The following Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about how we use your personal information. In doing so, we adhere to the strict provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Data Controller
The person responsible within the meaning of the GDPR is:
Emenwa Global
Web: www.emenwa.com
Scope of the processing of personal information
As a matter of principle, we only collect and use personal information from you insofar as this is necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services, e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter, or register on our website or log in to an existing customer account or when you order our Books. The collection and use of your personal information regularly only takes place with your consent. An exception applies in cases where prior consent is not possible for actual reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by applicable law.
Security
The security of your personal information is a high priority for us. We therefore protect your data stored with us by technical and organizational measures in order to effectively prevent loss or misuse by third parties. In particular, our employees who process personal information are bound to data secrecy and must comply with it. To protect your personal information, it is transmitted in encrypted form. You can recognize this by the lock symbol that your browser displays when an SSL connection is established. In order to ensure the permanent protection of your data, the technical security measures are regularly checked and, if necessary, adapted to the state of the art. These principles also apply to companies that process and use data on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions.
Purposes of processing and legal basis
We collect, process and use your personal information for the following purposes:
The processing of your personal information may be based on the following legal grounds:
Duration of storage and routine deletion of personal information
We process and store your personal information only for the period of time required to fulfil the purpose of storage or if this has been provided for, in laws or regulations. After the purpose has ceased to exist or has been fulfilled, your personal information will be deleted or blocked.
In the case of blocking, deletion will take place as soon as legal, statutory, or contractual retention periods do not conflict with this, there is no reason to assume that deletion would impair your interests worthy of protection and deletion would not cause a disproportionately high expense due to the special nature of the storage.
Log files
If you visit our website for information purposes only, without providing personal information via registration or in any other way, only the Internet connection data that your browser transmits to our server will be processed. Our website collects a series of general data and information with each call, which is temporarily stored in log files of a server. A log file is created in the course of an automatic protocol of the processing computer system. The following can be recorded:
The legal basis for this data processing is the performance of a contract, as the collection and storage of this data is necessary for the operation of the website in order to ensure the functionality of the website and to deliver the content of our website correctly (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR.
In addition, the data serve us to optimize our website and to ensure the security of our IT systems and the processing is based in this respect on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR). For this reason, the data is stored for a maximum of 7 days as a technical precaution.
We also use this data for the purposes of advertising, market research and to design our services to meet your needs by creating and evaluating user profiles under pseudonyms, but only if you have not exercised your right to object to this use of your data (see information on the right to object under “Your rights”).
Use of cookies
We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your respective device (PC, smartphone, tablet, etc.) and saved by your browser. For further information please refer to our Cookie Policy. The legal basis for the use of cookies is your consent (Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR) as well as our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR).
Sending information
We use your data for sending information ordered by you about our offer and other promotions from us to the e-mail address provided by you.
a) Newsletter registration on our website
On our website there is the possibility to subscribe to a free newsletter. When you register for the newsletter, the data from the input mask is transmitted to us, i.e., at least your e-mail address. The registration is carried out by means of the so-called double opt-in procedure.
After registration, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can register with other people’s e-mail addresses. For the processing of the data, your consent is obtained during the registration process and reference is made to this privacy policy. If you register for our newsletter, which informs you about our latest products and services, the personal information you provide in this context (e-mail address) will be processed by us for the purpose of sending you the newsletter The legal basis for the newsletter is your consent (Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR) as well as our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. The newsletter is sent using the dispatch service provider “MailChimp“, a newsletter dispatch platform of the US provider Intuit Inc.
b) Dispatch due to the sale of goods and abandoned shopping cart
If you purchase goods on our website or forget something in your shopping cart, we may send you information on our own similar goods to your specified e-mail address even without your consent. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest, because advertising related products by way of direct advertising represents a legitimate interest for us as a business and the provider of this website. You may object to the processing of your personal information for the purpose of direct advertising at any time. We will then refrain from further processing for such purposes. You can send us your objection as described below. In addition, you can object to the sending of such newsletters at any time in the future without giving reasons by unsubscribing via the unsubscribe link at the end of each newsletter or by contacting us.
We would like you to enjoy reading our e-mails. Therefore, we try to only include content that you are likely to be interested in. We therefore measure and store opening and click-through rates in your usage profile, i.e., whether and when you open our emails, which content of the emails you click on and when, as well as whether and why our emails could possibly not be delivered. We also use this data for statistical purposes.
In particular, this serves our legitimate interest to evaluate the performance of the individual newsletter campaigns and to define optimization measures in order to make the newsletter as attractive and suitable as possible for you. The legal basis for the processing is therefore our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR).
Of course, you can unsubscribe from receiving our information at any time, i.e., revoke your consent with effect for the future or object to data processing. For this purpose, you will find a corresponding unsubscribe link in every mail or newsletter. You can also contact us for a cancellation at any time.
