Privacy Policy

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HABA Asia Limited is the subsidiary of HABA Sales GmbH & Co. KG

Last updated: 02/01/2021

1. General information on data processing

   We, HABA Sales GmbH & Co. KG, August-Grosch-Str. 28-38, 96476 Bad Rodach (hereinafter referred to as HABA), are responsible for processing your data pursuant to s. 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when you visit our website.
   
   If you have any questions regarding data privacy, you can reach our Data Protection Officer by post: HABA Sales GmbH & Co. KG, Data Protection (Datenschutz) Postfach 1150, 96473 Bad Rodach, or by email: internet@haba.de with the subject: Data Protection (Datenschutz)
   
   The following policy gives you an overview of how we guarantee the protection of your data under GDPR. In particular, we would like to explain to you as a visitor to our website what kind of data we collect, why we collect this data, how we use this data, and how you can at any time determine how your personal data is handled. When you contact us by post, email, or via a contact form, the data you communicate is saved by us in order to be able to respond to your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or we restrict pro-cessing if legal retention requirements exist. The legal basis is Art. 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1 point a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

    

2. What data is stored, and for what purpose?

   HABA will collect and use your personal data for the processing of orders with either mandatory fields in our online shop or questions for telephone orders. The following information is required:

   Gender, name; date of birth, address, and email address.

   Other information is optional. In order to be able to handle and ship your order, we share your data to the delivery service which handles shipment. We may also share your payment data with our bank. The legal basis for this is s. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR.
   
   You may optionally create a customer account, which we use to store your data for later purchases. When you create an account under "My Account", the information you provide is revocably stored.The legal basis for this is s. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR.
   
   HABA may also process the data you have provided in order to inform you by mail regarding other interesting products from our entire portfolio, in accordance with s. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, or send you emails with technical information about our webshop.
   
   HABA also offers other services such as wish lists, birthday specials, surprise packages, etc. that you can use, if interested. For this purpose it is sometimes nec-essary to provide other personal data in order to provide your desired service. Your data must sometimes be shared with our carefully selected service providers in order to provide these services. HABA currently offers the following services:

   • Sending of a newsletter with current offers
   • Shipping of press releases
   • Registration as a My HABA user
   • Participation in other promotions
   • Participation in sweepstakes
   • Personalization of your product orders (for example, the name of your child printed on or with the gift)
   • Spare Parts Service

   If our service providers or partners have their headquarters in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will notify you of this circumstance in the description of the offer.
   
   If you later decide that you no longer want to use our services, you can object to the data processing at any time with future effect. To do this, send a message to internet@haba.de or by post to HABA Sales GmbH & Co. KG, Data Protection (Datenschutz), Postfach 11050, 96473 Bad Rodach.
   
   Child data - Our website is not intended for persons under the age of 16 years, and we ask that persons under 16 years of age please abstain from providing us with any personal data.  Such data may only be provided by the legal guardian or with the guardian's consent. If we learn that we have unlawfully collected the personal data of a child under 16 years of age, we will initiate steps for the quickest possible deletion of this data.

    

3. What are cookies?

   Our website uses so-called cookies at several places. Cookies help to make our offerings more user-friendly, effective, and secure.
   
   A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your browser when you surf on our website. A cookie can only contain information that we send to your end device itself – private data cannot be read. We have no access to your personal information, but we can identify your browser using cookies.

   We use cookies for the following purposes:

   • In order to recognize you on future visits so that we can display your desired preferences in your shopping basket (language, delivery country, user name).
   • To enable you to use other specific services: for example, display of the page in your language, personalization of our website, etc.
   • To make it easier to customize our website to meet the needs of our customers.

   We use "persistent" cookies: this means that you only need to enter your user name once on websites requiring login.  "Persistent" cookies can be manually removed by the user. "Persistent" cookies are stored by us for 3,000 days. We also use cookies for displaying advertisements. These cookies are stored for no longer than two years. After that, they are automatically deleted.
   
   Most browsers automatically accept cookies. The help function in the menu bar of most web browsers explains how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to ensure that your browser notifies you when you receive a new cookie, as well as how you can disable all received cookies. If you disable cookies, certain features on our website may not be available, and some webpages may not be displayed properly. The websites youronlinechoices.com and meine-cookies.org inform you about usage-based and behaviour-based online advertising and how to avoid it.

4. Sharing Personal Information

   We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

   We use Shopify to power 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.

5. Behavioral Advertising

   As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

   We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

   We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

   We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to buyers who made purchases with other Shopify merchants and who may also be interested in what we have to offer. We also share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants may make offers you may be interested in.

   For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“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 visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.