Privacy Policy

Declaration of Data Protection

Secret Stories by Daalarna pays special attention to data protection and we aim to make the management and processing of your data open and transparent. This data protection regulation concerns those personal data which are collected, created and managed when you visit the secretstoriesbydaalarna website. Furthermore, the Regulation introduces the way of using, sharing and the protection of your data, what choices you have concerning your data and how you may contact us.

Who manages your personal data?

If you submit your data on our website, the management of those data is performed by Daalarna Kft., and, in accordance with the relevant legislation of data protection, our firm bears responsibility for your personal data.

• Daalarna Kft.
• 1054 Budapest, Alkotmány u. 23. fsz., Hungary
• Company registry No.: 01-09-703051
• VAT No.: 12779431-2-41
• Managing Director: Ms Anita Benes

What personal data are collected?

In order to perform our services efficiently, and, in order to provide the services and products you requested, we may request you to submit your personal data, your wedding photos, and wedding providers’ data, or subscribe to our mailing list, or visit our website. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

These personal data include the following:

When using the website

• your contact details, including your name, email address and phone number
  
• settings concerning marketing messages and cookies
• your uploaded images can be downloaded

When visiting our website, certain data are automatically collected from your device or browser. Further information regarding the above processes are outlined in chapter “Cookies” of the present Regulation. These data include the following: cookies, IP addresses, referer header, data identifying your browser and its version, web beacons and tags.

Vendor Guide/Credits   

Please note that joining our vendor guide does not mean that you will receive a guaranteed submission or a guaranteed Instagram. You’ll have access to Wedding Inspiration where you can share and post your work regularly.  Secret Stories is not responsible for missing vendor credits, incorrect links or text submitted for a feature. If your credit is missing please email: info@daalarna.hu

Personal data concerning children

We strictly adhere to the local rules and regulations, no children are allowed to register on our website before their 18th birthday. We would like parents to be actively involved in their children’s internet browsing habits. If you are under 18, please do not submit any personal data on our websites, leave this to your parents.

Where are your data stored?

Your data are stored and processed in the territory of Hungary.

Who can have access to your data?

Your data are collected stored and processed by Daalarna Kft. employees. Your data are in no circumstances passed on, sold or exchanged for marketing purposes with third parties outside Daalarna Kft. Data forwarded to third parties are only used in order to provide our services to you.

External service providers

Daalarna Kft. uses external service providers who cooperate with Daalarna Kft. As far as personal data managed in the systems of external providers are concerned, the General Data Protection Regulation of the external provider applies. Daalarna Kft. attempts everything within its power to ensure that the external provider manages the personal data made available to them in accordance with the relevant legislation, and to use those data solely for the purpose defined by the data owner or purposes outlined in the Data Protection Information below. Daalarna Kft. hereby informs the data owners of the forwarding of their data to external service providers by the means of this Declaration of Data Protection.

External service providers:

• Websupport Magyarország Kft. (Victor Hugo utca 18-22., 1132 Budapest, Magyarország)
• Sales Contact Szolgáltató Kft. (1115 Budapest, Halmi u. 61.)
• Systemfarmer Kft. (1119 Budapest, Petzvál József utca 28. 1. em. 2.)
• Facebook (Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Írország)
• Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA)
• Microsoft Corporation (One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-7329, USA)
• AppNexus Inc. (28 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA)
• Internet BillBoard a.s. (Beethovenova 2, 746 01 Opava, Csehország)
• Gemius Hungary Kft. (1053 Budapest, Szép utca 5. 1. em. 2.)
• MAXER HOSTING KFT. (9024 Győr, Répce utca 24. 1. em. 3., Hungary)

What is the legal base of the data processing?

At every single act of processing your data, you are informed whether taking your personal data is based on legal rules and regulations, or they are required in order to create a contract, whether the submission of personal data is obligatory or not, and what the possible consequences of our refusal to submit your data are.

Why and how are your personal data used and managed?

Your personal data are used in accordance with the following:

• To ensure functions of our website and services that you required

We may need personal data collected at our website in order to be able to provide the highest possible level of service, for example to inform you of possibilities that may be of interest to you, and to get to know the requirements of our visitors in order to provide the best possible service.

If you contact us through the secretstoriesbydaalarna website

• To provide information about our products, services and events and for
  other promotion purposes

If you give us permission to do so, we will send you marketing communication and news about Daalarna products, services, events and promotions. After giving your consent, you may notify us anytime that you no longer wish to receive such information. If you are already a Daalarna client (for example you have ordered from us before) we may use your contact details you provided earlier to send you marketing messages about other Daalarna products and services, as long as it is permitted by the relevant legal regulations, and as long as you do not notify us that you no longer wish to receive such information. Information submitted by you or gained from other Daalarna sources, such as your using the Daalarna website, your visit to the Daalarna showroom, your shopping with Daalarna and data of your attending Daalarna events and other sources may be used to send you tailored messages about products and services that may be of interest to you.

