Privacy Policy
European Goldfields Limited (the "Company") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This is the privacy policy of the Company. If you feel that the Company is not abiding by this privacy policy, you should immediately contact info@Egoldfields.com by email and we will try to resolve your concerns.
This policy (together with our terms and conditions of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data the Company collects 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 the Company will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is European Goldfields (Services) Limited of Level 3, 11 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DS. This privacy policy complies with all applicable privacy legislation including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). For the purposes of this policy, personal data has the same meaning as personal information, which is information about an identifiable individual.
INFORMATION THE COMPANY 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 http://www.egoldfields.com/ (the “Website”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website, subscribing to the Company’s service, posting material or requesting further services. The Company may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website.
- If you contact the Company, it may keep a record of that correspondence.
- The Company may also ask you to complete surveys that it uses for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data, whether this is required for the Company’s own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
The Company may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. To
the extent that any of this information can be considered personal information, it is used solely for the purposes of administering our Website, and is not disclosed for any other purpose, except as described on this Website. For the same reason, the Company may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain
information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help the Company to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable the Company to estimate its audience size and usage pattern, to store information about your
preferences, and so allow the Company to customise the Website according to your individual interests, to speed up your searches and to recognise you when you return to the Website. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you
to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Website.
STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that the Company collects from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") or outside of Canada. It may also be processed by staff, operating outside the EEA, or outside of Canada, who work for the
Company or one of its suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable privacy
legislation. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. The Company will do its best to protect your personal data, but cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once the Company has received your information, it will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
The Company may use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information that you request from the Company or which the Company feels 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.
The company will not sell, share, transfer or rent the information collected on this Website other than as disclosed in this statement
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The Company 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, or the Canada Business Corporations Act. The Company may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that the Company sells or buys any business or assets, in which case the Company may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If the Company 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.
- To the extent required by the rules of any listing authority or stock exchange on which the shares of the Company or any member of its group are listed or traded.
- If the Company is 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 and conditions of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of European Goldfields Limited our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations 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 the Company intends to use your data for such purposes or if the Company intends to disclose your information to any third party
for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at info@egoldfields.com.
This Website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
You have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with applicable privacy legislation. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information the Company holds about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes the Company may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@egoldfields.com.