Privacy Policy

Last updated September 26, 2023

Welcome to the website NikaMaples.com (the “Site”) owned and operated by Bel Esprit Books, LLC, a Texas Limited Liability Company (“BEB”, “we”, “our”, or “us”). The Site address is: https://nikamaples.com. You can contact us with any questions or concerns at admin@nikamaples.com. We will respond back to your message as soon as possible.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We will alert you to any changes to this Policy by changing the “last updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on the Site, and you waive specific notice of any changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access the Site(s).  We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically when you use the Site for any purpose or engage with us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.

At the end of this Policy, we will ask those of you located in the European Economic Area (which includes all EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) to click a box indicating that you agree to this Policy. If you do not wish to click the box, then please do not use the Site.

OWNER AND DATA CONTROLLER

BEB operates https://nikamaples.com (the “Site”) and is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The Site collects some personal data from its users. This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices, and policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site. By submitting personal data to the Site, you agree to the usage of your personal data as follows.

INFORMATION COLLECTION, BUSINESS PURPOSE AND USE

While using the Site, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to name, email address, cookies, usage data, and password.

We may use your personal information to:

• Send you informative and promotional emails
• Manage contacts and send messages
• Ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer
• Provide you with information, products, or services that you request which may be of interest to you
• Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into with you
  Interact with external social networks and platforms (e.g. social media widgets and share bars)
• Allow registration and authentication (e.g. affiliate portals and membership areas)
• Allow access to third-party services’ accounts
• Monitor infrastructure
• Manage hosting and backend infrastructure
• Carry out remarketing and behavioral targeting (including ads)
• Display content from external platforms
• Carry out commercial affiliation (e.g. ads)
• Interact with support and feedback platforms
• Manage user database

BEB collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s and GDPR’s scope.

In particular, BEB has collected the following categories of personal information from its users within the last twelve (12) months:

• IDENTIFIERS: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, phone number, or other similar identifiers.
• COMMERCIAL INFORMATION: Records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• INTERNET OR OTHER SIMILAR NETWORK ACTIVITY: Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
• GEOLOCATION DATA: Physical location or movements.

BEB obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• DIRECTLY FROM YOU: For example, from forms you submit or transactions related to products and services you purchase.
• INDIRECTLY FROM YOU: For example, from your browser while visiting the Site.
• FROM THIRD PARTIES: For example, from its business partners or service providers.
  BEB does not intentionally collect or use the personal information of minors under sixteen (16) years of age or sell it with or without affirmative authorization.

In addition to the above, BEB may collect log data and use cookies.

LOG DATA

Like many site operators, BEB collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit the Site.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

In addition, BEB may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data.

COOKIES

Cookies are text files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s or tablet device’s or mobile device’s part of the hard drive specifically designated for cookies. It is standard practice to use cookies to make your experience better when using a website. Like many sites, BEB uses “cookies” to recognize, collect, and/or track information about, and relevant to, your usage of the Site.

These cookies are known as “first-party cookies”. BEB may also recognize, collect, and/or track information through cookies set by third parties. These cookies are known as “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies are used to perform tasks related to advertising, and analytics, and to enable interactive features such as sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user.

The information that BEB’s first-party cookies or third-party cookies recognize, collect, and/or track may include information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, such as among others, the type of computer you use, your internet service provider, your browser type, your location, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.

Upon your first visit to the Site (and periodically after that), BEB will request your consent to the use of cookies except for those strictly necessary.

WHAT COOKIES BEB USES

BEB uses the following categories of cookies on the Site:

• STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features. BEB uses cookies to save your sessions, your login details, and other information necessary to perform your requests, and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Site, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic. BEB uses cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience.
• ANALYTICS COOKIES: These cookies collect information about your use of the Site, such as for instance, browsing actions, and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, and your traffic pattern through the Site. Through the collection of this information, BEB is able to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. User behaviors may be recognized, collected, and/or tracked. BEB uses Google Analytics to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. Google utilizes the data recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the Site to prepare reports on traffic activities. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. Google may use the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked to personalize the ads of its advertising network and may share the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked with other services.
• SECURITY COOKIES: These cookies are essential to BEB’s security features. These cookies allow BEB to detect malicious activities or activities in breach of BEB’s Terms of Use.
• CUSTOMIZATION COOKIES: These cookies allow the Site to save information and details such as your username to optimize your experience on the Site and provide personal features.
• SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES AND PIXELS: These cookies allow you to share your activity on the Site on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, or other external platforms directly from the Site. Cookies may still be recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use it. The interaction and information recognized, collected, and/or tracked through the Site are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform. You are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform and to log out from the respective network or platform in order to make sure that the information collected on the Site is not tracked back to your profile.
  • Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets: The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Facebook social network.
  • Instagram Button and Instagram social widgets: The Instagram button and Instagram social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Instagram social network.
  • Pinterest Pin It button and Pinterest social widgets: The Pinterest Pin It button and Pinterest social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Pinterest social network.
• TARGETING OR ADVERTISING COOKIES: These cookies record your browsing actions and patterns on the Site, such as among others, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. The information recognized, collected, and/or tracked by these cookies is used to make the Site and the advertising displayed by way of links or banners on the Site more relevant to your interests. For the same purpose, this information may also be shared with third parties.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You have the right to accept or reject cookies. Strictly necessary cookies may not be rejected since they are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features. Should you reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Site although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.

You can manage preferences for cookies directly from within your own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Site.

You can find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the website of the browser of choice.

With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

DATA STORAGE

Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. BEB will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

LAWFUL BASIS OF PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER THE GDPR

BEB may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:

• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes;
• Provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which BEB is subject;
• Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in BEB;
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by myself or by a third party.

DATA RETENTION

BEB processes and stores your personal data for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

• Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between BEB and the user will be retained until such contract has been fully performed and possibly later to keep a record of the performance of the contract;
• Personal data collected for the purposes of BEB’s legitimate interests will be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes;
• BEB may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn;
• BEB may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data will be deleted and some of your rights (i.e. the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability) cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period. You may find specific information regarding your rights within the relevant section of this Privacy Policy or by contacting us at admin@nikamaples.com.

THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE

BEB does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless BEB provides users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist BEB in operating the Site, conducting its business, or serving its users (such as, for example, MailChimp and Google’s Gmail), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. BEB may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce the Site policies, or protect its or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, BEB disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose: (See examples in each category above)

• Identifiers
• Commercial information
• Internet or other similar network activity
• Geolocation data

BEB discloses your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Third parties whose services you purchase through the Site
• Social Media Networks.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Users based in the European Union have the right to do the following:

• Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.
• Object to processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
• Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data is being processed, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing, and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
• Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
• Restrict the processing of their data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their data. In this case, BEB will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.
  Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their data from the Site.
• Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any undue delay.
• Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection supervisory authority.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at admin@nikamaples.com.

These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed as soon as possible and always within thirty (30) days.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us.

The Site is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to the Site as safe as possible.

BEB uses regular security scanning through Jetpack.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

BEB implements a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure. While BEB strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, BEB cannot guarantee its absolute security.

COPPA (CHILDREN ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT)

For the collection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) years old, BEB complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

The Site is intended for individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.

By visiting and using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.

The Site is not intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age.

BEB does not specifically market to children under thirteen (13) years of age. BEB does not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age.

If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, please do not use the Site or provide any information on the Site, including your name, screen name, username, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.

If BEB learns it has collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen (13) years of age without verification of consent from a parent or guardian, the personal information collected or received shall be deleted with no delay.

If you believe BEB might have any information concerning a child under thirteen (13) years of age, please contact us at admin@nikamaples.com and we will delete such information with no delay.

SALE OR BANKRUPTCY

In the event that BEB is sold, goes out of business, or enters bankruptcy, your information may be an asset that is transferred to a third-party successor. Such a successor is not bound by our Privacy Policy and may have its own. You will be notified in the event our company is sold, goes out of business, or enters bankruptcy.

INTERACTION

If you interact with others on the Site, other users may have access to some of your data, including your name, profile picture, and your history of interaction with the Site, such as prior comments or posts.

SEVERABILITY

If any part of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful and/or unenforceable, all other provisions contained herein will remain in full force and effect.

APPLICABLE LAW; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; VENUE

The laws of the State of Texas, USA will govern this Privacy Policy, and will govern any dispute, controversy or claim relating in any way to the Privacy Policy without regard to any conflict of laws. If any dispute, controversy or claim arises between you and us, you agree to submit the matter for mediation before a mutually agreed upon mediator in Tarrant County, Texas. If mediation does not result in agreement, the parties agree to courts in Tarrant County, Texas, as the sole venue for any litigation regarding this Policy, including the rights and obligations of any party to this Policy.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 26, 2023 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

BEB reserves the right to update or change its Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after BEB posts any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If BEB makes any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on the Site.

CONTACT INFO

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at admin@nikamaples.com.

For more information, you can read BEB’s Terms of Use.

FOR EU USERS

Those of you located in the European Economic Area (which includes all EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) please click the box indicating that you agree to this Policy. If you do not wish to click the box, then please do not use the Site.