Privacy Policy & Cookie Restriction

PRIVACY AND COOKIE STATEMENT

The proper handling of personal information is extremely important to us. We therefore take great care when processing and protecting your personal information. This is done in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Data Protection Act.

To ensure your privacy as far as possible, we adhere to the following core values:

  • Information. We wish to inform you about why and how we process personal information. This is described in our privacy and cookie statement.
  • Limited collection. We take great care to limit the information we collect to only that which is necessary for our services.
  • No personal marketing without prior consent. We will never share your personal information for marketing purposes without your express prior permission.
  • Security. We take the appropriate measures to secure your personal information and require the same from the parties that process your information on our behalf.
  • Right of access and correction. We respect your right to access, correct, or delete your personal information.

This privacy and cookie statement describes how we implement these core values and how we respect and protect your right to privacy. We strongly urge you to read this statement carefully.

This statement was last updated on 14 February 2016.

 

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We only store and use personal information that has been directly provided by you or information that is clearly intended to be processed by us upon provision.

We may obtain personal information in the following ways:

  • You can actively provide us with your personal details in our stores, when placing an online order, by e-mail, or by phone.
  • You can passively provide us with personal information, as our systems automatically register certain actions. When using our website, for example, your IP address is automatically saved in the web server logs, as is customary with almost all websites.
  • Other visitors to our website can enter your personal information in order to send you an e-mail about a product, for instance.

 

PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING

The personal information we collect is exclusively used for the following purposes:

  • to process your order
  • to generate statistics that help us to optimise our website and marketing policy
  • to create and send personalised offers with your prior consent
  • to meet our legal obligations

 

TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We can process the following personal information you provide:

  • name
  • date of birth
  • gender
  • address
  • e-mail address
  • phone number
  • payment details
  • IP address

 

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

In order to process your order and to ensure that our website is secure and up to date, we may share your personal information with third parties. We demand that all third parties handle your personal information with care and limit the disclosure of this information as much as possible.

We will not share your personal information with parties that are not directly involved in the execution of your contract unless you have given your express permission or we are required to do so by law.

 

SECURITY

We take the necessary security measures to limit unauthorised access to and misuse of your personal information. We back up our information to a secure location and strive to encrypt this information if feasible and useful. Our network connections are encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This coding system ensures that all information you send to our systems over the internet remains confidential.

Personal information is not stored for longer than is necessary for the execution of our contract with you, except in cases where the law directly prohibits the removal of said information.

 

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file sent along with pages from our website and stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. The information stored within this file can be sent back to our servers or those of a relevant third party on a subsequent visit.

We use cookies for various purposes. The third-party applications below all place cookies. We have no control over the type of information collected by these third parties or over the way this information is used. The cookies may contain information about your IP address, browser, or search history.

To provide you with the best possible information, we have listed the various application possibilities below. A distinction has been made between the various application functions.

Purpose

Applications

 

Social media interaction

AddThis
Facebook Connect

Facebook Social Plugins

Analyze and identify visitor behaviour

Demandware Analytics
eXelate

Google Analytics
Optimizely

Optimise website

Google Tag Manager

Visual Website Optimiser

Display and analyze advertisements

AdForm 
AdMeta AB
AdScale
AdTech
Androit Digital Solutions
AppNexus
Criteo
Digital Window
DoubleClick
Facebook Exchange
Google AdWords Conversion

Improve Digital
Internet BillBoard
Media Optimizer (Adobe)
MediaMath
PubMatic
Rubicon
SMART AdServer
Turn
Yahoo 
Yieldlab

 

PERMANENT COOKIES

Permanent cookies allow us to recognise you during subsequent visits to our website. This allows us to tailor the website to your preferences. Cookies also help us remember whether you have given us permission to place cookies. This means you do not have to update your cookie preference during each visit, which saves you time and creates a more pleasant user experience. You can delete permanent cookies in your browser settings.

 

SESSION COOKIES

Session cookies allow us to see which website components you viewed during your visit. This helps us tailor our services to the surfing behaviour of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

 

RIGHT TO ACCESS AND DELETE YOUR INFORMATION

You have the right to access, correct, and delete your personal information. See our contact information at the end of this privacy and cookie statement. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself. When accessing personal information linked to a cookie, we ask that you send a copy of the cookie in question. This can be found in your browser settings.

 

ENABLING, DISABLING, AND DELETING COOKIES

More information about enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or in the Help section of your browser.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY AND COOKIE STATEMENT

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy and cookie statement. To stay updated on the latest changes, we recommend consulting this statement regularly.