Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

At AYO.NEWS (a Pentagon Digital Ltd brand), we care about your privacy and data security. In order to provide you with an effective site, we need to collect some data. This privacy policy outlines how your data is collected, used and protected. If you have any questions or require further information or help, you are always welcome to contact the AYO.NEWS team.

‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ Pentagon Digital Limited.

‘the site’ means the AYO.NEWS website.

‘you’ and ‘your’ means you, the person visiting the site, registering for any of our services or events, or otherwise engaging with the site or us.

By subscribing to any of our services, visiting the site, registering for any of our events, or interacting with us in other ways, you are giving your consent to us processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. HOW TO CONTACT US

Address: Pentagon Digital Limited, Office 1, Birds of Paradise, Triq Il-Hagar, Mosta MST2251, Malta

Email: contact@ayo.news

3. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We may collect information in several ways. This includes information you submit to us via online forms, phone calls, when you register an account with us, when you subscribe to one of our mailing lists, or when you register to attend one of our events. This information can include your name, email address, phone number, address, credit/debit card information and any other information that is relevant to the event or service you are registering for or confirming your interest in.

Information we collect about you: We will collect any information contained in any correspondence between you and us via contact forms on websites, and emails, SMS or telephone calls.

Regarding events that operate on a badged/restricted access basis, we might also collect information about your location in and relationship to the event.

When you visit our website, we may collect information about when and how you use it. For example, this may include your IP address, geographical location, browser information, device information, duration of visit, operating system, number of page views, referral sources and other similar information. Such information may be collected and stored by a third party website analytics service provider (eg. Google), on our behalf, and/or may be collected using cookies. More information regarding cookies is provided below (see section 6).

Information received from third parties: information about you may be collected by us from third parties that we work with in order to deliver the services that you request from us. This could include, but is not limited to, payment systems, online event registration systems and similar. Third parties may sometimes be engaged for the purposes of operating event websites on our behalf; those parties may collect information directly from you about your visits to the website on our behalf. We may also receive information about you from third parties in cases where you have consented to such third parties sharing your information with us.

Google reCaptcha

This site uses Google reCaptcha v3 for security purposes. Use of reCaptcha v3 is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. reCAPTCHA is only used to fight spam and abuse on this site. reCAPTCHA is not be used for any other purposes.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

You agree that we may use your information for the following purposes:

To provide you with information or services you have requested from us. For example, receiving emails or newsletters, or attending an event.

To contact you to provide information about a service you have requested or an event you are attending.

To provide information about other of our services or events that we feel may interest you.

To share information with other entities operated by Pentagon Digital Limited, in order for them to be able to contact you with information about services or goods that we feel may interest you.

To enable us to deal with enquiries, notify you of changes in relation to our site, services or events, and to provide general customer service and support.

To enable us to conduct aggregated and anonymised research about general consumer engagement with the site, services and events.

To enable us to conduct statistical analyses of users of the site, covering things like their viewing and engagement patters, for product improvement and development purposes.

5. WHO WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

You agree that we can share your personal information with:

Other entities owned and/or operated by Pentagon Digital Limited, and selected third parties we work with, when and where required for the effective delivery of services that you request from us, and for marketing purposes.

Other third parties where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or in order to protect the rights, safety or property of our employees or and sub-contractors, when such disclosure may be permitted or required by law.

6. COOKIES

We use cookies to enable you to get the best experience from our site. What are cookies? Cookies are used by most websites and are very small text files which are stored on the device you use to access the site, and which allow us to monitor your use of the website and make it as easy as possible. Temporary cookies are also used to keep track of “sessions” or visits.

You can change the settings on your browser to reject cookies, but please be aware that if you do then the website may not be fully functional and/or certain information or features may be unavailable. You can turn cookies off by visiting the “settings” option on your browser. If you need help please check the “Help” section, or visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.

7. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES AND CONTRIBUTORS

The website may feature content and links to other websites and platforms that are operated by third parties. We have absolutely no control or responsibility for these third party websites, including their privacy, data or cookie policies, and this Privacy Policy does not in any way apply to them. For information about third party privacy, data and cookie policies you should consult the relevant third party website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

8. HOW WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW LONG IT IS KEPT

To ensure the security of your information, we use appropriate technological and operational security measures to prevent unauthorised access or use. We only retain your information for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the services you have requested from us or for as long as the law otherwise permits.

Please be aware that no transmission of information over the internet, cellular or wifi networks can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and though we employ appropriate measures to protect your information, you acknowledge that we cannot always absolutely guarantee the security of information sent over the internet, cellular or wifi networks.

9. YOUR RIGHTS TO THE INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

You always have the right to see any personal data that we currently have about you, simply by making a request in writing to the address provided in section 2. If you would like any information we hold about you to be updated or deleted, you can also contact us using the details in section 2.

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time we may amend or update this privacy policy. When we do we will post a notification on this page. In cases of any significant or material changes in the way we use or treat your information, we will display a prominent notice on our site and, if applicable, send a notice to the primary contact email address specified in your account or otherwise provided to us by you.

How to unsubscribe: you an easily unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of any newsletter. If you unsubscribe, we may still keep your data according to this Privacy Policy unless you contact us and specifically ask for it to be deleted as according to section 9.