Privacy Notice 

Effective Date: 31 August 2012

de Le Cuona, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “de Le Cuona”) respect your concerns about privacy. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information we collect on this website. de Le Cuona is responsible for this website.

The Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we collect on this Website, how we may use that information and with whom we may share it. The notice also describes the measures we take to protect the security of the personal information. We also tell you how you can reach us to ask us to (i) access, change or not use the personal information you have provided to us, (ii) withdraw any consent you previously provided to us, (iii) tell us to refrain from communicating with you about our products or services, and (iv) answer any questions you may have about our privacy practices.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Individuals may choose to provide personal information (such as name, contact details and payment information) through this website and through our customer service line or through contact with our staff at our retail or exhibition presences. Here are the ways you may provide the information and the types of information you may submit. We also tell you how we may use the information.

If you are a business customer who have worked with us in the past you will be automatically opted in to our bi-monthly e-mail newsletter and other promotional communications. If you would like to opt out of receiving these marketing communications, please click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button on the next marketing e-mail you receive from us, contact us at the e-mail or postal address below.

Shopping

You may be able to purchase de Le Cuona products on this website. To process your purchase, we ask for information such as your name, billing and shipping address, telephone number, email address and payment card information. We use this information to process your purchase, confirm your order and deliver the items to you. If you provide us with your prior consent and/or if otherwise permitted under applicable law, we also may use your contact information to communicate with you about our products, services and promotions. If you purchase an item on this site or ask us to deliver your purchase to someone else, we ask for the recipient’s name, postal address and email address. We use this information to send the item to the recipient. If you ask us to do so, we also may use this information to notify the recipient of your gift before it arrives.

My Account

You may be able to register to create an account on this website. To do so, we ask for information such as your name and email address. You also may provide your age and gender. Through the “my account” feature, you can store billing and shipping information so you won’t have to enter it again when you make another purchase on this site. You also can store payment card information and details of your past purchases. In addition, you can save your credit card information on your account for faster checkout. To use this feature, we ask you to provide your credit card information and the corresponding billing address. You can also use the “my account” feature to create a list of products you want. If you choose to share your list, we ask for your name and email address and the recipient’s email address. This information is used only to email your list to your desired recipients.

Surveys and Promotions

On this website, you may be able to participate in surveys and promotions. If you choose to participate in these promotions, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number. We use the information you provide to administer our contests and promotions. We also may use the information to communicate with you about our products, services and promotions, but only if you have given us your consent to do so.

Electronic Newsletters

You may be able to sign up on this site to receive electronic newsletters and promotional emails from de Le Cuona, including new ideas, special offers and event information. To sign up, we may ask you for information such as your name and email address. We use this information to send you communications about our products and services, invitations to specials sales, and events and notices of new arrivals. You can choose at any time not to receive marketing emails from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link within our marketing emails. There is no charge to you to unsubscribe.

Blogs

You may be able to share certain content from this website with your friends. To send information to your friends, we ask for your friends’ and your email addresses. We use this information only to fulfill your request. We do not retain the information you provide in connection with this feature, except to send the requested content. We will not include any other advertisements within the messages sent to your friends.

Email to a Friend

You may be able to share certain content from this website with your friends. To send information to your friends, we ask for your friends’ and your email addresses. We use this information only to fulfill your request. We do not retain the information you provide in connection with this feature, except to send the requested content. We will not include any other advertisements within the messages sent to your friends.

Other Site Features

We offer visitors to this website various features for their information and enjoyment, which we may change from time to time. We may ask you to submit certain personal information so we can provide you with these features and send you communications about our products, services and promotions.

Information We Collect by Automated Means

We obtain certain information by automated means when you visit our website, such as the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our website to our visitors and understand what products and services you might prefer. We collect this information through various means, such as “cookies.” Cookies Like many companies, we use “cookies” on this website. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site. We use cookies, for example, to preserve the contents of your virtual shopping bag between visits. We also use cookies to measure activity on the site and determine which areas and features of the site are the most popular. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie and how to disable existing cookies. Without cookies, however, you may not be able to take full advantage of all our site features. For example, if you turn off cookies or refuse them, you will not be able to make purchases on the site.

Customer Assistance

any questions you may have about our privacy practices. You may call our customer service line for information about our products or personal shopping advice. If you do so, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and, if you choose to make a purchase, your payment card information. We use this information to respond to your request and process your transaction.

Other Ways We Obtain and Use Information

In addition to the ways we collect information about you described above, we also may obtain information about you from third parties. We may use your personal information to provide you with products or services you request (such as tailoring services or merchandise returns), enhance your shopping experience and communicate with you about our products, services and promotions. In addition, we may use your personal information for internal purposes, such as fraud and theft prevention, accident reporting, development and administration of our sites and Stores, data analytics, and compliance with our legal obligations, policies and procedures.

Information We Share

We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information about our customers, except as described here. We may share the personal information you provide to us with our affiliates worldwide, licensees and joint venture partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We also may share the information with our service providers who perform services on our behalf based on our instructions. These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We also may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process (such as a court order), (ii) in response to a request by law enforcement authorities, or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity. We also reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal information you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Notice. Following such a sale or transfer, you may contact the entity to which we transferred your personal information with any inquiries concerning the processing of that information.

Links to Other Sites

This website may contain links to other sites for your convenience and information. These sites may be operated by companies not affiliated with de Le Cuona. Linked sites may have their own privacy policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for the content of any websites that are not affiliated with de Le Cuona, any use of those sites, or the privacy practices of those sites.

How We Protect Personal Information

We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the personal information you provide on this Website against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use and other unlawful forms of processing. We use Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) technology to protect the transmission over the Internet of your payment card data. You can check the security of your connection by looking at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure site, the first characters of the site address change from “http” to “https.” If you are using a web browser or firewall that does not permit communications through secure sites, you will not be able to make purchases on our site.

Transfer of Personal Information to Other Countries

any questions you may have about our privacy practices. We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries other than the country in which you originally provided it. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice.

Access and Correction

Subject to applicable law, we may limit or deny access to personal information where providing such access is unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances. Please submit your request to the address specified in the “Contact Us” section below. Please include your name, email address, postal address and a copy of your identity document or passport in your request.

Your Choices

We offer you certain choices about how we communicate with you and what information we collect from you. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us or object at any time on legitimate grounds and free of charge to the processing of your personal information, and we will apply your preferences going forward. You can choose not to receive marketing communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our marketing emails, clicking here, or contacting us as specified in the “How to Contact Us” section below. Please include your name, email address and postal address if you send us your request by email or postal mail.

Children’s Privacy

This website is not directed to children under the age of sixteen and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of sixteen on the site. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of sixteen on this site, we will delete the information from our records. Children under the age of eighteen may not shop on this website without the consent of their legal representatives.

Updates to Our Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices or relevant laws. We will post a prominent notice on the site to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Notice and indicate at the top of the notice when it was updated.

Storage and processing of Personal Data outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA")

The information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), in which case we will make sure that your privacy rights are protected as required by the General Data Protection Regulation.

Accessing your information

If you want to know what information we hold about you, please contact us at the email address below. We may have to contact you to verify the authenticity of any communications received by us that indicate they have been sent by you.

Notice

We notify our Customers and Employees located in the EEA and Switzerland about the purposes for which we collect and use Personal Information, the types of third parties to which we disclose the information (for example, service providers that process Personal Information on our behalf), certain privacy rights of our Customers and Employees (such as the right to access Personal Information and the choice for limiting the use and disclosure of the information), and how to contact us about our practices concerning Personal Information. Employees (including job applicants) who submit Personal Information through our careers site may view our Privacy Notice for details about our Personal Information privacy practices. Employees can find additional information in the Employee Data Protection Policy available from local Human Resources representatives.

Purpose of Collection and Use of Personal Information

de Le Cuona and its European affiliates collect Personal Information through their Sites and in their Stores. In addition, Employees submit Personal Information to de Le Cuona and its European affiliates in connection with the employment relationship. We process Personal Information about our Customers to (i) process transactions they request, (ii) improve our Stores, Sites, Customers shopping experience and quality of service, (iii) send communications about our products, services and promotions, (iv) prevent and detect fraud and abuse, (v) process information or claims in connection with incidents at our Stores, (vi) enable our service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf, and (vii) comply with our legal obligations, policies and procedures and for internal administrative and analytics purposes. We process Personal Information about our Employees to (i) carry out and support our human resources functions and activities, (ii) carry out our obligations under employments contracts and employment and benefits laws, (iii) administer employee participation in benefits, compensation and human resources plans and programs, (iv) manage employee performance, (v) implement compliance and discipline procedures, and investigate and report on Employee compliance and discipline, and (vi) comply with our legal obligations, carry out investigations and for internal administrative and analytics purposes. We process Sensitive Information about our Employees to the extent necessary or appropriate for compliance with relevant legal or contractual obligations, including managing attendance and Employee records, and organizing elections of Employees’ union representatives.

Choice

Customers located in the EEA and Switzerland may direct us not to disclose their Personal Information to third parties (other than our service providers). We do not use Personal Information for purposes incompatible with the purposes for which we originally collected the information without notifying the relevant individuals of such uses and offering an opportunity to opt out. We may disclose Personal Information without offering individuals an opportunity to opt out (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities, or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity. We also reserve the right to transfer Personal Information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use Personal Information you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Notice.

Onward Transfer of Personal Information

We may share Personal Information with service providers we have retained to perform services on our behalf. We require service providers to whom we disclose Personal Information and who are not subject to laws based on the European Union Data Protection Directive to contractually agree to provide at least the same level of protection for Personal Information as is required by the relevant Safe Harbour principles.

Access to Personal Information

de Le Cuona provides Customers and Employees with reasonable access to the Personal Information maintained about them. We also provide a reasonable opportunity, as required by applicable law, to correct, amend or delete that information where it is inaccurate. We may limit or deny access to Personal Information where providing such access is unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances or as otherwise permitted by the Safe Harbour principles. To obtain access to Personal Information, Customers may contact de Le Cuona as specified in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Policy. Employees should submit requests for access to their Personal Information to their local Human Resources representative.

Security

de Le Cuona maintains reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

Data Integrity

de Le Cuona takes reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information the company collects is relevant for the purposes for which it is to be used and that the information is reliable for its intended use and is accurate, complete and current. We depend on our Customers and Employees to update and correct their Personal Information whenever necessary.

Enforcement and Oversight

de Le Cuona has established procedures for periodically verifying implementation of and compliance with the Safe Harbour principles. We conduct an annual self-assessment of our practices with respect to Personal Information to verify that representations we make about our Personal Information privacy practices are true and that related privacy policies have been implemented as represented. Customers and Employees may file a complaint with de Le Cuona in connection with the processing of their Personal Information under the Safe Harbour principles. We will also cooperate with the following dispute resolution bodies to address individuals’ complaints regarding privacy issues: (i) for Customer complaints, we cooperate with the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its applicable commercial rules; (ii) for complaints concerning our handling of Employee Personal Information, we cooperate with the relevant EU data protection authorities. We will take steps to remedy any issues arising out of a failure to comply with the Safe Harbour principles. Please contact us as specified below to address any complaints regarding our Personal Information practices.

Restricting use of your information

You have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove, or stop using your personal information if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the ‘right to object’ and ‘right to erasure’, or the ‘right to be forgotten’. There may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your data. But please tell us if you think that we should not be using it. We may sometimes be able to restrict the use of your data. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as legal claims or to exercise legal rights. In this situation, we would not use or share your information in other ways while it is restricted. If you want to object to how we use your data, or ask us to delete it or restrict how we use it, please contact us at the address below.

How to Contact Us

Please address any questions or concerns regarding our privacy notice or our practices concerning Personal Information by email on info@deLeCuona.com and inserting “Personal Information” in the subject box or write to: de Le Cuona, Inc. 979 Third Avenue, D&D Building, Suite 914, New York, NY 10022, USA