Contacting us, registration or placing orders
a) Contacting us
When you contact, the data you provide will be stored by us based on your consent and the preparation or initiation of a contract, insofar as it is necessary to answer your questions (Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR) and (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR). Your inquiry is logged in order to be able to prove the contact in accordance with the legal requirements. We delete the data accruing in this context when the respective conversation with you has ended and your inquiry has been conclusively clarified.
b) Registration
On our website, we offer you the opportunity to register by providing personal information. The data is entered in the registration form is transmitted to us and stored. Registration is necessary in order to set up your customer account, which you can use to place orders and services. The processing of the data for this registration thus serves the fulfilment of the contract of use or the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR). You can delete your customer account at any time on our website either by using the delete function in your account or by contacting us.
c) Storage of data in the user account
For the conclusion and processing of contracts, we require contact details, such as name, delivery and billing address and e-mail address, as well as information on the type of payment method you have chosen. You can store this data in your user account. In addition, we use your data to maintain our customer database so that only accurate data is stored by us. In order to avoid typing errors and to ensure that the items you have ordered reach you, we check the completeness and accuracy of your address when you enter it.
Following your order, you will receive a corresponding order confirmation as well as further documents, which we are obliged to provide in order to fulfil our legal information obligations for an effective conclusion of a contract with you (Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR) and (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR).
d) Guest order
You have the option to place your orders as a guest. If you choose this order type, you do not have to register before placing an order. Please note that you will have to enter your data again for each subsequent order.
We collect, process, and use the information you provide in the context of a guest order for the purpose of executing the contract. We store the information you provide for the period of processing and handling your order. Afterwards, your data will be deleted unless you decide to activate your customer account before placing your order. Data that we are required to store due to legal, statutory or contractual retention obligations will be blocked instead of being deleted to prevent it being used for other purposes. The processing of the data serves the fulfilment of the contract with you (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR).
e) Order confirmation/dispatch confirmation
In order to process the contract and provide you with our services, for example the web shop or to make our order available for download, we use your contact details to send you registration confirmations, customer service information, order confirmations, contract documents or payment processing information. We are obliged to send you these documents in order to comply with our legal information obligations for an effective conclusion of a contract with you. The processing of your data is therefore necessary to fulfil our legal information obligations for an effective conclusion of a contract with you (Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR) and (Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR).
f) Other
Based on our legal obligation (Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR) and our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR), we use and store your personal information and technical information to the extent necessary to prevent or prosecute misuse or other illegal behavior on our website, e.g., to maintain data security in the event of attacks on our IT systems (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR). This also takes place insofar as we are legally obliged to do so, for example due to official or court orders, and for the exercise of our rights and claims as well as for legal defense (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR).
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
Your personal information will only be passed on if there is a legal obligation to do so or to service providers and partner companies that have been carefully selected in advance and are contractually obliged to comply with the requirements of data protection law.
For the operation and optimization of our website and our services and for the processing of contracts, various service companies work for us, e.g., for central IT services or the hosting of our website, for the payment and delivery of products, or order fulfillment or for the dispatch of newsletters, to whom we pass on the data required for the fulfilment of the task (e.g., name, address).
Some of these companies act for us by way of commissioned processing and may therefore use the data provided exclusively in accordance with our instructions. In this case, we are legally responsible for appropriate data protection measures at the companies we commission. We therefore agree on specific data security measures with these companies and monitor them regularly.
We do not collect or store any payment transaction information such as credit card numbers or bank details during the payment process. You only provide this information directly to the respective payment service provider.
We will disclose your data to third parties or government agencies within the framework of existing data protection laws if we are legally obliged to do so, e.g., due to official or court orders, or if we are entitled to do so, e.g., because this is necessary for the prosecution of criminal offenses or for the exercise and enforcement of our rights and claims.
Data transfer to third countries
If we use service providers in third countries, we take additional measures to ensure an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of personal information in accordance with Art. 44 of the GDPR and thus ensure that the transfer is generally permissible and that the special requirements for a transfer to a third country are met (e.g., by concluding standard contracts and additional guarantees, supplementary technical and organizational measures such as encryption or anonymization).
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc. This means that the data collected can in principle be transmitted to a Google server. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can object to the collection and processing of this data by Google Analytics by setting an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. The legal basis for this processing is (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR), our legitimate interest.
Hosting
The hosting services used by us for the purpose of operating this website is Bluehost, 5335 Gate Pkwy, 2nd Floor, Jacksonville, FL 32256, United States. In doing so Bluehost, process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta data and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors of our website and services, on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of the website and services in conjunction with the provision of contractual services and the conclusion of the contract for our services, including but not limited to our services).
Your rights
You are entitled at any moment to enforce the rights available to you. These rights are standardized in Art. 15 – 22 GDPR. This includes:
To assert these rights, please contact us. The same applies if you have questions about data processing in our company. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
Updating your information
If you believe that the information, we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please do so within your account or by contacting us. For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.
Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user. Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.
Personal information and children
Our services are aimed at people aged 18 and over. We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from minors under the age of 18 without first obtaining consent from a legal guardian through direct offline contact.
Data Breaches/Notification
Databases or data sets that include Personal information may be breached inadvertently or through wrongful intrusion. Upon becoming aware of a data breach, we will notify all affected individuals whose Personal information may have been compromised, and the notice will be accompanied by a description of action being taken to reconcile any damage as a result of the data breach. Notices will be provided as expeditiously as possible after which the breach was discovered.
Changes
In order to ensure that our Privacy Policy always complies with the current legal requirements, we reserve the right to make changes at any time. This also applies in the event that the Privacy Policy has to be adapted due to new or revised offers or services. If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights under applicable laws, please contact us using the following contact details:
Web: www.emenwa.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated on Wednesday, August 24, 2022
