At The Hungry Nest, accessible from www.thehungrynest.con, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by The Hungry Nest and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Hungry Nest. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. (last updated Jan, 2023).  In the following data protection declaration we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within the framework of our website. The Hungry Nest collects and process personal data only on the basis of the legal provisions (Basic Data Protection Regulation, Telecommunications Act 2003). As soon as you access or visit our website as a user, your IP address, start and end of the session are recorded. This is for technical reasons and thus constitutes a legitimate interest iSv Art 6 para 1 lit f DSGVO.

Contact with us
If you contact us, either via our contact form on our website, or by email, then the data you send us will be stored for six months for the purpose of processing your request or in the event of further follow-up questions. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

Processing and use of personal data
We, THN, collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent and your order and any subsequent warranty processing, as well as for advertising purposes or to order for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR, this in compliance with data protection and civil law provisions.
Personal data is any data that contains individual information about personal or factual circumstances, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, social security number, video recordings, photographs, voice recordings of individuals, as well as biometric data, such as fingerprints. However, you can visit our site without providing any personal information. We only store access data without personal reference, such as: the name of your internet service provider; the page from which you can visit us or the name of the requested file. These data are evaluated exclusively for the improvement of our offer and do not permit any conclusion on your person.

Personal data is collected when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order for goods or when registering for the newsletter. When registering for the newsletter, your e-mail address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time. This data will be disclosed to third parties only to the extent permitted by law and for the purpose of contract processing, billing, marketing purposes or if you have previously consented. In the context of order processing, for example, the service providers we use (such as carriers, logisticians, banks) receive the necessary data for order and order processing. The data passed on may only be used by our service providers to fulfill their task.

These data are evaluated exclusively for the improvement of our offer and do not allow any conclusion on your person.

Personal data is collected when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order for goods or when registering for the newsletter. When registering for the newsletter, your e-mail address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time. This data will be disclosed to third parties only to the extent permitted by law and for the purpose of contract processing, billing, marketing purposes or if you have previously consented. In the context of order processing, for example, the service providers used by us (such as carriers, logisticians, banks) receive the necessary data for order and order processing. The data passed on may only be used by our service providers to fulfill their task.

Data storage
It is pointed out that for the purpose of the simpler purchase procedure and for the later contract winding up of the Web store operator in the context of Cookies the IP data of the connection owner are stored, likewise name, address and credit card number of the buyer.  The data provided by you are necessary for the fulfillment of the contract. Without personal data it is not possible to conclude a contract. A data transmission to third parties does not take place. An exception is the transmission of credit card data to the processing bank / payment service provider for the purpose of debiting the purchase price, to the transport company / shipping company commissioned by us to deliver the goods and to our tax advisor to fulfill our tax obligations. After cancellation of the purchase process, the data stored by us will be deleted. In case of a contract conclusion, all data from the contractual relationship will be stored until the expiry of the retention period under tax law (7 years). Our store is hosted on Woocommerce They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Woocommerce data store, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

Data security
In order to protect your personal data, we take appropriate organizational and technical measures. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorized, unlawful or even accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation. notwithstanding our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of due diligence at all times, it cannot be ruled out that information which you disclose to us via the internet may be viewed and used by other persons. Should you provide us with your credit card information, the information will be encrypted using Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL) and stored using AES-256 encryption. Although there is no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage that is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards. Your payment information is transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form during the order process. You should always keep your access information confidential and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you share the computer with others please note that we therefore assume no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us and/or unauthorized access by third parties. (e.g. hack attack on email account or telephone, interception of faxes).

Transfer of data to third parties
– In general, the third party providers we use will only collect, use and disclose your data to the extent necessary to provide the services they provide. Any onward transfer of your data will only take place on the basis of the DSGVO, in particular to fulfill your purchase or on the basis of your prior consent. Please note in particular that certain providers are located outside of your country. The level of data protection in other countries may not correspond to that of Austria.  If you choose to make a purchase that uses the services of a third-party provider, your information may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. For example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway in the United States, your personal information used to process that transaction may be disclosed under U.S. law, including the Patriot Act. Once you leave our store’s website and are redirected to a third party service provider, you are no longer subject to these data protection laws or our website’s terms of use.

Disclosure of data breaches
We strive to ensure that data breaches are identified at an early stage and, if necessary, reported immediately to you or the relevant supervisory authority, including the respective categories of data affected.

Data use for advertising purposes
we use your data to improve and customize your shopping experience. For this purpose, we use the already existing information, e.g. about your internet connection, the terminal device you use, operating system, date and time of your visit to the homepage, or pages you have called up, as well as information we have received from you.  You can object to the use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time. 

