Thank you for visiting our Site. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is aimed at providing details on how ESSENTIAL HOMME collects and uses the collected Personal Data. This Policy applies to the following ESSENTIAL HOMME website (collectively referred as “Sites”): ESSENTIALHOMME.net

All Sites are owned and or operated by ESSENTIAL HOMME, incorporated and operating in France.

1. Introduction

Unless otherwise defined, words used in this Policy shall take on the following definition:

ESSENTIAL HOMME”, “we” or “our” means ESSENTIAL HOMME, or Essential Homme-related entity that acts as controller or processor of your Personal Data.

Personal Data” means information that makes it identifiable or locatable to an individual, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number.

This Policy is to explain how Essential Homme uses Personal Data that we may collect when you access any of our Sites or use our product(s)/service(s), including Personal Data that may be shared by our business partner(s). This Policy does not cover Personal Data that may be collected elsewhere such as offline, or website(s) linking to or from our Sites, or third parties and individuals that Essential Homme does not own, control, employ or manage. If you do not agree with this Policy, do not: access or use any of our Sites, provide information to us, or use our product(s) or service(s).

Do read this Policy together with our Sites’ Terms and Conditions.

For website visitors including app users, account holders, customers from:

European Union (“EU”), please refer to our GDPR webpage for details on how Essential Homme complies with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation Policy.
California residents, please refer to the below California Consumer Privacy Act section.

2. Personal Data You Provide Us

Essential Homme Site collects Personal Data with your specific prior knowledge and consent, such as when you place orders with us, subscribing to our newsletter, create an account with us, complete a survey to enter into our raffle sweepstake or giveaways. You may opt not to provide us with certain Personal Data, but in doing so, we may not be able to properly process your order, transaction, application, or you may not be able to enjoy special features we may offer.

When you register to our Site’ forum, you need to complete a registration form where you need to provide certain Personal Data such as your email. If you choose not to provide certain Personal Data, or if it is inaccurate, we may not be able to process your registration and you may not be able to post on our forum, or use parts of our Site. Optional Personal Data like your location, referrer, etc, may also be request.

3. Public Areas

When you post, contribute or share content to our Site’ public area, such as comments section, your submitted contents are made public. We recommend you exercise caution when you post, contribute or share contents on our Site’ public area in order to protect your personal privacy.

You are solely responsible for your use and activities on any of the Site, such as: when you submit or post contents on our Site; any activities occurring under your account; or, ensure, protect and safeguard your account’s confidentiality and security. In any event, we shall not be held liable for any and all claims, losses and damages sustained or resulting from any misuse of our Site, breach on any of our Site’ terms and conditions, any contents you submit onto our Site, or unauthorized use of your account.

4. Automatic Information

Our servers may automatically collect automatic, individual and/or aggregate information about your electronic device (such as phone, computer) used to visit Essential Homme Site, such as the website that referred you, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, type and configuration of the internet browser of your electronic device, browsing preference such as language settings, font size, geo-location, operating system, and other usage and traffic information.

Essential Homme uses this automatic, individual and/or aggregate information to analyse trends, gather and prepare statistics or demographic information and administer our websites so we may provide improved online web experiences to our users and visitors.

Information collected may not identify you personally. We may provide such information (not necessarily personal data) to our partners about how our users collectively use our Site, so they may further understand how their areas are used and our websites, in order to provide you with improved web experience.

We may also be legally required to disclose or provide access to our database so to cooperate with the applicable laws, regulations, court order and/or request from government authority, which we will provide for those specific request.

This Policy does not restrict or limit our collection and use of such automatic and/or aggregated information.

5. How We Use Personal Data

We use, store and/or provide your Personal Data to conduct our business activities, such as:

  • Enhance or improve user experience of Essential Homme Site, or help improve performance on our product(s) or service(s) offered through any of our Sites;
  • Register, verify, process and maintain your Site’ account;
  • Process, verify, operate, manage, administer and maintain membership programs for our Site users;
  • Process your order and transaction on the Site, or for our products and services;
  • Conduct and process any contest, raffle sweepstakes, giveaways and/or surveys that we may organize via our Site, social media or other channels/medium, business, products and/or services, and to announce the winner of the contest or sweepstakes (as the case may be);
  • Inform you on changes to our Policy, Site’ Terms & Conditions, or respond to enquiries;
  • Send email or other marketing communications about our Site or other news, promotional sale alert, Sites’ products and services;
  • Detect, investigate, identify, protect and prevent against fraudulent transactions or other illegal or misuse of our Site which may violate this Privacy Policy or Terms and Conditions;
  • Enforce our Policy, and Terms and Conditions;
  • Allow our engaged third party service providers (including interaction or social media providers) to: provide specific services for or to our Site, to host contents on our Site, process data for Essential Homme, provide technological support to us, conduct maintenance of our services, data banks, databases, including but not limited to IT contractor(s), website analytic service provider(s), data processor(s) and service provider(s) for database management systems;
  • Provide our third party advertising and promotional agencies or consultants, or online platforms selected by Essential Homme, to help us carry out marketing campaigns, measure delivery and effectiveness of such advertisement (such as client campaign tracking);
  • To purchaser(s) or assignee(s) as part of any reorganization, merger and acquisition, transfer or sale of our business;
  • Comply with or permitted by applicable laws, regulations, order or lawful request from government authority or court.

