Privacy & Data Policy

Effective from March 1, 2021.

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This privacy policy describes how The Barefoot Kids collects, uses and protects your personal information. It also describes how you can control our use of your personal information.

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Data Protection Officer is Mr Mark Warner.

 

 

COLLECTION & USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

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THE TYPE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

 

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history.

 

We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback and personal profile.

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HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

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When you conduct a transaction on our website, subscribe to our newsletter or contact us via our contact form, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us. This may include your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used specifically for processing and shipping your order or contacting you to answer you in reply or sending you our newsletter that you have subscribed to.

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If you have placed an order on behalf of a third party and entered their details for shipping purposes, we will have collected the third party’s relevant details.

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USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Personal information provided to us while placing an order will be used specifically for processing and shipping the order. We are required by Maltese law to keep records of transactions for ten years, after which all soft copies are shredded and electronically stored details on our website backend are deleted.

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If you have contacted us via our contact form or email, your personal information will be used only for the purposes of replying to you.

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If you have subscribed to our newsletter we will use the information provided to us to send you newsletters with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages.

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To create aggregated statistical data we use Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services.

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HOW WE STORE, USE, SHARE AND DISCLOSE OUR SITE VISITORS' PERSONAL INFORMATION

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This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. For security purposes they store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by us adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

 

HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH OUR SITE VISITORS

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We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to address any issues related to the processing and/or shipping of your order, to resolve a dispute or to collect fees or monies owed. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

 

If you have subscribed to our newsletter mailing list we will send promotional messages, announcements, tips and suggestions etc. via email.

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SHARING YOUR DATA AND THIRD PARTY EMAILS

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We never pass your information on to third parties and we do not send out third party emails.

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HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST

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If you wish to unsubscribe from the mailing list you can do so by:

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• clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the newsletter you have received

• sending us an email on: management@thebarefootkidsstore.com and asking us to unsubscribe you (please confirm the email you wish to have taken off our mailing list)

• Write to us at the following address:

 

The Barefoot Kids

Web Team

3, Gorg Borg Olivier Street

Rabat, RBT 9041

Malta

 

 

COOKIES

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WHAT COOKIES ARE

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Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site. We use cookies on this website and the information below explains how we use them and which cookies are used.

 

 

HOW WE USE COOKIES ON OUR SITE

 

Our site uses cookies to log your visit - and register your preferences during that visit - to our website, to detect your location (by IP address), age and gender, and to determine which browser and operating system you use.

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Our cookies will not take your names, address/es, telephone number/s, email address/es or any other types of personal data that might identify you individually.

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We use the logged information of your visit to provide is with visitor analytics (e.g. number of visitors, where visitors are from, demographics and browsers used). This information helps us improve future visitor experience, to understand the general behaviour of users of our website and to inform our marketing efforts.

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You enjoy the right to object, at no cost, to the use of personal data particularly for direct marketing purposes.

 

 

YOUR OPTIONS REGARDING COOKIES

 

If you wish, you can set up your internet browser settings to disable cookies. You will still be able to use our website without having cookies enabled.

 

 

TYPES OF COOKIES ON OUR SITE

 

Cookies can be classified according to their (1) type, (2) duration and (3) category.

 

Type

 

First-party cookies: Cookies that Wix places on our site. 

Third-party cookies: Cookies that are placed and used by third parties. 

Duration:

 

Session (transient) cookies: These cookies are erased when site visitors close their browsers and are not used to collect information from their computers. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

 

Persistent (permanent or stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on a site visitor's hard drive until they expire (at a set expiration date) or until they are deleted. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific site.

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Strictly necessary cookies: These are the cookies that let visitors browse through our site. They are also necessary for security reasons. 

 

Functional cookies: These cookies "remember" registered visitors/customers in order to improve their user experience. 

 

The information below shows which cookies are place on Wix sites:

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First Party Cookies:

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1.   Strictly Necessary Cookies

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     1a. Cookie name: ForceFlashSite                

 

           Duration: Session                       

 

Purpose: When viewing a mobile site (old mobile under m.domain.com) it will force the server to display

the non-mobile version and avoid redirecting to the mobile site

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     1b. Cookie name: hs                                     

     

           Duration: Session                        

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           Purpose: Security

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               1c.  Cookie name: smSession                       

 

                     Duration: Persistent (2 days or 2 weeks)       

 

                     Purpose: Identifies logged in site members

                                                    

               1d.  Cookie name: XSRF-TOKEN                   

 

                      Duration: Session                         

 

                      Purpose: Security

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          2.   Functional Cookies

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                2a. Cookie Name: svSession                    

 

                       Duration: Persistent (2 years)                       

 

                       Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

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                2b. Cookie name: SSR-caching

 

                      Duration: Session

 

                      Purpose: Indicates how a site was rendered

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                2c. Cookie name: smSession

 

                      Duration: Persistent (2 weeks)   

 

                    Purpose: Identifies logged in site members

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Third Party Cookies:

 

          3.  Functional Cookies

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                3a. Cookie name: TS*                      

 

                      Duration: Session

 

                      Purpose: Security

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                3b. Cookie name: TS01*******                           

 

                       Duration: Session                           

 

                             Purpose: Security

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                3c. Cookie name: TSxxxxxxxx (where x is replaced with a random series of numbe letters)

 

                      Duration: Session                         

 

                      Purpose: Security         

 

                3d. Cookie name: TSxxxxxxxx_d (where x is replaced with a random series of numbers and letters)

 

                       Duration: Session                         

 

                      Purpose: Security         ​

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OUR ADVERTISING PARTNERS USE OF COOKIES

 

We use a third party advertising partner called AdRoll (www.adroll.com) to deliver relevant banner adverts to people, like you, who have already visited our website. This form of marketing is called ‘remarketing’ or ‘retargeting’.

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To elaborate, this basically means that once you have visited our website, the banners you see displayed on other third party websites might be advertising Mdina Glass products and/or offers.

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In this regard, AdRoll collects the following categories of information for the purposes explained below using cookies, tracking pixels and related technologies.

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• Data about your browsing activity on our site. For example, which pages you visited and when, what items were clicked on a page, how much time was spent on a page, what items you placed into your online shopping cart, what products were purchased and how much was paid.

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• Information about the device or browser you use to access our website. For example, your device's IP address, cookie string data, operating system, and (in the case of mobile devices) your device type and mobile device's unique identifier such as the Apple IDFA or Android Advertising ID.

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• Data about the online ads we have served (or attempted to serve) to you. It includes things like how many times an ad has been served to you, what page the ad appeared on, and whether you clicked on or otherwise interacted with the ad.

 

While AdRoll offers other forms of digital advertising we only use ‘remarketing’ banners. You may view the full privacy policy of AdRoll on their website at www.adrollgroup.com.

 

 

Your Choices and Opting-Out

 

Your online privacy is important to you and to us, so we would like to make you aware of the options for controlling the targeted ads you receive.

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• You can opt out of receiving personalized ads served by us or on our behalf by clicking on the blue icon that typically appears in the corner of the ads and following the instructions provided or by clicking here. Please note that this “opt out” function is browser-specific and relies on an “opt out cookie”: thus, if you delete your cookies or upgrade your browser after having opted out, you will need to opt out again.

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• In some cases AdRoll may link multiple browsers or devices to you. If you opt out of on a browser or device and AdRoll have more linked to you, they will extend your opt out decision to the other linked browsers and devices. Since AdRoll only link users across browsers on devices in some conditions, there could be cases where you are still being tracked in a different browser or device they have not linked, and where they are treating you as a different user.

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• AdRoll is also a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and adheres to the NAI Codes of Conduct. You may use the NAI opt out tool here, which will allow you to opt out of seeing personalized ads from us and from other NAI approved member companies.

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• AdRoll adheres to the European Interactive Advertising Digital Alliance (EDAA) guidelines for online advertising and you may opt out via their Your Online Choices website.

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ACCESS TO DATA AND DATA PORTABILITY

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The person granting consent enjoys the right to request access to, and rectification, or erasure, of the personal data collected. The same person enjoys the right to request the restriction of processing of all data concerning the data subject or to object to its processing as well as the right to data portability.

 

The right to data portability refers to the person’s right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he, or she, has provided, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and includes the right to transmit the data to another controller without hindrance. This also includes the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from The Barefoot Kids to another data controller, where technically feasible.

 

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will provide notice on our website or by other means as appropriate.

 

If we are required by applicable data protection laws to obtain your consent to any material changes before they come into effect, then we will do so in accordance with law.

We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

 

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COMPLIANCE IN DATA PROCESSING

 

The data will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.

 

Your data will only be used for the reason you supplied it to us. This means, for example, that if you supplied your personal details to us for the purposes of processing and shipping an order, we will not use your data for newsletter subscription.

 

 

YOUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN

 

The person providing data and the person on whose behalf data was provided, as the case may be, enjoys the right to lodge a complaint with regards to any concern relating to data protection with the Information and Data Protection Commissioner.

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you can contact as follows:

 

Email us on: management@thebarefootkidsstore.com

 

Write to us at the following address:

 

The Barefoot Kids

Web Team

3, Gorg Borg Olivier Street

Rabat, RBT 9041

Malta