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Privacy Policy - Royal Queen Seeds

To ensure a safe online environment and guarantee adequate data protection, we strictly comply with all legal requirements. In this privacy statement, we provide information about how and for what purpose data is collected, safety measures, storage periods and contact details.


COMPANY NAME: SNORKEL SPAIN, SL (hereinafter ROYAL QUEEN SEEDS)

C/ Vilar d'Abdelà, 5 (nave 1) CP: 08170 de Montornès del Vallès

+34 937 379 846

support@royalqueenseeds.com


The present Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we will treat personal data at ROYAL QUEEN SEEDS; this includes any personal data collected through our website https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/ as well as any other data we process in the course of our business activities.

ROYAL QUEEN SEEDS collects the following personal data for the purposes listed below:

SECTION 1 – PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1.1 Account purchases

Account purchases can only be made if you are in possession of a personal account. When you create an account or purchase something from our shop, as part of the buying and selling process we collect the following personal information that you provide to us:

  • First and last name
  • Home and billing address
  • Telephone number
  • Gender
  • IP address
  • Email address
  • Date of birth

This information is required for delivery. In addition, when you browse our shop, we automatically receive the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. Based on this information, we can optimise your online experience and at the same time protect our online environment.

Purpose of data collection

We collect and store account-related data for the following purposes:

(a) to carry out obligations arising from any contracts between you and us, and to provide you with information, products and services that you may request from us;

(b) to set up, manage and communicate with you about your account and your orders;

(c) to conduct market research and analysis;

(d) to confirm your age and identity, and to detect and prevent fraud.

1.2 Newsletters

With your explicit permission, we may send you newsletters about our shop, new products and other updates. We send newsletters based on your explicit consent. In the event that you purchase a product, and in accordance with current regulations, we may send you commercial communications in accordance with the legitimate interest of our company, always about products or services similar to those you have purchased or contracted. In any case, you may exercise your right of opposition through the channels announced in this Privacy Policy. The following information is collected in relation to the newsletter:

  • First & last name
  • Gender

We do not need to know the sex of the person in order to send the newsletter (data minimisation: by law we must ask for data that is strictly necessary to provide the service, and in this case knowing the sex is not necessary to send the newsletter).

  • Email address

Purpose of data collection

The data collected is used to:

(a) personalise our emails, including your name and gender;

(b) provide gender-specific content.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the link provided in the newsletter or the contact information provided in section 2.

1.3 Customer service and contact form

In order to provide appropriate support, our customer service employees have access to information related to the account. Consequently, their support will be highly effective and friendly. The data provided in our contact form is used by our CRM provider, SuperOffice. We will only use your details to respond to your message.

SECTION 2 – LEGITIMATE INTEREST

If you have purchased any of our products, please note that we may process your personal data for promotional purposes, based on Royal Queen Seeds' legitimate interest only to offer you products or services from our company and about products or services similar to those you have purchased. You may exercise your right to opt out of future messages by the means set out in this Privacy Policy or through any notification you receive.

2.1 How do you withdraw consent?

If you change your mind, you can withdraw your consent for us to contact you for the purpose of collecting, using, or disclosing your data at any time by reaching out to us at: support@royalqueenseeds.com.

SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law or if you breach our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 – HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?

At Royal Queen Seeds, we will not retain your data for longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of data; however, the longest period we will normally hold any personal data is 10 years.

4.1 Account information

Data relating to the account remains relevant for as long as the consumer is in possession of an account. Therefore, the data remains documented for as long as the account exists. When our customers delete an account, the associated data will be deleted within a reasonable period of time. Requests regarding the inspection or correction of stored personal data or the deletion of an account can be sent to support@royalqueenseeds.com.

4.2 Newsletters

In the event that you give us your consent to inform you about our products or services, we will keep your data until you express your wish not to receive any further communications from us. However, we regularly (every month) carry out a relevance check. Registered customers (and their personal information) will be deleted whenever customers do not reply to our request. In addition, our newsletter mailing has an opt-out feature. Consumers can withdraw their consent by using this opt-out feature.

SECTION 5 – COOKIES

Cookies are small information files that notify your computer of previous interactions with our website. These cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our website. Essentially, when you use our website, your computer displays its cookies to us, informing our site that you have visited before. This allows our website to function more quickly and remember aspects related to your previous visits (such as your username), making your experience more convenient. At Royal Queen Seeds, we use two types of cookies: functional and analytical.

