Last updated: August 22, 2024

This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your information when you use our Service. It also outlines your privacy rights and the legal protections available to you.

By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

Words with capitalized initials have specific meanings defined under the following conditions. These definitions apply equally whether they appear in singular or plural forms.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account: A unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of it.
  • Affiliate: Any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the voting shares or securities.
  • Company: (referred to as "the Company", "We", "Us", or "Our") Smart & Successful SRL-D, located at Piatra Neamt, Bld. Republicii 4, Romania. For GDPR purposes, the Company is the Data Controller.
  • Cookies: Small files placed on your device by a website, which store details of your browsing history and other information.
  • Country: Romania
  • Data Controller: For GDPR purposes, the Company, as the entity responsible for determining the purposes and means of processing personal data.
  • Device: Any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cellphone, or tablet.
  • GDPR: EU General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. Under GDPR, this includes details such as name, identification number, location data, or online identifier.
  • Service: The website smart-n-successful.com, accessible at https://www.smart-n-successful.com/.
  • Service Provider: Any entity processing data on behalf of the Company. Under GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
  • Usage Data: Information collected automatically when using the Service, such as the duration of page visits.
  • Website: smart-n-successful.com
  • You: The individual or entity accessing or using the Service. Under GDPR, You may be referred to as the Data Subject or User.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when you use the Service.

This data may include information such as your Device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages you visit on our Service, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service through a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device's unique ID, its IP address, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our Service and store certain information. The tracking technologies we use may include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. These technologies may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your Device. You can set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company to, for example, count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies
    Type: Session Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have requested cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
  • Functionality Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
  • Targeting and Advertising Cookies
    Type: Persistent Cookies
    Administered by: Third-Parties
    Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to allow us to show you advertising that is more likely to be of interest to you. These Cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third-party advertisers can place Cookies to show you adverts that we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third-party websites.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service: Including monitoring the usage of our Service.
  • To manage your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data you provide allows you to access different functionalities of the Service available to you as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and execution of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or any other contract with us through the Service.
  • To contact you: To reach out to you by email, phone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications from our mobile application, regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide you with news and offers: To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer, which are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage your requests: To attend to and manage your requests to us.
  • For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, in which personal data held by us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service, or to contact you.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or are under common control with us.
  • With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
  • With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Service.
  • With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent required to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Service, or when we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other locations where the parties involved in processing are located. This means that your information may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the Personal Data we have collected about you.

Our Service may allow you to delete certain information about you from within the Service.

You can update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you have provided to us.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

In certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers we use may have access to your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

Your Rights under the GDPR

The Company is committed to respecting the confidentiality of your Personal Data and ensuring that you can exercise your rights.

If you are located in the EU, you have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law, to:

  • Request access to Your Personal Data: You have the right to access, update, or delete the information we have about you. Whenever possible, you can access, update, or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you cannot perform these actions yourself, please contact us for assistance. This also allows you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You: You have the right to request correction of any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you.
  • Object to processing of Your Personal Data: You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data where we are processing your Personal Data based on a legitimate interest, and there is something about your particular situation that makes you want to object to the processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request erasure of Your Personal Data: You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no valid reason for us to continue processing it.
  • Request the transfer of Your Personal Data: You have the right to request the transfer of your Personal Data to you or a third party of your choice, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. This right only applies to automated information that you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw Your consent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your Personal Data carried out in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. We aim to respond to all legitimate requests as promptly as possible.

If you are within the European Economic Area (EEA) and you feel that our collection and use of your Personal Data breaches your privacy rights, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we discover that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers.

If your country requires parental consent for processing information about minors and we rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information, we may require your parent's consent before collecting and using that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly recommend that you review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service before the change becomes effective, and we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: