Last Updated: Oct. 5th, 2024
This Privacy Policy details how we, Unilingo Inc Limited a company incorporated under the laws of Canada and whose registered office is at 20 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada collect, use and process personal data provided to us. If you have any questions on this Privacy Policy or otherwise relating to how we process your personal data you can contact us at hello@unilingo.com.
This Privacy Policy affects your legal rights and obligations so please read it carefully. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, please do not provide your personal data to us.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our discretion and in particular to reflect any changes in applicable laws. If we do so, and the changes substantially affect your rights or obligations, we shall notify you if we have your email address. Otherwise, you are responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy so that you are aware of any changes to it.
We are the controller of the personal data provided to us for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation.
By personal data we mean identifiable information about you, such as your name, email address, gender, age, mobile and home telephone number and your IP address.
We do not collect special categories of personal data about you.
From time to time you may provide to us personal data. This may be because you wish to:
You may provide personal data to us directly, or to us through our social media platforms.
¡ We shall process all such personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Certain personal data is mandatory to be provided to us in order that we can fulfil your request, for example to create an account with us, and we shall make this clear to you at the point of collection of the personal data.
If you provide to us personal data about any other individual, you must have their consent to do so.
All personal data that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate. If you provide us with inaccurate or false data, and we suspect or identify fraud, we will record this and we may also report this to the appropriate authorities. At our request, you shall promptly provide evidence of your identity.
When you contact us by email or post, we may keep a record of the correspondence and we may also record any telephone call we have with you.
When you use our website, we automatically collect and store information about your device and your activities. This information could include:
Some of this information is collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies. If you want to find out more about the types of cookies we use, why, and how you can control them, please see our Cookies Policy.
We may receive personal data about you from our security service partners and our payment providers, and from other users of our website and services if they choose to provide it to us for any reason.
If we reasonably believe that any of the personal data you have provided to us is inaccurate, we may receive further personal data from third parties, confirming or otherwise, your identity.
We may also collect personal data about you from viewing your social media accounts.
We will only use your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so. The lawful purposes that we rely on under this Privacy Policy are:
If you wish to access and use our website, we shall use your personal data to allow you to do so all in accordance with our Terms of Business [link]. We may contact you as part of the provision of the services with information about your account and activities on our website.
We may from time to time need to use your personal data to comply with any legal obligations, demands or requirements, for example, as part of anti-money laundering processes or to protect a third party’s rights, property, or safety. If any sums are owed by you to another users, we shall provide your personal details to the other user in order that they can pursue the debt.
We may also use your personal data for our legitimate interests including to improve our services and in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company; to deal with any customer services you require; for audit purposes and to contact you about changes to this Privacy Policy.
For our legitimate interests, we may share your personal data with our service providers, sub-contractors and agents that we may appoint to perform functions on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, including IT service providers, payment providers, accountants, auditors and lawyers.
We shall provide our service providers, sub-contractors and agents only with such of your personal data as they need to provide the service for us and if we stop using their services, we shall request that they delete your personal data or make it anonymous within their systems.
Some or all of your personal data may be stored or transferred outside of the Canada for any reason, including for example, if our email server is located in a country outside the EEA.
We shall process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. In particular, access is restricted to employees who need to know your personal data, and we use appropriate password protection and appropriate strong encryption electronic measures within our electronic data management systems.
However, unfortunately, because of the nature of electronic storage, we cannot promise that your personal data or any other data you provide to us will always remain secure. If there is a security breach, we will do all that we can as soon as we can to stop the breach and minimise the loss of any data.
You may consent to receive marketing email messages from us about the services we offer. You can choose to no longer receive marketing emails from us by contacting us or clicking unsubscribe from a marketing email. Please note that it may take us a few days to update our records to reflect your request.
If you ask us to remove you from our marketing list, we shall keep a record of your name and email address to ensure that we do not send to you marketing information. We will still contact you as necessary about your account.
You have a number of rights under applicable data protection legislation. Some of these rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included below. Further information can be found here
You may be able to exercise some of these rights within your account on the website.
We reserve the right to charge an administrative fee if your request in relation to your rights is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
If you have any complaints in relation to this Privacy Policy or otherwise in relation to our processing of your personal data, please tell us. We shall review and investigate your complaint and try to get back to you within a reasonable time. You can also contact the Information Commissioner or if you are based outside of Canada, please contact your local regulatory authority
Subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, we will retain personal data in accordance with applicable laws. In particular, we shall retain your personal data for as long as you access or use our services. However, we may also be required to retain personal data for a particular period of time to comply with legal, auditory or statutory requirements, including requirements of HMRC in respect of financial documents.
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
