Cookie & Privacy Policy

This notice together with the terms of use at https://www.echohumans.com/ sets out the basis on which any personal data that is collected from you, or provided by you, will be processed by (Trading as) Echo Humans owner J. breward – Spain,

Please read the following carefully to understand the views and practices regarding your personal data and how Echo HUmans treat it.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation which replaces the Data Protection Regulation (Directive 95/46/EC) The Regulation aims to harmonise data protection legislation across EU member states, enhancing privacy rights for individuals and providing a strict framework within which commercial organisations can legally operate.

Your rights under the GDPR are set out in this notice.

For the purposes of data protection legislation in force, the data controller is J. Breward.

Data Protection Officer

J. Breward is the Data Protection Officer ("DPO") responsible for overseeing compliance with data protection regulations. You can contact the DPO at jayson@echohumans.com with any questions or concerns regarding your personal data.

Who Echo Humans Are and What They Do

Echo Humans is a digital advertising agency. Digital advertising agencies specialise in creating and executing online marketing campaigns. They leverage various online channels to reach target audiences and achieve marketing goals for their clients. These channels may include:

  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM): This involves optimising websites and content to rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) and potentially using pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on search engines like Google Ads.
  • Social Media Marketing (SMM): Developing and managing social media presence to engage with potential customers on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
  • Content Marketing: Creating and distributing valuable content (articles, videos, infographics) to attract and engage a target audience.
  • Display Advertising: Placing visual ads on websites and mobile apps frequented by the target audience.
  • SEO Optimisation: Researching industry keywords and Phrases, updating clients websites, meta data and assets, and other owned assets content, and profiles, like: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, with industry specific content.

You may have applied directly to Echo Humans or they may have found your details from a website, Google Business, linked-In or social networking site. Joma Agency collects information about you to carry out its core business and ancillary activities.

Information you give to Echo Humans or they collect about you

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on their site https://www.jomaagency.com (the site) or by corresponding with them by phone, e-mail or otherwise.
  • Information contained in your email shared fills. On occasion, this may include sensitive personal data 
  • Information you provide when you subscribe to their services, attend their events, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on the site, enter a survey and report a problem with the site.
  • If you contact Joma Agency, they may keep a record of correspondence.

Information Echo Humans obtains from other sources

This is information Echo Humans may obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, online business registration sites (Yelp etc), and personal recommendations. In this case, Joma Agency will inform you, sending you this privacy notice, within a maximum of 30 days of collecting the data of the fact they hold personal data about you, the source the personal data originates from and whether it came from publicly accessible sources, and for what purpose they intend to retain and process your data.

Echo Humans works closely with third parties including business partners, sub-contractors in technical, professional, payment and other services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies and professional advisors. Echo Humans may receive information about you from third parties for their marketing services and ancillary support services.

Call Recording

This privacy notice applies to telephone calls logged by hand to a database by Echo Humans. Such a call may contain personal data. Echo Humans use the logged notes of the calls to service the client properly. 

The call recordings may be shared with the following recipients:

  • Keep a record of what was discussed and agreed

We retain the calls for three months. This retention period will not apply to personal data involved in legal proceedings.

Purposes of the processing and the legal basis for the processing

Echo Humans may use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To provide you with information or services that you request from Echo Humans or which they feel may interest you.
  • To carry out the obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and Echo Humans. Where Echo Humans engages a person to work for them, there are other statutory obligations that must be compiled with including payroll, tax, social security, HMRC reporting requirements, and any other law or regulation.
  • They will in some circumstances rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent, if legally required. Examples of when consent may be the lawful basis for processing include permission to introduce you to a client.

Echo Humans Legitimate Business Interests

Joma Agency's legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your data is described below:

  • The use of personal data of their client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process.
  • In order to support their clients’ needs they require a database of client personal data containing historical information as well as current requirements.
  • To maintain, expand and develop Echo Humans business they need to record the personal data of prospective client contacts.

Consent

Should Echo Humans want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data they will request your consent orally, by email or by an online process for the specific activity they require consent for and record your response on their system. Where consent is the lawful basis for their processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this processing at any time.

Other Uses Echo Humans will make of your data:

  • notify you about changes to their service;
  • Echo Humans will use this information:
  • to administer the site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of their service when you choose to do so;
  • as part of their efforts to keep the site safe and secure;
  • to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising they serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of the site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

Disclosure of your information inside and outside of the EEA

Echo Humans will disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • They will send your personal information, including sensitive personal information.
  • Where they have retained your personal information to provide services, at the request of their client, such as reference, qualification and reference checking services or the verification or any data provided by you
  • In the event that they sell or buy any business or assets, in which case they will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If Echo Humans or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If JEcho Humans are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply their terms of use

Where Echo Humans store and process your data

The data that Echo Humans collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may be transferred to third parties outside of the EEA for the purpose of their recruitment services.

Where they have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Echo Humans asks you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although Echo Humans will do its best to protect your personal data, it cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once Echo Humans has received your information, they will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Retention of your data

Echo Humans understands its legal duty to retain accurate data and only retain personal data for as long as it needs it for its legitimate business interests and that you are happy for them to do so. Accordingly, Joma Agency has a data retention notice and runs data routines to remove data that they no longer have a legitimate business interest in maintaining.

Echo Humans does the following to try to ensure their data is accurate:

  • Before making an introduction, they check that they have accurate information about you
  • They keep in touch with you so you can let them know of changes to your data

The criteria Joma Agency will use to determine whether they should retain your personal data include:

  • the nature of the personal data;
  • its perceived accuracy;

Joma Agency's current retention notice is available upon request.

Website Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymised and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.