PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2024.

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ABOUT THIS POLICY

This is the Privacy Policy of Invicta Partners FZE ("INVICTA PARTNERS"), a company registered in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data you share with INVICTA PARTNERS, which acts as data controller with regards to such personal data, i.e. is the person or company that, together or with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully. By browsing the Site or expressly consenting, where required under applicable privacy laws, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

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INTRODUCTION

INVICTA PARTNERS values the importance of your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy and the personal data that you provide to us by using invictapartners.net, or other INVICTA PARTNERS websites or digital media products (jointly the "Site"), that post a link to this Privacy Policy, or in any other way, such as information that you submit to us in response to an email or other outreach medium from INVICTA PARTNERS.

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INVICTA PARTNERS reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes to our statement will take immediate effect upon their posting on the Site and will be reflected here.
 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

INVICTA PARTNERS collects and stores information that you enter on our website or provide us in any other way, for example if, and when, you seek information on, or make requests to INVICTA PARTNERS, you create your account for the Site, you subscribe to receive periodic content, and marketing communications (via emails, social media platforms) from INVICTA PARTNERS, based on your consent where required under applicable laws.

The personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, IP, geo location, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

If you do not provide such information, you may not be able to avail some of the services and contents available on the Site, including but not limited to: seeking information on our services, or collaboration and employment opportunities, creating an account for the Site, requesting copies of publications, subscribing for newsletters and press releases.

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INVICTA PARTNERS also collects information if you register for INVICTA PARTNERS-sponsored events (e.g. conferences, career fairs), or participate in surveys run by INVICTA PARTNERS.

Personal information that we collect in relation to events and surveys includes names, e-mail addresses, IP, unique personal identifiers, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

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INVICTA PARTNERS may also use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.

Moreover, INVICTA PARTNERS aggregates information on users’ demographics, as well as systems and browsers they use. We may also carry out user surveys on the Web or use technologies to provide INVICTA PARTNERS with information on various areas, e.g. user identity, viewing habits, satisfaction with Site content and features.
 

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

How INVICTA PARTNERS uses your personal information depends on your use of the Site and the personal information that you provided; more specifically, we process your personal information:

• To provide and operate the Site and services that we offer, and, more generally, to safeguard INVICTA PARTNERS’ legitimate business interests, including:

  • Communicating with you, managing your requests (e.g. about you account, subscriptions, events and surveys), and providing you with assistance and technical support;

  • Personalizing your user experience on the Site with relevant materials

  • Gaining relevant information on Site’s usage: user composition, topics and content of interest, and Site compatibility with users’ computer settings

  • Improving Site content, navigation, and ergonomics

  • Measuring INVICTA PARTNERS marketing programs’ effectiveness

  • Notifying you about service updates, or products and services offered by INVICTA PARTNERS you may be interested in

• Having received your consent, where required by applicable laws. Insofar as you have granted us consent to processing personal information for specific purposes, the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent, and you may withdraw your consent at any time.

• To comply with legal obligations, including anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures, and tax and social security requirements.

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INFORMATION STORAGE AND SHARING 
INVICTA PARTNERS’ website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. Wix.com stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

INVICTA PARTNERS may need to share personal information with third parties that help us provide services and products to you and to run our Site. Such third parties include:

• Our advisors;

• Our partners, affiliates, or subsidiaries; 

• Third-party service providers who process information on our behalf because they manage some of our business operations, such as email distribution, Site hosting, Site security, IT services, marketing and events services, and the like;

• Our partners in events, publications and other activities that they co-organize with us;

• Law enforcement bodies, to comply with legal obligations or court orders.

INVICTA PARTNERS may also disclose your contact information in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights raised by bona-fide rights owners and arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to INVICTA PARTNERS.

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INVICTA PARTNERS may need to transfer personal information which is collected on the Site or via other means across the INVICTA PARTNERS network to help operate our business efficiently. This includes third parties located in different countries around the world, outside of the UAE, EEA, USA, Switzerland, and the UK. These arrangements may involve your personal information located in countries around the world, as INVICTA PARTNERS (including third-party service providers), maintains and stores personal information in systems and applications located in the UAE, Europe, the USA, South Korea, and Israel. The personal information is only accessible by authorized persons or vendors who are bound by privacy requirements. We make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect information held in that country.
Moreover, the Site may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally identifiable information.
 

INFORMATION RETENTION
INVICTA PARTNERS retains your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. Criteria used to determine retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (e.g., for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our services) and the length of time thereafter during which we may have a legitimate need to reference your personal information to address issues that may arise

• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g., certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain time before we can delete them); or

• Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations)

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COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

 

In our marketing communications with you we monitor and comply with applicable data privacy laws. If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by submitting a request using our Contact Form, as outlined within this Privacy Policy. If and when subscribing to INVICTA PARTNERS e-mail newsletters, you will be given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.
 

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

INVICTA PARTNERS uses cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services.

With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ or https://allaboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information.

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Once you have given your consent to use cookies, we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browsers settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may not be accessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application.

To view a detailed list of cookies used on invictapartners.com, click here.
 

INFORMATION SECURITY
INVICTA PARTNERS has in place security practices and processes designed to protect personally identifiable information. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Individuals and entities who are granted access to any personally identifiable information are obligated to maintain its confidentiality. While INVICTA PARTNERS acts in accordance with generally accepted industry standard to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and INVICTA PARTNERS cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.
 

THIRD-PARTY WEB SITES
This Site contains links to other Web sites that are not owned or operated by INVICTA PARTNERS, and are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

 

INVICTA PARTNERS is not responsible and takes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of any non-INVICTA PARTNERS and third-party web sites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Policy. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.

 

We recommend that you review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

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LEGAL COMPLIANCE
INVICTA PARTNERS complies with applicable data privacy laws. As such, we may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court or similar order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. In the event of a violation of the terms of use of the Site or of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

 

YOUR RIGHTS
In accordance with applicable data privacy laws, including but not limited to the GDPR and the UAE’s Federal Decree by Law No. (45) of 2021, Concerning the Protection of Personal Data, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use it. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to request that we erase, stop processing, and restrict the processing of your personal information, and that we provide your personal information in a portable format. Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information, or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please contact us through our Contact Form as outlined in the Contact Us section contained in this Privacy Policy. We need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.

 

CHILDREN
Protecting children's privacy, in all circumstances, is important to INVICTA PARTNERS. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 18 years of age and younger.

 

USE OF INVICTA PARTNERS WEB SITES
Your access to and use of the Site are subject to this Privacy Policy and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms of Use.
 

CONTACT US

For further questions, or to exercise your rights, please submit your request using our Contact Form, selecting "Policy inquiry" under "Reason for contacting us".