Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 24 April 2021.

We know that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Notice describes how we collect and process your personal information through Gate2Buy websites, devices, products, services, online and physical stores, and applications that reference this Privacy Notice (together "Gate2Buy Services").

Controllers of Personal Information

Gate2Buy Aps are data controllers of personal information collected and processed through Gate2Buy Services.

What Personal Information About Customers Does Gate2Buy Collect?

We collect your personal information in order to provide and continually improve our products and services.

Here are the types of information we gather:

•   Information You Give Us: we receive and store any information you provide in relation to Gate2Buy Services. You can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our Gate2Buy Services.

•   Automatic Information: we automatically receive and store certain types of information when you use Gate2Buy Services, such as information about your use, including your interaction with content and services available through Gate2Buy Services. Like many websites, we use cookies and other unique identifiers and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses Gate2Buy Services and other content served by or on behalf of Gate2Buy Europe on other websites.

•   Information From Other Sources: we might receive information about you from other sources.

For What Purposes Does Gate2Buy Process Your Personal Information?

We process your personal information to operate, provide, and improve the Gate2Buy Services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:

•   Purchase and delivery of products and services. We use your personal information to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, and communicate with you about orders, products and services, and promotional offers.

•   Provide, troubleshoot, and improve Gate2Buy Services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyse performance, fix errors, and improve usability and effectiveness of the Gate2Buy Services.

•   Recommendations and personalisation. We use your personal information to recommend features, products, and services that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalise your experience with Gate2Buy Services.

•   Provide voice services. When you use our voice services, we process your voice input and other personal information to respond to your requests, provide the requested service to you, and improve Gate2Buy Services. For more information about Alexa voice services click here

•   Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we have a legal obligation to collect and process your personal information. For instance, we collect from Suppliers information regarding place of establishment and bank account information for identity verification and other purposes.

•   Communicate with you. We use your personal information to communicate with you in relation to Gate2Buy Services via different channels (e.g., by phone, email, chat).

•   Advertising. We use your personal information to display interest-based ads for features, products, and services that might be of interest to you. To learn more, please read our Interest-Based Ads notice.

•   Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks. We process personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers, Gate2Buy Europe, and others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks.

•   Purposes for which we seek your consent. We may also ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing of your data for that purpose.

What About Cookies?

To enable our systems to recognise your browser or device and to provide Gate2Buy Services to you, we use cookies.

Does Gate2Buy Europe Share Your Personal Information?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we are not in the business of selling our customers' personal information to others. Gate2Buy Europe shares customers' information only as described below and with Gate2Buyand the subsidiaries that Gate2Buycontrols that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

•   Transactions involving Third Parties: We make available to you services, products, applications, or skills provided by third parties for use on or through Gate2Buy Services. For example, you can order products from third parties through our retail websites, download applications from third-party application providers from our App Store, and enable third-party skills through our Alexa services. We also offer services or sell product lines jointly with third-party businesses, such as co-branded credit cards. You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions and we share customer information related to those transactions with that third party.

•   Third Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing payments, transmitting content, scoring credit risk, and providing customer service. These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

•   Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Gate2Buyor substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.

•   Protection of Gate2Buy Europe and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of Gate2Buy Europe, our users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

•   Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Transfers out of the European Economic Area.

Transfers out of the European Economic Area. Whenever we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area in the course of sharing information as set out above, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.

How Secure is Information About Me?

We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.

•   We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

•   We follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) when handling credit card data.

•   We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personal customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.

•   Our devices offer security features to protect them against unauthorised access and loss of data. You can control these features and configure them based on your needs.

•   It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computers, devices, and applications. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer and switch on user 2 factor identification in you profile.

What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?

Gate2Buy Services may include third-party advertising and links to other websites and apps. Third party advertising partners may collect information about you when you interact with their content, advertising, and services. For more information about third-party advertising at Gate2Buy Europe, including interest-based ads, please read our Interest-Based Ads notice. To adjust your advertising preferences, please go to the Advertising Preferences page.

What Information Can I Access?

You can access your information, including your name, address, payment options, profile information, Prime membership, household settings, and purchase history in the "My Profile" section of the website.

What Choices Do I Have?

If you have any questions or objection as to how we collect and process your personal information, please contact our Customer Service. Many of our Gate2Buy Services also include settings that provide you with options as to how your information is being used.

•   As described above, you can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of the Gate2Buy Services.

•   If you don't want to receive e-mail or other communications from us, please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences. If you don't want to receive in-app notifications from us, please adjust your notification settings in the app or your device.

•   The Help feature on most browsers and devices will tell you how to prevent your browser or device from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether. Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some essential Gate2Buy Services, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Basket, proceed to Checkout, or use any Gate2Buy Services that require you to Sign in. For more information about cookies, see our Cookies Notice.

•   If you want to browse our websites anonymously, you may do so by logging out of your account and disabling cookies on your browser.

