Aktiv Kultur is committed to protecting the Personal Data of the Users of our Services that are available through our Website. This policy describes our data protection practices and how we use and collect the Personal Data. Our processing of your Personal Data is needed for us to deliver the service to you. We may also process your Personal Data in order to comply with our legal obligations as explained below or due to our legitimate interests.

1. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We will collect Personal Data from you in the following circumstances:

When you create an Account and/or place an Order; we will collect your first and last name, E-mail address, postal address, phone number, password, payment information, such as your credit card or PayPal Account information, drafts of product designs that you save under your Account, Content that you choose to save under your user Account, communications and correspondence sent to and from your Account, information about purchasing habits and preferences, Order histories, and/or Account histories.

When you invite others to use the Platform; we may collect the date and time of the invite and to what e-mail addresses the invite was sent.

When you invite others to share your design library and related Content; we may collect the e-mail addresses and other information that you provide about the invitees.

When you contact us regarding products or orders, or for Customer Support or other customer service purposes; we may collect your name, e-mail address, phone number, and any communications from you to us.

If you chose to save the names and postal or mailing addresses of any contacts under your Account; (where the feature is offered), we may collect such names and addresses.

When you create or design products: We may collect any images, text, logos or other Content that you upload or submit, including information related to or included within such Content, such as the names, phone numbers and positions of individuals to whom the Content is related.

Automatically collected information; We receive and store certain types of information through technology whenever you interact with us, some which may contain Personal Data such as Cookies, Pixel Tags and Information collected by our servers. You will have a possibility to opt out of us collecting this data. Please see further information in our Cookie Policy.

2. PURPOSE AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA:

We use your Personal Data, including your Content, for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with the Services and to evaluate, modify and enhance the Services

  • To enable you to set up your Account and to process and fulfill your Order

  • To process your payment, facilitate billing and issue invoices, as applicable

  • To communicate with you and to respond to your requests

  • To provide you with customer service and support

  • For corporate Account management purposes

  • To help keep our Website safe and secure and to improve the Website.

We use Automatic Information to administer the Website and track user activities on the Website. We will create anonymous data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use such Anonymous Data records to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the Content of the Services and improve Website navigation.

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We disclose your Personal Data as described below. No Personal Data provided by you or that we may obtain automatically by your use of the Website, is not and will not be sold, rented, or shared by us with any third party without your prior consent.

Transfer and Storage of Personal Data
Your Personal Data will be transmitted, uploaded, transferred, stored, or backed up at Aktiv Kultur’s servers with our GDPR compliant cloud providers in the United States and Europe.

Members of our group
We may share your Personal Data with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries in Order to perform our Services to you.

Third Party Service Providers
We will share your Personal Data with third party companies and individuals that perform Services on our behalf to help us provide the Platform and Services to you. In Order to fulfill your print Order in the most environmentally friendly way, we let the printer closest to the address of delivery print your products. This may mean a transfer of your personal data out of EU. Other examples of Services that may be provided by Third Party Service Providers may include, but are not limited to, processing credit card payments with our payment provider in EU, providing customer service by our suppliers in EU and the Philippines, and maintaining our customer lists by our service providers in EU. Third Party Service Providers acting on our behalf are only provided with such Personal Data reasonably required to provide the particular service for which they are retained. Our Third-Party Service Providers are obligated to keep all of your Personal Data confidential and to collect, use and disclose your Personal Data only to the extent necessary to provide the Services on our behalf. They are fully compliant to the EU GDPR regulation and have signed a Data Processing Agreement with Aktiv Kultur.

Third Party Payment Processor
For online payments, we use the payment Services of Stripe Aktiv Kultur does not process, record or maintain your credit card or bank Account information. Aktiv Kultur records the payment method you have chosen.

Business Transfers
We may share some or all of your Personal Data in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, Personal Data may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the Personal Data that we have collected and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. The company may need your consent to continue handling your data.

Compliance with Law, Court Order, and Other Disclosures
You hereby acknowledge and agree that Aktiv Kultur may, in its sole discretion, release Account and other Personal Data when we believe such release is appropriate: (a) to comply with an applicable law, statute, regulation, Court Order, or administrative proceeding; (b) in connection with any legal investigation; (c) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use; or (d) to protect the rights, property, or safety of Aktiv Kultur, our users, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Third Party Sites
The Website may contain links to third party Websites, e.g Dropbox, or third-party Websites may otherwise be associated with the Website. These companies are GDPR compliant and Aktiv Kultur has signed a Data Processing Agreement with them, but is not responsible for the policies and practices employed by the owners of such third party Websites, including but not limited to their collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data, nor does Aktiv Kultur offer any (and expressly disclaims any) guarantee, representation, warranty, or covenant of any kind with respect to the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data by any third party Website that is linked from (or is otherwise associated with) the Website. Please consult the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party Websites prior to use.

Security of Your Personal Data
We employ security safeguards to protect your Personal Data against loss or theft, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. When we transmit highly confidential information over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption technology, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. We also protect your stored password through the use of encryption technology.

International Data Transfers Privacy Shield and Contractual Terms
Aktiv Kultur will transfer personal data to countries outside of EU due to our business model with printing locally and due to suppliers’ premises being outside of EU.

  • When Personal Data is transferred to the U.S, we can verify that our Printers or Third parties have signed our Data Processing Agreement and are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield framework or, have signed the Standard Contractual Clauses.

  • When Personal Data is transferred to other countries outside of EU, we can verify that the Printers or Third parties have signed our Data Processing Agreement and the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

4. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Cookies
Aktiv Kultur uses Cookies and similar technologies to provide and support our websites and Services. If you do not wish Cookies to be stored on your equipment or, want to be notified of when they are placed, you may set your web browser to do so or withdraw your consent with us. Please note that if Cookies are turned off, you may not be able to view certain parts of the Website or Platform that may enhance your visit and you may be unable to use some or all of the functionality of the Platform and Services.

Marketing Communication
By being an active and existing customer of Aktiv Kultur, we have a legitimate interest of marketing our products for you. You can unsubscribe to this kind of communication in your customer Account or at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in communication sent to you or by contacting us at customer support. Despite your indicated opt-out preferences, we may continue to send you administrative and transaction related communications.

Changing, Transferring or Deleting Your Personal Data
We delete Your Personal Data once no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed. You may access, review, update, correct or delete the Personal Data in your Account either by using the Account buttons or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided below. If you would like to have your personal data transferred to someone else, contact us on our customer support site. and we will provide you with a file of your data. If you completely delete all of your Personal Data, then your Account will become deactivated. If you rather want us to delete your data, please contact us and we will fulfill your request.

5. IDENTIFYING DATA CONTROLLERS AND PROCESSORS

The EU GDPR regulation differentiates between the “Data Controller” and “Data Processor” of data. Our Aktiv Kultur Globe customers are Data Controllers of their personal data. Aktiv Kultur is also a Data Controller of your personal data. Our printers in our network and a few third-party suppliers, are Data Processors. This means they are processing the data on yours and Aktiv Kultur behalf.

6. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. If we change it, we will post the new one on our web page. Any non-material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective as of the day they are posted. If we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Website. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on our Website. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of our Service.

7. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Aktiv Kultur
c/o Izabela Malgarzota Adamiec Kolltveitvegen 47, 5360 Kolltveit

If you believe that Aktiv Kultur does not fulfill its obligations according to the EU GDPR regulation or other applicable privacy legislation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.