PRIVACY POLICY

The www.stradivarius.com website is an online shopping portal (hereinafter, the Portal or the Website) implemented by ITX MERKEN, B.V. (hereinafter, ITX MERKEN), a company belonging to the Inditex Group, and Carant Stradi Ltd. with legal code number C45129 and registered address in Malta (hereinafter, the Seller), uses the Portal as a sales channel of Stradivarius Products through e-commerce in Malta.

This Privacy Policy establishes the bases upon which the Seller and ITX MERKEN (hereinafter, We, Us or the Joint Data Controllers) process information through this Inditex Group Portal.

By using the Website or providing us your Personal Data through the Portal or by other available channels, you will be bound by the current Privacy Policy and you should review this text every time you use the Website to be sure you agree with it.

1. DATA COLLECTION AND PRINCIPAL PURPOSES OF PROCESSING:

We collect and process personal information about your person (hereinafter, Personal Data) when you use the Portal. Without limitation, this Personal Data include personal information that you submit when you sign-up to the Inditex Group Portal, navigate and/or make purchases through it. Such information includes your first name, last name, email address, phone number, delivery and billing address, signature (when collecting online purchases), voice (when calling us to the customer service), date of birth, age, gender, payment method of purchase, historic purchase information, user ID, and, your payment information.

If you do not provide us with the information requested, we may not be able to fulfil the applicable purpose of collection, such as to supply products to you.

We will process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

a) Registration as a user of the Inditex Group Portal: The Personal Data provided to us to register as a user of the Portal will be processed in order to identify you as a user of the Inditex Group Website and provide access to the different services and functions that are available to you as a registered user.

b) Purchases: The development, facilitation and performance of the purchase and sale contract of the products you have purchased to the Seller or of any other contract between both parties and related administrative and legal purposes.

Furthermore, we may use your data to contact you via e-mail, telephone calls or SMS to inform you about status of your order and another communications related to the services, including security updates of the Portal.

In the event that you provide us with third party information, you will be responsible for having informed and obtained their consent for this information to be provided for the purposes explained below. In the event of having purchased a product or gift card (hereafter, goods), third party information provided will be used only for (i) managing the delivery or verification of the receipt of the goods and (ii) attending to any query or request which you or the third party may have;

c) Storing Payment information: Should you choose the option of keeping your payment details and activate “quick shopping”, you expressly authorise us to process and store the data indicated as necessary for activation and development of this functionality. The Card-Verification-Value-Code (CVV) will only be used to make able the purchase in progress, and will not be stored or processed subsequently as part of your card´s data.

Giving us your consent to activate this functionality, allow your data to appear auto filled in subsequent purchases on this Website, so you will not need to enter the data in each new process, and such consent shall be valid and effective for subsequent purchases.

You can change your card´s data and revoke your consent for processing and storing these data at any time through My Account section – Cards/Payment Data. We store and transmit your card´s data according to the main standards of confidentiality and security of credit and debit cards.

When using this functionality, changing your password may be requested for security reasons. Remember that security, when using this website, also depends on the proper use and conservation of certain key/passwords.

d) Requests: In the case that you wish to ask any question, through the contact form available in the Inditex Group Portal, your Personal Data and contact details may be used by us in order to respond to your queries, including those related to the technical service of the Portal, operation of the same, doubts related to the orders, etc. For adequate management of your queries, it may be necessary for us to contact you through e-mail, telephone calls or SMS.

The user (You) hereby guarantees that the Personal Data provided are true and accurate and undertakes to notify us of any change or alteration of them. Any loss or damage caused to the Website or to the Inditex Group, the Seller or to any third person through the provision of erroneous, inexact or incomplete information on the registration form, will be the exclusive responsibility of the user.

2. SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NEWSLETTER

Subscription to our Newsletter may be voluntarily activated through the Inditex Group Portal by acceptance of the user.

If you give us your prior consent, ITX MERKEN will process your Personal Data for providing you with information about Stradivarius products, as well as from any other brands and/or companies that use the sales channels of the Inditex Group (with activities related to the sectors of decoration, textiles, finished clothing products and home decoration, as well as other complimentary sectors such as cosmetics or leather goods, and the development and support of electronic commercial activities), including, in relation to these products or services, the sending of commercial communications via email or any other equivalent electronic communication means (such as SMS) or through phone calls.

If you are a registered user, you can change your preferences relating to the sending of commercial communications through accessing My Account. You will only receive commercial electronic messages where you have consented, or as otherwise permitted by law. You can unsubscribe through the Newsletter section.

3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

To achieve the purposes indicated in the above sections, We may need to disclose or transfer the information that you have provided us with to the holding company of the Inditex Group [Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A., (Inditex, S.A.)] and to certain other entities that are part of the Inditex Group (with activities related to the above-mentioned sectors). You are hereby informed that by registering and providing us with information via this website, you are expressly giving us your authorization to disclose and/or transfer such data to the aforementioned companies of the Inditex Group. Also, in order to achieve the purposes indicated in sections 1.b) and 1.d), the Seller may need to disclose or transfer the information that you provided us to certain other entities that are part of the Seller´s Group. You are hereby informed that by registering and providing us with information via this website, you are expressly giving us your authorization to disclose and/or transfer such data to the aforementioned companies of the Seller´s Group.

Where strictly necessary, we may also disclose this information to subsidiaries and affiliates of Inditex, S.A., third-party processors, fulfilment centers, financial institutions or other third-party-service providers who help with our business operations (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, suppliers of technological services, financial transaction management, logistics services, transportation, order management and customer service, and / or analysis of the transactions made through the Website in order to provide our users with sufficient guarantees in purchasing transactions, etc.) or as necessary to process your purchases. By providing information in this Website or otherwise to Us, you expressly authorize us to disclose and process your information as described. Your consent to this access/disclosure includes those cases where, for efficiency of the provision of the services, providers may be located in the United States of America.

4. USER RIGHTS

You are entitled to exercise of your access, rectification, erasure and objection rights by sending an email to dataprotection@stradivarius.com indicating the subject "Stradivarius – Malta". If necessary, We may require that the request in question would be in a credible manner demonstrated by the applicant’s identity. Our aim is to ensure the maximum level of security and confidentiality. In the event you decide to exercise such rights please provide us with the email address to which the right of access, rectification, erasure and objection are being exercised.

5. INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

We use cookies in this Website, which are small text files with information on your navigation in this Portal, whose principal objective is to improve your navigation experience. You can find further information on the cookies that we use, their purpose and other information of interest in the following link: Cookies