•   When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop any further processing of your data for that purpose.

•   Users can add or update the information they have provided in the Member area by accessing their accounts in the ‘my Profile’ area and adjust the email or other communications they receive from us by updating the Notification Preferences.

You may also object to our processing of your personal data or ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain instances.

In addition, subject to applicable law, you have the right to request access to, correct, and delete your personal data, and to ask for data portability. You may also object to our processing of your personal data or ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain instances. If you wish to do any of these things, please contact Customer Service

Are Children Allowed to Use Gate2Buy Services?

Gate2Buy Europe doesn't sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you're under 18, you may use Gate2Buy Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information?

We keep your personal information to enable your continued use of Gate2Buy Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfil the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Notice, as may be required by law such as for tax and accounting purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you. For example, we retain your transaction history so that you can review past purchases (and repeat orders if desired) and what addresses you have shipped orders to, and to improve the relevancy of products and content we recommend.

Contacts, Notices & Revisions

If you have any concern about privacy at Gate2Buy Europe or want to contact one of our data controllers, please contact us with a thorough description and we will try to resolve the issue for you. Further, the data protection officer for the above mentioned data controllers can be contacted at eu-privacy@Gate2Buy.com. You can file a complaint with our principal supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données in Luxembourg www.cnpd.lu, or with a local authority.

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice will change also. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Examples of Information Collected

Information You Give Us When You Use Gate2Buy Services

You provide information to us when you:

•   search for products or services;

•   place an order through Gate2Buy Services;

•   provide information in Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail address or mobile number when shopping with us) or Your Profile;

•   your contacts;

•   your settings on, provide data access permissions for, or interact with your device on Gate2Buy Service;

•   provide information in your Supplier Account or any other account we make available that allows you to develop or offer goods, or services to Gate2Buy customers;

•   offer your products or services on or through Gate2Buy Services;

•   communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise;

•   complete a questionnaire, a support ticket, or a contest entry form;

•   upload images, videos or other files to Prime Photos, Gate2Buy Drive, or other Gate2Buy Services;

•   Participate in community features, provide and rate Customer Reviews;

As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as: your name; address and phone number; payment information; your age; your location information; people to whom purchases have been dispatched or people listed in settings (including addresses and phone numbers); e-mail addresses of your friends and other people; content of reviews and e-mails to us; personal description and photograph in Your Profile; images and video stored in connection with Gate2Buy Services, information and documents regarding identity and standing; corporate and financial information; credit history information; VAT numbers.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyse include:

•   the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet;

•   login; e-mail address; password;

•   the location of your device or computer;

•   content interaction information, such as content downloads,  including information about your internet service provider;

•   device metrics such as when a device is in use, application usage, connectivity data, and any errors or event failures;

•   Gate2Buy Service metrics (e.g., the occurrences of technical errors, your interactions with service features and content, your settings preferences and backup information, location of your device running an application, information about uploaded images and files (e.g., file name, dates, times and location of your images));

•   purchase and content use history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as Best Suppliers;

•   the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); cookie number; products and/ or content you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs),

•   phone numbers used to call our customer service number.

We may also use device identifiers, cookies, and other technologies on devices, applications and our web pages to collect browsing, usage or other technical information for fraud prevention purposes.

Information From Other Sources

Examples of information we receive from other sources include:

•   updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily;

•   account information, purchase or redemption information and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising or other services;

•   information about your interactions with products and services offered by our subsidiaries;

•   search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links);

•   credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.

Information You Can Access

Examples of information you can access through Gate2Buy Services include:

•   status of recent orders (including subscriptions);

•   your complete order history;

•   personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications and personalised advertising preferences, address book);

•   payment settings (including payment card information and gift voucher, gift card and cheque balances);

•   e-mail notification settings (including Product Availability, Deliveries and newsletters);

•   recommendations and the products you recently viewed that are the basis for recommendations (including Recommended for You and Improve Your Recommendations);

•   shopping lists  (including Wish Lists);

•   your content, devices, services, and related settings;

•   content that you recently viewed;

•   Your Profile (including your product Reviews, Recommendations, Reminders and personal profile).

•   Suppliers can access their account and other information, and adjust their communications preferences, by updating their accounts in My Profile.

EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield

Gate2Buy and certain of its controlled affiliates have certified with the Department of Commerce that we adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles.

If you have any inquiries or complaints about our handling of your personal data under Privacy Shield, or about our privacy practices generally, please contact us at: privacyshield@Gate2Buy or update your Profile at ate2Buy. We will respond to your inquiry promptly.

If we transfer personal information received under the Privacy Shield to a third party, the third party's access, use, and disclosure of the personal data must also be in compliance with our Privacy Shield obligations, and we will remain liable under the Privacy Shield for any failure to do so by the third party unless we prove we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

The Gate2Buy Group Companies are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of theTrade Commission. We may be required to disclose personal information that we handle under the Privacy Shield in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.