- smartpurchaseonline PRIVACY POLICIESLAST UPDATED: AUGUST 13, 2020This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how smartpurchaseonline (“Company”, “we”, and “our”) processes, collects, uses and shares personal information when you use this website {$site} (the “Site”). Please read the information below carefully so that you can understand our practices regarding how we handle your personal information and how we will process it.
PURPOSE OF PROCESSING
What is personal data?
We collect information about you in various forms, including personal data. As defined in this Policy, “personal data” as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation includes any information that, whether or not combined with other data that we collect about you, identifies you as an individual, including for example your name, postcode, email address and telephone number.
Why do we need this personal information?
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data to provide you with access to the website. If you registered with us, you will have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, such as purchasing our products or viewing our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You retain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to us using your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our website.
COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We collect information about you in the following ways: Information you give us includes:
• The personal data you provide when you register to use our website, including your name, address, email address, telephone number, username, password and demographic information;
• The personal data that may be contained in any comments or other postings you make on our website;
• Personal data you provide in our affiliate program or other promotions we run on our website;
• Personal data you provide when you report a problem with our website or when you need customer support;
• Personal data you provide when you make purchases on our website;
• Personal data you provide when you contact us by phone, email or otherwise.Information we collect automatically. We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our website. For example, when you visit our website, we log your computer or mobile device name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before coming to our website, the pages you viewed and how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our website. We collect information about you using cookies.
COOKIES
What are cookies?
We may collect information from you using "cookies". Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We may use both cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website.
We use two types of cookies: First-party cookies placed by us on your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognise you when you return to our website; and third-party cookies, which are from services provided by third parties on our website, and which may be used to recognise your computer or mobile device when you visit our website and other websites.
Cookies we use
Our website uses the following cookies, as described below:
Type of cookies and their purpose
Essential cookies
These cookies are necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they may allow you to log in to the member area, or to load content on our website quickly. Without these cookies, many of the services available on our website may not function properly, and we only use these cookies to provide you with that service.
Functional cookies
This cookie allows us to remember choices you have made on our website, such as language preferences, login details, and other choices you have made that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to remember all the choices you have made in order to provide a more personalized experience for you, without you having to re-enter your details on our website.
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our website and how users use and navigate the website. The information collected does not identify any individual user. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages that users visit, possible websites they have visited previously and other similar information. We use this information to improve and monitor our website activity.
We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. They are only used to improve the way our website works. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/ analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
Learn more about how Google protects your data here:
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
You can prevent the use of this Google Analytics cookie in your browser by installing an extension on Google Chrome, you can download this extension here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GBAdvertising cookies
These cookies analyze how you browse the site so that we can show you advertisements that are likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information from your browsing history to show you relevant third-party advertisements based on your interests, with your permission. You can disable cookies that save your browsing history by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices . If you choose to remove these types of cookies, you will still see adverts, but they will not be relevant to your interests.
Social media cookies
- smartpurchaseonline PRIVACY POLICIESLAST UPDATED: AUGUST 13, 2020This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how smartpurchaseonline (“Company”, “we”, and “our”) processes, collects, uses and shares personal information when you use this website {$site} (the “Site”). Please read the information below carefully so that you can understand our practices regarding how we handle your personal information and how we will process it.
These cookies are used when you share information on social media, or otherwise access our content through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
Disabling cookies
You can remove or reject cookies through your browser settings. To do this, we recommend that you follow the instructions provided by your browser (you can usually find this information in your browser’s “settings” under “help” or “tools”). Most browsers automatically accept cookies until you change your browser settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, your experience on our website will not be as enjoyable. For example, we may not recognize your computer or mobile device and you may have to log in every time you visit our website.
ADVERTISING
We may use third parties to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may collect information such as browser type, time and date, type of ad clicked on this and other websites in order to show you ads that are more relevant to you. These companies typically use their systems to collect this information, which is subject to their own privacy policies.
USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
• to maintain and improve our website, products and services;
• to manage your account, including communications we have with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our website;
• to operate and administer our affiliate program and other promotions that you may participate in on our website;
• to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
• to send you information, including technical information, updates, security alerts and support;
• with your consent, to send you marketing emails about promotions and other news, including information about our products or services offered by us or our affiliates. You may stop receiving this information at any time; in all our emails you will always have an option to unsubscribe. Even if you opt out of our mailing list, we may still send you non-marketing emails, including emails about any account you have with us (if you have one) or business dealings you have with us;
• to process payments you have made on our website;
• when we believe it is necessary and appropriate (a) to comply with the law (b) to comply with legal requests and legal process, including requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect the rights, privacy, and safety of you and others.
• to analyze and study services;
• as described below under “Sharing your personal data”.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data in the following ways:
• To third parties designated by you. We may share your data with third parties where you have given your consent.
• Services provided by third parties. We may share your personal data with third parties who perform certain services such as (data analysis, payment processing, customer support, sending email marketing and other similar services).
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to third party websites. This Policy does not cover the privacy policies of third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these websites, their features, or their privacy policies. Please read the privacy policies of these third party websites before submitting any information.
USER GENERATED CONTENT
You may share your personal data with us when you submit and generate content on our website, including blog comments, support messages on our website. Please be aware that any information you publish on our website becomes public knowledge and will be accessible to all users of our website, including visitors. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to make your personal data, or any other information, public on our website. Any personal information you publish on our website will not be private or confidential.
If you provide us with a review or comment, we may make that information public on our website.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at, and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other countries. By accepting this privacy policy, you agree to the transfer, storage and processing of your data. We will take all necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated as securely as possible and in accordance with our policies.
SECURITY
We always strive to take all technical and administrative measures to protect your data as securely as possible. Unfortunately, no system is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the complete security of your data. If you believe that your data is no longer secure with us (for example, access to your account has been compromised), please contact us immediately and report the problem.
RETENTION
We will only retain your personal information for 30 days unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
OR
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary and permitted by you to enable you to use our website until you close your account or terminate your subscription, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
OUR POLICY TOWARDS CHILDREN
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided personal data on our website without their consent, they should contact us immediately. We will delete all such data as quickly as possible.
YOUR RIGHTS
• Opt-out. You can contact us at any time to opt-out of; (i) marketing emails (ii) our collection of sensitive personal data (iii) any new processing of personal data we may undertake.
• Access. You can access the information we hold about you at any time by contacting us.
• Amend. You can also contact us to update or correct any personal data we hold about you.
• Move. Your personal information may be transferred. You have the flexibility to move your data to another service if you wish.
• Erase. In some situations, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can ask us to erase your data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Please make it clear in your request (i) what information you require; and (ii) which of the above rights you wish to exercise. For your protection, we will only be able to fulfil your requests if they are made using the same email address associated with your data, and we will verify your identity before making any changes. We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable, but no longer than 30 days. Please note that we may need to retain some information for record keeping.
COMPLAINTS
We are committed to resolving any complaints about the way we collect your personal data. If you have a complaint about our privacy policy, or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us at: contact@smartpurchaseonline.com We will respond to your complaint as quickly as reasonably practicable, but no later than 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if we find that your complaint is not applicable, you have the right to contact your local data protection authority.
CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments and questions about our privacy policy. You can contact us by email at contact@smartpurchaseonline.com