Privacy Policy
Introduction
Privacy is important to us. This website (www.perfumeworld.cy) is operated by the company under the corporate name “N.V. Christoforou Ltd” with email address info@perfumeworld.cy, including its affiliates and successors who are wholly owned (together referred to as “Company” or “us” or “we”) to offer protection to the users of our website (“you”, “you” or “users”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how the Company collects, stores, uses, processes and generally handles personal data when you visit, use or register on the Company’s Website (hereinafter “Website”). This Policy is designed to help you make informed decisions when using our website or interacting with us. It is recommended that the public carefully read this Policy before disclosing any personal data and/or fill in any online form posted on this website. By entering our website you provide your personal data, you agree and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy. “Personal Data” means any information or set of information related to a person, such as name, address, email, phone number, etc. which may be either direct or indirect and may be collected by or on behalf of the Company.
The Personal Data we collect
We may collect and process the following personal information about you, including, but not limited to: Personal information that can be used for your identity, such as name, mailing and/or email address, phone number, date of birth, home address and other information such as your contact preferences, queries you make to the Company Professional data such as the address of your job, the email of your job, your business phone number, your job title/title, educational information about you, your professional qualifications, CV only to the extent necessary to enter into a business or work relationship with you. We collect personal information from you, such as email, phone number or postal address when you request information about our Company, request service as a customer or technical support, request a job or otherwise contact us. Identification data such as your registration/identity data (for example, identity numbers) to the extent required by the Company and permitted by law.
Research
We may contact you to participate in surveys. If you decide to participate, you may be asked to provide certain information that may include personal information.
Digital data
Digital data created by using our website or for the provision of services to the Company, such as IP address, login user credentials, type and version of your browser, time zone setting, user time period on one page, internal path analysis and/or other parameters related to the user’s operating system and computer environment, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other data transmitted via cookies. These data are collected and used only in a centralised and not readily identifiable manner. could be used inter alia to establish liability in case of hypothetical damage to the website or at the request of the public authorities. In addition, we may automatically collect data about your use of our page, such as the types of content you interact with, the frequency and duration of your activities. We may combine your information with information provided by other people when they use our page, including information about you when they tag you.
Publicly Available Information
Information from other sources. We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and organisations, to supplement the information provided by you
Ways to acquire personal data
In most cases, the Company will collect data directly from you, although sometimes we receive data about you from public or third data sources. Here are some examples of how you can provide personal information to the Company:
- by searching and navigating for content
- by ordering newsletters and/or publications
- participating in “join our mailing list”
- if you contact us for more information
- by entering into contracts for professional purposes·
- by visiting our Website while logged in on a Social Media platform and/or
- providing us with business cards or other contact information.
When you are asked to provide personal data, you may refuse. But if you choose not to provide data necessary to provide certain functions of the site, we may not be able to provide you with such functions.
Purposes for processing personal data
The Company will process your personal data only for purposes permitted by applicable law, which may differ depending on your place of residence and the place of activity of the Company and the conditions set out in this Policy. The purposes of the data processing activities may include:
- Our primary purpose for collecting personal information from you is to provide you with more information about myperfumeworldcyprus and our business in general and to explore opportunities to collaborate with you and to hire people who are interested in working with us.
- Analyse and improve our business in accordance with our legitimate interest, such as:
- Identify security issues, offer protection against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and help prosecute those responsible for this activity·
- Measurement of interest and dedication on our Site and short term, temporary use, such as customising ads based on context.
- Research and development of products, services, marketing processes or safety to improve their performance, durability, reliability or effectiveness·
- Improve, upgrade or strengthen our business.
- Development of new products and services.
- Ensure internal quality control.
- Verify your identity and prevent fraud.
- Enforcement of our terms and policies and
- Comply with our legal obligations, protecting your vital interest or as required for the public good.
- Manage our relationships/communications with people: for example, answer questions and comments or information, invite people to the Company’s events, submit suggestions for future service needs.
- For cooperation and research purposes: for example, to enable the Company to make more informed and objective decisions when identifying, interacting with people interested in our business.
- Direct marketing: provision of promotional material and participation in marketing and promotion activities with individuals in accordance with applicable law.
- Site Operations: to ensure that the content from our website is presented in the most effective way for you and your device.
- Legal or regulatory obligations and instructions of law enforcement agencies and court orders: compliance with our legal or regulatory requirements (reporting on information security and complaints about product quality) or enforcement of transparency.
- Send newsletters and other marketing materials related to our project, provided you consent to them.
- Ensure that the content of our website is presented in the most effective way for you and your device.
The Company will process personal data for other purposes, where it is legal or when it is legally obliged to do so.
Legal basis for processing
The Company processes personal data based on one or more of the following conditions:
- Where you have given your consent (in some cases, this consent may be revoked at any time and without giving any reason)·
- Where it is necessary to comply with your contractual obligations.
- Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation,
- Where processing is necessary to protect a person’s vital interests·
- where processing is necessary for the public interest or for a public task·; or
- When processing is in the legitimate interest of the Company, for example, the Company processes data to improve our products and services, to provide security measures, to protect employees, contractors, information and other assets of the Company and to prevent crime (such as fraud, financial crime, theft of intellectual and industrial property, to ensure the integrity of the construction and other works), for statistical purposes or in other ways that are absolutely necessary for the exercise of our business.
