PRIVACY POLICY OF SECUREWORLDVISION.COM
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site secureworldvision.com.
Yiota Nicolaidou is the data controller and we take responsibility for your personal data. In this privacy notice Yiota Nicolaidou is referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”.
For any inquiries about this privacy notice, please send us an email to info@secureworldvision.com.
We have designed our websites with your protection and privacy in mind; meaning we collect the minimum number of personal data necessary and we use methodologies to minimize the possibility of unauthorized access to those. Based on the GDPR regulation, if any of the personal data you provide to us like your name or email changes please send us an email to info@secureworldvision.com. From time to time we may email you in order to confirm whether the private data you have provided us with are still valid, accurate and up to date.
When you are in the online world you leave traces. Some of those traces are left directly and some indirectly. We collect your personal data on the following occasions only.
When you:
- register for our Newsletter
- request to get a freebie (pdf or free online course)
- are purchasing a service or an online course from us
- are visiting our websites
- are leaving a message to our blog
- are completing a questionnaire for a free consultation of your protection levels
- are completing the contact forms or the “Ask Yiota a question” form
- are attending our events
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTERS
- Name
- Email address
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
- Data about how you navigated to our newsletter registration page
- Your interaction history with the content you receive from our newsletter
- Your subscription preferences (subscribe, confirmation of subscription, emails only for a specific purpose, unsubscribe request)
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU REQUEST TO GET A FREEBIE FROM US
- Name
- Email address
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
- Data about how you navigated to our freebie page
- Your interaction history with the content you receive from the freebie page
- Your interaction history with the content you receive from our newsletter
- Your subscription preferences (subscribe, confirmation of subscription, emails only for a specific purpose, unsubscribe request)
- Your content preferences
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU PURCHASE A PRODUCT FROM US
- Name
- Business name
- Email address
- Home address and/or Business address
- Phone number
- Financial details
- Data about how you navigated to our sales page
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
- Credit information from third parties
* If the service you request to provide you with requires access to more private, corporate and/or sensitive data from your side then we always sign your confidentiality agreement before offering you any service and we apply GDPR compliant standards to the least for the protection of this data.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITES
We use Google Analytics which stores cookies on your device to keep track of usage data related to our website. This data includes
- your interaction with our websites
- an app-instance identifier — a randomly generated number that identifies a unique installation of an App
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service
- IP geolocation to give us a sense of which country, state, or city in the world our users come from
- Time zone settings
- Details about your browser and the device by which you access our websites
- Length of visit to pages on our websites
- Page views and navigation paths
- Details about the number of times you use our websites
By continuing to use our websites, consent to place these cookies will be assumed and cookies will be placed. If you don’t want your data collected with Google Analytics you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The instruction on how to do that can be found to our Cookies Policy.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU REGISTER TO OUR WEBSITE TO LEAVE A COMMENT
- Any personal data you post on our websites
- Name
- Email address
- IP address
- Data about how you navigated to our blog page
- Login data
- Any information you directly and willingly provide us with when leaving a message.
* Please note that we monitor your comments and if we find them too revealing/dangerous for your privacy and/or security based on our professional judgment we will remove or alter them accordingly for your protection or the protection of others you might mention.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU COMPLETE A FORM ON OUR WEBSITE LIKE FOR EXAMPLE OUR CONTACT FORMS, QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CONSULTATION AND “ASK YIOTA A QUESTION” FORM
- Any personal data you post on our websites
- Name
- Email address
- IP address
- Data about how you navigated to our form page
- Any information you directly and willingly provide us with when leaving a message.
* Please note that, we reply to your questions anonymously when you complete the form “ASK YIOTA A QUESTION” except in the scenario we request your written consent to do otherwise.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU ATTEND OUR EVENTS
- Any personal data you share with us
- Data that are available for you online
- Your business cards
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Photographs of you at events
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU IN OTHER OCCASIONS
- Any information you directly and willingly provide to us in person, over the phone, via email or otherwise.
