Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen

Last Updated: April 2012

Introduction

This website at www.ghdhair.com, including any discussion forums contained on the website (“Site”) is operated by [Jemella Limited (trading as ghd)], a company incorporated in Germany registered number 99022/18612  with its registered address at Leuschnerstraße 43, Stuttgart, 70176, (collectively, “ghd” or “we/us/our”).  ghd may be contacted at the above address.

We appreciate your interest in the products and services on the Site and your visit to the Site.

Agreement

Using the Site

If you have any queries regarding the Site of any of the information or materials contained on or in it, please contact us by email at [ghd-online@ghdhair.com] or by telephone on [+44 (0) 845 330 1133].  

The use of this Site is subject to these Terms of Use which set out the basic rules that govern your use of the Site.  Please read the Terms of Use carefully, as your use of the Site constitutes your agreement to be bound by the Terms of Use.  If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please do not use the Site.

Terms of Use

1.               Modification

We may change, edit, delete or revise the content of this Site from time to time, including these Terms of Use.  Please check this page for changes which have been made to the Terms of Use.  Your use of this Site after a change has been posted constitutes your acceptance of the amended Terms of Use.

2.               Terms of Sale, Registration, Accounts and Passwords

2.1  These Terms of Use do not apply to the sale of goods via the Site.  Such sales are subject to our Terms of Sale.

2.2  Accessing certain services on the Site may require registration and the creation of an account.  Please ensure that the details you provide upon registration or at any time are complete and accurate, and inform us immediately of any changes to the details you provided when registering. You will not be able to create an account unless you are at least 16 years of age.

2.3  When you register for an account on the Site, you will be asked to create a password.  You agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account details and password, and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account.  You agree to promptly notify us if you have reason to believe that your account details or password have been lost, or if they are likely to be used in an unauthorised manner.  Please click here if you need to reset your password at any time. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password, and, subject to clause ‎6.5, we will not be liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, your failure to comply with this section of the Terms of Use.

2.4  We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your use of the Site at any time, for any reason, without prior notification.

3.               Intellectual Property

3.1   We are the owner or the licensee of all copyright, design rights, database rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in this Site, and in the material published on it.  Your use of the Site grants no rights to you in relation to our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of third parties.  All such rights not expressly granted are reserved.

3.2  You may access this Site only to participate in the Site or make Contributions (as defined below) or to place an order for Products. Any other use is prohibited unless agreed to by us in writing. You agree not to change or delete any ownership notices from materials downloaded or printed from the Site.

3.3  You may not modify, copy, translate, broadcast, perform, display, distribute, frame, reproduce, republish, display, post, transmit or sell any content or intellectual property appearing on this Site.

3.4  If you print off, copy or download any part of this Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use this Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

4.               Links to third party websites and restrictions

4.1  The use of third party websites is entirely at your own risk.  Links contained in the Site will lead to other websites not under our control, and we accept no liability for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.  Links provided on the Site are provided to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply reliability and endorsement by us of the content of any third party’s website.

4.2  These Terms of Use do not apply to any third party website linked to the Site.  You should read the terms and conditions of those websites before using them and direct any questions or comments about the linked website’s contents to the relevant website provider.

4.3  You are not entitled (nor will you assist others) to set up links from your own websites to the Site (whether by hypertext linking, deep-linking, framing, toggling or otherwise) without our prior written consent, which we may grant or withhold at our absolute discretion.

4.4  You agree that when accessing the Site you shall not price scrape or harvest pricing either manually or by use of a web spider, web robot or any other web crawling or other technology.

5.               User Review and Contributions

5.1  Users of the Site may submit product reviews, profiles, images, portfolios, videos, instructions, comments, questions, feedback, ideas, suggestions or other information or materials via the Site or otherwise (collectively “Contributions”), so long as such Contributions comply with our contribution standards, set out below in clause ‎5.2 (“Contribution Standards”).

5.2  Contribution Standards

5.2.1  These standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to this Site, and to any interactive services associated with it including our Stylist Feed.  You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter.  The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

5.2.2  Contributions must:

5.2.2.1  be accurate (where they state facts);

5.2.2.2  be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and

5.2.2.3  comply with applicable law in Germany.

