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Company Identification

Cotton Blends,Lda.
Rua do Paço Velho, nº 34
4750-850 Vila Frescaínha S. Pedro – Barcelos
Tel. +351 253191782 / +351 253191783
Fax: +351 253 099530
Web: cottonblends.pt
[email protected]

NIF /VAT  513 758 771
Permanent Certificate Access Code: 5418-7335-0543

PRIVACY POLICY – GENERAL TERMS

NEW GENERAL REGULATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA (RGDP)

On May 25, 2018, the new General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data – Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, which establishes the rules for the protection, treatment and free movement of personal data of natural persons and which applies directly to all entities that process such data in any Member State of the European Union, including Portugal.

The purpose of this communication is to inform you of the new rules applicable to the treatment of your personal data, the rights that you have, and to inform you of how you can directly and simply manage the respective consents.

In the scope and exclusively for the services we provide you, Cotton Blends, Lda. in so far as it determines the means of treatment and the purposes, is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal data and for ensuring the protection of your privacy, acting in accordance with the law and the new Regulation.

Entity responsible for the treatment:

Cotton Blends,Lda.
Rua do Paço Velho, nº 34
4750-850 Vila Frescaínha S. Pedro – Barcelos
Tel. +351 253191782 / +351 253191783
Fax: +351 253 099530

Address of the Data Protection Officer : [email protected]

Our records include data that has been obtained throughout the contractual relationship you have established with us and following the various interactions with Cotton Blends, Lda.

If you wish to keep your data and the information that Cotton Blends, Lda. have registered, you will not have to do anything.

In addition to the situations in which we treat data to comply with applicable legal requirements, we treat your data for the following purposes:

  • Provision of services – Whenever necessary, to provide you with our services, we treat your personal data.
  • Effects of promotional campaigns – Your personal data are also processed for the purpose of promotional campaigns, discounts or the dissemination of offers of goods or services of Cotton Blends, Lda. if you have authorized it. These communications are intended to inform you of news, promotions, campaigns and other opportunities that you may benefit from.

Cotton Blends,Lda.  will keep your personal data for the period necessary to provide the services, respective billing and compliance with applicable legal obligations.

Your personal data may be communicated to service providers of Cotton Blends, Lda. for the purpose of providing services, and to judicial, tax and regulatory authorities, for the purpose of complying with legal requirements.

At any time, you have the right to access your personal data, as well as, within the limits of the contract and the Regulation, to change them, oppose their treatment, decide on the automated treatment of them, withdraw consent and exercise (except for the data that are indispensable for the rendering of the services by Cotton Blends, Lda. therefore for mandatory supply, or for compliance with legal obligations to which Cotton Blends, Lda. is subject). If you withdraw your consent, this does not compromise the lawfulness of the treatment made up to that date. You have the right to be notified, under the terms of the Regulation, if there is a violation of your personal data, and you can submit complaints to the authority (s).

We guarantee all rights enshrined in the Regulation. To do so, from 25-05-2018 you can quickly, conveniently and safely access your Customer Area at cottonblends.pt and place your order there. In addition, you can make your request by sending a letter by regular mail, to the address of our headquarters available at cottonblends.pt.

We are committed to the protection and confidentiality of your personal data. We have taken the technical and organizational measures necessary to comply with the Regulation, ensuring that the processing of your personal data is lawful, fair, transparent and limited to the authorized purposes. We have adopted the measures we deem appropriate to ensure the accuracy, completeness and confidentiality of your personal data, as well as all other rights you may have.

Information Collection

When visiting the site, certain personal identification data (name and surname, address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) are likely to be requested.

This information allows us to manage the business, provide customer service, communicate offers about products that may be of interest to you, and fulfill your request.

You may voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information. If you do not wish to disclose your personally identifiable information, please do not provide it on this site. We may also collect your non-personally identifiable information when you visit the site (eg, your ISP, browser type, domain name, etc.). This information is collected and analyzed collectively in order to improve the functioning and content of the site.

comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, the data in the comments form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent, is saved to help with spam detection.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, the profile’s photo is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Multimedia

When uploading images to the site, you should avoid loading images with embedded geolocation data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract geolocation data from images from the site.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, pictures, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves as if the user were visiting those sites.

This site may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate third-party tracking, monitor your interactions with it, including registering interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged on to that site.

Cookies

Cookies are small amounts of information stored on computer hard drives. We may use cookies to recognize you when you return to the site to provide you with a better user experience. Our cookies do not contain personally identifiable information such as name or confidential information such as your credit card number. Network browsers typically allow you to delete cookies on your hard drive, block their use, and / or notify you when such cookies are discovered. If you choose to block them, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the features and functions of the site.

If you leave a comment on our site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not have to re-populate your data when leaving another comment. These cookies will last one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set up to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal information and will be deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, some cookies will be configured to save your session information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your session will persist for two weeks. At the end of the session, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal information only indicates the content ID of the article you just edited. Expires after 1 day.

Use of Information

We use information that is collected for various internal purposes, such as to confirm and complete your request; include it in our mailing list; analyze trends and statistics; improve the operation of the website, the content and the advertisements, and send information and promotion materials on the services Cotton Blends, Lda. and on the activities of the company. We may also disclose your information when required by law, court order or legal authority.

Child Protection

The site is a publicly accessible web page that is not developed or directed specifically to children. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personally identifiable information to children under the age of 16. However, when we detect that personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 has been made available on the site, we will use such information for the sole purpose of contacting the parents or guardian of the child to obtain their legal consent. If we can not obtain such consent after a reasonable period, or when the parent or guardian requests us not to maintain or retain such information, we will make every effort to delete this information in our records. At the request of the parent or guardian, we will provide a description of the specific types of personal information collected by children under the age of 16.