6. Cookies

To distinguish you from other users—especially other users on the same network as you—we would use cookies to track your specific computer or electronic device. Cookies are small computer text files that are sent from a website to the browser of your computer or electronic device and are stored on your device. Generally, cookies do not recognize you personally and are not harmful to your device. Cookies are used by websites that you visit and browse to improve your website browsing experience and provide the website operators with non-personal data or analytical information to help improve the quality of their websites for their users’ website browsing experience. For example, we use cookies to save your device’s browsing preferences and settings. For these reasons we require that you keep cookies enabled when using our websites. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies on your computer or electronic device, you may find that some of the features and functionality of our websites may not work properly. Additionally, our cookies may be accessible by third parties or provided by third parties including, for example, Google via Google AdSense on our websites. We do not have any control over and are not responsible or liable for such third parties’ collection and use of the cookies. Please refer to those third parties’ relevant policies regarding their collection and use of cookies for further information.

7. Third Party Websites

Essential Homme Site may contain links to third party websites, advertisers or services that we do not own or control. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites, advertisers or services or their use of your Personal Data. If you access a third party website from our Site, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that neither this Policy nor our Terms and Conditions apply to your use of such third party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of use of any third party website, advertisers or services that you visit or use before providing your Personal Data to those third parties. We shall not be liable for your activities taken on or with those other third party websites, advertisers or services.

8. Third Party Access to Your Personal Data

Without prejudice to Clause 6, we endeavour to protect your Personal Data from being accessed by third parties. But we may employ external maintenance personnel or use third party service provider(s) to help us provide website, information technology and/or data processing services or host our material, there are third party entities which may have custody or access to your Personal Data. It is necessary that you permit such third parties to access your Personal Data to the same degree and extent that you authorize us to do so. For greater certainty, every authorization you grant us in this Policy, you agree to also grant the same to any third party that Essential Homme may hire, contract, instruct or otherwise retain services for the purpose of operating, hosting, maintaining, repairing, improving, preserving or otherwise for our Sites or its underlying files or systems, for data processing on our behalf, provide technological support and/or conduct maintenance of our servers, data banks or database (as the case may be). To the fullest and maximum extent as permitted under applicable law, you agree not to hold us liable for action(s) undertaken by such third parties, even where we may normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and you must take legal actions against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionably wrongdoing against you.

We may store your Personal Data or share them with other third parties for reason related to Clause 6 above. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the following is a non-exhaustive list of other entities that we may store, share, or transfer your collected Personal Data in accordance with this Policy:

  • Google Analytics (Anonymous version)
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google DoubleClick for Publishers
  • Google AdSense
  • Google Adwords
  • Google Sign-in (iOS/Android)
  • Admob
  • Facebook (SDK for iOS/Android, App Events/Analytics, AudienceNetwork)
  • Twitter (Analytics)
  • QuantcastComScore
  • MailChimp
  • Google Firebase (Cloud Messaging, Performance Marketing, etc.)
  • Disqus

9. Marketing & Communication

When registering for a Essential Homme Forum or signing up for Essential Homme Site account, you will be given the option to opt-in to receive our promotional and direct marketing materials and/or updates through the Essential Homme Site newsletter. If you would prefer to opt-out from these e-mails, you may do so at any time by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the e-mail.

We will also use your Personal Data for our direct marketing, as explained in Clause 6 regarding use of Personal Data for our direct marketing. In any event, we will use Personal Data for direct marketing in accordance with this Policy, and we will not use or provide your Personal Data to third parties for direct marketing unless having obtained your explicit consent.

10. Law Enforcement

Your Personal Data may be disclosed in complying with a court order, government request or as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. If we receive any notice or subpoena that can affect your privacy, unless prohibited or restricted by law, we may notify you so you may elect to file an injunction or application to such prevent or remove such request, or we may apply at our own initiative, but we are not obligated to do either.

11. Security of Information

We use SSL and TLS certificates to help secure our platform. But we make no representations as to the security or confidentiality of your Personal Data. No transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It is in our interest to keep our platform secure, we recommend you use anti-virus software, firewalls, and other precautions to protect yourself from security threats.

12. California Consumer Privacy Act

Overview
This section applies specifically to individuals residing in California, United States of America. We intend to comply with California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 (“CCPA”). CCPA may provide you with additional rights over our use of your Personal Information, including Personal Data. More information can be found on: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws. For the purpose of this section, Personal Data forms part of “Personal Information” definition, comprising of the below categories which we collect. Note that Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, aggregated consumer information or those not covered under CCPA.

Information that we collect:

  • Identifiers (such as name, email address, social security number, IP address)
  • Categories of personal information listed in the California Customer Records Statute (this includes information such as name, social security no, physical characteristics, address, telephone number)
  • Characteristics of Protected Classification under California or federal law
  • Commercial information (such as purchasing records)
  • Internet activity (includes search/browsing history)
  • Geolocation data (such as region, country)
    Inferences about personal preferences and attributes drawn from profiling (e.g. via cookies)
  • Any Personal Information collected are used and processed in the same manner as specified in this Policy.

Sale of Personal Information and Persons under 16
Essential Homme does not sell Personal Information we collected or received from third party, although we have de-identified and aggregated certain information for both internal and specific commercial use.

Our platform are not intended for individuals below age of 16, and we will not knowingly collect personal information from such individuals. If you are of age 16 years or older, you may request us to not use certain personal information collected from you for the aforesaid purpose by sending us a message at privacy@essentialhomme.net

Non-Discrimination
You have the right to choose not to provide certain personal information to us. We will not discriminate you in exercising your rights offered by CCPA. Unless where permitted in CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services;
  • Charge a different price or rate for goods or services, including the use of discounts, benefits or other penalties;
  • Provide a different level or quality of goods or services; and
  • suggest will receive different price or quality of goods or service in exercising rights under law.

Request for Personal Information
Subject to exceptions permitted by law, you have the right to request us to delete your personal information which we have collected. Upon receipt and confirming your verifiable consumer request, and if exceptions by law do not apply, we will arrange deletion.

To submit a verifiable consumer request for deleting Personal Information, you may submit it directly to: info@essentialhomme.net, with title subject: “CCPA Data Deletion: [insert first name, surname initial]”.

To ensure and verify you are the correct and proper person of the Personal Information which you want us to delete, to process your request you must also provide us with the following as identity verification:

  • Date of Birth (Month/Day) if you recall provided us with;
  • Details of last activity that you conducted on our website or app (example, if you last made a purchase, details of that purchase such as date, value, item(s) purchased);
  • Email address used to conduct your activity on our website or app.
    If we are unable to properly verify your identity as the individual related to the Personal Information being requested to be deleted, we may request you to provide additional information.

However, Essential Homme may refuse deletion if we or our service providers need to retain Personal Information to:

  • detect wrongdoings like security incidents, protect against illegal, fraudulent or deceptive acts which are unlawful in nature;
  • debug, identify and repair errors that may impair existing intended functionality;
    exercising free speech, and to ensure the right of free speech of a business or another Californian individual;
  • comply with California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
  • conduct research (whether for public, scientific, historical, statistical) which adheres to other applicable ethical and privacy laws;
  • internal use which is reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on consumer’s relationship with Essential Homme, or in a lawful manner which aligns with the context and reason for why personal information was provided;
  • comply with legal obligations.

    We may also retain personal information in our electronic archival or backup system.

13. Amendments

We may amend this Policy from time to time without notice. The amended version will be published on our platform in place of the previous version, and is to be treated as effective immediately. Revision date will also be published to help you determine if there have been any changes since you last used this platform. Use on any of our website or app after the amended Policy has been published represents your agreement to be bound by such changes.

If you do not agree with the revised or updated Privacy Policy, you must immediately cease using our website or app, product(s) and service(s).

14. Validity

If any of the provisions in this Policy is held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed as severed from this Policy. Unenforceability or invalidity of a provision do not in any way affect enforceability and validity of the remaining provisions in this Policy, which remains in full force and effect.

15. Contact and Account Deletion

You can enquire about your rights under this Policy, or any other enquiry related to your personal privacy. You can also request retrieval, correction or deletion of your Personal Data held by us. To make such request, please email us at info@essentialhomme.net and title subject “Attention: Personal Data Access / Correction Request”.

Once you request for data deletion and we are able to verify your identification, Essential Homme will proceed with deleting your Personal Data except we will only retain Personal Data needed to remain legally compliant, such as any purchase order history with us. The same will apply if you opt to delete your account via our website or app, and unless Essential Homme is legally required to retain certain Personal Data, all other data such as history will be deleted immediately which will be unretrievable. You are not able to create a new account with the email address of the deleted account. Any Personal Data retained pursuant to this paragraph will be retained as archival data only. Essential Homme will no longer use your Personal Data to carry out any activities including where provided in this Privacy Policy. Such Personal Data will be retained for the duration we are required to remain legally compliant and will arrange deletion accordingly once the required period expires.