Privacy Policy for Gadaamarket.com
Effective Date: September 29, 2025
Gadaamarket.com (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit and use our website, Gadaamarket.com (the “Website”), in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.gadaamarket.com
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
We collect and process the following types of personal data:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number. We collect this to communicate with you about your orders, inquiries, and to provide customer support.
- Account Information: Username, password. We use this to manage your user account on our Website.
- Transaction Information: Details about products or services you have purchased, payment details (processed securely by a third-party payment provider and not stored by us). We use this to process your orders and manage our business records.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, and other technical information when you visit our Website. We use this to improve our Website’s functionality, security, and to analyze traffic.
Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data
- We process your personal data under the following legal bases as defined by the GDPR:
- Consent: When you voluntarily provide your information for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to our newsletter). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Contractual Necessity: When the processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you (e.g., to process and ship your order).
- Legal Obligation: When we are required by law to process your data (e.g., for tax or accounting purposes).
- Legitimate Interests: When the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms (e.g., for fraud prevention, improving our services, and marketing).
How We Use Your Personal Data
- We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services.
- To process and fulfill your orders.
- To manage your account and provide customer support.
- To send you updates, newsletters, and promotional materials (only if you have consented).
- To improve our Website and services.
- To prevent fraudulent activities.
- To comply with our legal obligations.
Cookies
- We use cookies to enhance your experience on our Website. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. We use them to:
- Remember your preferences.
- Analyze Website traffic and usage patterns.
- Personalize content and advertisements.
- You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Sharing Your Personal Data
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We may share your data with the following categories of third parties for the purposes outlined above:
- Service Providers: We may use third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services (e.g., payment processors, shipping companies, IT service providers). These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may disclose your personal data to law enforcement, government agencies, or other third parties when required to do so by law, court order, or to protect our legal rights.
International Data Transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). In such cases, we will ensure that the data transfer is protected by appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The Right to Be Informed: You have the right to be informed about how we collect and use your personal data.
- The Right of Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you.
- The Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal data.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
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 and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:
Email: gadaaawsome@gmail.com
Address: Ethiopia, Finfinnee, Dire Dawa
Phone: [+251923223782] +251712859944
Complaints
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.