BE-LAVIE, holds the trust, confidence and privacy of its visitors and users as a priority and therefore this Privacy Policy has been produced to address why and when we collect your personal information, how we use this under the most limited conditions, why we may need to disclose it to others and how it is kept secure.

Last updated: 28 October 2024 

Owner & Data Controller

This website BE-LAVIE (“us”,“we”, or “our”)  and its content is owned by Bejal Gosai, and operates https://be-lavie.com (the “Site”).

Contact Email: Bejal@be-lavie.com

BE-LAVIE is governed by the following Privacy Policy. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Site collects some personal data from its users. This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site. By submitting personal data to us, you agree to us using your personal data as stipulated in this policy.

Purpose of Information Collection

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal identifiable information may include, but is not limited to name, email address, cookies, usage data, password.

BE-LAVIE may use your personal information to:

Information voluntarily submitted to the website

We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Information we collect from others

We may receive information about you from other sources.  You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile.  If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account.  The Website utilises the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear.

Automatically collected information

We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalised experience on the Website. You can read our Cookie Policy here

Log Data

BE-LAVIE collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we use third party services such as Google Analytics (GA4) that collect, monitor and analyse this data.

Data Storage

Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Information

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

• To operate and maintain the Website

• To send you promotional information, such as email updates, travel tips, adn offers. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings

• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts

• To respond to your comments or inquiries

• To provide you with user support

• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.

Data Retention

Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required, has no use, or you request for it to be forgotten (deleted/ erased).

We process and store your personal data for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. Therefore:

Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between us and the user will be retained until such contract has been fully performed.

Personal data collected for the purposes of our legitimate interests will be retained as long as needed to fulfil such purposes.

We may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer periods whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn.

We may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data will be deleted and some of your rights (i.e. the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability) cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

Third Party Retention

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

The Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics (GA4)

This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganisation proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly Visible Information

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.

Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

Your Rights

Users have the right to do the following at any point: Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.

Object to processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.

Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.

Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their data from us.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us within 30 days at the latest.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security threats and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

Please note: no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Information

Our website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. It is solely intended for those above the age of 18 years with regards to all aspects of its content.

As per California Online Privacy Protection Act, we agree to users of our website doing so anonymously.

We appreciate that we have a karge US-based audience and therefore would like to bring your attention to COPPA.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

For the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

• The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age and therefore do not market to children under 13 years of age.
• We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
• If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use the Site or provide any information on the Site, including your name, screen name, username, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.
• If we discover we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 years of age without consent from a parent or guardian, the retained information will be deleted immediately.

If by any chance you believe we might have any information concerning a child under 13 years of age, please do contact us and this will be removed as soon as possible.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 28 october 2024. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically.

Your continued use of our Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

In the event we make changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified via the email address you have shared with us or by means of a notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please email us at Bejal@be-lavie.com