PRIVACY POLICY

Note: Freedom Telescope is a brand name of Cochrane Consulting Ltd.

One of our priorities is the privacy of our visitors to our web site. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed.If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent: By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.Definitions and key termsTo help explain as clearly as possible this Privacy Policy, every time any of these terms are referenced, are strictly defined as:Cookie: small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.Company: when this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to ‘Cochrane Consulting Ltd’ as the owner of this web site which is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.Country: where the owners/founders of this web are based, in this case it is England, UK.

Customer: refers to the company, organisation or person that signs up to use the Service(s) of this web site and/or to manage the relationships with your consumers or service users where appropriate.

Corporate Affiliate: any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Cochrane Consulting Ltd, whether by ownership or otherwise.Device: any internet connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer or any other device that can be used to visit this web site and use its services.IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by Cochrane Consulting Ltd or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.

Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.Service: refers to the service provided by this web site as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.Third-party service: refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.

Website: freedomtelescope.com site, which can be accessed via this URL: freedomtelescope.com

You: a person or entity that is registered with Cochrane Consulting Ltd to use the Services.

Information collected: The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

We may collect information from you when you visit our website, register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites. If you provide us with any such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.How we use your information. We use the information we collect in various ways, including to: provide, operate, and maintain our website, improve, personalise, and expand our website. Understand and analyse how you use our website. Develop new products, services, features, and functionality. Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes. To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature to send periodic emails. Find and prevent fraud.

Log Files. We use a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics.

The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons. Like any other website, our web site uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimise the users’ experience by customising our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. For more general information on cookies, please read our help on cookies.

Affiliates. We may disclose information (including personal information) about you to our Corporate Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Do we share the information we collect with third parties? We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.

We may also share it with our current and future affiliated companies and business partners, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganisation, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest.We may engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website, database storage and management, e-mail management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service and fulfilling orders for products and services you may purchase through the website.

We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you.We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website in a shared location, and type of the device used to visit the website. They may aggregate information about our advertising and what you see on the website and then provide auditing, research and reporting for us and our advertisers.

We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.

How Do We Use Your Email Address? By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email.We only send emails to people who have authorised us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us. Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used for the sole purpose of sending you information and updates pertaining to your order. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this Policy.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

Our Advertising Partners. Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies. You may consult this list to find the Privicy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Cochrane Consulting Ltd. Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our web site, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalise the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.Note that Cochrane Consulting Limited has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies. We may receive some information from third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your email address to us to show interest in becoming a customer or subscriber. We can receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to this web site owner. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information). Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), among other rights, California consumers have the right to:Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers. Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected. Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)CalOPPA requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.

Users have the following rights: Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the:(1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share;(2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us;(3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and(4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.Right to request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights. We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information. Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Cochrane Consulting Ltd does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.Governing Law.

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of England and Wales in the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions via Email: [email protected]