5.1 Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are used to enhance your online experience. Among other things, these cookies track what is added to your shopping cart. The use of these cookies does not require prior authorization.

5.2 Analytical Cookies

Analytical cookies are used for research and market analysis. The data collected with these analytical cookies is anonymous, making it unusable for third parties. The use of these cookies does not require prior authorization.

SECTION 5 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Third-party services are required to conduct transactions and provide our services. In general, the third-party providers we use will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to enable them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies regarding the information we must provide to them for your transactions.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these providers so that you can understand how these providers will handle your personal information.

In particular, certain suppliers may be located or have facilities located in a different jurisdiction than yours or ours. Therefore, if you choose to proceed with a transaction involving the services of a third party, your information may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service of our website.

Web analytics service (anonymous data)

On this website we have integrated an element of a web analytics service (with anonymisation functionality). Web analytics can be defined as the gathering, processing and analysis of data about the behaviour of visitors to websites. An analytics service collects, among other things, data about which website a person came from (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages they visited or how often and for how long they visited a sub-page. Web analytics is mainly used for website optimisation and for a cost–benefit analysis of internet advertising.

Courier service

To complete deliveries we use a courier service. This courier service carries out the delivery between our company and the consumer's home. To complete these logistics, the company requires access to the consumer's name and address information.

Mailing service

Royal Queen Seeds uses a third-party mail service provider to send its newsletter. This provider has access to limited account information related to opt-in consent (e.g. email address).

Marketing services

Royal Queen Seeds has the support of a company that specialises in marketing and communication activities. Their access to personal information is very limited and mostly anonymous.

Payment services

At Royal Queen Seeds we use external payment services to handle our transactions (e.g. credit card payments).

SECTION 6 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry standard best practices to ensure that it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored using AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional industry standards that are commonly accepted. Information related to the account is protected with a hashing method. This method transforms the information into a generated hash. As a result, confidential information is protected and invisible, even to us. In addition, our databases are exceptionally protected against unauthorised access. For example, access to the database is only possible and permitted via approved IP addresses (e.g. from Royal Queen Seeds headquarters). Other attempts and addresses are rejected at all times.

Furthermore, data is anonymised as much as possible, so it cannot be directly linked to a specific consumer. With this data, however, we may be able to carry out market research and analysis. In addition, the third parties concerned (e.g. mailing service) are examined prior to our collaboration, comply with the GDPR from the EU and receive a processing agreement. Within Royal Queen Seeds, employees are assigned different access permissions. Specific permission provides access only to information that is strictly required to perform a task. Digital security measures are subject to change and must meet high requirements to ensure the safety of online customers. That is why, at Royal Queen Seeds, we appoint a security officer. Regular verification and improvement of security measures (where necessary) are part of the role.

SECTION 7 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please check back regularly. Changes and clarifications will be effective immediately upon being published on the Website. If we make substantial changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated so you will know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

SECTION 8 – YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO:

  • Revoke the consent you have granted;
  • Access personal data;
  • Rectify personal data;
  • Delete personal data;
  • File a complaint or a writ for the protection of your rights before the Spanish Data Protection Agency;
  • Be notified of any security incident that may affect your rights;
  • Limitation of processing;
  • Portability.
By RQS Editorial Team

America is leading the way on the path to Legalisation. At present, the District of Columbia and 4 States (Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska) have legalised recreational marijuana use. A further 9 states (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota and California) have legalisation on the ballot this coming November. Of all of them, California just might be the state where legalisation becomes “too big to fail”. The potential to generate up to a billion dollars in tax revenue for the state, coupled with savings on law enforcement costs and incarcerating stoners running to a hundred million dollars as quoted in a report by CNBC 30/6/16, cannot be ignored, nor dismissed as hype from the pro-legalisation camp. After all, the widespread cultural acceptance of medicinal marijuana is owed to the power of influence the state of California possesses.

Once again a poignant moment is upon us. Legalisation of recreational weed in California will impact drugs policies across the globe. The US Federal Government will be compelled to fold on “the war on drugs” and those other thugs in the cartels will be forced out of the business because their swag just won’t be able to compete.

