Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 2025
1. Introduction
The following statement sets out details of the privacy policy adopted by TKVA 2.0 Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Research & Consultancies L.L.C. (the “We”; “Us”) related to our services and/or website (the “Services”; “Website”). Your privacy and the integrity of any information you provide are important to Us as for provide our Services and/or for the operation of the Website.
Our Services and/or Website may be connected by other third parties’ sites and/or services. We are not responsible in any way for the privacy practices on other third parties' sites and/or services and suggest that you review the privacy policies of those third parties before using them.
Any information stored on our Website and/or obtained by Us in connection with our Services and/or Web is treated as confidential. All information is stored securely and is accessed by authorized personnel only. We implement and maintain appropriate technical, security and organizational measures to protect Personal Data (as defined below) against unauthorized or unlawful processing and use, and against accidental loss, destruction, damage, theft or disclosure.
2. Collection and use
2.1. General
The following sections cover the specifics of each of the three groups from which Personal Data is collected: Website’s Visitors and Users of the Website (the “Visitors”; “Users”) and/or Business Partners and Clients of our Services (collectively “Partners”). For the purposes of this Policy Personal Data shall mean and may comprise: IP address, first and last name, postal and email address, telephone number, interest in products, as well as information as to the type of relationship that exists between Us and Visitors, Users and/or Partners that shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the applicable data protection regulation and/or law.
2.2. Website Visitors and Users
By visiting the Website, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data as described herein. If you do not agree with the terms set out herein, please do not visit this Website. If required by applicable law, We will seek your explicit consent to process Personal Data collected on the Website or volunteered by you. Kindly note that any consent will be entirely voluntary. However, if you do not grant the requested consent to the processing of your Personal Data, the use of this Website may not be possible. We may collect, record and analyze information of Visitors to this Website. We may record your IP address and use cookies (see: Cookies Policy below). We may add information collected by way of page view activity. Furthermore, We may collect and process any Personal Data that you volunteer to Us in our Website’s forms, such as when you subscribe or sign up for information about our Services and/or products. We gather data about visits to the Website, including numbers of Visitors and visits, Geo-location data, length of time spent on the Website, pages clicked on or where Visitors have come.
2.2.1 Purpose of processing Personal Data
We use the collected data to communicate with Visitors, Users and/or Partners, to customize content for Visitors, Users and/or Partners, to provide some of our Services or provide information about our Services, and to improve the Website by analyzing how Visitors and/or Users navigate within the Website.
2.2.2 Sharing Personal Data
We may also share such information with service vendors, Partners, and/or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction or in order to analyze the Visitor and/or Users' behavior on the Website.
For Visitor and/or User with accounts located in European Data Region, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 (the Directive), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. From May 25th, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and our processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR.
Cookies
The Website and some of our Services use cookies (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that we put on your computer) and other similar tracking technologies (like web beacons, tags and scripts) to uniquely identify Visitors' and/or Users' browser and to gather information about how Visitor and/or User interact with the Websites and/or Services. We use this information for the following purposes: assisting Visitor and/or User in navigation; assisting in registration, login (if required) and the ability to provide feedback; analyzing the use of Services; and assisting with promotional and marketing efforts.
Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about the type of cookies and tracking technologies that We use on the Website and why, and how to accept or reject them.
2.2.4 Links to other sites
Please be aware that while visiting the Website, Visitors and/or Users can follow links to other sites that are beyond our control or influence. We are not responsible for the content or policies of these other sites.
2.3. Partners
2.3.1. General
In order to provide our Services to our Partners, We may collect or obtain certain types of data from them. This section will describe how these types of data are collected and used by Us, as well as geographical differences that affect this Policy.
2.3.2 Collection of data
During a Partner’s use of our Services, it may provide Us with its and/or its customers’ information such as name, email, address, telephone, financial information (if required or applicable) and other relevant data. This information is used by Us to identify the Partner and provide it with Services, support, mailings, sales and marketing actions, billing (if required or applicable) and to meet our contractual obligations with the relevant Partner.
