Privacy Policy

Brand Bar is pleased to have you visit our internet sites and welcomes your interest in our company and its services.

Goal of the data protection policy

At Brand Bar Communications the privacy and security of our clients, partners and visitors are of paramount importance. Brand Bar is committed to protecting the data you share with us. This privacy policy explains how we processes information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual (“Personal Data”) collected through use of its website and platform. The goal of the data protection policy is to depict the legal data protection aspects in one summarising document.

Definitions

the most fundamental definitions of the General Data Protection Regulation with respect to this policy are as follows:

‘Personal data’: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

‘processing’ means: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

‘controller’ means: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

Personal data we may collect

When you browse our site, contact us, or use our Services, you may provide us with/we may receive from other (third-party) sources your following data:

Your personal details, including your postal and billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and date of birth and title
Information about your online browsing behaviour on our Website and information about when you click on one of our adverts (including those shown on other organisations’ websites)
Information about any devices you have used to access our site (including the make, model and operating system, IP address, browser type and mobile device identifiers)
Personal data you provide about yourself anytime you contact us about our Services (for example, your name and contact details), including by phone, email or post or when you speak with us through social media

How and why we use personal data

To Make our Services available to you: This means that processing your personal data allows us to: Process your orders and keep in touch with you in relation to your orders ang billing. We need to process your personal data so that we can manage your orders, provide you with our services and fulfill contracts with you. Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Contractual Necessity.
Manage and improve our Website: We use cookies and similar technologies on our to improve your user experience. Some cookies are necessary, so you should not disable these if you want to be able to use all the features of our Website. Legal basis: Legitimate interest. You can disable other cookies, but this may affect your user experience. For more information about cookies and how you can disable them, see the Cookie Policy section.
Develop and improve our services and the way we communicate with You: We rely on the use of personal data to carry out market research and internal research and development, and to improve our information technology system, and our services. This allows us to serve you better as a client. Legal basis: Legitimate interest.
Contact and interact with you: Contact you about our Services, for example by phone, email or post or by responding to social media posts that you have directed at us. We want to serve you better as a client so we use personal data to provide clarification or assistance in response to your communications. We also use personal data to notify our clients about possible changes in our services that may consider them. Legal basis: Legitimate interest.

Legal basis

In relation to the headings mentioned in the section above our legal basis mentioned as “legitimate interests” for processing your personal data is:

to service our clients needs, including delivering our services;
to promote and market our services;
to understand our clients;
to protect and support our business, colleagues, and partners;
to develop new services as well as improve existing ones.

Storage and protection of personal data

No personal data is stored unless voluntarily disclosed by you for a specific purpose, e.g. contact request via the contact form, or in performance of a contract.

We will not keep your personal data longer than we need to, how long this is depends on several factors, including:

Why we collected it in the first place;
How old it is;
Whether there is a legal/regulatory reason for us to keep it;
Whether we need it to protect you or us.

Brand Bar, or a service provider engaged by Brand Bar, uses your personal data only for the purposes listed above and only in the scope necessary for this purpose or according to the description of processing purposes. Our employees and the service providers engaged by us are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the GDPR (EU) and the Hungarian (Member State) Law. Moreover, all necessary technical and organizational measures are taken to comply with data protection rules.

Brand Bar takes security precautions to ensure that the data we have under our control is protected against manipulation, loss, destruction, and unauthorized access or disclosure. Our security measures are being continuously improved in accordance with the state of technological developments.

Cookies and similar technologies on our website

Cookies:

We use cookies to help us provide you with the best experience we can. Information on the cookies in use for this website can be found in our Cookie Policy

Third-parties:

Our partners whose cookie/other technologies are deployed on our website are:

Measurement & Personalisation

Google (Google Analytics)
Squarespace (Web platform)
Cookie-Script
Bitrix

Online marketing

Google (Adwords)

Social media

Facebook

External links:

Our website may contain links to third-party websites operated by providers that are not associated with us. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence over the collection, storage, or processing of any personal data transmitted by clicking the link (such as the IP address or URL of the page that contains the link), as the behaviour of third parties is, by nature, beyond our control. Therefore, Brand Bar is not responsible for the processing of personal data by third parties.

Revoking consent

You can revoke your consent to the future collection, processing, and use of your personal data.

Personal data will be deleted if the consent for its storage is revoked, if the data is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, or if storage of the data is inadmissible due to other legal reasons.

Data which is necessary for billing and accounting purposes or which is subject to the legal obligation to preserve is not affected.

Subject access rights and other data protection rights

You have the right to see the personal data we hold about you. This is called a Subject Access Request. If you would like a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us.

In relation to your personal data, you also have the right to:

have inaccurate information corrected,
object to our use of it,
restrict our use of it,
have us delete it,
have us transfer or "port" a copy of it,
complain to the data protection regulator

Contact the data protection regulator

To obtain more information or to submit suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information:

Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

H-1125 Budapest, Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor 22/C.

+36 1 391 1400

privacy@naih.hu

https://www.naih.hu/general-information.html

Validity and changes

This privacy policy came to force on 25. 05. 2018 and is in effect until revocation. The privacy policy may be subject of change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments.