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Privacy

Privacy Policy 
Thank you for visiting our website. Your privacy is important to us and our users. We are committed to protecting your privacy whilst providing a personalized and valuable service. We are committed to safeguarding your data while rendering our portfolio of professional services and products at Hanaz Writers. This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing, and usage practices. It is designed to allow you to make an informed choice regarding use, access, and correction of your Personal Information.

 

Data Security and Integrity

The security, integrity and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We may maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to secure your Personal Data. However, there is always some risk in transmitting information electronically. The Personal Data we collect is stored within databases that we have. We use security measures consistent with industry standards, such as firewalls and encryption technology to protect this information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.


Personal Data That We Collect
The personal data that maybe collected are, for example in response to register for events, register for personalized services, request information about products, use our services, or request customer support. Personal Information such as full name, gender, postal address, email addresses, telephone numbers, commercial information, such as purchase history and referral source, payment information (including bank and other details) billing address, and work and education profile. This data may include IP address, operating system, and browser type. We also collect data relating to your personal preferences with regard to the journals you like to read, your most preferred published papers, etc. (“Personal Information”). We do not intentionally collect more personal data than described here. However, if you at your choice, intentionally or unintentionally disclose some personal data other than the description provided in this paragraph then such data shall continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy. We may also have acquired your Personal Information from a third-party service provider or publicly available data source.

We will not intentionally collect any special categories of personal data about you (such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 

How We Use Your Personal Data
We use the Personal Information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party without your explicit consent. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your Personal Information to (a) assist you with our services, (b) send to you information that we think may be of interest to you; (c) send you marketing communications relating to our business, current services, new services or promotions; (d) respond to an enquiry, question, or concern that you may have raised; (e) perform analytics and create a database to improve your browsing experience and enhance the functionality of our services; or (f) send you an email or by any other means as suggested reading list based on your personal preferences submitted to us.

We may share Personal Information with trusted service providers or our affiliates for payment processing, supplementing the information you provide us in order to provide you with better service, account administration, perform statistical analysis, provide marketing assistance, host the Website, index user profile pages and usernames as part of the URL, technical and customer support. Any third parties receiving your Personal Information from us are prohibited from using your Personal Information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. 

After you place an order on our website, you may need to make payments for the services you have ordered. In order to process your payments, we use a number of third-party payment processors. Your payment will be processed by the payment provider you choose to process your payment via a payment gateway. If you give us banking or other payment mode details, we solely use such details to process payment refunds, if any, to you. The third-party payment processors we use also collect, use, and process your information, including payment information, in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

To ensure that the security and integrity of the website is safeguarded, Hanaz Writers may monitor your Personal Information. Hanaz Writers may under certain circumstances engage a trusted third-party service provider for the purpose of managing the technical operations involved in hosting the website.

We will share the Personal Information, if disclosure was required by law, rule or regulation or was in response to a valid order of a court or authorized agency of government or other legal process. We may be required to process Personal Information for legal and compliance reasons, such as the prevention, detection, or investigation of a crime, loss prevention or prevention of fraud. We may also use Personal Information to meet our internal and external audit requirements and for information security purposes. 



Retention of Personal Information
We retain Personal Information that you provide us as long as an account is active or as needed to provide the service(s) or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate financial and other records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to terminate your account or request that we no longer use your Personal Information, please contact us.

We will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

  1. The purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);

  2. Whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);

  3. Whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);

  4. How valuable your information is (both now and in the future);

  5. Any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;

  6. The levels of risk, cost, and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;

  7. How hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate;

  8. Any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you); and

  9. The time period your account remains active.

 

Social Media Features
Our Website may include integrations with social media sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and the “Share This” button, or interactive programs. Where we have your consent, these features may collect your IP address and pages you are visiting on our website and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

 

Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience of the Services. 

 

Changes to this Policy
This Policy is subject to occasional revision and in line with our GDPR obligations, and if we make any material changes in the way we use your Personal Data, we will notify you by sending you an email to the last email address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on Hanaz Writers website. Any changes to this Policy will be effective immediately, following our dispatch of an email notice to you or by posting notice of the changes on the Hanaz Writers’. These changes will be effective immediately unless it is stated otherwise by Hanaz Writer’s team.

At all times, you are responsible for updating your Personal Data to provide us with your most current email address and or details. If the last email address that you have provided to us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the email containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your Personal Data, you must deactivate your Account prior to the effective date of the changes. Continued use of the Site or Services following notice of such changes will indicate your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes. 

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