Privacy policy
Effective starting: 25 December 2022 (Version 1.1)
Background
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. This Privacy Policy is intended to give you a better understanding of the personal data we collect, the reason why we collect such data, the manner in which we process this data, the entities with whom we share the said personal data, your rights in relation to the collection, processing and sharing of such data and any other pertinent matter relating to privacy and security of your personal data.
We understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our Website and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under national and international laws and regulations.
Under the applicable laws, we are required to comply with personal data protection and processing procedures to ensure that your data is at all times stored and processed securely and that your rights as a data subject are observed and protected. We take these obligations very seriously and have implemented adequate technical and organisational measures to ensure protection of your privacy.
All processing of your personal data performed by us as envisaged in this Privacy Policy shall be carried out in line with the following laws and regulations, as well all binding acts amending or implementing the same (hereafter be collectively referred to as the “Data Protection Laws”):
Information about us
Our Website is operated by Referon Limited, a Cypriot company with its registered address at 4, Promitheos st., 3rd floor, 1065, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Referon Limited determines the means and purposes of the processing of your personal data and therefore acts as the “Data Controller” in terms of the applicable Data Protection Laws.
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted by email at sales@referon.com or by post to 4, Promitheos st., 3rd floor, 1065, Nicosia, Cyprus.
What does this policy cover?
This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of your personal data by us, primarily in connection to your use of this Website. Our Website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before any data is provided.
This Policy also applies to our processing of your personal data in connection to our communication with you, our processing of your queries and/or job applications, your use of our products and/or services, and any other relationship with you that is not covered by a separate privacy policy.
Legal basis for processing
We may process your personal data on several legal grounds. Please see the below section “Which Data We Process” for the legal grounds applicable to each category of your personal data that we process.
Legal requirement
This Policy also applies to our processing of your personal data in connection to our communication with you, our processing of your queries and/or job applications, your use of our products and/or services, and any other relationship with you that is not covered by a separate privacy policy.
Contractual necessity
We may process your personal data as required to fulfil a legally binding contract between you and us.
Legitimate interest
A legitimate interest exists when we have a business or commercial reason upon which personal data will be processed. Before relying on our legitimate interest, we balance it against your interests and ensure that our interest is compelling enough and that pursuing such legitimate interest will not cause any disproportional risks to your rights and interests.
In particular, our legitimate interests are listed in the “Which Data We Process” section below. You have the right to object against our processing of your personal data on the basis of legitimate interest by contacting us at sales@referon.com. We will do our best to meet your request, but in certain cases were we will not be in a position to meet your request, you will be informed immediately. Note that we will always honour your objection with regards to any processing for marketing purposes.
Legal claims
We may process your personal data as required for the establishment or defense of legal claims.
Consent
We may process your personal data when you give us your consent to do so. We will only process your personal data on the basis of your consent, where we cannot or otherwise choose not to rely on any other legal grounds as previously mentioned. Where we process your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Should you wish to withdraw your consent please contact us at sales@referon.com. Any such withdrawal of your consent will not invalidate any processing operations carried out prior to you having withdrawn your consent.
Which data we process
The paragraphs below outline the categories of personal data which we process, the purpose for which we process such personal data as well as the corresponding legal basis used for such processing. Note that some categories of personal data may be processed on several legal grounds and/or for several purposes.
Category of personal data: Contact data - This type of data may include your full name, email address, telephone/mobile number, postal address, the company you represent and your title. We obtain this data from you when you contact us, using the contact form on the Website or by other means.
Purpose of processing: a) To provide you with information on our offers, industry events and other news and products of ours and of our affiliates that may interest you; b) To answer your queries; c) To respond to your job applications and to update you on available vacancies from time to time.
Legal basis for processing: Legitimate Interest (Developing our business by keeping you updated regarding the latest developments and opportunities, responding to your questions and other communication, and employing qualified individuals).
Category of personal data: Identity data - This type of data may include your full name, your gender, the company you represent and your title. We obtain this data from you when you contact us, either by using the contact form on the Website or by other means.
Purpose of processing: a) To provide you with information on our offers, industry events and other news and products of ours and of our affiliates that may interest you; b) To answer your queries; c) To respond to your job applications and to update you on available vacancies from time to time.
Legal basis for processing: Legitimate Interest (Developing our business by keeping you updated regarding the latest developments and opportunities, responding to your questions and other communication, and employing qualified individuals).
Category of personal data: Employment and qualifications data - This type of data may include your full name, your employment history, your education and qualifications, your age and gender, other data pertinent to your evaluation as a prospective employee. We obtain this data from you when you contact us, either by submitting your CV, using the contact form on the Website or by other means. We may also obtain such data from third parties (references you provide) and open sources.
Purpose of processing: To evaluate your candidacy in relation to the available employment opportunities with us.
Legal basis for processing: Legitimate Interest (Developing our business by employing qualified individuals).
Category of personal data: Other information you provide to us - This includes any other data you choose to share with us.
Purpose of processing: Depends on the nature of the data. If the data in question does not pertain to any purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, it will be immediately deleted and not processed any further.
Legal basis for processing: Depends on the nature of the data. If the data in question does not pertain to any legal basis outlined in this Privacy Policy, it will be deleted and not processed any further.
The initial processing, necessary to evaluate such data, determine further purpose and legal grounds for processing or delete it, is done on the basis of our legitimate interest (To provide accessible contact channels to the general public).
Category of personal data: Activity data - This category includes your activity on the Website, the pages you visit, the links you click on, and other similar activities.
Purpose of processing: To evaluate the outreach and performance of our Website.
Legal basis for processing: Legitimate Interest (Providing and developing innovative gaming and betting experiences to our users on a sustained basis).
