Cookies and Privacy Policy
Mining Alliance Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms of Use) set out the basis on which: (1) any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us; and (2) we use cookies. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices.
Mining Alliance is committed to integrity and high ethical standards in the conduct of its business and expects the same of all persons employed or otherwise engaged to provide services on its behalf. Mining Alliance’s policy prohibits the offering, promising, giving or authorising of others to give anything of value, either directly or indirectly, to any party in order to:
- influence official action;
- improperly obtain or retain business; or
- otherwise to gain an improper business advantage.
It also prohibits the receipt or agreement to receive anything of value that results, or may result, in the improper performance of their duties by a Mining Alliance employee.
Mining Alliance does not permit the making of facilitation payments on its behalf. Gifts and entertainment provided by or to Mining Alliance or its employees must be for bona fide business purposes only, reasonable in scale and frequency, proportionate to the nature of the relationship and status of the invitees, and transparent.
Breach of Mining Alliance’s policy may result in dismissal of an employee and the termination of a business relationship with a third party engaged to provide goods or services to or on behalf of Mining Alliance.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you: (1) information that you provide by filling in forms on our website (the “Website”); (2) information when you report a problem with our site; (3) if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence; (4) we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes; and (5) details of your visits to our site and the resources that you access.
IP addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Cookies
Mining Alliance and other persons acting on our behalf use cookies and similar technology on the websites to collect information from visitors to its websites. Cookies are small, usually randomly encoded, text files that help your browser navigate through our Website. The cookie file is generated by our Website when you access it and is accepted and processed by your computer’s browser software. The cookie file is stored in your browser’s folder or subfolder.
Cookies enable Mining Alliance to compile statistical information about how you use our Website, including information relating to the frequency of visits, IP addresses, the average length of visits, which pages are viewed during a visit, the effectiveness of advertising on our Website, authentication information, acceptance or rejection of website terms, periods of inactivity, time zones, language preferences and other regional information.
Mining Alliance and other persons acting on our behalf use this cookie information for the following purposes: to improve the Website content and performance; to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; to speed up your searches; to enable log in and authentication when you log on; to recognise you when you return; and to deliver a better and more personalised service by allowing us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
Information held in cookies sent by Mining Alliance is kept to a minimum and can only be read by Mining Alliance, its authorised third parties or someone who has physical access to your personal computer. Many web browsers allow you to control the use of most cookies through their browser settings. To learn more about cookies, including information on what cookies have been set on your computer and how cookies can be managed and deleted, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it rejects cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access or use our Website. By accessing or using our Website you consent to Mining Alliance using cookies. If you refuse to accept cookies by adjusting your browser setting, some or all areas of our Website may not function properly or may not be accessible.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways: to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you (where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes); to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us; to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service; and to notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please inform us.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our ultimate holding company and any subsidiaries.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties: in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Mining Alliance, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Mining Alliance.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
You have the right to access any information we hold about you. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 (or local currency equivalent) to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our Cookies and Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our Cookies and Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy should be addressed to Mining Alliance Limited at admin@miningalliance.co.tz