Your Privacy Matters
We are committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, and protect your personal data on the SALONECROWDFUNDER.COM platform.
We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:
- Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths).
- Information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address).
- Information that you provide when completing and developing a campaign on our website (including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details such as their business idea and business partnerships).
- Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address).
- Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated during the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use).
- Information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts).
- Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication).
- Any other personal information that you or requires to use our platform and its services.
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- Administer our website and business.
- Personalize our website for you.
- Enable your use of the services available on our website.
- Send donations obtained through our website.
- Supply to you services purchased through our website.
- Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
- Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
- Send/share information with potential donors.
- Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
- Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).
- Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
- Keep our website secure and prevent fraud.
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for processing payments, refunding such payments, and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies — including our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries — insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
- To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
- To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: The United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the above, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank, plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
This website is owned and operated by Innovation SL Ltd. We are registered in Sierra Leone under registration NR: SL240117INNOVO1166 and our registered office is at 9B Spur Loop, Wilberforce, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
You can contact us:
- By post / email: support@salonecrowdfunder.com
- Using our website contact form.
- By telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time.
- By email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.