Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 16, 2019
The following Privacy Policy governs the online information and data collection practices of https://shereensyed.com/ (“us”, “we”, or “our”). Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using the https://shereensyed.com website (the “Site”), and the ways in which we use this information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using the Site, you agree that your use of the Site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy. Because the Web is a growing and evolving space, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we will post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this website and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. We will endeavour to notify with 30 days notice of any changes made and the effective date. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorised third party.
How We Collect and Use Information
This Site only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in the event that they have signed up to receive our free email communications. Generally, this information includes name and e-mail address for registration to receive our updates or when we share a new post. All of this information is provided to me by us. In the future, our email communications may include other information, and we reserve the right to update this policy to reflect this.
We also collect and store information that is generated automatically as you navigate online through the Site. For example, we may collect information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic on the Site. We also may use a standard feature found in browser software called a “cookie” to enhance your experience with the Site. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit my site, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference information before. The Site also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic files also known as “transparent GIFs”) to access cookies and to count users who visit the Site or open HTML-formatted email messages. Details of how to disable cookies on your own web browser can be found in our Cookies Policy.
The information that you give to us directly on the site (e.g. within comments on blog posts such as your name and email address) is never shared or added to any mailing lists. You may request to have your details removed from my website, for example those left in comments, at any time by emailing us at contact@shereensyed.com
To ensure the security and safety of this site, we may create regular backups of all information on this site, which are held on our own machine or within the database of the server of our site. Each backup file will be deleted in full when the next one is created.
The Site may include links to websites we recommend or work with on a collaborative basis, and provide access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. Some of the links we provide may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item connected to that link, we will receive an affiliate commission at no cost you. When you access another website or purchase third-party products or services through the site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting, or the provider of such products or services.
Be aware that we may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of the site or the public.
Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we sell some or all of our assets, or our website is acquired by another company, information about our users may be among the transferred assets.
Purchases
When a purchase is made on the site, details entered to facilitate the purchase will be stored on our database for a select period of time. Generally this will include name & email address for electronic purchases, and name, email address, and full postal address for physical products. Details of completed purchases will be stored for a period of 21 months.
Please note that if a purchase is not completed or is cancelled, details of these will also be stored as follows;
- Pending order – 1 week
- Failed order – 6 months
- Cancelled order –6 months
- Completed purchase – 1 year
Details of completed purchases are stored for the length of time required for tax and reporting purposes, and as such are legally covered under the General Data Protection Regulation as lawful.
Should you wish to have your details removed from our database following a failed, cancelled, or abandoned (pending) order, please contact us at contact@shereensyed.com
Affiliate links and non-disclosure
Some links on this site may be affiliate links. These are links to products or services that we highly recommend and are an affiliate for. Should you click on one of these links and decide to purchase the service(s) or product(s), we will receive a small commission of the sale at no extra cost to you.
Links to third-party web sites or services are not owned or controlled by myself.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that this website and its owner shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.
Content
All the information on this site is exclusively owned by us, and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed or shared in a way which suggests it belongs to anyone other than us. Quotes may be extracted from content on this site in the event that explicit permission is sought from us, and adequate credit is displayed.
Competitions
This site may run regular competitions and giveaways. In order to facilitate these, competition entrants will be required to supply certain information. This includes but is not limited to; full name, email address, and full postal address.
Full postal addresses of winners will be shared with brands where necessary to ensure delivery of your prize. As such, supplying of full postal address is necessary to enter any competitions on this site. Your details will never be shared with anyone other than the brand supplying the prize for the giveaway or competition which you enter. We take steps to ensure that prize suppliers are GDPR compliant and do not use your details for any other reason than to provide your prize, but we cannot be held responsible for any misuse of data by any third party.
Email addresses supplied during the entering of competitions and giveaways are used solely for the purposes of contacting winners. Your details are never added to mailing lists or shared with any third parties unless necessary.
The sharing of full name, email address, and full postal address is required in order to facilitate competitions and giveaways, and therefore the collection of this information is granted legally under the GDPR base of ‘contract’ As such, if you are not happy to share your full name, email address, and full postal address we will be unable to continue with your competition or giveaway entrance.
In the event that the online software we use to facilitate competitions and giveaways incurs a security breach, we will notify the ICO within 72 hours of being aware of the breach. We will endeavour to notify all competition entrants for whom we have details as soon as is reasonably and safely practicable.
You may request to have your details removed from my database and competition software any time after the competition or giveaway has ended by contacting us at contact@shereensyed.com
How Do We Store Your Information as a Subscriber?
Your information is stored on the site’s database. Your information can only be accessed by those who help manage those lists in order to deliver e-mail to those who would like to receive this Site’s newsletters and recent posts. We take steps to ensure that all Virtual Assistants we use to help us complete tasks are GDPR knowledgeable and compliant in their practices.
Any newsletters or emails that are sent to you by this Site, either now or in the future, will include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any time from our current or future newsletters or mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link that can be found in every communication that we may send you.
Disclaimer
Although it is highly unlikely, this policy may be changed at any time at our discretion. If we should update this policy, we will post the updates to this page on our Website.
In the event of a security breach on this website, we will notify the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, and we will notify yourself as soon as we can reasonably and safely do so, ensuring there is no further compromise of data.
In the event of a security breach of my machine, including any backups of the site, we will notify the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, and we will notify yourself as soon as we can reasonably and safely do so, ensuring there is no further compromise of data.
In the event of a security breach on any third party server which we use to store your information (such as online competition software, we will notify you as soon as we can reasonably do so and we have been notified by the third party. We will also notify the ICO within 72 hours of being made aware of any breach.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy please feel free to email us at contact@shereensyed.com
