Privacy Policy
Introduction
HibaCardz.com (“PayThem”,“Us”, “We”, “Our”) primary business is electronic voucher/ticketing/gift card distribution. We operate www.HibaCardz.com and arecommitted to protecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws.This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we process your Personal Information and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you (as data subject).
We hold offices in Qatar and United Arab Emirates: see contact us page
By submitting Personal Information to us it will be seen as your consent to us to process the Personal Information. Reference to “consent”, “your consent” or “your explicit consent” shall include the ticking of a tick box or clicking on a “submit” button or “I agree” button on our sites.
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Important information and who we are
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Purpose of this Privacy Policy
- This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how HibaCardz.com collects and processes Personal Information through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you register as a user, purchase a product or service, take part in a competition or promotion or Personal Information we process when you send to us or receive from us other electronic communications (i.e. emails or LinkedIn). We will take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of users.
- This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
- It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing Personal Information about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
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Responsible Party
- PayThem.net WLL is the Responsible Party and responsible for your Personal Information (collectively referred to as "HibaCardz.com", “PayThem”, "we", "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy).
- We have appointed an information officer (IO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests, please contact the IO using the details set out below.
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Contact details
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Our Information Officer’s contact details:
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Full name of legal entity: PayThem.net WLL
Email address: info@HibaCardz.com
Postal address: Office10, 1 st Floor, Concord Building, Al Rawabi Street, Muntazah, Doha, Qatar - Registered address: As above
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Full name of legal entity: PayThem.net WLL
- You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Privacy Commissioner, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry authority for data protection issues ( https://www.moci.gov.qa/en/about-the-ministry/departments/departments-under-the-assistant-deputy-of-consumer-affairs/ ). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach them, so please contact us in the first instance.
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Our Information Officer’s contact details:
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Changes to the Privacy Policy and your duty to inform us of
changes:
- We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 1 June 2022. Archived versions (if available) can be obtained by contacting us.Any changes made to our Privacy Policy in future will be posted on our website or made available during your engagement with us. The new version will apply the moment it is published on our website or incorporated by reference in any communication.
- It is important that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Personal Information changes during your relationship with us.
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Registered users
You agree that, once the correct username and password relating to your account have been entered, irrespective of whether the use of the username and password is unauthorised or fraudulent, you will be liable for payment of such order, save where you have cancelled the order in accordance with our Terms and Conditions. You agree to notify us, with an email toinfo@HibaCardz.com, immediately upon becoming aware of or reasonably suspecting any unauthorised access to or use of your username or password and to take steps to mitigate any resultant loss or harm.
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Integration into other sites
This Privacy Policy applies to HibaCardz.com services only. We do not exercise control over the sites who provide us with services as part of their own offering. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. We cannot be held responsible for any wrongful handling of end users’ information by our customers.
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Third-party links
Our website, social media pages or certain of our servicesmay include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. If you disclose your personal information to a third-party, such as an entity which operates a website linked to us, HibaCardz.com SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE, HOWSOEVER ARISING, SUFFERED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF THE DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION TO THE THIRD-PARTY. This is because we do not regulate or control how that third-party uses your personal information. You should always ensure that you read the privacy policy of any third-party.When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
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Purpose of this Privacy Policy
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What personal information we collect
- Personal Information means the information as per the Definitions. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
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We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of
personal information about you which we have grouped together.
Should you decide to register as a user on the HibaCardz.com
Platform, we may require you to provide us with personal
information which includes but is not limited to:
- Identity Data(registration and checkout form, comments form) includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data (registration and checkout form, comments form) includes billing address, delivery address, street address, town, zip code, email address and mobile telephone number(s), country.
- Financial Data excludes payment instrument details.
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services. This information shall include the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) Clickstream to, through and from our website (including the date and time) and the services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number, service transaction instructions from and to you via our APIs.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
- We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data and Pattern Data such as (but not limited to) statistical or demographic data or service and/or product transactional data for any purpose. Aggregated Data or Pattern Data could be derived from your Personal Information but is not considered Personal Information in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your (the data subject’s) identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature or executing a specific transaction type. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data or Pattern Data with your Personal Information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we will treat the combined data as Personal Information which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
- You may choose to provide additional personal information to us, in which event you agree to provide accurate and current information, and not to impersonate or misrepresent any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or anything.
