- This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under certain conditions) disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. By visiting the Site directly or through another site, you accept the practices described in this Policy.
- Data protection is a matter of trust and your privacy is important to us. We shall therefore only use your name and other information which relates to you in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. We will only collect information where it is necessary for us to do so and we will only collect information if it is relevant to our dealings with you.
- We will only keep your information for as long as we are either required to by law or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.
- We will cease to retain your personal data, or remove the means by which the data can be associated with you, as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purposes for which the personal data was collected, and is no longer necessary for any legal or business purpose.
- You can visit the Site and browse without having to provide personal details. During your visit to the Site you remain anonymous and at no time can we identify you unless you have an account on the Site and log on with your user name and password.
- Data that we collect
- We may collect various pieces of information if you seek to place an order for a product with us on the Site.
- We collect, store and process your data for processing your purchase on the Site and any possible later claims, and to provide you with our services. We may collect personal information including, but not limited to, your title, name, gender, date of birth, email address, postal address, delivery address (if different), telephone number, mobile number, fax number, payment details, payment card details or bank account details.
- EPharma shall collect the following information where you are a buyer:
- Identity data, such as your name, gender, profile picture, and date of birth;
- Contact data, such as billing address, delivery address/location, email address and phone numbers;
- Biometric data, such as voice files and face recognition when you use our voice search function, and your facial features of when you use the Site;
- Billing account information: bank account details, credit card account and payment information (such account data may also be collected directly by our affiliates and/or third party payment service providers);
- Transaction records/data, such as details about orders and payments, user clicks, and other details of products and Services related to you;
- Technical data, such as Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, device information, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, international mobile equipment identity, device identifier, IMEI, MAC address, cookies (where applicable) and other information and technology on the devices you use to access the Site;
- Profile data, such as your username and password, account settings, orders related to you, user research, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;
- Usage data, such as information on how you use the Site, products and Services or view any content on the Site, including the time spent on the Site, items and data searched for on the Site, access times and dates, as well as websites you were visiting before you came to the Site and other similar statistics;
- Location data, such as when you capture and share your location with us in the form of photographs or videos and upload such content to the Site;
- Marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, your communication preferences and your chat, email or call history on the Site or with third party customer service providers; and
- Additional information we may request you to submit for due diligence checks or required by relevant authorities as required for identity verification (such as copies of government issued identification, e.g. passport, ID cards, etc.) or if we believe you are violating our Privacy Policy or our Customer Terms and Conditions.
- EPharma shall collect the following information where you are a seller:
- Identity and contact data, such as your name, date of birth or incorporation, company name, address, email address, phone number and other business-related information (e.g. company registration number, business licence, tax information, shareholder and director information, etc.);
- Account data, such as bank account details, bank statements, credit card details and payment details (such account data may also be collected directly by our affiliates and/or third party payment service providers);
- Transaction data, such as details about orders and payments, and other details of products and Services related to you;
- Technical data, such as Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, international mobile equipment identity, device identifier, IMEI, MAC address, cookies (where applicable) and other information and technology on the devices you use to access the Site;
- Profile data, such as your username and password, orders related to you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;
- Usage data, such as information on how you use the Site, products and Services or view any content on the Site, including the time spent on the Site, items and data searched for on the Site, access times and dates, as well as websites you were visiting before you came to the Site and other similar statistics;
- Location data, such as when you capture and share your location with us in the form of photographs or videos and upload such content to the Site;
- Marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences and your chat, email or call history on the Site or with our third party seller service providers; and
- Additional information we may request you to submit for authentication (such as copies of government issued identification, e.g. passport, ID cards, etc.) or if we believe you are violating our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.
- EPharma shall collect the following information where you are a buyer:
- We will use the information you provide to enable us to process your orders and to provide you with the services and information offered through our website and which you request in the following ways:
If you are a buyer:
- Processing your orders for products:
- Process orders you submit through the Site;
- Deliver the products you have purchased through the Site for which we may pass your personal information on to a third party (e.g. our logistics partner) in order to make delivery of the product to you;
- Update you on the delivery of the products;
- Provide customer support for your orders;
- Verify and carry out payment transactions (including any credit card payments, bank transfers, offline payments, remittances, or e-wallet transactions) in relation to payments related to you and/or services used by you. In order to verify and carry out such payment transactions, payment information, which may include personal data, will be transferred to third parties such as our payment service providers;
- Facilitate your use of the services or access to the Site;
- Administer your account with us;
- Display your name, username or profile on the Site (including on any reviews you may post);
- Respond to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes, whether directly or through our third party service providers; and
- Marketing and advertising: Provide you with information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us (provided you have opted to receive such information);
- Send you marketing or promotional information about \ products and services on the Site from time to time (provided you have opted to receive such information); and
- Help us conduct marketing and advertising;
- Processing your orders for products:
- Legal and operational purposes:
- Ascertain your identity in connection with fraud detection purposes;
- Compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;
- Process any complaints, feedback, enforcement action you may have lodged with us;
- Produce statistics and research for internal and statutory reporting and/or record-keeping requirements;
- Store, host, back up your personal data;
- Prevent or investigate any actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, fraud, unlawful activity, omission or misconduct, whether relating to your use of Site or any other matter arising from your relationship with us;
- Perform due diligence checks;
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements (including, where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and company details), including any law enforcement requests, in connection with any legal proceedings, or otherwise deemed necessary by us; and
- Where necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety.