5.2.3  Contributions must not:

5.2.3.1  contain any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

5.2.3.2  promote sexually explicit material;

5.2.3.3  promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;

5.2.3.4  advocate, promote or assist any illegal act, including, but not limited to, violence or computer misuse or the infringement of the intellectual property rights of any other person;

5.2.3.5  be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;

5.2.3.6  be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;

5.2.3.7  be likely to deceive any person or be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; or

5.2.3.8  give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

5.3  Failure to comply with the Contribution Standards constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use upon which you are permitted to use this Site.  We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of the Contribution Standards through your use of this Site.  If a breach of the Contribution Standards has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including taking all or any of the following actions:

5.3.1  immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use this Site;

5.3.2  immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to this Site;

5.3.3  issue of a warning to you;

5.3.4  legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;

5.3.5  further legal action against you; and

5.3.6  disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

5.4  Any Contributions shall be and remain our property, and by making a Contribution to the Site you agree to assign to us all worldwide rights, title and interest in all intellectual property in your Contributions.  Thus, we will own exclusively all such rights, title and interests in any Contributions, and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of any Contributions.  We are and shall be under no obligation to maintain any Contributions in confidence, to pay any compensation or royalty for any Contributions, or to respond to any Contributions.

6.               Disclaimer of liability

6.1  Whilst we have taken all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information on this Site, it is provided on an “as is” basis and we give no warranty and make no representation regarding the accuracy or completeness of the content of this Site. Further, no warranty is given that the Site shall be available on an uninterrupted basis, and no liability can be accepted in respect of losses or damages arising out of such unavailability. For the avoidance of doubt, this disclaimer of liability does not apply to any sales contract concluded via this Site to which the Terms of Sale apply.

6.2  Access to and use of this Site is at the user’s own risk and we do not warrant that the use of this Site or any material downloaded from it will not cause damage to any property, including but not limited to loss of data or computer virus infection.  We accept no liability for viruses or other computer contaminants.  You are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards (such as installing appropriate anti-virus software) and firewalls before downloading information or images from the Site.

6.3  Subject to clause ‎6.5 below, we shall not be liable to you for any of the following arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site:

6.3.1  any indirect, special or consequential losses;

6.3.2  any losses or damages arising out of changes made to the content of this Site by unauthorised third parties;

6.3.3  any loss of business, data, profits, revenue, goodwill, use or anticipated savings;

6.3.4  loss or damage to your, or any third party’s, data or records;

6.3.5  any actions taken in response to breaches of the Contribution Standards set out in clause ‎5.3 above; or

6.3.6  any delay in, or failure of, performance of our obligations under these Terms of Use arising from any cause beyond our reasonable control including any of the following: act of God, governmental act, war, fire, flood, explosion or civil commotion, failure in information technology or telecommunications services, failure of a third party (including failure to supply data) and industrial action.

6.4  Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, we exclude all representations, conditions and warranties whether express or implied (by statute or otherwise) to the fullest extent permitted by law.

6.5  We do not seek to exclude or limit our liability to you for:

6.5.1  death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

6.5.2  fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

6.5.3  any terms implied under the Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz);

7.               Miscellaneous

7.1  These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Germany and only the courts of Germany will have exclusive jurisdiction with respect to any dispute arising under or in relation to them.

7.2  If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, it will be severed from the rest of these Terms of Use which shall remain unaffected.

7.3  No delay or failure by us to exercise any powers, rights or remedies under these Terms of Use will operate as a waiver of them, nor will any single or partial exercise of any such powers, rights or remedies preclude any other or further exercise of them.

7.4  Please read the terms of the Privacy Policy which contains important information about the use of the personal information you provide when using this Site.

7.5  Competitions or other promotional features which may be made available through this Site from time to time may also have specific terms and conditions.  You will need to read and accept these before making a submission.

Merchant of Record

GHD Deutschland GmbH
Leuschnerstr. 43
Stuttgart, Stuggart/West 70176
DE

Dies sind die Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen (AGB) der ghd Deutschland GmbH, Leuschnerstraße 43, 70176 Stuttgart (im Folgenden „Anbieter”), die im Rahmen von Kaufverträgen gelten, die über die Plattform www.ghdhair.de zwischen dem Anbieter und den in § 2 des Vertrags bezeichneten Kunden (im Folgenden „Kunde”) geschlossen werden.

