Introduction
As a visitor of our web site or customer of our services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data are subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and/or other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and updates if any. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices.
Protection of personal data
Ukusi Food Corp takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and practices regarding collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. Ukusi Food Corp use up-to-date technical and organizational arrangements to protect your data against access and misuse by unauthorized persons. This Privacy policy regulates the following:
You: visitor of the website www.ukusibalkana.com or customer of Ukusi Food Corp services;
Purpose of collecting the data
Type of data that we collect
Duration of the stored data
Handling your personal data by You
Personal data may only be processed and transmitted within the framework of the specific task and only for the purposes for which they were originally collected. Personal data will only be transmitted to third parties within the framework of legal regulations and/or with explicit consent. They are deleted or made anonymous immediately after the purpose for which they were collected ceases.
This Privacy Policy does not cover all the links within our web site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Protection of children
We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children. In case that a visitor to our website is a child, certain types of data are collected but not personally identifiable, and the usage of the website will be considered as approved/authorized by the holder of parental responsibility for the child. In case that the child is using our services, we will also consider that the usage is approved/authorized by the holder of parental responsibility for the child (parents, guardians), since our services are not intended to be bought/used by the children without the supervision of the adults.
Parents/guardians are encouraged to spend time online with their children and to become familiar with the types of content available through our website or service and on the Internet in general. We advise parents/guardians to regularly oversee their child’s use of e-mail and other online communications and transactional features. Control tools are available from online services and software manufacturers that can help to provide a safe online environment for children. If your child has used your credit card in connection with our service without your permission, please contact our Customer service immediately.
Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
You can access or delete your personal data. In this document, you can find out more information about how your data is collected, used and shared. We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you have provided and controlling the advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you.
If the stored data is not correct, you can report it at any time through our Customer service, by phone or via the e-mail.
At any time you have the right to ask for free information about the data stored about you, their origin and recipients as well as the purpose of the data processing. You also have the right to transfer data and delete your data. Should there ever be any reason to complain about the processing of your data, you can contact us at any time.
If you have any questions that this Privacy Policy could not answer or if you would like more in-depth information, contact us on our contact details of Customer service, or on e-mail info@ukusibalkana.com Residents in the Designated Countries have additional right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority.
For personal data that we have about you, you have the following rights:
Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide our services to you).
Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate). The right to object is a special form of the right to deletion.
Access and/or Take Your Data: the right to access the data is, in general, the right to obtain information as to who processes what data concerning you, where the data originated, for which purpose they are used, as well as to whom the data are transmitted. You can ask us for a copy of your personal data at any time.
Up to eight weeks of the receipt of the request regarding your rights, the information shall be provided by Ukusi Food Corp or in case of deletion or rectification the application shall be compiled by the Ukusi Food Corp, or you will receive within defined period of eight weeks a reason given in writing why the information is not or not completely provided or a reason in writing shall be given why the requested erasure or rectification was not carried out.
Security standards and data loss
Ukusi Food Corp protects the data stored on its servers according to the state of the art. In the event of a loss of data at Ukusi Food Corp despite the highest security requirements, Ukusi Food Corp has envisaged specific escalation measures, which will promptly identify and correct any defect or take appropriate countermeasures. Depending on the severity or concern of specific persons, these and the relevant authorities (regulatory authority, data protection authority) will be informed.
Personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, telephone number, address, e-mail address, etc.
If you are a visitor of the website, we collect certain data automatically, such as IP address, region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the Internet, browser type, operating system and other usage information about the use of our website, including the history of the pages that you have viewed.
Data is not personal if it does not relate to a specific person eg the gender or how many people visit the website per day. Statistical data that are collected, for example, when visiting the certain pages on the website and that cannot be directly associated with you as a person eg statistics, which pages are particularly popular on the website etc.
Processing
Ukusi Food Corp identifies and processes personal and metadata, as well as other information you provide in the framework of the contract and/or when using the approved promo period free of charge for our services, and possibly as part of the verification of the customer’s identity.
