Data Protection Principles
We commit to adhering to the following data protection principles:
- Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: Our data processing activities are conducted on lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before processing personal data and provide information regarding processing upon request.
- Purpose Limitation: Our processing activities are aligned with the specific purposes for which personal data was collected.
- Data Minimization: We only collect and process the minimal amount of personal data necessary for any given purpose.
- Storage Limitation: We do not store personal data longer than necessary.
- Accuracy: We strive to ensure the accuracy of personal data.
- Integrity and Confidentiality: We take measures to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personal data.
Data Subject’s Rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
- Right to Information: You have the right to know if your personal data is being processed, what data is collected, its source, and the purpose and details of the processing.
- Right to Access: You have the right to access the data collected about you and request a copy of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You can request the correction or deletion of personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: Under certain circumstances, you can request that your personal data be erased from our records.
- Right to Restrict Processing: Under specific conditions, you can request the restriction of processing your personal data.
- Right to Object to Processing: In certain cases, such as direct marketing, you can object to the processing of your personal data.
- Right to Object to Automated Processing: You have the right to object to decisions made solely based on automated processing, including profiling, which significantly affects you.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to obtain your personal data in a machine-readable format or request a direct transfer from one processor to another where feasible.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: If we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide a reason. If you are not satisfied, please contact us.
- Right to Supervisory Authority Assistance: You have the right to seek help from a supervisory authority and pursue other legal remedies, including claiming damages.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw any given consent for processing your personal data.
Data We Gather
Information You Provide: This includes your email address, name, billing address, home address, etc. This data is essential for delivering a product/service or enhancing your customer experience. We store this information to enable you to comment or perform other activities on our website.
Automatically Collected Information: This includes data automatically stored by cookies and other session tools, such as your IP address and shopping history. This information helps improve your customer experience. Your activities on our website may be logged.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data to:
- Provide our services, such as account registration, delivering requested products/services, and communication regarding those products/services.
- Enhance your customer experience.
- Fulfill legal or contractual obligations.
- Analyze customer behavior via Google Analytics.
- Capture name and email through comment forms.
We process your personal data based on legitimate grounds and/or your consent.
Contractual Obligations: Processing personal data to identify you, provide services/products, send email updates when you subscribe, and allow you to comment.
Legitimate Interest: Analyzing and administering our client base to improve service quality, variety, and availability. Conducting client satisfaction surveys. Offering products/services similar to your purchasing history/browsing behavior.
Consent: Sending daily posts or weekly newsletters and other purposes for which we have obtained your consent.
We may process your personal data for additional purposes compatible with the original collection purpose, ensuring that:
- The link between purposes, context, and nature of the personal data is suitable for further processing.
- Further processing does not harm your interests.
- Appropriate safeguards are in place.
We will inform you of any further processing and purposes.
How We Secure Your Data
We prioritize the security of your personal data by using secure communication protocols (such as HTTPS), anonymizing, and pseudonymizing data where suitable. We monitor our systems for vulnerabilities and attacks.
While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We promise to notify appropriate authorities of data breaches and inform you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will take all reasonable measures to prevent security breaches and assist authorities if they occur.
If you have an account with us, you are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential.
Children
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. Our services are not targeted at children.
Cookies and Other Technologies We Use
We use cookies and similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track user movements, and collect information about users to personalize and enhance your experience.
Cookies: Tiny text files stored on your computer to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control cookies at the browser level, but disabling cookies may hinder certain functions.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Necessary Cookies: Required for essential website features, such as logging in. They do not collect personal information.
- Functionality Cookies: Provide convenient features like remembering your name and email in comment forms.
- Analytics Cookies: Track website and service use and performance.
- Advertising Cookies: Deliver relevant advertisements and limit the number of times you see them. Often linked to site functionality provided by other organizations.
By using our site, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies as described in this policy.