Effective December 2024

1. Introduction

At VICTTOR IZIDOR LIMITED, the corporate team for the www.WorldPhDs.com , we are committed to transparency by preserving the trust reposed, when we obtain and use your personal data as part of our Services as defined in our Privacy Notice. When users access our website, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to offer a personalised, effective, and safe experience.

2. What are Website Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored in a user’s web-browser or device by the website’s server, composed of a string of information, that distinctively identifies each user’s device. These cookies keep track of pages requested or visited and information accessed on our site. In addition, 3^rd parties such affiliates and service providers, may also place cookies in your browser for the purpose of marketing and delivering adverts.

2.1       Types of Cookies

The types of cookies used are session and persistent cookies. A session cookie is a cookie temporarily placed in your web browser for the duration of your visit to our site, after which it is deleted once you leave the site. A persistent cookie on the other hand remains in your web browser and is initialized each time you visit out site.

3. Cookies we use and their purposes

In the provision of our Services, we use the following cookies on our site for the following purposes:

1. Necessary cookies: Cookies used to protect the security of our Site and the confidentiality your personal data, while preserving the basic functions of our site. For example, we use necessary cookies to for authentication purposes, to identify you each time you visit our site.

1. Functional/ Preference cookie: We use this cookie to personalise your experience when you visit our website, by remembering your last visit as well as user settings determined by you from time to time. In essence it used to provide customised content on our site.

1. Marketing cookie: We use this cookie to provide targeted marketing adverts to you based on your interests, both within our site and the site of our partners and affiliates.

1. Analytical/Statistical cookie: We use this cookie to analyse user behaviour to gain insights about the performance of our site and the provision of Services. This is also used to measure the number of visits to our website.

4. Cookies used by our Service providers and business partners

We may partner with third party companies. Where we do, we would place their details on our Site. Third party companies may use first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyse and track users’ use of the Site, to provide personalised internet-based adverts and website analytics. By accessing our Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors, for example payment gateway companies and other relevant vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy, as the processing of your data in these circumstances shall be subject to their respective privacy policies.

5. Cookie Management

On your first visit to our site, a cookie banner will pop-up requiring you to provide consent for the placement of cookies in your browser, set in accordance with this cookie policy. However, if do not approve of our default cookie settings, the cookie banner provides the user with alternative choices of either modifying the cookie settings prior to providing consent by accepting or rejecting cookies altogether via the opt out function.

While as a user you may be able to block both 1^st party and 3^rd party cookies through your browser setting, exercising such right will profoundly affect the proper functioning of our site, resulting in unsatisfactory user experience.

6. Changes to Cookie Policy

In view of possible future changes to legal and regulatory compliance requirements, we will be effecting changes to our policy from time to time as the compliance landscape demands, without notice to you. As a user you, you are responsible for keeping abreast with changes to our policy.

7. Third-party sites

We may provide links to third party websites that may place cookies in your web browser when you visit our website, however we do not bear responsibility for the collection and process of your personal data by those sites. The process of your personal data by those websites shall be governed entirely by their respective privacy and cookie policies. It shall be your responsibility a user, to visit their websites and be informed of their data processing practices.

8. Cookie Preferences

You can change or modify your cookie settings on our website at any time, including the first times that you entered our website.