Effective Date: October 4, 2022

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information NHD GmbH, (“NHD,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects on this website (www.nhd.com), including NHD Marketplaces, and our mobile sites (collectively, the “Sites”), and any other personal information obtained when you call, email, or otherwise communicate with NHD. By accessing the Sites on any computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device (collectively, “Device”), making a purchase from NHD, or otherwise interacting with NHD, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the policy, please do not use the Sites.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time and will post the current version on the Sites. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are using the information we collect.

Information That We Collect

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” is any data which relates to an individual who may be identified from that data, or from a combination of a set of data, and other information which is in possession of NHD.

We collect the following categories of Personal Information:

• Information that you provide via our website, including information you provide when you register on our website or create an account e.g., name, email address, title, company, address, and telephone number.
• Information to verify your identity, including your name, social security number, driver’s license numbers, and government-issued identification details.
• Payment information, including name, card issuer and card type, credit or debit card number, expiration date, CVV code, billing address, bank account number and other bank account details.
• Contact information, together with purchase details, delivery details, payment details, and any communications we have received about your order or purchase.
• Name and address of recipient for delivery, if different from yours.
• Communications we have with you, including through requests to contact customer service, sales, or technical support, feedback we receive from you, and the email addresses used to communicate with us via email.
• Fraud checks or flags raised about your transactions, the payment card you want to use, payment card refusals, suspected crimes, complaints, and claims.
• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of the Sites, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, MAC address, demographics, your computers’ operating system, and browser type, device-identifying information, the specific web pages visited during your connection, the domain name from which you accessed the Sites, and geolocation, if you permit it to obtain your precise geolocation.
• Information about your browsing behavior, such as the date and time you visit the Sites, the areas or pages of the Sites that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing the Sites, the number of times you return to the Sites, links that are clicked, mobile device model, identifier or other unique identifier, sites or apps visited before coming to our Site, other site usage data, emails we send that you open, forward, or click through to our Site, and other clickstream data.
• Preference information, including your marketing preferences, your account settings including any default preferences, any preferences you have indicated and the types of services/offers that interest you.
• Non-personal or aggregated information for statistical analysis, research, and other purposes.

Like many commercial websites, we analyze how visitors use our Sites through what is known as “cookie” technology or similar tracking tools. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer when you access the Sites and allows us to recognize you each time you visit the Sites. We may use cookies to: (1) allow you to use the Sites without having to re-enter your username and password; (2) enhance or personalize your Site usage and shopping experience; (3) monitor Site usage; (4) manage the Sites; and (5) improve the Sites and our products and services, including providing you with interest-based ads. For more information on our advertising, see below: “Interest-Based Advertising.” If you choose, you can set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual cookies or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser’s help file directions. However, if your browser is set to reject cookies or you manually delete cookies, you may have some trouble accessing and using some of the pages and features that are currently on our Sites, or that we may put on our Sites in the future. Note that browser-management tools for cookies are outside of our control and we cannot guarantee their effectiveness.

We may combine the information we collect through cookies, web beacons, or other technology tools with other information we have collected from you or information from other sources.

Use of Information

We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes to:

• Provide you with the Sites and NHD services
• Fulfill your requests for products or services
• Comply with our legal and regulatory requirements
• Authenticate your identity
• Respond to your inquiries
• Send you a confirmation email when you make a purchase or otherwise interact with the Sites
• Review Site usage and operations
• Address problems with the Sites, our business, or our services
• Protect the security or integrity of the Sites and our business
• Monitor the Sites for compliance with our Terms of Use and the law
• Contact you with Site updates, newsletters and other informational and promotional materials from us and third-party marketing offers from our trusted partners, as well as from other companies via email, post, telephone, SMS or push notifications, in accordance with your marketing preferences
• Provide interest-based advertising to you based on the way you browse and shop on the Sites and other platforms.

If you sign up for our mailing list, we will send you informational emails about offers of services. At any time, you can ‘unsubscribe’ yourself from our email list simply by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ button.

If you do not wish to receive communications from us about special offers and promotions, you can opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the messages you receive. Even if you opt-out of receiving these messages, we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the services we provide, and we may send you service announcements and administrative messages. We do not offer you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving those communications. For more information about interest-based advertising, including how you can manage advertising, please see below “Interest-Based Advertising.”

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose information collected from and about you as follow to:

• Our related companies and service providers to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us
• Our marketing partners, advertisers or other third parties, who may contact you with their own offers
• As necessary if we believe that there has been a violation of the Site Terms of Use or of our rights or the rights of any third party
• Respond to legal process (such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order) and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law

Please note that if you voluntarily submit any personal information for posting on the Sites, such as a review or a blog post, the information becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others, so you should use care before posting information about yourself online.

In the event that our company or substantially all of its assets are bought, sold or otherwise transferred, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets. We may also disclose your personal information with your express consent. We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information about Site users with third parties.

Interest-Based Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies that use tracking technologies to serve our advertisements across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to the Sites and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. These advertising companies serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated sites, and some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information collected about your visits to the Sites and elsewhere over time. Other companies may also use such technology to advertise on our Sites.

You have the choice to tell us not to collect and use this information, and in some jurisdictions, we will only engage in interest-based advertising if you opt-in. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices concerning interest-based ads, visit:

www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

www.aboutads.info/choices

Retention of Personal Information

Personal information that we collect, access, or process will be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes for which it was collected, unless otherwise provided in agreements between you and NHD or as required or authorized by law. Personal information that is no longer required to fulfill the identified purposes will be destroyed, erased, or made de-identified.

Security

We maintain reasonable and appropriate measures designed to maintain information we collect in a secure manner. We have taken certain physical, electronic, and administrative steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from visitors to the Sites. Even though we follow reasonable procedures to try to protect the information in our possession, no security system is perfect, and we cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your information will be secure in all circumstances.

Children

NHD operates a business-to-business marketplace. Only registered users 18 and older and connected with a partner business are permitted to use the Sites.

Under Age 13
The Sites are not directed to children, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen without verifiable parental consent. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us promptly as described below, and we will endeavor to investigate and delete such information from our systems.

Under Age 18
Minors under 18 years of age may have the personal information that they provide to us deleted by sending an email to info@nhd.com. requesting deletion. Please note that, while we make reasonable efforts to comply with such requests, deletion of your personal information does not ensure complete and comprehensive removal of that data from all systems.

Third-Party Websites

The Sites may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these websites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any external site before disclosing any personal information. Please contact those websites directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, NHD and the Sites do not recognize DNT.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time, including as required to keep current with rules and regulations, new technologies and security standards. When we do, we will post the change(s) on our Sites. If we change the policy in a material and retroactive manner, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

Your California Privacy Rights

California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, including the categories of information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we have shared such information. As discussed elsewhere in this privacy policy, we do not currently share the personal information of California residents with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. However, if you have further questions about our privacy practices and compliance with California law, please contact us as explained below.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we collect and use the information of our customers, you can contact us by mail to NHD GmbH, Friedrich-Ebert-Ring 19, D-23611 Sereetz, Germany, or emailing us at info@nhd.com

If we need, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your information, we may do so by email, telephone, or mail.