We take the protection of personal data seriously. It is important to us that your personal data is safe. All personal data collected during your visit to our website are processed until 05/24/2018 in accordance with Act No. 122/2013 Coll. (hereinafter referred to as the “Personal Data Protection Act”) as well as in accordance with applicable European legislation.

From 25/05/2018 inclusive, your personal data is processed in accordance with REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons in the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, which repeals Directive 95 /46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation = GDPR) and in accordance with Act no. 18/2018 Coll. on the protection of personal data and on the amendment of certain laws in the version valid and effective from 05/25/2018.

What does this mean for you and your personal data in a nutshell and clearly?

Your personal data is any information that concerns you and on the basis of which you are a determinable subject for us as a natural person. This occurs in cases where we can directly or indirectly identify you, in particular on the basis of a generally applicable identifier or other identifier, such as a first name, surname, identification number, location data or online identifier, or on the basis of one or more characteristics or signs, that make up your physical identity, physiological identity, genetic identity, psychological identity, mental identity, economic identity, cultural identity or social identity. It is e.g. identification of your person based on a number, code or one or more elements specific to you. Therefore, personal data includes in particular the contact data of a natural person, his IP address, they can be information about the use of services or about the activities and preferences of a natural person.

So what data do we store?

During your visit to our site, we record the IP address assigned to you by your internet provider, from which pages you visited our site, how long you have been on our site, which specific sub-sites you view, etc. This information is considered personal data, as it is your online identifier, and therefore we handle this data with increased care.

Cookies

We use cookies to find out the preferences of website visitors and to be able to tailor our offer to a specific visitor based on this. Cookies can be used to determine whether you have ever visited our site from your computer. Without cookies, we wouldn’t know what you like, and we wouldn’t be able to meet your requests flexibly in the world of the Internet.

Cookies are text files that your internet browser saves on your computer’s hard drive. There are and we also use several types of cookies – those that are required for the technical functioning of the website as well as those that can theoretically identify you and that are considered personal data by legal practice. If you do not wish to store cookies, you can deactivate them in your internet browser, due to the fact that in some cases it is also your personal data.

Based on your preferences detected through cookies, web logs and IP address, we divide you into interest groups. Lawyers call this customer profiling. For you, this has the advantage that you will receive e-mails with similar content that you have already shown interest in. In a nutshell, based on this system, we do not burden you with information that is outside of your interests.

You can object to profiling by e-mail: marketing@hamsikcorp.com and within a period of max. 1 month after receiving the objection, we will deal with it. We guarantee that we will do so before the deadline. Profiling and segmentation into customer groups is carried out mainly in your interest to receive relevant information from us.

Other personal data

You enter your personal data voluntarily in various forms on our website: registration forms, order forms, free video, access to the webinar, etc. We most often store the following personal data: e-mail address, name, address. Your personal data is used for the purposes specified in these policies, and only to the extent necessary.

What is personal data processing?

The legal term processing of personal data must be understood as a processing operation or a set of processing operations with personal data or with sets of personal data, in particular their acquisition, recording, arrangement, structuring, storage, change, search, browsing, use, provision by transmission, dissemination or otherwise, rearrangement or combination, restriction, deletion, regardless of whether it is done by automated means or non-automated means.

Simply put, it is the collection of personal data, their storage on information carriers, disclosure, modification or change, search, use, transmission, dissemination, publication, storage, exchange, sorting or combination, blocking and disposal. It’s really a lot, but only based on the data you provide, we can provide you with services and products that specifically improve your life.

What do we use this information about you for? (purposes) And on what legal basis?

The operator for the purposes of personal data processing is the trading company HAMSIK corporation s.r.o.,.

Personal data is collected on the following websites: hamsikcorp.com, hamsikwinery.com, hamsiktea.com, hamsikaqua.com, hamsikcoffee.com, vodkahamsik.com, hamsikvodka.com, beerhamsik.com, hamsikbeer.com, hamsikreal.com, hamsikdistillery.com At the same time, you can access individual offers via the hamsikcorporation.com website.

Various product sales mechanisms (online and offline) operate on individual websites, which for a better understanding of the purposes of personal data collection can be divided into the following groups:

Personal data entered in the order form when ordering goods through the e-shop on the websites hamsikcorp.com, hamsikwinery.com, hamsiktea.com, hamsikaqua.com, hamsikcoffee.com, vodkahamsik.com, hamsikvodka.com, beerhamsik.com, hamsikbeer.com, hamsikreal.com, hamsikdistillery.com

name, surname, address of permanent residence (if you are an entrepreneur – also your business name, place of business, ID number, VAT number, VAT ID number) – necessary for your invoice and related documents – the legal basis is the fulfillment of the legal obligations of the operator arising from tax laws; from regulations on accounting, from the Civil Code and other special legal regulations;

e-mail – communication with the customer about the equipment of the order, delivery of the order, delivery of additional information to the order from the supplier, the operator = the legal basis for the processing of this personal data is the fulfillment of the contract;

e-mail – delivery of marketing information, in which the operator has a legitimate interest, since the information sent relates to similar products of the operator, which have already been delivered to the paying customer, and our interest is to deliver you as a paying customer the highest possible value for your money;

mobile number – for the purpose of informing about the status of the order and VIP care of the paying customer = the legal basis is the legitimate interest of the operator to provide the customer with the highest possible value for his money;

payment data – technical security of payment = the legal basis is the fulfillment of a contract concluded online.

Personal data entered in the request to subscribe to the newsletter on the websites hamsikcorp.com, hamsikwinery.com, hamsiktea.com, hamsikaqua.com, hamsikcoffee.com, vodkahamsik.com, hamsikvodka.com, beerhamsik.com, hamsikbeer.com, hamsikreal.com, hamsikdistillery.com

Name, surname, e-mail address – delivery of marketing information that is part of the newsletter (not affiliate offers) that you expressed interest in when granting your consent. We process your personal data for this purpose until you revoke your consent, but max. for a period of 5 years.

Product recommendations on websites:

We publish your recommendation (reference) to our products only on the basis of your explicit consent to such use, which you give us in response to a separate e-mail in which we ask for your permission. We publish your photo only with your consent and at any time, if you withdraw your consent, we will remove your photo and recommendation from the site and dispose of your data. At the same time, we declare that we will not disclose sensitive data about your sexual orientation, health status, race or ethnicity without your express consent.

Comments on our website:

If you comment on our website, by pressing the add comment button, you agree to the processing of the personal data you provide in the comment (name, surname, e-mail, your page and the content of the comment), while only the name or also the last name (if you enter it) and the content of your comment. We do not use the personal data entered by you for other purposes. You can revoke your consent at any time.

Data retention period

Personal data is stored by the operator for the stated purposes for a period of 5 years, unless special legal regulations (tax, labor law, archiving, accounting regulations) stipulate otherwise or until you withdraw your consent (on the condition that we are not bound by special regulations to archive your data further) . In the time period from the provision of consent until its revocation (or until the objection of the legitimate interest of the operator), the processing of your personal data is legal, even if you revoked your consent after it was granted.

You are safe

Keeping your personal data safe is of utmost importance to us. We have implemented various security systems to protect data. As technology improves, we also improve these security systems, using virus checks, anti-virus programs and a multi-level firewall. At the same time, persons – employees or intermediaries – who come into contact with your data are properly instructed about the obligation to maintain confidentiality and communication with them takes place via encrypted communication.

Our website is equipped with a secure https:// protocol; payment for products takes place through secure payment gateways and the data about you that we store with us is secured on the servers by password and encryption. In addition, as of 01.07.2018, we have prepared an assessment of the impact on the protection of personal data in accordance with legal regulations in the field of personal data protection and European standards. At the same time, we regularly update records of processing activities.

Last but not least, the lists of our customers in paper form are stored in a locked cabinet, in a building with a security lock. We do our best to keep your data safe even outside of computer systems.

If by chance our systems are attacked by a hacker attack, or otherwise our system is attacked and there is even a threat of data leakage, you will be informed by our support about the measures taken within 72 hours, and at the same time we will also communicate with the supervisory authority in the area of personal data protection in the Slovak Republic – with the Office for Personal Data Protection.

Your rights

As a data subject, i.e. j. the person whose personal data is being processed – you have the right to be informed about the operator’s data – i.e. the person who processes your data.

The operator for the purposes of personal data processing is:

Contact persons:

email: marketing@hamsikcorp.com.

You have the right to access the data we process about you. If you want to know which specific data we store about you, we will gladly provide it to you in writing upon request.

As a data subject, you have the right to correct the data provided, or supplementing them in the event of any inaccuracies/incompletenesses.

After achieving the purpose of providing personal data – i.e. after providing performance from the consumer contract and ending the use of products via access passwords, you have the “right to be forgotten” = the right to delete the provided data. The right to delete provided personal data also applies if you revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data. In cases where we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it: either click the unsubscribe button in the email campaign or write to us at the contact email: marketing@hamsikcorp.com.

In cases where the processing of personal data is based on our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to our legitimate interest. If we consider your objection to be reasonable, we will delete your data processed on the said basis from our systems. We will also delete them if it is proven that the data was processed illegally.

However, the right to delete your personal data is not absolute. If we need your data to fulfill our legal obligations imposed on us by tax laws, accounting regulations and other special legal regulations; for this purpose of fulfilling our legal obligations, we will have to process them further.

As a data subject, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, if you challenge the correctness of the personal data, during the period of verification of the correctness of the data; or if the processing of personal data is illegal and instead of erasing the data, you will request the restriction of its processing; and also if the operator does not need your personal data for the purpose he stated, but you need them for proof, or defending your legal claims (complaints, lawsuits – otherwise the data would be deleted and we would not be able to provide it to you). When restricting the processing of personal data, your data will remain in our systems, but we will no longer use it for our purposes.

At your request, the operator will notify you of a change, correction, or deletion of your personal data. At the same time, you have the right to request the transfer of personal data to the other operator, whose data you notify us in writing. It is technically feasible to transfer the e-mail address, due to the different purposes of their processing (see above), we cannot provide you with machine-readable and transferable data to another operator for technical reasons.

We will handle all your requests in exercising your above-mentioned rights, objection against the legitimate interest of the operator or consent to the processing of personal data within 48 hours of delivery; in the case of a complicated request, no later than 1 month from the delivery of the request.

The operator declares that there is no transfer of personal data to third countries, and your data is stored on servers located in the EU. If by chance there is a transfer to third countries, this is due to the technical operations of our intermediaries, who are major players on the market, and therefore in the intermediary contracts we have concluded with them, the security of your data, as well as the transfer of data outside the EU to the maximum treated as much as possible.

The supervisory authority over the processing of personal data is the Personal Data Protection Office of the Slovak Republic. In the event that we do not respond to your request within 1 month of its delivery, you have the right to contact the Office for the Protection of Personal Data pursuant to section § 100 of Act no. 18/2018 Coll. in valid and effective wording (proceedings on the protection of personal data).

Intermediaries (data recipients) – or who else has access to your data?

Our team works on the basis of cooperation agreements concluded with the operator. As of 01.07.2018, the mentioned cooperation contracts are supplemented by intermediary contracts, which ensure that your data and those of our team members are safe.

Our team consists of:

Rebeka Nemčeková, customer support

Communication between us, which sometimes includes your personal data, works through secure access.

Hosting is provided by VisualFresh s.r.o., Bernolákova 9, 974 05 Banská Bystrica, a business registered in the Commercial Register of the District Court of Banská Bystrica in the Sro section, in insert number 30612/S. with which an intermediary contract has been concluded since 01.06.2018 for the purpose of the highest possible protection of your data.

The other mediators to whom your data is sent from us are big players on the market, and since 25/05/2018 we have concluded mediation contracts with them in the wording proposed by them – more information about the wording of the GDPR rules of our mediators via hyperlinks:

Gdrive (cloud services) -https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms/partner/

Google Ads – https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/

Google Analytics – https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/dpa/dataprocessingamendment_20160909.html

Slack (communication) – https://slack.com/gdpr

MailChimp (email marketing) – https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

PayPal (payment gateway) – https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Disqus (comments) – Privacy Policy, updates on Disqus privacy policy.

Third Party Links

We sometimes link to third-party services and products on our site. The websites of these third parties have their own terms of personal data protection and are independent from ours. Therefore, we bear no legal responsibility for the content and activities of these third parties. Even so, it is our effort to maintain a high level of security. Therefore, if you have any suspicion of misconduct by these third parties, please contact us at marketing@hamsikcorp.com. We thank you.

We will email you offers for these third party products only based on your serious, free, informed, specific, unequivocal and anytime revocable consent.

We do not provide your data to third parties

We do not sell, trade or in any other way provide your personal data to third parties. In our opinion, this is not fair, and at the same time, your personal data is the most sensitive that you can provide us.

Exceptions are recipients = intermediaries about whom we have provided you with information in this privacy policy and who assist us in creating websites, collaborate on our projects and serve you. These partners are bound by confidentiality, brokerage agreements, non-disclosure agreements and have agreed to keep your information secure and confidential.

The transfer of your personal data to state organizations is only based on the law or valid official or court decisions in accordance with the legal regulations of the Slovak Republic.

Changes in the terms of personal data protection

If we decide to change the privacy policy, we will post it on this page and notify you by email.

These conditions are valid from September 1, 2023

Contact us

If you have any questions or suggestions, write to us.

Email: marketing@hamsikcorp.com