Privacy Policy
1. Principle
Paulaine attaches great importance to protecting your privacy. The points listed below set out our privacy policy. Your personal data collected on the paulaine.ch website is processed with the utmost care and in accordance with the applicable regulations. The processing of your data is limited to what is strictly necessary and is carried out for the purposes described in our privacy policy.
Your personal data is retained for the duration required to provide our services or for the period stipulated by law (LPD) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy in order to comply with changes to our services or for legal or regulatory reasons.
2. Contact
If you have any questions regarding your personal data or our privacy policy, please contact us at the following email address: hello@paulaine.ch
3. Collecting and processing
We process personal data in connection with the online sale of sewing patterns and when you subscribe to the Paulaine newsletter. The following information is collected:
- Last name
- First name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Full postal address (street, postcode, town/city, country)
4. Purposes
We collect personal data for the purpose of invoicing for patterns purchased from our online shop and for sending out the Paulaine newsletter, but only to those who have given their consent to receive it.
For users who register on our website (where applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
5. Use of cookies
The paulaine.ch website uses cookies on various pages to make your visit to our site more enjoyable and to enable the use of certain features. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of your browser session (temporary cookies and session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognise you on your next visit (persistent cookies).
You can prevent cookies from being stored in your browser by restricting or disabling the storage and reading of cookies. Please note that you will not be able to use certain features of our website if you prevent the storage and use of cookies.
6. Disclosure of data to third parties
Your personal data is not disclosed, sold or transferred to third parties in any way.
7. Rights of the data subject
If you have an account on our website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of your personal data, including all the data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to erase all the personal data we hold about you. This does not include data that we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.
8. Data retention period
Under the GDPR, the data retention periods are as follows:
- 36 months (3 years): for inactive personal data collected during your purchases.
- 13 months: for cookies.
- 1 month: for personal data that has been the subject of a request for rectification, erasure or return.