Privacy policy
Introduction
Engaging in and caring for people has always been important for Vagabond. Vagabond respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This is a description of how Vagabond looks upon data privacy and what we do to fulfil our obligation towards you and to our partners.
General
Vagabond shields and protects your personal information and handles it in a fair and lawful way. We always strive to be transparent on how we handle your personal data. Therefore, Vagabond always strives to not collect and use more personal data than is needed to be able to fulfil your demand and expectations on us. We also put an effort into how we protect your data. We never sell your personal data to a third party and only transfer it to other companies within the Vagabond group or to our trusted partners or service providers for them to perform their tasks.
This policy applies to the information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website, www.vagabond.com (our “Website”) or via e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website.
Our website occasionally contains links to other websites. The websites are usually not under our control and are not covered by this privacy policy, so you are encouraged to familiarize yourself with their privacy policy before submitting your personal data.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. Therefore, it is important that you check the policy periodically for updates.
Some important principles in short
We try to protect your personal information by:
• Being transparent in informing you how we collect and use personal data.
• Only collect the data needed to process and fulfil our commitment and provide you with relevant marketing and offerings.
• Only collect data that is to your benefit, for improving our performance in providing our products and services.
• Only provide information to trusted affiliated companies, partners or service providers.
• Only keep data for as long needed for the purpose for which the data were collected.
• Upon your request provide information of what personal data that we hold and handle and on what legal ground.
• Protect your personal data using appropriate measures.
You have the right to:
• Request that we provide you with access to all your personal data that we handle.
• Request that we correct your personal data.
• Request that we limit our use of your personal data.
• To the extent permitted by law request that we delete your personal data.
• Request that we provide your personal data in machine-readable form, so called “Data portability”.
• Withdraw your consent.
Personal data controller is Vagabond International Aktiebolag and sometimes its subsidiaries or partners. Vagabond is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of our partners.
If you have any queries or are unhappy with how we process your personal data, you are always welcome to contact us. There is also the option of contacting the relevant supervisory authority.
Persons under the age of 16
Vagabond does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not use the Website or related services. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under the age of 16, we will delete that information.
Collecting data
The information we collect is mainly your name, payment information, address, phone number, and e-mail address. We also collect device data, access data, identification data, purchase data, location data and data about your preferences. Except as required or permitted by law, we do not collect any data that is not necessary for us to develop, fulfil and market our business services.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, including, but not limited to, when you register to use our Website, subscribe to our service, or request further services.
- Automatically, as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies (as further described below).
Use of Data
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
Storing of data
Vagabond will store data at its servers owned by Vagabond and located at Vagabond Varberg, Birger Svenssons Väg 36, 432 40 Varberg, or at servers provided by our partners or our service providers. Normally, data is stored within the EEA, but if data is transferred to countries outside the EEA, we ensure that appropriate security measures are taken and that the transfer is legal.
Transfer and Disclosure of data
We do transfer and disclose data to companies within the Vagabond group. We also transfer data to our partners and service providers we use to support our business and to provide high quality services and relevant marketing. Our partners and service providers are mainly located within EEA and so are their servers and other storing equipment. In some cases, we also transfer your personal data to third parties outside EEA. In that case, we ensure that appropriate security measures are taken and that the transfer is legal.
If you submit personal information to us, your personal information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your own country.
Protection of data
Vagabond limits the use of personal data by the following measures: its design and by not using technologies that are unnecessarily intrusive or capture data not needed to enable Vagabond or its partners or service providers to deliver Vagabond products, services and marketing. Privacy is a default working method at Vagabond and all settings aims to be for example opt-in instead of opt-out. Privacy is designed into systems by prioritizing security and data protection as part of the design and using privacy enhancements techniques like encryption and anonymization.
When visiting our Website, you provide personal information in conjunction with a transaction that are called secure pages (encrypted transfer of information). Vagabond is using certificates issued by a trusted third party. Such a certificate guarantees that you are communicating with our Website, and that the transfer of information is encrypted. Most web browsers at your devices use symbols to show if you are visiting a secure or non-secure web page. Learn more about this on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS.
Card payment transactions with Vagabond or our payment service provider use high-grade encryption technology carried out over an SSL 256-bit encrypted secure connection.
We use Google’s reCAPTCHA solution to determine whether it is a human or software that is attempting to send information to us. Your IP address and other data such as device and software details, necessary for reCAPTCHA to function, is transferred to Google Inc. After transfer, the information is covered by Google’s confidentiality terms and conditions.
When our partners or service providers process personal data on our behalf, we protect the data with a special data processing agreement.
