last updated: August 12, 2024
Vanessa Nwudo (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you visit or make a purchase from Vanessanwudo.com (the “Website”). It also explains your rights regarding your personal data and how you can exercise them in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable laws.
1. Data Collection
1.1 Personal Data We Collect
We collect the following types of personal data:
- Identity Data: Includes your first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: Includes your email address, billing address, delivery address, and phone number.
- Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: Includes your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
- Profile Data: Includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our Website, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
1.2 How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
- Direct Interactions: You may give us your identity, contact, and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
- Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from third parties and public sources.
2. Use of Your Data
2.1 How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To Process Your Orders: To fulfill your orders, including taking payment, delivering products, and providing you with order updates.
- To Manage Your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the Website.
- To Improve Our Website: To administer and protect our business and the Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
- For Marketing Purposes: To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
2.2 Marketing and Promotional Communications
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, made a purchase, or if you provided us with your details when entering a competition or registering for a promotion. You can opt-out of these communications at any time by following the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us directly.
3. Data Sharing
3.1 Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with:
- Service Providers: Companies that provide services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
- Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Regulatory Authorities: If required by law or to protect our legal rights, we may disclose your personal data to law enforcement or other government officials.
3.2 International Transfers
Some of our third-party service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA), so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection by implementing specific contracts approved by the European Commission, which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
4. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process the data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you and check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure: You can ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
- Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest or those of a third party, and there is something about your situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
- Right to Restrict Processing:** You can request that we suspend the processing of your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability:** You can request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your personal data.
8. Contact Us.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us:
- Email: [email protected]
- Address: Gaduwa, Abuja, Nigeria
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This privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring that your personal data is handled securely and in compliance with applicable data protection laws.