We at PowerLocus want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. That is why we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy. This helps you use in the way that is right for you. In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also let you know your rights. Each section of the Policy includes helpful examples and simpler language to make our practices easier to understand. We have also added links to resources where you can learn more about the privacy topics that interest you.

This Privacy Policy intends to help you understand what kind of Personal Data we collect, why we collect it and how we use it.  Please take the time to read this Privacy Policy carefully as we want you to be aware of how we use your information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy. We are committed to maintain robust privacy protections for our users.

This Privacy Policy applies to your Personal Data when you visit https://powerlocus.com/ (the Website) or use our services through this Website and does not apply to the online Website or services that we do not own or control.

When you use our services available on the Website, you accept that you have read and understood this Privacy Notice in connection with the processing of personal data. You can contact our Data protection contact person at any time via our contact form.

We respect the right to privacy and work continuously to keep the data we process to a minimum and as secure as possible. However, in order for you to use our services, we need to process some personal data.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED BY US

The personal data collected from our website is divided into the following categories:

1. Personal data of customers, who have registered their product;
2. Personal data of visitors, users and data obtained from a contact form;
3. Technical and marketing data;

We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to provide you with relevant content and advertisements (including Facebook ads or other advertisements) and to understand the effectiveness of the advertisements provided. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, related to the growth of our business. We may also use this data to send you other marketing communications. The legal basis for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely the growth of our business).

1. PERSONAL DATA OF CUSTOMERS, WHO HAVE REGISTERED THEIR PRODUCT

Categories of data subjects

Customers – Website users are clients who have purchased one or more of the products offered by us.

Categories of personal data

When a customer uses the services provided by our online store, we will process the following personal data about that person: first and last name, email address, address – city and country

Purposes and legal grounds for processing

We will process the personal data of our customers for the purposes of Identification. The legal basis for processing is the fulfilment of pre-contractual and contractual obligations in connection with the use of the service offered by the website and the consent of the data subject. The User provides all personal data voluntarily.

We have a legal basis to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. You can withdraw the consent you have provided at any time by going to your settings. We will only collect and process personal data about you when we have a legal basis. Legal grounds include consent (where you have given your consent), contract (where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you. Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or object at any time and if we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object.

Retention period

We retain information for as long as we need it to provide our Products, comply with legal obligations or protect our or others’ interests. We will retain personal data voluntarily provided by you for a period of 5 years from the date of purchase of the product and the emergence of a legal relationship between the parties. In the case of product registration, we retain your personal data for the duration of the warranty received.

Recipients of personal data

We may share Users personal data with the following third parties: Company employees; computer and software service providers; providers of tax and accounting services and auditors; legal consultants and lawyers; State bodies of executive and judicial power;

2. PERSONAL DATA OF VISITORS AND OF DATA OBTAINED FROM A CONTACT FORM (“CONTACT US”)

User data includes data about how you use our website and other online services, together with any data that you publish on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure that we provide you with appropriate content, to ensure its security, to maintain backup copies of our website and/or database and to be able to manage and administer our website, other online services and business. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case allow us to administer our website and business properly.

When we have received an inquiry from a person via our contact form available on the website, we will use the contact details (names and email address) provided by them to contact and provide them with the information or assistance they need.

Personal data received via the contact form, in the form of an inquiry, without a purchase being made, will be stored for a period of up to 6 (six) months from receipt of the relevant inquiry.

3. MARKETING AND TECHNICAL DATA

Technical data includes data related to the use of our website and online services – IP address, login details, details of your browser, and length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details of the number of visits to our website, time zone settings and other technologies on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse the use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to provide relevant content and advertising, and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case will allow us to administer our website and business properly, to develop our business and to determine our marketing strategy.

Marketing data includes data related to your preferences for receiving marketing information from us and third parties, and your preferred method of communication. We process this data so that we can include you in our promotions, such as games, prizes and gifts, to provide you with adequate content and advertisements, and accordingly to understand the effectiveness of these advertisements. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case will help us to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to determine our marketing strategy.

The legal basis for processing your personal data for the purpose of marketing communications is your consent or our legitimate interests (for example – to expand our business). The storage period of this data, provided voluntarily by the customer, is 5 years after receiving it.

In accordance with the legal provisions on the protection of personal data and electronic communications, we may send you marketing communications if you have agreed to receive marketing communications, in both cases you have not expressly refused to receive such communications. In accordance with the legal provisions, if you are a legal entity, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. In this case, you may also opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

Before sharing your personal data with third parties for their marketing purposes, we will ask for your explicit consent.

You may request that we stop sending you marketing communications at any time by logging into the website and your profile and adding or removing the relevant fields/options to adjust your marketing preferences.

Please note – if you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided because of other transactions such as purchases, warranty records, etc.

METHOD OF COLLECTION

Each visitor provides personally the personal data, entered or uploaded to the Website. 

