Privacy Policy | Villa Mater

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information. Consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first access our website allows us to use cookies every time you access our website.

B. Credits

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).

C. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

a) Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
b) Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths;
c) Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering on our website;
d) Information you enter when creating a profile on our website—such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment information;
e) Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
f) Information you enter during the use of services on our website;
g) Information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
h) Information related to everything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you conduct through our website, including name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card data;
i) Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
j) Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including the content and metadata of the communication;
k) Any other personal information you send to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person’s consent for the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information sent to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:

a) Administering our website and our business;
b) Customizing our website for you;
c) Enabling the use of services available on our website;
d) Providing services purchased through our website;
e) Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, as well as collecting payments;
f) Sending non-marketing commercial communications;
g) Sending email notifications requested by you specifically;
h) Sending our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer want to receive the newsletter);
i) Sending marketing communications related to our business or the carefully selected business of third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by mail or, where you have specifically agreed to it, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer want to receive marketing communications);
j) Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information);
k) Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website;
l) Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
m) Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service); and
n) Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and adjusted through the use of privacy controls on the site.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

E. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (meaning our subsidiaries, our holding company, and all of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

a) To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b) In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
c) To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
d) To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are selling (or contemplating selling); and
e) To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section F.

G. Retention of Personal Information

This section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section G, we will generally delete personal data after 12 months, in accordance with the LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados);
Despite the other provisions of this section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: to the extent required to do so by law;
if we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

H. Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping confidential the password used to access our website; we will not ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Changes

We may update this policy periodically by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

a) Payment of a fee; and
b) Provision of appropriate evidence of your identity.

We may withhold personal information requested to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes links to and details of third-party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a browser and stored by the browser.

The identifier is then sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s session, when the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are described below:
– We use Google Analytics, Google Adwords, and Facebook pixel on our website to track users as they browse the site, improve site usability, analyze site usage, administer the site, prevent fraud, enhance security, customize the site for each user, and target ads that may be of particular interest to specific users.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—e.g., in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the available cookie handling settings by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and “Advanced”; in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” in the drop-down menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings,” “Advanced,” “Site settings,” and then selecting “Block third-party cookies” under “Cookies and site data.”

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our site.

You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer—e.g., in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (see instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835); in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Advanced,” “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

The Vila Materna website assumes no responsibility and advises you to consult legal experts if you are implementing the above template on your site.