Privacy Policy

HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L.

PRIVACY POLICY




DATA PROTECTION POLICY

As part of its social responsibility, HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L. is committed to complying with national and international data protection laws. This data protection policy is based on accepted European and global data protection principles. Ensuring data protection is the foundation of reliable business relationships.

This version is in force since 22 of May, 2024.

The terms https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ „HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L.” or ”us” or ”we” refer to the owner of the website whose name is HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L., a Romanian company with registered office in Cluj-Napoca, Budapest Street, No. 4, Cluj County, registered at the Trade Register Office under number J12/4160/2023, ROONRC.J12/4160/2023, with CUI 48884475.

This Privacy Policy sets out how HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L uses and protects any information that you submit to the company HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L when you use the website (https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/).

We’re providing this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the collection, use, safety and disclosure of information that we receive through our Services. 

When you want to benefit from the products and services offered by our company, (hereinafter referred to as "HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE") or you want to enter into a partnership with HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE, you entrust us with your information, also known as personal data, by virtue of your trust in us. We thank you for this trust, which is why we want to explain to you in a clear and transparent way what our practices are regarding the privacy of your data. Our general approach is to take care of the personal data you provide to us.

This notice (also known as our Privacy Policy) will show you how we look after your data when you visit our website (wherever you use it) and will inform you of your rights in relation to your personal data and how the law protects you.

Therefore, we are particularly concerned and act with the utmost diligence when processing your personal data, in accordance with the principles provided by the data protection legislation applicable in Romania, including the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679/ EU regarding the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC ("RGPD").

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, and an identifiable person is that person who can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier or to one or more specific factors for its physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.

The purpose of this policy is the confidentiality of the personal data of the Website users https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ 

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ? 

We collect and process in this context  only the data that is required to allow us to provide our services to you, We collect, process and retain personal information from you and any devices you may use when you navigate to https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ web or mobile view, by transacting, by registering an account or by participating in promotional activity and otherwise interacting with us but also personal data collected automatically, respectively personal data collected through cookie technology and Google Analytics. We may also collect personal information from you if you physically enter one of our stores or attend an event.

By registering and/or submitting personal information on our website, you are also agreeing to the use of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your personal information is not used for other purposes, unless we obtain your permission, or unless otherwise required or permitted by law or professional standards.

We collect the following data when you browse or shop at https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ :

  • We process the personal data necessary to complete the registration, shipping the ordered products. We process the following data: your first and last name. company name, company registration number, unique identification code, username or similar identifier, job title, date of birth, gender, language in which you wish to interact with us, billing address, delivery address, country of residence, payment details, mobile phone number and email address, IP (internet protocol) address, login details, browser type and version, your preferences for receiving marketing materials from us and our third parties and preferred methods of communication, information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • We collect your email address to send you the invoice. We collect your phone number so that we can contact you if there are any problems with the delivery of the products ordered.
  • We collect your e-mail address when you sign up to receive the newsletter (advertisements/promotions) https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ , if you consent to receive this information.
  • When you contact our customer support team, we may collect additional data to help us resolve any questions about the products you ordered or any other questions.
  • We collect and process data about your browsing on https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ , including the pages you visit and how you interact with these pages. If you have registered for an account, we collect browsing data about your access to the dedicated areas of the website. This is so we can optimize and personalize your experience with us. Content we generate via machine learning algorithms as they apply to personalizing your experience by curating more specifically the items you have an interest in, as well as supporting general service optimization including bid / markdown automation
  • If you provide us with someone else’s data – for example, if you purchase a product to be delivered to a friend or as a gift we will collect and process the personal data required to complete the transaction such as the name, delivery address and other contact details for your friend. 
  • When you call our Customer Care team, your call may be recorded for training and fraud prevention purposes. 
  • Device identifiers such as IP addresses, cookie IDs, IDFAs and other device identifiers, as well as geo location information, IoT technologies and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your browsing history, hashed email addresses, and your web log information.

The platform is not intended for children under 18, we do not knowingly collect and do not intend to collect data on minors. To this end, we take all reasonable steps to verify that the person providing the data to us is not a child as defined below - the responsibility for any information provided to us in circumvention of these provisions rests entirely with the person providing the data to us or the guardian in the case of minors.

