Privacy & Security

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Privacy Notice

This is the privacy notice of the site is owned and operated by us. Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy governs data collection and usage. We have developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and make use of personal information.

Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called ‘cookies’ and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the laws of the United States; and other legal jurisdictions in which we aim to do business including the European Union Regions under the GDPR Compliance. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we would like to hear from you.

Eligibility

By using this website and by agreeing to these terms of this Policy, you warrant and represent that you are at least of the legal age in your jurisdiction and have authority to use the services that is provided.

Review/Modification of This Privacy Policy

This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. However, International Drivers Permit UK may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. We solely advise you to continually check and review any updated terms and policies on this website. Your continual use and access to the website and/or our services indicates an acceptance of the new policy.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us through email

Introduction

In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use, or otherwise act on information.

  • We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
  • International Drivers Permit UK undertakes to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
  • Our policy complies with the laws of European Union, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
  • The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data.

Non-identifiable Information

This Policy sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”). To be able to make use of and to have access to the Service, the User has to create an account or submit his personal information as described on the Website. We collect information such as; First name and Last name, Email address, Domestic Driver’s License, Personal Photo, and Location (Address, State, Province, Zip/Postal Code, and City) or any other information we collect that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under applicable law. International Drivers Permit UK website might also collect financial information of Customers for paid service delivery, including your credit card, debit card, or other payment method information, or your banking information.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you. The information we collect automatically helps us to improve the service and to deliver better and more personalized service, including; by enabling us to:

  • estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
  • store information about your preferences, allowing us to customise the website according to your interests;
  • recognise you when you return to the website; or
  • provide the services requested by you.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the application or webpage, we collect data and information called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of file on the hard drive of your mobile device. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the website. Unless you have adjusted your mobile device settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the website. Like many websites, we use two types of cookies: (1) we use persistent cookies to save your login information for future logins; (2) we use session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Site and Services, to better understand your interactions with the Site and Services, and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing.

Web Beacons

Pages of the Platform and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Information We Process Because We Have a Contractual Obligation with You

In order to carry out our obligations under this policy and terms of service, we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.

We may use it in order to:

  • to present the Platform and their contents to you;
  • to provide you with information, or services that you request from us;
  • to fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it;
  • To provide customer care and support;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
  • to notify you about changes to the website or any products or services we offer or provide through it;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features on our platform;
  • in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
  • for any other purpose with your consent.

International Drivers Permit UK may aggregate this information in a general way and use it to provide className information, for example, to monitor our performance with respect to a particular service we provide. If we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable. International Drivers Permit UK shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of service.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us via email. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.

Disclosure of Your Information

International Drivers Permit UK may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to International Drivers Permit UK, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

International Drivers Permit UK will also disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process, to a subpoena, search warrant or another lawful request; served on International Drivers Permit UK or the site. (b) protect and defend the rights or property of International Drivers Permit UK; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of International Drivers Permit UK, or the public. To also enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements.

International Drivers Permit UK may transfer, or otherwise share or provide your Personal Information to a third party in connection with a sale, transfer, divestment, or disclosure of all or part of our business or assets to another company in connection with or during negotiation of a merger, acquisition, financing, asset sale, reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction or proceeding.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at: https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work/. You can opt-out of targeted advertising by GOOGLE https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

You can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Verification of Your Information

When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personally identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

Retention Period for Personal Data

Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, International Drivers Permit the UK to keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:

  • To provide you with the services you have requested;
  • To comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;
  • To support a claim or defence in court.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

We provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from International Drivers Permit UK by contacting us through email.

EEA Data Subject Choices and Rights

If you are accessing our website from within the European Economic Area (“EEA”), you have certain rights and choices about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data processed from the EEA. Your rights include:

  • Accessing your data to know what information we have collected and how it has been used and shared
  • Requesting the deletion of all or some of your personal data
  • Changing or correcting inaccurate or outdated information
  • Objecting to, limiting, or restricting the use of all or some of your personal data
  • Requesting a copy of your personal data

To exercise your rights, you can contact us

Encryption of Data Sent Between Us

International Drivers Permit UK website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us. Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust marks in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

Security Of Your Personal Information

The International Drivers Permit UK is hosted and operated in the United States and is subject to the laws of the United States. By default, any personal information that you provide to International Drivers Permit UK will be hosted on servers located in the United States. By using this Service, you consent to the transfer to and processing of your personal information from our server location. We will implement reasonable and appropriate safeguards when collecting data from you and when storing that data in our database and you will observe our security safeguards and exercise reasonable caution when using this site.

Only International Drivers Permit UK employees who are authorized to handle student data are able to access the Data Management System. Upon written request by the user, International Drivers Permit UK will destroy any user data no longer participate in an International Drivers Permit UK service. International Drivers Permit UK will provide written verification that the data has been destroyed as requested. Notwithstanding the foregoing, anonymized usage data may be retained for internal product improvement.

International Drivers Permit UK uses industry-standard server and network hardware and software to ensure that data is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. Although we make concerted good faith efforts to maintain the security of personal information, and we work hard to ensure the integrity and security of our systems, no practices are 100% immune, and we can’t guarantee the security of information. Outages, attacks, human error, system failure, unauthorized use, or other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. If we learn of a security breach or other unauthorized disclosure of your information, we will attempt to notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps by posting a notice on our homepage or elsewhere in our Service and we will send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us.

Intellectual property and trademarks

International Drivers Permit UK is the owner or authorized user of all intellectual property including but not limited to trademarks, logos, names and designs, whether registered or unregistered, and other marks that are otherwise owned or licensed to International Drivers Permit UK in and associated with this website (collectively “intellectual property”), and any improvements or modifications to such intellectual property. Nothing contained in this website should be construed as giving you any right in or license to any of the intellectual property on or associated with this website.

This website and its contents are the property of International Drivers Permit UK and are subject to copyright. The contents of our website as a whole are intended solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Any use of our website and its content for purposes other than the intended use, or for any other use, including the modification, reproduction, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content of this website, is prohibited without the prior written permission of International Drivers Permit UK Inc.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

International Drivers Permit UK makes no representations, warranties, or assurances as to the accuracy, currency, or completeness of the content, products, or services contained on this website. ALL THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS ASSOCIATION LTD. OR ITS AGENTS OR ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION, INJURY OR DEATH) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGES.

Enforceability

Should any provisions of these Privacy policies be held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part then the validity of the remaining provisions shall not thereby be affected.