Visitors are not allowed to enter third party personal data without due authorisation by such third party. We do not monitor or control the content, entered or uploaded by the visitor. It is the visitor’s sole responsibility to provide and guarantee that the processing of personal data activities performed within our Website are compliant with the requirements of the GDPR and other applicable personal data protection legislation.

SECURITY MEASURES

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss or other forms of unlawful processing. We make sure that personal data is only accessible by only those who need access to do their job, and that they are trained and authorised. Our staff is required to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the company’s guidelines regarding confidentiality, ethics, and appropriate usage of data. Staff is required to execute a confidentiality agreement and are provided with proper training in online privacy and security.

With regard to your use of our websites, please note that the free nature of the Internet implies that information and personal data are distributed over networks that can be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended.

We apply organizational, physical and technical security measures to all personal data we process, having adopted the necessary rules, policies, procedures and instructions, the development of which took into account the risks associated with the categories of personal data.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We shall use your personal data to in order for you to make a registration in our Website and use the services that we provide; to inform you, about any developments on our projects; to present to you our services and to request your opinion on topics related to our products and services, incl. via questionnaires, research forms, etc.

We collect your personal data, based on your explicit consent to provide it for the purposes, listed above. By accepting this privacy policy, you provide your explicit consent to us to use your personal data for the purposes listed above.

               We will not use your personal data for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes listed in this privacy policy, unless necessary or permitted by law, or it is in your personal interest.

INFORMATION WE SHARE

We do not share personal information with companies, organisations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances applies:

1. With your consent – we will share personal information with companies or organisations, when we have your explicit consent to do so; 
2. For making some services possible – to third party processors, as described above;
3. For legal reasons – we will share personal information with companies, organisations or individuals;
4. If we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; investigation of potential violations; detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of ours, our visitors or the public as required or permitted by law.

We don’t sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will. We also require and other to follow rules about how they can and cannot use and disclose the information we provide.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to request a copy of your personal data at any time, to check the accuracy of the stored information, to correct or update this information, to ask for your personal information to be deleted if there are grounds for doing so, as described below. You also have the right to complain when your privacy rights have been violated. Below is a detailed description of your rights as a personal data subject:

• You have the right to request confirmation if personal data relating to you is being processed and to request a copy of your personal data as well as the information relating to the collection, processing and storage of your personal data.
• You have the right to request your personal data to be deleted if there are any of the following grounds: personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they have been collected; where you have objected against the processing when the processing is unlawful; where data is processed on your consent and you withdraw that consent; where personal data must be deleted in order to comply with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of a Member State applicable to the controller. You may be denied deletion of your personal data for the following reasons: exercising of the right of freedom of expression and the right to information; to comply with our legal obligation or to carry out a task of public interest or in the exercise of the official authority that has been granted to us; for reasons of public interest in the field of public health; for the establishment, exercising or protection of legal claims.
• You have the right to request your personal data to be corrected if it is inaccurate or to be supplemented if it is incomplete.
• You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if applicable and there is a reason to do so, for example: you dispute the accuracy of personal data for a period that allows us to verify the accuracy of personal data; the processing is illegal, but you do not want personal data to be deleted but only to be limited; we do not need any more personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require them to identify, exercise or protect your legal claims; you have objected against the treatment pending verification that our legitimate grounds have an advantage over your interests.
• You have the right to request to receive personal data which concerns you and which you have provided in a structured, widely used and machine readable format, and you have the right to transfer this data to another administrator when the processing is based on consent or on contractual obligation and the processing is done in an automated manner.
• You have the right to make an objection against the processing of your personal data before the Data Protection contact person if there are reasons to do so.

You can address all requests to the Data Protection contact person. In order to be able to provide you with full assistance, please provide us with accurate information about you and specify your request. It is possible that, in the exercise of your rights, we may ask for additional information to establish your identity.

Please keep in mind that when your requests are clearly unreasonable or excessive, in particular because of their repeatability, we can:

1. charge a fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing information or communication or undertaking the requested activities, or
2. Refuse to take actions on the request.

We will make reasonable efforts to respect your request within 30 days of receiving your application. If necessary, this term may be extended by a further two months, taking into account the complexity and the number of requests.

We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup systems). Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so for free, except where it would require a disproportionate effort.

If you file a privacy-related complaint, we will collect your name and/or company name, name of a complaint-related person, email, and country location and details that gave rise to your complaint. We will use the information you provide to investigate your complaint and to send you an answer once your complaint is reviewed.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to other websites, plug-ins and third party applications. Clicking on or activating these links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy statement of each website you visit.

SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

If you think we have infringed your privacy rights, you can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in the particular in the country where you live, your place of work or place where you believe we infringed your right(s).

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. We will notify you of significant changes to our Privacy policy by sending a notice on your email address or by placing a prominent notice on our Website. Significant changes will go into effect 30 days following such notification. Non-material changes or clarification will take effect immediately. You should periodically check this Privacy policy for updates.