Privacy Policy

1.1 Overview Somay is dedicated to safeguarding your confidentiality. This Policy outlines our practices regarding personal data and is applicable to any information that Somay collects that identifies you or could be used to do so ("Personal data"), including but not limited to information processed through the Somay websites (henceforth referred to as "Websites"). The websites are meant for those who are at least 16 years old. We don't intentionally gather data from minors younger than sixteen.

1.2 Please do not use the Websites if you are not at least 16 years old (or 13 in the case of the United States). Children under the age of 18 are not permitted to utilize our services. We shall remove any personal information we may have obtained or acquired from a kid under the specified age without first obtaining verification of parental consent. Please use our Contact Form to get in touch with us if you think we may have any information from or about a child under the legal age.

1.3 This English-language privacy statement is given. Requests for translations into specific more languages can be made by contacting us using this form.

1.4 Each section of this privacy policy is listed below for your convenience of reference:

Overview
Handling of Individual Information
Reasons for processing
The processing's legal foundation
Receivers of your personal information
Preservation of your Personal Information
Protecting your personal information
Your entitlements
Questions and revisions

2. Handling of Individual Information

Handling of Individual Information

2.1 According to the General Data Protection Regulation, Somay is a data controller (GDPR). This means that, with respect to any Personal data included in this Policy, Somay decides both the reason for processing the data and the methods required to treat it. We handle the data described in this section in our capacity as data controllers. Somay doesn't use artificial intelligence to make decisions.

Information gathered straight from you

2.2 We might (automatically) gather the following data about you and/or your device when you visit our websites:

Your unique device identifier (mobile); Your anonymous IP address;
details about your preferences, such operating system, browser information (user agent), and/or language settings
Query-string
Your selections on the website
Where you are and what time zone you are in.

Information you could give us

2.3 Other than the information mentioned above, you are not required to provide any Personal data to us in order to use the Websites, their content, or any online search results that may be produced by using the Websites generally. You might want to give us more information about yourself in some situations, such when you want to use our Contact Form to make an inquiry. When you contact us, we might handle the following details about you:

Every cookie that Google has installed over the previous six months on the user's system
The number of mouse clicks (or taps, if using a touch device) that the user made in the browser window
The user's scrolling actions
The CSS of the webpage
The date and time on the user's system
The IP address of the user
Is the user signed into their Google account at the moment?
The language setting of the user's browser
Every add-on that has been set up in the user's browser every Javascript object

how quickly the user completes the form and submits this information to Google for review. The data gathered during your usage of the service will be utilized for both general security and reCAPTCHA enhancements. Google will not use it for customized ads

2.4 Should you decide to provide us any more personal information, we advise you to do so sparingly. We also strongly advise against giving us any sensitive information, such as information about your racial or ethnic background, political views, religious or philosophical convictions, union membership, genetic or biometric information, or details about your sexual orientation or sex life.

Information gathered from our partners

2.5 In order to offer us with specific goods and services, third parties might be able to process your personal data through our websites. These third parties may gather data about your interactions with any goods and services (such adverts) they provide through the Website by using technologies like cookies, ad tags, and ad beacons.

We make use of partner advertisements from Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, and Google. They won't gather or utilize your information to build an ad profile because we've disabled ad personalization. Ads will still appear, but they won't be customized. Ads are not based on your interests, search history, or surfing history; instead, they are merely based on the subject of the page you are currently viewing, your current search terms, or your geographical location. Your data can still be used to guard against fraud and misuse and assess how successful advertising is. Note that tracking cookies that you have already consented to while visiting websites owned by third parties are not Somay's responsibility. These third parties are required to notify you as data controllers.

Please see Google Privacy Policy for additional information on Google's privacy practices.

2.6 Third parties that supply us with goods and services may also use cookies, ad tags, and/or beacons to gather the data mentioned above. These third parties may include analytics tools that let us assess how well our services are performing, as well as ad networks and advertisers that allow us to deliver advertisements. These third parties might also gather data about you from other sources and merge it with data they've already gathered from unaffiliated third-party websites. Along with the location (country), browser information, and the displayed results (ads and organic results, for example), the IP address is also saved. Additionally, in order for our service to function (displaying results, both sponsored and organic), some information is shared with third parties (IP address, advertising seen, and ads clicked on).

