Privacy Policy

Last Updated September 1, 2022

General

  • This Website with the URL of https://empezar.digital/ ("Website/Site") is operated by Empezar Digital Private Limited ("We/Our/Us"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We do collect your personal information and process your personal data in accordance with the IT Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) and other national and state laws which relate to the processing of personal data. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data.

  • We collect your personal information in order to provide and continually improve our products and services.

  • Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.

  • All partner firms and any third-party working with or for Us, and who have access to personal information, will be expected to read and comply with this policy.

HOW WE COLLECT THE INFORMATION

  • From you directly and through this Site: We may collect information through the Website when you visit. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with our Website.

  • Through business interaction: We may collect information through business interaction with you or your employees.

  • From other sources: We may receive information from other sources, such as public databases; joint marketing partners; social media platforms; or other third parties such as:

    • Updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily

    • Information about your interactions with the products and services offered by our subsidiaries.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

  • We collect information primarily to provide better services to all of our customers.

  • We collect the following information from you when you use or signup on our Website: Name, address, contact details and basic personal information.

  • When you visit our Site, some information is automatically collected. This may include information such as the Operating Systems (OS) running on your device, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type, and language, and the website you visited before our Site. We also collect information about how you use Our products or services.

  • We automatically collect purchase or content use history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as Best Seller, Top Rated, etc.

  • The full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); cookie number; products and/or content you viewed or searched for; page response times; download errors; length of visits to certain pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).

  • We automatically collect information using "Cookies". Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Site, our marketing activities, and your experience. We use cookies to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits to our Site.

  • Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you set your browser to reject cookies, some features will be unavailable. For more information on how to reject cookies, see your browser's instructions on changing your cookie settings.

  • By using this Website, you are agreeing that We may advertise your feedback on the Website and marketing materials.

  • We will retain your information as long as we require this to provide you with the goods and services and for such period as mandated by the laws concerned.

  • If you opt to receive marketing correspondence from us, subscribe to our mailing list or newsletters, enter into any of our competitions or provide us with your details at networking events, we may use your personal data for our legitimate interests in order to provide you with details about our goods, services, business updates and events.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION

  • We use the information we collect primarily to provide, maintain, protect, and improve our current products and services.

  • We use the information collected through this website as described in this policy and we may use your information to:

    • Improve our services, Site and how we operate our businesses

    • Understand and enhance your experience using our Site, products, and services

    • Personalize our products or services and make recommendations

    • Provide and deliver products and services you request

    • Process, manage, complete, and account for transactions

    • Provide customer support and respond to your requests, comments, and inquiries

    • Send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages

    • Communicate with you about promotions, upcoming events, and news about products and services

    • We may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or regulation for the purposes of verification of identity or for prevention, detection, or investigation, including of cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences

    • Protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity

DATA TRANSFER

  • Information about our users is an important part of our business and we take due care to protect the same.

  • We share your data with your consent or to complete any transaction or provide any product or service you have requested or authorized. We also share data with our affiliates and subsidiaries, with vendors working on our behalf.

  • We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. The functions include fulfilling orders for products or services, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing payments, transmitting content, scoring credit risk, and providing customer service.

  • These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

  • We release accounts and other personal information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our conditions of use, and other agreements, protect the rights, property or safety of Us, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

COOKIES

  • To optimize our web presence, we use cookies. These are small text files stored on your computer's main memory. These cookies are deleted after you close the browser. Other cookies remain on your computer (long-term cookies) and permit its recognition on your next visit. This allows us to improve your access to our site. This helps us to learn more about your interests, and provides you with essential features and services, including:

    • Keeping track of items stored in your shopping basket

    • Conducting research and diagnostics to improve the content, products, and services

    • Preventing fraudulent activity.

    • Improving security

  • Our cookies allow you to take advantage of some of our essential features. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any products or services that require you to sign in.

  • Approved third parties also may set cookies when you interact with Our services

  • Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies

  • Third parties use cookies in the process of delivering content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Us.

  • You can prevent the storage of cookies by choosing a "disable cookies" option in your browser settings. But this can limit the functionality of our services.

DATA SECURITY

  • We take due care to protect customer data. Technical measures are in place to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, data. The employees who are dealing with the data have been trained to protect the data from any illegal or unauthorized usage.

