This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Badiarov Violins, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, https://badiarovviolins.com (our website) and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you. This Privacy Policy is effective from May 25, 2018.

Summary

This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

  • Data controller: Dmitry Badiarov of Badiarov Violins
  • How we collect or obtain information about you:

◦       when you provide it to us by contacting us, downloading digital asset, placing an order on our website, signing up to our newsletter, visiting our physical store, contact ing us by phone, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype.

◦       from your use of our website, using cookies and similar technologies, and

◦       from third parties – Clickfunnels, UpViral, Facebook, LinkedIn, Genesis Digital and similar tools

  • Information we collect: name, contact details, payment information e.g. your credit or debit card details, IP address, information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device and browser type), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time when you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), company name or business name (if applicable), VAT number (if applicable).
  • How we use your information: for administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders you place on our website), to improve our business and website, to fulfil our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to advertise products and services of third parties we use and promote as affiliate partners (ClickFunnels, Aweber, for occasional training courses by other providers, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations.
  • Disclosure of your information to third parties: only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, to fulfil any contracts we enter into with you, where required by law or to enforce our legal rights and in the event where we obtain your consent to share your information with third parties interested in our products or services.
  • Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event): No.
  • How long we retain your information: for no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business).For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below entitled How long we retain your information.
  • How we secure your information: using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on secure servers located in the USA, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, encrypting payments you make on or via our website using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, only granting access to your information where necessary.
  • Use of cookies [and similar technologies]: we use cookies [and similar information-gathering technologies such as web beacons and pixels on our website  including  essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies. For more information, please visit our cookies policy here: [insert link to cookies policy]
  • Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area: your data is stored by our secure servers located in the USA. We do not transfer your information unless required by law. Our third party payment processors such as Stripe, iZettle, Wave, PayPal and CRM such as aWebber, landing page ClickFunnels and webinar software provider Genesis Digital have self-certified themselves as compliant with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
  • Use of automated decision making and profiling: we use automated decision making  and profiling. We use Facebook Pixel for targeting and re-targeting Interest based audiences, creation of custom and lookalike audiences, reaching these audiences on other Social Media platforms such as Instagram, in order to reach audiences most likely interested in products and services we promote including those by third parties (ClickFunnels), in relation to our website e.g. use of web analytics, cookies, web beacons or server logs analysis tools (profiling) or use targeting cookies to display advertisements to the people who visit our website on other websites around the internet (e.g. using the Google AdSense network) .
  • Your rights in relation to your information

◦       to access your information and to receive information about its use

◦       to have your information corrected and/or completed

◦       to have your information deleted

◦       to restrict the use of your information

◦       to receive your information in a portable format

◦       to object to the use of your information

◦       to withdraw your consent to the use of your information

◦       not to have significant decisions made about you based solely on automated processing of your information, including profiling

◦       to complain to a supervisory authority

  • Sensitive personal information: we do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about you to us. For more information, please see the main section below entitled Sensitive Personal Information.

Our details

The data controller in respect of our website is Dmitry Badiarov of Badiarov Violins [KVK 60588403 Vestigingsnr. 000029771528 ]. You can contact the data controller by writing to Jan Van Beersstraat, 137 2523JT The Hague, The Netherlands or sending an email to [email protected]

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller.

 Information we collect when you visit our website

We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

 Web server log information

We use a third party server to host our website called Green Geeks, the privacy policy of which is available here: https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy.

Our website server automatically logs the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as  the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system.

Our server is located in the USA and, accordingly, your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) where it is processed by third parties. For further information and information on the safeguards used, please see the section of this privacy policy entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Use of website server log information for IT security purposes

We do not access log data from our website server, third party hosting provider collect(s) and store(s) server logs to ensure network and IT security and so that the server and website remain uncompromised. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks, by detecting unusual or suspicious activity.

Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity,] [We/we] do not make, nor do we allow our hosting provider to make, any attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of our processing of information about individuals. Recording access to our website using server log files is such a measure.

Legal basis for processing: our and a third party’s legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: we and our third party hosting provider have a legitimate interest in using your information for the purposes of ensuring network and information security.

Use of website server log information to analyse website use and improve our website

We use the information collected by our website server logs to analyse how our website users interact with our website and its features. For example, we analyse the number of visits and unique visitors we receive, the time and date of the visit, the location of the visit  and the operating system and browser used.

