Cookies and privacy

Vortex Centrum Limited is registered with the UK's Data Protection Commissioner's Office.

Vortex Centrum Limited provides data services for The Financial Crime Forum Limited which is also registered with the Commissioner's Office. 

These notices refer to both companies. 

Cookies

We do not set any persistent cookies except one called "Klaro" which records your cookies preferences. 

We do not set any tracking cookies. We do set one session cookie that records your position and movement within the site. This is an essential feature without which the site will not work properly.

We do not collect or store any information relating to you other than your IP address which is required for tracing unlawful or improper activity. However, because we do not accept registrations or memberships, we do not know who the IP address relates to. 

Third party cookies

If you click on a link outside VortexCentrum.com or the website it hosts, we have no control over any cookies that might be placed by the destination site. You should ensure that your browser settings give you the level of protection you choose. 

Personal information

Across our sites, we provide information and services to both corporations and individuals. The standards of privacy attached to individuals exceeds that required for business purposes. We think that's wrong and we provide the same privacy to people working in companies as we do to individuals in a personal capacity.  Importantly, we do not collect any information that we do not need in order to provide our services or to respond to enquiries about our services.  We do not apply any data analytics software. 

Purchasing

When you purchase any product or service from Vortex Centrum or The Financial Crime Forum payments are processed by a third party. We do not receive or see the information relating to the financial transaction. We will receive your email address, physical address and telephone number may be collected by us, or by the payment provider and/or product supplier for the purposes of invoicing and transaction monitoring. We undertake not to use that information for marketing or any other purpose. We further undertake not to disclose that information to any third party except under lawful authority e.g. a court order. 

Mailing lists

We operate a number of double opt-in mailing lists. Unconfirmed addresses are removed from the list and addresses that have frequent bounces are removed. You may remove your email address at any time. We do not collect names, addresses or phone numbers in mailing lists. 

Comments

We do not allow comments on any of our websites. We have no control over comments relating to our content on social media e.g. YouTube or LinkedIn. 

If any issue arises in connection with the matters set out in this notice, please submit and enquiry using the Enquiry form (link in the footer.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Cookies and Privacy

In this page:

...you will learn what cookies we set, why we set them, what they do and how long they persist and whether the site will work if you block them..

Essential cookies:

Essential cookies persist for 30 days. These include logins and page visits and are necessary for the effective functioning of this site.

We do not store personal information in cookies. The cookie relates to the session in your browser. If you close your browser or delete stored cookies, then the record of your previous visit will be lost.

Analytical cookies:

We place a cookie that records the country and IP address of visitors. This is to provide information as to site traffic. The cookie does not identify individual users. This cookie persists in your browser only for your session but the data it collects is retained in our records. As it has no relation to any individual, it is not considered personal data under e.g. GDPR. Note that analytical cookies are placed by software entirely under our control. There are no cookies set by any third party e.g. Google or Facebook.

You may delete these cookies at any time but in the case of essential cookies, the site may not work as intended without them.

You may block these cookies in your browser but in the case of essential cookies, the site may not work as intended. In the case of analytical cookies, the information is useful to us for identifying e.g. server loads and the activity by visitors but the performance of the site will not be affected if you block them.

Third party cookies:

We do not usually carry any third party advertising that sets cookies. The only exception to this is amazon group websites and over which we have no control. We may, from time to time carry advertising delivered through our own systems which may set cookies as described above.

We do, of course, have a relationship with our payment services provider and that company, Stripe, sets cookies over which we have no control. Those cookies are essential while you are effecting a transaction but may be safely deleted once the transaction is complete.