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We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our Website Guests and community.
Merovex ("we", "us" and "our") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. For more information about Merovex, see Contact Us below.
This Privacy Policy (our "Privacy Policy") describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites with the top-level domain names of http://dausha.net http://merovex.com (each a "Website" and collectively, the "Websites") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
We use third-party cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of Websites, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
We use your data to support understanding how you use the Website, support our delivery of the Website to you, and our engagement with you as Our audience. We process your personal data to build a relationship with our audience, and our legitimate interests. For details of what data is collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.
There are five areas where personal data may be collected and used, detailed below:
- Commercial Affiliation
- Displaying Content from External Platforms
- Hosting & Backend Infrastructure
- Notification Data
- Usage Data
Commercial affiliation 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 Website are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with this Website. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by continuing to use our Website.
Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
- Personal Data collected: Cookies, and Usage & Other Data.
- Place of processing: United States
Displaying Content from External Platforms allows our Website to distribute our content using servers located across different countries and to optimize our performance. What Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. These services filter communications between our Website and the User's browser. Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information User are transferred. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by continuing to use our Website.
Cloudfare: CloudFlare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by CloudFlare Inc. CloudFlare filters all the traffic through our Website, i.e., communication between our Website and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from our Website to be collected.
- Personal Data collected: Cookies and Other Data
- Place of processing: United States
Font Awesome Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows our Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages
- Personal Data: Usage and Other Data
- Place of processing: United States
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows our Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
- Personal Data: Usage and Other Data
- Place of processing: United States
- Privacy Shield participant
Hosting and Backend Infrastructure allows the Website to run and be distributed closer to you by providing a ready-made infrastructure to run features of our Website. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by continuing to use our Website.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) is a hosting and backend service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
- Personal Data collected: Other Data.
- Place of processing: United States
Google Cloud Storage is a hosting service provided by Google Inc.
- Personal Data collected: Other Data
- Place of processing: United States
- Privacy Shield participant
We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed to send you the relevant notifications or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by signing up for the newsletter.
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 our Website. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to our Website or after making a purchase.
MailChimp: MailChimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC.
- Personal Data collected: email address, first and last name.
- Place of processing: United States
- Privacy Shield participant
We may process your website usage ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type & version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your website use. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of better understanding our audience. The legal basis for this processing is your consent by continuing to use our Website.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.) Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of our Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
- Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
- Place of processing: United States
- Opt Out
We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice]. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person.
Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
We may disclose your personal data to our insurers or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this section, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
We may process your Personal Data outside of your home country, including to the United States. We only do this when we are legally permitted to do so and when we have appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), in order to provide our Websites, we may send and store your Personal Data outside of the EEA, including to the United States. Accordingly, your Personal Data may be transferred outside the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide an adequate level of protection for your Personal Data.
You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such personal data by others.
You have several complex rights under various data protection laws. We summarize those rights below as we understand it. You should be cognizant of relevant national laws and guidance from regulatory authorities for a more detailed understanding.
Your principal rights under data protection law are:
Access Rights. You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data.
Correction. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you corrected and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
Deletion. In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Restriction. You may have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
Objection. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
Portability. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is: (a) consent; or (b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Complaint. If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
Consent Withdrawal. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies that we use are provided by third-party providers, detailed above.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
This website is owned and operated by Ben Wilson.
Our principal place of business is at [address].
You can contact us by email, using ben at merovex.com
Our data protection officer's contact details are: ben at merovex.com.