Privacy Policy
The Website Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes the types of information that we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.carolady.com (our “Website”). This Policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Carolady offers online resources that provide product-related information and services, as well as corporate news and other information related to our business.
The protection of personal data, as well as compliance with privacy and data protection laws and regulations, is important to our organization and affiliates. We aim to ensure the privacy rights of our consumers, business contacts, and employees when we handle information about them.
This Policy only applies to personal data collected through the www.carolady.com website or by third parties acting for and on our behalf as data processors and further processed for the purposes specified herein. This Policy does not apply to personal data collected from offline resources and communications. This Policy also does not apply to third-party online resources to which our Website may link, where we do not control the content or the privacy practices of such resources.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see section titled “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.
As referred to in this Policy, references to "us," "we," "our," and "Carolady" generally mean Carolady (these can include affiliates of Carolady depending on the context).
Your Rights
You can utilize the following mechanisms to provide you with control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Carolady's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from Carolady: If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by Carolady to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt out by notifying us using the contact methods provided in this Policy. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to Carolady as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising: If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt out by notifying us using the contact methods provided in this Policy.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising; however, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
You have the following rights in accordance with applicable laws and regulations:
Access: You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing.
Rectification: You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we process about you rectified.
Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete personal data that we process about you, except we are not obliged to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Restriction: You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data where you believe such data to be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete it.
Portability: You have the right to obtain personal data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another data controller, where this is (1) personal data which you have provided to us, and (2) if we are processing that personal data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you.
Objection: Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise, or defense of a legal claim.
Withdrawing Consent: If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge. This includes where you wish to opt out from marketing messages.
Where you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] before making contact. For your own privacy and security, we may require evidence of your identity or additional information before we are able to act on your request if the information we have is insufficient. We will attempt to provide any requested information or make requested changes in accordance with applicable laws.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local personal data protection regulatory authority in accordance with applicable laws if you believe that we have not complied with applicable personal data protection laws.
Your Personal Data Retention Period
We generally retain personal data for as long as reasonably needed for the specific business purpose or purposes for which it was collected and the duration of your use of our Website. In some cases, we may be required to retain information for a longer period based on laws or regulations that apply to our business. Where possible, we aim to anonymize the information or remove unnecessary identifiers from records that we may need to keep for periods beyond the original retention period. Once personal data is no longer necessary, we delete or anonymize it as soon as possible.