Privacy policy

Effective Date: June 18, 2024

Welcome to essenti.lt. Protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal data is important to us. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [essenti.lt] (the “Website”).

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose

This Privacy Policy aims to inform you about the types of personal data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your personal data.

1.2 Data Controller

Essenti.lt is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

1.3 Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

  • Email: info@essenti.lt

2. Personal Data We Collect

2.1 Types of Personal Data

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

  • Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifiers.
  • Contact Data: Includes email address, telephone number, and postal address.
  • Financial Data: Includes payment card details. Please note, we do not store or process payment card details directly on our systems. All payment transactions are handled through secure and PCI-compliant third-party payment processors.
  • Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (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.
  • 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.

2.2 How We Collect 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. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Purchase our products;
    • Create an account on our website;
    • Subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications;
    • Enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
    • Provide feedback or contact customer support.
  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.

2.3 Purposes of Processing 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 and fulfill your orders and provide you with information and services that you request from us;
  • To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy;
  • To improve our website and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • To administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes;
  • To keep our website safe and secure;
  • To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • To comply with legal obligations to which we are subject.

2.4 Legal Basis for Processing 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:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

2.5 Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services, and offers may be relevant for you.

2.6 Opting Out

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

3. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

4. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If this changes in the future, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission; or
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
  • If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them as they have equivalent safeguards in place.

5. 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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

6. 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 personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the contact details provided in Section 1.3.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Policy when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.

 

This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 29, 2024.