Introduction

1. Thank you for being part of our community at BIOHABIT  LTD (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”). If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy and how we manage your personal information, please contact us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.
2. The privacy of our Website https://www.biohabit.co.uk (the “Website”) visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
3. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our Website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our Website.
4. This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Website, as well as any related services, sales, marketing or events.

Credit

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com). It was further modified by our Company and expanded to include all relevant privacy terms.

Collecting personal information

We only collect the information that you provide us voluntarily. The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

1. Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. Information about your Website visits including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. Information that you enter when you register and/or create a profile on our Website—for example, your username, your password, your email address, your country of residence and your areas of interest; all passwords are encrypted, which means we cannot see them;
4. Information, such as your username and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
5. Information that you enter while visiting our Website;
6. Information that is generated while visiting our Website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
7. Information that you post to our Website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
8. Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our Website, including its communication content and metadata;
9. Any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us through our Website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy. We may use your personal information for the following:

1. Facilitating account creation and logon process;
2. Administering our Services and business;
3. Managing user accounts;
4. Personalizing our Website for you;
5. Enabling your use of the Website;
6. Requesting feedback;
7. Sending administrative information to users;
8. Sending information about changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use or any other pages on our Website;
9. Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
10. Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
11. Responding to user inquiries and/or offer support to users;
12. Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
13. Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
14. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
15. Delivering targeted advertising to you;
16. Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our Website;
17. Keeping our Website secure and prevent fraud;
18. Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our Website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service);
19. Protecting our Website;
20. Administering competitions and prize draws;
21. Enabling user-to-user communications;
22. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Disclosing personal information

We do not normally share your personal information with anyone. We may only share your personal information on exceptional occasions for the purposes set out in this policy:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or any other national and/or international legal process;
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
4. For the prevention of fraud and/or violations of our privacy policies and situations involving the safety of any person;
5. During business transfers. We may share and transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another organisation or company;
6. We will not share your personal information with business partners and/or third parties without asking for your consent in advance. We will ask for your prior permission to share your data with our business partners and/or third parties unless the transfer of such information is permitted by GDPR or any other applicable data protection law;

International data transfers

1. Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we hold any of our servers, domains and databases.
3. Information that we collect may be transferred to other countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.
4. 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.
5. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section.

Retaining personal information

1. This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Without prejudice to article 2 above, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:

Personal data type will be deleted, as soon as users request to delete their account on our Website;

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Security of your personal information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our Website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our Website).

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our Website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

Your rights

In compliance with the GDPR, the applicable EU laws and German national data protection laws, you have the following rights to protect your personal information that we collect and process:

1. Right to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information that we hold;
2. Right to request rectification or deletion of your personal data;
3. Right to restrict the processing of your personal information;
4. Right to restrict the portability of your personal data;
5. Right to data portability;
6. Right to withdraw your consent at any time;

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information (and if followed by rectification and/or restriction of processing) as well as deletion of your personal data will be subject to the email verification or other identity verification procedures.

If you have any questions or comments about your privacy rights or if you would like to submit a request to exercise your privacy rights, please email us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.

Account information

If you would like at any time to access or change the information in your account or terminate your account you may do this either by emailing us at legal@biohabit.co.uk or via logging in to your account settings (when it is possible). 

California Privacy Notice

Californian residents have personal information rights under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”).

In order to provide you with best Website browsing experience, we must process certain personal information about you. The types of personal information that we collect and process and how we use this information is described in the sections above. The summary of your personal data that we might have collected in the past 12 months is:

• Identifiers: including username, email address and password (encrypted);
• Geographical location (country of residence);
• Electronic network activity data including information about your browser, extension and operating system;

We may have collected this personal information to carry out following business activities:

• Communicating with you;
• Improving the Website;
• Personalising the Website to you;
• Ensuring security and functionality of our Website;
• Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
• Carrying out other business activities;

How we use, process and share your personal information can be found in this Privacy Policy in the sections above.

If you have questions about how we use and share your personal information you can contact us by emailing us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.

We might share your personal information with our service providers, subject to a contract between us the service providers. The service providers are prohibited to retain, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than the specific business activity stated in the contract. We may use your personal data for our own business purposes, including internal research. These are not considered to be “selling” of your personal information.

You have the following rights with respect to your personal information provided by CCPA:

1. Right to know:

• Whether we collect and use your personal data;
• The types of the information we collect;
• The purposes for which the collected personal data is used;
• Whether we sell your data to third parties;
• What personal information we sold or disclosed for business purposes;
• What third parties we sold or disclosed your personal data to for business purposes;
• The business purposes for which we sold or disclosed your personal data.

2. Right to request deletion of your personal information: you can request us to delete any of your personal information that we have collected, subject to certain exceptions provided by law.

3. Right to Non-Discrimination: we will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

If you wish to exercise your privacy rights, we will need to verify your identity by email verification or other identity verification methods, including requesting a personal information from you to match against the information we hold about you.

Your other privacy rights include objection to processing of your personal information, requesting correction of your personal data, designating an authorized agent to make requests under CCPA on your behalf and opting-out of future selling of your personal information to third parties.

In order to exercise your privacy rights, you can contact us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.

Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated by emailing us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.

Website logs

All visits to our website may be recorded in the website logs. This stored information can include your IP, time of visit, a browser identifier, web address and the page. This data may be used for usage statistics as well as for security purposes.

Cookies

We may use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and store your data.

A “cookie” is a small piece of data that a website assigns to your device while you are viewing the Website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used to make it easier for you to navigate between our pages, to allow automatic activation of specific features, to save your preferences and make the interaction between you and our Website more efficient. Cookies also help to make sure that any possible ads that you may see are relevant to you and your interests, and to generate statistics on your Website usage.

The Website may use the following types of cookies:

1. ‘session cookies’ , which are stored on a temporary basis during a browsing session to allow normal use of the Website and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed;

2. ‘persistent cookies ‘, which are read only by the Website, saved on your device for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used to allow us to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to save your preferences for the next visit;

3. ‘third-party cookies’ , which are set by third-party websites and services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third-party analytics companies, advertising and marketing websites and social media.

Cookies do not contain any data that personally identifies you. However, your personal data, which we store may be linked, by us, to the information stored and collected from cookies. You can choose to refuse or to accept cookies by following the instructions of your device or browser settings, but if you disable cookies, some features of our Website may not run correctly and your online experience may be limited.

Collection of information from minors

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy. Our Website is not designed for or directed at children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from or market to minors. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information without their consent, he or she should contact us by emailing us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.

Donation information

When donating to us, you will be automatically referred to a PayPal’s webpage. All payment data is processed and stored by PayPal. You can access PayPal’s privacy policy here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. We may store the reports that PayPal provides us for accounting purposes.

Termination of service

This Website can be terminated by us or by an unforeseen event at any time without prior notice. In this scenario all of your personal data will be deleted.

Updates to this privacy policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be labelled as “Revised” with indicated date of the revision.

Contact us about this privacy policy

If you have any request, questions or comments regarding our privacy policy, you can email us at legal@biohabit.co.uk.