Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy tells you how we collect and use your personal data via the Oregon Knife Collectors Association website, https://oregonknifecollectors.com.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 16 years of age.
Oregon Knife Collectors Association is the data controller, and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we,” “us,” and “our” in this statement.
Data Collection (What Data, Why, and How It’s Processed)
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include data given anonymously.
We may process the following categories of personal information:
Communication Information: This includes any communication you send to us through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping, and for the establishment, pursuance or defense of legal claims. Lawful grounds: to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue, or defend legal claims.
Customer Information: This includes info relating to any purchases of goods and/or services you make via our website, such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Lawful grounds: the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
User Information: This includes data on how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. This data is processed to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases, and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Lawful grounds: to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
Technical Information: this includes data concerning your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyze your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Lawful grounds: to enable us to properly administer our website and our business, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.
Marketing Information: this includes info about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws, and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Lawful grounds: to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.
We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data, and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook advertisements or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Lawful grounds: to grow our business.
Sensitive Information We do not collect any Sensitive Information about you. Sensitive information refers to info that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
Marketing Communications
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
We do not share any of your data with third parties to use for marketing.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.
Disclosures of Your Personal Information
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
Service providers for product delivery.
Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International Transfers
The Oregon Knife Collectors Association is established in the United States of America (USA), and the majority of our data is processed in the USA. If you are visiting or make a purchase while in the European Economic Area (EEA), please be aware that, by default, your data will be at least