Who we are

Our website address is: https://pickwitty.com.

Pickwitty.com is committed to protect your privacy. Don’t hesitate to Contact us, if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this website or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions

Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing: Any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject: A natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child: A natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – pickwitty.com

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Data Subject’s rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  1. Right to information: This means that you have the right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
  2. Right to access: This means that you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
  3. Right to rectification: This means that means you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. Right to erasure: This means that in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
  5. Right to restrict processing: This means that where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
  6. Right to object to processing: This means that in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing. However, we don’t use personal information of our visitors for direct marketing, except, you subscribe to our newsletter or Email notifications to keep in touch with us.
  7. Right to object to automated Processing: This means you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
  8. Right to data portability: You have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
  9. Right to lodge a complaint: In the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
  10. Right for the help of supervisory authority: This means you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
  11. Right to withdraw consent: You have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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.

Media

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.

Contact forms

If you use our contact page and contact us using contact us form. Your name, email address and your message is delivered to us. We use your name and email address to contact you in reply to your query. This means that we may use contact form submission information to get in touch with you. We do not use the information submitted through contact form for marketing purposes. We don’t use your name and email address for any other purpose except mentioned earlier. If you are still doubtful about your personal data, you can avoid using contact us form.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 we 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 we just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Advertising

We use Google AdSense and Amazon Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

Our website uses Google AdSense for:

  • Remarketing
  • Google Display Network Impression Reporting
  • Demographics and Interests Reporting
  • DoubleClick Platform Integration

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

This website may be affiliated with some affiliate programs and may collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about it we can provide their data usage/ privacy policy page link upon request.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

  • Provide our service to you (for example this could be registering your account, providing you with products and services that you have requested).
  • Enhance your customer experience;
  • Improve our website in order to better serve you;
  • Fulfill an obligation under law or contract;
  • Provide you with information that you have requested or which we think may be relevant to a subject in which you have demonstrated an interest;
  • Ensure the security and safe operation of our websites and underlying business infrastructure;
  • Personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested, and
  • Manage any communication between you and us.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
  • For other purposes we have asked your consent for;

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

  • The link between purposes, context, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
  • The further Processing would not harm your interests and
  • There would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.
  • We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

For example, we share your data with:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google AdSense
  • Amazon Associates

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

How we protect your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We have what we believe are appropriate security controls in place to protect personal data. We do not, however, have any control over what happens between your device and the boundary of our information infrastructure. You should be aware of the many information security risks that exist and take appropriate steps to safeguard your own information. We accept no liability in respect of breaches that occur beyond our sphere of control.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Contact Us

If there is any query regarding this privacy policy you may contact us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.

Last Modification was made on March 23, 2022.