Privacy Policy

Last updated October 26, 2021

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Uidef ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at contact@uidef.com.

This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:

  • Visit our website at https://uidef.com
  • Engage with us in other related ways ― including any sales, marketing, or events

In this privacy notice, if we refer to:

  • "Website," we are referring to any website of ours that references or links to this policy
  • "Services," we are referring to our Website, and other related services, including any sales, marketing, or events

The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Website or otherwise whenyou contact us.

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactionswith us and the Website , the choices you make and the products and features youuse. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Personal Information Provided by You. We collect names ; phone numbers ; emailaddresses ; mailing addresses ; usernames ; passwords ; contact or authenticationdata ; billing addresses ; and other similar information.

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you makepurchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number),and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data isstored by Stripe . You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: http://www.stripe.com/privacy .

Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with ususing your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, Twitter or othersocial media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect theinformation described in the section called " HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS? " below.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate,and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate businessinterests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legalobligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of businesspurposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposesin reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform acontract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations.We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listedbelow.

We use the information we collect or receive:

  • To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link youraccount with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebookaccount), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those thirdparties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance ofthe contract. See the section below headed " HOW DO WE HANDLE YOURSOCIAL LOGINS? " for further information.
  • To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Website that may containpersonal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consentto use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, ordelete your testimonial, please contact us at contact@uidef.com and be sureto include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
  • Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and tocontact you about your use of our Website .
  • To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information inorder to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
  • To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes ofmanaging our account and keeping it in working order.
  • To send administrative information to you. We may use your personalinformation to send you product, service and new feature information and/orinformation about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
  • To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our effortsto keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring andprevention).
  • To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, tocomply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with ourcontract.
  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoenaor other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determinehow to respond.
  • Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill andmanage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Website .
  • Administer prize draws and competitions. We may use your information toadminister prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in ourcompetitions.
  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use yourinformation to provide you with the requested service.
  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use yourinformation to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues youmight have with the use of our Services.
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITHANYONE?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, toprovide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent touse your personal information for a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonablynecessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
  • Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you,we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legallyrequired to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmentalrequests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as inresponse to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to publicauthorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
  • Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it isnecessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violationsof our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to thesafety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in whichwe are involved.
  • More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personalinformation in the following situations:

    • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connectionwith, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing,or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKINGTECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and storeyour information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels)to access or store information. Specific information about how we use suchtechnologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice .

5. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our services using a social mediaaccount, we may have access to certain information about you.

Our Website offers you the ability to register and login using your third-party socialmedia account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social mediaprovider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social mediaprovider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list,profile picture as well as other information you choose to make public on such socialmedia platform.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in thisprivacy notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Website .Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of yourpersonal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend thatyou review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use and share yourpersonal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sitesand apps.

6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposesoutlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for thepurposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required orpermitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose inthis notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the periodof time in which users have an account with us .

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personalinformation, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is notpossible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backuparchives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it fromany further processing until deletion is possible.

7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system oforganizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measuresdesigned to protect the security of any personal information we process. However,despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronictransmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteedto be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals,or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, andimproperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do ourbest to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to andfrom our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within asecure environment.

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processingyour personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local dataprotection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm .

If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protectionauthorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html .

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at contact@uidef.com .

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account orterminate your account, you can:

  • Log in to your account settings and update your user account.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete youraccount and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with anyinvestigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legalrequirements.

Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookiesby default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to removecookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, thiscould affect certain features or services of our Website . To opt-out of interest-basedadvertising by advertisers on our Website visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ .

Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email listat any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or bycontacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from themarketing email list — however, we may still communicate with you, for example tosend you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use ofyour account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.To otherwise opt-out, you may:

  • Access your account settings and update your preferences.
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applicationsinclude a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal yourprivacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitoredand collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing andimplementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respondto DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFICPRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rightsregarding access to your personal information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law,permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once ayear and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any)we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names andaddresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in theimmediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would liketo make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contactinformation provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered accountwith the Website , you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that youpublicly post on the Website . To request removal of such data, please contact ususing the contact information provided below, and include the email addressassociated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We willmake sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website , but please be aware thatthe data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems(e.g. backups, etc.).

CCPA Privacy Notice

The California Code of Regulations defines a "resident" as:

  • Every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary ortransitory purpose and
  • Every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside theState of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as "non-residents."

If this definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights andobligations regarding your personal information.

What categories of personal information do we collect?

We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve(12) months:

Category Examples Collected
Identifiers Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name NO
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information YES
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law Gender and date of birth NO
Commercial information Transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment information NO
Biometric information Fingerprints and voiceprints NO
Internet or other similar network activity Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and advertisements NO
Geolocation data Device location NO
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities NO
Professional or employment-related information Business contact details in order to provide you our services at a business level, job title as well as work history and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us NO
Education Information Student records and directory information NO
Inferences drawn from other personal information Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics NO

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instanceswhere you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

  • Receiving help through our customer support channels;
  • Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
  • Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

How do we use and share your personal information?

More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in thisprivacy notice .

You may contact us by email at contact@uidef.com , or by referring to the contactdetails at the bottom of this document.

If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny arequest if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validlyauthorized to act on your behalf.

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to awritten contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as forundertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. Thisis not considered to be "selling" of your personal data.

Uidef has not disclosed or sold any personal information to third parties for abusiness or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months. Uidef will not sellpersonal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users and otherconsumers.

Your rights with respect to your personal data

Right to request deletion of the data - Request to delete

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete yourpersonal information, we will respect your request and delete your personalinformation, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to)the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliancerequirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be requiredto protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed - Request to know

Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:

  • whether we collect and use your personal information;
  • the categories of personal information that we collect;
  • the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
  • whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
  • the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a businesspurpose;
  • the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold ordisclosed for a business purpose; and
  • the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personalinformation.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or deleteconsumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you arethe same person about whom we have the information in our system. Theseverification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match itwith information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on thetype of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that wecan match the information you provide with the information we already have on file,or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) thatyou have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods asthe circumstances dictate.

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identityor authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requestingadditional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, wecannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we mayrequest that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying youridentity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete suchadditionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

Other privacy rights

  • you may object to the processing of your personal data.
  • you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longerrelevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data.
  • you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA onyour behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does notsubmit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf inaccordance with the CCPA.
  • you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information tothird parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the requestas soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of therequest submission.

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at contact@uidef.com , or byreferring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaintabout how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant withrelevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will beindicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective assoon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we maynotify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directlysending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequentlyto be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at contact@uidef.com or by post to:

Uidef

__________

__________ , Romania

Romania

13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THEDATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to requestaccess to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, ordelete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete yourpersonal information, please visit: uidef.com/data-request .

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