We greatly value our client’s privacy because it is significantly vital to us. We have a few fundamental principles:
- We are considerate about the personal data we request you to avail and the personal information that we gather about you through the operation of our services.
- We store personal information no longer than we really need to keep it or when it is required by law.
- We aspire to make it as easy as possible for you to control what information on this website is shared publicly(or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
- We aim for full transparency on how we acquire, use and share your personal information.
Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, don’t hesitate to contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider( free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Who We Are and What This Privacy Policy Covers
Hi there! We are the folks behind this website. We are the company BoomGrades.
This Privacy policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:
- Our website- BoomGrades.com;
- Our mobile applications (either for Android or iOS); and
- Other products and services that are available on or through our websites (including plagiarism check, if any).
Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll refer to our website, mobile applications, and other products and services collectively as “Services.”
We are dedicated to protect and respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy demonstrates
how we may use, process, and store your personal information. If such personal information can directly or indirectly refer to you as a natural person, such information comprises your “Personal Data,” and we shall protect it with strict accuracy. Below, we will explain how we obtain, use, and share information about you, along with your choices concerning that information.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, don’t hesitate to contact us.
How We Can Receive Your information
We may acquire that information from you or our partners through contracts or other legal arrangements you have with us or our partners on behalf of us to deliver contractual/legal obligations. Your permission and consent can be collected by us directly, or we may receive your personal information from third parties to whom you have given consent to pass this information on to us.
Information we collect about you
If you visit our website or member communities, we may automatically collect information about you, for example:
- Technical information
- IP addresses
- Information about what type of device you use to connect to our website
- How you interact with our website.
For more information, please read our Cookie Policy.
Below you can find the types of Personal Data we collect and the purposes of its processing.
| # | Personal Information | Purposes we collect your information for | |||
| 1 | User’s Country | Verification of the Userprevention of fraudulent use and resale of User’s accounts tax implications, VAT purposes. | |||
| 2 | User’s email | the primary contact of communication with the User to provide you with marketing and promotion materials. | |||
| 3 | User’s Name and Surname | Verification of the User for invoices, billing, and taxation prevention of fraudulent use and resale of User’s account. | |||
| 4 | Phone Number | Verification of the User to contact of immediate communication with User customer support. | |||
| 5 | City/state/Zip/code/address | Billing information for invoices. |
Why do we collect Personal Data?
We collect information for some or all of the following reasons:
- To offer services to you once you have ordered one of our services through the website;
- To provide information about products or services you have shown interest in buying within a reasonable time afterwards if you are already an existing customer;
- To provide information to you about products or services you have purchased from us or associated products or services;
- To provide services to you under contract;
- For legal reasons, for instance, if you have entered into a contract with us;
- To provide information to you about our products and services if you have agreed to receive it.
Grounds of collecting information from you
We may obtain data from you when we have a legal reason (allowed by law or under contract) to collect the information or when you have concurred for us to do so for a particular purpose(e.g., services provision or newsletters).
We may process your personal data because:
- We have a contract with you;
- You have permitted us to do so;
- We must provide services to you because you have ordered them;
- You have asked to do so;
- To comply with the law.
All the above reasons justify why we may legally process the information we have about you.
Ways of giving information
You may give us information about you with your consent, for example:
- By filling in a form or sending us an email;
- By posting an order at the website;
- Posting reviews and feedbacks at the website;
- By contacting us through our phone numbers.
This information may be personal, financial, educational, or related to your order.
You may give us information for legal reasons, such as entering into a contract with us, when you buy services from us.
Information we receive from other sources
We may collect information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate, any other services we provide, or from our business partners entitled to collect information on our behalf.
We also work with third parties (for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment, and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, background checking agencies) and may receive information about you from them as part of the service we provide you, or for other legal reasons.
Files. We may collect and store the files you upload, download, or access with the Website. Please do not share with us the files you are not permitted to use. Please do not upload or share the files containing your personal information or personal information of third parties without permission. We may not ascertain that such personal information will be secured.
Who might we share your information with?
We may share your personal data with third parties, either because you have consented to permit us to do so or for other legal reasons. For instance, we may share your personal information with:
- Our marketing staff to provide you with promotional materials after you have registered at our website;
- Our group companies, which means our subsidiaries, or our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006;
- Subcontractors and third parties for the purpose of the performance of a contract that we hold with them or that we hold with you;
- With third parties, because you have given consent;
- With third parties who provide us services because you have purchased goods or services.
Other reasons we may share your personal information with a third party
Suppose BoomGrades, or substantially all its assets, are acquired by a third party. In that case, the personal data it holds about its customers will be one of the transferred assets of the company.
