About this Privacy Policy

Common Privacy Policy (revised for EU GDPR)

Last Updated On: 14^th May 2018

Our Commitment to GDPR

On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect. GDPR regulates the governance of personal data for EU citizens with an emphasis on data security and privacy. The GDPR does not only apply to companies that operate in the EU. This regulation will also impact companies operating outside of the EU if they have any EU customers or personal data of anyone in the EU.

The GDPR imposes additional requirements upon companies to strengthen the security around, and enhance the protection of, personal data of EU residents.

Faydinkum Studios, as a web development/video/photography production company, has made information security and data privacy foundational principles of every step we take, long before GDPR was ever introduced.

We recognise the importance of passing regulations to advance information security and data privacy for citizens of the EU, and all citizens, regardless of their location.

We are firmly committed to GDPR compliance – please see our GDPR Statement for further in-depth details.

Our Services

Our main services include, but are not limited to:

Faydinkum Studios – https://faydinkumstudios.com/

This privacy policy pertains to all services we offer whether they’re listed here explicitly in this document or not.

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice is meant to help you understand what Personal Data we might collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. It also describes the choices available to you with regard to the use of your Personal Data and how you can access and update this information.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our websites visitors (“Visitor”), individuals/businesses that purchase our services (“Customer”) and individuals who register with our website or services (“User”).

We have adopted the following principles to govern its use, collection, and transmittal of Personal Data, except as specifically provided by this Policy or as required by applicable laws:

Personal data will only be processed fairly and lawfully
We do not collect any more personal data than is necessary to provide the services
We only use your personal data for the purposes we specify in this Privacy Notice, unless you agree otherwise
We do not keep your personal information if it is no longer needed
We do not sell, distribute or share your personal information with third parties
You can have your data updated at any time
You can remove your data at any time
You can request a copy of the data we store on you at any time
Personal data is securely stored and managed

What Is Personal Data?

Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data.

Personal data is subject to the protection requirements set out in the GDPR.

Examples of data considered as personal data:

a name and surname
a home address
an email address such as name.surname@company.com
an identification card number
location data (for example the location data function on a mobile phone)
an IP address
a cookie ID
the advertising identifier of your phone

Examples of data not considered as personal data:

a company registration number
an email address such as info@company.com
anonymised data

How We Collect and Maintain Information

We collect and maintain information about our Customers and Users, which may include:

First and last name
Postal address
Phone and fax numbers
Website URL
E-mail address
Credit card information* – Faydinkum Studios does not currently receive or store client credit card details. But we may do so in the future if the need arises.
Other billing information, i.e. order details, subscription and license information
Profile data of Customer’s authorised users and account administrators

In addition, we collect User’s profile data (name, e-mail).

In order to communicate with us or to use our services, you may be prompted to provide certain personal data in the following ways:

By filling in forms (i.e. a “Contact Us” form) on our websites or anywhere else we conduct business
Contact us offline (i.e. by phone, SMS, email or post)
By downloading or accessing our services
When you register to use our websites, products or services (including free trials). This may include your name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, URL, e-mail address.
When you place an order using our websites, applications or services. This may include your first and last name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, URL, e-mail address and payment details.
By subscribing to our newsletters, taking part in surveys, post on our blogs, post any blogs, enter any competitions or prize draws, or any other communications
Interact with us using social media
By corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise using our contact details

Typically, the personal data you give us may include the name and email address, and any personal details required to resolve any enquiries or complaints.

Customer Support and Service

When Customers or Users contact us for support or other customer service requests, we maintain support tickets and other records related to the requests, including any information provided by Customers or Users related to such support or service requests.

How We Use Personal Data

We use personal data provided by you to provide the services and for business purposes such as processing and fulfilling orders, marketing, and for other general purposes.

We will never share your personal data, or otherwise, make your personal data available to any third parties for the purposes of marketing or targeting you. We will not sell, rent, or exchange your personal data with any third-parties. If for whatever reason this needs to change in the future, we would never do so without your express permission.

We use the personal data we collect to:

Conduct and develop our business with you
Operate, evaluate, maintain, improve and develop the websites (including by monitoring and analysing trends, access to, and use of the websites for advertising and marketing)
Monitor, carry out statistical analysis and benchmarking (i.e. Google Analytics for sites pages tracking), provided that in such circumstances it is on an aggregated basis which will not be linked back to you or anyone else
Engage and educate you about our services
Provide you with documentation or communications which you have requested
Correspond with you to resolve your queries or complaints
Provide you with any services you request
Send you marketing communications, where it is lawful for us to do so
Protect and ensure the safety of all data collected

How We Protect Your Personal Data

All of your Personal Data remain private and confidential. The security of your Personal Data is extremely important to us.