- Your marketing and communication preferences
- Information we need in order to offer you the service you request from us
* If the service you request to provide you with requires access to more private, corporate and/or sensitive data from your side then we always sign your confidentiality agreement before offering you any service and we apply GDPR compliant standards to the least for the protection of this data.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU
- Draft a contract for a service you have requested
- Processing your orders and financial transactions for products and/or services you want to purchase
- Send you updates and upgrades for products and/or services you have already purchased
- Respond to enquires related to your orders or more information about our products and services
- Deal with complaints
- Keep records of orders, communication about orders and any other interaction you made with us
- Personalize and ease your experience on our websites
- Send you lawful marketing communications
- Ask you to complete surveys and questionnaires
- Analyse how you use and interact with our websites
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
- To understand the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing (including content marketing)
- Monitor the use, security and interaction of our websites and online courses
- For administration and management of our business and websites
- To obtain or maintain insurance policies
- To obtain professional advice
- To carry out credit checks
- To bring legal claims against you in case you breach a contract or fail to make payment
- To comply with our legal obligations
- When requested information from government authority under lawful ground
- Protect our customers and/or visitors from cyber-criminals who might try to use our websites for illegal or malicious purposes.
- For protection of our business and websites
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Based on the interactions we have with you either directly or indirectly (automatically) through the use of cookies to our websites.
Direct ways we collect your personal data are the following
- In person
- Over the phone
- Via email
- Via our websites by leaving a message, completing a form, registering to our newsletters, requesting a freebie etc.
- Via our social media channels by leaving a message, registering to our newsletters, requesting a freebie etc.
Indirect (automatic) ways we collect your personal data are the following:
- When you use our websites by using cookies or other marketing analytics technologies. Please check out our cookies policy for more details here.
- Third parties such as Google and Facebook which are based outside the European Union jurisdiction.
- Payment and delivery services such as PayPal
- Online and offline publicly available sources such as Companies registration authority
- Fraud detection agencies that might be located outside the European Union
- Aggregators (website or program that collects related items of content and displays them or links to them) that might be located outside the European Union
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Our marketing communications with you are based on the lawful ground of your consent or our legitimate interest as specified by PECR and GDPR Regulations.
If you receive marketing communications from us, you:
- Made a purchase or requested information from us about our products and services
- You gave us your consent to receive marketing communications through an opt-in on our websites or our official social media channels. You maintain the right to withdraw this consent anytime by opting out.
- You are a limited company in which case we can send you marketing emails without your consent. You maintain the right to stop receiving our communication emails by opting out at any time.
We do not share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes. In case we believe that a third-party service or product might benefit you based on the information we have about you we will inform you and get your express consent.
You may ask us or any third party we introduce to you stop the marketing communication messages at any time by
- Sending as an email at info@secureworldvision.com or
- By pressing the unsubscribe button which is available to you at all of our emails.
By opting out of receiving marketing communications, we still maintain personal data which your provided as a result of other transactions such as purchases of our services and products.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may be required to share your personal data with the parties mentioned below:
- Service providers who provide IT, marketing, data storage and system administration
- Professional advisers such as lawyers, accountants, auditors and insurers and bankers
- Fraud prevention agencies
- Government bodies that require us to report processing activities, illegal activities, malicious activities or disclose your personal data on a legal ground
- Third parties to whom we collaborate, sell, merge or transfer our business or assets.
We require from all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect your security and privacy and be in compliance with the laws. The processing of your data by the third parties specified is only allowed for the specific purposes they were requested and in accordance with our instructions.
DATA RETENTION
Your data are retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collect it for including our business operations such as legal, accounting or reporting purposes.
In order to define the retention period for your data we consider the following factors:
- Processing purposes
- Amount of data
- Nature of data
- Sensitivity of data
- Impact (potential risk of harm) from unauthorized us or disclosure
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic customer information i.e. contact details, identity, financial and transaction data for up to six years after they stop being customers.
For research and statistical purposes, we will anonymise your personal data before using them in which case we do need your consent as the data cannot be used to identify you in any way.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Under the GDPR law you have the following right regarding the personal data we collect for you:
- Request access
- Correction
- Erasure
- Restriction
- Transfer
- Object to processing
- Data portability
- Withdraw processing (only applied when the lawful ground of processing is consent)
To exercise any of the before mentioned rights, please send us an email at info@secureworldvision.com.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data in order to exercise any of the before mentioned rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
For security and privacy reasons of our users and clients we may request specific and further information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to exercise your rights regarding your personal data including having access to it. We apply this security policy to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to any unauthorized party and to speed up our response time.
We will do our best to reply to all legitimate requests within a one-month period. However, it might take us longer to process your request based on its complexity, number of requests you made and other factors. In such a case, you will be notified accordingly.
If you are not satisfied with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right under the GDPR Regulation to complain to the Information commissioner’s Office, the Cyprus supervisory authority for data protection issues ( http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy ). We would be grateful if you contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER
We collect and process your data based on GDPR’s protective guidelines. Your data may be transferred out of the European Economic Area. In such a case we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure the security of your personal data. We ensure that by evaluating services the effectiveness providers of the safeguards in place or by forming specific contracts or by establishing special codes of communication between us. If the before mentioned safeguards are not in place, we will request your explicit consent to perform the transfer.
DATA SECURITY
As a data security service provider your data security is our priority. We have established security measures and control in multiple levels to prevent your personal data from being lost, used, altered, accessed or disclosed without authorization by a mistake, by a data breach or a cyber-attack. Access to your personal data is restricted from unauthorized parties both inside our company or by external parties. Authorization is provided only in those case that it is necessary in order to perform our business effectively and under specific instructions of use and strict confidentiality agreements.
We have policies, procedures and technical checkpoints in place in order to prevent or deal accordingly with any suspected personal breach and will notify both you and the data regulator in our country of a breach or a cyber-attack as legally required to. We maintain the right to record any information related to that breach and in case you are the offender of the breach we will provide this information to the authorities.
OUR LAWFUL GROUND FOR PROCESSING
We collect and process your data on a lawful ground and according to the GDPR.
- Our legitimate interest
- in informing you about updates to the products and service, record keeping and to establish, pursue or defend legal claim as responsible business operations
- to reply to your communications and to keep records for our business
- study how customers and users use/development or growth our products and services and decide our marketing strategy
- to enable us to probably administer, grow and protect our websites and our business
- Compliance with our legal requirements or as required by a government authority
- Defending, pursuing or establishing a legal claim
We do not collect any Sensitive data about you. Sensitive data is considered racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.
INTERACTION WITH EXTERNAL SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PLATFORMS
This type of services allow interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application. The interaction and information obtained through this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network. This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Google+ +1 button and social widgets (Google Inc.)
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
LinkedIn button and social widgets (LinkedIn Corporation)
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
STATEMENT MODIFICATIONS
We may modify this Statement from time to time. When we make material changes to this Statement we will post a link to the revised Statement on the homepage of our sites, and if you have registered for any of your products or services, will may also inform you though a communications channel that you have provided. You can tell when this Statement was last updated by looking at the link and at the date at the top of the Statement. Any changes to our Statement will become effective upon posting of the revised Statement on the site. Use of the site, any of our products and services, and/or providing consent to the updated Statement following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Statement then in effect.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Statement or how we process your personal information, or if you wish to either provide a compliment or a complaint, please contact us by email at info@secureworldvision.com. We will respond within 30 days or sooner if practicable.
DEFINITIONS AND LEGAL REFERENCES
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through this Application (or third-party services employed in this Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.
User
The individual using this Application who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.
This Application
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by this Application as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookies
Small piece of data stored in the User’s device.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). This privacy policy relates solely to this Application, if not stated otherwise within this document.