General
A Privacy Policy is a statement or a legal document that states how a company or website collects, handles and processes data of its customers and visitors. It explicitly describes whether that information is kept confidential, or is shared with or sold to third parties.
The Prospertree Plc has been fully harmonized with the new Personal Data Protection Regulation and has fostered corporate culture across its staff by establishing a code of conduct for the protection of personal data. The company complies with applicable legislation on the Protection of Personal Data.
As part of this basic obligation, Prospertree Plc is committed to protecting and appropriately using personal information (often referred to as “personal data” collected either online or through the professional services it provides, or through communication / collaboration with any third party.
In general, our purpose is to collect only the personal data voluntarily provided by visitors so that we can provide them with information and / or services or information about business opportunities or markets when preparing contracts for the sale of goods.
Who we are.
Prospertree Plc is a mission-driven company that is dedicated to creating a more sustainable future. We specialize in the planting, trading, and investing on trees. We believe that trees are essential for the health of our planet, so we strive to make it easy for everyone to get involved in tree planting and exploitation initiatives. Our team of professionals is dedicated to helping the planet get greener and you to gain profit from your trees.
Our trees – mainly Paulownia and Eucalyptus in the near future – are our precious! Prospertree’s tree-planting services are designed to help you create a healthier, more sustainable environment. We also provide planting plans for both individuals and companies, aiming to high returns from the trading and usage of trees after their scission.
Planting Trees: We listen to your needs and create a customized planting plan according to them.
Growing Trees: We help your trees grow, reducing carbon emissions and contributing to a more sustainable living.
Benefiting from Trees: We cut the trees at perfect timing, and take advantage of them in the most profitable, yet environmental-friendly ways.
We give to nature. Nature gives back to us. That simple!
Collection and use of Personal Data
We receive your personal data if you choose to provide it – for example, if you contact an email or subscribe as a subscriber for some services. In some cases, you may have previously given your Personal Data to Prospertree Plc.
By registering and / or submitting your personal data to Prospertree Plc, you also consent to the use of this data in accordance with this Statement. Your personal data is not used for other purposes unless we receive your permission or unless this is required or permitted by law or by professional specifications. For example, if you sign up for our account page and provide information about your preferences, we will use this information to personalize your user experience. When you sign up or log in using a third-party subscription service, we may identify you as the same user regardless of the use of different devices and personalize your user experience and any other web sites of Prospertree Plc you visit.
In some cases where you have subscribed to certain services, we may temporarily store your email address until we have received the confirmation of the information you provided via email (by sending an email to the address you provided in your subscription to confirm your registration request and give your consent to the collection and processing of the data you have sent to us for the specific purpose of your disclosure).
The Company Prospertree Plc generally, collects only personal data that is necessary to meet your requests in accordance with the basic principle of limiting the processing of the new EU Regulation 2016/679. Where additional, optional information is sought, you will be informed at the time of the data collection and the for which additional information serves.
Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
(a) Email address
(b) Phone number
(c) Cookies and Usage Data
(d) Name – Surname
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link.
The Company Prospertree Plc It does not collect “sensitive” personal data unless data is required or collection is permitted by law. Please do not provide sensitive data to Prospertree Plc, unless this is required for the purpose of providing personal data and you do not provide sensitive data in any way to Prospertree Plc, unless you hereby consent to the use by Prospertree Plc of these data for its legitimate business purposes and if you consent to the transmission and storage of this data to and to Prospertree Plc databases. If you have any questions about whether the provision of sensitive personal data to Company Prospertree Plc is, or could be, necessary or appropriate for certain purposes, please contact us at info@prosper-tree.
Automatic Collection of Personal Data
In some cases, Prospertree Plc and its service providers use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to automatically collect certain categories of data when you visit us online and through the emails we exchange. The collection of these data allows us to personalize your online experience, improve the performance, usability and efficiency of our online presence, Prospertree Plc and evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing activities of our services.
IP Addresses
The IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever you access the internet. It allows computers and servers to identify and communicate with each other. The IP addresses from which visitors appear to be logged can be logged for security of information technology and system diagnostics. This data can also be used in aggregated form to analyze the trends and performance of the site.
Cookies – View in detail the cookies policy.
Visit Cookies Policy
Other third-party tools and widgets may be used on our individual websites in order to provide additional functionality. Using these tools or widgets may install a cookie on your device to make their service easier to use and ensure that your activity is displayed properly on our web pages.
Cookies on our own do not disclose your email address or personally identify you in any other way. In our analytical reports, we may receive identification information, including IP addresses, but only to identify the number of unique visitors to our webpages and the geographical origin of the visitors, and not to identify individual visitors.
Google Analytics
The Company Prospertree Plc uses Google Analytics. Learn more about how to use Google Analytics by Prospertree Plc you can find here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
In order to provide site visitors with more choices about how to collect their data from Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to show that the information about the visit to the website should not be sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not prevent you from sending information to the site itself or other web analytics services.
Children
The Company Prospertree Plc understands the importance of protecting children’s personal data, especially in an online environment. Specifically, our sites are neither designed intentionally nor intended for children under 18 years of age. Our policy is to never collect or keep our knowledge of any person under the age of 18.
Legal Basis for your Personal Data
We only use your Personal Data in the following legal basis:
Consent art. 6 §1 a 2016/679 GDPR. For some processing activities, we require your prior consent. This applies for example to some of our direct marketing activities which fall under the scope of the GDPR. You will always be prompted to take clear, affirmative action so that we can ensure that you agree with the processing of your Personal Data. This action may, for example, take the form of a checkbox. If you have given us your consent for processing operations, you may always change your mind, and withdraw your consent at any time and easily; all you need to do is to send us an email at the following address info@prosper-tree.com
Performance of a contract art. 6 §1 b 2016/679 GDPR. Some Personal Data we process about you is for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with us.
Legal obligation art. 6 §1 c 2016/679 GDPR. In some cases, we have to process your Personal Data to comply with legal obligations, including those applicable to financial services institutions, such as under anti-money laundering laws. You may not be eligible for certain Services if we cannot collect the Personal Data necessary to meet our legal obligations.
Legitimate interest art. 6 §1 f 2016/679 GDPR. In most cases where we process Personal Data in the context of our Services we rely on our legitimate interests in conducting our normal business as a legal basis for such processing. Our legitimate interests are to identify or prevent fraud, to enhance the security of our network and information systems, or to carry out processing operations for statistical purposes. We will use legitimate interest only when we have carried out an assessment on the impact that this processing may have on you, and concluded that the processing does not unduly infringe your rights and freedoms. For example, we do not use this justification if we process sensitive data, or when the processing would be unexpected for you, or if we consider it to be too intrusive.
Use of Data – Purposes of collection
uses the collected data for various purposes:
(a) to provide and maintain our Service;
(b) to notify you about changes to our Service;
(c) to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so;
(d) to provide customer support;
(e) to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
(f) to monitor the usage of our Service;
(g) to detect, prevent and address technical issues;
(h) to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
(i) to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
(j) to provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices, email-instructions, etc.;
(k) to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information;
(l) in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
(m) for any other purpose with your consent.
(n) Perform risk management, including comparing information for accuracy and verify it with third parties and protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activity, claims and other liabilities
(o) Comply with applicable laws and regulations;
(p) Establish, exercise and defend legal claims;
(q) Monitor and report compliance issues;
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data
We do not share personal data with third parties that are not affiliated with us unless this is required for our legitimate business purposes and our business needs in order to meet your requests and / or as required or permitted by law.
In some cases, Prospertree Plc may share your personal information with various external companies or service providers or sellers working on our behalf in order to respond to your requests after we have informed you in advance and receive your consent.
The Company Prospertree Plc does not sell personal data to any third party. Also, Prospertree Plc will not pass on the personal data you provide to any third party.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide:
(a) Disclosure for Law Enforcement.
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
(b) Business Transaction.
If we or our subsidiaries are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred.
(c) Other cases. We may disclose your information also:
(i) to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
(ii) to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
(iii) to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
(iv) for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
Data Security and Integrity
The Company Prospertree Plc applies reasonable policies and technical and organizational security policies to protect personal data and information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
In addition, we try to ensure that access to your personal data is limited to those who need to know about them. People who have access to the data are required to keep the data confidential.
