Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 28, 2024

Introduction

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Happy Chameleons in Florida (“Company,” “we,” and “our”) processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website https://www.happychameleons.com (the “Website”). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal data?
Within the context of this Policy, we collect various forms of information, encompassing what is commonly referred to as “personal data.” As delineated in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the term “personal data” pertains to any information that, either individually or when amalgamated with other data under our purview, serves to uniquely identify you as an individual. Such data may encompass, but is not restricted to, particulars such as your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number.

Why do we need your personal data?
Our processing of personal data adheres strictly to the provisions outlined in relevant data protection and privacy legislation. The collection of specific personal data is indispensable for the provision of access to our website. When you registered with us, you were duly prompted to provide your consent, signifying your willingness to furnish this information to facilitate access to our services, product acquisition, or content perusal. This consent establishes the requisite legal foundation under applicable law for the processing of your data. It is important to note that you retain the prerogative to revoke this consent at any juncture. If you dissent with our utilization of your personal data in consonance with the tenets expounded in this Policy, we kindly beseech you to refrain from using our website.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:
Information You Give Us. This includes:

  • the personal data you provide when you register to use our website, including your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username, password and demographic information (such as your gender);
  • the personal data that may be contained in any video, comment or other submission you upload or post to the website;
  • the personal data you provide in connection with our rewards program and other promotions we run on the website;
  • the personal data you provide when you report a problem with our website or when we provide you with customer support;
  • the personal data you provide when you make a purchase thorough our website; and
  • the personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone, email or otherwise.

Information from Social Networking Websites.
Our website includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS through our website, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our website. For example, when visiting our website, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our website, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our website. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to fulfill obligations imposed by law, in which case we will inform you of any such processing and provide you with an opportunity to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?
The collection of information through the employment of “cookies” is a practice that we may undertake. Cookies, in this context, represent diminutive data files that are housed within the hard drive of your computing apparatus or mobile device by a given website. Our usage encompasses two primary categories of cookies: session cookies, which have a transitory existence and expire upon the closure of your web browser, and persistent cookies, which endure on your computing apparatus or mobile device until you choose to remove them. These cookies are instrumental in providing you with an enhanced, individualized, and interactive experience during your interaction with our website.

Two Distinct Categories of Cookies

Our utilization of cookies comprises two distinct classifications:

  1. First Party Cookies: These are directly dispensed by us to your computing apparatus or mobile device, serving the sole purpose of recognizing your computing apparatus or mobile device when you revisit our website.
  2. Third Party Cookies: These are administered by service providers who operate on our website. Service providers may harness these cookies to identify your computing apparatus or mobile device not only on our website but also during its visits to other websites.

Cookies are instrumental in enhancing the functionality and personalization of your web experience, thereby facilitating an enriched user interaction with our website.

Cookies we use
Our website uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie Purpose
Essential Cookies These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our website and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
Functionality Cookies These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use our website, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our website which you can customize. 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 visit our website.
Analytics and Performance Cookies These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our website and how users use our website. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages they visited on our website, what time of day they visited our website, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our website more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our website.

We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our website works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies

You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our website by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

Targeted and advertising cookies These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which 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 enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.

You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.

Social Media Cookies These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our website or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

Disabling cookies
It is generally feasible to eliminate or decline the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings. To effect this, kindly adhere to the guidance presented by your browser, typically accessible within the “settings,” “help,” “tools,” or “edit” features. The majority of browsers are initially configured to accept cookies until such time as you make modifications to your settings.

Potential Implications: Should you opt not to accept our cookies, it is conceivable that you may encounter certain inconveniences while utilizing our website. For instance, there may be an inability to recognize your computing apparatus or mobile device, necessitating repeated login procedures on each visit to our website.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the website. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies’ use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

  • Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

  • to operate, maintain, and improve our website, products, and services;
  • to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our website;
  • to operate and administer our rewards program and other promotions you participate in on our website;
  • to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
  • to send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming promotions, and other news, including information about products and services offered by us and our affiliates. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” Please note, even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if you have one) and our business dealings with you;
  • to process payments you make via our website;
  • as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
  • for analysis and study services; and
  • as described in the “Sharing of your Personal Data” section below.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

  • Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your personal data with third parties where you have provided your consent to do so.
  • Our Third Party Service Providers. We may share your personal data with our third party service providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
  • Third Party Sites

Our website may contain links to third party websites and features. This Policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their websites, features or policies. Please read their privacy policies before you submit any data to them.

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our website, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards, and Websites on our website. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our website will become public information, and will be available to other users of our website and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our website. Such personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it is published on our website.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our website, provided we do not associate such feedback with your personal data. If you have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our website. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

It is prohibited to upload, post, transmit, or otherwise make available content through the Application which includes or expresses, without limitation, any abusive behavior, threats, harassment, bullying, malicious attacks, ridicule, graphic materials, gambling advertising, sexually explicit materials, promotion of or urge to use drugs or any other illicit substances, or any materials inconsistent with the provisions of applicable law (“Objectionable Content and Behavior”).

We reserve our right to take reasonable measures to expeditiously remove from the Application any Objectionable Content and Behavior that we become aware of. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable or terminate the accounts of users of the Application who repeatedly violate the provisions of the previous paragraph. If you have found any Objectionable Content and Behavior or wish to file a complaint about any other information or materials uploaded by other users, please contact us directly. However, it is up to our discretion to decide whether to take any action in connection with your complaint.

International Data Transfer

Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the website until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our website is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

  • Opt-out. You may contact us anytime to opt-out of: (i) direct marketing communications; (ii) automated decision-making and/or profiling; (iii) our collection of sensitive personal data; (iv) any new processing of your personal data that we may carry out beyond the original purpose; or (v) the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. Please note that your use of some of the website may be ineffective upon opt-out.
  • Access. You may access the information we hold about you at any time via your profile/account or by contacting us directly.
  • Amend. You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.
  • Move. Your personal data is portable – i.e. you to have the flexibility to move your data to other service providers as you wish.
  • Erase and forget. In certain situations, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear: (i) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolve any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.