Version 05.11.2024
1 Introduction
What is the purpose of this Privacy Policy and what does it tell you? Data privacy is a priority for us. Therefore, we always process your data with the utmost care and in accordance with the applicable legal requirements. Transparent information is essential for effective data privacy. In this Privacy Policy, we tell you how and for what purposes we process your personal data. In particular, you will learn:
- which data we process, and for what purpose;
- who has access to your data and with whom we share your data;
- how long we keep your data;
- what rights you have and how you can exercise those rights;
- which cookies and other tools we use on our websites.
Allcook kitchen operates these websites and subdomains to which the current privacy policy applies.
https://allcook.ch
https://ec.allcook.kitchen/
https://well.allcook.ch
These websites are operated by Allcook SA, registration number CHE-429.883.558, Avenue de Rumine 13, 1005, Lausanne, Switzerland. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We treat this topic very carefully and inform you below about handling user data. Please address your inquiries about your data protection to
privacy@allcook.ch
Avenue de Rumine, 13, 1005, Lausanne
Tel. 021 311 93 44
You have the right to object to processing your personal data when we process it based on legitimate interest. You can also object at any time to the processing of data relating to direct advertising (e.g. advertising e-mails). If the required conditions are met and no legal exception applies, you also have the following rights:
2.1. Right to information: you have the right to transparent, clear, comprehensible and exhaustive information on the way in which we process your personal data and on the rights which you benefit in this context. This is the aim pursued by this data protection declaration. Do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information.
2.2. Right to communicate data concerning you: You have the right to request free information at any time on the entirety of the data saved with us that concerns you. Therefore, you can check which personal data concerning you we process. In isolated cases, the right to information may be restricted or excluded, particularly if there are doubts about identity or if this is necessary to protect others.
2.3. Right to rectification: you have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete personal data corrected or completed and to be informed of this rectification.
2.4. Right to erasure: you have the right to demand the deletion of your personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes pursued, that you revoke your authorization or that you have opposed the processing, or when ‘they are treated unlawfully. In isolated cases, the right of erasure can be excluded, in particular when the processing is necessary for the exercise of freedom of expression or to assert legal rights.
2.5. Right to restriction of processing: under certain conditions, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be limited. This could for example mean that personal data is no longer (until further notice) processed or that published personal data is (until further notice) deleted from a website.
2.6. Right to data portability: you have the right to receive from us personal data that you have made available to us in a structured, customary and machine-readable format, insofar as the concrete processing of data is based on your authorisation or is necessary for the performance of a contract, and that the processing takes place via automated processes.
2.7. Right of revocation: to the extent that we process your personal data on the basis of authorization, you have the right to revoke your authorization at any time. Revocation only applies in the future; processing activities based on your consent in the past will not become illegal as a result of your revocation.
2.8. Finally, you can lodge a complaint with a responsible supervisory authority concerning the type and method of processing of your personal data, if you consider that the processing of the data is contrary to the legislation in force. The competent supervisory authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Transparency Officer (PFPDT) – https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/fr/home.html.
3. Types of data we collect
3.1. Personal data. The term personal data is defined by law. According to this, these are individual details about the personal or material circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. For example, your real name, your address, your telephone number are considered to be your individual details.
3.2. Principle of anonymous use of data. Unless otherwise stated in the following sections, no personal data is collected, processed, or used on our website. When you visit our website, some information is transmitted, such as the IP address, type and version of the web browser used, the operating system used, the website from which you came and the time of the query. We cannot use this data to identify the individual user. We only evaluate the information statistically and use it exclusively to improve the attractiveness, content and functionality of our website.
3.3 Registration and ordering process. We are pleased that we can supply you with our meal boxes in the future. So that you can order from us, we will set up a customer account for you after your registration. In order to protect your customer account from third parties accessing it, we save your username and password. In order to be able to deliver the cooking boxes to you as requested, we save your contact details, your order and delivery time. You can leave your telephone number so that we can contact you should there be delays or problems with the delivery of your cooking box. We can also use your telephone number within the scope of your consent given when concluding the contract, among other things for advertising purposes for the exact scope of your consent). We use the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we will pass on your address data to a commissioned shipping company, Swiss Post, and your payment data to our payment service provider.
