Introduction

AAAA x Co-Makers Studio is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with applicable data protection laws. When we write “you”, we mean you as our customer, website visitor or other relevant third party such as the contact persons of a company or other organisation we are doing business with and the like. The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how we collect and use your personal data as well as how you can exercise your rights.

From where do we collect your personal data?

We may collect personal data from you when you, correspond with us by post, email or telephone, create an account for the subscription service on our website or request information from us. We may also automatically collect technical and usage data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns when you interact with our website. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

Some of the personal data we hold about you may be collected elsewhere than directly from you, such as from a credit reference agency, a regulatory authority or other publicly available databases.

If you do not provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to fulfil our obligations to you or respond to your requests, thereby preventing us from providing you with the highest level of service possible. We may also be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as our reporting requirements).

What information do we collect?

The categories of personal data about you that we may collect, store and use include:

general information and contact details, such as name, gender, personal identity number, phone number, email address, address and other contact details;

financial information, such as bank information, credit information and payment history;

marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, user account details to our subscription service, correspondence data when contacting customer service and other communication/subscription preferences;

technical data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website; and

usage data such as information about how you use our website and shopping history.

How do we use your personal data?

We may use your personal data to:

administer and fulfil our contractual and legal obligations to you or the company you represent;

comply with our legal and reporting obligations, such as warranty claims, book keeping regulations and reporting to tax authorities as well as other supervisory authorities;

respond to your inquires and requests; and

establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Processing of your personal data not based on a legal or contractual requirement will be based on our legitimate interests to:

provide you with marketing communications and other publications (by post or by email or SMS or similar technology) relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you such as general information and newsletters;

use data analytics to study how visitors use our website and to improve our website; and

manage our everyday business needs.

We will use automated decision making when using credit as a payment method in order to evaluate your credit rating. You may express your opinion and eventually contest to the decision by contacting us (please see contact details at the end of this privacy policy).

We may use profiling in order to provide you with customised marketing offers.

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

To whom do we disclose your personal data?

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

to our service providers who may only process the personal data on our behalf;

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings; and

in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.

How do we protect your personal data?

We will take adequate security measures to prevent any accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

How long do we save your personal data?

We will only save your personal data as long as necessary in order for us to achieve the purpose it was collected for or as required in order to comply with any mandatory retention periods under applicable law.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

What are your rights?

1. Right to access your data

You may instruct us to provide you a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information is generally free of charge but may under certain circumstances be subject to the payment of a fee.

2. Correction, deletion and objection

You may request us to correct any incorrect information we have about you as well as to delete any information that is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected and/or to object to our processing of your personal data. However, certain legal obligations may prevent us from immediately deleting certain information.

3. Recall your consent

If we process any of your personal data based on your consent, you may recall your consent at any time.

4. Opt-out from marketing

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes, including profiling analysis made for direct marketing purposes. In practice, you will usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, and/or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes. You can also manage your subscriptions instruct us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time.

5. Lodging complaints

You may lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority at any time if you are of the opinion that we process your personal data in breach of applicable data protection laws.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in your web browser on your computer, mobile or other handheld device, while you are browsing a website. Cookies may be used to store your passwords and user ID’s, preferences of start pages, ordering status on a website, personalisation or website tracking (eg targeted marketing). The information stored in a cookie may later be read from your browser in order to –among other functions- deliver a page tailored to you or to automatically log in. Personal information can only be stored in a cookie if you yourself have provided the website that places the cookie with that personal information.

Use of cookies

Cookies allow you to make full use of the online shopping and personalised features available on this website. Cookies also help us to provide you with the best shopping experience possible by giving us information which we use to improve the usability and the performance of this website. Furthermore, we use tracking pixels in our email newsletters to track clicks back to our website. AAAA x Co-Makers Studio uses cookies on this website for the following main purposes:

for technical purposes essential for the operation of this website, such as keeping track of your current shopping session and enabling you to proceed to checkout and pay for products;

to distinguish you from other users of this website, so we can personalise your shopping experience by making this website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and so we can remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the country you are in) when you return to visit this website;

to collect statistical information about the number of visitors that use our website through the link in the email newsletters, to measure the success of the newsletters;

to collect statistical information about how visitors use this website, so we can improve the way this website works and measure the success of competitions and campaigns;

to enable us to fulfill our contractual obligations to third parties, for example to pay a partner if you have made a purchase on this website by following a link from their website; and to make relevant offers to you outside of the AAAA x Co-Makers Studio website.

Social media plugins are plugins that enable you to ‘share’ content with friends through social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter or similar service providers. We do not control the setting of these cookies.  If you are a user of the services of any of those service providers and would like to know more about what kind of data may be collected through such social plugins and how such data may be used by the respective service provider, please check the privacy policy of that service provider:

Instagram: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Pinterest: http://about.pinterest.com/privacy/

How to change your cookie settings

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, cookies will be set when you continue to access this website. By using and browsing this website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, you can refuse consent for the placement of cookies by changing your browser settings. How to do this will depend on the browser you use. However, if you do this, it may happen that you will be unable to make use of all options on our website. You may also adjust your browser in such a way that you will be notified if a cookie is placed on your computer. Please bear in mind that certain cookies are needed for the website to be able to run.

SSL

To help ensure that your shopping experience is safe, simple and secure Atelier Autodidacts Anti-Algorithms (AAAA) uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This encrypts and protects the data you send to us over the internet. If SSL is enabled then you will see a padlock at the top of your browser and you can click on this to find out information about the SSL digital certificate registration.

You will also notice that when you look at the location (URL) field at the top of the browser you will see it begin with ‘https:’ instead of the normal ‘http:’. This means that you are in secure mode.

Payment

We accept Ideal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Maestro credit and debit cards.

AAAA x Co-Makers Studio and other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy does not cover the links within our website lining to other third party websites and we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other third party websites.

Adjustments

This privacy statement may be changed as a result of any adjustments and/or changes to the website. It is therefore advisable to consult this privacy statement on a regular basis.

Contact

If you have any questions on the AAAA x Co-Makers Studio privacy policy, please contact AAAA x Co-Makers Studio at hello@aaaacoop.com.

Version April 2024