Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected, processed, and stored when you use the website https://catalyze.store (hereinafter referred to as the "Site").

In the context of this Privacy Policy, the term "personal data" refers to all information that, alone or in combination with other information, allows the identification of an identified natural person, such as name, email address, telephone number, or IP address.

Hive Development Ltd is committed to processing your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, including Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended by the law of June 20, 2018, and the European General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as the « GDPR").

ARTICLE 1 - DATA CONTROLLER


The data controller for the personal data collected concerning you when you use the Site is Hive Development Ltd, a simplified joint stock company with a capital of 1 €, registered with the Commercial and Companies Registry of Bulgaria under number 206982660, whose registered office is located at Hadzhi Dimitar block 34 fl. 15 apt. 88 (Sofia, Bulgaria) (hereinafter "Hive Development Ltd" or « we").

Personal Data Collected by Hive Development Ltd

Hive Development Ltd collects and processes the following personal data concerning you:

Data You Provide to Hive Development Ltd


These are the personal data you provide to Hive Development Ltd when you create a customer account on the Site, when you place orders on the Site, or when you contact us. These data include your name, first name, postal address, billing address, email address, customer account password, and telephone number.

Unless otherwise stated, the information requested in the collection forms available on the Site (such as the customer account creation form) is mandatory. If you do not provide this information, you will not be able to validate the corresponding form. You are solely responsible for the accuracy of the data you provide to Hive Development Ltd.

If you make a purchase via the Site, we do not collect or retain payment card data. This data is collected directly by our payment service provider and is therefore subject to the privacy policy of this provider.

ARTICLE 2 - DATA RELATED TO YOUR BROWSING ON THE SITE


Hive Development Ltd collects information each time you visit the Site, including the IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, the type and version of the browser, and the timezone setting.

Furthermore, Hive Development Ltd and its partners collect information about how you use the Site, through cookies or any other similar technology, as indicated in Article 7 below.

ARTICLE 3 - USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA


Hive Development Ltd collects and processes your personal data for the purposes described in the table below.

Nature of Data Processing


Management of your customer account (account creation, modification, and deletion)




Management of our commercial relationships (tracking and sending orders, handling requests for product returns/exchanges)



Management of your contact requests





Sending of email invitations to complete orders





Sending of the newsletter




Management of your requests to exercise rights regarding personal data (as described in Article 8 below)





Management of pre-litigation and litigation

Justification of Data Processing


The management of your customer account is necessary for the performance of your customer contract, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale.


The management of our commercial relationships is necessary for the performance of your customer contract, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale.


The management of your contact requests is based on the legitimate interest of Hive Development Ltd to respond to contact requests.



Sending invitations to complete your order is based on the legitimate interest of Hive Development Ltd to allow you to finalize your order.



Your subscription to Hive Development Ltd's newsletter is based on your consent.



The management of your requests to exercise rights is based on Hive Development Ltd's legal obligation to respond to requests to exercise rights from individuals whose personal data Hive Development Ltd processes.



The management of your contact requests is based on Hive Development Ltd's legitimate interest to assert its rights in the context of pre-litigation or litigation.



ARTICLE 4 - RECIPIENTS AND TRANSFERS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA


Within Hive Development Ltd, and with regard to each processing purpose, the personal data concerning you are collected, processed, and stored by the authorized personnel of Hive Development Ltd, only within the scope of their respective competences, including our sales department, marketing department, and IT department.

Your personal data may be disclosed to third parties with regard to the processing purpose concerned, including our providers responsible for order shipping, our providers responsible for website development, hosting, and maintenance operations, data storage, as well as our potential investors or any other third parties involved in a merger, acquisition of all or part of Hive Development Ltd's business, change of control, or insolvency proceedings.

Your personal data is processed by our IT provider Shopify Inc., responsible for hosting and displaying our Site, and which is located in Canada. In this regard, the appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed by a decision of adequacy of the European Commission which can be consulted here.

ARTICLE 5 - RETENTION PERIOD OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA


Hive Development Ltd only retains your personal data for the duration that is strictly necessary in light of the processing purpose. More specifically, your personal data is retained in accordance with the durations indicated in the list below.

