PRIVACY POLICY
Health & Wellness Media, address 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States of America (the “Company”), is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Therefore, in this privacy policy (the “Policy”) we explain what kind of personal data we collect and for what purposes, when providing you with our products and/or services (the “Services”), when you visit our website, and/or when you otherwise make contact with us.
In any case, all personal data collected by us are processed in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the EU General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), if applicable, and any other legal acts governing the protection of your personal data.
You may also contact us regarding all privacy related issues by email: [email protected]
This privacy policy forms an integral part of Terms and Conditions.
Any changes to this notice will be published in the website and, in case of material changes, we may inform you about such via email or by other means which we will deem the most fitting in a particular case.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT
Personal Information or personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Information about you that we have grouped together as follows:
Identification information (name, username or similar identifier, date of birth etc.)
Contact information (email address, phone numbers)
Device and technical information (IP address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and geographical location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology or other unique identifier (a set of numbers or characters that is assigned to your computer, mobile phone, or other device when you are on the Internet) for any computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device (any of which are referred to herein as a “Device”) used to access the Services)
Usage data (information about how you use our Websites, products and services, including all of the areas within our Websites that you visit or use and the time of day you visited the Websites, among other information)
Marketing information (relating to your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences)
Correspondence data (communication content and metadata associated with the communication that you send to us)
We do not collect any SPECIAL CATEGORIES of Personal Information about you (this includes details about for example your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We obtain the aforementioned data either directly from you or automatically (as you navigate through the Services, we may automatically collect technical, usage information about your tools, browsing actions and patterns).
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect about you, including Personal Information including, but not limited to: provide you with our products and services and related customer service, to process your registration and account creation with the Websites, to identify you as a user in our system, to provide you with information, products or services that you have requested or agreed to receive, to provide improved administration of our Websites and services, to process transactions you initiate, process payments and provide accurate billing and shipping, respond to your inquiries, to market our services, including recommending products/services that might be of interest to you, to improve our Websites, product and service offerings, to customize and tailor your experience on the Websites, for example, by displaying content that we think you might be interested in, to improve the quality of experience when you interact with our Website and Services for internal business purposes; to notify you about changes to our service, where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice, to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure, to perform other functions as described at the time of collection, with your consent, or as further described in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to use anonymous data for any purpose and disclose anonymous data to third parties in our sole discretion.
YOUR RIGHTS
Your principal rights under data protection law are the following:
the right to access data;
the right to rectification;
the right to erasure of your personal data;
the right to restrict processing of your personal data;
the right to object to processing of your personal data;
the right to data portability;
the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
the right to withdraw consent.
The right to access data. You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
The right to rectification. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data. Those circumstances include when: (i) the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; (ii) you withdraw consent to consent-based processing and there are no other legal basis to process data; (iii) you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection laws; (iv) the processing is for direct marketing purposes; or (v) the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. Such exclusions include when processing is necessary: (i) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; (ii) for compliance with our legal obligation; or (iii) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are when: (i) you contest the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; (iii) we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and (iv) you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data, however we will only further process such data in any other way: (i) with your consent; (ii) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; (iii) for the protection of the rights of another person; or (iv) for reasons of important public interest.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
The right to data portability. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
consent; or
performance of a contract or steps to be taken at your request prior to entering into a contract, necessary to enter into such,
you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
In addition to specific measure provided in this Section or the website you may also exercise any of the rights indicated herein by contacting us by email: [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
In case your personal data is transferred, we will take necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy and we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with the legal requirements applicable to the personal data. This can be done in a number of different ways, for example:
– a country is approved by the European Commission as having an adequate level of protection;
– the recipient has signed or contains in its terms of service (service agreement) the standard contractual clauses (SCC) adopted by the European Commission (for more information please see here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en);
– special permission has been obtained from a supervisory authority.
We may transfer personal data by taking other measures if it ensures appropriate safeguards as indicated in the relevant laws or on the basis of derogations.
PERSONAL DATA KEEPING
We will keep your personal data for as long as it is needed for the purposes for which your data was collected and processed, but not longer than it is required by the applicable laws and regulations, including for the purposes to comply with any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting obligations. If the legislation does not provide any applicable data retention period, it shall be determined by us, taking into account the legitimate purpose of the data retention, the legal basis and the principles of lawful processing of personal data. Personal data that is important for the contractual relationship between you and Company is normally stored for as long as the contractual relationship lasts and thereafter for a maximum period of 10 years after the relationship.
