Privacy policy

1. Area of application This website is managed by Purusha bv. We think it is important to create and maintain an environment in which our customers can be sure that their information is not misused. We comply with applicable data protection regulations, such as General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 and national data protection legislation. These regulations relate to the protection of your personal data and grant you rights with regard to those personal data. The purpose of this policy is to indicate what personal data we collect and how your data is used after you have used our website and to ensure that your data is handled correctly.

2. What personal data is collected? You do not need to provide us with any personal data in order to use part of our website. To gain full access, additional information must be provided to take out a subscription. For the purposes listed below, Purusha bv may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

• Name, address, title, address;
• Contact details (e-mail, telephone);
• Payment information.

You can also provide additional/optional information when you fill out forms on our website or when we contact you (by telephone, email or during events). In addition, we may also collect and process information that we obtain through our website or through the devices you use. This may include:

• Location data (location data collected via social media or IP addresses of your device; GPS signals sent by a mobile device);
• Information from cookies, web beans or from the internet. This information is collected automatically and may relate to the website you visited before surfing our website or to the website you visit after ours. We may also collect information about the pages of our website that you visit, your IP addresses, browser type, access time, and operating system. This information is aggregated and is not used to identify you. In the articles on the use of cookies you will find more about how we do it;
• Data we obtain from other websites, e.g. when you ask us to connect to your Facebook account;
• Telephone calls, which may be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes;
• Purusha bv may also collect publicly available information to control the data we have previously collected and to manage and expand our activities.

The domain on which the activities of Purusha bv are organised is secured with cameras. The images are kept for a limited period of time and can be used to document liabilities if necessary. During some courses, audiovisual images are made as part of the course. Participants will be informed of this and can obtain the images up to one week after the training if desired. After that, the images are deleted. During recordings for the publication of Shooting Explained posts, videos are recorded that can show the people involved and allow identification.

3. Why is this information collected? Purusha bv collects the aforementioned information to get an idea of your needs and provide you with a better service, and more specifically for the following purposes:

• To respond to your (online) questions about our products or services, to provide you with information about our products and to follow online offers;
• To deliver the products and services you have ordered;
• To verify your identity and financial details for the payment of our products and services;
• To improve our products and services;
• To investigate complaints about our products or services or regarding our website;
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations as well as compliance obligations and requirements;
• To analyse and monitor the use of accounts with the purpose of preventing, investigating and/or reporting fraud, terrorism, fraud, fraud, security incidents and crime;
• To periodically send emails with offers of products and services, special offers or other information that we believe may be of interest to you;
• To contact you from time to time for market research. We can contact you by email or phone;
• To process your personal data for specific purposes as mentioned on certain forms on our website, in written communications or via e-mail.
• To create and publish Shooting Explained posts.

Camera images are collected to ensure safety on the domain and to be able to identify and document any responsibilities. Audiovisual recordings are used as a didactic tool during some courses. Recordings for Shooting Explained posts are made with the intention of publishing these posts.

4. How is your data used and shared? Purusha bv may share your personal data with:

• Companies belonging to the group and/or with subsidiaries; or
• With each third party you have asked us to share your personal information, such as Facebook or other social media if you have asked us to connect to your account;
• The general public in the case of Shooting Explained posts (limited to name, title and company name).

Based on our legitimate interest, we may also share your personal data with third parties who assist us with our products and services. Some examples of third-party activities include web server hosting, data analytics, marketing support providers, and customer service. These companies have access to your personal data, but only when it is strictly necessary to carry out their activities. They may not use your data for any other purpose. Your personal data will not be sold or rented to third parties. We may disclose your personal information to enforce our policies, to comply with our legal obligations, or in the interest of safety, public interest, or law enforcement in any country where we have entities or affiliates. In this way, we can respond to a request from a law enforcement agency or regulatory or government agency. We may also disclose information in the context of actual or proposed lawsuits or to protect our property, safety, people and other rights and interests. In the event that the activities of Purusha bv are sold or merged with another company, your details will be disclosed to the advisor of a potential buyer and will be passed on to the new owners of the company. In that case, we will take appropriate measures to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your personal data. However, the use of your personal data remains subject to this policy.

5. Transfer of your personal data Purusha bv does not pass on your personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area – with the exception of Shooting Explained posts where the name, title and company name of persons can be mentioned.

6. How do we use cookies? Some features of this website are intended to provide you with a better online experience on our website and only work if cookies are used. We also use cookies to collect information about your online preferences. Cookies are text files that contain small pieces of information. Web servers send it to a web browser, allowing the server to uniquely identify the browser on each page. These cookies are stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. Cookies may contain personally identifiable data. Thanks to cookies, we have information about the use of websites. This information may be analysed by third parties on our behalf. We may use the following categories of cookies on our website:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to navigate the website and use the features provided. Without those cookies, requested services such as memorising your login details or the items in your shopping cart cannot be delivered.

Performance cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information about the way people use our website. We use e.g. Google Analytics cookies to find out how customers end up on our website, how they surf or use our website and what can be improved such as navigation, shopping experience and marketing campaigns. The data stored by these cookies does not contain any personal information on the basis of which your identity can be established.

Functional cookies

These cookies remember choices you make, such as the country from which you visit the website, language choice and search parameters such as size, colour or product line. That information can then be used to provide you with an experience that better aligns with your choices and to make a visit more focussed and enjoyable. The information collected by these cookies can be anonymised. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting cookies or advertising cookies

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to better match your preferences for ads. They are also used to limit the number of times you see a particular ad and to mease the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These cookies are usually placed by networks of third-party advertisers. They remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers.

Social media cookies

These cookies make it possible to share what you have done on the website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. We have no control over these cookies. Please consult the respective privacy policy for information on the operation of the cookies concerned.

Google Analytics

We also use third-party services such as Google Analytics to collect information about visitors to our website. This information is aggregated to determine the number of visits, the average visit duration, the pages viewed, etc. We use this information to meter the use of the website and to improve the content and value of our website. More information about how Google processes your information can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy? Hl=en . To disable Google Analytics in your browser, follow these instructions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881? Hl=en&ref_topic=2919631 .

Cookie removal and more information about cookies

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies). Others will remain on your device until they expire or until you delete them from the cache (permanent cookies or tracking code) and ensure that we remember things about you when you visit our website again. If you want to delete cookies that are already on your computer, consult the help and support function of your internet browser where you will find instructions to find the file or folder where cookies are stored. On most browsers, the help function in the toolbar also provides information on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, what to do to have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies completely. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some personalised services may no longer be available. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies, certain parts or functions of our website may not be accessible. More information about cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org, or surf to www.youronlinechoices.eu where behavioural advertising and online privacy are explained.

Web beacons

Some of our web pages may contain electronic images called “web beacons” (also known as “clear gifs”), allowing us to count the users who have visited the pages in question. Web beacons collect only limited information including a cookie number, the date and time the page is displayed and a description of the page on which the web beacon is placed. External advertisers can also place such web beacons. These beacons do not contain identifiable personal data and are only used to track the effectiveness of a specific campaign.

7. Rights of data subjects You have the right to access the information kept about you and to a copy of the information we hold. If your personal data has been changed, you have the right to ask us to correct, supplement or delete the outdated, incorrect or incomplete data we have about you. You also have the right to limit the processing of your data and to object to the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you and which you have provided to a data controller in a structured, common and machine-readable format and to forward that data to another controller. If you have chosen to receive commercial emails, newsletters … from Purusha bv when registering on the website, you can unsubscribe at any time when you change your mind. We may ask you to verify your identity to ensure that your request is lawful and that we provide the response to the person entitled to send one of the aforementioned requests and obtain the information. Please note that in certain circumstances provided by law, we may refuse access to your information or not grant your request when we have the right to do so under applicable data protection law. Within the context of the publication of Shooting Explained posts, all participants in the recordings transfer their rights to the recordings to Purusha bv, which may then use the recordings at will. If you would like more information about the processing of your personal data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at info@purusha.be . You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (data protection).

8. Security Purusha bv is committed to ensuring the security of your data. We have taken reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, modification, unauthorised provision of or unauthorised access to the transmitted, stored or otherwise processed data. However, you should bear in mind that the Internet is an open system and that we cannot guarantee that it will be impossible for unauthorised third parties to circumvent these measures or to use your personal data for inappropriate purposes. This website may contain links to third-party websites. Purusha bvba is not responsible for the content of those websites and is not responsible for the privacy standards and practises of those third parties. Make sure you read and understand the relevant privacy policy of those third parties and their websites before accepting their cookies and visiting their website to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected.

9. Changes to this policy Purusha bv may customise and update this policy from time to time to ensure that the policy reflects how we process your personal data at any given time. The updated version of this policy will be posted on the same web page and will be effective immediately upon publication. Please return to this webpage regularly to ensure that you are always aware of the information we collect and process, how and under what circumstances your data is used and in which cases we share your data with third parties.

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