We use the personal data you provide to the extent that your data is necessary for the fulfilment and processing of our services. For registration and, if necessary, ordering, we collect and save the following data from you:
- Surname
- First name
- Email (user name)
- Address
- Telephone number
- Password
After registration, you will receive personal, password-protected access and can view and manage your stored data. Registration is voluntary, but it can be a prerequisite for using our services.
We only use your telephone number for queries. We need your email address to confirm the receipt of your order and communicate with you (e.g., to send an order confirmation)
3.4. Payment details
Your payment data will be transmitted to the relevant payment service provider, depending on the payment method you have selected. The payment service provider is responsible for your payment data. Information, in particular about the responsible office of the respective payment service provider, the contact details of the data protection officers of the payment service providers and the categories of personal data processed by the payment service providers, can be obtained from the following address:
- https://stripe.com/en-gb-ch - Stripe is a Payment Security Platform we work with to ensure that your payment details are safe and that all payments done through our website are approved by you. Thousands of SMEs use Stripe and established companies such as Spotify, National Geographic and Booking.com.
We have access only to the type of your payment method, i.e., Mastercard or Visa, the last four digits of your card number, and the expiration date. Stripe communicates to us why your payment may fail, i.e., insufficient funds, expired card, lost or stolen card. This information helps us to continue servicing you while asking you to update your payment method.
3.5. Deletion and blocking
We save your data for as long as necessary to fulfill the intended purpose or for as long as statutory retention periods require it. Your data will then be deleted or blocked in accordance with legal regulations.
3.6. Contacting Allcook kitchen
You can use the contact form, our email address, the telephone number or our chat to ask us questions and send us messages. In this context, we only process your data in order to contact you in the desired way and to answer your request.
3.7. Participation in competitions
If you participate in one of our competitions, we collect the data necessary to carry out the competition. That is usually an individual competition entry (e.g. a comment or a photo), as well as your name and contact details. We may transmit this data to our competition partners, e.g. to send you the prize. The data processing and data transfer can vary depending on the competition and is therefore specifically described in the respective conditions of participation. Participation in the competition and the associated data collection is voluntary.
3.8.Comments on our blog
You will have the opportunity to leave comments on our blog. For the comment function on our website, in addition to your comment, information about the time the comment was created, your email address and, if you do not post anonymously, your user name are saved. Your IP address is also saved. Storage is necessary for us in order to defend ourselves against liability claims in cases of the possible publication of illegal content.
3.9. Customer feedback and support
We use the details you provided yourself to the extent to help you to resolve any issues connected to our service when you asked us about it
3.10. Other advertising by Allcook kitchen
Allcook kitchen uses the email address and postal address provided by the customer in order to inform about similar products and service offers by email and by post. Suppose you do not wish to receive further promotional information by email or post. In that case, you can object to the use of your contact data for promotional purposes at any time with effect for the future without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.
In addition, you may receive promotional information by phone, as you gave us your express consent during registration. You can revoke this consent at any time.
You can submit your revocation in the following way: send an email to customer service (privacy@allcook.ch), log in to your customer account and change the communication preferences at any time.
3.11. newsletter
You will only receive promotional information to your email address if you have consented to your email address being used for this purpose. We will not send any promotional emails or newsletters without your consent. Of course, you can revoke your consent to the sending of newsletters at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
3.12. cookies
Allcook kitchen uses cookies with the help of which pseudonymous user profiles are created in compliance with the legal requirements, but also to make the use of our website as optimal as possible. We can evaluate the usage profiles in order to understand the use of our website, to determine target groups for our products and thus to optimize our offers. When we create pseudonymous usage profiles, we do not directly associate this data with you and therefore cannot trace any specific activities back to you.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit our website and that enable your browser to be reassigned. Cookies store information such as your language setting, the duration of your visit to our website or the entries you made there. This avoids having to re-enter all the required data each time you use it. Cookies also enable us to recognize your preferences and to tailor our website to your areas of interest.
You can deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by calling up the deactivation help of the network advertising initiative. However, we and the providers continue to receive statistical information on how many users visited our website and when.
4.1. Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc., USA ("Google"). Google Analytics enables us to evaluate your use of the website in order to compile analyzes of website activity and to take advantage of other services related to website activity and internet usage.