Security measures

Cotton Blends,Lda.  declares that it has implemented and will continue to implement the security measures of a technical and organizational nature necessary to ensure the security of the personal data provided to it in order to prevent unauthorized alteration, loss, processing and / or access, taking into account the current state of the technology, the nature of the data stored and the risks to which they are exposed.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information we receive is true, timely and secure. Unfortunately, we can not guarantee that the information transmitted over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we can not guarantee or respond for your complete security. Security is as important to us as to site users, so we will, where appropriate, adopt new technology developments designed to help ensure the accuracy and security of your personal information.

Cotton Blends,Lda.  guarantees the confidentiality of all the data provided by its customers, either in the register or in the process of buying or ordering products or services. The collection and processing of data takes place safely and prevents its loss or manipulation. All data will be entered on a Secure Server (128 bit SSL) that encrypts / encodes (transforms into a code). You can verify that your browser is secure if the lock symbol appears or if the address starts with https instead of http.

The personal data are treated with the level of protection legally required to guarantee their security and prevent unauthorized alteration, loss, treatment or access, taking into account the state of the technology, being the user aware and accepting that the measures of Internet security are not impregnable.

Cotton Blends, Lda., Whenever you access any personal data, undertakes to:

  • To store them by means of legally enforceable security measures of a technical and organizational nature that guarantee their security, thus avoiding unauthorized alteration, loss, processing or access, in accordance with the current state of technology, to nature of the data and the possible risks to which they are exposed;
  • Use the data exclusively for the purposes previously defined;
  • Make sure that the data are processed only by the workers whose intervention is necessary for the provision of the service and they are bound by the duty of secrecy and confidentiality. Should the information be disclosed to third parties, they should be required to keep the confidentiality in accordance with the provisions of this document.

Cessation of Personal Data

In order to comply with the purpose of this website, Cotton Blends, Lda. will transfer your personal data to other entities that will treat them for the following purposes:

Payment management and processing activities;

Provision of services contracted.

The entities to which Cotton Blends, Lda. will assign their personal data to treat them in the terms mentioned above will have the following nature:

  • Insurance companies;
  • Third parties related to the provision of services contracted;
  • Payment management and processing entities.

User Obligations

The user undertakes to make the appropriate use of the services and contents that the Cotton Blends, Lda. offers and does not apply to:

  • To carry out activities that are illegal or constitute a crime, contrary to good faith, morality and public order, to uses that and / or that infringe the regulation on intellectual and industrial property, or any other applicable Legal Order;
  • Disseminate content or propaganda of a racist, xenophobic, pornographic, apology to terrorism, or that violate human rights;
  • To introduce or disseminate in the network of data programs (viruses and harmful software) that may cause damage to the computer systems of Cotton Blends, Lda., Its suppliers, or third-party users of the Internet network;
  • To transmit unauthorized third parties the user’s name and passwords, and if their passwords come to the attention of an unauthorized user, he undertakes to immediately inform Cotton Blends, Lda., To which right to modify it for the protection of the service;
  • Make available to all users, send by mail and / or in any way transmit, any content that, according to the applicable provisions or existing contractual relations, the user is not authorized to transmit (such as inside information, information protected by industrial or intellectual property rights or information on which confidentiality must exist);
  • Transmit unsolicited or authorized advertising, advertising material or any other form of solicitation, except those areas (such as commercial spaces) that have been designed exclusively for such.

Likewise, users are expressly prohibited from reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, reselling or exporting for commercial purposes, any section of the service, use or access to it.

Limitation of Liability

Certain information included on the Cotton Blends, Lda. Website has been provided by the providers of the services offered on said site. Cotton Blends,Lda.  is not responsible for the veracity of the contents or errata that may derive from said information.

Within the website of Cotton Blends, Lda. Links may be made to other sites in respect of which Cotton Blends, Lda. is not responsible for the technical availability of the web pages to which the user access through its website.

The user assumes, under his / her sole responsibility, damages or losses that in any case may derive from access to said contents, as well as any other damage or damage caused to your computer system by any downloaded material or in any way obtained through the use of services or any loss of data derived from downloading said material.

Also, Cotton Blends, Lda. shall not be liable for damages or losses arising from infringements of any user affecting the rights of another user or third parties of copyright, trademarks, patents, confidential information and any other intellectual and industrial property rights.

Cotton Blends,Lda.  will not be liable for damages and losses caused in case of impossibility to provide the services subject to these general conditions of use, in case of force majeure, fortuitous event and other causes not attributable to it.

Cotton Blends,Lda.  will not be responsible for the inadequate use of the service as a result of maintenance work or a defective configuration of the user’s computer equipment or insufficient capacity to support the computer systems required for the use of the services offered.

Intellectual and Industrial Property

All contents and elements to which the user may access through the services offered by Cotton Blends, Lda. are subject to industrial and intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks and copyright of Cotton Blends, Lda. or third party holders thereof. Access to such content or elements through the services provided by Cotton Blends, Lda., Does not grant the user the right to change, modify, exploit or reproduce, distribute, publicly communicate or otherwise enjoy any right that corresponds to the right holder affected.

The customer undertakes to use the contents and / or elements that access through the services offered by Cotton Blends, Lda. for its own use and needs, and to not carry out in any case a direct or indirect commercial exploitation of the same.

Modifications in the Policy

This privacy policy is effective as of May 1, 2018. If we decide to change any of the resolutions of our privacy policy, we will inform you through an advertisement posted on the site itself.

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