It is important that you read this policy together with all data processing & privacy notices that we will provide to you on various occasions when we collect or process your personal data so that you are always fully informed of what and how we use this data. This policy is in addition to our other notices and is not intended to remove them.

We are not required to appoint a personal data protection officer, so any questions about the use of personal data should be directed to the contact details above.

To the extent that you have any queries, comments or complaints about us or the personal data we process for you, you can always email us at info@helathstrategies.eu.


HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE respect confidentiality in these matters:

  • take appropriate measures to protect your personal data;
  • provide a transparent process of information collection;
  • manage all the information with responsibility and professionalism;
  • ensure the accuracy and updating of personal data;
  • limit the access to personal data disclosure;
  • process your personal data only under an agreement by your side or in accordance with the legislation in order to comply with contractual obligations and the maintenance of contractual relationship;
  • respect your decision regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information 

HOW DO WE USE THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND PURPOSE OF COLLECTING

In general, we will use the information we receive from you, either directly or indirectly, for the following purposes:

- for the purpose of entering into or performing a contract between you and us;

- to respond to your queries and requests;

- for marketing purposes, but only where we have your prior consent;

- to provide and improve the services and products we offer;

- to diagnose or fix technical problems;

- to defend against cyber attacks;

- to create and/or maintain accounts;

- to comply with legislation;

- to establish or assert a claim in court;

- to verify your identity (for example, when you return to the site and are already logged in);

- to personalize your experience on our site;

- to personalize the advertising you see on other publishers' websites while limiting the amount of time you see ads;

- to improve the design and style of the site

- to inform you about products, services or promotional offers that may be of interest to you if you have chosen to receive these types of communications.

- to conduct market research;

- to send a product to the address you specify;

- to give you access to a service or product you request;

- to deal with any request/complaint/complaint or suggestion you send us;

DURATION OF PROCESSING

HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE keeps your personal data for a limited period of time, in accordance with our internal policies, but also with other relevant legal provisions. After the expiration of the storage period, our data will be permanently erased or otherwise irreversibly rendered anonymous.

Your personal data are retained in accordance with the following criteria:

When you have purchased goods from https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/  , we will retain the billing data until the end of the relevant accounting period, normally seven years from the billing date;

When you make a payment, we will retain your payment details up to the certification of the payment and the completion of the relevant administrative-accounting formalities regarding your right of withdrawal and the terms applied for the disputing of the payment;

When you provide us with personal data in order to use the services of https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ , such as marketing communications subscription, we will keep your data for this purpose until the termination of the service or until you cancel your subscription to the service;

When you give us your consent to send you marketing communications, you can withdraw your consent at any time. We will consider your consent to be current for five years from your last interaction with any email that we send you, or with https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ 

When we use your personal data and browsing history to analyze your behavior in order to customize the website and to show you personalized sales offers, we will keep the data for analytical purposes until you ask us to delete it;

When we use personal data for market research and satisfaction surveys, we will keep the data until you ask us to stop.

When you contact our Customer Care team, we will keep any additional personal data you provide that is specific to your enquiry for as long as you remain an active customer of https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ 

When you contact our Customer Care team, we will keep the call recording for 6 months. Credit card details are not recorded as part of the call.

In short, we will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we have collected it, including for the purposes of meeting any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

In determining the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the value, nature and sensitivity of personal data, the potential risk of harm caused by unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes by other means, and applicable legal requirements.

We are required by law to retain basic information about our customers, contract partners and sponsors (including contact details, identity, financial and transaction data) for 5 years after they are no longer customers for tax purposes.

NEWSLETTER


With your permission, we may send you emails about our work, services, new concepts and other updates.

Subscribing and unsubscribing to the https://vitaxynergy-eu.myshopify.com/ newsletter is free and voluntary and implies acceptance of the following terms of use. Messages sent are not unsolicited and you can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of each email. The messages sent comply with the law of electronic commerce on commercial communication as provided for by Romanian and international law.

The use of the newsletter is under the same conditions of limitation of liability in terms of content as the use of the website is authorized, under the conditions set out in this document, and the privacy policy is described in detail in the next section. 

HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE reserves the right to restrict access to any subscriber to the newsletter if it has any reason to believe that the subscriber is not complying with the provisions of this document.




CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting  and using of data for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity refuse.

Your obligations in case of registration on our website is to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the service`s registration form, maintain and promptly update the registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L. has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of its services.



How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at the following e-mail: info@helathstrategies.eu.


RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

As a data subject, the GDPR gives you a number of rights, such as:

  • the right of access - which allows you to obtain a confirmation of whether your personal data is being processed by us and, if so, relevant information regarding data processing activities. In some cases, you may ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal data that we process;
  • the right to rectification - which allows you to correct your personal data, if it is inaccurate;
  • the right to delete personal data (the right to be forgotten)- which allows you to have your personal data deleted, except where the law provides otherwise. You can make such a request at any time, and HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE will evaluate the possibility of resolving your request, taking into account the legal rights and obligations according to which we may need to retain such data.
  • the right to restriction of processing - which allows you to obtain the restriction of the processing of your personal data in certain cases (for example, in the situation where you dispute the accuracy of the personal data, for a period that allows us to verify the correctness of the data);
  • the right to object - which allows you to object to the processing of your personal data under the conditions and limits provided by law;
  • the right to data portability - which allows you to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and computer-readable format or to transmit this data to another data controller .
  • the right to withdraw your consent at any time: which allows you to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out based on consent granted prior to receipt of  withdrawal.

In addition, you also benefit from the right to file a complaint with the National Authority for the Supervision of Personal Data Processing, but also with the courts.

You can exercise these rights by sending a written request, either in hard format, to HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L., with the headquarter in Cluj-Napoca, Budapesta Str., No. 4, Cluj county, with the mention Data Protection, either in electronic form, to the e-mail address info@helathstrategies.eu, with the subject Data Protection. 

HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L will respond to your request as soon as possible, but no later than 1  month after receiving it. This period can be extended by 2 months when necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests.


DISCLOSURE

Your personal data will be processed by the internal staff of HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L who have been specifically trained and authorized for this processing.

In order to fulfill the processing purposes, HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L may disclose certain or all categories of personal data to some or all of the following categories of recipients: representatives of HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L, contractual partners, companies from the same group, employees, collaborators.

Under some circumstances we may be required to disclose or share your data without your consent, for example if we are required by the police, the courts or for other legal reasons. Your data may be transmitted to the police, judicial and administrative authorities, in accordance with the law, for the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the prevention of and protection from threats to public security, to allow HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in court, as well as for other reasons related to the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.



DISCLOSURE FOR PAYMENT PURPOSE



If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then we store also your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.



THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L may provide your personal information to other companies that are in partnership, but only under a confidentiality commitment on their part, which ensures that data is kept secure and that the provision of personal information is in accordance with the legislation in force, as follows: marketing service providers, delivery, payment or banking services, telemarketing or other services providers, other companies with which we can develop joint programs on the market offering our products and services, insurers, social media organizations; companies specializing in market research and data processing; companies offering contact center services; companies providing publishing and distribution services. Your personal information may be also provided to the prosecution, police, courts, and other authorities of the state, under and within the law and following specific requests made. Also, your personal information may be transferred abroad, including in countries which do not ensure an adequate level of protection. In all cases, HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L will try to ensure an adequate protection of data transferred.

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.


SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

We protect your personal data with specific technical and organizational security measures aimed at preventing your personal data from being used illegitimately or fraudulently.

In particular, we use security measures that guarantee: pseudonymization or encryption of your data; the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data as well as the resilience of the systems and services that process them; the ability to restore data in the event of a data breach. Furthermore, HEALTH STRATEGIES EUROPE S.R.L undertakes to test, verify and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures in order to guarantee continuous improvement in the safety of processing.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

Some of the third parties listed in the previous paragraphs may be located in countries outside the European Union that nevertheless offer an adequate level of data protection, as established by specific decisions of the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/adequacy-protection-personal-data-non-eu-countries_en)

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY


We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our site is acquired or we merge with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners or partners so that we can continue to provide services.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please inform us if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

In order to comply with our legal obligations for data security and confidentiality, when you exercise one of your rights as a data subject, we may ask you to prove your identity by providing us with a copy of an identification document or any other information necessary to verify that the request comes from the relevant data subject.