Privacy Policy
The Types of Information We Collect
We currently collect and process the following types of information:
- Personal identifiers, for example your name, email address and company name
- Payment methods, for example debit/credit card details (A-apps Ltd. does not have direct access to this)
- Geographic location and website usage
- Device details for licence activation
How We Get the Personal Information and Why We Have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- You visit our website
- You contact us via email or through social media interactions
- You install and launch our software
- You purchase a software licence
- You have an account on our support or licensing portals
Your Personal Information and How We Store it
Your information is securely stored by our service providers:
- Zoho (website and helpdesk)
- Paddle (merchant for processing payments)
- Cryptlex (software licensing).
The information we store:
- First name, last name, email address [Zoho, Paddle, Cryptlex]
- Company name (optional[ [Cryptlex]
- Links to social media profiles [Zoho]
- Credit card information [Paddle]
- Website usage [Zoho]
- Geographic location [Zoho, Paddle, Cryptlex]
- Licence Activation: device hostname, device user name (hashed using SHA256), device operating system, virtual machine being run on the device, device fingerprint generated from various hardware components (hashed using SHA256), device IP address [Cryptlex]
Your Data Protection Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing your personal information are:
- Your consent, through the use of our website, portals and methods of communication
- We have a contractual obligation, through the supply of software licences purchased via our website
- We have a legitimate interest, through providing after-sales support
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
- Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at data@a-apps.com if you wish to make a request.
How to Complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at gdpr@a-apps.com.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data:
Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF United Kingdom Helpline number: +44 (0)303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk |
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