Who we are
Our website address is: http://weighingscalessolutions.co.ke.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
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.
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.
What rights you have over your data
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.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
- Your name
- Your billing and delivery address
- Your e-mail address
- Your phone (or mobile) number
- Your credit/debit card number
- Information on how you are using the Sites
- Your purchase/return/exchange information
Analytics
We may use web beacons, tracking pixels, cookies and other technologies to store or receive certain types of information. The information may include internet protocol address, time/date stamp, browser information and click stream data. The information is helpful in customizing your website experience and ensures that our marketing messages are relevant. It gives the prerequisite to provide features such as storage of items in your cart between visits. This may include our content given on other websites or mobile applications. For us to provide the best customer experience possible, we use information for analysis and reporting purposes, such as how you shop on our website, your response to marketing efforts and the performance of our marketing efforts.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
Other cookies will be used to keep track of the cart content while browsing our site.
Note: you may want to further detail your cookie policy, and link to that section from here.
When you purchase from us, we will ask you to give us information including your billing address, name, email address, shipping address, credit card/payment details, phone number and optional account information like username and password. We will use such information to:
- Send you information about your order and account
- Respond to your requests, including complaints and refunds.
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal entities we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
Who we share your data with
We do not rent or sell personally identifiable customer information on to third parties; except under minimal circumstances outlined herein, we may share the information to third party.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose your information on the event that we believe that such disclosure is necessary in compliance with the law including law enforcement requirement or national security; to apply or enforce applicable conditions and terms and other agreements; or protect the rights, safety or property of our company
What third parties we receive data from
The use of our Software may be inclusive of products and services by third party providers whereas data may also be processed outside the EU
We process personal data of the users or other users provided by a customer i.e. Customer remains the sole controller of such data and we act as data processors subject to a different data processing agreement.
A list of third-party providers and data processing is set forth here. Whereas each of third-party provider who process data outside EU has a respective guarantee to comply with the EU data protection standards.
Cookies
If you decide to leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name and email address and the cookies of the website. Apparently, they are for convenience so that you will not be required to fill in your details the next time you login. These cookies will last for one year.
If you create an account and you login, we will set up a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts the said cookies. These cookies contain personal information and is discarded once you close the browser.
When you log in to our site, we will set up several cookies to save your login data and your screen display choices. Apparently, the login cookies last for 48 hours and the screen options last for 12 months. In any case you select “remember me” option; your log in information will be saved for two weeks. If you login from your account then the cookies will be removed.
If you publish or edit an article, the additional cookies will be saved on the browser. The cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article that was just edited. It expires in 24 hrs.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include most of the embedded contents such as articles, images and videos. The embedded content from other sites behaves exact the same way as if the visitor was on other websites.
These sites may get information about you, use the cookies, monitor your interaction and embed additional third-party tracking including tracing your interactions with the content embedded if you have an account that is logged to that website.
Need Help?
For more information regarding our privacy policy contact us on info@weighingsolutions.com