Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for this website: kaleabcreatives.com. It is served by Kaleab Creatives and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act), and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage, and store those details, and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to.

Kaleab Creatives is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website users. If we ask you to provide certain information for identification purposes, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

How we use your personal data

Below, we list the types of personal data that we hold and the reasons for holding such data:

(a) The general categories of personal data that we may process are:

• Your company name;
• Job title;
• Contact details including your telephone number and email address;
• Demographic information such as address, postcode, preferences, and interests (excluding special category data).

(b) We may sometimes share your data with third-party providers, in the course of obtaining licenses and services. We will always obtain consent via email before we share this information with these third parties.

Sharing this information may be necessary to carry out the services agreed upon. These third parties include, but are not limited to, business and professional services and companies that provide subcontractor marketing and PR support services.

(c) The purposes for which we may process personal data include:

• Initiating/enabling contracts to commence/continue services;
• Internal record keeping for invoicing purposes;
• Sending you information we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.

We will inform you about what personal data is needed at the point we collect it, along with how we will handle this data.

Downloads and Media Files

Any downloadable documents, files, or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available, users are advised to verify their authenticity using third-party antivirus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third-party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites, and advise users to verify their authenticity using third-party antivirus software or similar applications.

Contact and Communication With Us

Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you information on products/services through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named above.

Email Mailing List and Marketing Messages

We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about products, services, and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe through an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission.

Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed, and stored in accordance with the regulations named above. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through an automated online service, or if not available, other means as detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages (i.e., by emailing kaleabcreatives@gmail.com).

Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons, tracked clickable links, or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics, and already stored subscriber data.

Our EMS (email marketing service) provider is [your EMS provider], and you can read their privacy policy here.

External Website Links & Third Parties

To help us share industry knowledge, we may include links from our website to other organizations’ websites. Please note that we are not responsible for either the contents of these websites or their data protection measures. Information provided to these websites is not covered by this privacy policy; we recommend that you review the privacy policies of the websites in question and adopt a cautious approach before providing them with your personal data.

Although we only look to include quality, safe, and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

Shortened URLs: URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: goo.gl/vy7wxe). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should, therefore, note they click on external links at their own risk, and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy and Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our team conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.

You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

Resources & Further Information

• Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
• The Guide to the PECR 2003
• Twitter Privacy Policy
• Facebook Privacy Policy
• Google Privacy Policy
• LinkedIn Privacy Policy
• [EMS Provider’s Privacy Policy]
• Recaptcha
• YouTube Privacy Policy
• Google Fonts Privacy Policy

For any further information, please contact kaleabcreatives@gmail.com.

Kind regards,
Kaleab Creatives