Privacy policy
At SHOETHEBEAR.US ("SHOE THE BEAR" or "we") data protection and confidentiality is a high priority. This privacy policy sets out clear guidelines for how SHOE THE BEAR processes your personal data. Further, we explain how we use the personal data that you leave and/or provide when you visit our website and use the various services on the website.
Data controller and contact information
This website is operated and owned by:
WODEN A/S
Balticagade 12A
8000 Aarhus
Denmark
CVR-no.: 32281478
+45 38 40 04 44
online@shoethebear.com
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
You will always be informed in connection with collection of personal data about you. The personal data collected by us may include, for instance, your name, your email address, and similar identification data, information about an online purchase and about your navigation on the website.
In connection with the submission of your data it will always be stated whether the submission is voluntary or necessary for completing the desired action, such as the completion of a transaction in our web shop.
Your personal data is collected in one or several of below cases:
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When you buy goods online at shoethebear.us
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When you sign up for SHOE THE BEAR’s newsletter
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When you create a client account at shoethebear.us
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When you sign up for SHOE THE BEAR’s VIP customer club/loyalty club
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When you participate in one of SHOE THE BEAR’s competitions
If you use your email address in more than one of the above cases, your personal data will only be collected and registered in one place. This way your information is already stored when you shop at www.shoethebear.us, and you will not receive the same marketing material from SHOE THE BEAR more than once.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal data is collected and will be used in connection with:
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Completion of orders in our web shop
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Sign-ups for newsletter
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Management of customer club/loyalty club
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Management of user accounts/profiles
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Participation in competitions and/or other events
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Send-outs of other marketing material, including invitations to events and allocation of discount codes
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Collection and evaluation of consumer reviews
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Overview of purchase history
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Statistics
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Other marketing initiatives
Please note, that we will only use your personal data to send marketing material if you prior have given your explicit consent, unless legislation allows us to contact you without your prior consent.
SHOE THE BEAR keeps statistics about which areas of the site our users visit and which products the users prefer. This data does not contain personal data. Knowledge about the users’ use of the website is gained with help from the collected data. This information is used to improve the website. We do use data about how our users navigate, to better understand how our users use the www.shoethebear.us and from that we try to improve the website. We are not able to see where you come from or where you are going on the internet after you leave our site. Furthermore, we collect information about what products our users, as a unit, prefers. This information is also used to improve the website. We do not sell or otherwise disclose information about how our user navigate and use our website. We do not sell or disclose information about your purchase history to third party.
TRANSFER TO OTHER DATA CONTROLLERS
In general, we do not transfer your personal data to a third party without your consent. However, information that is used for delivery of goods will be transferred to the shipping company used by SHOE THE BEAR.
Under specific circumstances and with reference to legislation, it might be necessary to transfer information to public authorities or the police. For example, information may be disclosed to the police in case of suspicion of credit card fraud.
In the case of a re-organization, full or partial sale of the company, any disclosure in such connection will be in accordance with current legislation for the processing of personal data.
DISCLOSURE TO DATA PROCESSORS
Your personal data is disclosed to partners of SHOE THE BEAR who deliver services on behalf of SHOE THE BEAR, for example in relation to send-outs of newsletters. These partners only process the personal data on behalf of SHOE THE BEAR and in accordance with the instructions of SHOE THE BEAR.
We will delete your personal data when we no longer need to process them in relation to one or more of the purposes set out above in section 4. However, the data may be processed and stored for a longer period in anonymised form.
We have implemented security measures to ensure that our internal procedures meet our high security policy standards. Accordingly, we strive to protect the quality and integrity of your personal data.
You are at any time entitled to be informed of the personal data about you that we process, but with certain legislative exceptions. You also have the right to object to the collection and further processing of your personal data including profiling/automated decision-making. Furthermore, you have the right to have your personal data rectified, erased or blocked. Moreover, you have the right to receive information about you that you have provided to us, and the right to have this information transmitted to another data controller (data portability).
SUBSCRIPTION TO NEWSLETTER
If you have approved your subscription to the SHOE THE BEAR newsletter, we will provide you with information about our products and services via email. Subscription to the SHOE THE BEAR news email may involve the use of personal information to make customised advertising related to our products and services available to you by email. In order to improve the service we provide, we inform you that personal information related to your purchases in our online store, tastes and preferences can be used for analysis, user profile creation, marketing surveys, quality research and improvement of our customer interaction. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the information we provide every time we send a news email.
PRIVACY RIGHTS
The data controller undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal information and to guarantee that you can exercise your rights. You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and objection by sending an email to: online@shoethebear.com, which indicates the reason for your request. If you decide to exercise these rights and if any of the personal information you provided was your email address, we ask that you indicate this circumstance in your written request and enter the email address from which you wish to exercise your rights to access, rectification, cancellation and opposition.
WITHDRWAL OF CONSENT
You may, at any time, withdraw any consent you have given, and we will delete your personal data, unless we can continue the processing based on another purpose. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at online@shoethebear.com or call us on +45 38 40 04 44
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES ETC.
Our website may contain links to other websites or to integrated sites. We are not responsible for the contents of the websites of other companies or for the practices of such companies regarding the collection of personal data. When you visit other websites, you should read the owners' policies on the protection of personal data and other relevant policies.
AMENDMENT OF DATA ETC.
If you want us to update, amend or delete the personal data that we have recorded about you, wish to get access to the data being processed about you, or if you have any questions concerning the above guidelines, you may contact us at online@shoethebear.com or call us on +45 38 40 04 44. You may also write to us at the following address:
WODEN
BALTICAGADE 12A
8000 AARHUS
DENMARK
If you wish to appeal against the processing of your personal data, please contact us by email, telephone or letter as indicated in section 14 above. You may also contact the Data Protection Agency, Borgergade 28, 5., 1300 Copenhagen K.
