Privacy Policy
Pausetiv Srl Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. It is Pausetiv Srl's policyto respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulationregarding any personal information we may collect about you, including acrossour website, https://www.pausetiv.com,and other sites we own and operate.
Personal information is any information about you which canbe used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (suchas name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and eveninformation about how you use a website or online service.
In the event our site contains links to third-party sitesand services, please be aware that those sites and services have their ownprivacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you shouldread their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and usepersonal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of youractivities after you leave our site.
This policy is effective as of May 16, 2024
Last updated: May 16, 2024
Information We Collect
Information we collect falls into one of two categories:“voluntarily provided” information and “automatically collected” information.
“Voluntarily provided” information refers to any informationyou knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of ourservices and promotions.
“Automatically collected” information refers to anyinformation automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing ourproducts and services.
Log Data
When you visit our website, our servers may automaticallylog the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include yourdevice’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, thepages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page,and other details about your visit.
Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while usingthe site, we may automatically collect data about the error and thecircumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technicaldetails about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened,and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may notreceive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they haveoccurred, or what the nature of the error is.
Please be aware that while this information may not bepersonally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with otherdata to personally identify individual persons.
Personal Information
We may ask for personal information — for example, when yousubscribe to our newsletter or when you contact us — which may include one ormore of the following:
- Name
- Date of birth
Sensitive Information
“Sensitive information” or “special categories of data” is asubset of personal information that is given a higher level of protection.Examples of sensitive information include information relating to your racialor ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or otherprofessional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexualorientation, sexual practices or sex life, criminal records, healthinformation, or biometric information.
The types of sensitive information that we may collect aboutyou include:
- Sexual practices or sex life
- Health information
- Biometric information
We will not collect sensitive information about you withoutfirst obtaining your consent, and we will only use or disclose your sensitiveinformation as permitted, required, or authorized by law.
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your PersonalInformation
We only collect and use your personal information when wehave a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collectpersonal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services toyou.
Collection and Use of Information
We may collect personal information from you when you do anyof the following on our website:
- Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
- Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
- Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
- When you mention us on social media
We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for thefollowing purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in amanner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to provide you with our platform's core features and services
- to enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our website
- to contact and communicate with you
- for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
- for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
- to attribute any content (e.g. posts and comments) you submit that we publish on our website
- for technical assessment, including to operate and improve our app, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
We may combine voluntarily provided and automaticallycollected personal information with general information or research data wereceive from other trusted sources. For example, Our marketing and marketresearch activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine withinformation about how visitors use our site to improve our site and yourexperience on it.
Security of Your Personal Information
When we collect and process personal information, and whilewe retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptablemeans to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure,copying, use or modification.
Although we will do our best to protect the personalinformation you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronictransmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute datasecurity.
You are responsible for selecting any password and itsoverall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information withinthe bounds of our services. For example, ensuring you do not make your personalinformation publicly available via our platform.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only for as long as weneed to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for,in accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided uswith personal information such as an email address when contacting us about aspecific enquiry, we may retain this information for the duration of yourenquiry remaining open as well as for our own records so we may effectivelyaddress similar enquiries in future. If your personal information is no longerrequired for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removingall details that identify you.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personalinformation for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reportingobligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, orhistorical research purposes or statistical purposes.
Children’s Privacy
We do not aim any of our products or services directly atchildren under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personalinformation about children under 13.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to:
- a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our company
- third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
- our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
- our existing or potential agents or business partners
- credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
- third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
- third parties to collect and process data
- an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business
Third parties we currently use include:
- Google Analytics
International Transfers of Personal Information
The personal information we collect is stored and/orprocessed in Italy, or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-partyproviders maintain facilities.
The countries to which we store, process, or transfer yourpersonal information may not have the same data protection laws as the countryin which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personalinformation to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform thosetransfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) wewill protect the transferred personal information in accordance with thisprivacy policy.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Your choice: By providing personal informationto us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personalinformation in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to providepersonal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use ofour website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties: If we receivepersonal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as setout in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personalinformation about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have suchperson’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Marketing permission: If you have previouslyagreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, youmay change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
Access: You may request details of the personalinformation that we hold about you.
