Privacy Policy - Quirky Animals

(Last Revised: Oct 30, 2022)

Thank you for visiting https://quirkyanimals.com.com (“Website”), owned and operated by Vizenio S.R.L. registered in Romania, European Union, having its headquarters in Virgil Madgearu 15-17, Bucharest, Romania, registered with the Romanian Commerce Register under the number J40/6529/06.06.2012, unique fiscal identification code RO30285147 (hereinafter referred to as “The Company”).

The Company understands the importance that Internet users place on privacy, and this Privacy Policy describes how The Company uses personal information that is collected at this website.

The Company is committed to processing your data in full compliance with the European Union Regulation 2016/679 (also known as “GDPR” or The General Data Protection Regulation).

By using this website, you accept the privacy practices contained in this Privacy Policy. These privacy practices may be updated from time to time. You are encouraged to review the Privacy Policy whenever you visit the website, to make sure you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

Please read this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Service, before using this site or submitting any personal information. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

1. Who Does The Company Contact?

The Company only contacts individuals who specifically request that it does so, to answer readers or customer inquiries or in the event that they have signed up to receive The Company’s free reports and/or newsletters or other information and/or have purchased one of The Company’s products.

2. Information The Company Collects

When you visit this website you may provide The Company with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information, collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse The Company’s website.

A. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Registration Information
When you register for any of The Company’s products, services, free reports or newsletters/e-mail communication you will provide The Company information about yourself, such as your name and email address.

Email Information
If you choose to correspond with The Company through email, The Company may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and The Company’s responses.

B. Cookies / Web Beacons / Pixels

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy: https://quirkyanimals.com/cookie-policy

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

3. How Does The Company Use the Information That You Provide?

Broadly speaking, The Company uses personal information for purposes of administering its business activities, providing content, the free reports, newsletters/e-mail communication, products and services you requested, monitoring the use of the service, its marketing, and promotional efforts, and improving its content and service offerings, and customize the site’s content, layout, services and for other lawful purposes. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

More specifically, The Company may use the personal information you provide (such as email address) for the following purposes: (1) to send you newsletters/information via email, (2) to send you via email third party products/services offers, (3) to deliver via email free reports or the products and/or services that you have requested; (4) to validate your compliance with the Terms of Service; (5) for content improvement and feedback purposes; and (6) to reach you, when necessary, regarding your use of the website or product(s). Occasionally, The Company may also use the collected information to notify you about important changes to its website, new services, and special offers The Company considers you may find valuable.

You may notify The Company at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers via using the contact page on the website.

Alternatively, you may unsubscribe from receiving The Company’s communication via using the unsubscribe link, found at the end of the emails you receive.

The personal data collected (such as email addresses) is used for the purposes mentioned above, by The Company only.

The Company will not share your information with third parties unless you have given explicit permission to The Company to do so and/or in order to fulfill a third party offer that you have accepted from The Company.

By permitting The Company to collect this information, you will be able to receive free information on products and services that may be of interest to you, including related third party offers that The Company may send to you. You also enable The Company to personalize your experience so that it can provide you with the highest quality of service.

You are free not to provide any personal information. In such a case, The Company will not be able however to provide the above-mentioned services to you.

4. Your Consent

By submitting your email address via this website or via other online tools used by the company, you agree to receive emails from The Company.

5. How To Stop Receiving Emails From The Company?

The newsletters or emails that are sent to you by The Company include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any time from The Company newsletters or mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link that can be found in the communication that The Company sends you.

You may also send the unsubscribe request to The Company via using the contact page on the website.

The Company only sends emails to people who have authorized it to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. The Company does not send unsolicited commercial emails, because it hates spam as much as you do.

6. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?

The Company may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when The Company, in good faith, believes that the law requires it or for the protection of its legal rights. The Company may also disclose account information when it has a reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating its Terms and Conditions, or to protect the safety of its users and the Public.

7. Surveys & Contests

From time to time The Company’s site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user, therefore, has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

8. Third Party Websites and Actions

The Company does not control and is not liable for the actions of any third parties that it may promote. The Company prides itself in working with quality companies but has no control over the actions of those third parties.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, The Company’s Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on The Company’s website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

While The Company is not liable for any of the actions of those third parties, you should feel free to give feedback to The Company from time to time on your experiences with any third parties to whom it works with, so that it may enhance its future service to all customers.

9. Website Visitors’ GDPR Rights

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

Right of access and portability. The right to obtain access to and to receive your personal information.
Right to rectification. The right to obtain rectification of your personal information without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure. The right to obtain the erasure of your personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed.
Right to restriction. The right to obtain the restriction of the processing undertaken by us on your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of that personal information.
Right to object. The right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal information, and to object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, to the extent it is related to such direct marketing.

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us via sending an email to quirkyanimals @ vizenio . com

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

10. THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE VIEWED BY ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 13.

BY ENTERING THIS SITE, YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 13

If The Company becomes aware that it has inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of 13 as part of the website, it will delete such information from its records.

11. Your Access To Your Personal Data

Your rights include the right to have access, to be informed regarding which personal data of yours The Company processes, as well as the right of intervention over them, eg. to revise/update them, to not be the subject of an individual decision, to object to the data being processed and to ask for their removal from The Company systems.

For any details regarding the way The Company processes your personal data and/or to send an unsubscribe request, you can also contact The Company via email at quirkyanimals @ vizenio . com

12. How Does The Company Store Your Information?

Your personal data (name and/or email address) will be stored at highly reputable email service providers. The email service providers currently used by The Company are:

Convertkit: a company committed to abide by very high security standards – you can find more details in the company’s Privacy Policy.
Mailer Lite: data is stored in a highly secure data storage center is in Lithuania (European Union) and has information storage security certificate (ISO 27001) as well as a certificate of IT service management (ISO 20000). You can find all the details here.

13. Commitment to Data Security

All information collected from you is stored in a technically and physically secure environment. However, no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

As a result, while The Company takes reasonable measures to protect your information, it cannot ensure or warrant the security of the information that you transmit to The Company, and you do so at your own risk.

14. Acquisition or Changes in Ownership

In the event that the website (or a substantial portion of its assets) is acquired, your information would be considered part of those assets and may be part of the assets that are transferred to the new company.

15. Contacting The Company

If you need to contact The Company, you can send an email to quirkyanimals @ vizenio . com

The Company strives to provide excellent products, along with equally excellent customer service. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about The Company practices, please feel free to get in touch.