PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
Our website is hosted on Blogger which has its own privacy and cookies policy. They provide us with the online platform which enables us to provide blog articles for you.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that I do not own or control, including but not limited to Etsy, Gmail, Privy or MailChimp and Mailerlite. You can reference their individual privacy policies at the links provided. These third parties help provide our services to you. Examples of these functions include website creation and hosting, email, providing, marketing assistance and data analysis, data management, handling credit card transactions, and providing customer service. In choosing to work with any such third parties, we will always ensure that the security policies and confidentiality arrangements of those third parties adhere to the same requirements we ourselves impose and expect, as a minimum. No ownership rights to the data will be transferred to any third party.
In additions to this, we only use cookies to log visits to the website in an anonymous form (via Google Analytics).
~Google Analytics
We track usage on www.ohvello.com via Google Analytics. The analytics.js JavaScript library is part of Google’s Universal Analytics offering and uses first-party cookies to distinguish unique users and to throttle the request rate. To collect general information on how visitors use our site i.e. the number of visitors, where visitors have come from, the pages they previously visited, etc. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, and no personal information is recorded. We use the information collected to generate reports and statistics that help us improve the website. Read more on how Google Analytics cookies work or reject or delete Google Analytics cookies.
Information I Collect and How I Use It
If you contact us, sending a message via our website or a third-party website (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), you give us consent to collect and store the information that you’ve given to us. It may include your IP address, name, physical address, email address.
Any information we do hold will be kept private.
To receive my email newsletter, you must provide me with certain information, such as your name and email address. Additionally, if you choose to fill out my contact form, you must share your name and email address so I may respond to any inquiry you might have.
Cookie
~What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to personalize your online experience and are found on the vast majority of websites.
~Which cookie information do you collect?
We may further use, or permit selected third parties to use, your personal data to enable us
to track and analyze Ohvello website traffic and visitor trends, improve your
browsing experience and to personalize and enhance the content and advertising we
display.
Legal Requirements – We may use your personal data to comply with any legal obligations
to which we are subject.
4. Why do we use your personal data?
We collect and use your personal data for a variety of reasons. We need some data to enter
into and perform our contract with you. The lawful basis for processing your personal data is
Consent as you have consented to provide your personal details to us to allow us to provide
a service to you. If you fail to provide such data we will be unable to provide our service to
you.
Other information we collect because we have legitimate business interests, for example, in:
- Fulfilling your order and providing updates on the order.
- Understanding how our customers use our products, services, and websites;
- Understanding and responding to customer feedback;
- Researching and analyzing the services our customers want;
- Improving our product and a better understanding of how our customers use it.
5. How we share information we collect
Except as described in this policy,
information gathered via its services to third parties.
We may share your personal data with third parties in certain circumstances:
- We may disclose your data to any member of our group (which means our subsidiaries or our ultimate holding company);
- in the event that we, our business, or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party (in which case personal information about customers will be one of the transferred assets);
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal in order to comply with any legal obligation; to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the investigation of unlawful activities of
Ohvello website users or relating to Ohvello's users; or in order to enforce or apply any contract with you; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our employees, customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection or unlawful activity.
~How to disable cookies?
Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. You are free to reject or delete cookies at any time: can be removed via your internet browser settings to accept or reject all cookies, to notify you when one is set, and to delete your cookies periodically. Changing cookie settings differs in each browser, here are some instructions for some of the more popular browsers:
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
~ Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my site, such as newsletter distribution and responding to inquiries via my contact form and email. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
~Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (c) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.
Data Retention
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
I may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, I may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If I am deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, I rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Dropbox is Privacy Shield certified.
Your Rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:
~Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
~Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. With the exception of extraordinary circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons), I will delete your personal information upon request.
~Object. You can object to receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them by unsubscribing from my email newsletters or contacting me. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless it is needed for legal reasons.
~Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
How to Contact Me
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at ohvello@gmail.com.
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