  • We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Locker (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. SSL allows sensitive information such as credit card numbers, UID's and login credentials to be transmitted securely

  • We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of personal customer information.

  • We take reasonable steps to help protect your personal information in an effort to prevent the loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure alteration and destruction. It is your responsibility to protect your user names and passwords to help prevent anyone from accessing or abusing your accounts and services. You should not use or reuse the same passwords you use with other accounts as your password for our services

  • It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and your computers, devices, and applications. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

  • The information you provide to us is shared on our secure servers. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures designed to secure your information against accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties that have a legitimate business need for such access.

  • Information collected from you will be stored for such period as required to complete the transaction entered into with you or such period as mandated under the applicable laws.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITE/ APPS

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites of third parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites, such websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal data, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. When you leave our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

SOCIAL NETWORK PLUGINS

This Website incorporates plugins and/or buttons for social networks, in order to allow easy sharing on your favourite social networks. These plugins are programmed so as not to set any cookies when assessing the page to safeguard the privacy of users. Cookies may be set if you make voluntary use of the plugin. The collection and use of information obtained by means of the plugin are governed by the respective privacy policies of the social networks.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • We do not share your personal data with third parties without your prior consent other than:

    • With third parties who work on our behalf provided such third parties adhere to the data protection principles set out in the IT Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) and other applicable legislation, or enter into a written agreement with Us requiring that the third party provide at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by such principles

    • To comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process

    • To protect the rights and property of Us, our agents, customers, and others including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use

    • In an emergency, including to protect the personal safety of any person; and For the purpose of a business deal (or negotiation of a business deal) involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets (business deals may include, for example, any merger, financing, acquisition, divestiture, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding).

CHILDREN

If you are under 18, or the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may only use Our Website with the consent of your parent or legal guardian. In any case, We will not be liable for any cause of action that arose due to non-compliance with this section.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may change this policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this policy, we will change the "Last Updated" date above. You agree that your continued use of our services after such changes have been published to our services will constitute your acceptance of such revised policy.

NEWSLETTER

  • Following subscription to the newsletter, your e-mail address is used for our advertising purposes until you cancel the newsletter again. Cancellation is possible at any time. The following consent has been expressly granted by you separately, or possibly in the course of an ordering process: (I am accepting to receive newsletter from this website), you may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. If you no longer want to receive the newsletter, then unsubscribe by clicking on unsubscribe option given in the email footer.

If you have any concern about privacy or grievances with Us, please contact us with a through description and we will try to resolve the issue for you.

Email : contactus@empezar.digital

Website Privacy Policy (EU GDPR Guidelines)

This website is operated by EMPEZAR DIGITAL PRIVATE LIMITED. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:

  • who we are

  • how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information

  • your rights in relation to your personal information; and

  • how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint

Who we are

EMPEZAR DIGITAL PRIVATE LIMITED ('we', 'us', 'our') collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you ('you', 'your', 'yours').

The Personal information we collect and use

Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not include any anonymised forms of information).

Types of personal information

We may process the following types of personal information in relation to you: Contact details, Full name, Address and personal information.

How your Personal information is collected

This section describes how the above types of personal information are collected by us. Your personal information will be collected as follows:

  • Personal information obtained from you directly

    We will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you: to create a user profile, for transactions, to provide services or goods.

  • Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means

    We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects ('flash cookies') and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users' actions and activities, and to store information about them. Usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding:

    How many times the user visits the website

    On the first occasion that you use our site we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent, such technologies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result. For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see our policy document as described below.

  • Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information

    In the event that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than those described above, we shall notify you of this.

How we use your Personal information

  • General purposes

    In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes: to manage our business and website or provide any sale in our services or goods.

  • Monitoring

    We may monitor communications, and in doing so we may obtain your personal information through this process. We will undertake monitoring in the following circumstances:

    This will be maintained for our governance and compliance process.

  • Fraud prevention

    We will undertake fraud checks via use of your personal information. This will involve sharing and working with Fraud Prevention Agencies. We do so to protect our own commercial interests (which is encompassed within our own legitimate interests as a business). In general, your information will be used for fraud prevention purposes:

    For any transactions personal information will be used for fraud prevention purposes. Fraud prevention agencies can hold your personal information for different periods of time, the maximum period being six years.

