Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to MACHIVOC. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our platform (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Information We Collect
MACHIVOC operates as an industrial intelligence and sourcing platform. To facilitate procurement and supplier discovery, we may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal and business data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and title.
- Contact Data: includes business billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Professional Data: includes company name, job title, industry, and corporate verification documents submitted to the platform.
- Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, equipment searches, RFQ history, and supplier interactions.
3. How We Use Your Information
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 (e.g., facilitating a sourcing request).
- 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.
- To connect buyers with appropriate suppliers based on equipment requirements and location data.
- To improve our platform intelligence, search algorithms, and market reporting features.
4. Sharing Your Data
As a core function of the MACHIVOC platform, we share specific procurement requirements and relevant contact information with verified suppliers when you submit a Request for Quote (RFQ) or Sourcing Request. We may also share your personal data with:
- Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets.
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager at:
Email: support@machivoc.com