Master data
Personal data, which you provide to Ukusi Food Corp at the conclusion of the contract, are understood to be the master data. This includes: name, address, telephone number, contact information such as your e-mail address, information about the nature and content of the contractual relationship. For companies: the company name, registered address and the company register number are also part of the master data. Ukusi Food Corp deletes the master data relating to the customer no later than seven years after completion of all claims arising from the contractual relationship.
Metadata
Metadata, refers to all data that is processed to forward a message to a communications network or to bill that process. These are, for example, active and passive subscriber numbers, type of device, charge code, total number of units to be charged for the billing period, type, date, time and duration of a connection or other use, routes, the protocol used, the network from which the message originates or to which it is sent.
Telephony – to fulfill the contractual obligations of the telephony (voice and SMS service), master data and metadata are processed in order to establish, control and charge telecommunication connections. On our website in section user account (My profile), you have access protected with password where you can track the consumption of the telephony service and review the listing of your calls and sent SMS.
Operational purposes
Only insofar as personal data are strictly necessary for operational purposes (in particular, troubleshooting of connection problems, network needs analysis, performance analysis, development and planning of network deployment, analysis and prevention of fraudulent activities, offers optimization etc.) are processed by using Ukusi Food Corp metadata. Metadata stored for these purposes will be deleted or anonymized at the latest after 6 months.
In order to ensure communication, Ukusi Food Corp works with different service providers who also have access to the technical systems and data for troubleshooting purposes. Some of these service providers are also outside the Designated countries. If this is the case, Ukusi Food Corp will ensure, by means of appropriate guarantees given by the providers that the high level of data protection of the European Union and of Austria, as well as its service providers and partners, will be complied with.
We operate globally, and we use others to help us provide our services and website (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes. Whenever your personal Information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal data in accordance with applicable law.
Processing related to the contract/order
Order
For the processing of order of your contract and / or your device, we collect the following personal data: first and last name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth. We need this to confirm your order by e-mail, to deliver the ordered goods, to issue the invoice and the contract document for the respective service/tariff. If your delivery address differs from your billing address, the delivery address will also be saved.
The goods you order will be packed by our partner depending of your residence and sent by post (UPS). For the delivery of the goods, the freight forwarder receives access to your order data such as full name, address and telephone number. The data stored by the forwarding companies will be deleted after expiry of the statutory limitation period.
Returns
If you use the legal right of withdrawal, your master data will be used in order to return the paid sums.
Contracting in Ukusi Food Corp shop or with a distributor/partner of Ukusi Food Corp
If you conclude a service contract for one or more service/tariffs and/or products in Ukusi Food Corp shop or through distributor/partner of Ukusi Food Corp, it is necessary to submit the master data. This is required to charge for the service you have claimed as well as to be available for your requests in customer service.
If you conclude the contract with a distributor of Ukusi Food Corp, the following personal data will be transmitted for the billing between Ukusi Food Corp and this partner: such as name, telephone number, device number (MAC address) and type of service/tariff. These data are necessary for the verification of the payment transactions and are deleted after the data has been reconciled.
Billing
For accounting, business or legal reasons, the master data and metadata of customers and suppliers of Ukusi Food Corp are processed, analyzed and stored. All tax-relevant records are kept for seven years.
Accounting
We are sending the invoices to the e-mail address specified by you for exactly this purpose. Master and metadata are used for billing purposes. The master data and product/service data can be found directly on the invoice. You can also find all invoices in your customer zone on the web site “My profile”, including the listing of the usage of the services. For billing purposes, the metadata and thus also their individual records are stored until the deadline for filing a complaint or a final decision on the complaint against the consumption based bill. The invoices are stored for the statutory retention period of 7 years.
Payment
In case of payments of the prepaid invoice through our web site, the method of payment you have announced (credit card) can be used for automatic payment collection if you have chosen this option. Ukusi Food Corp works with banks and credit card companies to collect payments. In this case, data is transmitted in encrypted form to the service providers.