Lawful basis for Processing of your Personal information

We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.

  • General lawful bases

    The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:

    • where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;

    • where it is necessary to enter into a leqal contract with you or to perform obligations under a contract

    • where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation

    • where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you

    • where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or

    • where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law

    In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where we have your express consent on each occasion that the data is processed.

  • Sharing of Your personal information

    On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.

    We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third party. We will notify should this position change

  • How long your personal information will be kept

    Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfill the above purposes.

    We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us as follows:

    Details will be saved till the contract ends.

    After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised . Keeping your information secure

    We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:

    All data is stored on secured servers and cyber security measures are followed

    We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.

    Use of your information outside of the United Kingdom. We have described above the purposes and lawful bases for which we process your personal information. In order to meet those needs, we may transfer your personal information outside of the United Kingdom.

    Your personal information may be transferred to: India

    The recipient country or countries listed above have been deemed by the United Kingdom to have adequate protection in place so that the security of your personal information can be maintained.

  • Children

    Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.

  • Your rights

    Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge.

    In summary, those include rights to

    • fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information

    • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address

    • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

    • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

    • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations

    • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

    • object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

    • object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it

    • object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground

    • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

    • claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws; and/or

    • in any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

    This privacy policy was published on 1st September 2022 and last updated on 1st September 2022. We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by: publishing on the website.

Website Cookie Policy

This Policy

We use cookies and similar technologies on the Site. Please read this policy carefully. It contains important information regarding the use of cookies on the Site.

How to contact us

In the event that you have any questions regarding this policy or our use of cookies you should contact us as follows:

Via Email : contactus@empezar.digital

Cookies

A cookie is a small file/piece of information. Ordinarily cookies comprise of letters and numbers. Cookies are stored on your computer when you access the Site and they can then be sent back to the Site. This process is important to the functionality of the Site as it enables it to remember certain important pieces of information between different pages.

Personal information

We may obtain personal information about you through our use of cookies. Such personal information will generally include:
IP address, name, address, personal information.

Any personal information collected via the use of cookies will only be obtained in accordance with our privacy policy documents which are:
Privacy policy, cookies policy and terms and conditions document.

Any personal information collected via the use of cookies will only be obtained in accordance with our privacy policy documents which are:
Privacy policy, cookies policy and terms and conditions document.

Consent for cookies

In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. We may use cookies without your consent where the cookies are essential for the functioning of our site and in order to provide our services to you. For example, this will apply where:

In order to check out services purchased on the site and to allow to store goods in your cart

Where we wish to use cookies that require your consent you will be asked whether you consent to the use of cookies in the following manner:
Users shall require to give consent through a check box pop on the website page.

Wherever you have given your consent to the use of cookies, you will be able to opt-out and withdraw your consent by:
A banner will be shown to users as pop up who wish to opt out of the consent.

Third Party cookies

We work with third party suppliers who may also access our website for the purpose of setting cookies. These third parties are listed below. By consenting to the use of cookies on our site you will be consenting to the use of these cookies. These cookies may be used to collect the following information:
Details regarding your browsing habbits

In order to adjust your cookie preferences in relation to third party cookies, you are able to visit the website addresses for the above third parties.

Details regarding the relevant retention periods for third party cookies can also be found on the website

Contacting us

The relevant person to contact regarding your personal information is: contactus@empezar.digital

Sources of further Information

This policy provides key information to you regarding the processed of your information. For certain areas of our information processing, we have further comprehensive details contained in other documentation. This information can be located as follows: https://empezar.digital/privacypolicy.html

Health Related Privacy Policy

At Empezar Digital, we are committed to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals. To provide our core services and deliver a personalized experience, we integrate with secure health platforms on your device, allowing us to access and/or collect certain health-related information (“Health Data”, “Apple HealthKit”). Your privacy is paramount, and we handle your Health Data with the utmost care and security.

1. What Health Data Do We Access and Collect?

With your explicit consent, [Your App Name] may access and collect the following categories of Health Data from your device's integrated health platforms (e.g., Apple HealthKit on iOS, Google Health Connect on Android):

  • Activity Data: This includes, but is not limited to, your:
    • Steps taken: The total number of steps recorded by your device or connected wearables.
    • Distance travelled: The distance covered during walking, running, or other activities (e.g., in feet, miles, or kilometers).
    • Active Energy Burned: Calories burned during physical activity
    • Basal Energy Burned: Calories your body burns at rest (Basal Metabolic Rate).
    • Total Calories Burned: The sum of active and basal energy burned.

