Privacy
HIYALIFE LIMITED (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our
terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets
out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will
be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices
regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
http://hiyalife.com and any other site owned and operated by HIYALIFE LIMITED
(together “our site”) is currently at a testing stage, the aim of which is to test our site for its
launch. While we will try to transfer any information you have provided to us during our
testing stage, we give no guarantees or assurances that at the end of the testing stage such
information will be transferred to our site. We may also modify our site during the testing
stage in a way that may cause a loss of information. We are not liable for any such loss and it
is your responsibility to back up any information you upload to our site.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is HIYALIFE
LIMITED. You can contact the Data Controller at
hi@hiyalife.com.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site or you upload to your profile
page or the profile page of other users at our sites. This includes information provided at
the time of registering to use our site or provided during the use of your use of our site,
subscribing to our service, posting materials or requesting further services. We may also
ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you
do not have to respond to them.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data,
weblogs and other communication data.
IP ADDRESSES
We may 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.
COOKIES
Similar to many websites, we use cookies to collect additional website usage data and to
improve our services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard
disk. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you
interact with our site, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our
site, and to improve our site. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop
accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates
statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on
users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports
about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is
available at:
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination 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. Such staff maybe engaged in, among
other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the
provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is
treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
During out testing stage we use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and
for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which
we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do
so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may
provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate
information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may
make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our
advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our
subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 1159 of
the UK Companies Act 2006 and our branches.
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 HIYALIFE LIMITED 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 HIYALIFE LIMITED, our customers, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations 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 also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at
hi@hiyalife.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.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be
exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to
meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and,
where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. By continuing to use our services you will be
deemed to have agreed to these changes.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be
addressed to
hi@hiyalife.com.