Privacy Policy

SECTION I – CATEGORIES OF DATA WE COLLECT

1. PROCESSING NEWS may collect the following data: Personal details e.g. name, date of birth;   Contact details e.g. phone number, email address, postal address, billing address or mobile number; Business details e.g. Trading name, legal name, directors, website(s), expected sales volumes, shopping cartsoftware, target markets, payment methods, current provider relationship, specific processing feature requests:  Contact details e.g. phone number, emailaddress, postal address or mobile number; Below are examples of the other categories ofinformation that we may collect:  Technical information about the deliveryof emails, SMS and push notifications;  Publicly available backgroundinformation:    Technical information collected fromyour computer or mobile device e.g. your IP address, browser type, operatingsystem;  Information about your usage of ourwebsite(s) e.g. the pages you visit when using the ‘Marketplace’ Services, and the pages you access before and after accessing the Services;    Information that we generate as a result of your use of the Services e.g. our understanding of your interests as aresult of your use of the Services.    Recordings of calls you have with ourcustomer service agents and case managers
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‍2. Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by PROCESSING NEWS is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for us to provide our services.
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‍3. Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through PROCESSING NEWS and confirm that they have the third party's consent top rovide the Data to us. 

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

1. We may collect information directly from the user or from various other sources, in your usage of our platform:     Directly from the User such as when you contact us or use our merchant intake or any other form on the website;  From information we generate about you in the course of our relationship with you, such as data collected from cookies and other similar technologies which is described in our cookies policy; From information we collect about you from other sources, including commercially available sources, such as public data bases (where permitted by law).    
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‍2. We may be required by law to collect certain personal information about you or as a consequence of any relationship we have with you.Failure to provide this information may prevent or delay the fulfilment of our obligations to you and other regulatory

SECTION 2 - HOW WILL WE USE YOUR DATA

The User’s data collected in the methods previously explained may be used for the following purposes:

‍1. Identification and authentication (where applicable) PROCESSING NEWS uses your identification information, to verify your identity when you access and use our Services and to ensure thesecurity of your personal information. This is so we can comply with our obligations to you.

2. Operating our Services
‍PROCESSING NEWS process your personal information to provide the Services you have requested. This is so we can comply with our obligations to you.    

3. Improving our Services
‍PROCESSING NEWS analyze information about how you useour Services to provide an improved experience for the users of all ourServices. We may use your data for product testing and development, siteanalytics, and surveys to improve our Services. It is in our legitimate interestto use the information provided to us for this purpose, so we can understandany issues with our Services and improve them.  

4. Communicating with you
‍PROCESSING NEWS may use your personal information whenwe communicate with you, for example, if we are providing information or if youcontact us with questions. It is in our legitimate interest that we are able toprovide you with appropriate and personalized responses and provide you withnotices about our Services.

PROCESSING NEWS may use your personal information to create a profile aboutyou, place you into marketing segments in order to better understand yourpreferences and to personalize the marketing messages we send to you. It is inour legitimate interest to provide you with more relevant and interestingmessages.Where required, we will obtain your consent beforesending such marketing messages.        

5. Exercising our rights
‍PROCESSING NEWS may use your personal information toexercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so, for example, todetect, prevent and respond to claims, intellectual property infringementclaims, violations of law or our Terms and Conditions.

6. Complying with our obligations
‍PROCESSING NEWS may process your personal information to carry out checks or comply with other legal or regulatory requirements, where this is explicitly required by law. Accordingly, we have record-keeping obligations that will involve the processing and storing of your information.  

7. Customizing your experience
‍When you use our Services, we may use your personal information to improve your experience with PROCESSING NEWS, such as by providing interactive or personalized elements on our Services and providing you with content based on your interests.

SECTION - 3 HOW WE USE AND PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

1. Anonymized Data: We may anonymize your personal information in such away that you may not reasonably be re-identified by us or any other company. We may use this anonymized information for any other purpose.    

2. Data Sharing or Transference: We may share the collected data from users in the following circumstances:
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A. When you request us to seek for providersYour business information, e.g. trade Name, website(s), target markets and expected sales volumes, will be visible forparticipating providers which are matched by our system and/or case managers.          

B. When you express interest in a payment providerYour personal details, e.g. name, phone and email address will be made visible to those matched providers who showed interest in your business and – only then - if you showed interest in the provider as well.This personal information might be used to start communication directly between you and the provider. All participating providers comply with the data privacy regulations which are applicable to them.            

C. Search enginesEvery payment provider has a public profile page which is displayed in search results to help generate interest from potential customers. The information we display on this page includes but is not limited to: company name, trading name, payment methods, processing feature and supported shopping carts and other information that the payment providers provide us with.  

D. Service providers and business partnersWe may share your personal information with our service providers, business partners, payment providers and other business operations for us for the purposes set forth above. For example, we may partner with companies to optimize services, supply online behavioral advertising, send newsletters and marketing messages, send support emails, communicate via messaging services, and analyze information. These service providers and business partners may include advertising agencies which will use your personal information only in the ways described in this policy.      

E. Where required by lawWe may share your personal information with law enforcement agencies, courts, other government authorities or other third parties where we believe necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.

F. In the context of a transactionWe may share your personal information with potential transaction partners, service providers, advisors, and other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell or transfer all or a portion of our assets or business.Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to obligate the entity to which we transfer your personal information to use it in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.            

SECTION 4 - HOW DO WE STORE YOUR DATA

1. Information Security and Storage
Our Company securely stores your data at [enter the location and describe security precautions taken].We implement physical, technical, and organizational security measures designed to safeguard the personal information we process through our Services. These measures are aimed at providing on-going integrity and confidentiality for your personal information. We evaluate and update these measures on a regular basis. However, no information system is impenetrable, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

2. How long do we store your data?
Our Company will keep your data [specify the type of information, if applicable] for the duration of our contractual relationship. Oncethis time period has expired, we will delete your data by [enter how you delete users' data] unless, taking in account any legal or contractual obligations, we are entitled or obligated to keep that data. We may also retain records to investigate defend against potential legal claims. The right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot been forced after expiration of the retention period.

SECTION 5 - MARKETING

1. Our Company would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies. (List partner companies here) 
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2. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. 
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3. You have the right at any time to stop. Our Company from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to the list of affiliated/partner companies shown above. 
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4. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please write here info@processing.news.

SECTION 6 - RIGHTS OF THE USER OVER THEIR COLLECTED DATA:

1. You have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you, subject to local law. These may include the rights to

- Withdraw their consent at any time. 
Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent tothe processing of their Personal Data. Please note that we may requireadditional information from you in order to honor your request.

- Object to processing of their Data. 
Users havethe right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing iscarried out on a legal basis other than consent.Users havethe right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing iscarried out on a legal basis other than consent. ·      

- Access their Data. 
Users have the right tolearn if Data is being processed by PROCESSING NEWS, obtain disclosureregarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Dataundergoing processing. We may charge youa small fee for this service.·    

- Verify and seek rectification. 
Users havethe right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated orcorrected.·      

- Restrict the processing of their Data. 
Users havethe right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of theirData. In this case, PROCESSING NEWS will not process their Data for any purposeother than storing it.·  

- Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. 
Users havethe right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from PROCESSING NEWS.
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- Receive their Data and have it transferred to anothercontroller (“dataportability”). 
Users have the right to receive their Data orhave it sent directly to another data controller in a structured, commonly usedand machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have ittransmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision isapplicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that theprocessing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is partof or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

- Lodge a complaint. Users have the right tobring a claim before their competent data protection authority or privacy regulator. 
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‍2. If you make a request to exercise any of these rights, we have one month torespond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, pleasecontact us at our email:
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‍3. There may be situationsin which we will not be able to comply with your request due to our regulatoryobligations to governmental bodies. If you would like to discuss or exerciseany rights you may have under law, please contact us using the contact details providedbelow.

SECTION 7 - COOKIES

1. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information.When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. 
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‍2. Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including: 
A. Keeping you signed in
B. Understanding how you use our website[Add any uses your company has for cookies]  
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‍3. There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses: 
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‍A. Functionality - Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used. 
‍B. Advertising - Our Company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website. [Add any other types of cookies your company uses]  
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‍4. Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by PROCESSING NEWS or by the owners of third-party services used by us serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document. 
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‍5. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, as well as remove Cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result. 
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‍6. "Do-not-track" is a feature that allows visitors to not be tracked by websites and is available in most browsers, including: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera.

SECTION 8 - MISCELLANEOUS

OTIMISTOASIS, UNIPESSOAL LDA., tradingname PROCESSING NEWS is the data controllerresponsible for the personal information we collect and process. If you havequestions or concerns regarding the way in which your personal information hasbeen used, please contact us at info@processing.news.  

2. Changes ToPolicy
‍We may modify or update this PrivacyNotice from time to time. If we make any revisions that materially change the ways in which we process your personal information, we will notify you of these changes before applying them. 
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3. Privacy Policy Of Other Websites
‍1. This privacy policy relates solely to PROCESSING NEWS, if not stated otherwise within this document.
2. PROCESSING NEWS website contains links to third parties’ websites thus if you access any other websites through those links, they will be out of our Privacy Policy scope and therefore you are encouraged to read theirs. 
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‍4. LegalInformation
‍This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General DataProtection Regulation).

SECTION 9 - GLOSSARY  

Personal Data (or Data)Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information— including a personal identification number — allows for the identification oridentifiability of a natural person. 
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 - Usage Data Information collected automatically through our platform (or third-party services employed in it), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this website, the URI addresses(Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit(e.g., the time spent on each page within the platform) and the details about the path followed within the platform with special reference to the sequence ofpages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User The individual using this PROCESSING NEWS’ Platform who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject. Data Controller (or Owner)The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, in this case, is PROCESSING NEWS. This website/platformThe means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed. Service: The service provided by PROCESSING NEWS as described in the Terms &Conditions on this website. ·      
European Union (or EU)Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to theEuropean Union include all current member states to the European Union and theEuropean Economic Area. 



‍Effective: 10 of October of 2022