Conditions of participation and privacy policy for the contest “YAM MAGAZINE”
WE ARE KNITTERS C/ Fernandez de La Hoz 31 Madrid, España 28010 [email protected] 855.676.3019
Conditions of participation and privacy policy for the sweepstakes “YAM MAGAZINE”
1. ORGANIZING ENTERPRISE AND OBJECT: YAM MAGAZINE & WE ARE KNITTERS SL (from now on referred to as “WE ARE KNITTERS & PARTNERS”) with residence in Calle Fernandez de la Hoz, 31, Madrid, Spain 28010 and the number of identification CIF: ESB86080595 has organized a one time sweepstakes called “YAM MAGAZINE” In this Privacy Policy, references to “you” mean any person submitting any data to us, our partners, agents or sites. We Are Knitters & Partners may collect, store and process your data for processing your participation in the giveaway and on the site, in any possible later claims, and to provide you with our services. We may collect your name, email address, postal address, delivery address (if different), telephone number, or mobile number.
2. GEOGRAPHIC OUTREACH AND PARTICIPANTS: Participation is open to all legal residents of the continental United States and Canada and aged 18 years or above.
3. DURATION: This action will take place from JANUARY 20 – FEB 5 2017.
4. COMMUNICATION OF THE PROMOTION: We Are Knitters & partners will promote this contest with the requirements for participation through their sponsored post with YAM Magazine. We Are Knitters will also be permitted to use further channels (online advertisements, e-mail, etc.) in order to diffuse its promotion and its conditions, without the publication of such being a condition for its validity.
5. PRIZE: A single winner will be randomly selected from all participants that comply with the requirements, who will be awarded the prizes as expressed in the specifics of the giveaway. The winner has 72 hours to respond to an email and begin the fulfillment process. If the winner does not respond in this time, their eligibility to receive the prize will be lost.
6. PARTICIPATION: Participation in the present promotion is cost-free and will exclusively take place online through the participation page.
7. METHOD: Users participate in this promotion by registering on the participation page online by providing their email address.
8. DELIVERY OF THE AWARD: We Are Knitters & partners will contact the winner via email. The winner must respond to this email within 72 hours or their prize will be lost. The person that finally ends up complying, should receive the indicated award. Under no circumstances be possible to receive the value of the award in actual money and equally impossible for a person to receive more than one award. By committing to participating in the contest, participants guarantee We Are Knitters & partners their maximum collaboration and to facilitate to them all the information required in the instant that the award is handed over.
9. DISQUALIFICATION: We Are Knitters & partners reserve the right to discard the contributions they are able to identify as fraudulent as well as all those that do not comply with the requirements and conditions enumerated, without being obliged to assume any kind of responsibility for them.
10. DATA PROTECTION: With the participation in this competition, the participants agree to the archiving of their personal data in a file within the rights of We Are Knitters in order to coordinate the participation in the contest and for further communications of the brand. Complying with the legal framework established in the ¨Ley Orgánica 15/1999,¨ of the 13th of December, Protection of Personal Data (Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal) and law 34/2002, of the 11th of July, of services of society of information and online trade (de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y Comercio Electrónico), the voluntary decision to facilitate personal data (including the e-mail) in order to participate in this promotion, implies the agreement of the participant that We Are Knitters, themselves or through third entities that are responsible for the organization or the transfer of the data, treat the data following automatic procedures with the objectives of publicity and commercial enterprises. That implies the possibility to include the data in an automatically generated form, which they will be responsible for in order to communicate with the participant in the future so as to receive commercial communication from We Are Knitters & partners in relation to the products and services they facilitate in their online trade, in addition to the participation in the present competition. If the participant prefers not to receive any marketing communications from We Are Knitters & partners, they may opt out at any time. The participant has the right to access the aforementioned file with the objective of complaining, modifying, correcting or canceling the content in total or in part through a letter to the following address: Calle Fernandez de la Hoz, 31, 2͒ Izquierda, Madrid, Spain 28010.
11. MODIFICATION OF THE PROMOTION AND THE FOUNDATIONS: We Are Knitters & Partners reserve the right to cancel or change the promotion in any moment if it is not possible to guarantee the adequate functioning of the campaign, no matter if the motives are of a technical nature, such as viruses or manipulations or of an organizational nature or due to a greater force.
12. RESPONSIBILITY OF FACEBOOK: In accordance with the norms established for running promotions on Facebook we hereby state that this promotion is neither patronized nor supported, administered or associated with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram in any way and that information facilitated by the participants will be administered exclusively by the organizing enterprises, We Are Knitters & partners.
13. AGREEMENT TO THE FOUNDATIONS: With the participation in the indicated promotion it will be understood that the competitors submit themselves to the specified foundations and that they accept the final result. The participants as well as the organizing enterprise accept that any controversy that could come up due to the application or interpretation of this promotion will be referred to the jurisdiction and competence of the Judges and Courts of the city of Madrid.
14. DATA WE COLLECT: We Are Knitters & Partners may collect various information if you seek to participate in competitions or giveaways hosted on the Site.
We Are Knitters & Partners will use the information you provide to enable us to process your entry and to provide you with the services and information offered through our sites and which you request. Further, we will use the information you provide to administer your account with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments you make online; audit the downloading of data from our website; improve the layout and/or content of the pages of our website and customize them for users; identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our users’ demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our products and services, provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these purposes. Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email with details of other products and services. If you prefer not to receive any marketing communications from We Are Knitters & Partners, you can opt out at any time.
We may pass your name and address on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you (for example to our courier or supplier).
Payments that you make through www.weareknitters.com will be processed by WE ARE KNITTERS S.L. All partner sites will process your payment information separately and through their own systems. You must only submit to us information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of changes.
Your actual order details may be stored with partners but for security reasons cannot be retrieved directly by us. You undertake to treat the personal access data confidentially and not make it available to unauthorized third parties. We cannot assume any liability for misuse of passwords unless this misuse is our fault.
We Are Knitters & Partners shall not share any of your personal information with third parties located outside of the United States & European Economic Area.
15. OTHER USES OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: We Are Knitters & Partners may use your personal information for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and will only be used for statistical purposes. You can choose to opt out of this at any time. Disclosing your email address is only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions.
We Are Knitters & Partners may also send you other information about us, the Sites, our other websites, our products, sales promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other companies in our group or our business partners. If you would prefer not to receive any of this additional information as detailed in this paragraph (or any part of it) please click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email that we send to you. Within 7 working days (days which are neither (i) a Saturday or Sunday, nor (ii) a public holiday anywhere in Spain) of receipt of your instruction we will cease to send you information as requested. If your instruction is unclear we will contact you for clarification.
16. THIRD PARTIES & LINKS: We Are Knitters & Partners may use third parties to assist us with delivering products to you, to help us to collect payments from you, to analyze data and to provide us with marketing or customer service assistance. We Are Knitters & Partners may exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We Are Knitters & Partners may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it. Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, We Are Knitters & Partners shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law. Please be aware that We Are Knitters & Partners are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Use of Facebook social plugins
We Are Knitters uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social plugins and their appearance please see developers.facebook.com/plugins.
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. For this purpose, the internet address of the visited site (your IP address included) is transferred to a USA-based Facebook server where the data are stored. This occurs even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not logged into Facebook at the time.
If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. The information can also be published on Facebook, and shown to your Facebook friends.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. You can also block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker”.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection by Facebook and how it is processed and used, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy.
17. COOKIES: It is not necessary to accept cookies to visit www.weareknitters.com. However, if you would like to place an order or add an item to your shopping basket, you will need to set your browser to accept cookies so you can use the shopping basket and checkout functions.
What are Cookies?
Cookies and flash cookies are small files that are saved on your data carrier which store specific information about your preferred settings and any other data that our system needs when interacting with your browser. There are two different kinds of cookies: session cookies, which are deleted the moment you quit your browser; and temporary/permanent cookies, which are stored on your data carrier for a longer period of time or, in some cases, permanently. Cookies help us to tailor our website to suit you and to reflect your tastes and your browsing habits. They also allow us to save any information you have entered so you don’t have to enter it all again the next time you visit.
What kind of cookies does WE ARE KNITTERS use?
Most of the cookies we use are session cookies which are deleted at the end of your browser session. We use these to allow you to use our shopping basket function across more than page of our site, for example. We do use some cookies that remain on your computer after you have quit your browser. This kind of cookie enables our system to recognize that you’ve visited our website before and to remember which settings and products you preferred. These temporary/permanent cookies have a lifespan of around one month to ten years, after which they will be automatically deleted. These cookies allow us to collect and analyze data to come up with strategies to improve our website. This makes our website easier for our customers to use and helps us to provide you with personal recommendation of products you may like. Our aim is to offer you a fun, easy shopping experience on a website that is tailored to your tastes.
What kind of information is stored in cookies?
The cookies used by WE ARE KNITTERS are never used to store any personal information. Therefore our cookies cannot be traced back to an individual user. Once a cookie is activated, it is given an ID number, which is solely used for internal reference and cannot be used to identify the user or access any personal information, such as your name or IP address. The anonymized information we receive from the cookies allows us to assess which pages of our site are visited the most and see which products were most popular etc.
What is on-site targeting?
The WE ARE KNITTERS website gathers information that could be useful in tailoring our adverts and online offer to our customers. This information is not used to identify you as a user; it is solely used for the optimization of our website. Information collected by our cookies is not stored with our customer’s personal information or order information, it is only used to provide our users with adverts and/or notification of offers and services that are suited to their individual tastes, using click stream analysis (e.g. adverts for reduced trainers if a customer has been browsing our sports shoe selection). Our goal is to provide you with a shopping experience suited to your tastes and shopping preferences.
Does WE ARE KNITTERS use third party cookies?
Cookies from third parties are temporary/permanent cookies, which will be automatically deleted from your computer at the end of their lifespan (14 days to 10 years). As with our cookies, these third party cookies do not collect any personal information. The data stored is collected at certain times, allowing these companies to see which products have been viewed most frequently but this is done completely anonymously under randomly designated user ID numbers. Therefore, this data will never be pooled with any personal information you have given WE ARE KNITTERS. Third party cookies have the sole purpose of allowing our partners to advertise products that may interest you.
Re-targeting
We Are Knitters uses retargeting, which allows us to make our online offer more interesting for you. Retargeting technology means we can advertise recently viewed and related products on our partners’ websites, meaning our adverts, even on other companies’ sites, are relevant to what you would like to see. We do this by analyzing user behavior from data collected by our cookies. Even this kind of information is anonymous, with no personal information being stored and no user profiles.
Declaration of consent
I hereby give permission for my user information to be stored on cookie files. I also allow these files to remain on my computer after I have ended my browser session so they may be used upon my next visit to the website. I reserve the right to retract this permission by changing my browser setting to refuse cookies.
How can I prevent cookies from being stored on my computer?
You can change the settings in your browser to ask for your permission every time a cookie tries to access your computer. If you would like to accept WE ARE KNITTERS cookies but block third parties’ cookies, you can set your browser to block these cookies.
Usually, your browser’s help section will provide information on how to change your cookie settings.
We recommend only changing the browser setting for your profile on shared computers.
If you want to find out more information about cookies, go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
18. LOG INFORMATION: Every time you visit www.weareknitters.com, information is sent from your browser to our server log files, where it will be saved. The information transferred includes: time and date or visit to our site, which pages were viewed, IP address, URL of site that referred you to WE ARE KNITTERS, how much information has been stored and which browser you have been using.
Once we have all this information, all IP addresses are deleted or made anonymous. Anonymization means that your IP address is changed in such a way that they either cannot be linked with the original user or can only be linked through extensive research.
The anonymous information stored in this log file is then used to improve the shopping experience on the WE ARE KNITTERS website by making our navigation more user-friendly, finding errors quickly and directing our server’s capacity to where it is needed most. For example, this information allows us to work out our busiest times and plan enough server power for those times to keep our site running as quickly as possible.
I hereby give my permission for WE ARE KNITTERS to analyze and use protocol data to develop and optimize their online shop.
19. SECURITY: We Are Knitters has in place appropriate technical and security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information. When we collect data through the Site, we collect your personal details on a secure server. We use firewalls on our servers. Whilst we are unable to guarantee 100% security, this makes it hard for a hacker to decrypt your details. You are strongly recommended not to send full credit or debit card details in unencrypted electronic communications with us. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you. You are responsible for protecting against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer
20. YOUR RIGHTS: If you are concerned about your data you have the right to request access to the personal data which we may hold or process about you. You have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your data free of charge. At any stage you also have the right to ask us to stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes. Please contact us by mail at [email protected] or WE ARE KNITTERS S.L., C/ Fernandez de la Hoz 31, 28010 Madrid, Spain.
