This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it and why we need the information to help serve you better. It also explains the specific ways we use and disclose that information. We take your privacy extremely seriously, and we never sell lists, email addresses, or share your personal information with any 3rd party.
Types of Data Collected. Among the types of Personal Data that carepress.io collects, by itself or through third parties, there are Cookies, Usage Data, email address, first name, last name and website.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed before the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using carepress.io.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by carepress.io is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for carepress.io to provide its services. In cases where carepress.io specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact us.
Any use of Cookies or other tracking tools by carepress.io or by the third-party services used by carepress.io serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and the Cookie Policy, if available.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through carepress.io and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
Methods of processing. CarePress takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the main team of CarePress, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of carepress.io (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the CarePress.
Legal basis of processing. CarePress may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Places of Precessing. The Data is processed at the CarePress operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the CarePress to safeguard their Data.
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.
Retention time. Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
CarePress may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.
The purposes of the processing. The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Managing contacts and sending messages, Handling payments, Contacting the User, Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Remarketing and behavioural targeting, SPAM protection, Registration and authentication, Displaying content from external platforms, Managing support and contact requests, Heat mapping and session recording, Tag Management, Infrastructure monitoring, Hosting and backend infrastructure and Content commenting.
Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and the specific Personal Data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics. The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.
Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of carepress.io, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Contacting the User. Support Contact form (carepress.io)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes carepress.io to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data collected: email address, website URL, first name and last name.
Zendesk Live Chat. Zendesk Chat is a chat service provided by Zendesk, Inc. enabling the Users to start a chat.
Personal Data collected: email address, website URL, first name, last name, Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Content commenting. Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of carepress.io.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
Comment system managed directly (carepress.io)
carepress.io has its own internal content comment system.
Displaying content from external platforms. This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of carepress.io and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Handling payments. Payment processing services enable carepress.io to process payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means. To ensure greater security, carepress.io shares only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction.
Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the User, such as emails containing invoices or notifications concerning the payment.
2Checkout (2checkout.com, Inc)
2Checkout is a payment service provided by 2Checkout.com, Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
PayPal (PayPal Inc.)
PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows Users to make online payments.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: See the PayPal privacy policy – Privacy Policy.
Heat mapping and session recording. Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of a page where Users most frequently move the mouse or click. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behaviour.
Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for a later visual playback.
Hosting and backend infrastructure. This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable carepress.io to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of carepress.io. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
CloudWays (cloud hosting platform)
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: – Privacy Policy.
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
Managing support and contact requests. This type of service allows carepress.io to manage support and contact requests received via email or by other means, such as the contact form.
The Personal Data processed depend on the information provided by the User in the messages and the means used for communication (e.g. email address).
Zendesk (Zendesk Inc.)
Privacy Policy and processing information are mentioned above.
Remarketing and behavioural targeting. This type of service allows carepress.io and its partners to inform, optimize and serve to advertise based on past use of carepress.io by the User.
This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioural targeting activity.
In addition to any opt-out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt-out of a third-party service’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)
AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity of carepress.io with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of carepress.io with the Facebook advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and email address.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of carepress.io with the Facebook advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
SPAM protection. This type of service analyzes the traffic of carepress.io, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, to filter it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
Akismet (Automattic Inc.)
Akismet is a SPAM protection service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc. The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Tag Management. This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on carepress.io in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users’ Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Selling goods and services online. The Personal Data collected are used to provide the User with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery.
The Personal Data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of Data collected by carepress.io depends on the payment system used.
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Details about the right to object to processing. Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights. Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.
Cookie Policy. carepress.io uses Cookies. To learn more and for a detailed cookie notice, the User may consult the Cookie Policy.
Legal action. The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the CarePress in Court or the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of carepress.io or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, carepress.io may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance. For operation and maintenance purposes, carepress.io and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with carepress.io (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page and possibly within carepress.io and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible – sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed based on the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.
Last updated on 06-Feb-2021