HirePlek is operated by Blue Code Solutions SLU, a company registered in Spain, with offices at Calle Reyes Católicos 17, Puerta 7, 03003, Alicante, Spain. "HirePlek", "us", "we", or "our" operates the www.hireplek.com website (the “Site”) and provides an international payroll and related services (the "Service"), which is available through the Site. This Privacy Policy informs you of how information about you is collected, used, and disclosed by us when you access our Site and our Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, capitalised terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.

While accessing our Site and/or using our Service, we collect and store certain information about you. Some of this information can be used on its own or in combination with other information with other information to identify you ("Personal Information"). Below is a list of types of Personal Information that we may collect and use when you apply for, or use any of our products or services.

Type of personal information	Description
Contact	Your name, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and other ways in which to contact you
Payment	Payment card number, expiration date, security code and billing address.
Transactional	Details about the transactions you carry out and the payments to and from your accounts with us
Contractual	Details about the products or services we provide to you
Locational	Data we get about where you are. This may come from your mobile phone or the place where you connect a computer to the internet. It may also include locations where you used your card.
Behavioral	Details about how you use our Services and Site
Technical	Details on the devices and technology you use
Communications	What we learn about you from communications between us.
Public and third-party records	Details about you that are in public records and information about you that is publicly available on the internet. We also collect information about you which we receive from other companies, such as (without limitation) credit reference or fraud protection agencies (see below for more information).
Usage data	Other data about how you use our products and services
Documentary data	Details about you that are stored in documents in different formats, or copies of them. This could include things like (without limitation) your passport, driver’s license, photographs or birth certificate.
Consents	Any permissions, consents or preferences that you give us

Below is a list of the ways that we may use your personal information and our reasons for doing so:

What we use your personal information for
Serving You Managing our relationship with you or your business Developing and carrying out marketing activities Studying how our customers use products and services from HirePleek Communicating with you about our products and services
Improving our business Testing new products Improving our products and services Managing how we work with other companies that provide services to us and our customers Developing new ways to meet our customers’ needs and grow our business
Marketing and events-related communications Communicating HirePlek’s products, services, invite you to participate in events or surveys, or otherwise communicate with you for marketing purposes with the consent requirements of applicable law
Managing our operations Delivering HirePlek’s products and services Making and managing payments Managing fees and charges due on user accounts Collecting and recovering money that is owed to HirePlek Investigating and responding to complaints and feedback
Crime prevention and managing risks Identifying, investigating, reporting and preventing fraud, money laundering and other crime Managing risk for us and our Users Complying with laws and regulations
Business management Operating our business in an efficient and proper way, including managing our financial position, business capability, planning, adding and testing systems and processes, managing communications, corporate governance, and audit Carrying out our obligations arising from and exercising our rights set out in our contracts

We may contact you with newsletters and other marketing information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us. Please note that we may still send you transactional or administrative messages related to the Service even after you have opted out of receiving marketing communications.

We will only share your information with the third parties listed below for the purposes described above in the “Use of Your Information” Section, unless otherwise noted at the point of collection:

• Third-party agents, partners, and service providers who are only permitted to use your information as we allow which may include contacting you on your behalf, and are required under law or contract to keep your personal information confidential. Information is shared to help us provide the Service.
• Government agencies and taxing authorities, as required to provide the Service, including but not limited to the Internal Revenue Service, state and local tax agencies, and state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Insurance carriers and other third parties, as needed to carry out the Benefits Service
• Banking and financial institutions.
• Certain parties as necessary to respond in good faith to legal process where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.
• Legal and financial advisors and auditors
• The following third-parties under the circumstances described below:
• we may share business or personal information with credit bureaus, and we may share information with certain companies, banks and organizations for purposes such as fraud prevention or determining eligibility for the Service;
• if you participate in a referral program, the referral email and referral link sent to any Referred Leads may include your first name;
• if there is a sale of HirePlek (including, without limitation, a merger, stock acquisition, sale of assets or reorganization), or in the event that HirePlek liquidates or dissolves, we may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, which could include your information, to the acquirer;
• we may share de-identified personal information with academic institutions to perform research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy—including requiring such institutions to operate under confidentiality agreements and mandating that published findings contain only de-identified and aggregated data;
• we may share reports with the public that contain anonymized, aggregate, de-identified information and statistics; and
• we may share your information with certain other third parties with whom you, your Client, or your Client’s accountant partner expressly authorize us to share your information

We will keep your personal information as long as you are a User of HirePlek. We may keep your personal information for up to 10 years after you stop being a customer. The reasons we may do this are:

• To respond to a question or complaint, or to show whether we gave you fair treatment
• To study customer data as part of our own research
• To comply with legal rules that apply to us about keeping records. For example, the Money Laundering Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) require us to retain certain data for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 years.
• We may also keep your data for longer than 10 years if certain laws mean that we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you. You are also a key stakeholder in making sure that your Personal Information is protected. If you become aware of any breach of security or privacy, please contact us immediately.

Information collected while you use the Site and/or Service, including your Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the European Commission and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including your Personal Information, to the EU and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such Personal Information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from Children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 18 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Under applicable privacy regulation, you may have some or all of the following rights in respect of your personal information:

• to obtain a copy of your personal information together with information about how and on what basis that personal information is processed;
• to rectify inaccurate personal information;
• to erase your personal information in limited circumstances where it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed;
• to restrict processing of your personal information where: (a) the accuracy of the personal information is contested; (b) the processing is unlawful but you object to the erasure of the personal information; (c) we no longer require the personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, but it is required for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim;
• to challenge processing which we have justified on the basis of our legitimate interest;
• to object to decisions which are based solely on automated processing or profiling;
• to obtain a portable copy of your personal information, or to have a copy transferred to a third party controller; or
• to obtain a copy of or access to safeguards under which your personal information is transferred

In addition to the above, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority for data protection. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your information at any time. We may ask you for additional data to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing data requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law. We may also decline to process requests that jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or would cause us to take any action that is not permissible under applicable laws. Additionally, as permitted by applicable laws, we may need to retain certain personal information for a limited period of time for record-keeping, accounting and fraud prevention purposes. To exercise these rights you may contact us either by emailing hello@hireplek.com or addressing it to HirePlek offices located at Calle Reyes Católicos 17, Puerta 7, 03003, Alicante, Spain. Please note also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervention. For example, if you are a registered HirePlek Platform user, you can access and update your personal data.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the “LAST REVISED” Privacy Policy and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If you have questions or concerns regarding privacy using our Service, please contact us at: hello@hireplek.com