Please be aware that the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. While we make every effort to protect your personal data, we can not guarantee the security of the data transmitted to our site. After downloading your information, we will apply rigorous security procedures and operations to try to prevent unauthorized access.
We make every reasonable effort to keep the personal data we collect from you only for the period of time we need that data for the purpose for which it was collected or until requested to delete it (if this occurs earlier) unless we continue to keep them as provided in the applicable legislation.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations or to resolve disputes.
How long do we keep your data?
We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
(a) The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you (for example, for as long as you remain a registered user or for the time necessary to fulfill your request through our contact form)
(b) Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time)
(c) Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Your rights according GDPR – art. 12-23
In general, you do not have to submit personal data Prospertree Plc but we may ask you to provide it with some personal information in order to receive additional information about our services and our events. The Company Prospertree Plc may also request your permission for certain uses of your personal data and you may either consent or deny these uses. If you want specific services or communications, such as an electronic newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe from the relevant mailing list at any time by following the instructions contained in each communication or directly from our website. If you decide to unsubscribe from a service or communication, we will try to delete your data as soon as possible, although we may need some time and / or information before we can process your request.
Under the GDPR and relevant implementation acts, individuals have statutory rights related to their Personal Data. Please note that rights are not absolute and may be subject to conditions.
One key right is the Right to object. You have the right to object to processing of your Personal Data where we are relying on legitimate interests as our legal basis (see above). Under certain circumstances, we may have compelling legitimate grounds that allow us to continue processing your Personal Data. Insofar as the processing of your Personal Data takes place for direct marketing purposes, including profiling for direct marketing, we will always honor your request.
As mentioned above in the “Cookies” section, if you wish to avoid detecting cookies as you browse our sites, you can set your browser to reject all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is sent. Note, however, that some parts of our sites may not be able to function properly if you choose to refuse cookies.
Other rights are as follows:
Right to withdraw consent. Insofar as our processing of your Personal Data is based on your consent (see above), you have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
Right of access. You have the right to request access to your Personal Data. You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold for you (the term “Personal Data” as defined in the applicable law on the protection of personal data) and to revise and generally exercise any right provided by legislation on the protection of personal data. If you wish to submit a request or if you are concerned by any of the above, please contact us at info@prosper-tree.com
Right to rectification. You have the right to request rectification of the Personal Data that we hold about you.
Right to erasure. You have the right to request erasure of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data in certain circumstances.
Right to restriction. You have the right to request restriction of processing of your Personal Data.
Right to data portability. In some cases, you have the right to request to transfer your Personal Data to you or to a third party of your choice.
The exercise of the aforementioned rights is free of charge and can be carried out by submitting our Data Subject Access Request Form or contacting us at info@prosper-tree.com
Before responding to your request, we will verify your identity and / or ask you to provide us with more information to respond to your request, if we have any doubts about your identity. We will do our best to respond to your request within one month, unless your request is particularly complex (for example if your request concerns a large amount of sensitive data). In such a case, we will inform you of the need to extend this response time by two additional months.
Links to other websites
The websites of Prospertree Plc may include links to other sites, including sites maintained by other members of Prospertree Plc and which are governed by other privacy statements the content of which may differ from this Privacy Statement. Please review the privacy policy of each site you visit before submitting any personal data to it. While we try to provide links only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of other sites.
Providing professional services
Our relationships with customers are governed by our cooperation letters and general terms of trade, including the use of personal data we receive. The Company Prospertree Plc provides services of various types and its role may not always be clear to the data subjects. However, Prospertree Plc complies with its obligations under applicable European legislation on the protection of personal data and the applicable regulatory directives relating to the management of personal data.
Changes to this Statement
The Company Prospertree Plc makes this Declaration a frequent review and may amend or revise it at periodic discretion. When we make any changes, we will record the date of the change or revision in the Statement. The updated Statement will apply to you and your information from that date. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to consider whether there are any changes to the way we manage your personal data.
Contact us
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about managing or protecting us from your personal data or if you wish to modify your personal data or exercise any right as a data subject, please contact us at info@prosper-tree.com