1 Geltungsbereich, Begriffsbestimmungen

1. Für die Geschäftsbeziehung zwischen dem Anbieter und dem Kunden gelten ausschließlich die nachfolgenden Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen in ihrer zum Zeitpunkt der Bestellung gültigen Fassung. Abweichende Bedingungen des Bestellers werden nicht anerkannt, es sei denn, der Anbieter stimmt ihrer Geltung ausdrücklich schriftlich zu.
2. Der Kunde ist Verbraucher, soweit der Zweck der georderten Lieferungen und Leistungen nicht seiner gewerblichen oder selbständigen beruflichen Tätigkeit zugerechnet werden kann. Dagegen ist Unternehmer jede natürliche oder juristische Person oder rechtsfähige Personengesellschaft, die beim Abschluss des Vertrags in Ausübung ihrer gewerblichen oder selbständigen beruflichen Tätigkeit handelt.

2 Vertragsschluss

1. Der Kunde kann aus dem Sortiment des Anbieters Produkte, insbesondere Styler und andere Haarprodukte auswählen und diese über den Button „in den Warenkorb legen” in einem so genannten Warenkorb sammeln. Über den Button „Bestellung abschicken” gibt er einen verbindlichen Antrag zum Kauf der im Warenkorb befindlichen Waren ab. Vor Abschicken der Bestellung kann der Kunde die Daten jederzeit ändern und einsehen. Der Antrag kann jedoch nur abgegeben und übermittelt werden, wenn der Kunde durch Klicken auf den Button „AGB akzeptieren” diese Vertragsbedingungen akzeptiert und dadurch in seinen Antrag aufgenommen hat.
2. Der Anbieter schickt daraufhin dem Kunden eine automatische Empfangsbestätigung per E-Mail zu, in welcher die Bestellung des Kunden nochmals aufgeführt wird und die der Kunde über die Funktion „Drucken” ausdrucken kann. Die automatische Empfangsbestätigung dokumentiert lediglich, dass die Bestellung des Kunden beim Anbieter eingegangen ist und stellt keine Annahme des Antrags dar. Der Vertrag kommt erst durch die Abgabe der Annahmeerklärung durch den Anbieter zustande, die mit einer gesonderten E-Mail versandt wird.

3 Lieferung, Warenverfügbarkeit

1. Sind zum Zeitpunkt der Bestellung des Kunden keine Exemplare des von ihm ausgewählten Produkts verfügbar, so teilt der Anbieter dem Kunden dies in der Auftragsbestätigung mit. Ist das Produkt dauerhaft nicht lieferbar, sieht der Anbieter von einer Annahmeerklärung ab. Ein Vertrag kommt in diesem Fall nicht zustande.
2. Ist das vom Kunden in der Bestellung bezeichnete Produkt nur vorübergehend nicht verfügbar, teilt der Anbieter dem Kunden dies ebenfalls unverzüglich in der Auftragsbestätigung mit. Bei einer Lieferungsverzögerung von mehr als zwei Wochen hat der Kunde das Recht, vom Vertrag zurückzutreten. Im Übrigen ist in diesem Fall auch der Anbieter berechtigt, sich vom Vertrag zu lösen. Hierbei wird er eventuell bereits geleistete Zahlungen des Kunden unverzüglich erstatten.

4 Preise und Versandkosten

1. Alle Preise, die auf der Website des Anbieters angegeben sind, verstehen sich einschließlich der Verpackungskosten und der jeweils gültigen gesetzlichen Umsatzsteuer.
2. Die Versendung der Ware erfolgt versandkostenfrei.
3. Für eine Versendung außerhalb der EU entstehende Import- oder Exportspesen, wie z.B. Zoll, Gebühren und Abgaben gehen stets zu Lasten des Kunden.
4. Der Versand der Ware erfolgt per Postversand. Die Lieferadresse wird nur akzeptiert, wenn das Empfängerland mit der von dem Anbieter aufgestellten Internet-Liste übereinstimmt. Gefahr und Zufall gehen im Zeitpunkt der Übergabe der Ware an den Versender (Post, Zustelldienste, Speditionen, Frachtführer usw.) auf den Kunden über.

5 Zahlungsmodalitäten

1. Der Kunde kann die Zahlung per Vorauskasse, Kreditkarte, Ratenzahlung oder Nachnahme vornehmen.
2. Der Kunde kann die in seinem Nutzerkonto gespeicherte Zahlungsart jederzeit ändern.
3. Die Zahlung des Kaufpreises ist unmittelbar mit Vertragsschluss fällig.
4. Bei Zahlung mittels Kreditkarte werden nur Zahlungen mittels gültiger Visa- bzw. Mastercard akzeptiert. Bankspesen gehen zu Lasten des Kunden.

6 Eigentumsvorbehalt

1. Bis zur vollständigen Bezahlung verbleiben die gelieferten Waren im Eigentum des Anbieters.

7 Sachmängelgewährleistung, Garantie

1. Der Anbieter haftet für Sachmängel nach den hierfür geltenden gesetzlichen Vorschriften, insbesondere §§ 434 ff BGB(2 Jahre Gewährleistung). Gegenüber Unternehmern beträgt die Gewährleistungspflicht auf vom Anbieter gelieferte Sachen 12 Monate.
2. Eine Garantie besteht bei den vom Anbieter gelieferten Waren nur, wenn diese ausdrücklich in der Auftragsbestätigung zu dem jeweiligen Artikel abgegeben wurde.

8 Haftung

1. Ansprüche des Kunden auf Schadensersatz sind ausgeschlossen. Hiervon ausgenommen sind Schadensersatzansprüche des Kunden aus der Verletzung des Lebens, des Körpers, der Gesundheit oder aus der Verletzung wesentlicher Vertragspflichten (Kardinalpflichten) sowie die Haftung für sonstige Schäden, die auf einer vorsätzlichen oder grob fahrlässigen Pflichtverletzung des Anbieters, seiner gesetzlichen Vertreter oder Erfüllungsgehilfen beruhen. Wesentliche Vertragspflichten sind solche, deren Erfüllung zur Erreichung des Ziels des Vertrags notwendig ist.
2. Bei der Verletzung wesentlicher Vertragspflichten haftet der Anbieter nur auf den vertragstypischen, vorhersehbaren Schaden, wenn dieser einfach fahrlässig verursacht wurde, es sei denn, es handelt sich um Schadensersatzansprüche des Kunden aus einer Verletzung des Lebens, des Körpers oder der Gesundheit.
3. Die Einschränkungen der Abs 1 und 2 gelten auch zugunsten der gesetzlichen Vertreter und Erfüllungsgehilfen des Anbieters, wenn Ansprüche direkt gegen diese geltend gemacht werden.
4. Die Vorschriften des Produkthaftungsgesetzes bleiben unberührt.

9 Widerrufsrecht des Verbrauchers

1. Widerrufsrecht
   Als Verbraucher können Sie Ihre Vertragserklärung innerhalb von 14 Tagen ohne Angabe von Gründen in Textform (z. B. Brief, Fax, E-Mail) oder - wenn Ihnen die Sache vor Fristablauf überlassen wird - durch Rücksendung der Sache widerrufen. Die Frist beginnt nach Erhalt dieser Belehrung in Textform, jedoch nicht vor Eingang der Ware beim Empfänger (bei der wiederkehrenden Lieferung gleichartiger Waren nicht vor Eingang der ersten Teillieferung) und auch nicht vor Erfüllung unserer Informationspflichten gemäß § 312c Abs. 2 BGB in Verbindung mit § 1 Abs. 1, 2 und 4 BGB-InfoV sowie unserer Pflichten gemäß § 312e Abs. 1 Satz 1 BGB in Verbindung mit § 3 BGB-InfoV. Zur Wahrung der Widerrufsfrist genügt die rechtzeitige Absendung des Widerrufs oder der Sache.
   
