This privacy notice for akquire ("akquire," "we," "us," or "our") describes how and why we collect, store, use, and share your information when you use our services, including when you visit akquire.co or submit an enquiry through our qualification process.
Questions or concerns? Contact us at privacy@akquire.co.
When you complete our qualification process, we collect the following personal information:
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain technical information including your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring URLs, and information about how you interact with our pages. This information is used for security, analytics, and improving our services.
As part of our qualification process, we collect phone verification data including the timestamp of verification and confirmation that your mobile number was successfully verified via PIN. This forms part of your consent record.
We process your personal information for the following purposes:
We only process your information when we have a valid legal basis to do so — primarily your explicit consent, which you provide during the qualification process, or our legitimate interests in operating our business.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with:
Yes. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies including pixels and web beacons to operate our website, understand how visitors use it, and measure advertising performance. This includes the Meta (Facebook) Pixel and Google Ads tracking, which may associate your visit with your social media or Google account for advertising purposes. You can control cookie and tracking preferences through our cookie consent banner. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this notice, or as required by applicable law. Consent records and verification data are retained for a minimum of five years to support compliance with telecommunications and data protection regulations. If you request deletion of your data, we will action that request subject to any legal retention obligations.
We implement appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We encourage you to access our services only through secure connections.
No. Our services are directed exclusively at business operators and are not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us immediately.
You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. You may also withdraw your consent to being contacted at any time by emailing privacy@akquire.co. Note that withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Under UK GDPR and GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or port your personal data, and to object to processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, you have the right to access and correct your personal information. Complaints may be directed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au.
Depending on your state of residence, you may have rights under applicable state privacy laws including the right to know, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information. To exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@akquire.co.
Where you have provided consent to be contacted by SMS or telephone, you may withdraw that consent at any time by replying STOP to any SMS message or by contacting us directly. We comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in the US, PECR in the UK, and the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 in Australia.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. The updated version will be indicated by a revised date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this notice periodically.
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this privacy notice or your personal information, please contact us:
akquire
Email: privacy@akquire.co
Website: akquire.co