Last updated: 10 December 2018
This Privacy Policy intents to set out how VRC Meat Med LTD(“VRC”, “we” ,“us” or ,“our”) 5, Arch. Kyprianou Avgoulla 22, Office 101, 6016 Larnaca, uses and protects your private data based on the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that came into effect on the 25th of May 2018.
VRC is committed in ensuring that your privacy is protected and secured under the EU Data Protection Regulation EE/2016/679. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal information collected from time to time in electronic or paper format in compliance with this privacy policy and the relevant GDPR regulation and laws. VRC will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and will not process your information in any way, other than our collaboration requirements.
The Effective Date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.
When a change is needed to protect your privacy or security, we will notify you prior it takes place so that you have time to review the changes before they are effective. We also advice that you visit our website from time to time in order to check that you are updated with the current Policy Agreement at the time.
WHAT WE COLLECT
The type and level of personal information collected on electronic or paper format depends on VRC’s relation and collaboration with other party’s (e.g. customer, supplier, transporter, freight forwarder, credit controller, employee, agent, IT, service provider, auditor, inspector, applicant, etc); including but not limited to all offline and online data collections of all personal details.
We may collect the following personal data:
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and process different types of personal information provided by an individual via the following ways:
COOKIES AND WEB ANALYTICS
When you visit our website, there is certain information that is recorded through cookies and web analytics which is generally anonymous and does not reveal your identity with the exception of when you are logged into your account. Some of these information though could be associated with your account.
Upon entering our website, you have been given the opportunity to either accept cookies used on this website or to decline. If you have accepted our use of cookies, then you have accepted cookies which collect the below information:
If you have accepted cookies on our website you still have the option of setting your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, so that you may determine whether to accept it or not, alternatively you can set your browser to block all cookies. However, please be aware that if you do turn off cookies in your browser, you will not be able to fully experience some of the features of this website as some of the cookies used are essential to the functioning of the website.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
VRC will only collect necessary information that meets our line of work based on our legal, statutory and contractual obligations or where it has legitimate interest to do so based on business reasons or for analysing information to improve our products and services.
Your information is used for:
HOW WE MIGHT SHARE INFORMATION:
Your privacy is taken seriously and your personal data are kept confidential. However, depending on the nature of our services VRC may share with your consent any information about you, complying with the GDPR regulation and asserting that all of our service providers, partners and affiliates adhere to confidentiality obligations and agreements that are consistent with this Privacy Policy.
DATA TRANSFER AND/OR STORAGE
VRC Meatmed Ltd is based in Cyprus so your data will be processed in the Republic of Cyprus and the EU. Some of the recipients we have described above and to whom we disclose your personal information, are based outside Cyprus and the EU in places like China, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Serbia etc. We do this on the basis of your consent to this policy. In order to protect your information, we take care where possible to work with subcontractors, service providers, business partners, affiliates and professional advisers who we believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.
SECURITY
We are committed in ensuring that your personal information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, misuse, alteration and loss we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, managerial procedures, technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information against unauthorised access, theft and loss. We limit access to your personal information to those employees who need to know in order to service your account or perform their job function. Our employees are required to maintain and protect the confidentiality of your personal information and must follow established procedures to do so.
Although we take all necessary measures intended to help protect information that we process, no system or electronic data transmission is completely secure. Any transmission of your personal data to VRC Meatmed Ltd is at your own risk and we expect that you take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information.
If you believe that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at: [email protected]
DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal information both in electronic and/or paper files for as long as is necessary based on the applicable laws, depending on the category of your data and purpose for collecting it. We have strict reviews and retention policies in place to meet these obligations in both cases stated above.
MARKETING INFORMATION
By signing up in our website, you opt-in and automatically subscribe to our newsletter and have given your consent to hear about our offers, services and news. If you object to receive any marketing emails from us at any time, you can opt-out of such communications by contacting us at [email protected] or by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the footer of any such email communication you receive from us.
You also have choices about cookies, as described above (for more analytical information please see below our Cookie Policy). By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to third-party websites of interest that are not operated by us.
When you click these links, you will leave our site and be directed away from the security and privacy agreement of this website. A link to a third-party website or service does not mean that VRC is responsible for the protection and privacy of any information provided whilst visiting such sites. If you decide to visit a third-party website or service, you are subject to its privacy policy and not VRC’s. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
CONTROLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Based on GDPR regulation you have rights regarding the personal data we collect, process or disclose and that are related to you. You have the right to access your personal data, correct, rectify, erasure in some cases, restriction of processing in some cases, right to object in some cases, right to receive a readily portable copy of your personal data by contacting VRC Meatmed Ltd team or by emailing [email protected]
You are not obligated to provide us your personal information. However, as this information is required for us to provide you with our service, we will not be able to offer our services without it.
If you no longer want us to use your personal information or to provide you with any of our services, you can request that we erase your personal information and close your account. You have the right to have your personal information erased, and to prevent processing, where the personal information is no longer necessary for the purpose it was originally collected/processed. We will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate business interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
DATA CONTROLER CONTACT AND COMPLAINTS
If you have any concerns, questions or complaints about our Privacy Policy or the way in which we have been managing your personal information, please contact us by email at [email protected].
For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), we are a ‘data controller’ of your personal information.
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Cookie Policy
This is the Cookie Policy for VRC Meat Med LTD, accessible from vrcmeatmed.com
WHAT ARE COOKIES
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. Cookies enable us to capture how you arrived at our site, when you return, which pages on our site you visit, and to recognize that you are already logged on when we receive a page request from your browser. We may link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We will never share this information with any third party. Cookies are readable only by us and do not contain any personal information nor do they contain account or password information. We cannot and will not gather information about other sites you may have visited.
This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
DISABLING COOKIES
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
OUT SET COOKIES
THIRT PARTY COOKIES
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
However if you are still looking for more information you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods: