Privacy Policy
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Introduction
Yoda Home Design S.R.L., with its registered office at Strada Ceasornicului nr. 3–7, et. 2, ap. 8, sector 1, București, registered with the Trade Register under no. J2019004911405, with CUI (tax identification number) RO 40957440, e-mail office@yodahomedesign.ro, telephone +40.727.601.904 (call charged according to your plan with your mobile phone operator), in its capacity as personal data controller, undertakes to protect and respect the confidentiality of personal data.
This Privacy Policy is based on the legislative framework established by Regulation no. 679/2016 (GDPR) on the protection of personal data and on the free movement of such data, as well as the applicable national provisions, and aims to ensure compliance requirements by reference to the principles governing the protection of personal data.
The confidentiality of your information is important to us. We provide this policy to explain how we collect, use and protect information and data, including when you use our website https://yodahomedesign.ro/ (hereinafter the “Website”), on which this policy is published, and the related services offered through it (hereinafter the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Website and the Services.
By using the site or the services, you agree to the privacy policy. Please read it carefully.
We reserve the right to update and amend this Privacy Policy periodically, to reflect any changes in the way we process your personal data or any changes in legal requirements.
In the event of any such change, we will display the amended version of the Privacy Policy on our website, which is why we ask you to check the content of this Privacy Policy periodically.
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Categories of personal data processed
We may collect the following categories and types of “Personal Information”:
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Contact information - your surname and first name, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number;
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Other identifying information - IP address, social media usernames, passwords and other security information for authentication and access;
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Financial information - credit card, debit card and bank account information;
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Demographic information - gender, age, employment information and salary information, geolocation data;
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Internet or other electronic activity - browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate our Website and Services and which elements of our Website and Services you use most;
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Commercial information - products or services purchased or viewed on our Website;
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Audio and visual information - your videos and photographs;
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Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, behaviour and attitudes;
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Any other personal information that you provide to us.
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Use of your personal information
Personal information submitted through the Website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the Website. We may use your personal information for:
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Transactional purposes - we may use your contact information, financial information and commercial information to:
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Receive, process, confirm, send and track an order, subscription or registration;
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Communicate with the user about their order, subscription or registration;
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Process any subscription or registration you make for one of our Services.
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Analytical purposes - we may use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history, commercial information, demographic information and geographic location data to analyse preferences, trends and statistics.
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Marketing and promotional purposes - we may use your contact information, commercial information, demographic information, internet or other electronic activity, geographic location data and inferences to:
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Inform you about our new products, services and offers;
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Provide you with targeted advertising;
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Run contests and promotions;
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Provide you with our loyalty programme, including earning points and granting and claiming awards;
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Provide you with other information from and about us, including personalised marketing communications.
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Maintaining and improving the Website and the Services - we may use your contact information, commercial information and internet activity and browsing history to:
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Provide you with our Website and Services, including to send you alerts about your account;
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Handle your requests as a customer;
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Help us diagnose technical and service problems and also administer the stores, the Website and the Services.
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Review and content creation purposes - we may use your contact information, commercial information and audio and visual information to enable reviews of our products and to display content that you have created and for which you have given permission to display it on our Website, as well as on social networks.
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Security and fraud prevention - we may use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, internet activity and browsing history, as well as inferences, to protect our Website and Services, our company and others, and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.
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Legal requirements and other purposes - we may use your personal information to comply with legal requirements or, where necessary, to provide it to lawyers, accountants or other advisers.
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Other uses.
Without consent to the use of your information, we may not be able to provide you with the products, services or information you request.
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Sources of personal information
We may collect personal information from the following sources:
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Directly from you. - We may collect contact, demographic and financial information directly from you, including when you fill in a form on our Website, sign up for our communications or ask us to contact you. The information we collect depends on the nature of your interactions with us.
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Third-party sources. - We may also collect information about you from third-party sources, including any information you make publicly available on social media platforms or other online or offline resources, or when you give us your consent to connect your account to a third-party service or provider.
