This privacy policy
(“Policy”) describes how the personally identifiable information (“Personal
Information”) you may provide on the www.adinasbrands.com website
(“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services
(collectively, “Services”) is collected, protected and used. It also describes
the choices available to you regarding our use of your Personal Information and
how you can access and update this information. This Policy is a legally
binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and ADINASBRANDS. (ADINASBRANDS)
(“ADINASBRANDS. (ADINASBRANDS)”, “we”, “us” or “our”). By accessing and using
the Website and Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and
agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. This Policy does not apply to
the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals
that we do not employ or manage.
AUTOMATIC COLLECTION OF
INFORMATION
When you open the Website,
our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data
may include information such as your device’s IP address, browser type and
version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage
you were visiting before you came to the Website and Services, pages of the
Website and Services that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information
you search for on the Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.
Information collected
automatically is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish
statistical information regarding the usage and traffic of the Website and
Services. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way
that would identify any particular user of the system.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION
You can access and use the
Website and Services without telling us who you are or revealing any
information by which someone could identify you as a specific, identifiable
individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the features on the Website,
you may be asked to provide certain Personal Information (for example, your
name and e-mail address). We receive and store any information you knowingly
provide to us when you create an account, make a purchase, or fill any online
forms on the Website. When required, this information may include the
following:
You can choose not to
provide us with your Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take
advantage of some of the features on the Website. Users who are uncertain about
what information is mandatory are welcome to contact us.
USE AND PROCESSING OF
COLLECTED INFORMATION
In order to make the
Website and Services available to you, or to meet a legal obligation, we need
to collect and use certain Personal Information. If you do not provide the
information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the
requested products or services. Some of the information we collect is directly
from you via the Website and Services. However, we may also collect Personal
Information about you from other sources such as social media, emails, etc. Any
of the information we collect from you may be used for the following purposes:
Processing your Personal
Information depends on how you interact with the Website and Services, where
you are located in the world and if one of the following applies: (i) you have
given your consent for one or more specific purposes; this, however, does not
apply, whenever the processing of Personal Information is subject to California
Consumer Privacy Act or European data protection law; (ii) provision of
information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or
for any pre-contractual obligations thereof; (iii) processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which you are subject; (iv) processing is
related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise
of official authority vested in us; (v) processing is necessary for the
purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.
Note that under some
legislations we may be allowed to process information until you object to such
processing (by opting out), without having to rely on consent or any other of
the following legal bases below. In any case, we will be happy to clarify the
specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether
the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual
requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
BILLING AND PAYMENTS
In case of services
requiring payment, we request credit card or other payment account information,
which will be used solely for processing payments. Your purchase transaction
data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.
After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted. Where
necessary for processing future payments and subject to your prior consent,
your financial information will be stored in encrypted form on secure servers
of our reputed payment gateway service provider who is beholden to treating
your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. All direct payment
gateways adhere to the latest security standards as managed by the PCI Security
Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard,
American Express and Discover. Sensitive and private data exchange happens over
a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital
signatures, and the Website and Services are also in compliance with PCI
vulnerability standards in order to create as secure of an environment as
possible for Users. Scans for malware are performed on a regular basis for
additional security and protection.
MANAGING INFORMATION
You are able to delete
certain Personal Information we have about you. The Personal Information you
can delete may change as the Website and Services change. When you delete
Personal Information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised Personal
Information in our records for the duration necessary to comply with our
obligations to our affiliates and partners, and for the purposes described
below. If you would like to delete your Personal Information or permanently
delete your account, you can do so on the settings page of your account on the
Website or simply by contacting us.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Depending on the requested
Services or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide any service you
have requested, we may contract with other companies and share your information
with your consent with our trusted third parties that work with us, any other
affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to assist in the operation of the
Website and Services available to you. We do not share Personal Information
with unaffiliated third parties. These service providers are not authorized to
use or disclose your information except as necessary to perform services on our
behalf or comply with legal requirements. We may share your Personal
Information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies
are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies with respect to
Personal Information. These third parties are given Personal Information they
need only in order to perform their designated functions, and we do not
authorize them to use or disclose Personal Information for their own marketing
or other purposes.
We will disclose any
Personal Information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by
law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, and when we
believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect
your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a
government request.
In the event we go through
a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or
sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account, and Personal
Information will likely be among the assets transferred.
RETENTION OF INFORMATION
We will retain and use
your Personal Information for the period necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements unless a longer
retention period is required or permitted by law. We may use any aggregated
data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update
or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. Once the
retention period expires, Personal Information shall be deleted. Therefore, the
right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right
to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention
period.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
Depending on your
location, data transfers may involve transferring and storing your information
in a country other than your own. You are entitled to learn about the legal
basis of information transfers to a country outside the European Union or to
any international organization governed by public international law or set up
by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken
by us to safeguard your information. If any such transfer takes place, you can
find out more by checking the relevant sections of this Policy or inquire with
us using the information provided in the contact section.