• To pursue our business activities and to develop and support our products and services

Personal data submitted by you may also be used to continue our business activities. For example the relevant information of your shopping with us may be used in accounting, auditing and other internal functions. Personal data of your ways of using our products and services are used in order to develop our user interface, such data provide us with assistance in identifying service-related issues and in managing our website.

• To perform general research and analyses

Data concerning the ways of using our website are used to analyse customer behaviour and preferences.

• Your rights

Right of access:

You have the right to request information on your personal data stored by us. Please contact us and we will send you your personal data in an email.

Right of transfer:

When Daalarna Kft. automatically processes your personal data, based on your consent or agreement, you have the right to request that your stored data be transferred to you or any other party in a digitally accessible format. This only applies to personal data that you submitted to us.

Right of correction:

You have the right to request the correction of your data if they should be erroneous, including the supplement of your missing data.

Right of deletion:

You have the right to delete your data unless you have an order in progress, which has not been delivered yet or if we are obliged to retain such data for legitimate business purposes or we are required by law.

Right of objection to the processing of your data with a justifiable interest:

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data: Daalarna Kft. will discontinue to process your personal data, unless we are able to prove our justifiable interest in the processing, which may supersede your interests and rights, or as a result of a legal damages process.

Right of objecting to direct marketing:

You have the right to object to direct marketing. You may waive direct marketing in the following methods:

• follow the relevant instructions in marketing emails (unsubscribe newsletters)
• send your request to Secret Stories by Daalarna at info@daalarna.hu
• mail sent to the headquarters of Daalarna Kft.

Right of limiting:

You have the right to request that the processing of your data be limited by Daalarna Kft. under the following circumstances:

• If you have objections to your data being processed based on the justifiable interest of Daalarna, Daalarna will limit the processing of your data until the proof of the justifiable interest has been produced.
• If you claim that your personal data are erroneous, Daalarna Kft. is obliged to limit the processing of such data until the accuracy of the personal data has been proved.
• If the processing of your data has no legal base, you may object to your data being deleted and request that your data be limited instead.
• If Daalarna Kft. no longer needs your personal data, but needs to retain them in order to defend their claim for damages.

How can you exert your rights?

We consider data protection to be a serious issue, therefore it is always Daalarna employees who manage the requests that concern the above rights. You are welcome anytime to contact us at the email address info@daalarna.hu

The right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority:

If you think that Daalarna processes your data incorrectly, please do contact us. You also have the right to file your complaint with a supervisory authority.

COOKIES

The Secret Stories by Daalarna website is freely available to anyone without submitting their personal data (registration)

When you use our website, Daalarna Kft. collects information submitted by your internet browser, that may include personal data.

The so-called cookies are small files that we save on your computer so that we can identify you in the course of your visit. Cookies also help us not to bother you by sending you the same advertisement repeatedly, or to tailor our sites for your needs. Apart from the above, we also collect general data about the visits. For example, we make statistics about the number of visitors on a given day, the most frequently visited sites, and the time spent on those sites. These data make it possible for us to get to know the requirements of our visitors better, and thus offer the most appropriate products and services. Data collected this way are never connected with data that could identify you personally. This simply means that the visit has been recorded but the identity of the visitor remains unknown.

We use various methods to collect such information, for example cookies and web beacons. Information collected this way may include (i) your IP address; (ii) your individual cookie identification, cookie information and information about whether your device has the necessary software to use certain functions; (iii) individual device identification and the type of device; (iv) information on the domain, type and language of browser; (v) operation system and system settings; (vi) country and time zone; (vii) data referring to websites visited earlier; (viii) your visits to our website, for example your clicking habits, earlier shopping with us, your preferences and (ix) access times and referer URL headers.

Through our website third parties may also collect data through the means of their plugin devices and widgets. Such third parties collect data directly about your internet browser. The management of such data is performed in accordance with the own data protection regulation of those third parties.

In order to track our customers’ use of our website and to analyse customer preferences (for example: the selection of language) we use cookies and web beacons. These make it possible for us to provide services for our customers and to enhance the online user experience. Cookies and web beacons are also used for collecting accumulated data on website traffic and interaction, to identify tendencies and collect statistical data in order to develop our websites.