Google Analytics has been expanded to include the code "gat.anonymizeIp ();" in order to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). Your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or athttps://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
In addition to the options already mentioned, you can prevent Google from collecting data by downloading and installing the browser add-on. By clicking the link below, an opt-out cookie will also be set, preventing future data collection when you visit this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.
In addition, we use the Google Conversion Tracking service in connection with Google Analytics. This enables us to record the behaviour of our website visitors. For example, we can see how often the contact form has been filled out. We are also shown how many clicks on advertisements from external sources (AdWords, LinkedIn, Xing, Bing) have led to our website.
4.2. Meta Custom Audiences Pixel (Facebook and Instagram)
This website uses Custom Audience Pixel, a Meta Inc., USA service. Custom Audience Pixel is a Javascript code that we have integrated into each of our websites. We use Custom Audience Pixels to collect information about website visitors. This pixel collects and reports to Facebook information about the user's browser session, a hashed version of the Facebook ID and the URL that is being viewed. Every Facebook user has a unique and device-independent Facebook ID, which enables us to address and recognise users across multiple devices on the Facebook social network so that we can address our visitors again for advertising purposes in the context of Facebook ads. After some time, the user information will be deleted until the user visits our website again. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed to Allcook about the individual website visitors, and we can only advertise website customer target groups in targeted advertisements as soon as these have reached a significant number in terms of numbers. For more information about Facebook and its privacy settings, please refer to Data protection information and the terms of use of Facebook Inc.
4.2. Other operators
We use www.hotjar.com service to record occasional browsing experiences on our website. This recording is depersonalised; we will know only the country from where a person was browsing, the date and time on site, and the device used. For example, "Switzerland, mobile, 23.04.2021, 21:30, 9min." This data is used to improve our website user experience.
Service: Hotjar. Operator: Hotjar Ltd, Malta
Service: Google AdWords and Conversion Tracking. Operator: Google Inc., USA
Service: Google Dynamic Remarketing. Operator: Google Inc., USA
Service: Google GA Audience. Operator: Google Inc., USA
Service: Double-click and Double-click Spotlight. Operator: Google Inc., USA
Opt-Out: www.google.de/settings/ads/onweb#display_optout
5.1. Social bookmarks
So-called social bookmarks (e.g. from Facebook, Linkedin, and Instagram) are integrated into our website. Social bookmarks are internet bookmarks that the users of such a service can use to collect links and news reports. Our website only includes these as a link to the corresponding services. After clicking on the integrated graphic, you will be redirected to the respective provider's website; i.e. only then will user information be transmitted to the respective provider. Please refer to the provider's respective data protection provisions for information on handling your data using this website.
After activation, the plugins also collect personal data such as your IP address and send this to the server of the respective provider, where it is stored. In addition, activated social plugins set a cookie with a unique identifier when the website concerned is accessed. This also enables the providers to create profiles of your usage behaviour. The data is used to show you personalised advertising and for market and opinion research purposes.
We do not have precise information about the specific use of the data or the storage period. Please read the data protection declaration of the respective provider.
Facebook and Instagram (Meta Inc., USA, data protection declaration: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
LinkedIn (https://privacy.linkedin.com/gdpr)
So that Aallcook SA can process your data in accordance with the purposes described above, it may be necessary for other recipients to be able to view your data.
6.1. External service providers (processors)
Your data will be passed on to service partners, provided they work on our behalf and support Allcook kitchen in its services.
- Customer relationship management Brevo (https://www.brevo.com/). We use this service to inform you about our service menus and conduct surveys. You can always opt out of our newsletter on your account or click “Unsubscribe.”
- Swiss Post (https://www.post.ch/en) We use Swiss Post to deliver your parcels. Each time the label is generated, we transfer your name, address, e-mail, and phone number to Swiss Post.
- MailGun is an email service we use to confirm your order. This is a so-called "service email" we have to send to inform you about transactions, order scheduling, order reminders, and order dispatch. It is not possible to unsubscribe from service emails, as they are essential to the nature of Allcook service. These emails will be stopped once you put your account on pause or request that we delete your account.
We have taken extensive technical and operational protective measures to protect your data from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly checked and adapted to technological progress.
We reserve the right to change and expand the data protection information.
Swiss law applies to the legal relationship between Allcook SA and the customer. The place of jurisdiction for natural persons is Vaud or the client's domicile. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for legal persons is Vaud.