CheekyLocks.com collects some Personal Data from its Users through cookies.
Learn more about the types of data we collect, how and why we use it, your rights, and more legal information by reading this privacy policy.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information allows for the identification of an individual. Examples of personal data: name, email address, IP address, photographs, etc.
Cookies
Small piece of data stored in the User’s device. Also known as an HTTP cookie, an Internet cookie, a browser cookie or a web cookie, the magic cookie is a series of 1s and 0s, a package of data that the computer receives when accessing a virtual domain and then sends it back without changing or altering it.
User
The individual accessing the Website’s services and information. Can also bear the name of Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person from which the Personal Data is collected.
The Website
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed. It’s also the main provider of services accessed by the User.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through CheekyLocks.com or the third-party services used by The Website, which can include:
- the IP addresses or domain names of the terminals utilized by the Users to access the Website;
- the Uniform Resource Identifier addresses (URI);
- the time the user accessed The Website’s services;
- the size of the response file received by the user when soliciting the server to access the website;
- ping time;
- the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.);
- the user’s country of origin
- the user’s internet browser features
- the operating system installed on the device the user used to access The Website;
- various engagement metrics
- time spent on each individual page;
- how many pages the user accessed and the order in which they were visited.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency, website owner, or other entity which, alone or with third parties, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
This includes security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of The Website.
Service
The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this website. The service more likely to be found on CheekyLocks.com are informative articles.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
The GDPR regulation is intended to contribute to the accomplishment of an area of freedom, security and justice and of an economic union, to economic and social progress, to the strengthening and the convergence of the economies within the internal market, and to the well-being of natural persons.
Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects automatically (by itself or through third parties such as plugins) are: Cookies and Usage Data.
The Website also collects personally identifiable information such as first name, last name, and email address only from users who choose to subscribe to The Website’s services. All information is collected through a double opt-in service according to the provisions of Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation)
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Website.
All Data requested by this Website is mandatory for the best user experience. Any failure to provide this Data may make it hard for the Website to provide its full services. However, you can still use the services of The Website without providing the information. In this case, we do not assume responsibility for the lack of quality services as some may depend on cookies for full functionality.
In cases where this Website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Website or by the owners of third-party services used by this Website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available. The data will not be used in any other way besides those described in the present Privacy Policy.
Mode and place of processing the Data
Processing and Protecting User Data
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of User Data.
Data processing is takes place in a secure environment using computers and/or IT enabled tools. All actions are in accordance with organizational procedures.
In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to other individuals involved with the operation of this Website such as:
- Website administrator
- Marketing department
- Third-parties (verified by the Owner) such as:
- technical service providers,
- mail carriers
- hosting providers appointed.
All individuals and/or entities that receive access to User Data will be named Data Processors by the Owner.
The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Legal basis of processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
- Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
Under legislations outside the EU, the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data without the explicit consent of the user and until the user specifically opts out of the services. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to GDPR;
- Provision of Data is necessary for the performance of any pre-contractual obligations and/or agreement with the User and/or for thereof;
- Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
- Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
- Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. On occasion, this may infer that User Data is transferred and processed to a country other than that in which the User accesses The Website.
Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data by sending a data request to the Owner via the email address mentioned in the Contact Page. All requests will be processed in 21 working days.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
- Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
- Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.
- The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
- Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
The purposes of processing
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Services, as well as for the following purposes:
- Advertising;
- Analytics;
- Marketing;
- Better add placement;
- Commercial affiliation;
- Content performance;
- Content testing (A/B testing);
- Platform services and hosting.
Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and about the specific Personal Data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for displaying advertisements in the form of banners and other such formats on this Website, based on User interests and behavior, including those detected outside this Website.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: EUROPE – Privacy Policy – Double Opt-In.
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Commercial affiliation
This type of service allows this Website to display advertisements for third-party products or services. Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.
Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with this Website.
For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.
Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)
Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc. Amazon tracks the origin of a link click via cookies to determine the service provider from which the user landed on the platform. All purchases made on Amazon using links provided by the Website will generate revenue for the Website.
Contacting the User
Contact form (This Website)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data collected: email address and first name.
Mailing List or Newsletter (This Website)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Website.
Personal Data collected: email address and first name.
YouTube video widget (Google Inc.)
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.)
Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Photos
Provides access to the photos the User has uploaded.
Facebook account access (this Website)
This service allows this Website to connect with the User’s account on the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook, Inc.
Permissions asked: Photos.
Pinterest “Pin it” button (Pinterest)
The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.)
MailChimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC.
Personal Data collected: email address.
Platform services and hosting
These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of this Website, therefore allowing the provision of this Website from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
WordPress.com (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress.com is a platform provided by Automattic Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host this Website.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
User Rights
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
- Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
- Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.
- Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
- Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
- Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
- Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
- Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User’s consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact page. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.
Cookie Policy
This Website uses Cookies. To learn more and for a detailed cookie notice, the User may consult the Cookie Policy.
Additional information about Data collection and processing
Legal action
The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Website or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
Additional information about User’s Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time.
It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Owner remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Owner has about Users.
This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document.
Latest update: November, 2019