  • Customer account management - 5 years after closing your customer account or from a period of 3 years of inactivity
  • Management of our commercial relations - 10 years from the end of the commercial relationship
  • Management of your contact requests - Duration necessary to process and respond to contact requests
  • Sending email invitations to finalize the order - 3 years from the last connection to the customer account
  • Sending newsletters - Duration of newsletter subscription
  • Management of your requests to exercise data protection rights - 5 years after closing the request
  • Management of pre-litigation and litigation - Until amicable resolution of pre-litigation or exhaustion of legal remedies.

ARTICLE 6 - SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA


We are committed to protecting the personal data we collect. To do so, Hive Development Ltd ensures to take all useful physical, technical, and organizational measures to prevent any unauthorized or unlawful processing, as well as any accidental loss, destruction, or degradation of your personal data.

ARTICLE 7 - POLICY ON THE USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKERS


Cookies are small text files that are deposited on your terminal (phone, computer, tablet, etc.) by Hive Development Ltd as well as our partners when you browse our Site. By extension, and within the meaning of this cookie policy, the term "cookie" covers more generally all tracking technologies used on our website that collect information about your browsing and interactions on it.

Cookies can be:

  • Session cookies, when they are retained on your terminal exclusively for the duration of your browsing on the Site and erased when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies, when they are retained on your terminal for a longer period, until their expiration or until deleted by the user.

In some cases, the cookies used on our Site may collect personal data concerning you.

When personal data is collected by Hive Development Ltd as data controller, it will be processed in accordance with the provisions of this cookie policy.

Since April 1, 2021, site/application publishers must comply with the recommendations of the CNIL regarding cookies, which require a thorough analysis of the cookies used and the resulting processing of personal data.

When third-party cookies allow our partners to collect and process personal data concerning you, we invite you to consult their privacy policy to learn about the conditions under which your personal data will be processed.

CATEGORIES OF COOKIES LIKELY TO BE DEPOSITED ON YOUR TERMINAL

Several categories of cookies may be deposited on your terminal equipment: essential cookies strictly necessary for the operation of the site, audience measurement and analytical cookies intended to measure the performance of our Site, as well as advertising cookies.

  • Essential Cookies
  • Essential cookies, such as functionality, session, authentication, and security cookies, are essential for the proper functioning and security of the Site and are strictly necessary for providing the services you wish to access through the Site. They are activated by default on the Site.

    These cookies allow, among other things:

    • To ensure smooth navigation on our Site, to facilitate and accelerate the loading of various web pages, and to guarantee the operation of all Site features;
    • To remember the display preferences of the user interface (language used and service presentation) and to adapt the presentation of the Site for a personalized experience when it is an intrinsic element of the services offered on the Site;
    • To memorize certain information in the context of your purchase journey (for example, cookies allowing to keep in memory the content of the shopping cart);
    • To allow access to reserved and personal areas of the site, such as your customer account, through the authentication mechanism;
    • To implement security measures and detect any fraudulent connection to your customer account;
    • To retain your cookie preferences and ensure the operation of our cookie management tool;
    • To ensure the operation of certain features of the purchase and order process (for example, the payment process).

    Through the use of some of these cookies, Hive Development Ltd is required to collect and process certain personal data to pursue the aforementioned purposes. This includes, in particular, your IP address, your session identifiers, information about your browser and/or terminal, your browsing data, and your preferences (including your choice regarding cookies).

    The legal basis for processing this data is the legitimate interest of Hive Development Ltd in ensuring that the Site functions properly, securely, and according to the preferences indicated by each user. The data is shared within Hive Development Ltd only with individuals who need to know it for the purposes mentioned above, such as the teams involved in Site management and those providing technical support. Hive Development Ltd may also share this data with external providers for the same purposes. In the event of data transfer outside the European Economic Area, Hive Development Ltd will implement appropriate safeguards to frame the transfer in accordance with the GDPR. Your personal data is retained only for the duration necessary to achieve the aforementioned purposes, and in any case for a maximum period of 6 months. Data relating to your consent may be retained longer to anticipate any action or investigation aimed at verifying or contesting Hive Development Ltd's compliance with its obligation to collect user consent.

    1.   Audience Measurement and Analytical Cookies

    Our partners deposit audience measurement and analytical cookies on the Site to allow us to measure the Site's audience, optimize its performance, and improve our services. If you do not accept these cookies, we will not be able to take your browsing into account in our performance statistics and audience measurements.

