PRIVACY POLICY

OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We are committed to the protection of personal data we process. Below you’ll find the Privacy Policy, which guides how we collect, use, transfer, and store the information that you provide us with or that we collect about you when interacting with Echo Ingenuity. The following information is provided by Echo Ingenuity to show how we comply with applicable rules and regulations such as GDPR and to help keep you fully informed about your rights (and how to enforce them). By visiting echo-ingenuity.shop, you accept and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

OUR CONTACT DETAILS

Echo Ingenuity is the data administrator and located in 62 John Long Rd, Hazlehurst, Georgia 31055. You can reach us by email at [email protected].

TO WHOM DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?

This Privacy Policy applies to all persons whose personal data are processed by Echo Ingenuity:

  • Visitors to the exhibition(s) of Echo Ingenuity;
  • Visitors to the Echo Ingenuity website;
  • Recipients of newsletters and emails sent by Echo Ingenuity to visitors of our exhibitions and/or website;
  • All other persons who contact or of whom Echo Ingenuity processes personal data.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to partners, employees, secondees, student interns, and applicants.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

We process personal data you have provided to us, personal data generated during your visit to our exhibitions and/or our website and when reading newsletters and emails sent by us to visitors of our exhibitions. We also process personal data we have obtained from other sources such as Social Media platforms.

Potential personal data we collect:

  • Name, email address, and/or your photo when you visit our exhibitions and make use of the technologies we offer to you to receive a Good GIF or your Good Fashion Action Plan.
  • Personal data obtained through or generated on our website, newsletters, commercial emails, or related technologies:
    • IP address
    • Your browsing behaviour on the website such as information on your first visit, previous visit, and current visit, the visited pages, and the manner in which you navigate on the website.
    • Whether you open a newsletter or email and what sections you select.

COOKIES

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For certain sites on the Echo Ingenuity website, registering or supplying personal information sets such a cookie. By setting this cookie, Echo Ingenuity will remember your details the next time you visit our website, so you do not have to re-enter the information.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent at any time you would like. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website. Cookies can be easily disabled or erased. Simply click on your respective browser type below to go directly to the respective user guide and learn how to disable or erase cookies:

  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Maintaining contact with the visitors of our exhibitions and website.
  • Your contact details and photo will be recorded in our system and can be used to send you updates on your Good Fashion Action Plan and additional sustainable fashion-related information.
  • Improving our communications on fashion appetite and behavior.
  • Understanding your interest in and views on sustainable fashion.
  • Improving our non-commercial fashion campaigns.
  • Expressing ourselves on public social media platforms. We only use your photo on social media platforms with your permission, which may be revoked at any time.
  • Improving and securing our website echo-ingenuity.shop.
  • Preparing user statistics; the user statistics of the website enable us to get an idea of the number of visitors, the duration of the visits, what sections of the website are visited, and the click behaviour. These are generic reports without any information about individual persons. We use the collected information to improve the website.

LEGAL GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING

We process personal data based on one of the following legal grounds:

  • Approval
  • In relation to a legitimate interest

A data administrator may only process personal data if this can be based on one of the exhaustive legal grounds laid down in the General Data Protection Decree. The legal grounds used by Echo Ingenuity are:

  • Approval
    You will always have the right to withdraw any permission you have given us to process your personal data. To do so, please email [email protected].

  • Legitimate interest
    We may also process your personal data if we have a legitimate interest and do not disproportionately infringe on your privacy. We may, for example, use your contact details to invite you to future events based on your attendance at previous events.

PROCESSORS AND SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA

We may hire service providers (processors) for the processing of your personal data which solely process your personal data based on our instructions. We will conclude a processor agreement with these processors that meets the requirements laid down in the General Data Protection Decree. For example, we hire IT service providers that provide support for the safe and stable operation of our systems. We also make use of third-party services to send newsletters and emails. These are examples of parties that can be considered processors within the meaning of the General Data Protection Decree.

If a court ruling requires us to share personal data with third parties, we will need to comply with this. Your personal data will not be shared with third parties for commercial purposes.

TRANSFER OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA)

We will not transfer your personal data to parties located outside of the EEA with one exception. We make use of a service provider (processor) located in the US to send our online newsletters and mailings. Data protection law in the EEA does not allow the transfer of personal information to countries outside the EEA that do not ensure an “adequate” level of data protection. We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer of personal data to the US is protected in a manner that is consistent with how your personal data will be protected by us in the EEA. The recipient located in the US is a certified member of the EU-US Privacy Shield Scheme.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the EEA by contacting us via [email protected].

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was obtained. Personal data will be retained for the purposes of communication with you in relation to our Good Fashion Action Plan. In order to comply with the records retention requirements applicable to us, all your personal data will be kept for a period of no longer than 3 years.

QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Each person can, pursuant to the law, exercise certain rights in relation to their personal data. You have the right to access, correct, and remove your personal data. You can also object to the use of your personal data or request to limit their use. In certain cases, you can request your data and transfer them to another party. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

HOW TO OPT OUT

If you wish to opt out from or revoke your consent to any communication, clear, enable, or disable cookies, we’ve collected the most important information on how to do so below.

How to manage cookies on popular browsers and devices:
Select a browser below to see a detailed explanation of how to remove or disable cookies.

  • Manage cookies on Safari
  • Manage cookies on iOS
  • Manage cookies on Chrome
  • Manage cookies on Firefox
  • Manage cookies on Internet Explorer

How to manage subscriptions from Echo Ingenuity emails:
Go to the latest email received from us, head to the bottom of the email and click “Update preferences” to update your email preferences or “Unsubscribe” to unsubscribe from all Echo Ingenuity email communications. Please note that this means you may miss important information.

How to manage and reject Google Analytics site tracking:
You can opt out of all Google Analytics site tracking, including any other sites that use Google Analytics via this link. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how your data is safeguarded via this link.

COMPLAINTS ABOUT HANDLING YOUR DATA

If you have any complaints about how we handle your personal data, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. We would be happy to help you find a solution.

AMENDMENTS TO THE PRIVACY STATEMENT

Developments and changes are taking place rapidly, and things may change in the personal data requested from you and the manner in which we use them. Regulations may also be amended. If this is the case, we will change this Privacy Statement. Please regularly check this page (echo-ingenuity.shop/pages/privacy-policy) to find the most recent version of our privacy policy.

We use a text messaging platform, subject to the following terms and conditions. By opting in to our text and message marketing, you agree to these terms and conditions. By entering your phone number at checkout and initiating a purchase, signing up using our subscription form or a keyword, you agree that we may send you text messages (for your order, including abandoned cart reminders) and text marketing offers. You acknowledge that consent is not a condition of any purchase.

Your phone number, name, and purchase details will be shared with our SMS platform “SMSBump Inc”, an EU company with offices in Sofia, Bulgaria, EU. This data will be used to send targeted marketing messages and alerts. When the text messages are sent, your phone number will be forwarded to the text message operator to fulfill their delivery.

If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving marketing text messages and alerts, reply STOP to any mobile message sent from us or use the unsubscribe link provided to you in any of our messages. You understand and agree that standard text messaging rates may apply.

COOKIES USED

[Name] uses cookies to optimize your visit to our website and collect information about how you use our website. This can be done in two ways:

  • Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire once you close your web browser.
  • Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

In general, cookies are used to:

  • Make our website function correctly
  • Optimize the performance of our website
  • Remember your preferences
  • Analyze how visitors use our website
  • Support our marketing efforts

We use third-party services to analyze how our website is used and how we can improve it.

FINAL NOTES

This Privacy Policy was last updated on [date].