Ads or organic results are never matched to a visitor's profile based on user behavior. Ads and organic results are only displayed in response to the visitor's search query. The option for tailored adverts is not available for any website. The required cookies enable your navigation of the websites and the use of specific features, as well as aid us with basic website functions like page loading and rendering. These cookies are important for the smooth operation of our websites and services. They are also employed to enhance security and detect and stop fraud. View the cookie policy of Somay.

Intentions behind the processing

3.1 We process your personal data primarily in order to provide you with the best services possible, to optimize our websites and services, and to guarantee their continued availability. More precisely, the following uses are possible for your personal data:

To deliver our services: In order to deliver our services, we might require specific information about you. We use data to deliver our services more effectively and to make improvements. Ads or organic results are never matched to a visitor's profile based on user behavior. Ads and organic results are only displayed in response to the visitor's search query. The option for tailored adverts is not available for any website. We utilize data because it's necessary for our websites to function (it lets us display ads and search results that are relevant to your query); it helps us detect and stop fraud; and it enhances security.

To better our services, we're always trying to enhance your user experience and introduce new features to our websites. Both our services and websites are always changing.

To safeguard our services: We must prevent hackers, automated bots, and other dangers in order to give you the greatest user experience possible. As a result, we continuously keep an eye on how our services are used.

In order to connect with you, we handle your contact information, including your name, email address, and any other personal data you may give us, when you get in touch with us. This allows us to appropriately respond to your inquiry.

To protect and exercise our rights: If you violate this policy or our terms of service, act fraudulently, or infringe upon our intellectual property, we may have to take legal action.

To pay our partners: We may require certain personal information when we display and run adverts in order to determine the amount of money that will be given to, received by, or received from our partners. To fulfill a legal requirement: We might be compelled to process (and/or transfer) specific Personal data in accordance with a statute or a court order.

4 Basis for processing legally

4.1 We use the following legal justification to process your personal data:

Contract execution: The majority of processing operations are completed in order to deliver our services to you.

Our legitimate interests: We may process your personal information in accordance with our legitimate interests, which include our economic interests. This can be the case with our partners' pay, among other things. The websites of Somay function as search engines for several global visitor types. Following the submission of a search query, the most pertinent listings and material will appear. Data is only gathered for operational needs. Data is only utilized to enhance and correctly provide our services. Along with the location (country), browser information, and the displayed results (ads and organic results, for example), the IP address is also saved. Additionally, in order for our service to function (displaying results, both organic and sponsored results, and fee payment), certain information is shared with third parties (IP address, advertising displayed, and ads clicked on).

Ads or organic results are never matched to a visitor's profile based on user behavior. Ads and organic results are only displayed in response to the visitor's search query. The option for tailored advertisements is disabled for all websites. Data is used by us since they are necessary for our websites to function (they let us display ads and search results that correspond with your query); they are also employed to detect, stop, and enhance security.

Your consent: We may handle your personal data based on your consent if specific processing operations aren't necessary to fulfill our obligations under our contract with you or our legitimate interests.

Five Parties to Your Personal Information

5.1 Somay may give your personal information to the following recipients:

Suppliers: We may share your Personal information with suppliers, subcontractors, and business partners when it's necessary to allow you to use our websites and services. Examples of these include the company that hosts our websites, our job application platform provider, partners who assist us in enhancing the user experience of our services, and companies that offer office software, IT support, data backup, and recovery services.

Group companies: If it's required for compliance, internal reporting, auditing, or security reasons, we might give personal data to other businesses in the Somay group of businesses. Professional service providers: We have hired our accountant, attorneys, and other advisors for compliance-related services;

Partners in advertising: Advertisement partners may receive information about your website visits in order to measure the performance of our adverts and to show you (relevant) advertisements on our websites and elsewhere. Ads are not based on your interests, search history, or surfing history; instead, they are merely based on the subject of the page you are currently viewing, your current search terms, or your geographical location.