CALIFORNIA: CHANGING THE CANNABIS LANDSCAPE

“It really is the state that wags the tail of the nation, so if California’s 55 senators and representatives in congress were to be in favour of legalisation, then it would be a total dynamic change”- Allen St.Pierre Executive Director of NORML.

This is no understatement. 10% of the US population call California home and it’s an economic powerhouse, in fact it’s the 6th largest economy in the world having overtook France according to Fortune. California’s economy is an engine that runs on innovation. Think about it, between Silicon Valley and Hollywood they’ve secured dominant market positions in the tech industry an the entertainment industry, they’ve pretty much got the whole pie.

In 1996, California was a pioneer state legalising medicinal marijuana and twenty years later it’s poised to be the volcanic catalyst with the potential to initiate a tremendous chain reaction with repercussions for the legalisation movement across the globe. Should the forces of Satan somehow prevail and vote down proposition 64, the consequences will be grave for the legalisation movement. Such a defeat would not be a complete doomsday but it could set legalisation back years in other states, and unfortunately the contagion would be certain to spread across the continental divides to infect European and South American legalisation efforts and initiatives. Fortunately, we are confident proposition 64 will be vigorously supported and endorsed by a comfortable majority of West Coast stoners happy to pay a 15% sales tax for legal cannabis. The real question is what does legal mean California style?

CALIFORNIA: CHANGING THE CANNABIS LANDSCAPE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: A DEEPER ANALYSIS

If multiple viewings of the movie “Blow” and binge sessions of the Netflix’s series “Narcos” have taught us one thing, success in California is the fast lane route to international acceptance and boat loads of cash. These days, fat stacks of dollars are legally up for grabs, and according to the latest data from Arc View Market Research, by 2020 total sales of legal marijuana in the United States will be a staggering $21.8 Billion. That’s enormous and even bigger than the NFL. California is projected to make up $6.4 Billion, that’s a serious chunk of change.

This kind of money to shark financiers or Venture capitalists is the equivalent to a gold rush. Of course we are referring to the corporations that globalise everything they can get their greedy little hands on. A green rush is certainly on the cards, and if that’s how the chips fall then some will come to work the mines, while others will come to work the miners. We’re not so sure that this is the kind of model we would want to follow in Europe.

CONCLUSIONS: A GREEN FUTURE FOR CALI?

Two distinct business models are developing in the marijuana scene. The McDonalds franchise model and the association of small businesses model. The best example of the franchise model would be Diego Pellicer, a big player with aspirations to become the Star Bucks of the weed business.

Willie’s Reserve is the brand that best represents the growers turning ganjapreneurs. Essentially the brand is extended to one small company per state. The small company benefits from the brand recognition of association with the famous dope smoking musician and continues to cultivate organically. This model runs contrary to the fast cash-crop notion of the “agri-business”. Furthermore, the model is highly transferable and especially applicable for the EU with open free markets firmly in place for the movement of people and product.

Do you endeavour to avoid eating foods sprayed with toxic chemicals or otherwisely abused? Do you begrudgingly pay a little extra for the free-range burgers for the BBQ? Or would you rather save a few Euros and eat a horse burger? Err, again. These kinds of options and questions tend to crop up in free markets; the cannabis business could eventually become comparable with the supermarket business with room for multiple competing chains fighting for market share.

Eventually we will win and the “war on drugs” will be over. Marijuana will be legally available virtually everywhere. What will be the source of the product? Will it be high quality organics grown locally? Who will set the standards? Will Gordon Ramsay unleash a reign of terror against low rent dispensaries? Or will nobody be bothered and buying a pack of joints becomes akin to ordering a box of chicken nuggets? Nobody knows for certain.

The banking system or rather lack of access to the banking system has blighted the marijuana business in Colorado. Without access to banking facilities, dispensaries are forced into “cash only” sales, not only is this a security risk and unacceptable inconvenience, but it is actually a barrier to growth in an era of crypto currencies and cashless payments which are widely available on smart phones. If the California model is to succeed and come to be regarded as the industry gold standard it must be more functional and run smoother than all the others.

 photocredit: Rena Schild, Shutterstock and Joshua Rainey Photography, Shutterstock.com