If you transfer the outstanding invoice amount to Ukusi Food Corp yourself (a bank’s order), the payment will be automatically allocated to your customer account at Ukusi Food Corp using your master data, which is provided by the banks. If you buy a product in connection with a service/tariff in Ukusi Food Corp shop, the information about purchased products is stored in the customer database. In this case, your customer data will also be printed on the invoice issued in the shop.
When purchasing tariff/service directly from Ukusi Food Corp application, you have the option to make purchase through Apple or Google system (so called “in-app purchase”). Ukusi Food Corp does not have access to the data you enter during the purchase process. We suggest you to get acquainted with Apple and Google Privacy Policy.
Claims and disputes
In claims and disputes cases, Ukusi Food Corp accesses the master, meta, payment, and profile data and customer interactions stored in databases that are needed to review the claim.
If you contact the arbitration board if any, a representation of interests (eg Association for Consumer Information) or an attorney and you are brought in an objection on your behalf, Ukusi Food Corp gives your personal data mentioned above to the arbitration board or interest representative or the lawyer needed to clarify the opposition case. As long as the process is legally in progress, the personal data described above will not be deleted. Afterwards, the general retention and deletion periods apply.
Customer service
For processing your requests and appeals, such as invoices, customer-related products and services, or technical issues, Ukusi Food Corp processes the master and traffic data stored in the systems, as well as customer interactions necessary to respond to the request or resolve the existing issue. Such a request may involve, for example, changing address, setting locks, or enabling / disabling packets. In order to identify you as a customer, data such is your name, MAC address of the device, telephone number or personal number if you are using our calling services, is first requested. For each customer contact, an entry will be made in our customer management system.
Employees of Ukusi Food Corp can access your user account with your consent to make changes there according to your order. Every access is stored in the customer management system.
In order to answer your queries, Ukusi Food Corp also works with partners who have the same access to the master and metadata as employees in their duties. Of course, the same strict data protection regulations apply to these.
User profile/account – “My profile”
The user profile is a customer account with password-protected access. Here you can view your address data, certain bank details, subscribed additional packages and purchased devices from Ukusi Food Corp. You can also view your invoice, listing for the telephony services and view and set your passwords. The user profile is deleted 6 weeks after contract termination.
You agree to treat the personal access data as confidential and not to make it accessible to unauthorized third parties. Ukusi Food Corp assumes no liability for misused passwords, unless Ukusi Food Corp is responsible for the abuse. If you can no longer log into the user profile, please contact the Customer service team without delay.
The “remember me”/”stay signed in” feature of your browser allows you to use the user profile without logging in again each time. Ukusi Food Corp is not connected in any way with this browser feature. We recommend that you do not use this feature if your device is being used by more than one user, and indicate that the “remember me”/”stay signed in” feature will not be available if you use a setting in your browser that automatically deletes saved cookies after each session.
Customer service via social media
If you contact Ukusi Food Corp via social media, your data regarding resolving potential issue, which you publicly disclose with your profile or in person in your direct message to our company profile, will be processed and stored in the Customer Management System for the purpose of servicing/resolving the issue. However, the message itself, if it is publicly disclosed, will not be deleted from Ukusi Food Corp profile. The user data as well as direct messages to our company profiles on social media, will be deleted 3 months after servicing your request.
Call the Customer service
If you call the Customer service the following information of the telephone system is processed: the phone number that you use to make the call and date and time of the call. Ukusi Food Corp records conversations between you and the employee, and you will be informed about it at the beginning of your call. The conversation files are automatically deleted after 30 days.
Written communication
You can contact us in writing via on-line chat on Ukusi Food Corp web site, e-mail, fax or letter. All documents are stored for 3 months and then deleted or destroyed.
