PRIVACY POLICY
The purpose ofthis policy is to inform visitors to the website of that the company KIND TOBIOME AB (hereinafter referred to as "Kind to Biome" or "us, we"), which owns and operates this website, collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes personal data of visitors to the website. We assure youthat we are committed to protecting the security of the personal data of our website visitors. The purpose of this notice is to describe how we process your personal data and for what purposes. We reserve the right to update and amend this notice at any time, so we encourage you to check this page regularly forany changes.
1. What kind of personal data do we collect about you?
In principle, you do not need to provide uswith any personal information to browse our website. However, you may discloseyour personal information to us if you choose to subscribe to receive our news or if you decide to contact us (via the relevant form or by email). In these cases we will collect and process the following personal data aboutyou for the purposes set out below:
α) Subscription to our newsletter delivery service and other promotional activities
If you decide tosubscribe to our newsletter delivery service or consent to receive promotionalmaterials from us, we will collect your email address and/or phone number(depending on the collection platform) and use it to send you our newslettersvia email, SMS or digital messaging platforms (Viber, WhatsApp) to keep you upto date with our news and events. The legal basis for the processing of yourpersonal data is your consent, which we ask for when you subscribe to ournewsletter and which you can easily and quickly withdraw in any subsequentcommunication.
β) Contact us
Our websitegives you the opportunity to contact us by sending an email or filling in therelevant form or by mail to our postal address. If you contact us for anyreason, we will process the information you provide in order to contact you andhandle your message, request, information or query. The personal data we willprocess for this purpose is your first name, last name, email address,telephone number and the contents of the message you sent us. In this case, thelegal basis for the processing of your personal data will be our overridinglegitimate interest in handling appropriately the messages, requests,information or queries submitted by users of our website.
Also, you shouldbe aware that, regardless of the category of our services you use, our systemsautomatically collect certain data from your device for your browser tofunction properly:
i. Device identifiers (device ID,IP address, MAC Address)
ii. Software identifiers (browserand version)
iii. Navigation data on our website
2. Who has access to your personal data?
As a rule, we donot share your personal data collected through our website with any thirdparty.
Exceptionally,your personal data may be accessed by trusted external service providers whoprovide services to us, such as IT and hosting and advertising serviceproviders, only to the extent necessary to provide their services to us. Theseservice providers act as processors in relation to your personal data and arecommitted to processing it solely on our behalf and in accordance with ourinstructions and adhering to strict security measures to protect your personaldata.
We assure youthat in any case where we transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA,including the transfer of your personal data to third party service providersestablished outside the EU/EEA, we ensure that the country to which yourpersonal data is transferred ensures an adequate level of data protection basedon an adequacy decision of the European Commission or that appropriatesafeguards for the protection of personal data are in place, includingstandardised data protection measures.
3. How dowe process your personal data and for how long do we keep it?
We will onlyprocess your personal data that is reasonably necessary and relevant to thepurposes of processing, as set out above, and will not retain it only for aslong as necessary to fulfil those purposes.
Your personalinformation that you disclose to us when you contact us by submitting amessage, request, information or query will be stored in our records until wecan appropriately handle the relevant matter and can review and respond to yourrequest, message, information or query. Your personal data that you have shared with us so that we can send youour newsletter and keep you informed about our news and events will be storedon our mailing list until you decide to unsubscribe from it. Should you requestto unsubscribe, we will ensure that you are immediately removed from the listand we will no longer send you newsletters or other promotions.
4. Additional social plug-ins and cookies
Our website usesadditional social media for the purpose of linking to our Instagram andLinkedIn pages. These additional social media allow your personal data to be transmittedto the provider of the additional media, namely Meta and Microsoft. Also, ourwebsite uses google analytics cookies which allow us to measure websitetraffic. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data through thesocial media add-ons and cookies is your consent. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy below.
5. Your rights
You have theright of access, rectification, erasure, opposition and restriction to theprocessing of your personal data held in our records. In some cases, you havethe right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used andmachine-readable format and to request its transfer to a third party. You alsohave the right to withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter by sending arequest or by selecting the "Unsubscribe" link in each message wesend you. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authorityif you believe we are in breach of data protection legislation
6. Contact details
To exercise yourrights and any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by us,you can contact us in the following ways:
By postal letterto our headquarters:
KIND TO BIOME AB
Box 7782, SE–10396 Stockholm
By sending anemail to the email address: hey@kindtobiome.com
COOKIEPOLICY
1. What are cookies?
"Cookies"are small pieces of text files that are stored in the User's browser whenvisiting a website. The information that is stored on the User's computer may containinformation such as which pages the User has visited, the date and time of thevisit and a random and unique number identifying the User. Under nocircumstances do cookies contain personal information or information that wouldallow anyone to contact the website visitor by telephone, e-mail, etc. Inaddition, by using cookies there is no access to documents or files on yourcomputer.
By using this,our websites are able to store useful information about the User's browsing onthe Site, as well as read this information in order to provide the User with aunified browsing experience.
In addition,cookies help us to monitor the performance and traffic of our website,improving its presentation and content according to the preferences of ourvisitors.
2. What cookies do we use on our Site?
We use cookies tocompile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how the public usesour websites and help us to improve their structure and content. You can modifyyour browser settings to reject some or all cookies, except those that arestrictly necessary. You should be aware that some features are only availablethrough the use of cookies and if you choose to reject cookies, these featuresmay not be available. In general, there are the following categories of cookiesused on our Sites.
These cookies are used to track your behaviorwhen navigating the website and provide us insights on how our users interactwith our content.
Cookie
_ga
.kindtobiome.com
Type
Analytics
Description
The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
Lifespan
2 years
Cookie
_gid
.kindtobiome.com
Type
Analytics
Description
Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
Lifespan
1 day
Cookie
_gat_gtag_UA_233255123_1
.kindtobiome.com
Type
Analytics
Description
Set by Google to distinguish users.
Lifespan
1 minute
Cookie
ln_or
Type
Analytics
Description
Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website for internal analytics.
Lifespan
1 day
Cookie
UserMatchHistory
.linkedin.com
Type
Functional
Description
LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.
Lifespan
1 month
Cookie
AnalyticsSyncHistory
.linkedin.com
Type
Analytics
Description
Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie.
Lifespan
1 month
Cookie
bcookie
.linkedin.com
Type
Functional
Description
LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID.
Lifespan
1 year
Cookie
lidc
.linkedin.com
Type
Functional
Description
LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection.
Lifespan
1 day
Cookie
bscookie
.www.linkedin.com
Type
Functional
Description
LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website.
Lifespan
1 year
Cookie
li_gc
.linkedin.com
Type
Functional
Description
Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes.
Lifespan
5 months 27 days
3. How to control cookies?
It is at your discretion to withdraw your consent or object to the use of cookies on your computer or device, to control and/or delete cookies using the cookie settings above.
4. What are your rights?
You have the rights:
5. Where canyou find more information about the protection of personal data collected bycookies?
Information aboutthe protection of your personal data and your rights can be found in ourPrivacy Policy.
6. Where canyou find more information about the general use of cookies?
More informationabout the general use of cookies, and the methods of blocking or restrictingthem, can be found at //cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies andwww.allaboutcookies.org/.
In case you wishto enable or disable the use of cookies from your browser settings, you canvisit the following websites and be informed about the necessary actions youneed to take
7. Changes to the Cookie Policy.
This Cookies Policy may be modified at any time. We therefore recommend that you refer tothis Policy regularly. If it is amended, the date on which it was amended willbe indicated at the top of the page. The Cookies Policy, as formulated by themost recent modification, shall always be deemed to be valid.
