TERMS & CONDITIONS
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Private Policy
General Information
V.J. Salomone Consumer Lines Limited is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data. V.J. Salomone Consumer Lines Limited takes the security of your personal data very seriously, and endeavours to be transparent, by providing information on the categories of personal data collected, and the purpose for collecting such personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how we manage, process and store personal data collected through the use of our online platforms and social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and LinkedIn.
Moreover, this Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy provided by the respective social media platform, that is Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat or LinkedIn.
For this purpose, this privacy policy provides you with information on the following:
Who is the data controller?
In this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”), “V.J. Salomone Consumer Lines”, “we”, “us” or “our” means V.J. Salomone Consumer Lines Limited, (a company incorporated in Malta, with registration number C-26986, and with principal offices at 79, Simpson Street, Marsa, Malta).
All personal data obtained by us is held and used in compliance with this Policy, with the Maltese Data Protection Act (as amended by Act No. 586 of 2018), and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (hereafter referred to as the “GDPR”). V.J. Salomone Consumer Lines Limited is deemed a “data controller” for the purposes of the GDPR.
What is personal data and what are special categories of personal data?
Under the GDPR, personal data consists of any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).
The GDPR provides that special categories of data relates to the “processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation”.
What categories of personal data do we collect and how?
In this Policy “you” or “your” means you, the person who provides us with personal data; and, “personal data” shall have the meaning assigned to it by Article 4 of the GDPR.
Personal data is collected through the following channels:
When participating in a competition and/or purchasing online through the website, we may request the following personal data:
This information is being requested to enable us to select the winner(s) of the competition and/or to process the delivery of the product purchased online.
When you contact us, in case of queries, through any of our online channels, we will only process the personal data provided by you for the purpose of resolving your query.
What do we use your personal data for and for what lawful reason?
We collect, store and process your personal data for the following reasons:
When registering for a competition you are giving us explicit consent to process your personal data for the purpose of administering the competition and to select the winner(s) amongst participants.
You may contact us through our digital platforms. We will only process the personal data you may disclose for the purpose of responding to your queries, comments and/or requests to ensure that we provide you with the best service and to enable us to continue to improve our products and services, as this is in our legitimate interest.
We may also process your personal data for our legitimate interest to defend or protect our legal rights and interests, as and if required.
Who do we share your personal data with?
We may also share some of your personal data with the following categories of third parties:
Our social media pages may run on Facebook and Instagram respectively. For more information and to better understand how Facebook and Instagram make use of your personal data please refer to their respective Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
Security, storage, and transfer of your personal data
We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure at all times. We have in place suitable technical and organisational measures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect, in particular, to protect data against any accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, corruption, unauthorised circulation or access, as well as against any other form of unlawful processing or disclosure to unauthorised persons.
Your personal data collected through our online platforms may be stored on and processed by our systems and may also be stored on and processed by systems of a third party data processor(s) appointed by us. Your personal data is not transmitted or stored outside the EU. All of our employees and third parties are contractually obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data. We also ensure that sufficient security measures are implemented by such third parties when collecting, storing and/or transmitting data on our behalf.
For information on how data is stored and transferred by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and LinkedIn, please refer to their respective Privacy Policy.
For how long will we retain your data?
We will keep your personal data only for as long as we need it for the purpose it is being processed for. In setting retention periods, we take into account our business and administrative needs to process your data, as well as, our legal obligations to retain your personal data. We will actively review the information we hold and delete it securely, or in some cases anonymise it, when there is no longer a legal, business or administrative purpose for it to be retained.
For information on how long data is retained by Facebook and Instagram please refer to their respective Privacy Policy.
Do we use Cookies?
Facebook and Instagram make use of Cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser, that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
For more information on the use of Cookies, the type of Cookies used and how these may be disabled or deleted please refer to the Cookies Policy provided by Facebook and Instagram respectively.
What are your rights as a data subject?
At any point while we are in possession of, or processing your personal data, you have the following rights:
Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (hereafter referred to as “DPO”), for the purpose of ensuring compliance with this Policy.
If you wish to exercise any one of your rights or have any questions or concerns about this Policy, you are invited to contact our DPO, via email: [email protected] or by post using the following mailing address: Data Protection Officer, V.J. Salomone, 79 Simpson Street, Marsa, Malta.
We endeavour to process your requests within thirty (30) days from receipt and requests will be processed free of charge, unless requests are deemed excessive or unfounded, in which case we may charge a reasonable fee.
Complaints
In addition to the rights listed above, you also have the right to lodge a complaint to the Malta Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) by visiting their website at: https://idpc.gov.mt, or to the data protection Authority in the country where you reside.
Changes to this Policy
This Policy is effective as of the “Effective Date” listed below. We reserve the right, at our sole and absolute discretion, to change or modify this Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below and prompt you to read and accept the changes.