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                        <h4>Privacy Policy</h4>
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                        <p>Privacy Policy</p>
                        <p>Your privacy is important to us. It is Merchbay&rsquo;s policy to respect your privacy regarding
                            any information we may collect from you across our website, https://merchbay.com, and other
                            sites we own and operate.</p>

                        <p>1. Information we collect</p>

                        <p>Log data</p>

                        <p>When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your
                            web browser. It may include your computer&rsquo;s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser
                            type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each
                            page, and other details.</p>


                        <p>Personal information</p>

                        <p>We may ask for personal information, such as your:</p>


                        <p>Name, Email, Social media profiles, Date of birth, Phone/mobile number, Home/Mailing address,
                            Work address, Payment information</p>

                        <p>2. Legal bases for processing</p>

                        <p>We will process your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. We
                            collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so.</p>

                        <p>These legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them, meaning we collect and use
                            your information only where:</p>


                        <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it&rsquo;s necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a
                            party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract (for example, when
                            we provide a service, you request from us);</p>
                        <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data
                            protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote our services,
                            and to protect our legal rights and interests;</p>
                        <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you give us consent to do so for a specific purpose (for example, you
                            might consent to us sending you our newsletter); or</p>
                        <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;we need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.</p>


                        <p>Where you consent to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right
                            to change your mind at any time (but this will not affect any processing that has already taken
                            place).</p>

                        <p>We don&rsquo;t keep personal information for longer than is necessary. While we retain this
                            information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft,
                            as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. That said, we advise
                            that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and cannot guarantee
                            absolute data security. If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance
                            with a legal obligation or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of
                            another natural person.</p>

                        <p>3. Collection and use of information</p>

                        <p>We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal
                            information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
                        </p>


                        <p>to enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our website; to enable you to access
                            and use our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms; to contact
                            and communicate with you;for internal record keeping and administrative purposes; for analytics,
                            market research and business development, including to operate and improve our website,
                            associated applications and associated social media platforms; to run competitions and/or offer
                            additional benefits to you; for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional
                            information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider
                            may be of interest to you; and to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes
                            that we may have.</p>

                        <p>4. Disclosure of personal information to third parties</p>

                        <p>We may disclose personal information to:</p>


                        <p>third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services,
                            including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers,
                            ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving
                            providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors and payment systems
                            operators; our employees, contractors and/or related entities; and credit reporting agencies,
                            courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services
                            we have provided to you.</p>

                        <p>5. International transfers of personal information</p>

                        <p>The personal information we collect is stored and processed in United States, or where we or our
                            partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. By providing us with your
                            personal information, you consent to the disclosure to these overseas third parties.</p>

                        <p>We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic
                            Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example
                            by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of
                            binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.</p>

                        <p>Where we transfer personal information from a non-EEA country to another country, you acknowledge
                            that third parties in other jurisdictions may not be subject to similar data protection laws to
                            the ones in our jurisdiction. There are risks if any such third party engages in any act or
                            practice that would contravene the data privacy laws in our jurisdiction and this might mean
                            that you will not be able to seek redress under our jurisdiction&rsquo;s privacy laws.</p>

                        <p>6. Your rights and controlling your personal information</p>

                        <p>Choice and consent: By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting,
                            holding, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
                            If you are under 16 years of age, you must have, and warrant to the extent permitted by law to
                            us, that you have your parent or legal guardian&rsquo;s permission to access and use the website
                            and they (your parents or guardian) have consented to you providing us with your personal
                            information. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it
                            may affect your use of this website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
                        </p>

                        <p>Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party,
                            we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing
                            personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such
                            person&rsquo;s consent to provide the personal information to us.</p>

                        <p>Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you
                            have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you
                            may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below. If you ask us to
                            restrict or limit how we process your personal information, we will let you know how the
                            restriction affects your use of our website or products and services.</p>

                        <p>Access and data portability: You may request details of the personal information that we hold
                            about you. You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible,
                            we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You may
                            request that we erase the personal information we hold about you at any time. You may also
                            request that we transfer this personal information to another third party.</p>

                        <p>Correction: If you believe that any information, we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date,
                            incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take
                            reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or
                            out of date.</p>

                        <p>Notification of data breaches: We will comply laws applicable to us in respect of any data
                            breach.</p>

                        <p>Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make
                            a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the
                            alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing,
                            setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your
                            complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in
                            relation to your complaint.</p>

                        <p>Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including
                            marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the
                            opt-out facilities provided in the communication.</p>

                        <p>7. Cookies</p>

                        <p>We use &ldquo;cookies&rdquo; to collect information about you and your activity across our site.
                            A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each
                            time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based
                            on preferences you have specified. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.</p>

                        <p>8. Business transfers</p>

                        <p>If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter
                            bankruptcy, we would include data among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us.
                            You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may continue
                            to use your personal information according to this policy.</p>

                        <p>9. Limits of our policy</p>

                        <p>Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have
                            no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or
                            liability for their respective privacy practices.</p>

                        <p>10. Changes to this policy</p>

                        <p>At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect current acceptable practices. We
                            will take reasonable steps to let users know about changes via our website. Your continued use
                            of this site after any changes to this policy will be regarded as acceptance of our practices
                            around privacy and personal information.</p>

                        <p>If we make a significant change to this privacy policy, for example changing a lawful basis on
                            which we process your personal information, we will ask you to re-consent to the amended privacy
                            policy.</p>

                          
                        <p>This policy is effective as of 1 August 2021.</p>
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