Match.Center
Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Trust and reliability are of particular importance for our users.

Match.centeris committed to protecting privacy and takes our responsibility regarding the security of your information very seriously. We will be clear and transparent about the information we are collecting and what we will do with that information.

This page informs you of the policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information that may be received from users of the «Match.Center» site (the "Service") as operated at https://match.center/ie/.

This policy applies simultaneously with the Terms and Conditions of use.

 All personal data is collected and processed in accordance with Irish and EU data protection laws.

Overview

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We collect the following personal information which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data (First name, last name, data of birth (in the case of members), gender, company, professional title, professional qualifications, career history (in some cases))
  • Contact Data (Postal address, email address, telephone number)
  • Financial Data (Credit / Debit card details)
  • Technical Data (IP address (masked), login data, open rate / click rate data).

How is personal information collected?

Access to our website is free and does not require prior subscription or registration. The sending of personal data implies the express acceptance by the USER of our Privacy Policy.

The user must access our website in accordance with good faith, the rules of public order and these general conditions of use. Access to our website is carried out under the sole and exclusive responsibility of the user, who will be liable in any case for any damages that may be caused to third parties or to ourselves.

Taking into account the impossibility of control regarding the information, content and services contained in other web pages that can be accessed through the links that our web page may make available to you, we inform you that we are exempt from any responsibility for damages of any kind that could derive from the use of these web pages, outside our company, by the user.

On the Match.Center website we collect and process the following personal data of USERS:

Contact Form:

  • Purpose: Contact and make inquiries.
  • Method: To do this, the USER is required to enter their name and surname (mandatory field), email (mandatory field), telephone, message, enter the anti-spam captcha code and click on the box I have read and accept the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy and click the Submit button. The USER's email address will not be published.

We recommend that you avoid publishing your sensitive personal data if you do not want it to be public.

Cookies

We may use small text files called cookies to improve the overall website experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on Your hard drive containing information about your access to the Website. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you. If you do not wish to use cookies while accessing the website, it may be possible to disable the use of cookies through changing your internet browser settings.

Additionally, depending on their purpose, Cookies can be classified as follows:

  • PERFORMANCE COOKIES: This type of Cookie remembers your preferences for the tools found in the Services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. For example, this typology includes:

    • Volume adjustments of video or sound players.
    • The video transmission speeds that are compatible with your browser.
    • Objects stored in the "shopping cart" in E-commerce Services such as stores.

  • GEO-LOCATION COOKIES: These Cookies are used to find out which country you are in when a Service is requested. This Cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content to your location.

  • REGISTRATION COOKIES: Registration Cookies are generated once the User has registered or subsequently opened his session, and are used to identify him in the Services with the following objectives:

    • Keep the User identified in such a way that, if he closes a Service, the browser or the computer and at another time or day re-enters said Service, he will continue to be identified, thus facilitating his navigation without having to identify himself again. This functionality can be suppressed if the User presses the “close session” functionality, so that this Cookie is eliminated and the next time the User enters the Service, they will have to log in to be identified.
    • Check if the User is authorized to access certain Services, for example, to participate in a contest.
    • Additionally, some Services may use connectors with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When the User registers in a Service with credentials from a social network, he authorizes the social network to save a persistent Cookie that remembers his identity and grants him access to the Services until it expires. The User can delete this Cookie and revoke access to the Services through social networks by updating their preferences in the social network that they specify.

  • ANALYTICS COOKIES: Every time a User visits a Service, a tool from an external provider (Analytics and similar that may be added to this list in case they vary in relation to the current ones) generates an analytical Cookie in the user's computer. User. This Cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will serve on future visits to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives pursued are:

    • Allow the anonymous identification of browsing Users through the "Cookie" (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate accounting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.
    • Anonymously identify the most visited content and therefore the most attractive for Users.
    • Know if the User who is accessing is new or repeats visit.

As was said above, if you do not wish to use cookies while accessing the website, it may be possible to disable the use of cookies through changing your internet browser settings. We offer a guidance to the User on the steps to access the cookie configuration menu and, where appropriate, private browsing in each of the main browsers:

  • Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom Settings.
  • Chrome: Settings -> Show advanced options -> Privacy -> Content settings.
  • Safari: Preferences -> Security.

What happens if Cookies are disabled? Some functionalities of the Services will be disabled, such as, for example, remaining identified, keeping purchases in the "shopping cart" in an e-commerce Service, receiving information directed to your location or the viewing of some videos.

Storage Duration and Deletion of Data

Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies, or you revoke your consent. In addition, storage can take place if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator under EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the person responsible is subject. If the storage purpose no longer applies, you revoke your consent, or a storage period prescribed by the European regulator or another responsible legislator expires, the personal data will be blocked or deleted routinely and in accordance with the statutory provisions, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion of a contract or fulfilment of a contract.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data?

You have the right to access any personal information that we process about you and to request information about:

  • What personal data we hold about you
  • The purposesoftheprocessing
  • The categories of personal data concerned
  • The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
  • How long we intend to store your personal data for
  • If we did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source

If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to do so as quickly as possible; unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.

You have the right to request that we delete your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was initially required. We undertake to adhere to your Right to be Forgotten subject to where the data is required to be retained for contractual, or to meet legal or regulatory requirements.

Where applicable, you have the right to data portability of your information and the right to be informed about any automated decision-making we may use.

If we receive a request from you to exercise the above rights, we will ask you to verify your identity to a varying degree based upon the information sought, before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.

Policy changes

We can modify this Policy based on legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt said policy to the instructions issued by GDPR, Irish law therefore users are advised to visit it periodically.

When significant changes occur in this Policy, Users will be notified either through the web or via email to registered Users.