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​1.  Data Protection & Privacy Policy

describes in detail our policy and practices regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data.

We understand that providing information online involves a great deal of trust on your part. We take this trust very seriously and make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal data you provide us when you visit our Website or use our services.

Collection of your personal data

How we use your personal data

With whom we share your personal data

How long we keep your personal data

Cookies and other web technologies

Your rights

How we protect your personal data

Information concerning minors

External links

International transfers

Changes to this Privacy Policy

How you can contact us

2.  Collection of your personal data

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified, electronic addresses, date of birth, password, and payment information. It does not include data where the identity has been removed or otherwise anonymized (anonymous data).

In the course of our business, we collect and process personal data in different ways. We may collect personal data you give us directly but we also collect data by logging how you interact with our services. For example by using cookies on our Websites. We may also receive information from third parties who partner with us, as more fully described below.

The personal data we collect about you may include, but is not limited to: your name, email address, postal address, phone number, billing information, survey responses, booking details and other information you may provide about yourself to our Websites, and your IP address and web browser software. 

You can choose not to provide us with your personal data. However, in general, you need to provide us with certain information about you in order to take advantage of many features of the Websites.  For example, only registered members are able to post travel reviews, participate in discussion forums, email cactus content to themselves and others, access members-only newsletters and travel planning content, and enter surveys, contests, or sweepstakes. In addition, some information is also required in order for you to ask us a question or initiate other transactions on our Websites. We also collect personal data for security purposes.

Information that you provide us: as described below, we may receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way.

Information About Others: You will have the opportunity to provide contact and travel-related information for other people through our Websites. If you use the website on behalf of someone else, you will need to submit that individual's personal data. You must obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing us with their personal data. If another Cactus member grants you access to their data through a shared password, you should treat that information appropriately.

Information from Other Sources: We also may periodically obtain information about you from affiliated entities, business partners and other independent third-party sources and add it to other information about you. For example, if you visit Cactus from one of our affiliate business, and you have registered with that partner, then information about you that you have provided to that partner may be shared with us, such as contact information and demographic information. As another example, if you access third-party services, such as social media services, through our Websites or before coming to our Websites, we may collect information such as your username and other information made available to us through those services in accordance with the referring third party’s privacy policy. We will work with our existing partners and potential future partners to improve and personalize your use of our Websites in accordance with the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Automatic collection of information: We automatically collect some information from your computer or mobile device when you visit Cactus. For example, we collect your session data, including your IP address, the navigation software used, and the reference site. We may also collect information about your online activity, such as reviewed content, pages visited, and searches. We automatically collect this type of information to try to better understand your interests and preferences and to better personalize your experience.  We also collect personal data in order to help protect our site and other users from misuse.

Location information and other information from devices: When you use our Websites on a device, whether through mobile web or application, we will collect and use information about you in generally similar ways and for similar purposes as when you use the Cactus Website. In addition, we may collect certain information about your location if you have instructed your Device to send such information to the application via the privacy settings on that device, or if you have uploaded photos tagged with location information. For example, we may use your location to inform you of contacts, trade partners, warehouses near you. You can change the privacy settings of your device at any time in order to turn off the functionality to share location information with the application and/or the functionality to tag your photos with location information. Please note that turning off location sharing may affect certain features of our application or mobile experience. If you have any queries about the privacy settings of your device, we suggest you contact the manufacturer of your device or your mobile service provider for help.

 

3.  How we use your personal data

A. Specific purposes.

We use the personal data that we collect about you only for specific purposes this includes, but is not limited to, offer our services to you, to manage your registration and account, including your access to and use of our Websites and to document your reviews, photos, to notify you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, ask you to leave a review or take a survey, operate and improve our Websites and services, personalize your experience on our Websites, measure interest in and improve our business services, notify you about trade promotions with special offers, to let you complete a survey, protect, investigate and deter against the fraudulent or illicit activity, unauthorized or illegal activity, administer and protect our business and to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems.

 

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

With your consent.

Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

 

4.  Marketing

We want to make it easy for you to take advantage of trade opportunities on our Websites. One way we do this is by sending you email messages that contain information about your trade interest. For example, you search for specific product type on our Websites, we may send you an email about such products or other alternatives. We believe these emails will provide you with useful information about credible offers available through our sites.

You will receive trade advice messages from us if you have given your consent if you have requested or if you have not opted out of receiving trade advice.

Each time you receive an email of this type, you will be able to tell us if you no longer wish to receive them. You will be able to unsubscribe from each of those marketing communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link that you will find at the bottom of each communication you receive from Cactus.

Please note that we may continue to send you service communications, such as service and administrative messages related to your trade department. It is not possible to unsubscribe from these service communications.

 

5.  With whom we share your personal data

Cactus-global may share your information with other parties, including other group companies and the types of third parties listed below. For instance, if we sell or divest our business or any part of it, and your personal data relates to such sold or divested part of our business, or if we merge with another business, we will share your personal data with the new owner of the business or our merger partner, respectively.

Separately, if we are legally obliged to do so, we will share personal data to protect our customers, the site, as well as our company and our rights and property.

If you choose to create a profile on the cactus website, certain information in your profile will be publicly viewable and identifiable by clicking your screen name. You will have the ability to view your profile as members of the public will see it. Additionally, if you choose to participate in our member-to-member communications programs (e.g. Business to Business networks and private messaging), other Cactus-Global members may contact you by using Cactus-Global as an intermediary; however, Cactus-Global will not share your email address with any other members nor display it any public manner. All Cactus-Global members have the option to turn off the member-to-member communication features at any time.

Suppliers, including but not limited to producers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, brokers, traders, etc... Throughout Cactus-Global and its affiliated company sites ( Bush-King, Petroverseas, Rock-Ore, cactus Finance, Cactus Logistics, Land-Bank, Herbal-list, and Kitarch Systems), all products and services provided by third-party suppliers are described as such. Information that we share with suppliers to facilitate bookings will be treated according to applicable suppliers' privacy policies, except for payment information. We share payment information only when it is necessary for placing orders facilitated through or made on Cactus-Global, and we restrict suppliers' use of payment information for these purposes. In some instances, we will either direct your inquiry to a third party site or securely transmit your information to the supplier of the travel booking to complete the transaction. Please note that the supplier processes your payment, not Cactus-Global unless otherwise specified. You agree to review and be bound by the supplier's policies and procedures before purchasing through Cactus-Global. We encourage you to review the privacy policies, terms of use, and other policies of any travel supplier whose products and services you may purchase through Cactus-Global. Please note that these suppliers also may contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about you or your travel plans, to facilitate your travel bookings or for other purposes consistent with the practices described in their privacy policies and terms of use.

Third-party service providers who provide services or functions on our behalf, including business analytics, payment processing, customer service, marketing, public relations, distribution of surveys or sweepstakes programs, and fraud prevention. We may also authorize third-party service providers to collect information on our behalf, including, for example, as necessary to operate features of our Website or to facilitate the delivery of online advertising tailored to your interests. Third-party service providers have access to and may collect information only as needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose.

Business partners with whom we may offer products or services in conjunction. You can tell when a third party is involved in a product or service you have requested because their name will appear either with ours or separately. If you choose to access these optional services, we may share information about you, including your personal data, with those partners. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners.

Affiliated Websites. If you were referred to Cactus-Global from another website, we may share your registration information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and travel preferences with that referring website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website that referred you to Cactus-Global.

Companies belonging to our group. We may share your personal data within the Cactus-Global group of companies, as well as with our parent companies and domestic and international corporate affiliate companies and websites. This sharing enables us to provide you with information about products and services, both trade and others, which might interest you in accordance with your marketing preferences. To the extent that our parent company and corporate affiliates have access to your information, they will follow practices that are at least as restrictive as the practices described in this Privacy Policy. They also will comply with applicable laws governing the transmission of marketing communications and, at a minimum, allow you to choose whether or not you want to continue receiving such communications in any commercial email they send. The Cactus-Global group of companies are listed in the “Cactus Group ” section of our Website.

We also may share your information if we believe, in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary:

to comply with legitimate and enforceable subpoenas, court orders, or another legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us;

to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of Cactus Global, our customers or others and in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements or

in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation or asset sale or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal data about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information.

We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors our Website receives or the most popular hotels and holiday destinations. This information does not contain any personal data and is used to develop content and services we hope you will find of interest.

 

6.  How long we keep your personal data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or statutory reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means and the applicable legal requirements.

We may retain certain information subsequent to the closing of your account, for example, if it is necessary to fulfill our legal obligations or to exercise, to maintain security, to prevent fraud and abuse, and to defend or enforce our rights. If you choose to close your account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Website within 30 days.

 

7.  Cookies and other web technologies

We collect information via cookies and other similar technologies (such as web beacons). Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are stored by your internet browser. Cookies contain basic information about your use of the internet. Your browser sends these cookies back to our Website every time you visit it, so it can recognize your computer or mobile device and personalize and enhance your browsing experience.

8.  Your rights

You can check, supplement, and update the information you have provided by accessing your "Settings" section of your account. You may also terminate your Cactus-Global association by contacting us using the methods provided below.

If you decide to divorce your relationship with us at Cactus-Global, we will remove your personal data. Remember that once your account is closed, you will no longer be able to log in, access your personal information. If you save such payment details in your account on Cactus-Global, you will be able to add, delete, or modify that information at any time during which your account remains open in Account Settings.

You can change your marketing preferences at any time during which your account remains open through the Subscription page in your member account.

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right of access, the right of rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability and the right to object. Please find below more details and information on how and when you can exercise your rights. We will respond to your request within one month but have the right to extend this period with two months.

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

The right to request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. 

The right to request to correct your personal data if it is inaccurate. You may also supplement any incomplete personal data we have, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

The right to request deletion of your personal data if:

your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we collected or processed them; or

you withdraw your consent if the processing of your personal data is based on consent and no other legal ground exists; or

you object to the processing of your personal data and we do not have an overriding legitimate ground for processing; or

your personal data is unlawfully processed; or

your personal data has to be deleted for compliance with a legal obligation.

The right to object to the processing of your personal data. We will comply with your request unless we have a compelling overriding legitimate interest for processing or we need to continue processing your personal data to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

The right to restrict the processing of personal data, if:

the accuracy of your personal data is contested by you, for the period in which we have to verify the accuracy of the personal data; or

the processing is unlawful and you oppose the deletion of your personal data and request restriction; or

we no longer need your personal data for the purposes of the processing, but your personal data is required by you for legal claims; or

you have objected to the processing, for the period in which we have to verify overriding legitimate grounds.

The right to data portability. You may request us to receive the personal data that concern you. You may also request us to send this personal data to a third party, where feasible. You only have this right if it regards personal data you have provided us, the processing is based on consent or necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us, and the processing is done by automated means.

You can exercise several of your rights through the personal information section of your account. To exercise your other rights you can file a request by email to privacy@Cactus-Global.com.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights described in this Privacy Policy). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. In an effort to speed up our response, we may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request.

 

 

9.  How we protect your personal data

We want you to feel confident about using Cactus-Global Inc., and we are committed to protecting the personal data we collect. While no website can guarantee perfect security, we have implemented and maintain appropriate physical, administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect the personal data you provide us against unauthorized or unlawful access, use of disclosure and against accidental loss, damage, alteration or destruction.

For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal data, and they may do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your personal data between your system and ours, and between our system and those of the parties with whom we share sensitive information, and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your personal data.

 

 

10.  Information concerning minors

We do not knowingly collect data relating to minors. If a person whom we know is under 13 years of age sends us personal data, we will delete or destroy this information as soon as reasonably possible.

 

 

11.  External links

Our Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. If you access other websites from the links provided on our Website, the operators of those websites may collect or share information about you. This information will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from our Privacy Policy. We do not control these third-party websites and recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on those other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal data.

 

 

12.  International transfers

Your personal data may be stored or transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. When we store or transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, we take the following precautions to ensure that your personal data is properly protected.

Whenever we store or transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, we will do so in accordance with applicable law and we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards. Transfers of personal data are made:

to a country recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection; or

to a country that does not offer adequate protection but whose transfer has been governed by the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission or by implementing other appropriate cross-border transfer solutions to provide adequate protection.

By using our services, you understand that your personal data may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

 

13.  Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will note the date that revisions were last made to this Privacy Policy at the first page of this Privacy Policy, and any revisions will take effect upon posting. We will notify our members of material changes to this Privacy Policy by either sending a notice to the email address you provided us or by placing a notice on our Website. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time to review the most current version.

 

 

14.  How you can contact us

If you have any questions or complaints about the processing of your personal data by us, please contact us at Trade@Cactus-Global.com. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority about the way we process your personal data. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

Our full details are:​

Cactus-Global role in this respect is limited solely to being a contact person for questions on data protection from EU citizens and data protection supervisory authorities.  For the avoidance of doubt, Cactus-Global Commodities Group. cannot field other communications or legal processes on behalf of the Cactus-Global commodities group.

Call Recording and Monitoring

Please be aware that calls to and from Cactus-Global may be recorded. We may use the call recordings to monitor our customer service for quality or compliance purposes, to check the accuracy of the information you provide us, for fraud prevention purposes, or to provide training to our staff. We will retain the call recordings for as long as reasonably necessary to perform such activities and then delete them. Any personal data obtained from you during the call will be treated in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

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15.  Disclaimer

​The disclaimer describes the Terms and Conditions governing the use of Cactus' Website.

​Contents of this website including text, graphics, images, photographs, and any other information here made available, are property of Cactus and Cactus alone, and therefore are protected by copyright laws and the intellectual property laws.

​This website cannot be reproduced or copied in whole or part in any form or process, whether electronic, photographic or mechanic, without express written permission from Cactus.

The site user agrees not to use the website content in any way that could damage the good image of Cactus. By using the Cactus site, the user explicitly agrees not to engage in actions that could constitute defamation, fraud, violence, and other illegal activities.

​The user is only allowed to use the site's content for personal endeavors. Thus the use of our content for commercial purposes by way of distribution, modification, and alteration is strictly prohibited.

16:  The use of Cactus Content

​All information contained on this site is offered for information purposes only hence it is neither to be construed as advice nor does it establish any contractual binding.

​Also, Cactus makes no representations or warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of the website information. In no event will Cactus be responsible for damages of any nature whatsoever resulting from the use or reliance of the information in third-party websites accessed through hypertext links from this website.

 

17.  Compliant

Cactus-Global reminds its Global partners and associates that they should follow specific procedures when raising claims regarding the corporate activity of other partners and associates. ​These procedures provide guidance on how and when to file a claim, depending on the circumstances. Non-compliance with the procedures may prevent us from duly instructing a claim, thus potentially delaying the investigation of the claim and a decision being reached. In an extreme case, it could lead to the claim being time-barred.

Claims should always be submitted in writing and should be filed as close as possible to the event giving rise to the claim, ideally within 2 weeks of the event.

​All complaints duly received will be investigated by the corporation members, which reserves the right to require the complainant to provide further information upon request. A failure to do so may lead to the complaint being rejected. 

​The complainant will be advised of the outcome of the investigation, and the consequent decision, as soon as practicable.

​Complaints should be sent in writing to Trade@CACTUS-GLOBAL.com

                   

Any document issued by or on behalf of the Cactus-Global Commodities Group. must be signed and sealed with the company seal to make it legal. 

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