Category of personal data: Technical data - This category includes traffic data, GeoIP location, information from your browser, computer or mobile device when you access or use our Website, device and network information.
Purpose of processing: a) To evaluate the outreach and performance of our Website; b) To prevent any fraudulent activity and to protect our Website from malicious actions.
Legal basis for processing: Legitimate Interest (Providing and developing innovative services and websites, ensuring Website stability).
We do not perform any automated decision making or profiling using your personal data.
Your rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Privacy Policy and our use of personal data have been designed to uphold. Please contact us at sales@referon.com for more information, or to exercise these rights.
Personal data storage, security and retention
Our commitment to protect personal data is not merely through quality and high standards but also through the best and most efficient application of the law. Personal data processed by us is protected using the highest industry standard security processes and systems. We store your personal data within the European Union, on encrypted hard drives and/or with certified data centers. Both our storage environment and those of the data centers we employ are compliant with the “ISO/IEC 27001 - Information security management” standard. We use secured https protocol for communication between the Website and your browser. In addition, our secure servers protect all information information using advanced firewall technology.
Despite the best practices we employ, no party can warrant absolute security of your Internet connection. Any data sent via the Internet may be transmitted across international borders even where sender and receiver of information are located in the same country. We cannot be held responsible for anything done or omitted to be done with your personal data before such personal data reaches us.
We do not process your personal data for any longer than is necessary for the purposes of processing for which it was first collected. Your personal data will be retained for as long as we have a relationship with you (for example, evaluating employment opportunity or answering your queries) and up to one (1) year thereafter. With regards to your personal data used to provide you with information on our offers, industry events and other news and products of ours and of our affiliates that may be of interest, such data will be processed until you indicate that you no longer wish to receive such information from us.
Sharing your personal data
We may share your personal data with competent authorities having jurisdiction over us. Such disclosures will only be made when permitted or required pursuant to the Data Protection Laws and/or other legislation applicable to us.
We may share your personal data with other companies in our corporate group – our parent companies, subsidiaries, and sister companies. These companies, as our processors, will process your personal data on our behalf on the grounds and for the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy.
We may share your personal data with other selected third parties:
Your personal data will only be transferred outside of the EEA when such transfer meet the requirements of the Data Protection Laws. Your Personal Data will never be shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes (unless you give your consent thereto).
Contacting us
If you have any questions about the Website or this Privacy Policy, please contact Our Data Protection Officer, by email at sales@referon.com or by post at 4, Promitheos st., 3rd floor, 1065, Nicosia, Cyprus. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data we process.
Changes to our privacy policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be immediately posted on the Website and will be deemed to have been accepted on your first use of the Website following the alterations in the Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check this page regularly to remain up to date with any changes. Where appropriate, we will also notify you by e-mail. In the event that you do not agree with any changes, you must stop using the Website.
Use of cookies
When you visit or access our websites or applications operated by us, or when you interact or engage with our content ("Services"), we use (and authorize third parties to use) cookies, pixel tags, beacons, local storage and similar technologies ("Tracking Technologies").
These allow us to automatically collect information about you, your device, and your online behavior (for example your computer or mobile device), in order to enhance your navigation on our Services, improve our Services' performance, perform analytics, customize your experience and offer you, for example, tailored content and advertisements that better correspond with your interests.
We also allow third parties to collect information about you though Tracking Technologies.
Storing tracking technologies
We store Tracking Technologies when you visit or access our Services (for example when you are visiting our Website or using our mobile applications) – these are called "First Party Tracking Technologies". In addition, Tracking Technologies are stored by other third parties (for example our analytics service providers, business partners and advertisers) who run content on our Services – these are called "Third Party Tracking Technologies".
Both types of Tracking Technologies may be stored either for the duration of your visit on our Services or for repeat visits.
What types of tracking technologies do we use?
When you use or access our Services, we use the following categories of Tracking Technologies:
The following Tracking Technologies are used in connection with our Services. For additional information about any of the Third Party Tracking Technologies, please visit the links of those companies provided.
_ga First-party performance cookie. Expiration: 2 years. This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
_gid First-party performance cookie. Expiration: 1 day. This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
_gat First-party performance cookie. Expiration: 1 minute. This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.
_gat_gtag First-party targeting cookie. Expiration: 1 minute. This cookie is part of Google Analytics used to analyze visitor browsing habits, flow, source and other information.
_fbp First-party targeting cookie. Expiration: 3 months. Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers and track traffic sources.
Cookies allow us to:
Managing your cookies
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, one can configure the browser in a way that no cookies are stored on its computer or a hint appears before a new cookie is created. Please see the particular operator’s advice for the deactivation of cookies. Other methods of managing your Tracking Technology preferences includes: changing your browser settings to send a "Do-Not-Track" signal. In such case, your browser will send us a special signal to stop tracking your activity.
Disabling cookies completely may lead to decreased functionality regarding certain features of the Company’s website.
To learn more about how can manage your cookies, below is a list of useful links that can provide you with more information on how to manage your cookies:
Turning off third party advertising cookies: you can turn off certain third party cookies for advertising purposes by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative, located here: Network Advertising Initiative or the DAA opt-out program, which are located here:
https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, here (for EU/EEA citizens): https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ and here (for mobile devices): https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
Definitions
In this Policy, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“personal data” means any information that identifies you individually or relates to an identified or identifiable natural person which can also be defined as data subject;
“data controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by European Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by the European Union or Member State law;
“data processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
"processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
“GDPR” means EU Regulation 2016/679 – the General Data Protection Regulation;
“personal data” means any and all data that relates to you as an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via the Website or that we collect via the Website. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the GDPR;
“we/us/our” and similar means the company described in the “Information About Us” section above;
“Website” means this website https://www.referon.com/;
“you/your” and similar means you, the individual using the Website.
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