Last updated: 15 December 2023
Your privacy is important to us. It is SEKI GADGETS’s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable laws and regulations regarding any personal information we may collect about you. This Privacy Policy explains how SEKI GADGETS collects, uses and discloses the personal information we collect from you when you use our website, purchase our products or services, or otherwise interact with us.
Collection of Personal Information
Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as your name, phone number, and email address), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.
How We Collect Information From You
Information we collect from you falls into one of two categories:
“Voluntarily provided” information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us with when accessing our services.
“Automatically collected” information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our services.
We collect information directly from you when you:
- register for an account;
- place an order for any of our products or services;
- subscribe to our mailing list;
- contact us using any of our website contact forms, contact widgets, email, including by social media, or participating in an online survey;
- use our website.
Voluntary Information We Collect From You
We collect voluntarily provided information directly from you when you purchase a product or service, subscribe to our mailing list, contact us including by social media. Voluntary information we collect from you may include:
- name;
- address;
- phone number;
- email address;
- contact preferences;
- credit card information;
- social media profile information where the contact is via social media.
Automatically Collected Information
When you view or use our website, some information is automatically collected. For example, when you visit our services through your computer, we automatically log your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address and approximate location information derived from your IP address, access times, browser type and language, and the website you visited before navigating to our website. Additionally, when you visit our website through your mobile device, we collect your unique device ID, device make and model, device IP address, mobile web browser type and version and mobile carrier. We also collect information about your usage of and activity on our website.
Automatic Information Collection Methods
Cookies
We automatically collect information using “cookies”. Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how our website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our website secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and generally providing you with a better user experience when visiting our website.
To find out more information about the types of cookies we use on our website please see our Cookie Policy.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Content on our website 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.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may also obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect on our services. For example, we may collect information about you from analytics providers and other third parties that provide us with information about our users. The types of information we may collect about you from other sources include your, demographic information (such as your gender and, age range), your device and operating system information, and regional information.
Third Party Analytics & Advertising
We may also allow third parties to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other devices or technologies to collect information about your use of the services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by SEKI GADGETS and third parties to, among other things, analyze data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver targeted advertising or other content based on your interests and better understand the usage and visitation of our services and other sites tracked by these third parties.
For more information about Internet-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit All About Cookies and Your Privacy or Targeted Advertising Fact Sheet.
Third-Party Links
Our site contains links to third-party sites and services. Please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site as we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
Use of Information
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information
We adhere to the standards outlined in this Privacy Policy by ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly, transparently, and only with legitimate reasons for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our products and services to you.
How we use your personal information
We may process your personal information:
- for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
- to operate and improve our products and services;
- to provide and deliver products and services and send you related information;
- to respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
- to communicate with you about new promotions and rewards, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by SEKI GADGETS;
- to monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our products and services;
- to provide advertisements, content or features that match user profiles or interests;
- for compliance with a legal obligation to which SEKI GADGETS is subject;
- for the performance of a contract to which you are party; and
- when we have assessed it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by SEKI GADGETS or a third party to whom it may be necessary to disclose information.
Security of Your Personal Information
When we collect, process, and store your personal information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. This also applies to personal information about you that we may receive from third parties.
You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period depends on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information as part of accessing any of our products or services, we may retain this information for the duration your account exists on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.
Where necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
Sharing of Information
We may share information about you as follows:
- with your consent or at your direction;
- third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) service providers, web hosting and server providers, analytics providers, debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, professional advisors, regulatory authorities, and payment service providers;
- with service providers who are working on our behalf and need access to your information to carry out their work for us;
- with other companies that we partner with to offer marketing services such as promotions, surveys or questionnaires when you opt-in to this type of sharing;
- our employees, contractors, affiliates, and/or related entities;
- in response to a legal request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or legal process;
- if we believe your actions are in breach of our terms and conditions or policies or to protect the rights, property and safety of SEKI GADGETS or others;
- in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, asset sale, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
Social Sharing Features
Our website may offer social plug-ins (such as the Facebook “Like” button) or other tools or features which let you share actions you take on our services with other websites, and vice versa. The use of such social sharing features enables the sharing of certain information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these features.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Your Choice
By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website and/or access to our products and services.
Promotional Communications
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may opt out of receiving promotional SMS messages and/ or emails from SEKI GADGETS by following the instructions in those messages. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional SMS messages and/ or emails, such as information about services which you have purchased or account related security notifications.
Cookies and Pixels
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. Depending on your browser, you can change the settings of your browser to reject/block/delete cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or block/reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our services. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit All About Cookies.
Do Not Track
Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
Access
You may request details of the personal information we hold about you at any time using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.
Correction
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this Privacy Policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example providing user support), we will not deny you access and/ or charge you different prices for our products and services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Notification of Data Breaches
We will comply with all laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
Complaints
If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please Contact Us and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to act on your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the Policy, and in some cases, if required by law, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a notice on our homepage or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy whenever you access our services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
Contact Information
You may contact us regarding this Privacy Policy through our Contact page.