Privacy Policy


At Sven Michael, we respect your privacy. In accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have enhanced our Privacy Policy and encourage you to read it before submitting any personal data to us through our site.

Information We Collect

For all visitors to our site, we collect aggregated information on pages viewed, including IP address, timestamps, logins to our site, URLs of referring pages, and locale and language preferences.

For buyers making purchases on our website, we collect necessary information for the transaction and record keeping purposes, including name, email address, country of residence, shipping address, and IP address.

Purposes

Collected information is used for the business interests of developing our site and services to provide a better experience for our visitors, delivering purchased goods and requested services such as our newsletter, and for ensuring secure and legitimate use of our website.

When processing your personal data for such interests, we do so with respect and deference to your own interests, rights and freedoms.

We use collect your data:

  • to respond to your enquiry, ask a question, contact you about your request or other reasons related to offering and improving our services;
  • to enable us to communicate business and product changes and updates to customers;
  • to provide checkout capabilities on our site;
  • to protect against, identify and help prevent fraud, unauthorized activity, claims and other liabilities; and
  • to fulfill our legal and financial obligations.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and remove them, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Our websites uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • to keep you signed in;
  • to optimize site performance during your session;
  • to recognize you on our website and remember your previous preferences, such as preferred language and your location;
  • to ensure the continuity of your session between pages, including items added to your shopping cart, album interactions such as image selections, etc.;
  • for analytics and security; our company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address; bad actors may be blacklisted by IP address;

These cookies record session information on the device you're using to access our website.

For users not logged in, data is not tracked to identifiable information, is not saved beyond the lifetime of the session, and is not shared outside of the system either to first or third parties, or agents thereof.

For all users, data is not used to track you from one site to another

For cookies that are essential, your consent is not required. For the use of the other types of cookies described in this policy, we do ask you for your consent when you first visit our website. You can withdraw your consent or remove these cookies at any time via your browser preferences.

Some cookies may be set by third-parties, outlined below.

Data Collection and Storage

This website collects personal data and stores it securely. We also use third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary equipment required to run the service. Specifically, these vendors are:

Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"),uses "cookies" 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. Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy. 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.

Retention and Withdrawal

We retain your personal data as long as needed for the purposes for which we collected it, plus a reasonable period to take into account the applicable statute of limitation period or to comply with legal requirements.

Your Rights

If you would like to unsubscribe from receiving our newsletter, you can click on the "unsubscribe" link included in our email or contact us as indicated below.

Subject to applicable law, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal data. These rights are as follows:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to the processing of your personal data for reasons relating to your particular situation.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request to export the personal data that we process based on our contract with you or your consent and transfer it to another company (if technically feasible).
  • Withdraw any consent you have previously provided to us.
  • If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details in the Contact Us section.

Privacy Policies of Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website. Should you click a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on December 10 2023 2:27am.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about Our Companys privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.