- We do not collect any Sensitive Personal Information about you.
- Submission of Personal Information on behalf of another: If you provide information on behalf of someone else, then it is your responsibility to obtain the necessary consent from the person/ user before making the Personal Information available to us. On receipt of Personal Information, we assume that the necessary consent has been obtained and will process the Personal Information as per your instructions. By submitting such Personal Information on behalf of another person/ user, you indemnify us against any third-party claim, where such third-party claim relates to Personal Information that has been processed without the necessary consent or other available exception allowed by law.
- If you fail to provide Personal Information: Where we need to collect Personal Information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with services (including services for no charge)). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
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How is Personal Information collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give HibaCardz.com your Identity and Contact information by filling in forms (registration Form and CheckOut form) or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Information you provide when you apply for our services i) create an account online / register with us; ii) subscribe to our service, i.e. newsletters (where applicable); iii) request marketing to be sent to you; iv) enter a competition, promotion or survey; v) give us feedback or contact us; or vi) leave comments on our website.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our services or website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, patterns and device. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies (see section4) below), server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.
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Third parties or publicly available sources.
We will receive Personal Information about you from various
third parties and public sources as set out below:
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Technical Data from the following parties:
- analytics providers such as Google ("How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services", (located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites )
- advertising networks; and
- search information providers.
- Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services;
- Technical and Transactional Data from third party service providers that provide a service or product to you, subject to your consent to us to collect the information (see our Terms and Conditions re: Pattern Data).
- Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators.
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
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Technical Data from the following parties:
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Cookies and Analytics
- Our Cookie Policy will apply
- Please remember, cookies do not contain Identity, Contacts or Financial Information. We do not exchange cookies with any third-party websites or external data suppliers.
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How we use your Personal Information
- We shall not sell your Personal Information.
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We shall only use Personal Information within the framework of
the law. Most commonly, we shall use Personal Information in the
following circumstances:
- Where you have given us your consent; or
- Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you; or
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; or
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
- We will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us or using such automated facilities made available by us.
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Purposes for which we will use Personal Information:
- We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use Personal Information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
- Note that we may process Personal Information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using the data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your Personal Information where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
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HibaCardz.com only shares Personal Information with other
companies or individuals outside HibaCardz.com in the following
circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in for the sharing of any Special Personal Information (where applicable).
- We may provide such information to collaborating companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing Personal Information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
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We have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such information is
reasonably necessary to:
- satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
- enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
- detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
- protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Paythen.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
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Marketing: We strive to provide you with
choices regarding certain Personal Information uses,
particularly around marketing and advertising.
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Promotional offers from us
- Once you have purchased a Product from us or utilised any of our services, you will be seen as a customer of HibaCardz.com.
- As a customer we may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
- As a customer you will receive marketing communications from us if you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
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Third-party marketing
- We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your Personal Information with any third party for marketing purposes.
- TAKE NOTE: We may provide (without your consent) third party marketing parties/advertisers with anonymous aggregate information (Aggregate Data (see above)) about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on a specific product or advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in a specific region). We may make use of the Personal Information we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience. IMPORTANT: We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers .
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Opting out:
- You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website or unsubscribe on the email communication or by contacting us at any timeand requesting to op-out of our marketing services.
- Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to Personal Information provided to us as a result of a service purchase, warranty registration, service experience or other transactions.
