Privacy Policy
Use of your personal information
At Yakara Limited, we are committed to ensuring your privacy is protected. Please read the following policy to understand how we use and protect the information which you provide to us and we obtain about you.
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Yakara Ltd collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
- Visitors to our websites
- People who use our services, e.g. who subscribe to our newsletter or request a demonstration from us
- Job applicants.
Who are we?
We are Yakara Limited, a Scottish limited company, registration number SC156619.
Our website is operated and maintained by us, and we are responsible for the processing of your data. We are also the data controllers of your personal data. We have notified the Information Commissioner ‘s Office of our data processing activities and our registration number is Z1857359.
We regard your privacy as very important and any personal information and data which you provide to us will be dealt with in accordance with this Privacy Policy in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions of use of the Yakara website.
Our registered office is Yakara Ltd, 2 Anderson Place, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 5NP, United Kingdom Telephone 0131 510 0030; email info@yakara.com
Visitors to our website
When someone visits www.yakara.com, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.
We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
What information do we collect?
Personally submitted data
If you have asked for further information from us (for example have asked to watch a demonstration or download a document), we request your name and email address and potentially other non-specific demographic information, for example the name of our company.
How we use this information
To help us provide you with our products and services and for marketing purposes
Who do we share this information with?
We may disclose your information when we are legally required to do so, at the request of police, law enforcement or other Government authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with laws affecting our business, to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of proprietary information to protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our employees, our customers or others.
How long do we keep the information?
- Where you have given us information needed to help us provide you with our products or services, we will keep that information for as long as it takes us to provide those products or services
- Where you have given us your contact details, we will keep them for as long as we are entitled to send you marketing information
- We will keep other information about you if it is necessary for us to do so to comply with our legal obligations.
Data subject rights
Subject access requests
You have the right to know what personal data is held by us about you, this is the right of subject access request. Any request for information should be made in writing to us at marketing@yakara.com. You also have the right to ensure any data held on you is accurate, and you can request amendments to the data if it is incorrect.
Right to be forgotten
You also have the right to have personal data erased, this is referred to as ‘the right to be forgotten’. This right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances. Any requests should be made in writing to us.
Withdrawal
You have the right to remove consent for marketing activities
Security
We use appropriate, technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data, and against accidental loss of, or damage to, personal data. We also require our service providers to do likewise. Though we periodically review our security policies and implement changes from time to time, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
IP Addresses and Cookies
We may collect information about from where and how you access the website including your IP address. This is statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
We may store information about you using cookies. These are small files which are sent by us to your computer or other access device, which we can access when you visit our site in the future. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempts to find out the identities of those visiting www.yakara.com.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device you can do this through your browser settings; the ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
You can choose whether to opt out of certain cookies that are set when you use the Yakara website in your browser. Check your browser help for details.
Essential Cookies
This session cookie is essential for the proper functioning of the website. Essential cookies are automatically saved by your browser and are deleted when you leave the website.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
| cookie_notice_accepted | This can be true or false depending on the cookie options selected by the visitor. | This cookie is held for the duration of the visit. |
Marketing & Analytic Cookies
These cookies are used to help us measure and develop marketing campaigns for our products and services, and compile statistical reports on website activity. We evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimise the content of our website.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
| _CAN_BId | This is the User Identification cookie. This holds a unique (32-character) reference which identifies this visitor each time they return to your site | This cookie is held for a 10-year duration. In reality users upgrade their browsers (which clears their cookies) within this time. |
| CAN_FCld | This is the User Identification cookie. This holds a unique (32-character) reference which identifies this visitor each time they return to your site | This cookie is held for a 10-year duration. In reality users upgrade their browsers (which clears their cookies) within this time. |
| CAN_SId | This is the Session Identification cookie. This holds a unique (32-character) reference which allows CANDDi to relate all the current tracking to a single Session. | This cookie is held for 30-minutes |
| CAN_Store_xxx | These are temporary cookies which CANDDi uses to ensure that the data which has been captured is recorded and transmitted to the CANDDi servers. | These cookies are deleted after a positive response is received from the CANDDi tracking servers |
The information generated by these cookies, about your use of this website, includes:
- Your IP address
- Geographical location
- Your browser type and version
- The referral type
- Length of time spent on the website and web pages viewed
More information is available via the CANDDi cookies policy www.canddi.com/privacy/cookies/
Revoke Cookies
You can revoke consent at any time by clicking the “Revoke Cookie Consent” link found on the bottom banner of the Yakara website.
Job applicants
When individuals apply to work at Yakara, we will only use the information they supply to us to process their application and to monitor recruitment statistics. Where we want to disclose information to a third party, for example where we want to take up a reference, we will not do so without informing them beforehand unless the disclosure is required by law.