2.3.3 Collection and Processing of Personal Data
We rely on the Partner’s consent to process Personal and/or on the Partner’s representations and statements that such Partner has obtained the required consent from its customers and/or users. On other occasions, We may process Personal Data when it needs to do this to fulfill a contractual obligation with you as a Partner or where it is required to do so by law.
We may also process Personal Data when it is in our or our Partners' legitimate interests to do so and when these interests are not overridden by the individual’s data protection rights (which may vary based on an individual’s jurisdiction).
2.3.5. Controller/Processor
We may process Personal Data both as a Processor and/or as a Controller, as defined in the Directive and the GDPR:
For Visitors and/or Users’ data, provided by the Visitor and/or User to Us, We will be the Controller in accordance with Directive and GDPR.
For Partner’s data and/or Partner’s customers’ data, provided by the Partner to Us, We will be the Processor in accordance with Directive and GDPR.
All data collected by Us will be stored exclusively in secure hosting facilities. All hosting is performed in accordance with the highest security regulations. We contract with such hosting providers to ensure that all hosting is performed in accordance with the highest security regulations.
We have adopted reasonable physical, technical and organizational safeguards against accidental, unauthorized or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, access, use or processing of the Partner’s data and/or Partner’s customers’ data and/or the Personal Data in its possession. We will promptly notify Partner in the event of any known unauthorized access to, or use of, the Partner’s data and/or Partner’s customers’ data and/or the Personal Data. Please note, however, that where transmitting information over the internet, this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
2.3.6 Third-Party Data Protection.
- Tto the extent that the use of the Services (where applicable) requires Partner to process its customers’ Personal Data, as part of its use of any third-party’s platform, for the purposes of the GDPR, such platform will be the Controller and Partner will act as a Processor and will:
- comply with, and only act on, instructions from and on behalf of the platform regarding the processing of that Personal Data;
- not process the Personal Data for any purposes other than the Services;
- ensure that appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken to avoid unauthorized or unlawful processing of that Personal Data and against loss or destruction of, or damage to, that Personal Data;
- ensure the reliability of all of the personnel who have, and will have, access to that Personal Data;
- not, by any act or omission, place the platform and/or Us in breach of the Data Protection Laws;
- inform the platform and/or Us immediately of any suspected or confirmed data protection breaches or unauthorized or unlawful processing, loss, or destruction of, or damage to, that Personal Data;
- not subcontract to any third party any of Partner’s obligations to process the Personal Data on behalf of the platform without the platform’s prior written consent;
- not process, or cause to be processed, that Personal Data outside the European Economic Area unless Partner has: (i) the platform’s prior written consent to do so; and (ii) fulfilled all of the platform’s requirements to enable the processing to take place outside the European Economic Area; and
- to the extent that Partner is sending any electronic marketing communications on behalf of the platform, ensure that the recipient has provided its consent to such communications, provide the ability to unsubscribe from such communications with each such communication, and comply with any such unsubscribe requests.
3. Security
3.1. We implement reasonable administrative, organizational and technical safeguards and security measures to protect Personal Data from unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction or alteration, accidental loss, misuse or damage.
3.2. When disclosure of data to third parties is necessary and authorized, We ensure that these third parties guarantee the same level of data protection as that offered to them by Us and requires contractual obligations so that the data is exclusively processed as per the provisions of this Privacy Policy and for the purposes, Partner have previously accepted and with the required confidentiality and security.
3.3. If a Partner has reason to believe that its interaction with Us is no longer secure, it should immediately notify Us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section, below.
Please Note: We cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party ‘hackers’ from illegally obtaining information. We take all reasonable measures to prevent such breaches of security, but given the resourcefulness of cyber-criminals, We are unable to guarantee that our security is one hundred percent (100%) breach-proof. Partner assumes the risk of such breaches to the extent that they may occur despite our reasonable security measures.
4. Retention and deletion
We will not retain data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations. For User data, Users with an active account will therefore have the responsibility to delete data when required. When a User’s account is terminated or expired or when our contractual relationship with a Partner is terminated, all related Personal Data collected through the platform will be deleted, as required by applicable law.