By subscribing to our newsletter, you submit your  email adress and give us the right to contact you by email. The data stored will  exclusively be used for our newsletter and we will not pass this on to third parties. In order to unsubscribe from the newsletter, you can at anything find the link in each newsletter at the bottom. All your data for the newsletter registration will be deleted by us and at MailChimp. 

When you sign up for our newsletter on our website, the data entered will be stored by MailChimp of the Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. .Rocket Science Group LLC (MailChimp) maintains online platforms that enable our users to stay in touch with their subscribers, primarily via email. They allow users, to upload e-mail addresses, and other subscriber profile information, such as name, physical address, and other demographic information to the MailChimp database. This information is used to send emails and allow the use of certain other MailChimp features for these users. In accordance with the published privacy policy, MailChimp shares some information with third parties to provide and support the services that MailChimp provides to users. MailChimp also shares some information with third party advertisers to better understand users’ needs and interests so that more relevant content and targeted advertising can be provided to these users and other users.When you receive a newsletter via MailChimp, information such as IP address, browser type and e-mail program are stored to give us information about the performance of our newsletter. MailChimp can use the images in the HTML emails called Web Beacons (see kb.mailchimp.com/reports/about-open-tracking for details) to see if the email has arrived, whether it was opened and if links were clicked. All this information is stored on the servers of MailChimp, not on this website. MailChimp is an active participant in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. You can read more about the use of cookies at MailChimp at mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/, for information on privacy at MailChimp (Privacy), please refer to mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. We have a contract with MailChimp for Data Processing Addendum. This agreement secures your personal information and ensures that MailChimp adheres to applicable privacy policies and does not share your personal information with third parties. More information about this contract can be found at mailchimp.com/legal/forms/data-processing-agreement/.

Google Fonts

Our website uses fonts from “Google Fonts”. The service provider of this function is: Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4. Ireland. Tel: +353 1 543 1000 When you visit this website, your browser loads fonts and stores them in the cache. Since you, as a visitor to the website, receive data from the service provider, Google may set or analyze cookies on your computer. The use of “Google Fonts” serves to optimize our service and the uniform presentation of content. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. You can find more information about Google Fonts at the following link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq For more information about the handling of user data by Google, please refer to the privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de . Google also processes data in the USA, but has submitted to the EU-US Privacy-Shield. https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

Cookies

our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that we transfer via our web server to the cookie file of the browser on the hard drive of your computer. we use the cookies to make our offer user-friendly, more effective and safer. Some cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. This enables our website to recognize you as a user when a connection is established between our web server and your browser. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our web pages. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that no longer allows any personal reference to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognize the visitors of the website. Two types of cookies are used on this website: Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our website and are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Persistent cookies: for a better user experience, cookies remain stored on your terminal device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit. if you do not want this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and only allows them in individual cases. if you disable cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited. 

Web analysis

google analytics , this website uses Google Analytics for web analysis. This is a service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). This website uses “cookies” for web analysis. The information generated by this “cookie” about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google observes the data protection provisions of the “US Safe Harbor” agreement and is registered with the “Safe Harbor” program of the US Department of Commerce. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. We also use pseudonymous attribution to track your usage across devices. However, no personal data is forwarded to Google. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required to do so by law, or if 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. If you do not want information about your website visit to be transmitted to Google Analytics, you have the option of installing a “deactivation add-on” for your browser. We have also made settings so that Google Analytics deletes the last part of the IP addresses of visitors to our website. Thus, we do not come into the possession of data that allow us to draw conclusions about your person. You can object to the collection and storage of data by Google Analytics at any time by downloading a browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics and installing it for your browser. You can find more information about this at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de (general information about Google Analytics and data protection).

Your rights as a data subject
As a data subject, you have a fundamental right with regard to your data that is stored by us:

Information
Deletion of the data
Correction of the data
Transferability of the data
Revocation and objection to data processing
Restriction
If you suspect that violations of data protection law have occurred in the course of processing your data, you have the possibility to complain to us () or to the data protection authority.

Change of the privacy policy

we reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and, if necessary, to subject it to data protection audits. The changes and clarifications therefore regularly indicated will become effective immediately after their publication on the website.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here immediately. If our business is acquired or merged with another company, we will obtain your consent to the further use of your personal data to the extent required by law.

Your rights

you are generally entitled to the rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. Furthermore, you have the right to information about the main reasons for an unfavorable decision relating to creditworthiness, the communication of probability values collected or stored for this purpose, their origin as well as the types of data used for this purpose.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the data protection authority.

You can reach us at the following contact details:

The Hungry Nest- 

Anton-Kuh-Weg 5/73, 1030 Vienna

Austria

hello@thehungrynest.com