We gather information about you and your interactions with us in a variety of ways, including:

1. Directly provided information from you: We gather information that you directly provide to us, such as when you register for an account with us on our Websites.
2. Information obtained from public sources:
3. Information gathered automatically or inferred from your interactions with us: We collect technical information about your interactions with us automatically (such as IP address and browsing history).
4. Information obtained from third parties: Third parties, such as your employer or coworkers, third-party service and content providers, credit reporting agencies, firms that give or sell lists of potential purchasers, and others interacting with us, provide us with information about you and your interactions with us.

We may combine information obtained from the different sources mentioned in this Policy, including third-party and publicly available information, and use or disclose it for the reasons set forth below.

The information you enter may be used in these following ways:

1. To provide you with services: Such as completing transactions with you, registering and administering your account, establishing and facilitating our commercial relationship with you, responding to a question, complaint, or request from you, and understanding your preferences and needs.
2. For our own company's internal requirements: Such as administering and improving our Website; tracking and reporting Website traffic; analyzing our customers' demographics and interests; assisting in the diagnosis of potential server problems; improving or developing features, products, and services; monitoring and analyzing information about your web surfing and viewing preferences; and otherwise protecting or furthering our legitimate interests.
3. For legal, safety, or security concerns: Such as complying with legal obligations, protecting our safety, property, or the rights of people who engage with us or others, and detecting, preventing, and responding to security events or other harmful, misleading, fraudulent, or unlawful activities.
4. De-identified, anonymized, or aggregated data: When data is de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated, it no more constitutes Personal Information, and we may use it for any purpose. We reserve the right to use and distribute anonymized or aggregated data with third parties.
5. For marketing purposes: We sometimes use your Personal Information to send you e-mail notifications and newsletters about forthcoming sales, events, and information about our products and services that we believe you will find interesting. Where needed by applicable data protection legislation, we will get your prior approval before sending you e-mail alerts and newsletters.
6. For any other reason for which you provide your permission.

We may disclose your personal information to our employees and related bodies corporate, contractors, or service providers for the purposes of operating our websites, or business (including marketing), fulfilling your requests, and otherwise providing products and services to you. This may include, but is not limited to, hosting providers, publisher networks, IT systems administrators, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, and data entry service providers.

In addition to the foregoing, with your express approval, we may release your personal information to any organization for any authorized purpose, where your information is publicly available, or in connection with any sale or merger involving Machinoweb and/or its connected bodies corporate.

We shall take reasonable steps to guarantee that these third-party service providers are required to safeguard personal information on our behalf. Machinoweb will not sell or distribute your personal information for marketing purposes with any unaffiliated third party. If Machinoweb or all of its assets are acquired, customer information (including private details) is extremely likely to be one of the transferred assets.

We have the right to disclose personally identifiable information in exceptional circumstances when we have reason to believe that doing so is required to identify, contact, or bring legal proceedings against someone who may be causing harm to or interference with (either willfully or unknowingly) our rights or property, or anyone else who may be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to share personally identifiable information when we reasonably believe that the law requires it.

We use cookies to present content tailored to your interests and personalize your experience with the Website, as well as to save your information so you don't have to enter this every time you visit the Website, among other things. It is desirable for you to have cookies enabled in order for our Website to run as efficiently as possible and to offer you the greatest user experience.

We utilize cookies for the following objectives in particular:

1. Functional Cookies – These cookies make it possible for the Website to provide greater functionality and customization. They could be set by us or by third-party companies whose services we have integrated into our pages. Some or all of these features may not operate effectively if you do not allow certain cookies.
2. Targeting Cookies – Our website employs targeting cookies, which may be placed by our advertising partners through our site and used by those parties to help show you more relevant advertisements on other websites. You will still see adverts on the internet if you do not allow these cookies, but they may be less relevant to you.
3. Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are necessary for the proper operation of the Website and cannot be deactivated in our systems. They are frequently only activated in response to activities you take that constitute a service request for services, such as altering your privacy settings, logging in, or submitting forms. You can set your browser to block or inform you about these cookies, but certain functionalities of the Website will be inoperable as a consequence. These cookies contain no personally identifying information.
4. Performance Cookies – These cookies enable us to count visitors and traffic sources in order to measure and enhance our Website's performance. They assist us in determining which pages are the most and least popular, as well as how users navigate the Website. All of the data collected by such cookies is consolidated and hence anonymous. If you disable these cookies, we will not know when you visit our website and will be unable to track its performance.

When you access each Website, you can manage your Cookie preferences.

Machinoweb may also use "web beacons" to collect information about your usage of our Website as well as the websites of approved sponsors and advertisers. Web beacons are small graphic image files included in a web page or email that offer a presence on the page or email and convey information from the user's browser back to its home server. The information gathered by web beacons enables us to statistically track how many people visit our Website, chosen sponsors' and advertisers' websites, and use our services, as well as for what objectives.

We may be unable to provide you with the desired products or services, either to the same standard or at all; we may be unable to provide you with information about products and services that you may be interested in, such as information about price reductions, sales, or special promotions; or we may be unable to personalize the content of our websites to your preferences, making your experience with our websites less interesting or helpful.

In general, you are not needed to provide us with any personal information. When engaging with us in respect to a specific case, you may have the option of not identifying yourself or of adopting a pseudonym, where reasonably practical. However, if you want to receive updates on our products or services, it may not be practicable to use a pseudonym or otherwise not identify yourself, and we may require you to submit certain personal information. If you do not supply any or all of the requested personal information or credit information, we may be unable to provide you with part or all of the products or services.

We may send you direct marketing materials and information about our services and products that we believe you will find useful. In line with applicable marketing rules, such as the Spam Act of 2003, these communications may be distributed in a variety of formats, including mail, SMS, fax, and email. If you specify a preference for a means of communication, we will make every effort to employ that method whenever possible.