We use the information gathered from the analysis of this information to improve our website. For example, we use the information gathered to change the information, content and structure of our website and individual pages based according to what users are engaging most with and the duration of time spent on particular pages on our website.

 

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: improving our website for our website users and getting to know our website users’ preferences so our website can better meet their needs and desires.

 

Cookies and  similar technologies

Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.

We use cookies  and similar technologies  on our website, including  essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies and web beacons. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy which is available here:  https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings or  non-essential cookies by using our cookie control tool , but doing so can impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features. For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings please see our cookies policy.

 Information we collect when you contact us

We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

 Email

When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party email provider to store emails you send us. Our third party email provider is Green Geeks located in USA. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy . Email may also be sent via our CRM known as aWeber, located in the USA and their privacy policy can be found here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm , Gmail (located in USA and their privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy). In some cases we use building emailing function of ClickFunnels (Located in USA, privacy policy: https://clickfunnels.com/privacy) as we as Webinarjam and Everwebinar servers operated by Genesis Digital, LLC (located in the USA), and their privacy policy is available here:  https://www.genesisdigital.co/_legal/privacypolicy.php

Emails you send us will be stored  outside the European Economic Area on our  third party email provider’s servers in the USA where your third party email provider stores your emails. For further information please see the section of this privacy policy entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Contact form

When you contact us using our contact form, we collect name, email address, location, IP address. We also collect any other information you provide to us when you complete the contact or forms, including any optional information, such as physical address, credit card details, IP address, server location, phone number, email address.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by our contact form, you will not be able to submit the contact form and we will not receive your enquiry.

If you do not supply the optional information required by our contact form, we will not be able to respond to your enquiry by phone.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Messages you send us via our contact form will be stored outside the EU (in the USA) using Aweber or Greengeeks servers in USA where our third party provider stores your emails. Our third party email and hosting provider is Green Geeks located in USA. Their privacy policy is available here:  https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy. Aweber servers are located in the USA, the their privacy policy is available here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Phone

When you contact us by phone, we collect your phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us.

We do not record phone calls.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by our third party telephone service provider Lycamobile which is located in The Netherlands. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.lycamobile.nl/en/privacy

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

WhatsApp

When you contact us by WhatsApp (located in Ireland), we collect your phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us.

We do not normally record phone calls, and do not do so without your prior consent.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by WhatsApp Ireland. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#privacy-policy

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.]

Skype

When you contact us by Skype, we collect your Skype ID and optionally phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us.

We do not normally record phone calls, and do not do so without your prior consent.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by Skype. Their privacy policy is available here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Text+

When you contact us by Text+, we collect your phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us.

We do not normally record phone calls, and do not do so without your prior consent.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by Text+, with their servers in the USA. Their privacy policy is available here: https://textplus.com/textplus-privacy-policy/

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

 Facebook Messenger

When you contact us by Facebook Messenger, we collect your Facebook username and any information provide to us during your conversation with us.

We do not normally record phone calls, and do not do so without your prior consent.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Transfer and storage of your information

Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by Facebook. Their privacy policy is available here: https://

www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.]

Post

If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).

Information we collect when you interact with our website

We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

E-Newsletter

When you sign up for our e-newsletter on our website or opt to receive  news, offers  and information about our services pertaining to running a successful creative career or business, including information on our products and the third party products, including the business side of the creative career, occasional promotion of third party services or products (Clickfunnels, Aweber) from us by filling in a form on our website or landing pages and clicking Subscribe.

Legal basis for processing: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us sending you our e-newsletter by signing up to

receive it using the steps described above.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a  third party service to send out our e-newsletter and administer our mailing list, aWeber and Clickfunnels, WebinarJam and Everwebinar. Their privacy policies are available here respectively:

Aweber: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm

Clickfunnels: https://www.clickfunnels.com/privacy

WebinarJam and Everwebinar: https://www.genesisdigital.co/_legal/privacypolicy.php

Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in USA where your third party email provider stores your subscribers’ information.  For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Use of web beacons [and similar technologies] in emails

We use technologies such as [web beacons (small graphic files) in the emails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our emails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates.  We will only use web beacons in our emails if you have consented to us doing so.

For more information on how we use web beacons in our e-newsletter emails, see our cookies policy which is available here: [insert link to cookies policy]]

For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see their privacy policy which is available here: https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

Registering on our website

When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the following information: Name, Phone number, physical address, IP address, information about your browser/OS and any other information you provide to us when you complete the registration form.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.

[Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract [or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract] (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: creating an account on our website is necessary to allow you to access the goods and services you have purchased from us.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information you submit to us via the registration form on our website will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party hosting provider’s servers in the USA where your third party provider stores your emails. Our third party hosting provider is Green Geeks  located in USA.  Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Information we collect when you place an order [on our website] or on any of our landing pages [Click funnels]

We collect and use information from individuals who place an order on our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Information collect when you place an order on our website

Mandatory information

When you place an order for goods or services on our website, we collect your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, company name (if applicable), VAT number (if applicable), IP address, Location, browser/OS details.

If you do not provide this information, you will not be able to purchase goods or services from us on our website or enter into a contract with us.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need the mandatory information

collected by our checkout form to establish who the contract is with and to contact you to fulfil our obligations under the contract, including sending you receipts and order confirmations.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to issue you with an invoice for the goods and services you purchase from us where you are VAT registered and we require the mandatory information collected by our checkout form for this purpose. We also have a legal obligation to keep accounting records, including records of transactions]

Optional information

We may also collect optional information from you, such as your phone number, information about how you heard about us. We also ask you if you would like to receive marketing communications from us AND/OR third parties. For further information, see ‘Marketing communications’ in this section below.

If you do not supply the optional information requested at checkout, for example not providing phone number, we will not be able to contact you by phone.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: collecting any optional information on our website checkout e.g. finding out how a customer heard about our services in order to improve our business’ advertising methods or to be able to contact the customer by phone where (if necessary) in relation to their order.

Processing your payment

After you place an order on our website you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment we use third party payment processors, including PayPal,Stripe and Wave. Your payment will be processed by Stripe, PayPal or Wave  via a payment gateway form on our website or Clickfunnels.

The third party payment processors we use to process your payment collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policies via the following link(s):

Stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Wave: https://my.waveapps.com/privacy/

Whenever you process your payment in person on our physical location, we use iZettle card reader and iZettle third party service provider. iZettle’s privacy policy can be located here: https://www.izettle.com/gb/privacy-policy

Transfer and storage of your information

 Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: to fulfil your contractual obligation to pay for the goods or services you have ordered from us.

 Third Party Products and Services

We may promote third party products and services such as business education programs offered by third parties, Aweber and ClickFunnels for which we act as affiliate partners and whose products we use and endorse, and additionally promote payment processors such as Stripe, PayPal, Wave, iZettle, outsourcing platforms such as Fiverr and 99designs as advice to you for running a successful creative business.

Their privacy policies are available below:

Stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Wave: https://my.waveapps.com/privacy/

iZettle: https://www.izettle.com/gb/privacy-policy

Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/privacy-policy?source=footer

99designs: https://en.99designs.nl/legal/privacy

Legal basis for processing: our and third party(s) legitimate interest(s), necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: to fulfil your contractual obligation to pay for the goods or services you have ordered from us.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Marketing communications

You can opt-out from receiving marketing communications in relation to our goods and which are similar to those which you purchase from us, by unticking a pre-ticked box on sign up form or by clicking on unsubscribe link provided in each email you receive from us.

We will send you marketing communications in relation to similar goods and services, including goods and services by third parties, if you do not opt out from receiving them.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: direct marketing and advertising our products and services, as well as occasional products and services of third parties.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, Aweber.

Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside  the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s  servers in USA where your third party email provider stores your subscribers’ information. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Use of web beacons [and similar technologies] in emails

We use technologies such as [web beacons (small graphic files) and Pixels in the emails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our emails receive by measuring information such as the  delivery rates, open rates and click through rates. We will only use web beacons and Pixels in our emails if you have consented to us doing so.

For more information on how we use web beacons in our emails, see our cookies policy which is available here: https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see their privacy policy which is available here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm

Our goods and services

You can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation to our goods and services  by  email, text message, phone by which an individual can opt in to receiving communications e.g. by ticking a box indicating that you would like to receive such communications.

We will send you marketing communications in relation to our goods and services only if you opt-in to receive them.

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about our goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, aWeber.

Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our  third party mailing list provider’s servers in USA where your third party email provider stores your subscribers’ information.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Use of web beacons [and similar technologies] in emails

We use technologies such as [web beacons (small graphic files)]  and Pixels in the emails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our emails receive by measuring information such as the  delivery rates, open rates and click through rates. We will only use [web beacons] and pixels in our emails if you have consented to us doing so.

For more information on how we use web beacons in our emails, see our cookies policy which is available here:   https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see their privacy policy which is available here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm

Third party goods and services

In addition to receiving information about our products and services you can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation third party goods and services by email, text message, phone, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger by ticking a box indicating that you would like to receive such communications or otherwise giving us consent. This information can be about business education programs provided by third parties, business tools and software indispensable in running a successful creative career and on which Badiarov Violins rely and use.

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about third party goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.

 Transfer and storage of your information

We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, Aweber.

Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in USA where your third party email provider stores your subscribers’ information (usually where its servers are located)].

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Use of web beacons [and similar technologies] in emails

We use technologies such as [web beacons (small graphic files)] and pixels in the emails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our emails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates. We will only use web beacons and pixels in our emails if you have consented to us doing so.

For more information on how we use web beacons in our emails, see our cookies policy which is available here: https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see their privacy policy which is available here:  https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties

This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.

Information received from third parties

Generally, we do not receive information about you from third parties. The third parties

from which we receive information about you will generally include Facebook Lead Forms, Facebook Messenger.

It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you.

Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but will include any additional information about you which they provide to us.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where a third party has passed on information about you to us (such as your name and email address) in order for us to provide services to you, we will process your information in order to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and perform a contract with you (as the case may be).

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: where you have asked that a third party to share information about you with us and the purpose of sharing that information is not related to the performance of a contract or services by us to you, we will process your information on the basis of your consent, which you give by asking the third party in question to pass on your information to us.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: where a third party has shared information about you with us and you have not consented to the sharing of that information, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information in certain circumstances.

For example, we would have a legitimate interest in processing your information to perform our obligations under a sub-contract with the third party, where the third party has the main contract with you. Our legitimate interest is the performance of our obligations under our sub-contract.

Similarly, third parties may pass on information about you to us if you have infringed or potentially infringed any of our legal rights. In this case, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information to investigate and pursue any such potential infringement.

 Where we receive information about you in error

If we receive information about you from a third party in error and/or we do not have a legal basis for processing that information, we will delete your information.

 Information obtained by us from third parties

In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as the electoral register, Companies House,  online customer databases, business directories,  media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one).

In certain circumstances will also obtain information about you from private sources, both EU and non-EU, such as data brokers or list providers.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where you have entered into a contract or requested that we enter into a contract with you, in certain circumstances, we will obtain information about you from public sources in order to enable us to understand your business and provide services to you or services to a sufficient standard.

For example, we would obtain and/or verify your email address from your website or from a directory where you ask us to send you information by email but we do not possess the information or we need to confirm that we have recorded your email address correctly.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: in certain circumstances, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining information about you from public and private sources. For example, if you have infringed or we suspect that you have infringed any of our legal rights, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining and processing information about you from such sources in order to investigate and pursue any suspected or potential infringement.

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Consent: we may obtain information from third parties, such as data brokers, where you have consented to them sharing information with us by ticking a box stating that you would like your information to be shared with us or by agreeing to their privacy policy or terms and conditions of use.

Our use of automated decision-making and profiling

We use automated decision making profiling on our website for retargeting purposes on Social Media or by Email. We do not consider that this has any legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you.

You have the right to object to our use of automated decision making and profiling described in this section. You can do that by opting-out of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the method described in the relevant section below. If you do not want us to process your actual IP address (usually the IP address assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider) when you visit our website, you can use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a free service such as Tor.

You can find out more about our use of cookies and similar technologies (including the legal basis on which we use them) and how to opt out from them in our cookies policy, which is available here:  https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

Automated decision making

Automated decision making is decision making by technological means (i.e. by a machine) without human involvement.

Use of automated decision making for [display] advertising

We automate the display advertisements containing our products and services on other websites you visit, you based on the fact that you have visited our website using cookies.

For further information on the cookies we use, please see our cookies policy which is available here: https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

Logic involved: automatically displaying advertisements to individuals who have visited our website results in increased efficiencies and costs savings for us than manually displaying advertisements or displaying advertisements by different means.

Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to recognise the fact that you have visited our website in order to display advertisements to you (unless you have blocked such cookies) and will collect information about your online behaviour.

How to object: you can block these cookies by [using the cookies control management tool on our site or by blocking third party cookies using browser settings, or by opting out of seeing personalised ads by following the instructions here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB]. For further information, please see our cookies policy:  https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/.

We use automated decision making for retargeting purposes.

Logic involved: e.g. if you visited specific categories on our website or clicked on specific links in specific emails we may collect this date and use it to show you relevant ads on social media or third party websites.

Significance and envisaged consequences: [improved service through showing you connect in which you are interested most.

How to object: block cookies in your browser and/or adjust cookie settings on our website or unsubscribe by clicking on unsubscribe link.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: optimising your experience with our website and/or newsletter, delivering you content that is the most relevant to your interests, showing you ads based on your interests.

Profiling

Profiling is any form of automated processing of your information to evaluate personal aspects about you, in particular to analyse or predict things like your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Use of profiling for web analytics

Our web analytics service, Google Analytics uses collects information such as your location (based on your IP address) and your behaviour (based on cookies) when you access our website (such as the pages you visit and what you click on). We will only process information from cookies if you have consented to us setting cookies on your computer in accordance with our cookies policy ([insert link to cookies policy]). [Information collected about you, once collected is anonymised and stored on an aggregate basis.]

Logic involved: by automatically analysing and categorising information such as the location (based on IP address) as well as the behaviour and devices of visitors to our website (using cookies), we are able to gain a better understanding of what our website visitors want (in terms of the content of our website and our products), how to improve our website and how to advertise and market our services to them.

Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to track and store information about your behaviour and device on our website (unless you have opted out from receiving such cookies by opting out from analytical cookies used on your website or blocking them in your browser(s) and your location will be analysed based on your IP address. We may target advertisements based on the level of interest we receive from certain visitors and their behaviour on our website.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: optimising and reorganising the content on our website in order to make the most relevant and valuable content available first, including easy access to our privacy policy, cookies policy, terms and conditions of use.

Use of profiling in marketing emails

We use web beacons AND  pixels in our marketing emails to analyse who opens our emails and what actions they take (for example, what they click on)]. We will only process information from web beacons AND/OR pixels if you have consented to their use in accordance with our cookies policy  https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/cookies-policy/

Logic involved: by analysing how our email recipients respond to our emails, we are able to improve the content and effectiveness of our emails and gauge who is most interested.

Significance and envisaged consequences: your behaviour when you open our emails will be tracked using small gif files (web beacons) and Pixels, including open rates, click through rates.

How to object: block cookies, or set cookies behaviour on ourwebiste or opt out from receiving email from us.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: analysing the level of engagement and effectiveness of our marketing emails and content. We use profiling for: optimising deliverability and quality of our marketing communication, as well as for retargeting/remarketing purposes.

Logic involved: highest click through rate, and most frequently visited categories on our website indicate that this content has the highest value to you

Significance and envisaged consequences: we will be able to show you more valuable and more relevant content.

How to object: disable cookies in your browser, setup cookies behaviour on our website or opt out from receiving our communications.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: analysing the level of engagement and effectiveness of our marketing communication.

Disclosure and additional uses of your information

This section sets out the circumstances in which will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.

Disclosure of your information to service providers

We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:

  • Telephone provider(s), including Lycamobile. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.lycamobile.nl/en/privacy
  • Email provider(s), including Green Geeks. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy
  • IT service provider(s), including Telfort. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.telfort.nl/algemeen/privacy.html
  • Web developer(s), including Fiverr and Artbees. Their privacy policy are available here: https://www.fiverr.com/privacy-policy?source=footer and https://themes.artbees.net/pages/artbees-themes-privacy-policy/
  • Hosting provider(s), including Green Geeks. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.greengeeks.com/legal/privacy

Other third party service providers include:

  • Stripe, https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
  • Wave, https://my.waveapps.com/privacy/
  • PayPal, https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
  • Fiverr, https://www.fiverr.com/privacy-policy?source=footer
  • 99designs, https://en.99designs.nl/legal/privacy
  • Telfort, https://www.telfort.nl/algemeen/privacy.htm
  • Lycamobile, https://www.lycamobile.nl/en/privacy

Our third party service providers are located in Green Geeks (USA), Stripe (Headquarters USA), Wave (Canada), PayPal (Luxembourg), Fiverr (USA and Israel), 99designs (Australia), Malaysia, Philippines and UK.

Your information will be shared with these service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering goods and services from us.

We do not display the identities of [all of] our service providers publicly by name for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of our service providers, however, please contact us directly [via our contact form] or [by email] and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such service providers, for example).

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest relied on: where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties in order to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract and/or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we may need to share information with our service providers to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract or to take the steps you have requested before we enter into a contract with you.

Disclosure of your information to other third parties

We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.

Providing information to third parties such as [Google Inc.] [, [and] insert any other third parties to whom information is provided]. [Google collects information through our use of Google Analytics on our website. Google uses this information, including IP addresses and information from cookies, for a number of purposes, such as improving its Google Analytics service. Information is shared with Google on an aggregated and anonymised basis. To find out more about what information Google collects, how it uses this information and how to control the information sent to Google, please see the following page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/]

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): meeting our contractual obligations to Google under our Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html)

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 Transfer and storage of your information

Information collected by Google Analytics is stored outside the European Economic Area on Google’s servers in the United States of America.

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.

Sharing your information with third parties, which are either related to or associated with the running of our business, where it is necessary for us to do so. These third parties include our accountants, advisors, affiliates, business partners, and independent contractors. Further information on each of these third parties is set out below.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: running and managing our business efficiently.

Accountants

 We share information with our accountants for tax purposes. For example, we share invoices we issue and receive with our accountants for the purpose of completing tax returns and our end of year accounts.

Our accountants are WARAD. Our accountants are located in The Netherlands.

Advisors

Occasionally, we obtain advice from advisors, such as accountants. We will share your information with these third parties only where it is necessary to enable these third parties to be able to provide us with the relevant advice.

Our advisors are  WARAD. Our advisors are located in The Netherlands.

Affiliates

Affiliates are individuals or entities we work with to promote our business by various means, including by advertising our services on their websites, for example. Our affiliates can be in music and/or business education niche. Affiliates will share information with us and we will share information with them where you have expressed an interest in our products or services.

Our affiliates are located in USA, Canada, Taiwan, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, Spain.

Business partners

Business partners are businesses we work with which provide goods and services which are complementary to our own or which allow us to provide goods or services which we could not provide on our own. We share information with our business partners where you have requested services which they provide whether independently from, or in connection with or own services.

Our business partners are based in music, graphic design and business education industries.

Independent contractor

Occasionally, we use independent contractors in our business. Your information will be shared with independent contractors only where it is necessary for them to perform the function we have hired them perform in relation to our business.

Our independent contractors are in business education, marketing, graphic design, music industries. They are located in the UK USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, Malaysia.

Insurers

We will share your information with our insurers where it is necessary to do so, for example in relation to a claim or potential claim we receive or make or under our general disclosure obligations under our insurance contract with them.

Our insurers are Lark Insurance. Their privacy policy is available here: https://www.larkinsurance.co.uk/privacy-policy

Upon your consent your data may be passed on to one of our service providers including education, products and services of which are being advertised by Dmitry Badiarov of Badiarov Violins as an affiliate partner, data will include name, email address, phone number, date and time of event you may wish to attend if applicable.

Your data will never be sold to any third party.

Sharing your information within our business’ group of companies, including [insert details of other entities in your corporate group with whom you share personal information] for internal administrative purposes, including client, customer and employee information.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: running and managing our business effectively, sharing your information upon your explicit consent with the third party service provider without which requested transaction can not take place.

AND

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need to share your information with other companies in order to be able to meet our contractual obligations to you [or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract.], for example because of the services or information you have requested.

We do not display the identities of [all of] the other third parties we may share information with by name for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of such third parties, however, please contact us directly [via our contact form] or [by email] and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such third parties, for example).

Sharing your information with a prospective or actual purchaser or seller in the context of a business or asset sale or acquisition by us, a merger or similar business combination event, whether actual or potential.

Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest(s): sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person in order to allow such a transaction to take place.

Disclosure and use of your information for legal reasons

Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority

If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has been occurred, we will in certain circumstances need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that a fraud or a cyber crime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties.

We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement our legal rights

We will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including, for example, sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (where we have entered into a contract with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights that we have under copyright law or tort law).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings

We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with