How we protect your privacy
on www.navybits.com and when you use our services
Navy Bits Co. and its affiliates offer many services to help you run your business. As part of running those services we collect data about you and your business. This data is not only essential to run our services, but also critical for the safety of our services and all our users.
This policy explains what information is collected, why it is collected, and how we use it.
Information we collect
Most of the personal data we collect is directly provided by our users when they register and use our services. Other data is collected by recording interactions with our services.
Account & Contact Data
When you register on our website to use or download one of our products, contact us over WhatsApp, or fill in one of our contact forms, you voluntarily give us certain information. This typically includes your name, company name, email address, and sometimes your phone number, postal address (when an invoice or delivery is required),your business sector and interest in our services, as well as a personal password.
We never record or store credit card information from our customers, and always rely on trusted third-party PCI-DSS-compliant payment processors for credit card processing, including for recurring payment processing.
Job Application Data
When you apply for a job on our website or via an employment agency, we usually collect your contact information (name, email, phone) and any information you choose to share with us in your introduction letter and Curriculum Vitae. If we decide to send you a job proposition, we will also ask you to provide extra personal details as required to fulfill our legal obligations and personnel management requirements.
We will not ask you to provide information that is not necessary for the recruitment process. In particular, we will never collect any information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership or sexual life.
Browser Data
When you visit our website and access our online services, we detect and store your browser language and geolocation in order to customize your experience according to your country and preferred language. Our servers also passively record a summary of the information sent by your browser for statistical, security and legal purposes: your IP address, the time and date of your visit, your browser version and platform, and the web page that referred you to our website.
Your browser may also be used to store and retrieved your current session data, with the help of a session cookie .
Form protection: some forms on our website may be protected by Google reCAPTCHA. This technology relies on heuristics that are based on technical characteristics of your browser and device, and may also use specific Google cookies. See also Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
How we use this information
Account & Contact Data
We use your contact information in order to provide our services, to answer your requests, and for billing and account management reasons. We may also use this information for marketing and communication purposes (our marketing messages always come with a way for you to opt-out at any time). We also use this data in aggregated/anonymized form in order to analyze service trends.
If you have registered to participate in an event published on our website, we may transfer your name, email address, phone number and company name to our local organizer and to the sponsors of the event for both direct marketing purposes and in order to facilitate the preparations and booking for the event.
If you have expressed interest in our services or our trainings, we may also transfer your name, email address, phone number and company name to one of our trainers or business partners to deliver the service.
Job Application Data
We will only process this information for our recruitment process, in order to evaluate and follow-up with your application, and in the course of preparing your contract, if we decide to send you a job proposition. You may contact us at any time to request the deletion of your information.
Browser Data
This automatically recorded data is anonymously analyzed in order to maintain and improve our services. Google reCAPTCHA may also be used for security purposes, in order to prevent abuse of our services. In that case we only process the anonymous score that reCAPTCHA determines based on your browser and device.
We will only correlate this data with your personal data when required by law or for security purposes.
Accessing, Updating or Deleting Your Personal Information
Account & Contact Data
You have the right to access and update personal data you have previously provided to us. You can do so at any time by connecting to your personal account on www.navybits.com. If you wish to permanently delete your account or personal information for a legitimate purpose, please send an email to support@navybits.com to request so. We will take all reasonable steps to permanently delete your personal information, except when we are required to keep it for legal reasons (typically, for administration, billing and tax reporting reasons).
Job Application Data
You may contact us at any time to request access, updates or deletion of your application information. The easiest way to do it is to reply to the last message you exchanged with our Human Resource personnel.
Security
We realize how important and sensitive your personal data is, and we take a great number of measures to ensure that this information is securely processed, stored and preserved from data loss and unauthorized access.
Data Retention
Account & Contact Data: we will only retain such data as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, as laid out in this policy, including any legal retention period, or as long as necessary to carry out a legitimate and reasonable promotion of our products and services.
Job Application Data: If we do not hire you, we may keep the information you provide for up to 3 years in order to contact you again for any new job proposition that may come up, unless you ask us not to do so. If we hire you, your personal information will be stored for the duration of your employment contract with us, and afterwards, during the applicable legal retention period that applies in the country where we employed you.
Browser Data: we may retain this data for a maximum of 12 months, unless we need to keep it in relation with a legitimate concern related to the security or performance of our services, or as required by law. Any server-side session information is kept only for 3 months when it is actively used, otherwise it is discarded after 7 days.
Third Party Disclosure
Except as explicitly mentioned above, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to third parties. We may share or disclose aggregated or de-identified information, for research purposes, or to discuss trends or statistics with third-parties.
Cookies
Cookies are small bits of text sent by our servers to your computer or device when you access our services. They are stored in your browser and later sent back to our servers so that we can provide contextual content. Without cookies, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience. We use them to support your activities on our website, for example your session (so you don't have to login again) or your shopping cart.
Cookies are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current activity on our website (the pages you have visited), your language and country, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We also use third-party services such as Google Analytics, who set and use their own cookies to identify visitors and provide their own contextual services.
Here is an overview of the cookies that may be stored on your device when you visit our website:
|
Category of Cookie |
Purpose |
Cookies |
|
Session & Security |
Authenticate users, protect user data and allow the website to deliver the services users expect, such as maintaining the content of their cart, or allowing file uploads. The website will not work properly if you reject or discard those cookies. |
session_id (navybits) td_id (navybits) fileToken (navybits) |
|
Preferences |
Remember information about the preferred look or behavior of the website, such as your preferred language, region and timezone. Your experience may be degraded if you discard those cookies, but the website will still work. |
frontend_lang (navybits) cids (navybits) odoo_no_push (navybits) tz (navybits) |
|
Interaction History |
Used to collect information about your interactions with the website, the pages you've seen, and any specific marketing campaign that brought you to the website. We may not be able to provide the best service to you if you reject those cookies, but the website will work. |
im_livechat_history (navybits) im_livechat_previous_operator_pid (navybits) utm_campaign (navybits) utm_source (navybits) utm_medium (navybits) |
|
Advertising & Marketing |
Used to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers, such as providing more relevant ads when you visit other websites that display ads or to improve reporting on ad campaign performance. Note that some third-party services may install additional cookies on your browser in order identify you. You may opt out of a third-party's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. The website will still work if you reject or discard those cookies. |
__gads (Google) __gac (Google) _fbp (Facebook) |
|
Analytics |
Understand how visitors engage with our website, via Google Analytics. Learn more about Analytics cookies and privacy information. The website will still work if you reject or discard those cookies. |
_ga (Google) _gat (Google) _gid (Google) _gac_* (Google) |
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies, or look at the links below.
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
We do not currently support Do Not Track signals, as there is no industry standard for compliance.
Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, in order to clarify it, to reflect any changes to our website, or to comply with legal obligations. The "Last Updated" mention at the top of the policy indicates the last revision, which is also the effective date of those changes. We give you access to archived versions of this policy, so you can review the changes.
Contacting Us
If you have are any question regarding this Privacy Policy, or any enquiry about your personal data,please contact us via email at support@navybits.com or by post:
Navy Bits Co. - Data Protection
1st floor - Talal Center - Bahsas
1300 Tripoli
Lebanon