THE RIGHTS OF USERS
You may exercise certain
rights regarding your information processed by us. In particular, you have the
right to do the following: (i) you have the right to withdraw consent where you
have previously given your consent to the processing of your information; (ii)
you have the right to object to the processing of your information if the
processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent; (iii) you have
the right to learn if information is being processed by us, obtain disclosure
regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the
information undergoing processing; (iv) you have the right to verify the
accuracy of your information and ask for it to be updated or corrected; (v) you
have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your
information, in which case, we will not process your information for any
purpose other than storing it; (vi) you have the right, under certain
circumstances, to obtain the erasure of your Personal Information from us;
(vii) you have the right to receive your information in a structured, commonly
used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it
transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is
applicable provided that your information is processed by automated means and
that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract which you are part
of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO
PROCESSING
Where Personal Information
is processed for the public interest, in the exercise of an official authority
vested in us or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us, you
may object to such processing by providing a ground related to your particular
situation to justify the objection. You must know that, however, should your
Personal Information be processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object
to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn,
whether we are processing Personal Information for direct marketing purposes,
you may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
UNDER GDPR
If you are a resident of
the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights and ADINASBRANDS..
(ADINASBRANDS) aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend,
delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. If you wish to be
informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be
removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have
the following data protection rights:
You have the right to
complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your
Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data
protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
In addition to the rights
as explained in this Policy, California residents who provide Personal
Information (as defined in the statute) to obtain products or services for
personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us,
once a calendar year, information about the Personal Information we shared, if
any, with other businesses for marketing uses. If applicable, this information
would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and
addresses of those businesses with which we shared such personal information
for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in the current
year will receive information about the prior year). To obtain this information
please contact us.
HOW TO EXERCISE THESE
RIGHTS
Any requests to exercise
your rights can be directed to ADINASBRANDS. (ADINASBRANDS) through the contact
details provided in this document. Please note that we may ask you to verify
your identity before responding to such requests. Your request must provide
sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person you are
claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person.
You must include sufficient details to allow us to properly understand the
request and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you
with Personal Information unless we first verify your identity or authority to
make such a request and confirm that the Personal Information relates to you.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
We do not knowingly
collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are
under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Information through the
Website and Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their
children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their
children never to provide Personal Information through the Website and Services
without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the
age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us through the Website and
Services, please contact us. You must also be at least 16 years of age to
consent to the processing of your Personal Information in your country (in some
countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
COOKIESv
The Website and Services
use “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text
file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be
used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you.
We may use cookies to
collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate the
Website and Services. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most
web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you
may not be able to fully experience the features of the Website and Services.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit internetcookies.org
DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
Some browsers incorporate
a Do Not Track feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want
to have your online activity tracked. Tracking is not the same as using or
collecting information in connection with a website. For these purposes, tracking
refers to collecting personally identifiable information from consumers who use
or visit a website or online service as they move across different websites
over time. The Website and Services do not track its visitors over time and
across third party websites. However, some third party sites may keep track of
your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to
tailor what they present to you.
ADVERTISEMENTS
We may display online
advertisements and we may share aggregated and non-identifying information
about our customers that we or our advertisers collect through your use of the
Website and Services. We do not share personally identifiable information about
individual customers with advertisers. In some instances, we may use this
aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements
to the intended audience.
We may also permit certain
third party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of
interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on
the Website. These companies may deliver ads that might place cookies and otherwise
track user behavior.
EMAIL MARKETING
We offer electronic
newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any time. We are
committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential and will not disclose
your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the information
use and processing section or for the purposes of utilizing a third party
provider to send such emails. We will maintain the information sent via e-mail
in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
In compliance with the
CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from us will clearly state who the e-mail is
from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. You may choose
to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe
instructions included in these emails or by contacting us. However, you will
continue to receive essential transactional emails.
LINKS TO OTHER RESOURCES
The Website and Services
contain links to other resources that are not owned or controlled by us. Please
be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
resources or third parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the
Website and Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every
resource that may collect Personal Information.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We secure information you
provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative,
technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized
access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal Information in its
control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or
wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your
Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy
limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security,
integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between
you and the Website and Services cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such
information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third
party, despite best efforts.
DATA BREACH
In the event we become
aware that the security of the Website and Services has been compromised or
users Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a
result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or
fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, including,
but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to and
cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we
will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that
there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if
notice is otherwise required by law. When we do, we will post a notice on the
Website, send you an email, mail you a letter.
CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS
We reserve the right to
modify this Policy or its terms relating to the Website and Services from time
to time at our discretion and will notify you of any material changes to the
way in which we treat Personal Information. When we do, we will revise the
updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to you in
other ways at our discretion, such as through the contact information you have
provided. Any updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon
the posting of the revised policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued
use of the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Policy
(or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to
those changes. However, we will not, without your consent, use your Personal
Information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time
your Personal Information was collected.
ACCEPTANCE OF THIS POLICY
You acknowledge that you
have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing
and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you
do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to
access or use the Website and Services.
CONTACTING US
If you would like to
contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us
concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal
Information, you may do so via email at support@AdinasBrands.com
Last updated on September
18th, 2023.