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Promotional offers from us
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Change of purpose:
- We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
- If we need to use your Personal Information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
- Please note that we may process your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Purpose/Activity
Type of data
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer
(a) Identity, (b) Contact
Performance of a contract with you (you can only acquire services if you register)
To process your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Billing Address, (d) Transaction, (e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
[ TAKE NOTE: we do not store Financial Information (card details). The Credit Card Details Form is not actually part of the HibaCardz.com website. It is a SkipCash website ( https://skipcash.app/ ) secure credit card processing form which you are seeing. You should read their privacy policy]
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services)
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, promotion or complete a survey
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile
(d) Usage, (e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you,
(b) You consent by submitting your information to us, specifically for competitions and promotions
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them and grow our business)
To administer and protect our business, website and other electronic platforms (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Profile
(d) Usage, (e) Marketing and Communications, (f) Technical
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
(a) Technical, (b) Usage
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you
(a) Identity, (b) Contact, (c) Technical,(d) Usage, (e) Profile
(f) Marketing and Communications
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow our business)
To deliver a gifting product to a user’s recipient
(a) Name of recipient, (b) Mobile no or email address, (c) Personal message
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services)
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Disclosures of Personal Information
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We may share Personal Information with the following parties:
- Credit Card Processor : Your Personal Information (First Name, Last Name, Company Name (optional), Street Address, Town/City, State/County, Postal/Zip, Country, Phone Number and Email Address) are shared with SkipCash or iPay Qatar with every transaction. Their privacy policy can be viewed here: https://skipcash.app/ from SkipCash Qatar and https://www.ipay.qa/ipayonlinev2/termsandconditions then share the last four digits of your credit card number and the expiry date of your credit card with HibaCardz.com (Bank Response) in order to resolve any queries related to the transaction.
- International SMS Provider: For SMS communications we make us of Twilio ( https://www.twilio.com ) who store the mobile number and message in line with their privacy policy. Twilio ( https://www.twilio.com ) may be used for sending short text messages to ticket buyers/attended, which requires them to receive the mobile number and message from HibaCardz.com. Their privacy policy may be viewed here: https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy .
- Verify email use : An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar services to see if you are using it. The Gravatar services privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in context of your comment.
- We require all third parties to respect the security of your Personal Information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your Personal Information for their own purposes and only permit them to process your Personal Information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
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We may share Personal Information with the following parties:
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International transfers
- HibaCardz.com is hosted on OVH cloud services. Personal Information and other information collected via forms are stored and backed up on the OVH servers and subject to the OVH Privacy Policy ( https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ca/terms-and-conditions/privacy-policy/ ) and Data Protection Agreement.
- Some of our external third parties may be based outside your country so their processing of your Personal Information could involve a transfer of data outside your country.
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Whenever we transfer your Personal Information out of your
country, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to
it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is
implemented:
- We will only transfer your Personal Information to countries that have appropriate data protection and privacy legislation to protect your Personal Information.
- Where we use certain service providers, we conclude an agreement with them to confirm that your Personal Information is confidential, they can only process on our instructions and that they should establish and maintain appropriate technological and organisational measurements to protect your Personal Information.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide protection to personal information similar to the principles under the GDPR, which we believe are good principles to ensure compliance.
- By submitting your Personal Information to us you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information outside the borders of your country (when required).
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Data security
- HibaCardz.com collects minimal Personal Information in order to provide our Products and Services.
- We make use of standard and enhanced security measures to prevent Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, only authorised HibaCardz.com staff with access to user information and only to the extent required in order to HibaCardz.com’s obligations in delivering the products and/or services. They are also subject to a duty of confidentiality.
- HibaCardz.com is hosted with OVH and you can view their privacy policy here: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ca/terms-and-conditions/privacy-policy/
- We also make use of secure-socket-layer (SSL) certificate authentication provided by Let’s Encrypt ( https://letsencrypt.org/). SSL is encryption technology that provides security for information which is transmitted over the internet.
- In the event of a breach being identified, the website will immediately be locked down while the extent of the breach is investigated further. Affected users will be informed as soon as possible, even if it is only suspected that Personal Information may have been obtained. Once the breach has been rectified, the website will be made available again.
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Data retention
How long will we use your Personal Information for?
- If you leave a comment on our website, the comments and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- For users that registered on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see and edit their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username ). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.For closing an account, the user can submit a request to info@HibaCardz.com for account closure. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.
- Order details (including Personal Information and the Bank Response) may be stored by HibaCardz.com for up to five years after the transaction.
- We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
- In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.
