Privacy Policy
OUR COMMITMENT TO PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to us. To
better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used.
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us here if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your personal data and we will gladly assist you.
By using this site or/and our
services, you consent to the processing of your Personal Data as described in
this Privacy Policy.
Table
of Contents
- Definitions used in this Policy
- Data protection principles we follow
- What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
- What Personal Data we gather about you
- How we use your Personal Data
- Who else has access to your Personal Data
- How we secure your data
- Information about cookies
- Contact information
Definitions
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – eileenbhahn.com
Data
Protection Principles
We promise to follow the following
data protection principles:
- Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before processing personal data. We will provide you information regarding processing upon request.
- Processing is limited to the purpose. Our processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
- Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
- Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your Personal Data for longer than needed.
- We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
- We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.
Data
Subject’s Rights
The Data Subject has the following
rights:
- Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed, what data is gathered, from where it is obtained, and why and by whom it is processed.
- Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you, including your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
- Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
- Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data.
- Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
- Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one processor to another.
- Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
- Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
- Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for processing of your Personal Data.
If you have an account on this site,
or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the
Personal Data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any Personal Data we hold about you. This
does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or
security purposes.
To do so, please submit a request here.
Data
We Gather
Information you have provided us
with.This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address,
home address, etc. — mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a
product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the
information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other
activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name
and e-mail address.
Information automatically collected
about you.This includes information that is automatically stored
by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address, your contact
history (if there is any), etc. This information is used to improve your
customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our
website, your activities may be logged.
Information from our partners. We
gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have
legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you
have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other
legal grounds.
Information that is publicly
available. We might gather further information about you that is publicly
available.
How
We Use Your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in order
to enhance your customer experience; fulfill an obligation under law or
contract; and provide our service to you. For example, registering your
account, providing you with other products and services that you have
requested, providing you with promotional items at your request and
communicating with you in relation to those products and services,
communicating and interacting with you, and notifying you of changes to any
services.
We use your Personal Data on
legitimate grounds and/or with your consent. On the grounds of entering
into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we process your Personal
Data for the following purposes:
- to identify you;
- to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product; and
- to communicate either for sales or invoicing.
On the grounds of legitimate
interest, we process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to send you personalized offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
- to administer and analyze our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/services offered; and
- to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction.
As long as you have not informed us
otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same
to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent, we process your
Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners); and
- for other purposes we have asked previously your consent for.
We process your Personal Data in
order to fulfill obligation rising from law, and/or use your Personal Data for
options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data
gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this
Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other
information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or
other obligations deriving from law, but no longer than is absolutely
necessary.
We might process your Personal Data
for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with
the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will
ensure that:
- the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further processing;
- the further processing would not harm your interests; and
- there would be appropriate safeguard for processing.
We do not share your personal data
with strangers. Personal Data about you is, in some cases, provided to our
trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you
possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data only with
trusted third-parties, and will only work with processing partners who are able
to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data.
Connected third parties:
- YouTube
- Google Analytics
- Mailchimp
We value your privacy. We therefore
will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your
consent. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials
when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third
parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
How
We Secure Your Data
We do our best to keep your Personal
Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data
(such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We
monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. We offer the
use of a secure server. All supplied information is transmitted via Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) technology only to be accessible by those authorized with
special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information
confidential.
Even though we try our best we
cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify
suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a
threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to
prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, note
that you have to keep your username and password secret.
Children
We are in compliance with the
requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not
collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website,
products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old
or older.
Cookies
and Other Technologies We Use
We use cookies and/or similar
technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’
movements, and collect information about users. This is done in order to
personalize and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored
on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites
work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your
cookies at the browser level.
Currently we operate an ‘implied
consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If
you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should
delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using
your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome,
“InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari,
etc.). However, choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain
functions. Learn more about cookies here.
We use cookies for the following
purposes:
- Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
- Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
- Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
- Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
We use WordPress to store basic
data on your interactions with our website, and whether you have logged into
WordPress. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you
(if you are a registered user), and what you’ve put in the shopping cart. These
we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are
disabled then various functionalities on the site will be broken. More
information on session cookies can be found here.
We
use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own
Privacy Policy, which you can review here. If you’d like to
opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google
Analytics opt-out page.
Other
third party apps that use cookies – analytics, affiliate links, social sharing,
etc.
We use other third party cookies
that are set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on
this site. This includes sharing buttons across the site, which allow visitors
to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Pinterest, Google+, and LinkedIn. In order to implement these buttons,
and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are
scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these
sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all
around the internet, including on this website.
You should check the respective
policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information
and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
You can remove cookies stored in
your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some
3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Contact
Information
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us here if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
Changes
to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made June 7th, 2019.
