privacy policy

Privacy policy

In the following, you will be informed about which technical, but also personal data is collected from you as a user of the saltybluespots website (during your visit and/or your order) and for what purpose it is used.

Responsibility of data processing

The data processing of this website is carried out by the website operator in accordance with the imprint.

Do you have questions about data protection? Then get in touch with us at hello@saltybluespots.com

General note

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled to protection of his or her privacy and protection against misuse of his or her personal data. Saltybluespots takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. Your personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy. By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description.

Saltybluespots points out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Collection of data on the website

The data collected can be divided into two types: Non-personal, mostly technical data and personal data. If you merely visit the saltybluespots website, you do not have to disclose any personal data. When you visit the website, however, access data such as pages called up or the name of the file called up, date and time are automatically collected and stored on the server for statistical purposes, without these data being directly related to your person. Personal data, are data with which you can be personally identified, for example: Name, address or e-mail address. These are collected on a voluntary basis (e.g. during the ordering process) and are only information that you provide to saltybluespots.

Processing of personal data

Personal data is only collected and used by saltybluespots if this is legally permitted or if you consent to the collection of data. As a rule, you can see which data is stored, for example name, e-mail address and message when using the order form.

The personal data provided for the purpose of ordering goods (such as name, e-mail address, postal address, payment data) will be used by saltybluespots to fulfil and process the contract.

Hosting Provider of the Online Shop

In cooperation with the hosting provider, saltybluespots strives to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or forgery. The saltybluespots online shop uses the platform Shopify Inc. ("Shopify"). Therefore, when you place an order in this Online Shop, you agree to the storage and processing of your personal data by Shopify. For this purpose, your personal data will be transferred to the Shopify data centre in the United States and processed. This storage and processing of data is done for the purposes of supporting and processing your order, authentication, payment processing, and improving Shopify's services. For more information about Shopify's terms of use and privacy policy, please visit: http://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Forwarding of data to third parties

As a matter of principle, saltybluespots will not pass on personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the passing on of data or saltybluespots is entitled or obliged to pass on data due to legal regulations or official or court orders (e.g. criminal prosecution). Under certain circumstances, saltybluespots may also transfer your data to commissioned service partners or other third parties if this is necessary for the performance of services. If the latter is the case, the service partner will be checked and, if necessary, contractually obliged to apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data and rights.

Currency conversion

By using our website, you (the visitor) agree to allow third parties to process your IP address, in order to determine your location for the purpose of currency conversion. You also agree to have that currency stored in a session cookie in your browser (a temporary cookie which gets automatically removed when you close your browser). We do this in order for the selected currency to remain selected and consistent when browsing our website so that the prices can convert to your (the visitor) local currency.

Contact

There are several places on this website where you have the opportunity to contact saltybluespots directly (e.g. by sending an e-mail or using the contact form). By sending this form you agree to the processing and storage of this data. Your details from the e-mail or contact form, including the data you enter there, will be stored by saltybluespots for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not give this data without your consent.

Newsletter

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on this website, saltybluespots requires your e-mail address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected. saltybluespots uses these data exclusively for sending the requested information and does not pass them on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data, your e-mail address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.

Cookies

The saltybluespots website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific information relating to the user on the user's terminal device while he or she is using the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the pages, to analyse the behaviour of page use, but also to make the offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored at the end of a browser session and can be retrieved when the user revisits the site. If you do not want this, you should set your internet browser to refuse to accept cookies. Please note that not all functions of the online offer can be used then.

Google AdWords

The saltybluespots website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have reached the saltybluespots website via an ad placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad served by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages on our site as a user and the cookie hasn't expired, saltybluespots and Google may recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to that page. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked on the website of an AdWords customer. Customers will know the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you may refuse to accept cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, such as turning off automatic cookie submission or setting your browser to block cookies from the "googleleadservices.com" domain. Please note that not all functions of the online offer can be used then.

Google Analytics

The saltybluespots website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies. These are small text files which make it possible to store specific information relating to the user on the user's end device. These enable an analysis of the use of the website offer by Google. The information collected by the cookie about the use of this website (including your IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). If anonymisation is active, Google will shorten IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which means that no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google observes the data protection regulations of the "Privacy Shield" agreement and is registered with the "Privacy Shield" program of the US Department of Commerce and uses the collected information to evaluate the use of this website, to write reports for saltybluespots in this regard and to provide other relevant services to saltybluespots. You can learn more about this at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

If you wish to deactivate Google Analytics, please use the browser plugin provided by Google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

External payment service providers

This website uses external payment service providers through whose platforms you as a user can carry out payment transactions together with saltybluespots. For example via

PostFinance (https://www.postfinance.ch/de/detail/rechtliches-barrierefreiheit.html)
Visa (https://www.visa.de/nutzungsbedingungen/visa-privacy-center.html)
Mastercard (https://www.mastercard.ch/de-ch/datenschutz.html)
American Express (https://www.americanexpress.com/de/content/privacy-policy-statement.html)
Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full)
Apple Pay (https://support.apple.com/de-ch/ht203027)
Stripe (https://stripe.com/ch/privacy)
etc.

Within the framework of the performance of contracts, saltybluespots shall use the payment service providers on the basis of the Swiss Data Protection Ordinance and, where necessary, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. EU-DSGVO. Furthermore, saltybluespots uses external payment service providers on the basis of the legitimate interests in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Ordinance and, if necessary, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. EU-DSGVO in order to offer you as a user an effective and secure payment options.

The data processed by the payment service providers include inventory data, such as name and address, bank data, such as account or credit card numbers, passwords, TANs and checksums, as well as contract, sum and recipient related data. These details are required to carry out the transactions. However, the data entered is only processed by the payment service providers and stored by them. saltybluespots as operator does not receive any information about (bank) account or credit card, but only information to confirm (accept) or reject the payment. Under certain circumstances, the data may be transmitted by the payment service providers to credit inquiry agencies. The purpose of this transmission is to check identity and creditworthiness. In this regard we refer to the general terms and conditions and data protection information of the payment service providers.

For payment transactions, the terms and conditions and data protection information of the respective payment service providers apply, which can be accessed within the respective website or transaction applications. We also refer to them for further information and the assertion of rights of revocation, information and other rights of affected persons.

Social media

Facebook

The saltybluespots website integrates functions from Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you access our pages with Facebook plugins, a connection is established between your browser and the Facebook servers. In the process, data is transferred to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. Interactions, especially using a comment function or clicking a "Like" or "Share" button are also transferred to Facebook. If you do not want this to happen, please log out of Facebook and avoid using the Facebook logo or the "like" button.

We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data, nor of its use by Facebook. You can find further information on this at https://facebook.com/about/privacy

Instagram

On the saltybluespots website functions of the Instagram service are integrated. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, clicking the Instagram button will link our content to yours. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to the saltybluespots website with your account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data, nor of its use by Instagram. For more information, please see Instagram's privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Your rights

You have the right at any time to find out what personal data saltybluespots stores about you. You also have the right to correct incomplete or incorrect data and to delete or block the data. Furthermore, you have the right to restrict processing (Art. 18 DSGVO), a right to object to processing (Art. 21 DSGVO) and the right to data transferability (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact saltybluespots directly via the contact details in the imprint.

Changes

This privacy policy can be changed at any time without prior notice. The current version published on this website at the time of the website visit and/or at the time of the order applies.