Additionally, we will share your personal data with third parties for the following reasons:
- Granted that we must comply with a legal obligation, in certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
- If a government agency legally requests it;
- To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use or other agreements;
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of BoomGrades, our customers, or others;
- If exchange information with third parties aimed to prevent fraud or to reduce our credit risks.
Aggregated data.
From time to time, we may provide third parties with data that has been aggregated.
This means that your personal information that could be used to identify you has been removed. Data provided to third parties in this way is not personal data and is only statistics or similar data; even so, you do keep your right to object.
Where we store and process your personal data
We primarily store and process your personal data in the EU/ European Economic Area or USA (“EEA”). Accepting this Privacy Policy gives us the right to store your personal data in other states if we have servers or storage outside the EEA. We guarantee you that all your data is encrypted securely, and no unauthorized persons may access them.
Reasons your data may be processed outside the EEA include:
- Order fulfilment;
- Payment processing;
- Technical support services.
If your personal data cannot be processed within the EEA, we will:
- Comply with all data protection principles;
- Where possible, choose a country that is on the list of the EU Commissions’ countries that provide adequate protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects;
- If the transfer is to the United States of America, we will use reasonable endeavours to make sure they participate in the Privacy Shield program;
- Ensure we have assessed the adequacy of protections in all other cases.
Access to your personal data via password
In places where we have given you(or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access particular parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We request you not share a password with anyone.
Transmission and storage of your personal data
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your data as it is transmitted and stored; however, we shall use best practices to ensure your data is encrypted to the standard required in the GDPR to protect your personal data.
We will not preserve your Personal Data for longer than required.
We will retain your personal information:
- For as long as required by the law
- Until we no longer have a valid reason for keeping it
- Until you request us to stop using it or delete it.
We may keep just enough of your Personal Data to ascertain that we comply with your requests not to use your personal information or comply with your right to erasure. For example, we must keep your request to be erased even if it includes your personal data as you are no longer our customer, or for tax purposes, etc.
If you have questions about our Data Retention Policy, we can provide you with a copy.
Kindly contact: support@boomgrades.com
If you choose not to give your personal information to us
If the Personal Data is necessary to provide services to you under a contract between you and BoomGrades. In that case, we will have to refuse to enter into that contract or to provide the services before you give us your personal information.
Your Rights
We will respect your legal rights to your Personal Data.
Below are the rights that you have under law and what we do to protect those rights.
| Legal right | What we do to protect your rights |
| The right to be informed | We are publishing this Privacy Policy to keep you informed about what we do with your personal information. We strive to be transparent about how we use your data. We will answer all questions concerning this Policy send them to: support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to access | You have the right to access your information. Please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer at support@boomgrades.com if you wish to access the personal information we hold about you. |
| The right to rectification | If the information we retain about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request us to rectify it. If the data has been passed to a third party without your consent or for legal reasons, then we must also ask them to correct the data. If you need us to rectify your information. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer at support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to erasure | This is sometimes called ‘the right to be forgotten.’ If you want us to erase all your personal data and we do not have any legal reason to continue to process and hold it, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer at support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to restrict the process | You have the right to ask us to restrict how we process your data. This means we are permitted to store the data but not further process it. We keep just enough data to make sure we respect your request in the future. If you want us to restrict the processing of your data, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer at support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to data portability | We must allow you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across services safely and securely without this affecting the usability of your data. Please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer if you want information on how to port your data elsewhere: support@boomgrades.com . This right only applies to personal data that you have provided to us as the Data Controller. We must hold the data by consent or for the performance of a contract. |
| The right to object | You have the right to object to us processing your data even if it is based on our legitimate interests, the exercise of official authority, direct marketing (including data aggregation), and processing for purposeless statistics. If you wish to object, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer: support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to withdraw consent | If you have given us your consent to process your data but have changed your mind later, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and we must stop processing your data. If you want to withdraw your consent, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer: support@boomgrades.com |
| The right to complain to a Supervisory Authority | You have the right to complain to the ICO if you feel that we have not responded to your requests to solve a problem. You can find their contact details here: support@boomgrades.com |
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates from time to time. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they may have their own privacy notices, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for any such notices. Kindly check these notices, where available, before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Age Limitations
To the extent prohibited by applicable law, we do not allow the use of our Services and Websites by anyone younger than 16 years old. If you learn that anyone younger than 16 has unlawfully provided us with personal data, please get in touch with us, and we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Laws, regulations, and industry standards evolve, which may make those changes necessary, or we may make changes to our business. We will post the changes to this page and encourage you to review them to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will provide additional notice via email or the Website. If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Policy, you should deactivate your account.
The Laws and Regulations
The laws that govern personal data in the UK are:
- The Data Protection Act (1998)
- REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and repealing General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
The independent authority that upholds information rights in the public interest in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”). Further information can be found at https://ico.org.uk/.