We only access and collect the specific Health Data types for which you have explicitly granted us permission within the Apple Health app (for iOS) or Google Health Connect (for Android).

2. How We Access and Collect Your Health Data

Your Health Data is accessed and/or collected exclusively through the secure, device-level health platforms:

  • For iOS Devices: We integrate with Apple HealthKit. When you grant permission through the Apple Health app, HealthKit securely provides us with access to the selected Health Data.
  • For Android Devices: We integrate with Google Health Connect. When you grant permission through the Google Health Connect app, Health Connect securely provides us with access to the selected Health Data.

We do not directly collect raw health sensor data from your device or wearables outside of these secure, user-controlled platforms.

3. Purpose and Usage of Your Health Data

Your Health Data is used solely to provide and improve the functionality of [Your App Name] and to deliver a personalized experience. We use this data for the following purposes:

  • To Display Your Progress: To visualize your daily/weekly/monthly activity levels (e.g., step counts, distance, calories burned) within the app, allowing you to track your achievements over time.
  • Personalized Insights & Coaching: To generate insights, recommendations, and motivational content tailored to your activity levels and health goals. For example, suggesting activity targets or providing summaries of your active energy.
  • Goal Tracking: To help you set and monitor progress towards your personalized health and fitness goals.
  • Synchronization: To integrate and synchronize your activity data with other features within [Your App Name] or to facilitate data flow from connected wearables into your central health record on your device.
  • Feature Enhancement & Research: To analyze aggregated and anonymized Health Data to understand general usage patterns, improve existing features, develop new functionalities, and conduct internal research to enhance our services. This analysis is performed on data that cannot identify you personally.
  • Troubleshooting: To diagnose and resolve technical issues, but only with your explicit consent and under strict privacy protocols.

We will never use your Health Data for marketing, advertising, or sell it to third parties.

4. How Your Health Data is Stored and Secured

We prioritize the security of your Health Data:

  • On-Device Storage: For immediate processing, some Health Data may be temporarily processed on your device.
  • Secure Servers (If Applicable): If we need to store your Health Data on our servers for the purposes outlined above (e.g., to sync across your devices, for historical trends, or if you use cloud backup features), it will be:
    • Encrypted: Both in transit (when sent to our servers) and at rest (when stored on our servers).
    • Anonymized/Pseudonymized: Where feasible and appropriate, data will be processed in a way that minimizes direct identification.
    • Access Restricted: Access to your Health Data is strictly limited to authorized personnel who require it to perform their duties related to providing and improving our services, and they are bound by strict confidentiality obligations.
  • No Direct Identifiers: We generally avoid storing direct personal identifiers (like your name or email) linked directly to your raw Health Data on our servers, relying instead on pseudonymous IDs where possible.

5. Your Choices and Controls Over Health Data

You have full control over your Health Data shared with [Your App Name]:

  • Granting/Revoking Permissions: You can grant or revoke permissions for specific types of Health Data at any time directly within the Apple Health app (on iOS) or Google Health Connect (on Android) settings. Revoking permission will prevent [Your App Name] from accessing new data of that type. Please note that data already collected by [Your App Name] before revocation may still be stored according to our data retention policy.
  • Deleting Data from [Your App Name]: You may be able to delete your Health Data stored within [Your App Name] directly through the app's settings. [Provide clear instructions or a path to data deletion, e.g., "Go to Settings > Privacy > Delete My Data"]. This action will remove the data from our servers.
  • Deleting from Device Platforms: You can also manage and delete your Health Data directly from the Apple Health app or Google Health Connect, which will remove it from the device's central health store.

6. Data Retention

We retain your Health Data for as long as necessary to provide you with the services, to support your health journey, and for the purposes outlined in this policy. If you delete your account or revoke all Health Data permissions, we will delete your Health Data from our servers within a reasonable timeframe, unless legal obligations require us to retain it for a longer period.

7. Compliance

We are committed to processing your Health Data in compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations.