This document declares the undertakings by AppsWiz in relation to its handling of Your Data.
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Data Collection
Appswiz undertakes to collect Your Data by means that are:
- fair;
- legal; and
- transparent
If you visit AppsWiz's web-site, your web-browser automatically discloses,
and AppsWiz's web-server automatically logs, the following information: the
date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of
browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred
you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful.
This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web-form, may also be logged.
This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that your web-browser automatically provides may also be logged.
This will be the case, for example, if your browser has previously been requested to
store data on your computer in 'cookies' and submits them each time you request a
web-page within a particular domain (such as AppsWiz.com). This data may or may not be
sufficient to identify you.
If you disclose personal data to AppsWiz in conjunction with an identifier such
as your name or your credit-card details, AppsWiz will collect Your Data. Moreover,
any data that becomes available to AppsWiz through any of the means described in the
preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier, and hence
become Your Data.
Subject to the qualifications immediately below, AppsWiz undertakes to collect
Your Data from you and not from other parties. This undertaking is qualified as follows:
- where AppsWiz reasonably considers that the protection of its
financial interests requires that it gather YourData from other sources, or
from additional sources. This applies in particular where AppsWiz has a lending
exposure to you, and seeks information about your creditworthiness;
- where AppsWiz reasonably considers that its capability to deliver
quality services to you will be materially enhanced by gathering YourData from other
sources. This applies in particular to consumer profile data.
Where AppsWiz collects Your Data from sources other than you, it undertakes:
- to do so only by legal means;
- to do so only with your Consent; and
- to declare to you what sources it uses, and under what circumstances.
AppsWiz undertakes to declare the purpose of collection in a manner which is clear
and meaningful, and to avoid vague, highly inclusive statements such as 'to support
our operations'.
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Data Security
AppsWiz undertakes to store Your Data in a manner that ensures security against
unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
AppsWiz undertakes to store Your Data only in jurisdictions where data protections
are at least equivalent to those required under the OECD Guidelines.
AppsWiz undertakes to transmit Your Data in a manner that ensures security against
unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
AppsWiz undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of Your Data
against inappropriate behaviour by AppsWiz's staff-members and contractors. These include:
- training for staff in relation to privacy;
- access control, to limit access to Your Data to those staff and contractors
who have legitimate reasons to access it;
- particularly in the case of sensitive data, audit trails of accesses,
including the identities of staff and contractors accessing the data;
- reminders to staff and contractors from time to time about the importance
of data privacy, and the consequences of inappropriate behaviour;
- declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in
the event of inappropriate behaviour
- clear communication of policies and sanctions; and
- processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions.
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Data Use
Use refers to the application of Your Data by any part of AppsWiz, or any staff-member
or contractor of AppsWiz in the course of their work.
AppsWiz undertakes to use Your Data only for:
- the purposes for which it was collected;
- such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between AppsWiz and You;
- such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these
circumstances, AppsWiz will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate
to You that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
- such additional purposes as are authorised by law (in particular to protect
AppsWiz's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to
fulfil your undertakings to AppsWiz or have committed a breach of the criminal law).
AppsWiz undertakes to use YourData only if it has demonstrable relevance to the particular
use to which it is being put.
AppsWiz undertakes to use Your Data in such a manner as to take into account the possibility
that it is not of sufficient quality for the purpose, e.g. because it is inaccurate, out-of-date,
incomplete, or out-of-context.
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Data Disclosure
Disclosure refers to making YourData available to any party other than AppsWiz and You. The
term disclosure may include many different conditions of data transfer, including selling, renting,
trading, sharing and giving.
AppsWiz undertakes to disclose Your Data only under the following circumstances:
- in the course of business being conducted between You and AppsWiz, where
disclosure is necessary to a contractor, such as a transport company. Where Your Data is
disclosed in this way, AppsWiz undertakes to exercise control over AppsWiz's contractors to
ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
- in other circumstances that are directly implied by the purpose agreed between
You and AppsWiz at the time of data collection or subsequently. Where Your Data is disclosed
in this way, AppsWiz undertakes to exercise control over AppsWiz's contractors to ensure that
their actions are compliant with these Terms;
- with your consent, or at your request;
- where required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order
such as a search warrant or sub poena. In these circumstances, AppsWiz will take any reasonable
steps available to it to communicate to You that the disclosure has occurred, unless it is
precluded from doing so by law
- where permitted by law (e.g. the reporting of suspected breach of the criminal
law to a law enforcement agency; and in an emergency, where AppsWiz believes on reasonable
grounds that the disclosure of YourData will materially assist in the protection of the life
or health of some person), provided that AppsWiz will apply due diligence to ensure that the
exercise of the permission is justifiable.
In all cases, AppsWiz undertakes to disclose only such of Your Data as is necessary in the
particular circumstances.
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Data Retention and Destruction
Subject to the qualifications immediately below, AppsWiz undertakes:
- to retain Your Data only as long as is consistent with its purpose; and
- to destroy Your Data when its purpose has expired, and to do so in such a
manner that Your Data is not subsequently capable of being recovered.
This undertaking is qualified as follows:
- Your Data may be retained in AppsWiz's logs, backups and audit trails
within short-term retention cycles that are devised to protect the company's operations.
In such cases, Your Data will be destroyed in accordance with those cycles;
- Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if that is
required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search
warrant or sub poena, or a warning by a law enforcement agency that delivery of a court
order is imminent. In these circumstances, AppsWiz:
- will take any reasonable steps available to
it to communicate to You that Your Data is being retained, unless it is precluded
from doing so by law; and
- will only retain Your Data while that provision
is current, and will then destroy Your Data;
- Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if it is authorised
by law (in particular to protect AppsWiz's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds
that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to AppsWiz or have committed a breach of the
criminal law). In these circumstances, AppsWiz will only retain Your Data while that situation
is current, and will then destroy Your Data.
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Access by You to Your Personal Data
AppsWiz undertakes to provide you with access to Your Data, subject to only such conditions and
processes as are reasonable in the circumstances. In particular, AppsWiz undertakes to enable access:
- conveniently;
- without unreasonable delay; and
- without cost.
AppsWiz undertakes to establish and operate identity authentication protections for access to
Your Data that are appropriate to its sensitivity, but practical. This may involve some
inconvenience; for example, relatively straightforward procedures may be involved in order to
provide you with access through a channel that you have previously registered with AppsWiz
(such as a particular email-address), but may impose more onerous procedures if you wish to
use some other channel.
In the event that you dispute some aspect of Your Data, AppsWiz undertakes to take reasonable steps
in relation to the amendment, supplementation or deletion of Your Data.
You undertake:
- not to seek access for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently;
- to accept that deletion of some data may not be consistent with the provision
of particular services by AppsWiz to you.
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Information about Data-Handling Practices
AppsWiz undertakes to make information available to you about the manner in which AppsWiz
handles your data:
- in general terms, in a readily accessible manner; and
- in more specific terms, on request.
Where Your Data is disclosed to a contractor, AppsWiz undertakes to make information
available to you on request about the manner in which AppsWiz's contractors handle your data.
AppsWiz undertakes to ensure that the information provided is meaningful, and addresses your concerns.
You undertake:
- not to seek such information for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; and
- to accept that the disclosure of excessive detail may harm the security of Your Data
and AppsWiz's business processes, and may harm AppsWiz's commercial interests.
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Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints
If you have enquiries, general concerns, or complaints about these Terms, or about AppsWiz's
behaviour in relation to these Terms, you undertake:
- to communicate them in the first instance:
- to AppsWiz only;
- in sufficient detail;
- through a channel made available by AppsWiz for that purpose;
AppsWiz undertakes:
- to provide one or more channels for communications to AppsWiz, which are convenient to users:
- to promptly provide acknowledgement of the receipt of communications, including the provision
of a copy of the communication, the date and time it was registered, and AppsWiz's reference-code for the
communication;
- to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner.
You further undertake to not pursue AppsWiz through any Regulator or the media:
- until and unless AppsWiz has had a reasonable opportunity to respond to the initial communication; and
- while AppsWiz and you are conducting a meaningful dialogue about the matter.
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Enforcement
AppsWiz declares that its undertakings in these Terms are intended to create legal obligations, and that
those obligations are intended to be enforceable under appropriate laws in appropriate jurisdictions. These
include laws relating to data protection, privacy, fair trading, corporations and criminal laws.
You undertake to seek enforcement only in a jurisdiction that is relevant to the transactions that have
taken place between You and AppsWiz, in particular the jurisdiction in which you live or in which you performed
the relevant acts, and the jurisdiction in which AppsWiz is domiciled or performed the relevant acts.
If you wish to discover the relevant laws in any particular jurisdiction, AppsWiz draws your attention to the
following resources:
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Changes to These Privacy Undertakings
AppsWiz undertakes:
- not to unilaterally make any material change to these Terms in a manner that reduces the
protections for Your Data;
- to take all practicable steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any
of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to Your Data in a manner that
reduces the protections for Your Data;
- where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms
relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organisations;
- where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive
versions are readily accessible;
- to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated,
and readily accessible;
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Definitions
Your Data means data that is capable of being associated with you, whether or not it includes an
explicit identifier such as your name or customer number. In particular, it encompasses all data that
AppsWiz is capable of correlating with you, using such means as server-logs and cookie-contents.
Your Data does not refer to data that can no longer be associated with you. This includes aggregated
data that does not and cannot identify the individuals whose data are included in the aggregation.
Consent means your concurrence with an action to be taken by AppsWiz. Consent may be express or
implicit, but in either case must be informed and freely-given.
This privacy statement is based on Roger Clarke’s Australian
‘Privacy Statement Template’.