Furthermore, you may opt out of receiving advertising messages from us at any time by contacting us through email at marketing@machinoweb.com or by utilizing the opt-out options provided in the marketing communications, and we will then remove your name from our mailing list.

Following registration, you can verify and edit the information you provided, such as your

• User ID and email address. When you update your User ID, we maintain track of both your previous and new User IDs.
• Your login information: Name, company, address, city, state, postcode, country, primary phone number, and secondary phone number are all required for registration.
• Your credit card number, expiration date, and other financial details.

If your personal information changes, you must promptly update it.

We will deactivate your account, contact details, and financial information from our active databases at your request. To make this request, send an email to support@machinoweb.com, In compliance with our deactivation policy and applicable law, your account and data will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible.

For certain of the objectives indicated above, we may release personal information to our affiliated bodies corporate and third-party suppliers and service providers situated in other countries. We take reasonable precautions to guarantee that foreign recipients of your personal information do not violate your personal information's privacy responsibilities.

If you suspect your privacy has been violated, please contact us at the email address, phone number, or mailing address listed below. When contacting us about your Personal Information, please do not include your account password, or credit card information in any email to us. Our Privacy Officer will evaluate and respond to alleged privacy violations that have been reported to us.

Machinoweb Registered Office: C-222 First Floor Block 6, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Phone: +92 335 0001126-7

Email: support@machinoweb.com

We may extend credit to you from time to time (for example, by allowing you to pay our account for services over time), which may necessitate the collection of credit information. We may collect credit information about you (a) directly from you or from people acting on your behalf (including through application forms submitted by you or on your behalf), and (b) from third parties, such as credit reporting bodies and other credit providers, to help us decide whether to extend credit to you.

We may also utilize the credit information we have on record for you for internal management purposes, as well as to react to inquiries or complaints regarding how we have handled your credit information. If you fail to make payments to us or commit a major credit infringement, we may expose your credit information to credit reporting organizations.

Such credit reporting authorities’ credit reporting policies will be posted on their websites. You have the right to contact any credit reporting bodies to whom we have disclosed your credit information and request that they not (a) use your credit information for pre-screening purposes in order to determine your eligibility to receive direct marketing from credit providers, and (b) use or disclose your credit information if you have been or are likely to be the victim of fraud.

You are liable for any and all acts made using your User ID and password, including any fees. As a result, we do not recommend disclosing your Machinoweb password to any third party. If you choose to share your User ID and password, or your information, with third parties in order for them to provide you with extra services, you agree to accept responsibility for all acts made using your User ID and password. You may lose substantial control over your personal information if you lose control of your password and may be liable to legally binding actions conducted on your behalf. As a result, if your password has been hacked for any reason, you should replace it immediately.

Credit card details should never be sent through email. Do not provide account information to anyone who is not authorized by you to transact business with us on your behalf. We will never request your password to confirm your identity.

We retain the types of personal data listed above for as long as it's required for the reasons listed in this notice or as long as it's otherwise permitted by law. This typically involves keeping the data until one of the following cases arises:

• Your Personal Information is reasonably required to manage our operations, to manage your relationship with us, or to fulfill another purpose for which we collected the information;
• Your Personal Information is reasonably required to carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected;
• The information is reasonably required to protect or defend our rights or property (which will generally relate to the Personal Information);

We keep your Personal Information no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was obtained and in accordance with this Policy. When determining the proper retention periods, we will take the following factors into account:

• contractual obligations to you;
• legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a specified period of time;
• statute of limitations under applicable law;
• (potential) disputes;
• for compliance, regulatory, and auditing purposes; and
• guidelines issued by relevant national data protection regulatory authorities.

Otherwise, when we no longer need your Personal Information, we securely anonymize or delete it. Please contact us using the information provided in the contact us section below for more information on how long we will retain your Personal Information.

To protect against the loss, abuse, and alteration of Personal Information, we employ suitable technical and organizational safeguards.

Our Website have security procedures in place to protect the information under our control from loss, misuse, and alteration. SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption is used by our Websites for all sensitive data exchanged over the Internet. Customers adding data to the Website and staff sending data off the Website are examples of this. No information, including passwords used to gain access to critical data, is ever sent over the Internet unencrypted. Please keep in mind that no technique of internet communication or computer storage is completely secure. While we make every effort to utilize commercially reasonable procedures to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its complete security.

We do not intentionally solicit information online from, or market to, children under the age of 18 through our websites, and those under 18 are not the target audience for our websites. You are not allowed to subscribe to emails or newsletters or provide us with any other personal information if you are under 18. When a child under the age of 18 submits personal Information to one of our websites, we immediately delete such information and do not use it for any other reason after learning that fact.

Please be advised that by using hyperlinks on our websites, you may be taken to sites that are not under our control. When you leave our websites, you will be sent to websites or other applications over which we have no control. Third-party websites are not covered by our Policy. Before providing any personal information, you should ensure that you are aware of the privacy policies that apply to any third-party websites or mobile applications.

These other websites may send their own cookies, gather data, or seek personal information from visitors. These other sites' privacy practices may differ significantly from this Privacy Policy. We make no representations or assurances about the privacy practices of any third-party website, and we are not responsible for their privacy policies or content. It is the responsibility of third-party websites to inform you about their own privacy practices.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy Statement at any time. We may notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy, but we are under no obligation to do so. All changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this page, and it is your responsibility to review it on a regular basis.

The Privacy Statement was last updated on February 22, 2024.

If you have any issues with this policy or your privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer at the following address:

Machinoweb Registered Office: C-222 First Floor Block 6, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Phone: +92 335 0001126-7

Email: support@machinoweb.com