Correction: If you believe that any informationwe hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, ormisleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacypolicy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to beinaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Non-discrimination: We will not discriminateagainst you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information.Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particularservice or offer (for example providing user support), we will not deny yougoods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods orservices, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposingpenalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods orservices.
Notification of data breaches: We will complywith laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
Complaints: If you believe that we have breacheda relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact ususing the details below 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 dealwith your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body ordata protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our emaildatabase or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications),please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-outusing the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need torequest specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
Business Transfers
If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely eventthat we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data,including your personal information, among the assets transferred to anyparties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and thatany parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law,continue to use your personal information according to this policy, which theywill be required to assume as it is the basis for any ownership or use rightswe have over such information.
Limits of Our Policy
Our website may link to external sites that are not operatedby us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies ofthose sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respectiveprivacy practices.
Changes to This Policy
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy toreflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, orlegislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy,we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing thisprivacy policy.
If required by law, we will get your permission or give youthe opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of yourpersonal information.
Additional Disclosures for General Data ProtectionRegulation (GDPR) Compliance (EU)
Data Controller / Data Processor
The GDPR distinguishes between organisations that processpersonal information for their own purposes (known as "datacontrollers") and organisations that process personal information onbehalf of other organisations (known as "data processors"). We,Pausetiv Srl, located at the address provided in our Contact Us section, are aData Controller and/or Processor with respect to the personal information youprovide to us.
Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
We will only collect and use your personal information whenwe have a legal right to do so. In which case, we will collect and use yourpersonal information lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner. If we seekyour consent to process your personal information, and you are under 16 yearsof age, we will seek your parent or legal guardian’s consent to process yourpersonal information for that specific purpose.
Our lawful bases depend on the services you use and how youuse them. This means we only collect and use your information on the followinggrounds:
Consent From You
Where you give us consent to collect and use your personalinformation for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any timeusing the facilities we provide; however this will not affect any use of yourinformation that has already taken place. You may consent to providing youremail address for the purpose of receiving marketing emails from us. While youmay unsubscribe at any time, we cannot recall any email we have already sent.If you have any further enquiries about how to withdraw your consent, pleasefeel free to enquire using the details provided in the Contact Us section ofthis privacy policy.
Performance of a Contract or Transaction
Where you have entered into a contract or transaction withus, or in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contractor transaction with you. For example, if you contact us with an enquiry, we mayrequire personal information such as your name and contact details in order torespond.
Our Legitimate Interests
Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimateinterests, such as for us to provide, operate, improve and communicate ourservices. We consider our legitimate interests to include research anddevelopment, understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our services,measures taken to operate our services efficiently, marketing analysis, andmeasures taken to protect our legal rights and interests.
Compliance with Law
In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keepyour personal information. Such cases may include (but are not limited to)court orders, criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatoryobligations. If you have any further enquiries about how we retain personalinformation in order to comply with the law, please feel free to enquire usingthe details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.
International Transfers Outside of the European EconomicArea (EEA)
We will ensure that any transfer of personal informationfrom countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEAwill be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard dataprotection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of bindingcorporate rules or other legally accepted means.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Restrict: You have the right to request that werestrict the processing of your personal information if (i) you are concernedabout the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe your personalinformation has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain thepersonal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv) we are inthe process of considering your objection in relation to processing on thebasis of legitimate interests.
Objecting to processing: You have the right toobject to processing of your personal information that is based on ourlegitimate interests or public interest. If this is done, we must providecompelling legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides yourinterests, rights, and freedoms, in order to proceed with the processing ofyour personal information.
Data portability: You may have the right torequest a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible,we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machineformat. You may also have the right to request that we transfer this personalinformation to a third party.
Deletion: You may have a right to request thatwe delete the personal information we hold about you at any time, and we willtake reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our currentrecords. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will let youknow how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and services.There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons which, ifapplicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. If youterminate or delete your account, we will delete your personal informationwithin 30 days of the deletion of your account. Please be aware that searchengines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personalinformation that has been made public at least once, like certain profileinformation and public comments, even after you have deleted the informationfrom our services or deactivated your account.
Contact Us
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, youmay contact us using the following details:
Clarice Pinto
info@pausetiv.com
