General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Privacy Policy

My-Eco is a trademark of Thorntons Communications Limited (Thorntons Communications Limited, Registered Office: 7 West Street, Epsom, KT18 7RL. Registered in England & Wales - Company number: 05743984)

At My-Eco, accessible from My-Eco.app, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Terms & Conditions document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by My-Eco and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Terms & Conditions, do not hesitate to contact us.

These Terms & Conditions applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in My-Eco. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Terms & Conditions and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our webste
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our webste
  • Understand and analyze how you use our webste
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the webste, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

My-Eco follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, My-Eco uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of My-Eco.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on My-Eco, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that My-Eco has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

My-Eco's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

My-Eco does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND PROCESS

When downloading the App, we process the information required to download it from the respective marketplace, in particular user name, email address and the customer number of your account, time of download, payment information and individual device ID. We do not control the purpose and means for the collection of this data and are therefore not responsible for it. We only process the data to the extent necessary for downloading the App to your device and for other technical purposes related to the availability and development of the App.

Required for the provision of our service

The categories of personal data described below is processed and generated when using the App. This data is required for technical purposes to increase ease of use for App functions and to ensure stability and security.

  • User information
  • Contact information
  • Traffic data
  • Business contacts
  • Device contact list (Consent required)
  • Photo and Media (Consent required)
  • Usage statistics (Consent required)
  • Chat information

User information

When you log into our App we will process the User information connected to your profile. This data consists of: User name and password. We process this data on the basis of a contractual obligation agreed to with your employer.

Contact information

If you contact us via email or via our contact form, we will process information required to answer your query. This data consists of: Email address and, if provided, your name and telephone number.

We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interest to answer your business related queries.

Traffic data

When using our App, traffic data will be processed. This data is required to facilitate communication. Traffic data is generated and processed automatically when end users communicate via the App and consists of: information about the participants, calling and called number, the connected IP address, the date, the time, the duration of the call, the amount of data used, and when roaming, we register the network that was used.

We process this data on the basis of a contractual obligation agreed to with the party that has provided you with access to the App. In most cases, this will be your employer.

Business contacts

When using our app, business contacts can be processed by the service for which you, your company or your employer has purchased and configured a licensed version of the My-Eco communication software. The business contacts are managed and configured by your employer and, if applied, will provide you with an overview of other business end users registered by your employer.

Business contacts are access and processed after authentication and synchronization of the data with the corresponding servers.

We process this data on the basis of a contractual obligation agreed to with the party that has provided you with access to the App. In most cases, this will be your employer.

Device contact list

When you make use of certain features, we ask you for your consent to use your device contacts. We will not use this data if you do not consent. If you do not consent, you may not be able to use all functions of our App.

You may subsequently grant or withdraw your consent at any time by using the settings in the App or your operating system.

If you do consent, your device contacts will be accessible through the App. The data is stored on the device and on per single contact base the user can request to sync this data to our server to enhance the user experience.

We process this data on the basis of your consent.

Photo and Media

When you make use of certain features, our App, we ask you for your consent to use your, photos and media. We will not use this data if you do not consent. If you do not consent you may not be able to use all functions of our App.

You may subsequently grant or withdraw your consent at any time by using the settings in the App or your operating system.

If you do consent and make use of the feature, your data will can stored on our servers relating to the party that has provided you with access to the App. In most cases, this will be your employer.

We process this data on the basis of your consent.

Usage statistics

Subject to appropriate consent, our App collects anonymous usage data to determine usage-related statistical indicator that we can use for business intelligence purposes to improve our App and make it more attractive for you as a end user. The data is anonymized from the outset and cannot be associated with a identified or identifiable person at any time. You may subsequently grant or withdraw your consent at any time by using the settings in the App.

We process this data on the basis of your consent.

Chat information

When using our messaging functionality within our App, we will process the data necessary to facilitate communication, this data consists of: IP address, login data, chat messages, chat partner, status of the chat messages, transmitted files.

The data collected in the App and then synchronized with the corresponding server on which the My-Eco software is installed to the extent necessary to provide the relevant functions. Only you have access to data stored solely in the App. The corresponding party that has provided you with access to the App, has access to the data located on the server.

We process this data on the basis of a contractual obligation agreed to with the party that has provided you with access to the App. In most cases, this will be your employer.

WHO WE SHARE DATA WITH

In certain circumstances, for example due to legislation, it may be necessary to pass on information to the authorities. Disclosure may also take place if necessary to establish or defend legal claims.

In order to communicate via our App, it is necessary for us to transmit traffic data via operators. My-Eco uses several European infrastructure providers, and these operators therefore process personal data. These operators are independently data controllers for the processing of data within their respective networks.

We might also pass on your personal information to internal or external third parties acting as (sub) data processors for us, this could be in relation to the hosting of your data, our chat functionality, business intelligence analyses, etc.

STORAGE AND RETENTION

All data is stored on servers within the United Kingdom and your personal data is therefore not subject to international transfers to third countries without an adequacy decision.

Uninstalling the App permanently deletes all data in the App. We have no influence over, and are therefore not responsible for, the duration for which data is stored on the servers.

SECURITY

My-Eco has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized My-Eco personnel are provided access to personal data and these employees are contractually or statutory obliged to ensure confidentiality of this data.

My-Eco will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that the processing of your personal data is performed in accordance with data protection law, in particular ensuring an appropriate level of security.

The App uses SSL encryption for the data connection to the server. The data is therefore not accessible by third parties.