuing to use our Site, or by clicking on the appropriate button on the banner displayed to you, or by going to the Cookie Preference Centre. If you do not wish to give consent or wish to withdraw your consent to any performance, functionality, targeting or social media cookies at any time, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see above for more information on how to do this or by changing your settings in the Cookie Preference Centre. Please note that disabling these cookies will affect the functionality of the website and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on the website.

Therefore, please be aware that if you do block or reject cookies (including technical and/or functional cookies), you would still be able to access and use Site, but your ability to some of their functions or features, together with the services that you connect to through Site, may be limited or may simply not work or function properly.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our Site also uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (“Google”).

Google Analytics employs cookies. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.  In using Google Analytics, our website employs the extension, “gat.anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from Member States of the European Union or signatory states to the Agreement on the EEA.

Google uses this information to analyse your use of our Website, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to website and internet use. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf.   Google states that it will never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly, as discussed earlier on this Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our Site.

Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage. You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

CONCLUSION

This Policy may be updated from time to time. 

You have the right to lodge a complaint at any time to a competent supervisory authority on data protection matters, such as in particular the supervisory authority in the place of your habitual residence or your place of work.  We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

Please note that if our business, or any part of it, is sold or transferred at any time, the information we hold may form part of the assets transferred, although it will still only be used in accordance with this Policy.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Policy at any time.  Please read this Policy carefully and re-visit this page from time to time to review for changes.

This Policy applies to you whether you use the Site or our landing pages for personal purposes, or have entered into a contract with Marco in relation to the supply of specific services and/or products.  In the event of any conflict between this Policy and the terms of any contract or agreement which you have with Marco, the relevant provision of that contract or agreement shall prevail.

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