Infabode Privacy policy
At Infabode, we value transparency and your privacy. This page has everything you need to know about how we use your data. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, we would love to hear from you – just email hello@infabode.com.
We are Infabode Ltd (company number 07961698) of 15 Wood Wharf, London, SE10 9BB ("we", "us" and "our"). This is the Privacy Policy for the website we operate hosted at https://infabode.com/ (the "Site").
For the purposes of UK and EU data protection law, (the "Data Protection Law"), we are the data controller.
This policy sets out:
- Information we collect about you
- How we use your information
- Our promotional updates and communications
- Who we share your information with
- Where we store your information
- Direct messaging
- Payment processing
- How we protect your information
- How long we keep your information
- Your rights
- Changes to this policy
Please read this carefully to understand how we will collect and use your personal information. By using our Site you acknowledge you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
We will collect and process certain personal information if you use our Site, including signing up for free, signing up for Infabode Premium, or reviewing content or listings.
USERS | DIGITAL CONTENT PARTNERS | |
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YOU PROVIDE US WITH |
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When you interact with us, we collect the following types of personal information:
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OTHER PARTIES MAY PROVIDE US WITH | We work closely with third parties (including digital content partners, sub-contractors in communications, technical, and payment services, analytics providers, and search information providers). We'll tell you (usually in this Privacy Policy) when we receive information about you from another source, and for what purpose(s) we'll use that information. We may share personal information we collect or combine data from other sources with personal information you've given to us. This may involve processing your identity, contact, interaction and finance information. If you are a digital content partner or business user, personal information which is not collected directly from you may be collected:
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WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT | We will automatically collect information from you each time you use our Service. This includes:
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We use your personal information in different ways. We've set these out below, along with the types of personal information we use for each purpose, and the legal reason(s) (also known as the 'legal basis') that permits this processing.
We explain more about what each legal basis means below. We may process your personal information based one or more than one legal basis, depending on the specific ways we are using your personal information.
Users
HOW WE USE THIS PERSONAL INFORMATION | TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION | OUR LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING |
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| Contract Legal Obligation Our legitimate interests |
To save searches, feeds and send you content alerts (for example, new content which fit your search criteria). |
| Consent |
To register you as a new user who wants to use our Site, if you choose to create an account. |
| Contract |
To promote our service to you and keep you updated with information about our services, including:
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| Consent Our legitimate interests |
To ask you to leave a review, provide feedback or take a survey. | ||
To customise your experience and offer you relevant ads, content and recommendations including information about new promotions. |
| Our legitimate interests Consent |
For measuring, understanding and optimising the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. | ||
To administer our Service and for internal operations, including bug fixes, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, and survey purposes. |
| Our legitimate interests |
To improve our Service to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. We may also use aggregated information to help us plan and introduce new features. | ||
To keep our Service safe and secure, including taking steps to detect and prevent fraud. | ||
To analyse our user base, Service and service usage, feature and content popularity, software and hardware quality, and market trends. |
| Our legitimate interests Consent |
To share aggregated analytics with digital content partners and other organisations about how people use the Site. | ||
We may also use this information to inform, refine and deliver our wider online marketing campaigns. |
Digital content partners
HOW WE USE THIS PERSONAL INFORMATION | TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION | OUR LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING |
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If you work for one of our digital content partners, or are otherwise interacting with us in a business context, we may also use your personal information for the following purposes. | ||
To perform or enter into any contract we have with you. Digital content partners will need accounts to list content, and to otherwise use the Site. |
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To administrate yours or your company's accounts with us. To make and verify payments and bills. |
| Contract Our legitimate interests |
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, disclose your data to a prospective seller or buyer, or in the event we are the subject of acquisition by a third party. |
| Contract Legal obligation Our legitimate interests |
To answer any queries you send us To comply with any rights requests you make |
| Consent Legal obligation |
To ask you to leave a review, provide feedback or take a survey. | ||
To customise your experience and offer you relevant ads, content and recommendations including information about new promotions. |
| Our legitimate interests Consent |
For measuring, understanding and optimising the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. | ||
To administer our Service and for internal operations, including bug fixes, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, and survey purposes. |
| Our legitimate interests |
To improve our Service to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. We may also use aggregated information to help us plan and introduce new features. | ||
To keep our Service safe and secure, including taking steps to detect and prevent fraud. | ||
To analyse our user base, Service and service usage, feature and content popularity, software and hardware quality, and market trends. |
| Our legitimate interests Consent |
To share aggregated analytics with digital content partners and other organisations about how people use the Site. | ||
We may also use this information to inform, refine and deliver our wider online marketing campaigns. |
Where permitted in our legitimate interests (explained below) or with your prior consent if required by law, we may:
- send you marketing and promotional updates about our products and services, by email and SMS, if you have opted-in to receiving these;
- use your work contact information, if you work for a business user or digital content partner, to send you marketing and promotional updates about our products and services, by phone, email and SMS, unless you have opted out of receiving these; or
- we will also use your personal information for marketing analysis.
You can object to further marketing at any time by selecting the "unsubscribe" link at the end of all our marketing and promotional update communications to you or by sending us an email tohello@infabode.com.