Advertising
If you expressly agree that you would like to receive personalized advertisements from Ukusi Food Corp, your personal information such as email address, telephone number or address will be used. Your information that Ukusi Food Corp receives during your visit to our website helps to permanently improve your customer experience and to make it more customer-friendly and individual. The information you submit and automatically generate is used to design advertising tailored to you and your interests (“behavioral advertising). Ukusi Food Corp uses existing information such as receipt and read receipt of emails, your order history, your service history, the date and time of your visit to the website or products, that you have viewed. When emailing and analyzing your behavioral data, Ukusi Food Corp works with MailChimp and Google Analytics. In addition, information such as your current tariff, your last device purchased at Ukusi Food Corp, as well as automatically generated data such as your actual consumption, the use of installed Ukusi Food Corp apps or your current location are evaluated. We use this information to refine our goods and services to better tailor them to your needs and to communicate with you about other services of Ukusi Food Corp that may interest you.
The double opt-in procedure is used when you register on the website and/or buy the services through our web-shop, in which by confirming your e-mail address again it is ensured that you have consented to the receipt of the advertisement. You may object to your consent at any time, for any reason whatsoever, for the future, through the opt-out link in the email or through the Customer service.
Websites and Social Media
Analysis of the use of the website
We use various software to analyze the use of our websites to gain valuable insight into the needs of our website visitors. These insights help us to constantly improve the quality of our offerings.
Cookies policy
We collect non-identifiable personal information through technology, such as “cookies” and other technologies (such as web beacons and pixel tags). Cookies are small data files stored on your computer’s (PC, laptop) hard drive, smartphone, tablet or any other device connected to the internet by a website. Cookies allow an analysis of your user behavior, but also allow you to be recognized as a visitor to our website and you do not have to log in again. For this purposes, our server accesses your cookies and processes the stored information.
Cookies are used both to improve the quality of service, including the storage of user preferences, and to track visitor trends, such as which products you have viewed and ordered. If the “cookies” function is activated in your browser settings on your computer/device, Ukusi Food Corp can recognize the browser of the local computer and offer you the advantageous functions of the cookies. Basically, cookies used to analyze user behavior are automatically deleted after 30-90 days.
So-called session cookies are automatically deleted after 30 minutes if you close your browser or use the logout function. They contain only a randomly generated identifier that allows you to be recognized during a session while using the website. Permanent cookies are only set if you allow them in your browser settings and you additionally agree. For example, it’s a permanent cookie if you allow the “remember me/stay signed in” feature. Such cookies are stored for a period of one year and extended with regular use.
You can easily manage cookies yourself: enable and disable cookies. You can manage cookies by following the procedure for the browser you use:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Opera
Internet Explorer (Windows Phone)
Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)
Chrome for Android.
However, disabling cookie functionality may prevent you from using certain benefits or features when visiting the website. Therefore, we recommend that you enable the cookie feature.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are not created by Ukusi Food Corp, but by another provider (third party). Such cookies can, on the one hand, track your visits to third-party websites and display those advertisements on Ukusi Food Corp-party websites or, on the other hand, play out advertisements from Ukusi Food Corp on other websites. These cookies are automatically deleted after a period of time specified by the third-party providers (usually between 7 days and 2 years). In the browser settings, you can set exactly whether you allow third-party cookies or only those from the website you are visiting.
Our website uses Google services such as Google Analytics, AdWords, YouTube and Google Maps. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). By using Google services within the website of Ukusi Food Corp, a direct connection between your browser and the Google server may be established when a page is loaded via the plug-in. Through the connection, browser-specific data can be transmitted, and cookies can be stored by Google, which, among other things, can identify the user’s browser. Please note that Ukusi Food Corp, the operator of the website, is not aware of the full content of the data transmitted and its use by Google. The integration of the plugins is not always visible to the user. Google’s privacy policy can be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and The Google Analytics security and privacy principles can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You may also record the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout ). Download and install the available browser plugin.
For Internet Explorer, third-party cookies must be enabled.
The cookies for Google Analytics will be deleted after 26 months. For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html and https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/ . We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, belonging to Google Inc. As soon as you visit websites with a YouTube plug-in, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. The Youtube server will be told which specific page of the website of Ukusi Food Corp you visited. If you are also logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube would allow you to associate your browsing experience directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this possibility of assignment if you log out of your account beforehand. For more information about YouTube’s collection and use of your information, please read the privacy policy at www.youtube.com .
