Privacy Policy

We have been working hard on making an understandable and transparent privacy policy for Rita. Please reach out if there’s anything that is lacking clarity or you wish to improve.

Privacy Policy for Rita Personal Data

At Rita Personal Data BV, accessible at Ritapersonaldata.com, our main priority is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information that is collected and recorded by Rita Personal Data, how we use it and why.

Our mission at Rita is to put you at the centre of control over your personal data. This is why your data is stored on your local device (mobile phone).

Protect your Privacy

The only personal data that Rita collects are your encrypted login credentials, which are stored on our secure database.
Our App will NEVER
  • Share information with third-parties without your consent
  • Identify your close contacts
  • Save personal data without your consent
  • Save or store any of your Facebook or Google login credentials
  • Perform any action on your behalf other than the actions you request in the App (Get data, Delete data, Manage ads settings)

    • You choose

    We always give you the freedom of choice:
  • Which data you collect (Google, Facebook,...)
  • Who you share your data with (feature coming soon)
  • What information you store on Rita’s secure server (feature coming soon)

    • Privacy-by-design

    Private is private. We honestly care about your privacy. Rita App is designed with maximum protection of your privacy in mind. Here is how:
  • Your personal data is stored on your device by default.
  • Independent specialists were consulted to give feedback on the design of our systems. When designing and throughout development.
  • The data you collect is encrypted.
  • Our foundational principles of Privacy by design were regularly consulted when developing the App and making architectural choices.

    • What personal data does Rita store?

    We only store your login credentials, email and password (encrypted) and the date and time you create your account. These credentials are securely stored on our cloud partner, AWS.

    What anonymised data does leave the Rita App?

    List of companies shared with:
  • Purpose: Restrict Access Feature
  • We have built a database with email addresses of the Data Protection Officers of many companies. Our system needs to search for the company email in our database to support you in sending Right to be Forgotten requests to companies.

    • Location points Google:
  • Purpose: render your location into the Map
  • We use Google Maps API to visualise your location points.

    • Information about how the app is used:
  • Purpose: See if the app is working correctly and building a product you love.
  • We track how many apps are downloaded and updated, how many data sources are requested by users of the app, how many users use our “control panel” in the app.

    • Third party processing of your data

    Rita securely stores your data in an Postgres server provided by AWS located in AWS “Euro data center hub” Frankfurt, Germany.

    General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    Legally speaking we are the “Data Controller” of your information. This is because we have predefined how your data is processed in the app. And that makes us legally hold this status. However your personal data you collect from “sources” doesn’t leave your device without your explicit consent. If you wish your email address to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to withdraw consent.

    • Children's Information

    An important priority for us is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Rita Personal Data does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

    App Privacy Policy Only

    This privacy policy applies only to our Mobile App activities and is valid for visitors to our Mobile App. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via our website.

    Cookies

    In order to optimise your experience, Rita Personal Data website uses ‘cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. We use cookies to:
  • Understand how you use our website
  • Measure effectiveness of website changes
  • For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

    • Consent

    By using our App, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

    Changes to our privacy policy

    Rita Personal Data keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on the web page. This privacy policy was last updated on February 15 2021.

    How to contact us

    If you have any questions about Rita’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you or would exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Email: info@ritapersonaldata.com
    Phone: +32495387902
    Address: Van Trierstraat 40, 2018 Antwerpen