We follow generally accepted standards to protect personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

However, we adopt physical, technical, organisational and policy measures to ensure that your Personal Data are protected, including the prevention of their alteration, loss, damage, unauthorised processing or access, having regard to the nature of the Data, and the risks to which they are exposed.

We will never request your account credentials. You should never share your account information with anyone else, including your username and password. We recommend that you use a unique password for your appropriate accounts that you have with us on our various services, that is not in any way associated with other websites. You should check your account regularly to ensure that your Personal Data has not been tampered with or altered.

Any suspicious activity regarding your account, including automated messages from parties you cannot identify, should be reported to your website Administrator and us using the contact information below.

Use of Third Party Services For Data Management and Processing

We use various 3rd party services to the collection, management and processing of our data.

Our commitment to data protection and information privacy demands the use of 3rd party services that are also committed to the same end.

All our 3rd party services will be GDPR compliant and will themselves have their own applicable privacy policies.

All such 3rd parties and their relevant policies are listed at the end of this policy notice.

Newsletter/Marketing

Where lawful to do so, and subject to your consent where required, we may communicate with you about our services. If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving these kinds of communications, you may do so at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” in any marketing material.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. These text files can be read by these websites and help to identify you when you return to a website. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session ID” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer when you have gone offline, while session ID cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For session ID cookies, once you close your browser or log out, the cookie terminates and is erased. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your computer’s hard drive for an extended period of time.

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.

For the detailed information about how we use cookies, please read our Cookie Policy here.

Links

Our websites, documentation pages or blog might include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of our own. If you submit information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their respective privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the Privacy Policy of any website you visit before engaging with them in any way.

We absolutely cannot take responsibility for any interaction you have with 3rd parties or services that are not directly our own.

Your Rights Under the Personal Data Protection Laws

As our Customer or User, you have the right to:

Be informed about the processing of your personal data
Object or restrict to processing of your personal data
Ask for a copy of the information about the data we store on you at any time.
Correct, update, amend, or remove personal data. If you no longer want to use our services, you may request it to be deactivated at any time.
Rights in relation to automated decision making which has a legal effect or otherwise significantly affects you
The right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office, which enforces data protection laws: https://www.dataprotection.ie/. You can also contact us using the details below.

Your Responsibilities Under the Personal Data Protection Laws

It is important to note that you also have responsibilities when it comes to Data Protection.

One such important case is where you may request from us a copy of the information about the data we store. We are obliged to ensure that the request is legitimate and does in-fact originate from you.

In this regard, we will undertake steps in an attempt to verify the legitimacy of the request, before releasing such information. If you do not cooperate in this, or we cannot satisfiably verify legitimacy, we may not release such information in a timely manner. To act otherwise could represent a significant breach of privacy. As such, we request your full cooperation in this regard – any requests on our part to verify your request will be undertaken solely to protect against breach of your personal information.

Consent Withdrawal

Where we’re relying upon your consent to process personal data, you can withdraw this at any time by contacting us using the details below.

Automated Decision Making

We sometimes make decisions about you using only technology, where none of our employees or any other individuals have been involved.

We’ll do this where it is necessary or is based on your explicit consent.

Data Retention Period

Data Retention Period is the period for which the personal data will be stored, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period.

Unless we explain otherwise to you, we’ll hold your personal information based on the following criteria:

for as long as we have reasonable business needs, such as managing our relationship with you and managing our operations
for as long as we provide services to you
retention periods in line with legal and regulatory requirements or guidance

If none of these criteria apply, we commit to purging any Personal Data no later than 16 months following your latest interaction/exchange with our services.

Example of long-term data retention

We are required by law to be able to report sales and tax information for up to 10 years. In this case we must retain any pertinent information of these transaction. We will have no choice to but to refuse any requests to erase this type of information from our records as they are required by law.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices. We encourage you to check this Privacy Notice for changes whenever you visit our websites.

Our Data Protection Officer

We are a dedicated data controller of your personal data. We have Data Protection Officer you can reach any time by using the details below.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or complaints about how we process your Personal Data and you want to contact our Data Protection Officer, you can do that by going to the Contact Us section of our websites or send email to info@faydinkumstudios.com. Your issue will be resolved as quickly as possible.

3rd Party Services and Their Respective Privacy Policy Notices

The website editor makes use of additional third-party services covered by the following privacy policies:

Google privacy policy (for Google Maps, the YouTube video player, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google+, and Google Webmaster Tools)
Facebook privacy policy (for the Facebook pixel and Facebook widget)
MailChimp privacy policy (for MailChimp integration)
PayPal privacy policy
Stripe privacy policy

Full list of available documentation:

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