Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 15, 2024
Welcome to Green Quartz. We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, and store your personal information when you visit our website, use our services, or interact with us in any way.
1. Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information:
- Personal Information: When you contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, or use our services, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
- Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you interact with our website, including pages visited, time spent on each page, links clicked, and other usage statistics.
- Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our website, including browser type, IP address, operating system, and device identifiers.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, and personalize content.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services
- To notify you about changes to our services
- To allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to do so
- To provide customer support and respond to your inquiries
- To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our services
- To monitor the usage of our services
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
- To send you newsletters, promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you (with your consent)
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to process your personal data.
- Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
4. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and the purposes for which we process it.
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal information with:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide services on our behalf, such as website hosting, email delivery, analytics, and payment processing.
- Business Partners: We may share your information with business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your consent.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: The right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: The right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete information about you.
- Erasure: The right to request that we delete your personal data.
- Restriction: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer your personal data to another organization or directly to you.
- Objection: The right to object to our processing of your personal data.
- Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website.
- Functionality Cookies: Enable us to personalize content and remember your preferences.
- Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed to deliver more relevant advertisements.
8. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
9. International Data Transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of your country of residence, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country. When we transfer your personal data internationally, we take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
10. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.