Law enforcement agencies: In connection with an official (court) order, we might be required to give your information to law enforcement, regulators, courts, or other public authorities. In order to exercise our rights, we may also give your information to regulators, courts, law enforcement, or other parties.

Fraud prevention: When we think that disclosing information is required to look into, stop, or deal with suspected illegal or fraudulent behavior, or to safeguard the property, rights, or safety of us, our users, or others, we may involve third parties.

Third parties: in the event of a corporate reorganization, the acquisition or merger of Somay, the purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or other events, we may disclose data to third parties.

5.2 It is possible for third parties residing outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to receive or access your personal data. We guarantee "appropriate safeguards" when sending data that we are liable for to nations outside of the European Economic Area (often referred to as "third countries"). More precisely, we employ the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which have been approved by the European Commission, to contractually bind recipients of Personal data to secure your privacy. If the third country's law or practice lessens the effectiveness of the SCCs, we shall determine this in advance (if needed, with the assistance of the beneficiaries in third countries) and on an individual basis. In some situations, we shall put in place additional measures to close the protection gaps and raise it to the standard mandated by EU legislation.

6 Keeping Your Personal Information

6.1 We keep your personal information for as long as is required to accomplish the aforementioned related objective. We keep data for seven days in order to detect spam and compile statistics. Conversion data is kept on file for 30 days.

After that, we will only be permitted to keep your personal information for as long as is required to meet legal requirements, comply with applicable laws, or fulfill reporting, audit, or legal obligations. We anonymize or pseudo-anonymize your personal information whenever possible, or we only keep it in aggregated form.

7 Safeguarding your personal information

7.1 The secure handling of your personal information is very important to us. As a result, where necessary, we may adopt security measures like but not limited to:

The encryption and pseudonymization of personal information
The capacity to guarantee the persistence of processing systems' and services' availability, resilience, confidentiality, and integrity;
The capacity to promptly restore Personal Data's availability and accessibility in the event of a technical or physical issue
A procedure for routinely putting organizational and technical security measures to the test, measuring, and evaluating their efficacy.

Rights You Have

8.1 The following rights are granted to you:

Objection: You have the right, in some circumstances, to object to the processing of your personal data as well as the circumstances surrounding that processing.

Access: You have the right to request the following from us: i) confirmation that personal information about you is being processed; ii) details about the purposes for which personal information is processed; iii) lists of the categories of personal information that are in question; and iv) recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal information is disclosed. You may make these requests without restriction, at reasonable intervals, and without undue delay or expense.

Rectification, restriction, erasure, blocking or deletion: You are entitled to a communication of the personal data being processed, together with any accessible information about its source(s), in an understandable format. Additionally, you have a right to understand the reasoning behind any automated processing of your personal data.

Correcting, restricting, erasing, blocking, or deleting personal data that is not processed in accordance with data protection laws and regulations is one of your rights under certain circumstances. This is especially true if the data is incomplete or inaccurate in nature.

Data portability: You have the right, under some circumstances, to obtain your personal data in a format that is machine-readable, frequently used, and organized.

Withdraw consent: You have the right to revoke your consent at any time if we are processing your personal data based on your previous agreement.

Report to the appropriate authority. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in the Netherlands is one example of the appropriate data protection authority with whom you may make a complaint.

8.2 By using our Contact Form, which you can fill out after clicking the "Contact Us" button, you can exercise these rights.

8.3 We may ask you for information to identify yourself or we may require specified extra information from you in order to fulfill your potential requests under the rights mentioned above. Insofar as you want it, we solely gather and use this particular data in order to carry out your rights as mentioned above.

Amendments and questions

9.1 Somay is always free to change this policy. If the Policy is changed, you will be notified by posting of the new version of the Policy on the Website.

9.2 Please use the Contact Form to get in touch with us if you have any concerns after reading this policy or if you would like to exercise any of the rights outlined in it.