We only collect personal information that YOU want to provide to us or that is needed to provide (and improve) our service to you. We collect direct personal information such as name, address and e-mail address as well as indirect information such as cookies, connection and system information.

You may want to give us your e-mail address, name, telephone number etc. so that we can provide you with information on our products; enter you into our competitions or surveys; or just keep you updated about exciting Sotechy developments that you are interested in.

Alternatively, you may want to develop your career with Sotechy and apply for job vacancies by posting your CV on our on-line recruitment sites.

Sotechy takes all necessary measures to keep your personal information private and secure. Only authorized Sotechy  staff, Third Party companies (i.e. service providers) staff or our business partners’ authorised staff (who have contractually agreed to keep all information secure) have access to your personal information. All Sotechy staff who have access to your personal information are required to adhere to the Sotechy  Privacy Policy and all third-party employees who have access to your personal information have signed non-disclosure agreements. In addition, contracts are in place with third-party companies that have access to your personal information, to make sure this information remains secure. To ensure your personal information is protected, Sotechy maintains a secure IT environment and has the appropriate measures in place to prevent unauthorised access.

Your personal information will be used for the purposes for which you provided it to Sotechy. It will also be used to administer, support and obtain feedback on the level of our services and to prevent breaches of security, the law or our contract terms.

You have the right in a number of countries to ask companies (such as Sotechy) to provide you with all the information it stores on you. Certain national laws may require you to pay a small charge for this activity. You may also have your personal information deleted, corrected or revised by sending an e-mail to support@sotechy.shop

From time to time, we may ask our website visitors to answer survey questions. Surveys generally will relate to the content of the website, our products or categories of products. We may ask for age or age ranges, gender, and/or other non-personally identifiable information. For the purposes of these surveys, we may add information obtained from cookies to your survey answers but no personally identifiable information will be requested. The personal information collected is not tied to any personal information that you may already have given to us. Personal information gathered from polls and surveys are for Sotechy internal use only but aggregated information (not capable of personally identifying anyone) may be shared with others.

In order to make the registration process easier, we use a one-time registration tool across many Sotechy websites. With this tool, when you register with our website, this information can be automatically made available to you for registration at other Sotechy website(s). Your personal information remains protected and we always ask for your express consent or “Opt-In” to receive information from Sotechy website(s) before you are added to any mailing list.

Sotechy will occasionally make changes and corrections to this Privacy Notice. Please check this Privacy Notice regularly to see the changes and how these may affect you.

 

The address is: info@sotechy.shop

Head Office:

20A Etete Road GRA Benin City

Sotechy is a global company that uses the Internet to collect and process your personal information. This naturally involves the Processing and transmission of your personal information across borders.

This Privacy Notice provides you with all information necessary (in an easily accessible way) to make an informed choice as to whether to use this website and to send your personal information to Sotechy or not.

Therefore, by browsing this website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our Processing of your indirect personal information (cookies, connection and system information) in the manner set out in this Privacy Notice.

If you ask us to provide a certain service to you (i.e. a competition, newsletter or new product details etc.) we will need additional direct personal information (name, address and e-mail address) from you. In this case, we will ask you for your express consent to collect and use this personal information. This personal information will be used only for the purposes for which you gave it to us.

Please note that we have the right to cancel any order at any time or delete accounts from Sotechy Store without getting back to the account owner.

Cookies and other Identifiers consist of portions of code placed on the User’s device that assist the Owner in providing the Service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Identifiers are used may also require the User’s consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

sotechy.shop uses Cookies or other Identifiers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service and, therefore, do not require Users to consent. Users can disable such Identifiers by modifying their browser or device settings as described in more detail within this document, but this may affect core operational functions or result in the unavailability of the Service.

This type of service allows sotechy.shop to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance. Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented? Their function is to filter communications between sotechy.shop and the User’s browser. Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information of the User are transferred.

Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc. The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through sotechy.shop i.e., communication between sotechy.shop and the User’s browser, while also allowing analytical data from sotechy.shop to be collected. Personal Data processed: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

Basic interactions & functionalities

sotechy.shop uses Cookies or other Identifiers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User’s communication with the Owner.

This type of service allows Users to interact with third-party live chat platforms directly from the pages of sotechy.shop, for contacting and being contacted by sotechy.shop support service. If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service. Moreover, live chat conversations may be logged.

The Facebook Messenger Customer Chat is a service for interacting with the Facebook Messenger live chat platform provided by Facebook, Inc. Personal Data processed: Cookies, Data communicated while using the service and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Privacy Shield participant.

sotechy.shop uses Cookies or other Identifiers to provide a personalized user experience by improving the quality of preference management options, and by enabling interaction with external networks and platforms.

Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of sotechy.shop. Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments. If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.

Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Facebook, Inc. enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. Privacy Shield participant.

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of sotechy.shop and interact with them. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Google Maps is a maps visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location sotechy.shop is accessed from, that allows sotechy.shop to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy; Ireland – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Privacy Shield participant.

This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of sotechy.shop The interaction and information obtained through sotechy.shop are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network. This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it. It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on sotechy.shop isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.

AddThis is a service provided by Oracle Corporation, which displays a widget that allows interaction with social networks and external platforms as well as sharing the contents sotechy.shop. Depending on the configuration, this service can display widgets belonging to third parties such as the managers of social networks where interactions are shared. In this case, also the third parties that provide the widget will be informed of interactions and Usage Data on the pages where this service is installed. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html.

The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. Privacy Shield participant.

sotechy.shop uses Cookies or other Identifiers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior with the goal of improving the Service.

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of sotechy.shop, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy – Opt Out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Privacy Shield participant.

Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel) is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on sotechy.shop. The Facebook pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Privacy Shield participant.

sotechy.shop uses Cookies or other Identifiers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.

This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on sotechy.shop, possibly based on User interests. This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below. Some of the services listed below may use Cookies or other Identifiers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside sotechy.shop. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. In order to understand Facebook’s use of Data, consult Facebook’s data policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. sotechy.shop may use identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Facebook Audience Network service. One of the ways Audience Network shows ads is by using the User’s ad preferences. The User can control this in the Facebook ad settings: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings. Users may opt-out of certain Audience Network targeting through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Audience Network related sections of this privacy policy, if available. Personal Data processed: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ – Opt Out: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. Privacy Shield participant.

Facebook Lookalike Audience is an advertising and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that uses Data collected through Facebook Custom Audience in order to display ads to Users with similar behavior to Users who are already in a Custom Audience list on the base of their past use of sotechy.shop or engagement with relevant content across the Facebook apps and services. On the base of these Data, personalized ads will be shown to Users suggested by Facebook Lookalike Audience. Users can opt out of Facebook’s use of cookies for ads personalization by visiting this opt-out page: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ – Opt Out: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Privacy Shield participant.

This type of service allows sotechy.shop and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use sotechy.shop by the User. This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies and other Identifiers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity. Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists. In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity sotechy.shop with the Facebook advertising network. Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ – Opt Out: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Privacy Shield participant.

Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of sotechy.shop with the Facebook advertising network. Users can opt out of Facebook’s use of cookies for ads personalization by visiting this opt-out page: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Personal Data processed: Cookies and email address. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ – Opt Out: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Privacy Shield participant.

Users can provide or withdraw consent to the use of Cookies and other Identifiers by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences via the relevant consent-preferences widget accordingly, if available. Additionally, Users can manage preferences regarding Identifiers directly from within their own device settings and prevent – for example – the storing of third-party Identifiers. It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Identifiers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent. Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Identifiers in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome: https://support.google.shop/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&p=cpn_cookies, Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences, Apple Safari: https://support.apple.shop/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/ and Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.shop/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies. With regard to any Identifiers stored by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party. Notwithstanding the above, Users are hereby informed that they may follow the instructions provided by Your Online Choices (EU): https://www.youronlinechoices.shop/, the Network Advertising Initiative (US): https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-digital-advertising and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US) https://www.aboutads.info/consumers/, DAAC (Canada) https://youradchoices.ca/en/learn, DDAI (Japan) http://www.ddai.info/optout or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

sotechy.shop, LOCATED 20A Etete Road GRA Benin City

OWNER CONTACT EMAIL: info@Sotechy.shop

Since the storing of third-party Cookies and other Identifiers through the services used within sotechy.shop cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Identifiers stored by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the User is kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document. Given the objective complexity surrounding technologies related to Cookies and other Identifiers, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such Identifiers by sotechy.shop

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Information collected automatically through sotechy.shop (or third-party services employed in sotechy.shop), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use sotechy.shop, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.

The individual using sotechy.shop who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of sotechy.shop. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of sotechy.shop.

sotechy.shop (OR THIS APPLICATION)

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

SERVICE

The service provided by sotechy.shop as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookies are Identifiers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User’s browser.

Any technology – including Cookies – that allows for the storing of information, or the accessing of already-stored information, on the User’s device.

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). This privacy policy relates solely to sotechy.shop, if not stated otherwise within this document.