Your right to privacy and personal life, as well as the trust you place in us, are very important to us. Through this Privacy Policy, we aim to provide you with essential information on how we handle personal data collected from you or provided by you.
This Policy applies to all products, services, websites, or applications that involve the collection, recording, modification, use, access, transmission, or storage of personal data.
Please carefully review this Policy and contact our Data Protection Officer for additional details or to update your preferences via email at office@greenupworld.ro. We recommend checking this Policy periodically to stay informed about any updates. In case we make significant changes that we consider important, you will be able to consult the new provisions online.
We are committed to respecting your privacy and your rights to privacy and personal life, in accordance with all applicable European and national data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (known as “GDPR”). This Policy applies to all personal data processing regardless of how they are collected, used, or stored.
Greenup World Community Interest Company, hereinafter referred to as the “Company,” with its registered office at 124-128 City Road, London, United Kingdom, registered under number 14844143, is the Data Controller. For more information, please visit the About Us section.
1. During the use of GreenUp Browser:
GreenUP Browser represents an online browser developed by our company on the open-source Mozilla Firefox platform, which generates affiliate links during its use.
When you use GreenUP Browser, the affiliate commissions generated from your online transactions are directed to our company, GreenUP World Community Interest Company, in support of various ecological initiatives. This is part of the execution of the contract between you and our company, with all contractual clauses available in the Terms and Conditions that you must accept when installing GreenUP Browser on your device.
To fulfill this contractual obligation, when installing GreenUP Browser, it will install a cookie in the local memory of your device, so we can store information and collect certain personal data. The types of data we collect are specified below:
IP address: This information is necessary to generate affiliate commissions from your online transactions and redirect them to our company, in accordance with the contract concluded, in support of ecological initiatives.
User searches: When you use GreenUP Browser to search for products or information related to the brands in our portfolio (affiliate products) or to make purchases, the browser performs a redirect and records these searches through a specific cookie installed on your device. This process aims to identify the searches and purchases made on our website, serving as evidence of their origin.
This information is used to track your contribution to ecological initiatives, ensuring that affiliate commissions are directed properly, in accordance with the contract between the parties. We are committed to respecting the confidentiality of your data and using this information in accordance with our data protection policy.
The legal basis for processing personal data in this section is the execution of the contract between you and our company represented by the Terms and Conditions of using the browser. The data collected will be processed for the duration of the contract’s validity and in accordance with its provisions. You will always have the opportunity to opt out of data collection and sharing at any time, in accordance with the contractual terms, including by discontinuing the use of the browser.
2. To provide responses to your questions, complaints, or requests
This will be done based on the company’s legitimate interest in responding to your requests so that the services provided by the company reflect the highest degree of professionalism. For this purpose, we will process the following categories of personal data: name, surname, email address, and the content of the request message. The data collected will be processed for the duration of the request’s resolution, as well as for 3 years from the date of resolution.
3. When creating a donor account
Personal data is processed in order to take steps at the request of the data subject for the conclusion of a contract. For this purpose, your email address is processed for the entire duration of the user account.
4. To respond to your requests regarding the exercise of the rights provided by GDPR
For this purpose, we will process the following categories of personal data: name, surname, email address, and the content of the request message. The legal basis for processing personal data in this section is the fulfillment of the data controller’s legal obligation to respond to the data subject’s request. The data collected will be processed for the duration of the request’s resolution, as well as for 3 years from the date of resolution.
5. Initiating or executing contracts concluded by the company, based on a contractual obligation, or for communication with various regulatory and control authorities.
For this purpose, categories of personal data of representatives and/or contact persons of business partners and authorities, such as: name, surname, phone number, email address, employer’s name, position, workplace, signature will be processed. These categories of data will be processed throughout the duration of the contract or interaction with the respective authority, and, where applicable, for up to 10 years from the date of termination of the contract or interaction with the authority.
6. Sending informative materials about products/services/promotions you may be interested in (“informative materials”), based on your consent provided at the time of data collection.
To achieve this purpose, we will process your name, surname, email address, and phone number. We process this data until you exercise your right to withdraw your consent. We make every effort to process your request to withdraw your consent without unjustified delays. However, please note that your data may be selected from the database for the purpose of sending informative materials before your request is processed, and therefore, you may receive a limited number of emails after the date of confirming the processing of your request.
You may also receive certain non-promotional communications related to our activities, supported causes, amounts collected, future projects, etc., as a result of the contractual relationship entered into with us when you accepted the Terms and Conditions of using the browser.
7. Conducting opinion surveys on our activities, supported projects, and causes
To achieve this purpose, we will process your name, surname, email address, and phone number. We process this data based on our legitimate interest in involving and supporting causes of interest to you, as well as to verify the effectiveness of the actions carried out and improve our activities, including products that may be of interest to you. The data collected will be processed for the duration of the contract represented by the Terms and Conditions of using the browser and in accordance with its provisions. You can exercise your right to object to this processing at any time.
In order to achieve the processing purposes, Greenup World Community Interest Company may disclose your data to partners, third parties, or entities that assist the company in conducting activities through the website (such as courier companies, IT service providers, and software), or to central/local public authorities, in the following cases, listed for illustrative purposes:
By using GreenUp Browser, your IP address is disclosed to the Mozilla Firefox platform, which is the platform on which GreenUp Browser was developed. For more details on how your personal data is used by Mozilla Firefox and how you can control this, please find it here.
For the maintenance, customization, and improvement of the website and the services carried out through it;
For data analysis, testing, research, monitoring usage trends and activity, developing security features, and user authentication;
For sending marketing commercial communications, in accordance with the conditions and limits provided by the law;
When the disclosure of personal data is required by law, etc.
Certain categories of personal data may be disclosed to authorities and/or public institutions if there is a legal obligation to do so or if there are suspicions of committing a crime or for the defense, exercising in court, or preserving a right of the Operator Greenup World Community Interest Company.
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.