Effective Date: January 1, 2024
Welcome to LITCRITIQ. Protecting your privacy is crucial to us, and this Privacy Policy provides detailed information about how your personal data is collected, used, and protected when you use our website https://litcritiq.com (“Site”). This policy also explains your rights regarding your personal information.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Information
- Contact Information: Includes your name, email address, telephone number, and other contact details.
- Account Details: Your username, password, and other information required when you create an account on our Site.
- Financial Information: Payment details, including credit card numbers and billing information, used for purchasing services or products.
- Content: Any personal data included in content you upload or post to the website.
Non-Personal Information
- Technical Data: Includes IP addresses, browser types, browser language, operating system, referral sources, and device information.
- Usage Data: Information on how you interact with our website, such as page views, site navigation patterns, and other standard server log information.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Service Provision: To manage your account, provide our services, and respond to your inquiries.
- Communication: To communicate with you about updates, promotional offers, and events, subject to your consent.
- Improvement and Personalization: To understand how our services are used and to tailor experiences to your preferences.
- Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and legal processes.
3. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)
For individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data under the following legal bases:
- Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for specific purposes.
- Contract: The processing is necessary for a contract you have with us.
- Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with:
- Service Providers: Companies that provide services to us or on our behalf.
- Legal Requirements: If required by law or if necessary to protect our rights or comply with judicial proceedings.
5. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country other than your own. We will take all reasonable measures to protect your data in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable law.
6. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
7. Your Rights
- Access and Rectification: You have the right to access your personal data and ask for it to be corrected or updated.
- Deletion: You can request that we delete your personal data.
- Objection: You may object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Portability: You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable format.
8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and store certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@litcritiq.com.
11. GDPR Contact in EU
For our European users, you can contact our GDPR representative at gdpr-eu@litcritiq.com.