Redirect to Other Web Pages
From this website, you can connect through special links with other third party websites. The Company does not approve or recommend the content or services of these sites and assumes no responsibility regarding the personal data processing activities or any activity from or content on third party websites to which our website provides links. We encourage you to read and know the privacy policy and all other policies of each website you visit. Remember, the statements in this Policy apply solely to information collected by the Company.
Disclosure of your personal information to third parties
Personal data shall not be disseminated to unspecified recipients. The Company discloses your personal data to third parties recipients on the basis of the need to know where this is reasonably permitted to pursue its legitimate business objectives and as required by applicable law. Your personal data will only be disclosed in accordance with applicable law and appropriate safeguards through contractual agreements concluded to protect your personal data. Access to your personal data is provided to the absolutely necessary staff of the Company, who are committed to respecting our privacy and to our affiliated companies or third-party service providers, who process your personal data as persons who perform the process on our behalf and in accordance with our orders.
- Companies of the Company’s group for the purposes and under the conditions mentioned above in this Privacy Policy.
- Third-party service providers processing personal data on behalf of the Company, for example (listed without limitation) consulting service providers and other support and administrative service providers providing support services to us, business partners and partners for managing and maintaining email distribution, research and analysis, promoting brand and services, Google, Facebook, and managing certain services and data under agreements entered into. In addition, the disclosure of personal data may take place if the Company or all its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case the personal data we hold as individuals will be included as transferred assets or if the Company has an obligation to disclose or disclose the information of individuals in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations.
- Other third parties, to the extent necessary for the following purposes: (i) compliance with state request, court decision or applicable law, (ii) prevent illegal use of our website or breach of our Terms of Use and policies, (iii) protect us against third party claims and (iv) contribute to the prevention or investigation of fraud.
- To other third parties when you have given us your consent.
The following is the policy we apply with those who share your personal data:
- We only provide the information required to perform their specific services.
- They may use your personal data only for the exact purposes specified in our contract with them.
- We work closely with them to ensure that your personal data is respected and protected at all times.
- If we stop using their services, any of the data they retain will be deleted or converted into anonymous.
International Data Transfer
The Personal Data we collect for the purposes envisaged today are stored in the European Union. However, staff or suppliers or service providers may have access to your personal data and may be transferred and stored to locations outside the EU and elsewhere. When the Company processes personal information in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as in the EU/EEA or in your country where you reside, the Company will apply reasonable and appropriate legal, technical and organisational security measures aimed at the security of the processing and in particular the protection of your personal data from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. In particular, for residents of the European Economic Area each time we transfer your information outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable measures to ensure that adequate safeguards are applied to protect your information (unless we are permitted by applicable data protection legislation to make such transfers without additional formalities, e.g. where the recipient country is considered to be a sufficient destination). These safeguards include the use of standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission as mentioned above. Where appropriate, we may also request your explicit consent.
Security & Data Retention
We will take all necessary measures to ensure that your data is handled securely and in accordance with this Policy, applicable data protection laws and regulations and international security standards. All data you provide to us is stored on secure servers and accessed and used in accordance with our security policies and standards. The Company has implemented as physical, technical and management checks to keep your personal data protected from unauthorised access, disclosure, modification and destruction. Access to your personal data is limited to a small number of employees of the Company whose duties reasonably require such information and third parties with whom the Company enters into a contract for carrying out business activities related to our Company. We will retain your personal data for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected and any other permitted related purpose, such as providing information about the Company or communicating with cooperation opportunities, resolving disputes, creating legal defenders, conducting checks, pursuing legitimate business purposes, enforcing our agreements, complying with the applicable legislation. Data may be retained for a longer period, where applicable laws or regulations require or permit the Company to do so. When your data is no longer needed, it will either be converted to anonymous (and anonymous information may be kept) or destroyed securely.
Marketing Options
If we intend to use your information for marketing purposes or if we will disclose your information to any third party, we will inform you accordingly. You have the right to object to the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes and newsletters. You can also exercise your right at any time by contacting us as defined below.
- More details about the processing of your personal information.
- Access to your personal data we hold about you.
- Information about any inaccuracies in the personal information we keep and which turns out to be inaccurate or incomplete.
- Deletion of any personal information that we no longer have a legal basis to use.
- Provide you or a third party with a copy of your data in digital format (data portability).
- End a specific edit when you withdraw consent.
- processing based on the legitimate interests or the public interest in the processing of information, unless the reasons for undertaking such processing exceed any prejudice to your data protection rights; and
- Restrict some aspects of processing your information.
All requests related to data protection should be addressed to the Company at info@perfumeworld.cy. If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email to opt out of receiving future email. Please note that you will continue to receive transaction-related emails about information you have requested. We may also send you some non-promotional announcements about us, our stores and our website and you will not be able to opt out of these communications (e.g. communications about the website, our stores or updates to our Terms or this Privacy Policy). If we do not handle your request in a timely manner or if you are not satisfied with our response to any exercise of these rights, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. You can find more information and contact details to the competent supervisory authorities
Policy Update
The Company reserves the right to amend this Policy from time to time to reflect technological developments, legal and regulatory changes and business practices of the Company, subject to applicable law. If the Company changes its privacy practices, an updated version of this Policy will reflect these changes by publishing any revisions with the corresponding update of the effective date listed at the bottom of this Policy. Therefore, we encourage you to visit this page from time to time to be informed about how we use your personal data.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Policy or want to receive more information about the Company’s privacy practices, please contact us via email at info@perfumeworld.cy.