Privacy Policy
Smarta Enterprises Limited trading as Smarta.com ("we", "us" or
"Smarta") are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy
explains how we use and protect the information that you provide us
with. Please read this policy carefully as it will apply each time
you submit information or data to this site and you agree that we
may use that data and information in accordance with this
policy.
Our privacy policy may change form time to time. The up to date
privacy policy at any time will be shown on this page and so you
should check this privacy policy regularly.
Information/data we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- The information that you provide on registering as a
user/opening a new account on our site, which may include your
name, email address, geographical address, telephone numbers,
country of registration, password and user name. To register at our
site and to see the current details that we ask for on
registration, please go to www.smarta.com/registration.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site at
www.smarta.com ("our site").
This includes information you provide in order to request (or to
take) services from or via our site (such as company formation
services and applying for a bank loan or account), when requesting
further services or information or when you report a problem with
our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that communication
or correspondence.
- Any information or material that you post on or submit to our
site including information in your personal profile, responses to Q
& A, information in your blogs and in email or other
communications you communicate via or post on our site.
- Details of your visits to our site and resources that you
access.
- Statistical information which may not reveal your personal
identity, for example the results of on-line surveys or information
about your computer.
- Information we receive about your internet use such as your IP
address, other sites that you link to or access through our site,
information relating to your browser and any ISP that you use.
What we will use your personal information and data for
We may use the information held about you in the following
ways:
Ourselves/access by other users of our site
- To provide you with information about services or other matters
which we consider may be of interest to you.
- To notify you of changes in the services we provide.
- To administer your account with us and to allow you to use the
interactive features of our site.
- To provide you with promotional material
- To customise the services we provide to you.
- To enable us to serve you with advertisements that we consider
will be of interest to you.
Information that you share with others via our site (for example
in a public area of our site or by email) will also be available to
us and to those others (where it is in a public area) or by us and
by anyone else to whom it is sent or to whom you have given
permission to access it (in the case of email and other non -
public communications). We also give you the means to control
whether or not your contact information submitted to non - public
areas of our site is shared with another user.
Provision of your information to others
In order for you to receive some of the services available from
our site (for example to apply for a loan or bank account or to use
other services which we make available in conjunction with third
parties, such as company formation and domain name reservation
services), we will need to share the information with our third
party partners or service providers who provide those services and
the payment processing companies we use to process any payments
that you make.
We will not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personal
information to third parties for marketing purposes, except to
selected partners of Smarta with whom we work closely and to other
selected third parties whom we consider provide services or
products which may be of interest to you. Such partners and others
may use your information for some or all of the following
purposes:
- In order to provide, contact or advise you in relation to any
services about which you have requested information.
- For analysing the user base and user profile of our site and
related services for their internal purposes in order to support
the services that they are able to offer to the users of our
site.
- To contact you with information and materials which they
consider may be useful to you, including information about products
and services they provide from time to time and information about
events, deals and offers.
- To provide market commentary and to invite you to participate
in research or surveys that they carry out from time to time.
We may need to disclose your information for business purposes
such as the sale of a part of our business or a corporate
reorganisation. In those circumstances we will take steps to
protect the privacy of your information when we pass it on to the
relevant third party.
Email, SMS and other electronic
marketing
We and our third party partners will only contact you by email,
sms or other electronic means or by telephone if you have consented
to this.
Your personal profile
When you chose to provide a personal profile on our site you
will be providing additional information about yourself and your
proposed business. We and the other selected third parties referred
to above may use that information in any of the ways set out in
this privacy policy. All information displayed on your profile will
by default be available to any visitor of our site, unless you have
chosen to limit your profile view to your contacts on Smarta (which
you can do at any time in your Account settings).
In order to add other users of our site as contacts you need to
provide us with their names and email addresses which we will only
use for the purposes of adding them as contacts.
Your Contacts and other Users
If you and another user have made contact with each other via
our site, then any information that you provide to that other user
will be available to that other user and any use of that
information by that user or anyone obtaining information from that
user will be outside our control.
Blogs/Chatrooms/Wikis and Responses to Q&A and
other Public Areas
If you submit or post material to any blog, forum, chatroom,
response to Q & A or any other area of this site (other than
your personal profile), that information will be publicly available
to anyone who accesses our site. We have no control over the use
that any such users may make of that information and you may be at
risk of receiving spam or unsolicited emails. You should not upload
any material to the public areas of our site unless you are happy
for it to be publicly available.
Acceptable Use Policy and standards which all information
and material submitted to our site must meet
You must comply with our terms of website use (available by
separate link from our site) and, in particular, with the
Acceptable Use Policy set out in those terms, in respect of all
information, data and materials which you submit to, transmit via
or post to our site at any time.
Changing or Controlling Your Information and
Termination of your Account
You can edit and make changes to the information you have
submitted to us for your profile or which is publicly available by
following the relevant steps on our site.
You have the ability to control the messages you receive from
Smarta and other users and the means of sending them by following
the steps on our site.
You may terminate your registration with us at any time by
following the steps on our site. After termination of your Smarta
registration, we may retain certain information if we are required
to do so or for other legitimate business purposes. Any data or
information we retain about you will continue to be dealt with
under the terms and provisions of this policy.
Cookies and similar devices
Like many other website operators, we use cookies and similar
devices that contain information that is transferred to your
computer, and which are used to help us deliver a more personalised
service and to enable us to store information about your
preferences, speed up your searches, to recognise you when you
return to our site and to serve advertisements.
In particular, we use cookies commonly known as "persistent
cookies", which are transferred to your computer once you are
registered with us, so when you visit our site, we will recognise
you as an existing user. We also use "session" cookies which
identify particular visits to the Smarta Site. These session
cookies expire after a limited period of time.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on
your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. However, if you do
this you may unable to access certain parts of our site.
Contact Us
If you have any concerns or queries in relation to this policy
or any other matter relating to our site and, please contact us at
hello@smarta.com.