WEC - Women Empowerment Coin

Data protection principles we abide by

At WEC, we follow the following data protection principles:

I. Our data processing activities are lawful, fair and transparent.
II. Our data processing activities are limited to the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
III. We gather and Process only the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
IV. We do not store your personal data for any longer than needed.
V. We do our best to ensure the accuracy of Data.
VI. We do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of Data.
VII. We always consider your rights before Processing any Personal Data.
VIII. We do not intend to collect any information from children, as our services are not targeted towards children.

Information you have provided us with

This could be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.

Information automatically collected about you

This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

Information from our partners

We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.

Publicly available information

We may sometimes gather information about you that is openly available in the public domain.

How we use your personal data

We use your personal data only in order to provide our services in a better way to you. This includes, for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request; communicating and interacting with you in relation to those products and services; notifying you of changes to any of our services; enhancing our customer experience; fulfilling an obligation under law or contract.

We assure you that we will be using your Personal Data only on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent. On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

To identify you
To provide you a service or to send/offer you a product
To communicate either for sales or invoicing
To send you personalized offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners)
To conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction

We might sometimes collect personal data to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided. As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent, we process your personal data for sending you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners); for other purposes we have asked your consent for; and in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.

Who else can access your personal data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur. In case if you have an account with us, ensure that you don't disclose your username and password to anyone else.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us. A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions. We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary cookies - These cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
Functionality cookies – These cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
Analytics cookies – These cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services.
Advertising cookies – These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org. We also use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy in future. For any other information, please write to info@wec.finance

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