Privacy Policy
1) INTRODUCTION
TIMIO B.V. cares about your privacy. We protect and only process your data that we need for (improving) our services. We never sell or trade mailing lists with other companies and businesses (third parties) for commercial purposes. This privacy policy applies to the use of the website and services provided by TIMIO B.V.
2) WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
We collect information about you when you
- register an account with us
- subscribe to our mailing list
- place an order
- complete one of our customer surveys
- get in touch with us
- participate in one of our competitions
The collected information is limited to your name, contact details, date of birth, gender, payment information, contact history, purchase history, device and survey responses.
3) HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
The information we collect about you is used to:
- process your order
- process returns or refunds
- manage your account
- provide customer service and support
- prevent and detect fraud
- provide product and content recommendations
- monitor and improve our website
- monitor and improve our marketing communications
- run promotions, surveys or campaigns
- set default options for our site (including language and currency)
- notify you of any changes to our service
We will only use the absolute necessary information required to deliver these services to you, and will only offer additional services, such as delivering marketing correspondence, with your explicit permission.
Any information collected is only kept as long as necessary, meaning usually as long as it takes for us to provide our promised service to you, or as otherwise required by the law.
4) SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party. However, there will be times when we need to share your personal data with third parties in order to provide our services to you. These parties will be limited to:
- companies within the TIMIO B.V. group
- business partners, suppliers or sub-contractors who assist us with the delivery of our services
- Paypal Services
- professional service providers, such as marketing agencies, who help us tailor our communications and operations to your needs
- Agents and advisors we use
- Mailchimp
- fraud prevention agencies, law enforcement and regulatory bodies who help us keep our services to you safe and secure
- other companies which you have given explicit information for us to share your information with
We may share your data with third parties. Before doing so, we will ask for your explicit consent to share data which can personally identify you. In all other cases, we will ensure your data is anonymised and that none of this information allows third parties to identify you.
5) MARKETING
When you sign up to receive our newsletters, we collect personal information about you. This information is used for a couple of reasons: to keep you informed about things you have specifically have asked us about, to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information, to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you are happy and satisfied.
We do not sell or trade mailing lists with other organisations and businesses for commercial purposes. We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletters. And in order to monitor and improve our communications to you, we gather statistics around email openings and clicks using industry standard technologies.
From time to time, we will also send out surveys using a third-party provider called Typeform. The data collected in Typeform is collected to help run promotions, surveys or campaigns. For more information, please see MailChimp's privacy notices. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.
6) HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION STORED AND PROCESSED?
All information you provide to us is stored securely and we encrypt any payments made for heightened security. In addition, we use appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, altered, disclosed or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. All employees, agents and third parties are upheld to a duty of confidentiality. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for commercial purposes.
7) ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete your personal information that we hold. To access your information, simply email your request to TIMIO B.V. by using our contact form. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, we will respond to your request within 30 days.
8) YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights related to your personal information:
- to be informed about the usage of your personal data
- to access the personal information we hold about you
- to request correction of any inaccurate personal information we hold about you
- to request the deletion of your data
- to request stop processing or collecting your data
- to withdraw consent for any consent-based processing at any time
- to request that we transfer all or some of your data to you or another service provider
9) COOKIES
When you visit the website, various data is collected to provide you with an optimal service. These small pieces of information are stored in form of cookies on your computer by your browser. TIMIO B.V. uses the following cookies:
Necessary cookies: These cookies that are necessary to the operation of our website. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site and make purchases. Blocking these cookies may prohibit the website from operating properly.
Analytics cookies: These are cookies which allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site, and how each visitor navigates it. The data from these cookies helps us to monitor and improve our user experience by identifying the challenges users of our site are facing.
Customer preference cookies: These are cookies which recognise you when you return to our website. These cookies enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies: These are cookies which record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. The information gathered from these cookies allows us to personalise the advertising displayed on our website to your interests.
You have the right to delete any cookies that are already on your device. To do this, simply follow the instructions from the “help” section of your specific browser. Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site.
10) OTHER WEBSITES
Our website contains links to other websites which are not protected under the same privacy rules. When visiting external websites, we recommend you read their own individual privacy policies.
11) CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1 June 2018.
12) HOW TO CONTACT US
Please contact us by using our contact form if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you.