5. Visitors’ and/or Users’ Rights
Visitors and/or Users are entitled to the following rights in respect of the Personal Data. The exercise of such rights will be via sending an email requesting to exercise your right to the following email address herein below.
Right of access
You have the right to receive from Us a confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data about you is being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the Personal Data and the following information: (1) the purposes of the processing; (2) the categories of Personal Data concerned; (3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the Personal Data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or international organizations; (4) where possible, the envisaged period for which the Personal Data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; (5) the existence of the right to request or restriction of processing of Personal Data about you or to object to such processing; (6) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; (7) where the Personal Data is not collected from you, any available information as to its source; (8) the existence of profiling; and (9) where Personal Data is transferred to a third country outside the EEA or to an international organization, the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
We shall provide a copy of the Personal Data undergoing processing and may charge a reasonable fee for any further copies requested by you. If you make the request by electronic means, and unless otherwise requested by you, the information shall be provided in a commonly used electronic form.
The right to obtain a copy of the Personal Data shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others, and therefore if the request will harm the rights and freedoms of others, the Company may not fulfill your request or do so in a limited manner.
Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain from Us a rectification of inaccurate Personal Data about you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete Personal Data about you completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
Right to erasure
You have the right to obtain from Us the erasure of Personal Data about you where one of the following grounds applies: (a) the Personal Data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was collected or otherwise processed; (b) you withdraw your consent on which the processing is based and there is no other legal ground for the processing; (c) you object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of the Personal Data which is based on the legitimate interests pursued by Us or by a third party, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing; (d) you object to the processing of the Personal Data for direct marketing purposes; (e) the Personal Data has been unlawfully processed; (f) the Personal Data has to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in European Union or Member State law to which the Company is subject.
This right is not applicable to the extent that the processing is necessary: (a) for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by European Union or Member State law to which the Company is subject; or (b) for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Please Note: We reserve the right to erase the Personal Data about you, at our sole discretion, when such information is no longer necessary or needed in relation to the purpose for which it was collected or otherwise, or after a certain period, We determined.
Right of restriction of processing
You have the right to obtain from Us restriction of processing of Personal Data about you where one of the following applies: (a) the accuracy of the Personal Data is contested by you, for a period enabling Us to verify the accuracy of the Personal Data; (b) the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the Personal Data and request the restriction of its use instead; (c) We no longer needs the Personal Data for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; (d) where the processing of the Personal Data is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Us or by a third party, unless We demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; (e) where the Personal Data is processed for direct marketing purposes, including profiling the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
Where processing of Personal Data about you has been restricted following your request, such Personal Data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the Personal Data about you, which you have provided to Us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit such Personal Data to another controller, where: (a) the processing is based on your consent or on a contract to which you are a party; and (b) the processing is carried out by automated means.
In exercising your right to data portability, you have the right to have the Personal Data about you transmitted directly from Us to another controller, where technically feasible. The exercise of your right to data portability is without prejudice to your and Our rights under your right to erasure. In addition, the right to data portability shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Right to object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of Personal Data about you which is based on the legitimate interests pursued by Us or by a third party, including profiling based on such legitimate interests; in such case, we shall no longer process the Personal Data about you unless We demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of Personal Data about you for direct marketing purposes, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
Right to withdraw consent
You may withdraw your consent provided to us for the purpose of processing Personal Data about you at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal. Please note that in a case where you will withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with some of our Services.
You may be able to add, update, or delete the information as explained above. When you update information, however, We may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. Some information may remain in our records after your deletion of such information from your account. We may use any statistical information and/or aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Data after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
6. Our Legal Obligation to Disclose Personal Data
We will reveal a Visitor’s and/or User’s Partner’s Personal Data without prior permission only when We have reason to believe that the disclosure of this information is required to establish the identity of, to contact or to initiate legal proceedings against a person or persons who are suspected of infringing rights or property of Us or of others who could be harmed by the Visitor’s and/or User’s Partner’s activities or of persons who could (deliberately or otherwise) transgress upon these rights and property. We are permitted to disclose Personal Data when we have good reason to believe that this is legally required.
7. Contact Us
If you have any further questions regarding the data We collect, or how we use it, please contact Us at the following address: [email protected].