- In some circumstances we will anonymise your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
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Social Media
- Our website(s) or services may, in certain circumstances, provide you with social plug-ins from various social media networks. If you choose to interact with a social network such as Facebook or Instagram (for example by registering an account or click on the link from our website), your activity on our websites will also be made available to that social network. This is necessary for the performance of your contract with Us which allows you to interact with a social network. If you are logged in on one of these social networks during your visit to one of our websites or are interacting with one of the social plug-ins, the social network might add this information to your respective profile on this network based on your privacy settings. If you would like to prevent this type of information transfer, please log out of your social network account before you enter one of our websites, or change the necessary privacy settings, where possible.
- Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media networks that we participate in are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
- You are advised to use social media networks wisely and communicate/engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy policies (if any). PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL NEVER ASK FOR PERSONAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS AND ENCOURAGE users, WISHING TO DISCUSS SENSITIVE DETAILS OR TO RESOLVE ISSUES/CONCERNS, TO CONTACT US THROUGH PRIMARY COMMUNICATION CHANNELS SUCH AS BY TELEPHONE OR EMAIL.
- Our social media network page(s) may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URL's. You are advised to exercise caution and due care before clicking on any shortened URL's published on social media platforms by this website. Despite our best efforts to ensure that only genuine URL's are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore our website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
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Your legal rights
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Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under
data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information:
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Access and Correction:
- For users who do have an account with HibaCardz.com, personal information is accessible and editable by you at any time via the “My Account
- You further have a right to request access to your personal information and to request the correction thereof. Request must be sent via our Contact Us form.
- Request erasure of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Information to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.Take Note: Erasure of your Personal Information shall further not limit our rights in terms of Aggregate Data and Pattern Data. An erasure request can be sent to same contact details as above.
- Object to processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
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Request restriction of processing
of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us
to suspend the processing of your Personal Information
in the following scenarios:
- If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.
- Where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it.
- Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Closer of account: You may close your account and this information may be deleted at any time if no transactions have been completed on the HibaCardz.com website. If a transaction has been completed, the account may be closed at any time, but details required for record keeping purposes may be retained for up to five years after an account has been closed.
- Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.Contact us if you need to transfer your Personal Information.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
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Access and Correction:
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Complaint : Should you wish to lodge a
complaint with regards our breach of any of our obligations in
terms of Qatar Privacy Law's the following procedure will
be applicable:
- Complaint lodge directly to us in writing at: complaints@HibaCardz.com
- Time limit to respond:We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 30 (thirty) days. Occasionally it could take us longer than 30 (thirty) days if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated
- Should you not be satisfied with our handling of your complaint, you may direct your complaint to anexternal complaint bodyordispute resolution schemerecognised by the Office of the MOCI’s Departments under the Assistant Deputy of Consumer Affairs. Further information about external dispute resolution schemes recognised by the MOCI can be found here: https://www.moci.gov.qa/en/about-the-ministry/departments/departments-under-the-assistant-deputy-of-consumer-affairs/
- If after the above steps have been followed, your complaint was not satisfactorily resolved, you can direct your complaint to MOCI.
- What we may need from you: We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
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Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under
data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information:
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Definitions
- Data Subject means the person to whom Personal Information relates and, in this document, refers to you, as the party providing Personal Information that will be processed by us or a relevant third party.
- Legitimate Interestmeans the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your Personal Information for our legitimate interests. We do not use your Personal Information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
- Performance of Contractmeans processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
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Personal informationmeans information or an opinion about an
identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably
identifiable:
- whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
- whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
- Responsible Party:meansa public or private body or any other person which, alone or in conjunction with others, determines the purpose of and means forprocessing Personal Information.
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Sensitive Personal Information means
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information or an opinion about an individual’s:
- racial or ethnic origin; or
- political opinions; or
- membership of a political association; or
- religious beliefs or affiliations; or
- philosophical beliefs; or
- membership of a professional or trade association; or
- membership of a trade union; or
- sexual orientation or practices; or
- criminal record; that is also personal information; or
- health information about an individual; or
- genetic information about an individual that is not otherwise health information; or
- biometric information that is to be used for the purpose of automated biometric verification or biometric identification; or
- biometric templates
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information or an opinion about an individual’s:
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