Privacy Policy

Last updated May 01, 2019

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at TheUniSocks (“company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info @theunisocks.com

When you visit our website https:// theunisocks.com , and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our services.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as https:// theunisocks.com ), and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the “Sites“).

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. 

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? 

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us such as name, address, contact information, passwords and security data, payment information, and social media login data.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering at the Sites expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities on the Sites  or otherwise contacting us.

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:

Name and Contact Data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.

Credentials. We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.

Payment Data. We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processor and you should review its privacy policies and contact the payment processor directly to respond to your questions.

Social Media Login Data. We provide you with the option to register using social media account details, like your Facebook, Twitter or other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect the Information described in the section called “HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS” below.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Sites.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Sites. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Sites and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Sites, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

Information collected from other sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources. 

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), as well as from other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include: social media profile information (your name, gender, birthday, email, current city, state and country, user identification numbers for your contacts, profile picture URL and any other information that you choose to make public); marketing leads and search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).

  1. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? 

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests (“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you (“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

  • To facilitate account creation and logon process.If you choose to link your account with us to a third party account *(such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process. See the section below headed “HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS” for further information.
  • To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS” below).
  • Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Sites.
  • To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user’s consent.
  • For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing and your experience.
  1. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? 

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.    We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
  • Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
  • Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Sites, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Sites over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
  • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  1. WHO WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH? In Short: We only share information with the following third parties.    We only share and disclose your information with the following third parties. We have categorized each party so that you may easily understand the purpose of our data collection and processing practices. If we have processed your data based on your consent and you wish to revoke your consent, please contact us.
  • Content Optimisation 
    Google Fonts
  • Data Backup and Security
    Google Drive Backup
  • Invoice and BillingPaypal
  • User Account Registration and Authentication
    Facebook Login, Google OAuth 2.0 and Google Sign-In
  • Web and Mobile Analytics
    Google Analytics
    When you call up our website, the web analysis service Google Analytics is loaded for statistical evaluation of the use of the website. This service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. When the website is used, the cookies generate information that is transmitted to and stored by Google. By using the “anonymizeIp()” extension, we ensure that Google Analytics only transmits a shortened version of your IP address to Google. You may refuse the use of cookies, which are stored on your device and allow an analysis of the use of the website by you, prohibit.
    The use of Google Analytics is for purposes of economic optimization and the needs-based design of our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 paras. 1 letter f DS-GVO. In addition, we have concluded a contract with Google for order processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
    Your IP address is collected by us in order to enable the shortening and then transmission to Google. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, the use of our website is possible without the provision. You can prevent the provision of this personal data by installing the AddOn under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
    Further information on Google Analytics can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/de_ALL/analytics. You can find Google’s data protection declaration at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
  1. Google Analytics Remarketing
    Google Remarketing services are integrated into our website. The service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. This technology is used to re-address users who have visited this site through targeted advertising on the pages of the Google Partner Network. The integration of Google Remarketing thus allows us to create user-targeted advertising and display interest-relevant advertising to the Internet user.
    Google Remarketing places a cookie on the visitor’s terminal. When the cookie is set, Google is able to recognize the visitor to this website when he or she subsequently visits Internet pages that are also members of the Google advertising network. Each time a website is called up on which Google Remarketing services have been integrated, the Internet browser of the person concerned automatically identifies itself to Google. As part of this technical process, Google obtains knowledge of personal data, e.g. IP address, surfing behavior, etc., which Google uses, among other things, to display advertisements relevant to your interests.
    The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the Internet pages visited by the person concerned. Accordingly, each time the Internet pages are visited, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the person concerned, is transferred to Google and stored there.
    This personal data is processed for the purpose of optimizing our offers and individualized advertising. This is also our legitimate interest, which is why processing is permitted under Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f DS-GVO.
    If you do not wish to participate in the tracking procedure, you can also refuse to set a cookie as required for this purpose – for example by setting your browser so that the automatic setting of cookies is generally deactivated.
    For more information and to review Google’s privacy policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.
  2. Contact form / Email contact
    If you use the contact forms (e.g. for easy contact, to become a partner, to get a support overview, to contact Enterprise or to request an answer on our website or write us an e-mail, we will process the personal data you provide there. This information is transmitted by your browser or e-mail client and stored in our information technology systems. The processing of this personal data is necessary for answering your request. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of the contact request are stored when you write us an e-mail. The data processing serves the purpose of answering your inquiry and to prevent misuse of the contact form and to guarantee the security of our information technology systems. These processing operations are legal because the reply to your request and the protection of our information technology systems represent legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 subs. 1 f) GDPR. The personal data will be stored for as long as it is necessary to answer your inquiry. Should your inquiry lead to a later conclusion of the contract, it will be stored as long as this is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures or to fulfill the contract. Thereafter, the personal data is routinely deleted. We do not combine this personal data with other data sources. Data will not be passed on to third parties. A transfer to a third country or to an international organization is not intended. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but it is not possible to use the contact forms or send an e-mail without providing it.
  3. Facebook Pixel
    We use Facebook Products such as Facebook Pixel in order to better understanding our users’ needs and optimize this service and experience. Please check Facebook Legal Pages Privacy | CookiesAdChoicesTerms

            5.Yandex Metrica service The Yandex Metrics service uses the “cookie” technology – small text files placed on the user’s computer in order to analyze their user activity.
The information collected by the cookie cannot identify you, but it can help us improve our site. Information about the use of this site by you, collected with the help of a cookie, will be transferred to Yandex and stored on the Yandex server in the EU and the Russian Federation. Yandex will process this information to evaluate the use of your site, compiling reports on the activities of our site, and providing other services. Yandex processes this information in the order established in the conditions of using the Yandex Metrica service.
You can opt-out of using cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in the browser. Also, you can use the tool – https://yandex.ru/support/metrika/general/opt-out.html. However, this can affect the operation of some functions of the site. By using this site, you agree to the processing of data about you by Yandex in the manner and purposes indicated above.

  • 5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

            In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.   We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.

  • 6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS? 

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our websites using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.   Our Sites offer you the ability to register and login using your third party social media account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile Information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, e-mail address, friends list, profile picture as well as other information you choose to make public.   We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on the Sites. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy policy to understand how they collect, use and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

  • 7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? 

           In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.   We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

  • HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? 

       In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.  We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

  • WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? 

In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time. In some regions (like the European Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please use the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.  If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal. If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

  • Contact us using the contact information provided.
  • Log into your account settings and update your user account.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.

Cookies and similar technologies:  Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Sites visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account. To otherwise opt-out, you may:

  • Contact us using the contact information provided.
  • Note your preferences when you register an account with the site.
  • Access your account settings and update preferences.
  • CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES 

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

  • 11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.   California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.  If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Sites, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Sites. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Sites, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

  • 12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?

In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

  • 13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at info @ theunisocks.com