Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information when you visit or engage with Healy World Facebook Pages. We collect and use your personal data to have active communication with you, respond to inquiries, improve our Facebook presence, and generate content to meet your needs. We take the protection of your personal data seriously and follow the relevant data protection laws.

1. Data Controller(s)

Healy World B.V. is the controller for handling your data as outlined in Article 24 of the GDPR. Further, Healy World B.V. and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Hereafter referred to as Facebook) are joint controllers in accordance with Art. 26 (1) GDPR, the corresponding agreement shall apply:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Contact details
Healy International B.V. Address: Paterswoldseweg 806, 9728 Groningen The Netherlands Contact: privacy@healy.world ‘Healy World’	Meta Platforms Ireland Limited 4 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Harbour Dublin 2, Irland Contact: https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970 ‘Facebook’

To learn more about why Facebook collects data, how they process and use it, and how to protect your privacy on Facebook, please refer to their privacy guidelines at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy

2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

2.1 Types of Data collected

The subject of data protection is personal data. This is information according to Art. 4 of the GDPR, which refers to information that can directly or indirectly identify a person, such as a person’s name or identification number.

Healy World maintains various Facebook pages, including at https://www.facebook.com/groups/healyworldmembersdach/?locale=de_DE.

These pages allow us to actively communicate with our customers and members and respond to inquiries. In this context, we collect and process personal data as described below.

If you engage with our Facebook pages or content, we collect and process the information you provide to Facebook. This includes publicly disclosed information such as: your name; username; profile photo, as well as any actions like: liking; sharing; commenting or posting other content. Please keep in mind that this information is visible to everyone worldwide, based on your account settings on your Facebook pages.

We may also process additional information to respond to inquiries or direct messages (such as questions, suggestions, comments, or other notifications) you send us through our Facebook pages.

Additionally, if you share publicly disclosed information on your profile, we may process that data, if we have a legitimate interest in doing so, such as to ensure compliance with the Rules of Conduct, corporate guidelines, rules, and applicable laws.

Additionally, when you visit Facebook or interact with our pages or content, Facebook collects and processes your personal data according to their own privacy policy. To learn more about why Facebook collects data, how they process and use it, and how to protect your privacy on Facebook, please refer to their privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

We will describe additional categories of personal data we process in the context of this Privacy Statement in paragraph 3: Further collection and use of your data.

2.2 Purpose of processing and a legal basis

We process your personal data on the basis of consent you have issued (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). This is done in accordance with the specific consent you provided and for the purposes explained in that consent.

We process your personal data in order to preserve our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) for the following purposes:

• To have active communications with our members and customers;
• To handle and respond to inquiries or direct messages you send us (such as questions, suggestions, comments, or other notifications);
• To ensure compliance with the Compliance Rules of Conduct, corporate guidelines and rules, and applicable laws;
• To manage and improve our presence on Facebook;
• To improve our offerings, including the design of our Facebook pages and content, so that they better meet your needs;

We will process this data unless your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms (especially in protecting your personal information) outweigh our legitimate interests described above.

3. Further collection and use of your data

3.1 Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your computer by your internet browser. When you visit one of our Facebook pages, Facebook receives your device’s IP address. Even if you’re not registered on Facebook, they may collect certain information when you visit their site, like browser or device details. These data might be combined across different platforms and services operated by the same company. For example, both Facebook and Instagram are operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. You can control the use of cookies through your browser’s privacy settings.

If you’re logged into your Facebook account while visiting our Facebook page, a cookie with your Facebook ID may be on your device. This allows Facebook to track your visit to our page and how you use it. Facebook may use this information to show you personalized content or ads. You can adjust your ad settings in your Facebook account by going to: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/ads.

For more details about cookies, please visit Facebook’s cookies policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/

3.2 Insights function

We are responsible with Facebook for processing so-called page insights on our Facebook page. Facebook uses these insights to analyse the activity on our page and provides us with anonymous information. For this purpose, we have concluded an agreement with Facebook about joint controllership under GDPR which you can visit at the following link:  https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Facebook has agreed to be primarily responsible, and fulfil your rights, under the EU General Data protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the processing of Page Insights data.

To assert your rights in relation to the processing of Insights data (Art. 26 para. 3 GDPR) you can forward all relevant information within a maximum of seven calendar days by submitting the following form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/308592359910928

We use the page insights function to manage and improve our Facebook presence and offerings. This includes designing our Facebook pages and content to meet the needs of our users. We use the aggregated data from insights to make our page more appealing to users, such as planning content and timing of posts. The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f of the GDPR, which refers to our legitimate interest in optimizing our offers and presence on Facebook.

The insight function provides us with information about page actions like views, interactions, follows, likes, recommendations, shares and comments. It also includes information about the action, and the browser or app used, such as date and time, country/city, language, age/gender group, website previously visited website, as well as the Facebook User ID.

4. Consequences of potentially not providing data

The provision of personal data is not required by law or contract. In case of non-provision, processing requests you have made is not possible.

5.    Data Erasure and retention period

We will keep your information as long as necessary for the purpose or then is required by law. Healy World may also retain your data until the statutory limitation periods have expired, if this is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If you don’t want us to process your data as described in the future, you can unlink your user profile from our Facebook page by using the “Unlike this Page” and/or “Unfollow this Page” functions.

For information about how Facebook deletes and retains data, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy (under the section ‘How Long do we keep your information for?’)

6. Data transfers to third party countries

To meet our legitimate interests, such as processing requests and improving our Facebook pages, we may transfer your personal data to Healy World branches located outside the European Area (known as “third party countries”). We will process these data unless your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms outweigh our legitimate interests.

When we transfer your data, we take measures to ensure a reasonable level of data protection. This includes establishing joint controllership agreements with our Healy World branches and using standard contract clauses approved by the EU Commission. These clauses provide a suitable guarantee for data transfers to third party countries, as required by Article 46(2)(c) of the GDPR. We always prioritize the protection of your privacy rights and will not transfer your data to third party countries if the level of data protection is not equivalent to that under the GDPR.

Your personal data may also be shared with other Facebook companies. This may involve transferring personal data to the United States or other third party countries outside the European Economic Area. To ensure a reasonable level of data protection under the GDPR, Facebook, according to their own statements, uses standard contract clauses approved by the EU Commission. These clauses serve as an appropriate guarantee for data transfers to third party countries, as outlined in Article 46(2)(c) of the GDPR.

7. Your rights as a data subject

You can assert requests for information or other questions regarding your rights, which are listed at the end of this Privacy Policy, in relation to Healy World over privacy@healy.world; in relation to Facebook by visiting following link: https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

To assert your rights in relation to the processing of Insights data (Art. 26 para. 3 GDPR) you can forward all relevant information within a maximum of seven calendar days by submitting the following form: https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

7.1 Right to logde a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, especially in the Member State where you are domiciled or where you have your work place or where the suspected violation has occurred if you are of the view that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

7.2 Your rights

You can have the following rights under Chapter 3 of the GDPR:

• Right to information, Art. 15 GDPR
• Right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR
• Right to erasure (“Right to be forgotten”), Art. 17 GDPR
• Right to restrict processing, Art. 18 GDPR
• Right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR
• Right to object, Art. 21 GDPR

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in July 2023.