Your privacy is important to us and we believe it is important for you to know what personal data we, Botic Oceans Technologies (“Botic Oceans Technologies” or “we”), collect from you (and third parties), why we collect it, how we use it and what rights you might be entitled to as a data subject or consumer.

Please note: all information in this privacy notice is applicable to you unless otherwise indicated based on your residency status. For the additional terms which may be applicable to you based on your residency status, please refer to your country-specific terms at the end of this notice. In this notice, term “personal data” is used to represent any information relating to an identified or identifiable person; country-specific notices might adopt a different terminology.

We encourage you to read this notice, together with any additional and more specific information we may provide to you on various occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data on Botic Oceans Technologies websites, products or applications, events and initiatives so that you are aware of how and the purpose for which we are processing your personal data. (Please note: We issue a different privacy notice which applies where there is an employment relationship between Botic Oceans Technologies and its employees.)

How we will use your personal information

We may collect different kinds of personal data in several different ways and use it for a number of different purposes:

To ensure access to our website and online services.

In general, you can visit boticoceans.com on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are. Our web serverswho provide analytics and performance enhancement services may collect:

– IP addresses,– operating system details,– browsing details,– device and connectivity details, and/or– language settings.

This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar information. Botic Oceans Technologies uses this information to measure the site usage, improve content and to ensure safety and security as well as enhance performance and user experience of the website. In few situations, you are required to register to access an authenticated area of the website: in these cases, we will also collect your username and password.

We may also obtain data from third parties including:

• Social networks, when you grant permission to us to access your data on one or more networks through our website.
• Service providers, who help us to determine a location based on your IP address in order to customize offerings and content to your location.
• Partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities.
• Botic Oceans uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to facilitate proper functioning of our websites and to help collect data: please read here our full cookie policy. Please note that our websites may include links to websites of third parties whose privacy practices differ from those of Botic Oceans Technologies; if you provide personal data to any of those websites, your data is governed by their privacy statements.

To answer your queries, support and contact requests.

If you contact us with queries, requests for more information about initiatives or products or other generic support inquiries, we may need to process personal data about you such as:

• personal and contact details, like full name, company and role, email and address
• demographic data
• qualifications and profession, and/or
• the content of your messages to us

For information about managing your contact data, email subscriptions and promotional communications, please use the contact us form on the boticoceans.com or affiliate websites where you had given your Personal data.

How we will share your personal information

We may share your data with third parties, including third-party service providers and other entities in the Botic Oceans Technologies group. Please note, Botic Oceans Technologies has not in the past, nor does it currently, under any circumstances sell your personal data to any third party. Further, Botic Oceans Technologies does not share your personal data with third parties for any additional purpose (as outlined below) unless required to fulfill a legal obligation or a legitimate business purpose where permitted by law.

Why might you share my personal data with third parties?

We may share your personal data with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary for one of the activities mentioned above or where we have another legitimate legal basis in doing so. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Where required by the law, we will request your consent before transferring data to third parties which are not part of the Botic Oceans Technologies group of companies.

Which third-party service providers process my personal data?

”Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and other entities within our group. The following activities may be carried out by third-party service providers: hosting and other internet services, data storage and analytics, marketing research and campaign management, event organizers and caterers. All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions and applicable law. We may also need to share your personal data with regulators or to otherwise comply with the law.

When might you share my personal data with other entities in the group?

We may share your personal data with other entities in the Botic Oceans Technologies group as part of our regular reporting activities on company performance, in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise, for system maintenance support and hosting of data and when it is required to do so in order to perform one of the activities listed above (see “How we will use information about you”). Other entities in the Botic Oceans Technologies group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in line with our policies.

Transferring your personal data outside of your country of residence

We may transfer the personal data we collect about you to one of more countries outside of your country of residence or outside of the country in which you access this website, including India, in order to perform one of the activities listed above (see “How we will use information about you”). – In such cases, we have put in place the appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data will be secure according to the laws of the country in which you reside. If you require further information about these protective measures, you can request it from our Data Protection Officers (see contacts below) or send an email to info@boticoceans.com.

How we will keep your information safe

We have put in place appropriate technical, organizational and security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

How long we will keep your information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy upon request from our Data Protection Officers (see contact details below). To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

How to contact us

If you have a privacy concern, complaint or a question regarding this privacy statement, please direct it to the Chief Privacy Officer of Botic Oceans Technologies at info@boticoceans.com or contact us through the “Contact us” form on boticoceans.com or affiliate websites where you had given your Personal data indicating your concern in detail.

For the purposes of the data processed under this statement, the controller or business/service provider for the data processing of your personal data collected through our websites is Botic Oceans Technologies. For all the other purposes indicated above, the controller or business/service provider is the same entity unless indicated otherwise in other privacy statement communicated in each situation.

Right to withdraw consent

In the limited circumstances and based on your country of residence; where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data for a specific purpose, you may have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact our Data Protection Officers (see contacts below). Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legal basis for doing so.