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Last update: September 22, 2022
BLUE OCEAN ("we", "us", "our", "us" or "BLUE OCEAN") respects the privacy of its users and is fully committed to protecting your personal data and using it in accordance with data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and process the personal data we collect from you - or that you provide to us - in connection with your use of our website. www.blueocean.co.cr or our mobile applications and on-demand services (collectively, "Services"). By accessing or using our Services, you indicate that you understand the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, disclose or sell the personal information of underage users according to jurisdiction. If you are a minor, please do not use our Services. If you are a minor and have used our Services, please contact us at the email address below so that we may delete your personal information.
If you use our Services solely for your personal use, you will be considered the "User" and, for the purposes of Data Protection laws, we are the data controller.
If you use our Services to execute orders and deliver products to third parties, you are to be regarded as the "Merchant" and upon your contact details and the other data listed in Section 1 below, we are the data controller. Where we act on behalf of a Merchant to fulfill an order relating to the Merchant's customer, we are a data processor: please see our Data Processing Terms.
Please be aware that while our Services may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of each respective website or service and encourage you to be aware of that when you leave our Services and to carefully read the privacy statements of each and every website and service that you visit. This privacy policy does not apply to third party websites and services. If you wish to contact BLUE OCEAN regarding your personal data or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at administracion@blueoceantaxconsulting.com.
Information Collected about Users and Merchants and How We Use It
Where you are a User and it is necessary to perform our contract with you for the purposes of providing, maintaining or improving our products and Services (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any matter in our legitimate interest with respect to the Services), we will confirm your identity, contact you, provide you with customer support (including via chat, in the comments section of our blog, or other platforms, where you can reach us), operate your account with us, and bill you. For the above purposes, we collect information that may contain the following personal data:
If you have given your consent by registering your account, subscribing to our newsletter or blog, or have shared your email address or other personal data with us to receive any other information (e.g., our list of sub-processors), we will process your email address to send you the informational and/or promotional materials, to which you have subscribed, e.g., newsletters, announcements of our Services and other information about our Services that you have requested. At any time, you may unsubscribe from receiving the aforementioned information in our email footers and through your notification settings on BLUE OCEAN. In the case of merchants, we will not use your customer contact information to directly market or advertise our Services.
When you call our customer service hotline, we may monitor or record the call to ensure the quality of our customer service. If you have a BLUE OCEAN account, we will retain the recording for as long as you have an account. If you do not have an account, we will delete the recording within 12 months or retain it if it is needed to resolve disputes between you and us.
Through the use of cookies and similar technology on our website, we may collect data such as information about your device, your preferences and information filed while visiting our website, your interaction with the website and other information used for analytical, marketing and targeting activities (including unique visits, returning visits, session length, actions taken on the website).
Because it is in our legitimate interest to ensure the security of our network, to provide access to it and to enhance our
Services, we also collect the following technical usage data:
How and when you access your account; Information about the device and browser you use; IP address and device data.
Information collected about our merchants' customers
When we act on behalf of a Merchant to fulfill an order about the Merchant's customer (i.e., an end user of our Services), we are a data processor and collect information related to the Merchant's customer, such as personal data related to the end user of our Services, any personal data in print content (where applicable), personal data disclosed during the use of any BLUE OCEAN services, including name, email address, phone number, shipping address and other information about the Merchant's customers.
If you are a customer of the Merchant (an end user of our Services), the Merchant is the data controller over your personal data and must provide you with information about how your personal data is collected and processed when using our Services. Please read the Merchant's privacy policy for more information. The Merchant is your contact for any questions you have about how it handles your personal data.
Sharing personal data with third parties
In order for BLUE OCEAN to provide our Services to you, we work with third parties ("Third Party Service Providers") with whom we share personal data to support these Services.
Information you have provided to us during your use of our Services, including technical usage data, is shared with third parties who provide hosting and server location services, as well as data and cyber security services.
Information you have provided to us during your use of our Services may be shared with third party manufacturing services that we contract with to provide any Services.
Your e-mail address and other contact information you have provided to us and your messages to our customer service are shared with communication, e-mail distribution and content delivery services, as well as with customer service system providers, and information regarding your purchases and payments is shared with billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, accounting and financial advisors.
Information regarding your use of our website and other information received from cookies and similar technologies is shared with web analytics, session logging and online marketing services.
Information about your account, purchases and preferences may be shared with marketing services.
To the extent reasonably necessary to defend our legal rights, we may share your personal data with our legal advisors.
We will only share personal data with Third Party Service Providers who have agreed to comply with their obligations under applicable data protection laws.
In certain circumstances, we are required to share information with third parties to comply with legal requirements or requests, as well as to protect our legal interests or those of a third party. We will also disclose your information to third parties within and outside of your country only to the extent permitted by applicable law, including
to a prospective purchaser or a purchaser acquiring all or substantially all of us or our Business;
to a third party in the event we sell or buy any business or merge, in which case we may disclose your information to the prospective buyer of such business; and to a third party if we sell, buy, merge or merge with other companies or businesses, undergo reorganization, bankruptcy or liquidation, or enter into a business transaction or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, your information may be among the assets transferred.
Retention periods
We may retain your personal data for as long as you have an account with BLUE OCEAN or one of the above-mentioned legal bases for processing personal data continues to exist. For example, if you unsubscribe from our marketing emails, newsletter or blog, we will no longer process personal data for such purposes. If you have used our Services without creating a BLUE OCEAN account, we will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligation to retain information related to the provision of services, e.g. for tax purposes.
After you terminate your relationship with us by deleting your BLUE OCEAN account or ceasing to use our Services, we may continue to store copies of your (and, with respect to Merchants, your customers') personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes between you and us (or you and your customers), to prevent fraud and abuse, to enforce our agreements, and/or to protect our legitimate interests (to the extent that applicable law permits us to continue to store copies to protect our legitimate interests).
Rights of the interested party
You have the right to request access to your personal data; in certain circumstances, to correct, amend, delete or restrict the use of your personal data by logging into your BLUE OCEAN account or by contacting us using the contact information provided below. In addition, you may object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we are not obliged to process your data to meet contractual or other legal requirements). These rights may be limited, for example, if the fulfillment of your request discloses personal data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information that we are required to retain by law, that we are permitted by law to retain, or that we have compelling legitimate interests in retaining (to the extent that applicable law permits us to retain such information based on our legitimate interests).
In addition, if you believe that we have processed your personal data unlawfully, you have the right to submit a complaint to the contact information provided below, or to your respective data protection supervisory authority. If you are a customer of a merchant (an end user of our services), please address your concern to the relevant merchant in the first instance.
Information security
We try to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal data. We encourage you to take care of the personal data you hold and process online and to set strong passwords for your BLUE OCEAN account, to limit access to your computer and browser by logging out after you have finished your session and to avoid providing us with any sensitive information.
Changes in privacy policy
Any changes we may make to this privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Therefore, we encourage you to check this page frequently from time to time.
Contact information
If you have any questions about your personal data or about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to file a complaint about the processing of your personal data, please contact us by e-mail at administracion@blueoceantaxconsulting.com.
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