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Passively. - We may collect internet or other electronic activity passively using tools such as browser cookies. This activity is further described in the Cookies and Advertising and Online Tracking sections below.
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Disclosure of personal information
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We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
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We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, our parent company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
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From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other companies that we consider trustworthy and whose privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”). For example, we may contract with Providers to supply certain services, such as hosting and maintenance, data storage and management, and marketing and promotions. We provide our Service Providers only with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf.
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Corporate transactions – if our company merges, is acquired or is sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer personal information in connection with such a transaction. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if, at our discretion, it will result in your personal information being handled in a way that differs significantly from this Privacy Policy.
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Compliance with laws and their enforcement
We cooperate with government authorities, authorised official bodies and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose personal information and any other information about you to government officials, authorised official bodies or private parties if, at our discretion, we consider it necessary or appropriate in order to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property or rights of our company or of any third party, to prevent or stop any illegal or unethical activity or legal action, or to comply with the law.
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Cookies
Our Website uses cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and web browser) and we may also use anonymous identifiers (a random string of characters that is used for the same purposes as a cookie).
Our Website uses cookies and other similar technologies to analyse usage and to improve the site and the services, as described in the Advertising and Online Tracking section of this Privacy Policy.
Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, certain features of the Website or the Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies. Some of our Service Providers (defined below) may use their own cookies, anonymous identifiers or other tracking technology in connection with the services they perform on our behalf.
We use Google Analytics on the Site and the Services to analyse how users use the Website and the Services and to show you advertisements on other websites. For more information on how to opt out of the use of your information by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
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Advertising and online tracking
Our Website allows third-party companies to serve advertisements and to collect certain information when you visit the Website and the Services. These companies may use certain information (for example, clickstream information, web browser type, time and date, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to the website and to other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
These companies typically use a cookie to collect this information. Our systems do not recognise browser “Do Not Track” signals, but several of our Service Providers that use these cookies on our Website allow you to opt out of targeted advertising practices.
To find out more about these advertising practices or to opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org or www.aboutads.info/choices/. We also offer you additional tools to opt out of the marketing service we provide. You can find out about this in the “Managing information preferences” section of this Privacy Policy.
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Managing your preferences for receiving information
You can opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by following the link provided at the bottom of each marketing e-mail you receive from us. You may choose to opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us; however, you cannot opt out of receiving all e-mails from us, for example e-mails about the status of your account.
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Caution regarding sharing information with third parties
Please bear in mind that whenever you share information in any public area of the Website or the Services, that information may be accessed by others.
In addition, please note that when you share information in any other communications with third parties, that information may be passed on or made public by others. This means that anyone who has access to such information may use it for any purpose, including sending unsolicited communications.
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Security
Our company maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. However, no data transmission over the Internet or any other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the Website or the Services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Website or the Services, and you do so at your own risk.
You are responsible for keeping confidential the password you use to access our Website; we will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to our Website).
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Links
Our Website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party sites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties. A link to a third party's website does not mean that we endorse it or that we are affiliated with it.
To the extent that you access such third-party websites or content, you do so at your own risk.
We recommend that you always read the privacy policy of a third-party website before providing any information to that website.
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Transfers abroad
The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information collected may be transferred between the following countries, which do not have personal data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal information that you publish on our Website or submit for publication on our Website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section (12).
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Changes to the privacy policy
We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our Website. You should check this page occasionally to make sure you understand any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or inform you by publishing the revised Privacy Policy on the Website.
These changes will take effect on the “set” date indicated in the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Website or the Services, you agree to the revised Privacy Policy.
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Access and correction
If you wish to access or correct your information in our records, please contact us using the contact details available on the Website. We will respond promptly to your request.
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How to contact us / Complaints
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or concerns about the handling of your personal information, you can contact us using the contact details available on the Website.
Without affecting your right to contact the supervisory authority at any time, please contact us first, and we will make every necessary effort to resolve any issue amicably.
We will aim to investigate and resolve your complaint as soon as possible, within 30 days of its receipt. By way of exception, this period may be longer depending on the number of requests at the time.