We are committed to the  protection of personal data we process. Below you’ll find the Privacy Policy, which guides how we collect, use, transfer and store the information that you provide us with or that we collect about you when interacting with 4SeasonsDesignShop. The following information is provided by 4SeasonsDesignShop to show how we comply with applicable rules and regulations such as GDPR and to help keep you fully informed about your rights. By visiting 4SeasonsDesignShop.com, you accept and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

To whom does this Privacy Policy apply?
This Privacy Policy applies to all persons whose personal data are processed by 4SeasonsDesignShop:

• Visitors to the exhibition(s) of 4SeasonsDesignShop website;
• Recipients of newsletters and emails sent by 4SeasonsDesignShop to
  visitors of our exhibitions and/or website;
• All other persons who contact 4SeasonsDesignShop or of whom 4SeasonsDesignShop processes personal data.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to partners, employees, secondees, student interns and applicants.

What personal data do we process?
We process personal data you have provided to us, personal data generated during your visit to our exhibitions and/or our website and when reading newsletters and emails sent by us to visitors of our exhibitions. We also process personal data we have obtained from other sources such as Social Media platforms.

Potential personal data we collect:

• Name, email address and/or your photo when you visit our exhibitions and make use of the technologies we offer to you to receive information about our goods and services
• Personal data obtained through or generated on our website, newsletters, commercial emails or related technologies:
• Your IP address
• Your browsing behaviour on the website such as information on your first visit, previous visit and current visit, the visited pages and the manner in which you navigate on the website;
• Whether you open a newsletter of email and what sections you select.

Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For certain sites on the 4SeasonsDesignShop website, registering or supplying personal information sets such a cookie. By setting this cookie, 4SeasonsDesignShop will remember your details the next time you visit our website, so you do not have to re-enter the information.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent at any time you would like. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website. Cookies can be easily disabled or erased from within your web browser settings.

What do we use your personal data for?
We use your personal data for the following purposes:

1. Maintaining contact with the visitors of our exhibitions and website.
Your contact details and photo will be recorded in our system and can be used to send you updates related to 4SeasonsDesignShop goods and services.

2. Creating a personalized service offering tailored to your needs and behaviors.
We believe it is important to approach you with information that is relevant to you. We combine and analyze the personal data in our possession to do this. We correspondingly determine what information and channels are relevant and what the best times to provide information or to establish contact are. We do not process any special personal data or confidential information for marketing campaigns. We will need to ask your prior permission if we want to create a personal, individual profile. You can always withdraw this permission at a later time.

3. Improving and securing our website 4SeasonsDesignShop.com
Preparing user statistics; The user statistics of the website enable us to get an idea of the number of visitors, the duration of the visits, what sections of the website are visited and the click-behavior. These are generic reports without any information about individual persons. We use the collected information to improve the website.

Legal grounds for the processing
We process personal data based on one of the following legal grounds:

• Approval
• In relation to a legitimate interest
  A data administrator may only process personal data if this can be based on one of the exhaustive legal grounds laid down in the General Data Protection Decree. The legal grounds used are:

Approval
You will always have the right to withdraw any permission you have given us to process your personal data. To do so, please fill out the form on our Contact Page.

Legitimate interest
We may also process your personal data if we have a legitimate interest and do not disproportionately infringe on your privacy. We may, for example, use your contact details to invite you to future events based on your attendance of previous events.

Processors and sharing of personal data
We may hire service providers (processors) for the processing of your personal data which solely process your personal data based on our instructions. We will conclude a processor agreement with these processors which meets the requirements laid down in the General Data Protection Decree. We, for example, hire IT service providers that provide support to the safe and stable operation of our systems. We also make use of third-party services to send newsletters and emails. These are examples of parties that can be considered processors within the meaning of the General Data Protection Decree.

If a court ruling requires us to share personal data with third parties, we will need to comply with this.

NOTE: Your personal data will not be shared with third parties for commercial purposes.

Retention of your personal data
We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was obtained. Personal data will be retained for the purposes of communication with you in relation to the goods and services that we offer. In order to comply with the records retention requirements applicable to us all your personal data will be kept for a period of no longer than 3 years.

Questions about your personal data
Each person can pursuant to the law exercise certain rights in relation to their personal data. You have the right to access, correct and remove your personal data. You can also object to the use of your personal data or request to limit their use. In certain cases, you can request your data and transfer them to another party. If you have any questions, please fill out the form on our Contact Page.

How to opt out
If you wish to opt out from or revoke your consent to any communication, clear, enable or disable cookies or tracking we’ve collected, please fill out the form on our Contact Page.

Amendments to the Privacy Statement
Developments in changes are taking place rapidly and things may change in the personal data requested from you and the manner in which we use them. Regulations may also be amended. If this is the case, we will change this Privacy Statement. Please regularly check our