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Privacy & Terms of Service

August 26, 2021

Thanks for your interest in BergHOFF! We value and respect your privacy, and the goal of this Privacy Policy is to be transparent about data we collect about you and how it’s used and shared. The BergHOFF Privacy Policy (Privacy Policy) describes the procedures and associated policies we use to collect, share, disclose, and protect your Personal Information when you visit our site and make a purchase from us. Used collectively, “BergHOFF” refers herein to BergHOFF, Berghoffusa, ShopBergHOFF.com, BergHOFF International, Inc. 

 

As a company policy we do not sell, trade or rent your data. We may share your data with 3rd party service providers to facilitate your purchases of our products, to better understand our customer base, and to understand our marketing effectiveness. Data sharing is described in detail below.

 

Non-Personal Utilization Data

As you interact with our website we collect non-personal utilization data, such as pages visited and products viewed. This data is collected in order for us to improve the products that we offer you.

 

Definition of Personal Information

“Personal Information” means your personally-identifiable information such as your name, email or mailing address, phone number, and other information that can be used to identify you.

 

Personal Information We Collect

This covers the various types of Personal Information we have collected, by visitor type. Data collection is progressive, meaning that data collected for BergHOFF Customers is additive to that collected for Visitors and Subscribers

Visitor Type

Description

What We Collect

Why We Collect It

Website Visitors

Individuals visiting our website

  • IP Address
  • Cookie information
  • Where you visit us from
  • Information about your browser
  • Time zone you are in
  • To understand the demographics of those who are interested in the products we provide
  • To track marketing effectiveness
  • To monitor site usage and improve our website

Email List Subscribers

Individuals who have signed up for our email newsletter

Your email address

  • To deliver relevant content to you via email
  • To offer you discounts on select purchases

Customers

Individuals who have purchased goods from BergHOFF

  • Your name and email address
  • Your billing and shipping address
  • Your phone number
  • Your credit card number (neither internally captured nor internally stored, but captured on behalf of our 3rd party payment processor)
  • In order for our 3rd party payment processor to facilitate purchase transaction
  • In order to deliver you products and services

 

How We Collect and Utilize your Personal Information

Website Visitors & Email List Subscribers

What We Collect

Why We Collect It

Can You Limit It

Cookies

To recognize you when you make a return visit to the site and to deliver a consistent experience (e.g. a pre-populated shopping cart)

Most modern browsers allow you to limit cookies

IP Address

To measure who is visiting our site and from where, and to help identify potential fraudulent activity on the site

The only way to limit this is to not visit our site

Browser Metadata

To maintain a consistent experience on the site

Typically this is communicated automatically by browsers, but some 3rd party tools may allow you to limit this

Email Address

To provide you with information on BergHOFF’s products and services

You may limit this by not providing your email address initially, or unsubscribing at any time

 

Data Sharing for Website Visitors and Email Subscribers

We share data with our marketing partners in an anonymized format in order to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. In addition, we share email address data with our email provider in order to deliver emails to you.

 

BergHOFF Customers

What We Collect

Why We Collect It

Can You Limit It

Name

For our 3rd party payment processors to facilitate financial transactions, to ship you our products, and to provide a better site experience as a returning customer. We will also use this information to communicate with you about your order.

You may limit this by not purchasing our products

Billing and Shipping Address

For our 3rd party payment processors to facilitate financial transactions, to ship you our products, and to provide you information about BergHOFF products you may be interested in. We will also use this information to communicate with you about your order.

You may limit this by not purchasing our products

Email Address

For our 3rd party payment processors to facilitate financial transactions, to ship you our products, and to provide a better site experience as a returning customer. We will also use this information to communicate with you about your order.

You may limit this by not purchasing our products

Phone Number

For our 3rd party payment processors to facilitate financial transactions, to ship you our products, and to notify you about BergHOFF news you may be interested in. We will also use this information to communicate with you about your order.

You may limit this by not purchasing our products

Your Credit Card Information

For our 3rd party payment processors to facilitate financial transactions. Note that we do not store this data anywhere internally

You may limit this by not purchasing our products, or by using a different payment methodology in transacting with us

 

Data Sharing for BergHOFF Customers

We share your Personal Information with third party partners in order to facilitate purchases on our website. These third party partners include payments processors, warehouse operations, customer support platforms, and shipping companies. In addition, we may share anonymized data with 3rd party partners to better understand our customer base or improve the products we offer for sale. Unless otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, we do not authorize our third party partners to use your data for any purpose other than delivering the services they are contractually engaged to deliver for us.

 

Third Party Policies

You may be able to access third-party websites and other tools and services or products via a link, or via our other tools, including purchase financing. The privacy policies of these third parties are not under our control and may differ from ours. The use of any Data that you may provide to any third parties will be governed by the privacy policy of such third party or by your independent agreement with such third party, as the case may be. If you have any doubts about the privacy of the information you are providing to a third party, we recommend that you contact that third party directly for more information or to review its privacy policy.

 

Data Security

The security of your Data is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Data in a secure environment. We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps designed to protect Data that you provide to us. We have implemented procedures designed to limit the dissemination of your Data to only such designated staff as are reasonably necessary to carry out the stated purposes we have communicated to you.

 

Data Retention

We will keep your information for as long as it remains necessary for the identified purpose or as required by law, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. We may retain certain data as necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you request that your information be removed from our databases, it may not be possible to completely delete all of your information due to technological and legal constraints.

 

CCPA Addendum

Residents of California have specific rights that may be in addition to those described above in our Privacy Policy that result from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), adopted in 2020. Generally speaking, California residents have the right to:

  • Access their Personal Information
  • Request and have said Personal Information deleted
  • Request that a business exclude Personal Information from being sold
  • Not receive discriminatory treatment by a business in exercising their rights under CCPA

 

Data Collection for California Residents

In addition to the Personal Information described above, we collect information about your purchases in order to provide you with a better customer experience, and for us to improve the products we offer to our customers. 

If you would like to request a copy of your data, or request that said data be deleted, please follow the instructions found in the “Contact Information and Requesting Deletion or a Copy of your Data” section below. We will respond to all requests within 10 days, and may ask for specific information to verify your identity. Provided we can successfully verify your identity, we will deliver you a copy of the data we have stored on you within 45 days of receipt of inquiry. 

 

GDPR Addendum

 

Children’s Privacy

BergHOFF website is not intended for children under 16 years of age, we do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under 16 years of age (or other age as required by local law). Any users under the age of 18 must have their parent’s permission to access the website. If you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you may alert us at cs@berghoffusa.com. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from children under 16 in violation of applicable law, we will promptly take steps to delete such information.

 

Modifications to our Privacy Policy

We will, from time to time, update this Privacy Policy as the need arises. When we do, we will post an updated version of this Privacy Policy on www.ShopBergHOFF.com.

 

Email List Access

If you are unable sign up for our email list and would like to do so, please reach out to cs@berghoffusa.com and our support team will be happy to assist you.

 

Contact Information & Requesting Deletion or a Copy of Your Data

If you would like to request deletion of your Personal Information or request a copy of the data we have about you, please reach out to cs@berghoffusa.com. Additionally you can reach our team at (800) 426-2168. Finally, you may also write to us at: 

Attention: Privacy and Legal
BergHOFF
11063 SR 54,
Odessa, FL