Privacy Policy

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1. INTRODUCTION

Horizon Life Sciences Consulting’s (website URL address: www.horizon-lsc.com) privacy policy informs you about the processing activities that take place directly on our website. We appreciate your business and trust. Our company, based in the UAE, creates products to enhance your website-building experience. Please read this Privacy Policy and provide consent to both documents to have permission to use our services.

2. DATA COLLECTED
DATA STORAGE LOCATION

We are UAE based company and operate web servers hosted in UAE. Our hosting provider Hetzner Online GmbH adheres to the EU/US “Privacy Shield”, ensuring that your data is securely stored and GDPR compliant.

COMMENTS

When you leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

CONTACT E-MAIL

Our website gives us the contact email addresses you can use to reach us. We will receive and store any data you send via email. Your data will not be shared with any third parties. We’ll only use the data you provide to address your question.

Our legitimate interests include facilitating direct communication with customers and prospects in a professional and service-oriented manner. We will not share your data or use it for other purposes.

Your data will be deleted when it’s no longer needed for the original purposes, such as when the conversation with you is completed and the matter is resolved.

CONTACT FORM

The data collected through the contact form is added to our customer relationship management tool (“CRM”) to enable us to provide you with optimal support.

Where the processing of the provided data is required to take steps to enter into a contract with you or to fulfil a contract with you, our legitimate interests are to enable direct and uncomplicated communication with customers and prospects and to deal with them in a professional and service-oriented manner.
We want you to know that the transfer of your data is based on our legitimate interest in providing an appropriately professional communication experience to our customers and other interested parties.

We will stop processing your data as soon as it is no longer necessary for data collection. For the data entered into the contact form, this is typically when the conversation with you has ended. A conversation is considered ended when the circumstances suggest that the exchange between the parties has concluded indefinitely. Any further archiving of our communication may occur for legal purposes concerning tax or trade legislation or other reasons with legal implications.

As a user, you have the right to object to the storage of the data you provide us via the contact form or email. You can exercise this right by contacting our data protection officer (see above for contact information) with an informal email that provides the necessary information to link the objection to the related conversation. If you choose to object, the conversation can not continue. Any personal data that was stored during the conversation will be deleted if it is no longer needed for verification purposes provided by national or European law or for the purposes of defending against or enforcing legal claims.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behavior on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.

CASES FOR USING THE PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal information in the following cases:

  • Verification/identification of the user during website usage;
  • Providing Technical Assistance;
  • Sending updates to our users with important information to inform about news/changes;
  • Checking the accounts’ activity in order to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security
  • over our customers’ personal information;
  • Customize the website to make your experience more personal and engaging;
  • Guarantee overall performance and administrative functions run smoothly.
3. EMBEDDED CONTENT

Pages on this site may include embedded content from other websites. Visiting another website behaves like visiting this one.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Here is a list of our services: Instagram and LinkedIn. Instagram and LinkedIn have their own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control.

4. COOKIES

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

Cookies can contain information about specifications you have made while visiting the website – for example your choice of language, entries into forms, etc. Cookies may also contain a specific identifier which allows the website to recognize your browser upon another visit.

We ourselves use both session cookies (deleted automatically after closing the browser) and persistent cookies (remain on your device until the defined date of expiry) on our website. We also employ services from third parties. For further information on those, please see the sections below.

The placement of our cookies is based on art. 6 sec. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interests lie in providing a functional and user-friendly website, answering customer requests and optimizing our web content.

Some of the used cookies will be placed on your device only after you accept the cookie banner that appears when visiting our website. For these cookies, the legal basis is your consent that is thereby given, art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR.

We use the personal data that is gathered through these cookies to optimize the information and offerings on our website for a better user experience, to optimize navigation from a technical perspective like recognizing your settings on our website for future visits, to implement features like a login or a shopping basket or the like. The user data gathered by our (non-third-party) cookies is not used for creating user profiles.

Cookies that are placed on your device by us will be deleted either after closing the browser session in case of session cookies or after the defined date of expiry in case of persistent cookies.

You can at any time prevent the placement of cookies through our internet site by changing the settings on your browser accordingly and thus object to the placement of cookies permanently. Hence, you as a user are in full control over the usage of cookies on your device. Furthermore, placed cookies can be deleted at any time through the internet browser used or by other software. This is possible with any common internet browser. If you deactivate the placement of cookies by your browser, you may not be able to use all features of our internet site to their full extent.

5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

Our system administrators.

Our supporters when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts and access.

6. THIRD-PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

We don’t share your data with third parties in a way that reveals any of your personal information, such as email and name. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners with whom we have to share limited data to provide the services you expect from us.

7. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

We’ll keep your data until you tell us to remove it. You can edit or delete your personal information at any time, and website administrators can also access and edit that information.

8. SECURITY MEASURES

Our use of the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site is a key part of our commitment to protecting your personal information. This encryption ensures that your user communications with the servers are secure and not susceptible to capture or hijacking by third parties without authorisation.

In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all necessary steps to ensure system integrity, contact affected users, and attempt to reset passwords if necessary.

9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS

You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

10. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

HLSC may post links to third-party websites on this website. HLSC does not screen these third-party websites for privacy or security compliance, and you release us from any liability for their conduct.

All social media sharing links, whether displayed as text links or social media icons, do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, do not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. HLSC bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third-party website. Please look at the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third-party links.

11. RELEASE OF YOUR DATA FOR LEGAL PURPOSES

At times, it may become necessary or desirable for HLSC, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a specific request. We’d appreciate it if you could release us from any damages arising from or relating to releasing your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants. Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with the laws of the country you reside in.

12. AMENDMENTS

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will update this page and ask you to accept the changes so you can continue using our services.