PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us. It is Merakian's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you across all sites and apps we own and operate, including http://merakian.org.
🔔 Last updated on January 5, 2023
PERSONAL INFORMATION
COLLECTION PROCESS
We collect both, personal information you knowingly and actively provide us when using our services, and any information automatically sent by your devices while interacting with our sites and apps. We only collect and use personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
We may ask for the following information:
Name
Email
Addresses (ex: billing, shipping...)
Payment information
We automatically collect information using some of these technologies:
COOKIES
Small data files that are stored on your device or computer and are used to understand how you use our sites and apps. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.LOG FILES | DATA
When you visit our sites and apps, servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser or device. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.WEB BEACONS, TAGS, and PIXELS
Electronic files used to record information about how you interact with our sites and apps.
Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.
APPLICATION
The information we collect is generally used to help us provide our services to you. Additionally we use it for/to:
USER EXPERIENCE + OPERATIONSEnable you to customize or personalize your experience
Analytics, market research, and business development, including operating and improving our sites, apps, and associated social media platforms
Communicate with you
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services, and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
Run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
Ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use
Comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have
SHARING
We may share your personal information internally and with third parties to help us use it, as described above, which includes but not limited to:
our brands, teams, contractors, and/or related entities
third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms
Finally, we may also share your personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
DATA SECURITY | PROTECTION
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services.
DATA TRANSFERS
The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
DATA RETENTION
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
POWER TO YOU 🎯
CONTROL YOUR INFORMATION
You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
MISCELLANEOUS
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.
THIS POLICY LIMITS
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
POLICY CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
All changes will be timely communicated through our channels, including here and, if required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.
CONTACT US
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us by e-mail at legal@merakian.org.