Privacy Policy

Statement of Privacy applies to the MyLEX website (the “Website”) and governs data collection, processing and usage of personal information of the Website’s users. LexSnap uses cookies to advertise to previous visitors of the LexSnap website through Google AdWords Remarketing on third party websites. By using the Website, you consent to MyLEX’s data practices described in this Statement of Privacy, Google’s privacy policy as well as our General Terms and Conditions. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you by using https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en, this also enables you to opt out of Google advertising entirely. If you do not agree to any part of this Statement of Privacy or our General Terms and Conditions, then you should stop accessing the Website.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is MYLEX GLOBAL LTD, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 10519624 and its registered office is at MyLex Global Ltd, Third Floor 24 Chiswell Street, London, England, EC1Y 4YX (“MyLEX”, “we” or “us”).

 

1. Definitions

Capitalised terms in this Statement of Privacy have the following meanings:

“Customer” means a prospective, current or former customer of MyLEX. The term shall also include any individual agent, employee, representative or client of MyLEX where MyLEX has obtained his or her Personal Data from such person as part of its business relationship with that person.

“Data Subject” means an identified or identifiable natural living person about whom Personal Data is being processed.

“Employee” means an employee (whether temporary, permanent, part-time or contract) of MyLEX. An employee may be a resident of a country within the European Economic area.

“Europe” or “European” refers to a country in the European Economic Area.

“Personal Data” has the meaning given to it in the European Union Directive 95/46/EC, which includes data that personally identifies or may be used to personally identify a person, including an individual’s name in combination with country of birth, marital status, emergency contact, salary information, terms of employment, job qualifications (such as educational degrees earned), address, phone number, e-mail address and password. Personal Data does not include data that is de-identified, anonymous, or publicly available. The term “person” may include a natural person and a legal entity, regardless of the form of the legal entity.

“Sensitive Data” means Personal Data that discloses a Data Subject’s medical or health condition, race or ethnicity, political, religious affiliations, sexual orientation, or trade union membership.

“Third Party” means any individual or entity that is neither MyLEX nor a MyLEX Employee, agent, contractor or representative.

 

2. Collection of your personal data

MYLEX may collect and process Personal Data, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. If you purchase MYLEX products and services, we collect and store billing and credit card information. MYLEX may also collect anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites. MyLEX will retain Personal Data for current and former customers. However, MyLEX reserves the right to delete Personal Data of other users of the Website at any time.

Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by the Website. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by MyLEX for the operation of the Website and your use of applications, websites, content, information, software, products, and services (“Services”) contained in or available directly or indirectly through the Website, to maintain quality of the Website and the Services, and to populate general statistics regarding use of the Website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose Personal Data or Sensitive Data through the Website’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by a Third Party.

MyLEX encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Website, so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. MyLEX is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the MyLEX family of websites.

 

3. Use of your personal data 

  1. MyLEX collects and uses your Personal Data to operate the Website and deliver the Services. MyLEX will send one welcome email following registration to all registered users. We will also periodically send service updates to registered users.
  2. MyLEX may also use your Personal Data to inform you of other products or services available from MyLEX and its affiliates, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. MyLEX may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered, although you do not have to respond to such surveys.

 

4. Storage of personal data 

  1. As part of the services offered to you through the Website, the information you provide to us may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by Employees operating outside the EEA who work for us or one of our suppliers. By way of example, a transfer of your information may happen if any of our servers are located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EEA.
  2. If we transfer or store your information outside the EEA, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected and treated securely as outlined in this Statement of Privacy. If you use our service while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with these services. By submitting your Personal Data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing by us.
  3. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
  4. MyLEX keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Website, in order to determine what website services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within the Website to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
  5. Except as expressly stated in this Statement of Privacy, MyLEX will disclose or share your Personal Data, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with any legal requirements or comply with legal process served on the Website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of MyLEX; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website, or the general public.
  6. MyLEX may disclose your Personal Data to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, each as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.

 

5. Disclosures/Onward transfers of personal data 

  1. MyLEX 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 addition, MyLEX may share your Personal Data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide customer support. MyLEX may also share your information with Third Parties who perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction.
  2. All such Third Parties are prohibited from using your Personal Data except to provide the aforementioned services to the Website, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal Data by agreeing to provide adequate protections for the Personal Data that are no less protective than those set out in this Statement of Privacy.
  3. We may disclose your Personal Data to Third Parties: (a) in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; and (b) if the Website or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a Third Party, in which case, Personal Data held by us about our Customers will be one of the transferred assets.

 

6. Sensitive data 

MyLEX will keep confidential Sensitive Data about you and will not use it other than for internal training, research and development purposes without your express consent.

 

7. Use of cookies 

  1. The Website uses “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server and tracks, saves and stores information about your use of the Website. 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 web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
  2. 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 personalise the Website pages, or register with the Website itself or for services being provided by the Website, a cookie helps the Website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Website features that you customised.
  3. We may use any of the following cookies:
    • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
    • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
    • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
    • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with Third Parties for this purpose.
    • 4.Please note that Third Parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.    5. Most web 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 access all or parts of our Website or to fully experience the interactive features of the Services or our Website.

    8. Data security and integrity

    1. The Website secures your Personal Data from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. The Website secures the Personal Data you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
    2. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

    9. Your rights

    You have the right to ask us not to process your Personal Data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any Third Party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at support@lexsnap.com.

     

    10. Right to access, change or delete personal data 

    1. Right to access: the Act gives Data Subjects the right to access information held about them, to ensure that such Personal Data is accurate and relevant for the purposes for which the Website collected the Personal Data. You may review your Personal Data stored in the Website databases and correct, erase or block any data that is incorrect, as permitted by applicable law. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
    2. You may edit your Personal Data by logging into your account or by contacting us by phone or email. In making modifications to your Personal Data, you must provide only truthful, complete and accurate information. To request erasure of Personal Data, please submit a written request to our registered address by registered mail.
    3. Satisfying Requests for Access, Modifications, and Corrections: we will endeavour to respond in a timely manner to all reasonable written requests to view, modify, or inactivate Personal Data.
    4. Employees: Employees may access and use Personal Data only if they are authorised to do so and only for the purpose for which they are authorised.

     

    11. Children under eighteen 

    Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 18, and such use is prohibited by our General Terms and Conditions. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us as set forth in this Statement of Privacy.

     

    12. Changes to this Statement of Privacy

    1. MyLEX may occasionally update this Statement of Privacy, for example to reflect company and customer feedback. MyLEX encourages you to periodically review this Statement of Privacy to be informed of how MyLEX is protecting your information. Your continued use of the Website and/or the Services after such updates will constitute your acknowledgement of the updates and your consent to be bound by the modified Statement of Privacy.
    2. This Statement of Privacy will be effective as of June, 2017 and will remain in effect except with respect to any future changes. Any changes to this Statement of Privacy after this date will be in effect immediately after being posted on the Website.

    13. Contact information

    MyLEX welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Website has not adhered to this Statement of Privacy, please contact us at support@lexsnap.com.

    For more information please review our General Terms & Conditions