- Ascertain your identity in connection with fraud detection purposes;
- Analytics, research, business and development:
- Understand your user experience on the Site;
- Improve the layout or content of the pages of the Site and customize them for users;
- Identify visitors on the Site;
- Conduct surveys, including carrying out research on our users’ demographics and behavior;
- Derive further attributes relating to you based on personal data provided by you (whether to us or third parties), in order to provide you with more targeted and/or relevant information;
- Conduct data analysis, testing and research, monitoring and analyzing usage and activity trends;
- Further develop our products and services; and
- Other
- Any other purpose to which your consent has been obtained; and
- Conduct automated decision-making processes in accordance with any of the above purposes.
- Understand your user experience on the Site;
- If you are a seller:
- To ship or deliver the products you have listed or sold through the Site. We may pass your personal information on to a third party (e.g. our logistics partners) or relevant regulatory authority (e.g. customs) in order to carry out shipping or delivery of the products listed or sold by you;
- To respond to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes, whether directly or through our third party service agents;
- To verify your documentation submitted to us facilitate your onboarding with us as a seller on the Site, including the testing of technologies to enable faster and more efficient onboarding;
- To administer your account (if any) with us;
- To display your name, username or profile on the Site;
- To verify and carry out financial transactions (including any credit card payments, bank transfers, offline payments, remittances, or e-wallet transactions) in relation to payments related to you and/or Services used by you. In order to verify and carry out such payment transactions, payment information, which may include personal data, will be transferred to third parties such as our payment service providers;
- To assess your application for loan facilities and/or to perform credit risk assessments in relation to your application for seller financing (where applicable);
- To provide you with ancillary logistics services to protect against risks of failed deliveries or customer returns; and
- To facilitate the return of products to you (which may be through our logistics partner).
- Marketing and advertising
- To send you marketing or promotional materials about our or third-party sellers’ products and services on our Site from time to time (provided you have opted to receive such information); and
- To help us conduct marketing and advertising.
- Legal and operational purposes
- To produce statistics and research for internal and statutory reporting and/or record-keeping requirements;
- To store, host, back up your personal data;
- To prevent or investigate any actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, fraud, unlawful activity, omission or misconduct, whether relating to your use of our Services or any other matter arising from your relationship with us;
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements (including, where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and company details), including any law enforcement requests, in connection with any legal proceedings or otherwise deemed necessary by us;
- Where necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety;
- To process any complaints, feedback, enforcement action and take-down requests in relation to any content you have uploaded to the Site;
- To compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;
- To ascertain your identity in connection with fraud detection purposes; and
- To facilitate the takedown of prohibited and controlled items from our Site.
- Analytics, research, business and development
- To audit the downloading of data from the Site;
- To understand the user experience with the Services and the Site;
- To improve the layout or content of the pages of the Site and customize them for users;
- To conduct surveys, including carrying out research on our users’ demographics and behavior to improve our current technology (e.g. voice recognition tech, etc) via machine learning or other means;
- To derive further attributes relating to you based on personal data provided by you (whether to us or third parties), in order to provide you with more targeted and/or relevant information;
- To conduct data analysis, testing and research, monitoring and analyzing usage and activity trends;
- To further develop our products and services; and
- To know our sellers better.
- Other
- Any other purpose to which your consent has been obtained; and
- To conduct automated decision-making processes in accordance with any of these purposes.
- Further, we will use the information you provide to administer your account with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments you make; audit the downloading of data from our website; improve the layout and/or content of the pages of our website and customize them for users; identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our users' demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our products and services, provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these purposes.
- Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email with details of other products and services. You may unsubscribe from receiving marketing information at any time in our mobile application settings or by using the unsubscribe function within the electronic marketing material. We may use your contact information to send newsletters from us and from our related companies. If you prefer not to receive any marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
- We may pass your name and address on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you (for example to our courier or supplier). You must only submit to us the Site information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and are responsible for informing us of changes to your personal data, or in the event you believe that the personal data we have about you is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date. inform us of changes. You can update your personal data anytime by accessing your account on the Site.
- Your actual order details may be stored with us but for security reasons cannot be retrieved directly by us. However, you may access this information by logging into your account on the Site. Here you can view the details of your orders that have been completed, those which are open and those which are shortly to be dispatched and administer your address details, bank details ( for refund purposes) and any newsletter to which you may have subscribed. You undertake to treat the personal access data confidentially and not make it available to unauthorized third parties. We cannot assume any liability for misuse of passwords unless this misuse is our fault.
- Other uses of your Personal Information
- Third Parties and Links
- Their service providers and related companies; and
- Other users of the Site.
- We may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it, provided that we satisfy the requirements of applicable data protection law when disclosing your personal data. Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law. The Site may contain advertising of third parties and links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You are advised to check on the applicable privacy policies of those websites to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
- In disclosing your personal data to third parties, we endeavor to ensure that the third parties and our affiliates keep your personal data secure from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, processing or similar risks and retain your personal data only for as long as your personal data helps with any of the uses of your data as set out in our Privacy Policy.
- We may transfer or permit the transfer of your personal data outside of Bangladesh for any of the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. However, we will not transfer or permit any of your personal data to be transferred outside of Bangladesh unless the transfer is in compliance with applicable laws and this Privacy Policy.
- We may share your personal data with our third party service providers or affiliates (e.g. payment service providers) in order for them to offer services to you other than those related to your use of the Site. Your acceptance and use of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s services shall be subject to terms and conditions as may be agreed between you and the third party service provider or our affiliate. Upon your acceptance of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s service offering, the collection, use, disclosure, storage, transfer and processing of your data (including your personal data and any data disclosed by us to such third party service provider or affiliate) shall be subject to the applicable privacy policy of the third party service provider or our affiliate, which shall be the data controller of such data. You agree that any queries or complaints relating to your acceptance or use of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s services shall be directed to the party named in the applicable privacy policy.
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