We generally use three types of cookies on our websites:

• Functional: these cookies are required for the basic operation of the
  website and therefore they are always on. Functional cookies include
  cookies that record your settings of your one-off visit on our website,
  or, should you desire so, in the course of every visit. They facilitate
  the operation of the basket and paying functions and provide support in
  security issues and in meeting the requirement

• Performance: by tracking the use of the website, these cookies
  facilitate us in enhancing the operation of our websites. In certain cases
  these cookies increase the speed of of processing your request and record
  your settings on the website. Declining these cookies may hinder the
  tailoring of our offers and slow down the operation of the website.
  
   
• Social media and advertisement: social media cookies facilitate the
  process of connecting to social media networks and sharing our website’s
  contents on social media. Advertisement cookies (used by third parties)
  collect information that facilitate the presentation of advertisements
  that may be of interest to you. In certain cases using these cookies comes
  together with the processing of your personal data. If you decline these
  cookies, you may be presented with advertisements that are less likely to
  be of interest to you or it may occur that you cannot connect to Facebook,
  Twitter and other social media sites and/or cannot share contents in
  social media.
  
   
• Statistics (applying Google Analytics): This website uses the Google
  Analytics application which is the service of Google Inc. (“Google”).
  Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files saved on your
  computer, thus facilitating the analysis of the utilisation of a website
  visited by the user. Information generated by cookies connected to the
  website used by the user are generally saved and stored on a Google server
  in the USA. By activating IP anonymisation on the website Google first
  shortens the user’s IP address within the member states of the European
  Union or other states participating in the agreement of the European
  Economic Area. The full IP address may be forwarded to an American Google
  server and shortened there in exceptional cases only. Google, commissioned
  by the operator of this website, will use this information to establish
  how the user used the website, as well as providing reports for the
  website operator in connection with the activities of the website and to
  provide further services connected to the internet use. The Google
  Analytics does not assign the IP address forwarded by the user’s browser
  to other Google data. By selecting the appropriate setting, users may
  decline storing these data, however, we would like to notify you, that in
  this case not all functions of this website may be fully available.
  Furthermore, you can prevent Google from collecting and processing user
  data related to the use of the website (including the IP address) if you
  download and install the plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=hu
  
  
  
  Should you require comprehensive, up-to-date summary of every third party
  that may have access to your internet browser, the installation of a
  plugin developed for this specific purpose is recommended. You may also opt
  for having a warning from your computer every time a cookie is sent or you
  can disable all cookies. You can do this in the settings of your browser
  by performing these steps in every browser and device you use. Individual
  browsers may vary to a certain extent, therefore it is recommended that
  you check the correct settings of cookies in the help menu of your
  browser. If you disable cookies, a number of functions that make our
  websites more efficient may not be available and certain of our services
  may not work properly.
  
  
  Secretstoriesbydaalarna.com server is operated by MAXER HOSTING KFT. (9024 Győr, Répce utca 24. 1. em. 3., Hungary).

Newsletter system

In order to keep interested clients up to date, Daalarna Kft. operates a newsletter system in which we handle the personal data (full name, email address) submitted by the users during their registration on our website with the previous consent of the recipient. Daalarna sends its newsletter through the Mailchimp international newsletter system from outside Hungary, thus, apart from registration, you are required to express your consent to your data being forwarded to a foreign data handler. The Mailchimp system is operated by The Rocket Science Group, LLC (675 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA). Data management meeting the requirements of the European Union is performed by the operator in accordance with the regulations of the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework” data exchange agreement. The user may unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link at the footer of the newsletter. Your data stored in the system will be automatically deleted, or if you request it in an email (info@daalarna.hu ). Daalarna will delete your data immediately but at the latest, within 8 days.

Links to other websites

In order to provide a better service, on our websites we place links to other websites. We bear no responsibility for the contents of these websites or for their data protection regulations. Links to other organizations’ sites do not mean that we support their services or that we are in agreement with their procedures.

Updates of the Declaration of Data Protection

The relevant legal regulation and our procedure practices may be amended from time to time. If we decide to update our regulation of data protection, amendments will be published on our websites. In case of a significant modification of the method of the handling of your data by us, you will be notified in advance, and if the regulation requires so, we will request your consent prior to performing the modification. We strongly recommend reading our data protection regulation and staying up-to-date with our practices. The present Data protection regulation was last amended in April, 2019.

Questions and feedback

We are always happy to answer your questions, comments related to our Data Protection Regulation and practices of data protection. If you should wish to send us feedback, have a question or a concern, or simply wish to exert your rights connected to your personal data, please contact our colleagues at info@daalarna.hu or by posting a letter to the address of Daalarna Kft.

Our Declaration is based on the following regulations:

• (Hungarian) Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and
  Freedom of Information (“Privacy Act”)
• Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council
  of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the
  processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and
  repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
• (Hungarian) Act XLVIII of 2018 on business and advertising activities

The Daalarna Data Protection Regulation was updated on 28 April, 2019.