Legal bases explained
Our legitimate interests are:
- Gaining insights on how you use our Site.
- Delivering, developing and improving our Site.
- Enabling us to enhance, customise or modify our Site, service and communications.
- Growing our business and informing our marketing strategy.
- Keeping our records updated.
- Improving our Site and data security.
- Enforcing or applying our terms or other agreements with you, including recovering fees or other debt due to us.
- Providing you with our Promotional Updates and Communications if you work for one of our business users or digital content partners, or are otherwise interacting with us in a business context, or in certain cases where you have purchased a service from us and have not opted-out at the time of purchase or any time since.
We may give your information to:
- Any member of our group, which means our shareholders, investors, any future subsidiaries, and any future ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, who support our processing of personal information under this policy. If any of these parties use your information for direct marketing, we will only transfer it to them for that purpose with your prior consent.
- Our partner and support businesses, including support services, advertisers, as well as digital content partners .
Find out more
We may transfer and store your personal information outside the United Kingdom ("UK") and/or European Economic Area ("EEA") in countries which may not have equivalent Data Protection Law.
Where your information is transferred outside the UK or EEA, we will take steps to ensure your personal information is protected by appropriate legal safeguards, and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Find out more
The Site may, from time to time, facilitate direct messages between users or between users and our digital content partners. Any information that is disclosed in these messages becomes public information and you should exercise caution when using these and avoid posting any personal information.
Most payments made on the Site are made through our payment gateway provider, Stripe. You will be providing credit or debit card information directly to Stripe which operates a secure server to process payment details, encrypting your credit/debit card information and authorising payment. Information which you supply to Stripe is not within our control and is subject to Stripe's own privacy policy and terms and conditions, though Stripe provides us the last four digits of your payment card, the type of payment card and expiration date of the payment card.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, including using SSL encryption to secure our site and protection your information in transit. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.
We keep personal information for:
- as long as you have an account with us or use our Site in order to meet our contractual obligations to you; and
- six years after that to identify any issues and resolve any legal proceedings.
We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help us develop and improve our services. You cannot be identified from aggregate information retained or used for these purposes.
You have the right under certain circumstances:
- to be provided with a copy of your personal information held by us;
- to request the correction or erasure of your personal information held by us;
- to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example);
- to object to the further processing of your personal information, including the right to object to marketing (as mentioned in 'Our promotional updates and communications' section;
- to request that your provided personal information be moved to a third party.
- Your right to withdraw consent: Where the processing of your personal information by us is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us at hello@infabode.com.
You can also exercise the rights listed above at any time by contacting us at hello@infabode.com.
If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority, (see http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.html).
The Information Commissioner is the supervisory authority in the UK and can provide further information about your rights and our obligations in relation to your personal information, as well as deal with any complaints that you have about our processing of your personal information.
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in future will be posted on this page. This policy was last updated on 16th July 2021.
We use cookies and/or other similar technologies (such as device-IDs, pixel tags and web beacons, either alone or in combination with each other to create a unique user/device ID) ("cookies") on our website. These typically involve pieces of information or code that a website transfers to or accesses from your computer hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you.
Cookies can be used to:
- help us remember you when you visit our website from the same computer or device, and you interact with websites and online services,
- manage a range of features and content,
- store searches,
- present personalised content.
The website uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and also helps us to improve the website
What cookies do we use?
We use the following types of cookies:
1. Strictly necessary
2. Analytics/performance
3. Functionality
4. Targeting/Advertising
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site and under its terms. They include, for example, cookies that enable digital content partners or users to log into secure areas of the Site (in future) or potentially to save searches or feeds for short periods of time.
Cookie | Name | 1st / 3rd party | Personal data | Purpose(s) | Life Span | More Info |
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Analytical/performance cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around its Site when they are using it. They may also help us improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users easily find what they are looking for.
Cookie | Name | 1st / 3rd party | Personal data | Purpose(s) | Life Span | More Info |
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Cookie | _ga | 3rd party | Google Analytics | 2 years | ||
Cookie | _gid | 3rd party | Google Analytics | 0 minutes |
Functionality cookies
These may be used to recognise users returning to the Site. This would enable us (subject to users' choices and preferences) to personalise its content, greet users by name and remember their preferences (for example, users' choice of language or region).
Cookie | Name | 1st / 3rd party | Personal data | Purpose(s) | Life Span | More Info |
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Cookie | __stripe_sid | 3rd party | For Payment | 30 minutes | ||
Cookie | __stripe_mid | 3rd party | For Payment | 1 year |
Targeting/Advertising cookies
These cookies record users' visits to the Site, pages they visit and links they follow. We may use this information (subject to users' choices and preferences) to make its platform more relevant to users, and potentially to share data with third party advertisers.
Cookie | Name | 1st / 3rd party | Personal data | Purpose(s) | Life Span | More Info |
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Cookie preferences
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies and similar technologies. You can change your browser to prevent that, and your help screen or manual will tell you how. We also give you information about how to disable cookies – you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site if you disable cookies.
Some cookies and similar technologies we use last only for the duration of your web or app session and expire when you close your browser or exit the Site. Others are used to remember you when you return to the Site and will last for longer.