Our website address is: https://www.aquafarmbuddy.com.
AquaFarmBuddy.com is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and complying with your choices. Both personal and non-personal information collected according to the highest privacy and protections standards adopted worldwide. We strive to ensure an effective data protection program which complies with existing law and abides by the data protection principles. However, we recognize our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the demands of the GDPR and other jurisdictions.
AquaFarmBuddy.com is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR.
Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall be:
We will clearly inform you when information that personally identifies you (“personal information”) is asked for and you will have the choice to provide it or not. Generally, this information is requested when you [subscribe/install/download] to product updates, newsletters or other online services.
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
We collect your email when your subscribe as a member or to receive our newsletter, in order to send your informational communications related to the Aquaculture and Aquaponics industry, such as their purpose and the best use you can make of them . We also collect your email to send you our promotional offers.
When you place your order with us, we collect your email in order to correspond during the process. We also collect your phone number in order to contact you in case these emails bounce back because of a typo in your email address and if we cannot ascertain what the correct email address is.
We also contact the phone number that is provided if we suspect that the cardholder’s credit card information has been compromised, i.e. used in a fraudulent way. Please note that we do not store any credit card information. We use PCI compliant 3rd party payment gateways only.
We also use our clients’ email in order to notify of the release of updated versions of the software, new services or promotional offer
When you provide your personal information, you consent that it can be used for the above purposes and that Aquafarmbuddy.com is an authorized holder of such information. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use some sections of our website but you will not be able to receive additional services or access certain areas that require registration. When you activate your account, you are providing your consent to occasionally receive information from us. In each communication from us you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from further communications; alternatively, you may contact us to express your choices at the address provided at the bottom of this page
You are entitled to review the personal information you have provided us and ensure that it is accurate and current at all times. To review or update this information simply enter your profile area in your account or request that we send you this information.
AquaFarmBuddy.com is strongly committed to protecting your information and ensuring that your choices are honoured. We have taken string security measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. All sensitive data is stored behind firewalls on secure servers with restricted employee access.
We guarantee that all e-commerce transactions follow the latest security measures and use the best available technologies. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is employed when you place online orders or transmit sensitive information. SSL is one of the safest methods of passing information over the internet.
We retain information as long as it is necessary to provide the services requested by you and others, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the services or until you ask us to delete it or your account is deleted, whichever comes first. Additionally, we may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the aw, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms and conditions of use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Finally, your data could also be stored for sales statistical purposes.
If you are habitually located in the European Union or European Economic Area, we have the right to access, rectify, download or erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited circumstances. We describe these rights below:
You have the right to access your personal data and, if necessary, have it amended or deleted or restricted. In certain instances, you may have the right to the portability of your data. You can also ask us to send marketing communications and not to use your personal data when we carry out profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can opt out of receiving email newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those emails. Transactional account messages will be unaffected if you opt-out from marketing communications.
Your information is never shared outside the company without your permission. Inside the company, data is stored behind firewall on secure servers with restricted user access.
When you register to AquafarmBuddy.com , you asked to provide your contact information, including a valid email address. We use this information to send you updates about AquaFarmBuddy.com order confirmations and information about our services. When you order from us, we ask for your credit card number and billing address. We use this information only to bill you for the products or services you ordered at that time.
We may on occasion require the help of other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, shipping and delivery, customer support and processing event registrations. We will only provide such companies with the information required for them to perform these services; these service providers are bound by strict privacy policies and are prohibited from using your information for any other purpose.
In very rare instances AquaFarmBuddy.com may disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on AquafarmBuddy.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of AquaFarmBuddy.com and its family of websites and properties; and (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of AquaFarmBuddy.com , its websites, or the public.
We provide users with the opportunity to opt-out from receiving updates on our products, newsletters and other communications from us. You can opt-out by clicking on the link provided in our electronic mailings or by contacting us at the address at the bottom of this page
Our Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on our website. The Site contains links to web sites of third parties. AquaFarmBuddy.com is not responsible for the actions of these third parties, including their privacy practices and any content posted on their web sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies to learn more about what, why and how they collect and use personal information. AquaFarmBuddy.com adheres to industry recognized standards to secure any personal information in our possession, and to secure it from unauthorized access and tampering.
However, as is true with all online actions, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions of personal information, or other users of the site may misuse or abuse your personal information that they may collect from the site.
AquaFarmBuddy.com uses third-party advertising companies to serve some of the ads on our Site. Please review our Cookie Policy for all details. These third-party advertising companies generally employ cookie and 1 x1 pixel gifs or web beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website and other websites but will not collect any information which can personally identify you or can be linked to you. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, and the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may either visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click Here for the NAI gateway opt-out site.
This site will also allow you to review the third party advertising companies’ privacy policies.
If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post these changes here so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use your information in a manner different from that started at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email.
If for some reason you believe AquaFarmBuddy.com has not adhered to these principles, please notify us and we will do our best to promptly make corrections
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at:
AquafarmBuddy.com
For information about how to contact AquaFarmBuddy.com please visit our contact page Click here
Dated May 2020
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An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.