The revised privacy notice will be effective starting on March 25, 2020
Welcome to the ReadRate https://readrate.com web-site privacy notice.
This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
https://readrate.com is a web-site ("Web-site") which is an on-line resource that combines the functions of a social network, a recommendatory service and a literary portal that forms unique book ratings and it belongs to Pocketbook International SA ("PocketBook") and this privacy notice aims to give you information on how Pocketbook collects and processes your personal data towards your usage of this Web-site.
PocketBook respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our Web-site (regardless of where you visit it from) or use our services and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
PockeBook is based in Lugano, Switzerland.
Web-site is not intended for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. Users must be at least 16 years old or older to use and register on Web-site. If a parent or guardian believes that has in its database the personal information of a child under the age of 16, please contact us at privacy@pocketbook-int.com, and we will use our best efforts to remove the information from our records.
If you do not agree with this policy, do not access or use our Web-site or interact with any other aspect of our business.
CONTROLLER
While you are now visiting Web-site Pocketbook is the controller in respective to it and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "PocketBook", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights under the GDPR, please contact us by email privacy@pocketbook-int.com.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
We may revise the provisions of this Privacy Notice as necessary. The latest version of the Privacy Notice will govern the terms of use of your personal data by us and it will always be published at https://legal.pocketbook-int.com/readrate.com/privacynotice. If we make changes to this Privacy Notice, which in our opinion is important, we will send you an email to the email address specified in your account. Your continued use of the access and use Web-site after the entry into force of such changes fulfill the conditions of the provisions of the revised Privacy Notice.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This Web-site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Web-site, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use and store different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Web-site feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Profile and Contact Data by filling in forms. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Web-site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us privacy@pocketbook-int.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notice (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey |
Identity Contact Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey |
Identity Contact Usage Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and this Web-site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) |
Identity Contact Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant Web-site content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you |
Identity Contact Usage Marketing and Communications Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our Web-site, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
Technical Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Web-site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you |
Identity Contact Technical Usage Profile |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when Web-sites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Web-site may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
In any case, we do not share your personal data, with an exception of the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4.
PocketBook is a worldwide company, which collect information globally and we primarily store that information in the Netherlands. By using Services, you authorize us to transfer and store your information outside your home country, for the purposes described in this policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your information in these countries may not be the same as in your home country.
We take additional measures when information is transferred from the European Economic Area (EEA). This includes having standard clauses approved by the European Commission in our contracts with parties that receive information outside the EEA. We also rely on European Commission adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, for data transfers to countries outside the EEA.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us by email privacy@pocketbook-int.com.
NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best Products and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us privacy@pocketbook-int.com
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
INTERNAL THIRD PARTIES
Other companies in the PocketBook Group acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based EEA and outside of EEA and provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
EXTERNAL THIRD PARTIES
Service providers acting as processors, who provide IT and system administration services and support for the Services.