Privacy Policy

Sekka Magazine, owned by Sekka Ltd., a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act 2006, under the Company Number 12939738 (“Sekka,” “we,” or “our”), is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies to the Sekka website, www.sekkamag.com (the “Website”), and governs data collection and usage. By using the Website, you consent to our data collection and practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

As described throughout this Privacy Policy, Sekka collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address, or telephone number for various purposes.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Sekka. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Sekka for the operation of the Website, to maintain quality of the Website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Website.

Registration

When using our Website and signing up for certain selected services, users must first register. During registration, users are required to give certain contact information (such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number). Sekka also may collect demographic information (such as job title and other information). For internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with users and provide requested services and to provide a more personalized experience on our Website. We use aggregate demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes, and/or industry reporting purposes.

Subscriptions

Many of the Website products and services are free to users. For our products and services that require payment, we also collect credit card information (such as credit card number and expiry date), which is used for billing purposes only, and is not otherwise shared.

Communications between Sekka and You

The Website has certain features where users can submit information to Sekka. Letters to the editor and similar submissions may be made public. By submitting communications to Sekka intended as magazine content, users understand and agree that all communications become the property of Sekka and may also be made public by Sekka.

Requests for service, support, and/or information or other communication with Sekka may be forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. Sekka may retain emails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes, and to help us to serve customers better.

In order to best serve our customers, we may send updates that contain important information about our site and services. We may also communicate with a user to provide requested services and for account-related issues via email, phone or regular mail.

We offer our users the option to receive information about our company, related products, services and special deals.

Permission

Sekka users are given the opportunity when they register to choose whether to receive information from our affiliates not directly related to the Sekka Magazine. Please note that we will endeavour to implement requests within a reasonable time, although for a time users may continue to receive mailings, etc., transmitted based on information released prior to the implementation of the request. Users will continue to receive information directly related to their registered services, so they always are kept informed.

Use of your Personal Information

Sekka collects and uses your personal information to operate the Website and deliver the services you have requested. Sekka also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Sekka and its affiliates. Sekka may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Sekka does not sell, rent or lease its visitor lists to third parties.

Sekka may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Sekka keeps track of the Website and pages our customers visit within Sekka, in order to determine what Sekka services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Website to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Use of Cookies

The Website use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Sekka pages or services, a cookie helps Sekka to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most website browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Sekka services or websites you visit.

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.

Newsletters

Sekka users can choose to not receive these messages by using the “one-click” opt out/ unsubscribe option available at the bottom of every newsletter.

Security of your Personal Information

Sekka takes steps to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Sekka secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

Changes to this Statement

Sekka will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Sekka encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Sekka is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Sekka welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. For any questions or clarification please contact us at: [email protected]