AdWords
Our website uses “Google Remarketing” to offer you advertising on other platforms that fit the click behavior on this website. If you click on a specific topic on this site, Google will save your interest in the subject and may from time to time advertise on various platforms you visit and display Google’s “Adwords” ads fits this topic. This advertisement may refer to offers of Ukusi Food Corp, but also third-party offers. To do this, Google saves a cookie on your computer that allows your user interests to be assigned to your computer (for details on cookies, see the “Google Analytics” section). Your interests are recorded anonymously and are not associated with your personal data. On link https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ you can set ads preferences. At this address, it is also possible to disable the use of cookies by Google.
If you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history to your Google Account, and using the information you see on the web from your Google Account to personalize your ads, Google associates that information with Google Analytics Data to create and define audiences for cross-device remarketing. To support this feature, Google Analytics will collect unique IDs. You can change your settings under “My Account” on Google.
Google Maps
Our website uses the product Google Maps by Google Inc. In use, information about your use of the website (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. You can find the terms of use of Google Maps under “Terms of Use of Google Maps”.
Social media
On Our website so-called social plugins (“plugins”) of the following social networks, are used: Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+, Instagram. These services are provided by the companies Facebook Inc., Google Inc., LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company/LinkedIn Corporation and Instagram LLC (“Provider”).
Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). An overview of the plugins of Facebook and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
LinkedIn is operated by LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, USA or LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn”). An overview of the plugins of LinkedIn and their appearance can be found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins#
Instagram is operated by Instagram LLC., CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). An overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/developer/embedding/
If a social plugin is called in the context of the use of the products of Ukusi Food Corp, your browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of the respective social network. The content of the social plugin is transmitted directly to the browser and integrated by the latter into the digital platform called up. Through this integration, the information that the user has called up the corresponding digital platform is forwarded to the social network. If you are logged in to this social network, the social plugin can associate the digital platform call with your account. For example, you confirm the “Like” button on our website or share content. This information is transmitted directly from the browser to the social network and stored there.
For more information on the purpose and extent of the use of data by the social networks and the privacy settings, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social networks. To prevent social networks from using the data generated by your use of our products, you must log out of the social networks before accessing the respective digital platform.
Facebook Custom Audiences
Our website uses the remarketing feature “Custom Audiences” of Facebook. This function serves to present to visitors of our website, as part of their visit to the social network Facebook, interest-based advertisements (“Facebook Ads”). For this purpose, the Facebook remarketing tag (“Facebook pixel”) was implemented on our website. Through this tag, a direct connection to the Facebook servers is made when visiting the website. It is transmitted to the Facebook server that you have visited this website and Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. For more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook and your rights on data protection, see the privacy policy of Facebook https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ . You can disable the remarketing feature “Custom Audiences” at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_=_ . For this you must be logged in to Facebook.
Log data
When you visit our website, the web servers temporarily store each access in a log file or a so-called log file. The following data is collected and stored until automated deletion:
IP address
Date and time of access
http method and url request
http code that is returned
length of response in bytes
the url of the page from which the request was sent
identification of browser
A merge of this data with other data sources will not be done. In addition, the data will be deleted after a statistical evaluation by the application server after a maximum of 54 weeks.
Disputes
You and Ukusi Food Corp (collectively “The Parties”) agree that the laws of the State of New York, USA, excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Privacy policy or any other binding document that You have with Ukusi Food Corp. In the event of misunderstanding or dispute that may arise from this Privacy policy, the Parties shall strive to resolve it amicably, by mutual agreement. All disputes which cannot be settled as envisaged previously, shall be finally settled by the competent courts in New York, USA.
Modifications, effective date
The Privacy Policy applies to your use of our website and services after the “effective date.”
We may occasionally update all or parts of this Privacy Policy at any time and without individual notice to you, but we will always publish the notice if we make material changes to this Privacy policy through our website or our service. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about our information practices. If you object to any changes, please stop using our website and/or close your account if applicable/contact us without delay.
You acknowledge that your continued use of our website and our services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy and will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes.