If you do not enter into a contract with us, the personal data are normally stored for a maximum of 36 months. We may retain your personal data for a longer period when:
it is necessary for the Company to be able to defend itself against existing or threatened claims or to exercise its rights, or for the proper resolution of dispute, complaint or claim;
there is a suspicion of illegal activity;
it is required by applicable laws.
Upon expiration of the retention period, we will delete and/or reliably and irrevocably depersonalize your data as soon as possible, within a reasonable time required to perform such action.
PERSONAL INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your personal data to the recipients of the following categories:
public authorities, institutions, organisations, courts and other third parties, but only upon request and only when required by applicable laws, or in cases and under procedures provided for by applicable laws, e. g. for the purposes to secure and/or defend Company’s legitimate interests;
third parties providing services to the Company including providers of legal, financial, auditing, tax, business management, personnel administration, accounting, advertising (including online advertising), direct marketing, communications, data centers, hosting, cloud and/or other services. In each case, we provide such third parties with only as much data as necessary to provide their services. Service providers engaged by us may process your personal data only in accordance with our instructions and may not use them for other purposes;
third parties for the purpose of performance of the contract concluded with you;
our affiliate companies – i.e., other companies belonging to the same group;
third parties, when the Company intends to enter into a business sale transaction and/or to perform legal and/or financial due diligence of the Company prior to such transaction;
other persons with your consent.
COOKIES
Cookies are small textual files containing identifier that is sent by a web server to your web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server
In the website we use cookies of three main types, for the following purposes:
Required cookies – used to ensure proper performance of the website, security of customers and their data, provision of high-quality services;
Functional cookies – used to enhance the website user experience, analyse the use of the system and in accordance to such improve the provision of services;
Advertising cookies – used to observer user online behaviour and optimize marketing campaigns according to such information.
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We may use:
Google Analytics cookies to observe our website traffic. Cookies used for this purpose help us detect website errors as well as measure website bandwidth. You can view the privacy policy of Google Analytics here;
Youtube cookies to display in our website content uploaded in Youtube. Cookies used for this purpose help us maintain integrity, create informative and dynamic website. You can view the privacy policy of Youtube here;
Twitter cookies to display in our website content posted in Twitter. Cookies used for this purpose help us maintain integrity, create informative and dynamic website. You can view the privacy policy of Twitter here;
Google Maps cookies to, if the user permits, determine users location. Cookies used for this purpose help us adapt website settings in accordance to user’s location and improve user experience in our website. You can view the privacy policy of Google Maps here;
Doubleclick cookies to control the display of ads to our users. Cookies used for this purpose help us distinguish users that already use our services and reduce or stop displaying our ads to such users. You can view the privacy policy of Doubleclick here;
Facebook cookies to manage the display of ads to our users. Cookies used for this purpose help us distinguish users that already use our services and reduce or stop displaying our ads to such users. You can view the privacy policy of Facebook here;
Google Tag Manager cookies to control advertising cookies. Cookies used for this purpose help us properly distribute ads to users. You can view the privacy policy of Google Tag Manager here;
Hotjar cookies to observe how users use our website. Cookies used for this purpose help us observe the performance of the website and analyse how we can improve our website. You can view the privacy policy of Hotjar here;
Visual Website Optimiser cookies that are used for collecting information on how visitors interact with the pages on website. You can view the privacy policy of Visual Website Optimiser here.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via information provided in the relevant browser website, for example Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites which are not operated by the Company. When you decide to click on these links and be led to such websites, we recommend familiarising yourself with their privacy policies or notices, cookie policies and/or other documents. The Company assumes no responsibility for the content, policies or practices of such third-party websites or services.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY ADDENDUM
If you are a California consumer or resident, in addition to the information provided in this privacy policy, you may have the additional rights and information provided to you under the California Consumer Privacy Act:
(a) We do not knowingly sell personal information nor share it with third parties for direct marketing purposes. However, if we do so in the future, you will be notified and have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information;
(b) We will retain, use, or disclose personal information we collect or processes on your behalf, only for the purposes described in this privacy policy, and will notify you if this changes.
(c) You have the right to not be subject to discrimination if you exercise any of your rights.
We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals.
CHILDREN PERSONAL DATA
The Websites are not designed for, or directed to, children under the age of 18 and we do not intentionally collect information about anyone under the age of 13 on the Websites. If we discover that it has inadvertently collected Personal Information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Information from a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected]
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We regularly review this Policy and reserve the right to modify it at any time in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Any changes will take effect immediately upon their publication on our website.
Please review this Policy from time to time to stay updated regarding any changes.
CONTACT US
You may contact us by writing an e-mail to [email protected]
Company’s details:
Health & Wellness Media
95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94103
United States of America