    These cookies allow, among other things:

    To establish attendance statistics (for example, the number of visits, the most visited pages, etc.) to understand how visitors interact with our Site and improve the quality of our services and the user-friendliness of the Site;

    Analyze your behavior on our Site (for example, mouse movement, scroll height).

    In the context of the use of these cookies, Hive Development Ltd will only have access to aggregated statistical data.

    1.   Advertising Cookies

    Our partners use cookies to provide you with relevant personalized advertising content on our Site and on third-party sites. If you do not accept these cookies, you will not be able to access this personalized advertising content.

    These cookies allow, among other things:

    • To adapt advertising content inserted on our Site to your interests, location, and behavior on our Site;
    • To limit the number of times the same advertisement is presented to you;
    • To generate statistics concerning advertising on our advertising spaces and your interaction with these spaces to measure the effectiveness of an advertisement;
    • To offer you advertising content related to our Site and our services when you access third-party sites and social networks, following your visit to our Site.

    COOKIE MANAGEMENT

    Here is a list of cookies we use. We have listed them here so that you have the opportunity to choose whether to allow them or not.

    _session_id, unique session identifier, allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc.).

    _shopify_visit, no data retained, persists for 30 minutes from the last visit. Used by the internal tracking system of the provider of our website to record the number of visits.

    _shopify_uniq, no data retained, expires at midnight (based on the visitor's location) the next day. Counts the number of visits to a store by a unique customer.

    cart, unique identifier, persists for 2 weeks, stores information about your shopping cart.

    _secure_session_id, unique session identifier

    storefront_digest, unique identifier, indefinite if the store has a password, used to determine if the current visitor has access.

    ARTICLE 8 - YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DATA


    You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to define directives regarding the fate of your data after your death and the right to data portability.

    These rights are exercised under the conditions set by the applicable regulations:

    The right of access means that you can ask us at any time to inform you whether we are processing personal data concerning you and, if so, to inform you of the personal data concerned and the characteristics of the processing(s) carried out.

    The right to rectification means that you can ask us to rectify your personal data when it is inaccurate. You can also request that your personal data, when incomplete, be completed to the extent that it is relevant to the purpose of the processing concerned.

    The right to erasure means that you can request the erasure of your personal data, in particular when: (i) their retention is no longer necessary in light of the purposes for which they were collected; (ii) your personal data are processed based on your consent, and you wish to withdraw this consent, and there is no other legal basis that may justify the processing; (iii) you object to the processing of your personal data and, as a result, you wish for them to be erased; (iv) your personal data have been subject to unlawful processing; (v) your personal data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation provided for by European Union law or French law.

    The right to restriction means that you can request us to restrict the processing of your personal data (i) when you contest the accuracy of your personal data for a period allowing us to verify the accuracy of such data; (ii) when, following an established processing as non-compliant, you prefer the restriction of processing to the complete erasure of your personal data; (iii) when we no longer need your personal data for the purposes of the processing but you still need them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; (iv) when you have objected to the processing of your personal data and you wish for processing to be restricted for the period allowing us to verify whether the legitimate grounds you invoke justify such processing. The restriction of processing means that the processing of your personal data will then only consist of storing the corresponding personal data. We will no longer carry out any other operations on the data considered.

    The right to object means that you can object to the processing of your personal data, where such processing is based on the pursuit of Hive Development Ltd's legitimate interest. The right to object is exercised subject to you having a legitimate reason relating to your particular situation. We will then cease the processing in question unless there are legitimate and compelling reasons for the processing, in accordance with the applicable regulations.

    The right to define directives regarding the fate of your data after your death allows you to communicate your instructions concerning the storage, erasure, and communication of your personal data after your death.

    The right to data portability means that you can ask us to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to you, or to ask us to transmit it directly to a third party of your choice where this is legally and technically possible.

    When we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the option to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the addresses indicated in the Contact section below or by clicking on the unsubscribe link in each of our newsletters. However, the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the validity of the processing carried out before this withdrawal.

    ARTICLE 9 - CONTACT


    For any questions regarding the collection and processing of your personal data or to exercise your rights regarding data protection, you can contact Hive Development Ltd

    By email at: hornetsden.store@gmail.com 


    ARTICLE 10 - AMENDMENT OF THE PRIVACY POLICY


    We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please check it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make changes to the content of this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it, if any.

    If our store is acquired by or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

    Last update on: 01.07.2024