Privacy Policy
1. Ownership
The website and applications hosted at https://www.rhaebus.com and https://www.rhaebus.nl (and all of its subdomains) are operated by and property of Equine Instruments B.V., whose office is situated at Bisschopssteeg 605, Utrecht - The Netherlands. Proper operation of these platforms is supported by the collection and use of the personal information of its users. In this document, we will attempt to inform you of our policies regarding this information. By using this website and its services, you implicitly agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance to the policies described in this document.
2. Data Collection
Demographics
Throughout your usage of our products and services, we might collect information that can be used to contact or identify you. These demographic assets may include, but are not limited to your first and last name, sex, age, nationality and email address.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are stored on the computer of a website’s visitor. They are often used to identify individuals who are logged in, or to identify individuals as they navigate through the website.
In the case of our products and services, we use cookies to log you in, keep track of you as you navigate through our websites and keep track of what language you prefer the webpages to be presented in. The duration of these cookies last anywhere from a single session to one year.
We also employ cookies to analyse the website traffic using Google Analytics. This may help us to improve our designs and tailor it to individual needs. We will only use this information for statistical and design analysis in order to improve our services towards our users.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to properly use our website and might experience strange and undesirable behaviour.
Third Party Data
If you provide us with data that was initially collected by third parties such as Google or Facebook, we may choose to collect this data in accordance to the privacy policies of those third parties.
Rhaebus Data
Any information that is collected by the Rhaebus smartphone applications can be synchronized and backed up on the Equine Instruments B.V. webservers. This means that your training data is not only stored on the internal memory of your smartphone, but also securely backed up on our webservers.
3. Data Usage
Distribution
During the lifetime of our products, anonymous data about the way people train and treat their horses might be collected from its users. This data may subsequently be sold to third parties after having been stripped from all personal information. Such parties include but are not limited to universities and sportsfederations, in order to fascilitate activities such as for example scientific or marketing research.
Communications
In the future, we might use the collected personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, but only if you have explicitly told us to do so.
4. Security
Communications
For secure communication between two end-systems, this website employs Secured Socket Layer (SSL), which is an encrypted communications protocol. This means that all communication will be encrypted before being sent over the internet to its destination. This prevents intruders who intercept the data to make any sense of what it actually means, keeping your private data safe.
Storage
All of the information that is collected about an individual is encrypted before stored in the databases. This means that even if a malicious individual finds a means of stealing data, he or she will not be able to make any sense of what it actually means, keeping your private data even safer.
5. Other Websites
As a part of the services provided by our products, we can present you with a number of links to other local and international organisations and agencies. Once referred, you will no longer be subject to the privacy policy of Equine Instruments B.V., but rather the policies of the data controller of the new site.
6. Data Subject Rights
We feel that, as a user of our products and services, you should remain in control of the personal data that we have collected about you. You are entitled to examine all of the data that is held about you by this company, granted we feel that the request is genuine. Should you decide to no longer be in agreement with this privacy policy, or any of its future modifications, you may at any time exercise your right to demand the removal of any data that can be used to identify you.
You can request the examination or removal of data using the contact information at the bottom of this document. Do keep in mind, however, that we can make no guarantees about the timespan in which this removal or examination will take place. The examination or removal of data can also be subject to a small administration fee, depending on how many requests we receive during that timespan.
If you feel that any information we are storing of you is incorrect or incomplete, you can let us know using the contact information at the bottom of this document. We will promptly correct any information that we have found to be incorrect.
7. Policy Changes
This privacy policy came in to effect at 28/11/2015 and will remain in effect until the liquidation of the company. Any potential changes to this policy will come in to effect immediately after being updated on this webpage.
We reserve the right to update or change this privacy policy at any time and you are advised to check this policy at regular intervals. Your continued use of our websites, products and services after these updates constitute your acknowledgment of these changes and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified privacy policy.
Any major changes regarding this privacy policy will be brought to your attention via the email address that you have provided us with.
8. Contact Information
Any questions, comments or suggestions that you have regarding this privacy policy, which may contribute to a better quality of service are welcome and greatly appreciated. You can address these questions, comments or suggestions to info@rhaebus.com.