Privacy Policy.
Effective Date: 26-May-2023
Last Updated: 26-May-2023
ThinkBastien Ltd. takes data privacy seriously and in accordance with GDPR regulations.
This privacy policy explains who we are, how we collect, share, and use Personal Information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information may be collected on the ThinkBastien.com website and how it may be used. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it.
This Privacy Policy describes the policies of ThinkBastien Ltd. on the collection, use, and disclosure of the information that we collect when you use our website (thinkbastien.com). (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service, effective immediately. Your continued access or use of the Service will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We, therefore, recommend that you periodically review this page.
ThinkBastien.com does not share personal information with third-parties about your visit to this website other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies. We may log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit ThinkBastien.com. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services relevant to your interests. If you would like to know more, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Other information collected by the Service
Your Data Voluntarily Submitted to the Website
You may voluntarily submit your name or email address on this Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Email Addresses
We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Website or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.
Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider may also contact you from time to time.
If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”
Third-Party Use of Personal Data
We may share your information with third-parties that also take data privacy seriously and in accordance with GDPR regulations when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but not your name, email address, or other personal information.
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) – we use Brevo as our marketing platform to deliver email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address which you provide voluntarily, for the purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Brevo’s privacy policy for further information.
This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.
How we may use your information
We may use the information that you provided voluntarily for the following purposes:
Marketing / Promotional
Customer feedback collection
Support
Administration information
Targeted advertising
If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only upon receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.
How we may share your information
We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:
Ad service
Analytics
We require such third-parties to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.
We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, or other legal processes; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.
Retention of your information
We will retain your personal information with us for 30 days after users terminate their account or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.
Your rights
Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at strategy@thinkbastien.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
You may opt-out of direct marketing communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email or the profiling we carry out for marketing purposes by writing to us at strategy@thinkbastien.com.
Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.
Cookies
To learn more about how we use these and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Security
The security of your information is of utmost importance to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Third-party links & use of your information
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this Policy
We may change this privacy policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the privacy policy is reflected by the version date located at the top of this privacy policy. All updates and amendments are effective immediately upon notice, which we may give by any means, including, but not limited to, by posting a revised version of this privacy policy or other notice on the ThinkBastien.com Website. We encourage you to review this privacy policy often to stay informed of changes that may affect you. Our electronically or otherwise properly stored copies of this privacy policy are each deemed to be the true, complete, valid, authentic, and enforceable copy of the version of this privacy policy that was in effect on each respective date you visited the ThinkBastien.com Website.
How to contact us
If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your personal information that is available to us, you may email us at strategy@thinkbastien.com
We will address your concerns in accordance with applicable law.