Semeris Privacy Policy

Updated 19 November 2024

Thank you for visiting our website and considering the use of our Semeris products.

This Privacy Policy governs the use of the Semeris Docs service, the Semeris Docs Excel Add-in, all other Semeris services, this Website, and any other interaction between us.

Semeris Limited, Semeris Inc and Semeris Services Kft (collectively referred to as Semeris, we, us or our) recognises the importance of safeguarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how and why we collect and use personal information, and what we do to ensure it is kept private and secure. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. The personal information you provide when using our services will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This policy covers the following topics:

  • Who we are and how to contact us
  • Information we collect
  • Cookies
  • Using and sharing your personal information
  • Protection and storage of your personal information
  • Access to your personal information and your rights
  • Information that we Share
  • Data Transfers
  • Changes to this policy

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to companies that advertise our services, or to products and services offered by other companies, including those which refer to Semeris.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

We are Semeris Limited, registered in England and Wales with company number 12575356, Semeris Inc, registered in Delaware and Semeris Services Kft, registered in Hungary with company number 01-09-390743. For the purposes of data protection law, we are a controller of the personal information we hold about you. This means we make decisions about how and why your information is used, and have a legal duty to make sure that your rights are protected when we use it.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us at info@semeris.com.

2. Information we collect

When using or seeking to use our services we collect the information you provide to us including:

  • Personal information such as your name, address, employer or other identification data
  • Contact information such as your phone number and email address

In addition, we may collect information from you when you communicate with us or our service providers (in writing or verbally) such as communicating with our customer support or when you participate in any survey we may run.

We may also collect information from your computer or device in relation to your use of our website or Semeris Docs such as IP address, activity logs, cookie and browser identifiers, operating system identifiers and location identifiers.

We do not collect any sensitive personal information about you (such as your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, criminal convictions or offences, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).

3. Cookies

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Please note, if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible and some functionality may be lost.

4. Using and sharing your personal information

We will process your personal information to the extent necessary to:

  • Provide you with our services and responding to any queries and providing any information about us;
  • Improve, customise and enhance our services, platform and website;
  • Communicate with you via phone, text message, notifications, email or post and otherwise to manage our relationship with you;
  • Provide you with information about changes or updates to Semeris services;
  • Provide you with marketing materials and other news updates and promotions with respect to our products and services, where you have consented to receiving such information. You may elect to opt out of any marketing information we send to you by following the link in any relevant information; and
  • Comply with any relevant law.

We do not sell or provide access to your personal information to third parties for them to market direct to you. However, we may share your personal information with third parties for the following purposes:

  • Provide to third party cloud based storage service providers, who may be located overseas;
  • Providing your information to our investors, potential acquirers and/or financiers;
  • Provide to our commercial partners to enable them to improve their services to us and to you;

The GDPR bases we rely on for processing your information are (in order of precedence):

  • Legal obligation – for personal information that relates to the credit, legal, financial or accounting aspect of a contract;
  • Contract – for personal information that relates to a contract
  • Consent – for personal information used for marketing, news, updates and promotions
  • Legitimate interest – in all other cases not listed above

We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, financial or accounting requirements.

We will primarily use your information in order for us to provide our services to you.

5. Protection and storage of your personal information

Your personal information will predominantly be stored in electronic form in secure cloud based data centres located in the United Kingdom or overseas that may be owned by third parties. Your personal information may also be stored in paper form. All such information whether electronically or physically stored is kept secure using generally accepted standards of security (e.g. encryption).

6. Access to your personal information and your rights

You can request access to your personal information by contacting us using the details in section 1. We do not charge for such access, unless you make excessive requests.

We want you to remain in control of your personal information. Part of this is making sure you understand your legal rights, which are summarised as follows:

Where your personal information is processed on the basis of consent, the right to withdraw that consent;

  • The right to confirmation as to whether or not we are holding any of your personal information and, if we are, to obtain a copy of it;
  • The right to have certain information provided to you in a portable electronic format;
  • The right to have inaccurate information rectified;
  • The right to object to your information being used for marketing or profiling, or on the basis of our or a third party’s legitimate interests;
  • The right to restrict how your information is used; and
  • The right to be forgotten, which allows you to have your information erased in certain circumstances (though this is not an absolute right and will not apply if we need to continue using it for a lawful reason).

If you want to use any of these rights, please contact us using the details given in section 1. There are exceptions to the rights above and, though we will always try to respond to your satisfaction, there may be situations where we are unable to do so.

If you are not happy with our response, or you believe that your data protection or privacy rights have been infringed, you should contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which oversees data protection compliance in the UK. Details of how to do this can be found at www.ico.org.uk.

7. Information that we Share

We do not share personal information with any other companies, organisations or outside individuals unless one of the following conditions applies:

  • We have your consent – we will share personal information with third party companies, organisations or individuals outside of Semeris only for legitimate business purposes and only with your prior consent
  • The sharing is for external processing – we provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy.
  • The sharing relates to the sale of the company – if our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, personal information held by it about its customers and employees will be one of the transferred assets.
  • The sharing is necessary for legal reasons – we will share personal information with companies, organisations or individuals outside of Semeris where such a disclosure is deemed reasonably necessary to:
  • Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or lawful governmental request;
  • Enforce applicable terms of service, including investigation of potential violations;
  • Detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
  • Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Semeris and its users as permitted by law.

We may also share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners, for example information to show trends about the general use of our service. However, it will not be possible to personally identify you from this information.

8. Data Transfers

Except as set out below, we normally only store personal information within the UK, USA and European Economic Area (EEA). If we or one of our subcontractors needs to transfer it outside of the UK or EEA then we will take steps to ensure adequate levels of privacy protection, in line with UK GDPR and EU GDPR. These safeguards will usually be contractual or the result of a UK or European Union decision which allows the transfer.

9. Changes to this policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised version on our Website or sending you an email or text two weeks before the effective date of any amendment. If you continue to use our Website, our Semeris Products and any other services following the effective date of any amendment, then you will be deemed to have accepted the amendment to this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept any amendment to this Privacy Policy, you will not be penalised by us, but you may no longer use the Website, Semeris Products or our services.