   Der Widerruf ist zu richten an:
   
   ghd Deutschland GmbH
   Leuschnerstraße 43
   70176 Stuttgart
   
   
2. Widerrufsfolgen
   Im Falle eines wirksamen Widerrufs sind die beiderseits empfangenen Leistungen zurückzugewähren und ggf. gezogene Nutzungen herauszugeben. Können Sie uns die empfangene Leistung ganz oder teilweise nicht oder nur in verschlechtertem Zustand zurückgewähren, müssen Sie uns insoweit ggf. Wertersatz leisten. Bei der Überlassung von Sachen gilt dies nicht, wenn die Verschlechterung der Sache ausschließlich auf deren Prüfung - wie sie Ihnen etwa im Ladengeschäft möglich gewesen wäre - zurückzuführen ist. Für eine durch die bestimmungsgemäße Ingebrauchnahme der Sache entstandene Verschlechterung müssen Sie keinen Wertersatz leisten.
   
   Paketversandfähige Sachen sind auf unsere Gefahr zurückzusenden. Sie haben die Kosten der Rücksendung zu tragen, wenn die gelieferte Ware der bestellten entspricht und wenn der Preis der zurückzusendenden Sache einen Betrag von 40 Euro nicht übersteigt oder wenn Sie bei einem höheren Preis der Sache zum Zeitpunkt des Widerrufs noch nicht die Gegenleistung oder eine vertraglich vereinbarte Teilzahlung erbracht haben. Anderenfalls ist die Rücksendung für Sie kostenfrei. Verpflichtungen zur Rücksendung der Sachen und Erstattung von Zahlungen müssen innerhalb von 30 Tagen erfüllt werden. Die Frist beginnt für Sie mit der Absendung Ihrer Widerrufserklärung oder der Sache, für uns mit deren Empfang.
3.  

10 Hinweise zur Datenverarbeitung

1. Der Anbieter erhebt im Rahmen der Abwicklung von Verträgen Daten des Kunden. Er beachtet dabei die Vorschriften des Bundesdatenschutzgesetz und Teledienstdatenschutzgesetzes. Ohne Einwilligung des Kunden wird der Anbieter Bestands- und Nutzungsdaten des Kunden nur erheben, verarbeiten oder nutzen, soweit dies für die Abwicklung des Vertragsverhältnisses und für die Inanspruchnahme und Abrechnung von Telediensten erforderlich ist.
2. Ohne die Einwilligung des Kunden wird der Anbieter Daten des Kunden nicht für Zwecke der Werbung, Markt- oder Meinungsforschung nutzen.
3. Der Kunde hat jederzeit die Möglichkeit, die von ihm gespeicherten Daten unter dem Button „Meine Daten” in seinem Profil abzurufen, dieses zu ändern oder zu löschen. Im Übrigen wird in Bezug auf Einwilligungen des Kunden und weitere Informationen zur Datenerhebung, -verarbeitung und -nutzung auf die Datenschutzerklärung verwiesen, die auf der Website des Anbieters jederzeit über den Button „Datenschutz” in druckbarer Form abrufbar ist.

11 Schlussbestimmungen

1. Auf Verträge zwischen dem Anbieter und den Kunden findet das Recht der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unter Ausschluss des UN-Kaufrechts Anwendung.
2. Sofern es sich beim Kunden um einen Kaufmann, eine juristische Person des öffentlichen Rechts oder um ein öffentlich-rechtliches Sondervermögen handelt, ist Gerichtsstand für alle Streitigkeiten aus Vertragsverhältnissen zwischen dem Kunden und dem Anbieter Stuttgart.
3. Der Vertrag bleibt auch bei rechtlicher Unwirksamkeit einzelner Punkte in seinen übrigen Teilen verbindlich.

Jemella Limited (trading as ghd) – Privacy and Cookies Policy

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 Last updated: April 2012

We regard the privacy of our users as very important and any personal information which you provide to us will be dealt with in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy.  Jemella Limited (trading as ghd) is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, with the registration number Z1663328.  This Privacy and Cookies Policy sets out how we use and protect any personal information that you give us when you use this Site.  If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us by e-mail at ghd-online@ghdhair.com or on +44 (0) 845 330 1133 before using this Site.

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We may change this Privacy and Cookies Policy from time to time by updating this page.  You should revisit this page from time to time to re-read this Privacy and Cookies Policy and ensure you are happy with any changes.  This Privacy and Cookies Policy is effective from [April] 2012.

What personal information do we collect?

In general, and unless you register with us and create an account, you can use this Site without giving us any personal information. Most of the information we collect from you when you visit the Site does not personally identify you to us.  For example, we automatically track the following information such as your domain name and shortened IP address, your browser version, your operating system, the URL you came from, the pages you visit within a website, and the URL to which you go upon leaving a website, and whether you return to the Site. We use this information to monitor Site performance, utilisation of features and services, traffic and demographic trends, and browser versions, to improve our Site and services and tailor them to your interests. The information will be aggregated so that it does not identify a specific individual unless you make a specific query such as about the functioning of the website or you identify yourself, for example, by making a purchase, by creating an account, or by giving us your e-mail address.

Additional services may be available if we have certain information about you and we will collect certain information from you when you register with us.  We may collect and use the following information:

your name and contact information (including postal address, e-mail address and telephone number) and any other contract details you provide to us;

• financial information including card payment details;
• information that you provide when you register and create an account with us;
• information provided by salons when you purchase a ghd product from that salon,
• information you provide if you report a problem with our Site;
• records of any orders for products and/or services that you place through the Site;
• records of any correspondence when you contact us;
• records of any ghd competitions or promotions that you enter; and
• details of your visits to the Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and communication data and the resources that you access.

What do we do with the personal information we collect?

We use your personal information to provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• to facilitate use of the products and services we may provide to you;
• to process and collect payments from you where you purchase products from the Site
• internal record keeping;
• to improve our products and services (please see below for more details);
• to improve and personalise your experience when you visit the Site (please see below for more details);
• to advertise certain products which we think you might be interested in to you when you visit the Site or other external sites (please see below for more details);
• to communicate with you by e-mail, telephone or post if you have ordered or purchased products from us, either regarding the order or purchase or other matters regarding transactions between us or your customer relationship or account (if you have one) with us;
• to contact you regarding any specific enquiry you make;
• statistical analysis;
• to contact you, with your explicit consent, by e-mail, telephone or post in order to share information with you about products, services, promotions and events which we believe may be of interest to you or to request your feedback on our products and services from time to time;
• to carry out direct marketing or e-mail marketing, if you have given your explicit consent; and
• to contact you for market research purposes, if you have given your explicit consent. 

We may create usage profiles under pseudonyms for marketing purposes and to adjust our websites to our users’ needs. The usage profiles will not be merged with personal data about the holder of the pseudonym. The information will not be used to identify the user of our Websites. You can object to the creation of usage profiles at any time. Click here to opt-out [insert link] or contact us at ghd-online@ghdhair.com. This opt-out information will be stored in your browser for future visits of our websites.

Whom do we share this information with?

Your personal information will be used for the above purposes by relevant staff in ghd and by those who support them in their roles. It will also be made available to our authorised service providers who work with us and who perform certain services on our behalf e.g. providing IT support and maintenance, providing customer services, providing hosting services, providing marketing services and providing online payment services.  These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions on our behalf but are not permitted to share or to use such information for any other purpose. ghd may also share limited personal information with other companies within the ghd group of companies, who will also act as data controllers, e.g. to the extent needed for proper management and parental analysis and decision making. Click here for a list of companies in the ghd Group. [INSERT LINK]

ghd may also disclose your personal data:

• In response to a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise its legal rights; to defend legal claims; or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws and/or regulations;
• When ghd believes that disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud, or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of ghd, its customers, staff, suppliers or others; to comply with applicable law or co-operate with law enforcement; or to enforce its terms or other agreements; and
• To prospective or actual buyers in the event that ghd sells any of its business or assets. 

Other than as set out above, we will not transfer, disclose, sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission to do so or are otherwise required or permitted to do so by law.

