Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This privacy notice explains how we collect and process your personal data through your use of nooze.news.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Sionnach Solutions (Québec), incorporated in Canada as 9196692 Canada Inc., is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

Email: [email protected]

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes.

2. What Data We Collect

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data. We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

Communication Data includes any communication that you send to us through the contact form, email, or social media. We process this data for communicating with you, record keeping, and the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests: to reply to communications, keep records, and establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

User Data includes data about how you use our website and any online services. We process this data to operate our website, ensure relevant content is provided to you, and maintain security and back-ups. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests: to properly administer our website and our business.

Technical Data includes your IP address, browser details, length of visit, page views and navigation paths, time zone settings, and other technology on your devices. We process this data to analyse usage, protect our website, and deliver relevant content. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests: to properly administer our website and grow our business.

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you (race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, health, genetic or biometric data, or information about criminal convictions and offences).

We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.

3. Marketing Communications

Our lawful ground for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (to grow our business).

Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, we will get your express consent.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing [email protected].

4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with:

  • Other companies in our group who provide services to us
  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

5. International Transfers

We are subject to the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulations that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data:

  • We may transfer your data to countries that the European Commission has approved as providing adequate protection
  • Where we use US-based providers that are part of an EU-approved privacy framework, we may transfer data to them as they have equivalent safeguards
  • We may use specific contracts, codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by EU regulators

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

6. Data Security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please email [email protected].

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month.

Regional Rights

9. Third-Party Links

This website includes links to third-party websites. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

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