Privacy Policy

Updated as of January 10th, 2023

Privilege Partners LLC (“We” or “eFinancialModels”) owns and operates the website eFinancialModels.com (the “Website”). This privacy policy has been created to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting our users’ privacy and complying with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The following policy discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices by our website. The Privacy Policy forms an integral part of the Terms of Use. By using our Website and by accepting our Terms of Use, the user (“User” or “You”) agrees to adhere to and accept this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or this Privacy Policy is not valid in your legal jurisdiction, you must not use our Website.

Except as set out below, we do not share, sell, or disclose any information collected through our Website to a third party.

1. Why do we collect information?

Personal information is required for the correct functioning of our Website. eFinancialModels collects user information for the following reasons:

  • Providing a personal user experience
  • Collect proper transaction records for tax and accounting purposes
  • Providing user access to personal information, purchase history, and purchased download products
  • Processing downloads and payments of user’s purchases
  • Continually enhancing the user’s experience on the Website
  • Keeping the User informed about new product updates, product recommendations, and other updates

2. What information do we collect?

We collect the following information:

a) Personal information:

  • Contact information, such as name, email address, phone number, physical address, and method of payment
  • Transactional information based on your activities on the sites (such as wish list, purchase history, etc.);
  • Any information which is provided to us through correspondence, emails, chats, dispute resolution, or shared by you from other social applications, services, or websites;
  • Information from your interaction with our sites, services, visited pages, content, and advertising, including, but not limited to, IP address, device ID, device type, language, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, and web log information.

b) Credit Card Information:

At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the Website of PayPal or any other reputable payment service provider. Credit Card information is not collected nor stored on eFinancialModels’ servers. Instead, we use professional and reputable third-party payment service providers to collect and store Credit Card data.

c) Cookies:

We use cookies that are necessary for the professional operation of the website and to enhance the user experience. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our page. We use cookies in the following ways:

  • To keep you signed in to our website and personalize the user experience
  • To identify technical or user interface problems to debug and/or improve our website
  • To track how users use our website
  • To record the conversation thread during a live chat with our support team

d) Server Log Files and Backups:

We use server log files to analyze trends, performance assessments, bug identification, and security reasons. Information collected contains information such as the requested URL, your IP address, Operating System and Browser, Geolocation, Language, Date, and Time of Access. We also regularly take backups from our system.

e) Other tracking information:

We may use from time to time other tracking technologies on a non-personal basis for improving or debugging our website.

3. How do we store your information?

We maintain control of your information but use external hosting and service providers. Therefore, your information may be transferred to and stored on servers from carefully selected and trustworthy service providers in Switzerland, the US, Europe, or other parts of the world.

We protect your information using professional technical and administrative security measures to prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration of data stored on our servers. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls, backups, data encryption, and access authorization controls.

4. How do we protect your information?

eFinancialModels aims to protect the private character of user data at all times and uses state-of-the-art security measures.

Our Website is fully encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption using generally accepted industry standards. Passwords are only stored in encrypted forms on our Website and are not visible to us.

We are using only reputable hosting and firewall providers to ensure that our security systems remain up to date at all times.

Your personal information is kept confidential with us. In case you purchase a model from a third-party vendor listed on our website and are reaching out for support, we reserve the right to forward your contact information for the purpose that you may receive better help through direct communication with the third-party vendor.

Furthermore, access to all personal information is limited to select team members only of our team protected through an appropriate system of required authorizations.

5. How do we use your Information?

By using our Website and Services, you give us your consent to use your information as stated in this policy. In case we require data for any other purpose, we will seek to obtain your additional permission.

We do not sell personal information to third parties and do our best to protect your personal information from unauthorized access.

We may use your information for transactional purposes, email communication, legal compliance, advertisements, in case of help by service providers, and in select other cases such as the following:

a) Transactional data is needed for the preparation of tax and accounting records as per applicable laws.

b) We disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Such information will only be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to the respective authorities if required.

c) We may disclose personal information to our service providers for reasons of receiving their technical assistance. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.

d) Email communications: We may send you a welcome email to verify your account and other transactional emails to ensure you receive the products you have ordered and that your comments and questions are addressed in an appropriate manner.

We may send you emails for product and service updates or on topics of relevance to our website.  All emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all email messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further email communication from us in case you wish to. You have the right to stop those emails at any time.

e) We may share aggregate user data with advertisers and third parties to allow a better user experience and provide a more targeted marketing approach to eventual advertisers.

f) We do not rent, sell, or share information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies for marketing purposes without your permission. We do not sell, rent or share our email lists with third parties, and we are committed to keeping our email and customer list confidential.

g) We may disclose your personal information upon a business transition; At the sale or transfer of our Website or part of its assets, your personal information may be among the items sold or transferred to a new owner of the Website.

6. Cookies

a) Cookies are pieces of data assigned by a web server that uniquely identify the browser on your PC. Cookies also enable our systems to gather information about your navigational patterns through the site. You have the option to disable cookies at any time through your browsers. We may also store your website activity in cookies which may be used by third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads based on your behavior on our Website.

b) The third-party vendors (e.g., Google Analytics) may receive and record non-personal information from cookies, server logs, and similar technology from your browser or mobile device, including your IP address. You may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.

c) If you access our Services with your login credentials from a social networking site (e.g., LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, or Twitter) or if you otherwise agree to associate your account with a social networking account, we may receive personal information about you from such social networking site, in accordance with the terms of use and privacy policy of the social networking site.

We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via other aspects of the Site. You are also subject to the social networking site’s terms of use and privacy policy. We use the OAuth (open authorization) protocol to enable us to access this information without collecting your password when you agree to allow another application to access your account information.

7. Personal Information

You may request access to your personal information we hold about you at any time on your profile page or by contacting us. Where we store the information you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, giving you access to edit your personal information via our Website or by emailing it to you).

You can update your information through your account profile settings at any time. If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete, or inaccurate, then you may simply update it. We will not charge for simply making the request or making any corrections to your personal information.

There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold. We may need to refuse access if granting access would

  • interfere with the privacy of other users or;
  • if such access would result in a breach of confidentiality,

If you wish us to withdraw the consent to use personal information, you can do this at any time. Please note, we can only delete the personal information if a data deletion request:

  • will not compromise the file and information consistency of our Website or shop system,
  • will not interfere with keeping proper transaction records that are needed for tax and accounting purposes.
  • can be executed on a best-effort basis.

Please note: We will not modify or change any backups for security purposes. Data deletion requests will be executed as well as we can, provided that the integrity of our website and shop system is maintained.

8. Laws

Our privacy policy has been prepared to comply with the laws of Switzerland and every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business, including the European Union Regions, under the GDPR Compliance Regulation. If you think this Privacy Policy fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, please get in touch with us, and for the time being, do not use our website until the Policy is compliant with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

9. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website.

10. Complaints

If you are not happy with our privacy policy or in case of any complaints, please don’t hesitate to contact us by email. Our address is hello [at] efinancialmodels.com.