Thanks for visiting Ekua Essentials. Ekua Essentials values the privacy of its clients and website visitors. Any personal information that may be made available to the Ekua Essentials when browsing or navigating this website shall be kept confidential. Examples of some of the scenarios where visitors may provide their personal information may include:
Placing an order on the website
Posting a question or comment through the website;
Participating in an online survey;
Joining our mailing list;
or any other business-related reason.
You are provided the opportunity to agree or decline to give your personal information via the Internet. Ekua Essentials will inform you of the purpose of the collection and does not intend to transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described under the discussion entitled “Information Sharing and Disclosure” below.
DOMAIN INFORMATION COLLECTION
Personally Identifiable Information
1. In order to serve our customers and visitors, Ekua Essentials collects personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, and phone numbers when such information is voluntarily submitted by visitors. Any credit card information for purchases is not collected by Ekua Essentials, but is collected through third-party services such as PayPal or Square.
Ekua Essentials will only use your personally identifiable information for the following purposes: (1) to send you information via our mailing list if you have opted into our mailing list (2) to deliver the products and/or services to you that you have requested; (3) to validate your compliance with our privacy policy and terms and conditions; and (4) for feedback purposes.
USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING USER TRAFFIC
Some pages on this website may use cookies: small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID to track the pages visited, but the only personal information that a cookie can contain is information that you supply yourself. Cookies are used for site registration and customization the next time you visit the website.
Some parts of the site may also use cookies to track user traffic patterns for the purpose of determining the usefulness of website information to visitors and to evaluate the effectiveness of the website navigational structure in helping visitors reach that information. Please note that cookies cannot read data from your hard drive. Your browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this website.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Your personal information is never shared outside Ekua Essentials without your permission, except under conditions listed below:
CONSENTING TO SHARE YOUR INFORMATION TO A THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDER WORKING ON OUR BEHALF TO SERVE YOU; OR REQUIRING US TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A PRODUCT OR SERVICE.
Ekua Essentials will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in urgent circumstances to protect personal safety or the public.
By permitting us to collect this information, you will be able to receive information about services and/or products that may be of interest to you. You also allow Ekua Essentials to personalize your user experience so that Ekua Essentials can provide you with the highest quality of service.
By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive email from Ekua Essentials. You can unsubscribe from our email lists at any time by clicking the unsubscribe option that is included at the bottom of every email. Ekua Essentials will only send emails to people who have authorized Ekua Essentials to contact them. Ekua Essentials dislikes spam too so you will not be receiving any spam from Ekua Essentials. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow Ekua Essentials to use your email address for audience targeting for custom advertising on social media platforms such as Tiktok, Facebook or Instagram.
Among whom is your data shared?
- PayPal
- Hosting service providers
- Fraud prevention service providers
- Ad networks and marketing tools like Mailchimp
- Analytics service providers such as Google
- Engineering and development tools
- Contract personnel
SECURITY
Ekua Essential strives to protect your personal information but urges you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often and use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. This website uses an SSL certificate and also PayPal for payment processing.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
Children under 18 years old are not the target audience for this website. To protect their privacy, Ekua Essentials prohibits the solicitation of personal information from such children.
LOCATED IN THE EU?
If you are located in the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below.
For this section, Ekua Essentials uses the terms “Personal Data” and “Processing” as they are defined in the GDPR, but, in addition to the information identified in this Privacy Policy as Personally Identifiable Information above, “Personal Data” means any information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage, and disclosure. EkuaEssentials.com will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services.
1. What personal data does Ekua Essentials collect from you?
Ekua Essentials only collects Personal Data about you when you voluntarily provide such information to Ekua Essentials or when Personal Data about you is automatically collected in connection with your use of the Services.
2. Personal Data collected includes, without limitation, the following:
- First and Last name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Location information: Zipcode, City, State, Country, IP address
- Links to your social media accounts
- Device Identifiers
- Cookies and other tracking technology
- Web browser information
- Browsing history
- Page view statistics
- Log Data
- Any other information you choose to share publicly on blog posts or on social media posts
3. What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Personal Data?
Your rights are set forth below. For more information, please email [email protected]. Note that Ekua Essentials may need you to provide additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.
- Right to Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data is incomplete, you can request that Ekua Essentials correct or supplement such data. Please submit requests to the controller at [email protected].
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to be forgotten. Feel free to request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems by submitting a request to the controller at [email protected].
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data. Please submit requests to the controller at [email protected].
- Right to Data Portability: You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible. Please submit requests to the controller at [email protected].
- Right to Object: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes. Please submit requests to the controller at [email protected].
- Right to File Complaint: You have the right to file a complaint about EkuaEssentials.com’s Personal Data practices with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please submit requests to the controller at [email protected].
- Transfers of Personal Data: The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through EkuaEssentials.com and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize EkuaEssentials.com to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. You hereby consent to the transfer of your data to the U.S. as set forth herein.
Ekuaessentials.com is committed to the Principles of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection and use of Personal Data transferred from the EU. These Principles are notice, choice, accountability for onward transfer, security, data integrity and purpose limitation, access and recourse, enforcement and liability with respect to all Personal Data received from within the EU in reliance on the Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield Principles require that we remain potentially liable if any third party processing Personal Data on Ekua Essentials’ behalf fails to comply with these Privacy Shield Principles (except to the extent we are not responsible for the event giving rise to any alleged damage). EkuaEssentials.com’s compliance with the Privacy Shield is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. For more information about the Privacy Shield Program, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
Please contact us at [email protected]. with any questions or concerns relating to the Privacy Shield. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your Privacy Shield-related complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, you may also resolve a Privacy Shield-related complaint through JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. You can visit https://www.jamsadr.com/file-an-eu-us-privacy-shield-or-safe-harbor-claim for more information or to file a complaint, at no cost to you. Under certain conditions, you may also be entitled to invoke binding arbitration for complaints not resolved by other means.
THIRD PARTY SITES OR SERVICES
This website may contain links to other sites. This website may use third-party applications such as Google Analytics for data collection. Ekua Essentials does not share your personally identifiable information with such sites without your permission and is not responsible for their privacy practices. You are encouraged to learn about the privacy policies of the companies publishing such sites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Ekua Essentials reserves the right to change, modify, or update this policy at any time without notice. Any substantial changes in the way that your personal information is used will be posted on this site.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email the Ekua Essentials at [email protected].
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER
Ekua Essentials may be an affiliate for recommended products. If you purchase those items through links provided, Ekua Essentials may earn a commission. You will not pay more when buying a product through Ekua Essentials’ link.
Last Updated July 24, 2024
