Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information

Last Updated: January 15, 2025

1. Introduction

Fact-Evolution ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at fact-evolution.com (the "Site"), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On our Site
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Site
  • Through mobile and desktop applications you download from our Site, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy

Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using our Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide to Us

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:

  • Personal Information: This is information that can be used to identify you personally, such as your name, email address, postal address, and telephone number.
  • Contact Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or request information, we collect your contact details.
  • Feedback and Correspondence: If you report a problem with our Site, respond to a survey, or contact us in any way, we may keep records of that correspondence.

2.2 Information We Collect Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
  • Device Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
  • Location Information: We may collect information about your actual location if you provide consent or we may determine an approximate location based on your IP address.

2.3 Legal Basis for Processing

We only process your personal information when we have a valid legal basis to do so. These legal bases include:

  • Consent: Where you have given us permission to process your personal information for specific purposes.
  • Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
  • Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
  • Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our Site and services
  • Process and complete transactions, and send related information including confirmations and receipts
  • Send technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of Fact-Evolution and others
  • Personalize and improve the Site and provide content, features, or advertisements that match your interests and preferences
  • Facilitate contests, sweepstakes, and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected

4. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

4.1 Service Providers

We may share your information with service providers who perform services on our behalf. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us, such as:

  • Hosting and maintaining our Site
  • Providing customer service
  • Processing payments and refunds
  • Sending emails and newsletters
  • Analyzing data and usage patterns

4.2 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency). We may also disclose your information:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Fact-Evolution
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

4.3 Business Transfers

If Fact-Evolution is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

4.4 With Your Consent

We may share your information with third parties when you have given us your consent to do so.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

5.1 Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the Site to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
  • Preferences Cookies: These cookies enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
  • Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Site.
  • Marketing Cookies: These cookies may be set through our Site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.

5.2 Cookie Management

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

6. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:

6.1 Access and Update

You have the right to access, update, or correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request access to your personal information by contacting us as indicated below.

6.2 Data Portability

You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have that information transmitted to another organization in certain circumstances.

6.3 Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

6.4 Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of your personal information.

6.5 Objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when the processing is based on our legitimate interests.

6.6 Withdrawal of Consent

Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

6.7 Marketing Communications

You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by:

  • Following the unsubscribe instructions included in our marketing emails
  • Sending an email to us at [email protected] requesting to be removed from our marketing list

6.8 How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

8. International Data Transfers

We are based in the United Kingdom, and the information we collect is governed by UK and European law. If you are accessing our Site from outside the UK, please be aware that information collected through the Site may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the UK, other European countries, and the United States. Data protection laws in the UK and other jurisdictions may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Site or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information in the UK and other jurisdictions as set out in this Privacy Policy.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through any of its features, register on the Site, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will post the new Privacy Policy on this page and notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Site home page.

The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Fact-Evolution
123 Tech Lane
London, EC1A 1BB
United Kingdom

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 20 1234 5678

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact your local data protection authority.