Data protection

Data protection

This Privacy Policy describes how www.sweaterdrip.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses and discloses your personal information when you visit the Site or make a purchase.

Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law nor contractually, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide it has no consequences. This only applies if no other information is provided during subsequent processing operations.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Disclosure for a business purpose: together with our data processor Shopify.

Order information Purpose of collection

Providing you with products or services to fulfill our contract, processing your payment information, arranging shipping and providing invoices and/or order confirmations, communicating with you, screening our orders for potential risk or fraud, and where this is in accordance with the preferences you have communicated to us agrees to provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

Server log files

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information.

Every time you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host/IT service provider through your Internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files). This stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR out of our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring trouble-free operation of our website and in improving our offering.

Disclosure of personal data

We share your personal information with service providers to assist us in providing our services and fulfilling our contracts with you, as described above. For example: We use Shopify to run our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your personal information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy . We may share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We also share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, which may be used by other Shopify merchants to make offers that may interest you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work . You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
Google – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads] Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by using the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out portal at https:// Visit optout.aboutads.info/ .

Your personal data will initially be processed in Ireland and then transferred outside of Ireland from Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information about how data transfers comply with GDPR, see Shopify's GDPR white paper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR .

Responsible person/data protection officer

Contact us if you wish. The contact details of the person responsible for data processing can be found in our legal notice.

You can reach our data protection officer directly at:

sweaterdrip@hotmail.com

Collection and processing when using the sample letter assistant

When you use our sample letter assistant, we only collect your personal data to the extent provided by you. The data processing serves to create the personalized sample letter and thus to provide the contractually agreed and requested service. Providing the data is required to use the service. Failure to provide the data means that the sample letter cannot be created in a personalized manner.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b GDPR to fulfill the contract.

We use the data provided exclusively to create the selected sample letter. Your data will not be saved after the sample letter has been created and displayed, but will be deleted immediately.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on a user's computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie can be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is accessed again.

Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them and prevent the storage of the cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can find out how you can manage cookies in the most important browsers (including deactivating them) using the links below:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-allow-and-reject
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Technically necessary cookies

Unless otherwise stated in the data protection declaration below, we only use these technically necessary cookies for the purpose of making our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies also enable our systems to recognize your browser even after you change pages and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For this it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change. You can find more information about this under the following link. https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies] .

The use of cookies or comparable technologies is based on Section 25 Paragraph 2 TTDSG. Your personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of our offering. You have the right to object to this processing of personal data concerning you at any time for reasons relating to your particular situation.

Use of Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses technologies such as cookies, web storage in the browser and web beacons that enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated in this way about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. There is no adequacy decision from the EU Commission for the USA. The data transfer takes place, among other things, on the basis of standard contractual clauses as appropriate guarantees for the protection of personal data, which can be viewed at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks . Both Google and US government authorities have access to your data. Your data may be linked by Google with other data, such as your search history, your personal accounts, your usage data from other devices and any other data that Google has about you.

IP anonymization is activated on this website. As a result, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

The use of cookies or comparable technologies takes place with your consent on the basis of Section 25 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR. The processing of your personal data takes place with your consent on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on your consent before its revocation.

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/ as well as under https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=de.

Duration of storage

The data will be stored in accordance with statutory retention periods and then deleted after the deadline has expired, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Rights of the data subject

If the legal requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights in accordance with Articles 15 to 20 of the GDPR: right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data portability.

In addition, according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 f GDPR, as well as to processing for the purpose of direct advertising.

Right to object

If the personal data processing listed here is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with future effect for reasons arising from your particular situation.

After an objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

last updated: September 16, 2022