Direct marketing and your preferences

ghd and (if you have given your explicit consent to our sharing your personal information with them) other members of the ghd group of companies (click here for a list of companies in the ghd Group) [INSERT LINK] may wish to provide you with information about new products, promotions, special offers and other which may be of interest to you and invite you to take part in market research. This communication may occur by post (unless you have asked us not to do so) and if you have given your explicit consent, by telephone, email or SMS.

ghd will ensure that any direct marketing or market research that you receive or are contacted about by electronic means will provide a simple means for you to refuse further marketing.  For example, in emails it may provide you with an ‘unsubscribe’ link, or an email address to which you can send an opt-out request.  ghd and members of the ghd group of companies will stop any marketing to which you object or withdraw your consent without delay. You can change your mind at any time about marketing by informing ghd using the contact details set out at the top of this notice.  In such cases ghd would not necessarily remove all your personal data from its database(s) but would note and respect your changed direct marketing preferences. However, you have the right to have any personal data we hold about you erased or blocked without delay of the receipt of such a request from you.

How to get copies of or amend the information we have collected

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Federal Data Protection Act at any time and free of charge. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us at ghd, Bridgewater Place, Water Lane, Leeds, LS11 5BZ or via email. [Note: German-specific company/contact details to be inserted above.]

If you believe that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or e-mail us as soon as possible.  We will correct or update any information without delay. 

Alternatively, you may correct any inaccuracies in the information you have provided to us by signing in to your online account.

Security and storage

Please remember that the internet is not a secure medium.  Communications over the internet such as e-mails are not secure unless they have been encrypted.

We have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.  We use industry standard encryption technologies when collecting or transferring customer credit card information exchanged with our Site server - all your card details are passed from your browser to our secure payment gateway using secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption.  Our payment gateway provider use secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption system.  All other information transferred is conducted through a secure connection. 

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share your password with anyone.  All information provided through the Site, telephone, catalogue and in store is stored on servers located in the European Economic Area (EEA).  It will be processed by staff operating in the UK who work for our company.  Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.  By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. ghd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy. 

Cookies

Cookies are files that store information on your hard drive or browser that mean that our Site can recognise that you have visited the Site before and which are used to facilitate access to the Site, to tailor your experience of the Site and to allow you to move through processes including the payment processes on the Site. They make it easier for you to maintain your preferences on the Site (including by renumbering your log in details when you access restricted areas of our Site), and by seeing how you use the Site, we can tailor the Site around your preferences and measure usability of the Site. We use cookies for certain areas of our Site, including but not limited to session cookies, third party cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies will reside on the computer indefinitely unless and until deleted by you. You can find out more information about the different types of cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.  Please refer to the paragraph and link below for further detailed information about the cookies that we use on our Site.

We use cookies to:

• place advertisements for our products on other external sites. We do this by allowing third parties including Google and Adserve to place cookies on our Site which allows them to identify your visit to our Site and preferences shown whilst on it, and your visits to subsequent third party websites in their adserving network. This allows us to serve tailored advertisements to you on those third party websites based on the information we have collected on your interests whilst you were visiting our Site.
• help the Site to function correctly and ensure that the  ‘add to basket’, navigation and country site settings are maintained.
• monitor the Site’s performance and ensure that we deliver a fast browsing experience.
• allow you to share content with social networks, express interest in content and connect with your social media networks.
• to allow us to collect anonymous data about Site usage to help us improve the usability, content and user experience of the Site. This includes site analytics cookies such as Google Analytics. We also use Google Analytics to collect information about your online activity on the Site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on the Site.  We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.  For more information about the information gathered using Google Analytics please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html
• to assess third party conversion by allowing us to collect anonymous data about how our marketing is performing.

Please click here for more detailed information about each type of cookie used on the Site, its purpose and whether it operates as a session or persistent cookie.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies.  You may delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings. Therefore please see your web browser manual or help function. If you do so, some of the features and services of the Site may not function properly. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all Sites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

Will my personal data be transferred abroad?

German privacy law permits the export of personal data to other countries subject to the provision of adequate levels of protection for the processing of such personal data.  We will ensure that transfers outside the EEA are subject to adequate safeguard as data protection standards in those countries may differ from those in the EEA.

If we transfer your personal information to a person, company, office, branch, organisation, service provider or agent in another country, we will make sure that we have appropriate security and privacy measures in place with such third parties covering how they hold and maintain any personal information on our behalf, e.g. our processors will be required to enter into the model contractual clauses which have been approved for such purposes by the European Commission.