Handling of data
Vagabond cares about and protects your personal privacy. We do our best to fulfil your expectations and perform in accordance with the agreement that we have with you to sell and deliver our products and to support you and share information with you. It is important to us that you understand how we handle your personal data when you visit our Website. Below is a description of the processes that may involve the handling of your personal data.
Visiting our web-shop and ordering our products
When you visit our web-shop and order our products you have to go to the check-out section where you will be asked to fill in what product you want to order, the contact and delivery details for us to be able to pick, pack and send the product to you.
Legal basis: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transmitted to our partners for distribution.
Payment and invoice information
During the checkout you need to select payment method and fill in the payment details (such as e.g. card details, card number, expiry date, CCV number) needed to process your payment for your order through our payment service provider. If you choose to pay via invoice, then we collect your personal id number (national identifier) to process a credit application and once approved by our credit service provider the order will be processed. The payment and invoice information are being collected by us without saving it and transferred securely to our partners for payments and/or for Invoicing.
Legal basis: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR). Balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). The processing is also necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest to avoid non-payment.
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transmitted to our credit and payment solution providers.
Delivery
We ask you to enter your name, delivery address and contact information such as e-mail and phone number on our website in the checkout section so that we will be able to deliver your order and if needed contact you regarding the delivery.
Legal basis: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transferred to our partners for distribution.
Return documents for certain markets
If you want to return a product you need to login on our return portal at our website and provide your e-mail and order number, to be able to print a return label before sending the product back to us.
Legal basis: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR). The processing is also necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Vagabond is subject (article 6 p.1 (c) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transmitted to our partners for distribution.
Order queries or cancellation of order
We keep your personal data such as; contact details, delivery details and payment details to support you with your legal rights that you have with respect to returning the product if you want to withdraw from your purchase or when you have a quality issue with the product. Should a problem with returns occur then we sometimes need to transfer your delivery and contact information to our partners for distribution in order for them to return the products.
Legal basis: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR). The processing is also necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Vagabond is subject (article 6 p.1 (c) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transmitted to our partners for distribution.
Contact form
When you contact us via our web form on our website, we collect and save the information you forward to us in order for us to help you with the question or issue you have. It can be information such as contact details, order, or delivery details that we need to support you. Note, your data may be transferred outside EEA.
Legal basis: Consent, (article 6 p.1 (a) of the GDPR) and the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Information is stored for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction or contact.
Disclosure to independent third parties: If necessary to resolve the issue in question, information is transferred to the relevant partner.
Chat function
When you visit our website, you can use our chat function. We then collect and save the information you provide to give the best possible support. Note, your data may be transferred outside the EEA.
Legal basis: Consent (Article 6 p.1 (a) GDPR) and the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or to take staps at the request of the data subject prior entering into a contract, (Article 6 p .1 (b) GDPR).
Automated decision making: No
Retention: Information is stored for maximum of two years from the most recent contact.
Disclosure to independent third parties: If necessary to resolve the issue in question, information is transferred to the relevant partner.
Newsletters
When you sign up for our newsletter subscription (online or in our stores) you agree that we save your email address in order to regularly send our newsletters or invitations that includes information about our offers and happenings that is relevant to you. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link on the email from us or contact us on our website.
Legal basis: Consent, (article 6 p.1 (a) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: E-mail addresses is stored until we receive a notice to unsubscribe.
Disclosure to independent third parties: The e-mail address is transmitted to our service provider that sends out the e-mail.
Customer club
If you join our customer club, we save your e-mail, your phone number, and the other information you provide in connection with the application for membership. We also store information about your purchase history, how you respond to our offers and use our website. We use the information to administer your membership, provide you with interesting offers and customized information. You can update your personal information, how you want to be contacted and choose what information is sent to you via My Pages.
Legal basis: Consent (Article 6 p.1 (a) GDPR).
Automated decision making: No
Retention: Your data is stored for a maximum of three years from the end of the membership.
Disclosure to independent partners: Your data is transferred to our partner who sends out information and offers.
Customer Reviews
Customer reviews are collected in order to provide customers with an improved basis for making decisions before purchasing products and for Vagabond's business development.
Legal basis: Consent (Article 6 p.1 (a) GDPR).
Automated decision making: No
Retention: Your data is stored until we are notified that the review shall be deleted, alternatively no later than three years from publication.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Information is shared with our provider of system for managing customer reviews.
E-mail services
If a product is not in stock we offer a possibility to send you an e-mail notification when the product is available for purchase.
Legal basis: Consent, (article 6 p.1 (a) of the GDPR).
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: The e-mail address is stored for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: No.
Fraud Prevention and Security
We and our partners monitor and analyze device and access data, identification data, purchase data and location data to detect fraud and maintain high security. This is to protect your personal data as well as our services and systems.
Legal basis: Balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). The processing is necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest in being able to maintain a high level of security. The processing is also necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Vagabond is subject (article 6 p.1 (c) of the GDPR.
Automated decision-making: Yes, to automatically block misuse and attempt to upload malicious code. Retention: Data collected in case of troubleshooting and security investigations are deleted when the case is closed.
Disclosure to independent third parties: If necessary, to resolve the issue in question, information is disclosed to our IT security service providers.
Development of business processes, logistics processes and technical systems
To develop our business processes, logistics processes and technical systems, we use device, access data, identification data, purchase data, location data and information that is collected in connection with support issues. This is necessary to be able to offer a secure and user-friendly service.
Legal basis: Balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). The processing is necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest in being able to offer a safe, attractive, and user-friendly website.
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Data collected for statistics are deleted after evaluation.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Information is disclosed to our IT service providers.
Debt Collection
If invoices are not paid despite repeated reminders, we can pass on the data required to give a debt collection service provider the task of recovering the debt. Alternatively, we can sell the outstanding claim to a debt collection service provider, who can then collect the claim in his own name.
The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, (article 6 p.1 (b) of the GDPR). Balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). In case of selling claims the processing is necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest to avoid non-payment.
Automated decision-making: No
Retention: Accounting information is stored in accordance with current legislation and other information for maximum three years from the most recent purchase transaction.
Disclosure to independent third parties: Data is transmitted to our partners for debt collection.
Marketing
As further described in the section about cookies and similar tracking technology, we use device data, access data, identification data, purchasing data, location data and data about your preferences to create marketing and offers that are relevant to you. For example, present relevant ads on third-party websites, applications and social media platforms. We also process ad data (for example, if you clicked on an ad) to measure ad performance and to enable ad billing. The information we use and combine with other data comes from our partners, your purchase history, and your Internet usage.
Legal basis: Consent, (article 6 p.1 (a) of the GDPR) and also balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). The processing is necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest in being able to provide you relevant marketing and offers.
Automated decision-making: Yes, your online experience will be shaped based on your cookie settings.
Retention: Data collected for statistics are deleted after evaluation. For how long a cookie is stored is stated in the information about each cookie and can be read via your browser. The retention period is further determined by your cookie settings.
Disclosure to independent third parties: We share information, with our providers of marketing services. By using our marketing partners marketing technology, certain information is transferred to them and is subsequently covered by their privacy and confidentiality terms.
Cookies and similar tracking technology
When visiting vagabond.com we save information about your activities on our Website (for example by using cookies). A cookie is a small data file placed on your device containing information about which parts of our Website you have visited. We use cookies to personalize your online experience and to collect statistical data for the purpose of improving the experience on the website. Cookies are reliable files and they cannot execute program code or transmit virus.
We use the following categories of cookies, and you can change your at any time.
Strictly necessary cookies help make a website navigable by activating basic functions such as page navigation, add items to your shopping cart and place an order. Without these cookies, the website would not be able to work properly.
Functional cookies make it possible to save information that changes the way the website appears or acts. For instance, your preferred language, currency, or region.
Statistical cookies help Vagabond understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information.
Marketing cookies are used to display ads that are relevant and interesting on other companies’ websites, applications, and social media platforms.
Note, the information collected via cookies may be transferred outside EEA. Legal basis: Consent, (article 6 p.1 (a) of the GDPR), you may at any time withdraw your consent and cancel the processing by removing the cookies from your device. Balance of interest, (article 6 p.1 (f) of the GDPR). The processing is necessary for Vagabond’s legitimate interest in being able to provide you a functioning website. Automated decision-making: Yes, your online experience will be shaped based on your cookie settings. Retention: For how long a cookie is stored is stated in the information about each cookie and can be read via your browser. The retention period is further determined by your cookie settings. Disclosure to independent third parties: We share information, with our providers of marketing services. By using our marketing partners marketing technology, certain information is transferred to them and is subsequently covered by their privacy and confidentiality terms.
Cookies for marketing and statistics
Our website contains cookies and similar tracking technology from our advertising partners which operates online advertising networks. Our advertising partners registers device and access data, identification data, purchasing data, location data and data about your preferences and shows you personalized advertising on other websites. This advertising is then based on products that you have previously shown interest in.
We use services from Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Hotjar Ltd, Simplify Workforce Inc, Impact Tech, Inc, and Adform to collect web, sales, and advertising statistics.
The statistic data is used in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize our services. Our partners help us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Our partners uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices. This includes a device's IP address, device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location, and the preferred language used to display our website.
For further details and opt-out instructions, please see:
Facebook Data Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php, Facebook opt-out instruction https://www.facebook.com/off-facebook-activity
Google Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy, Google Analytics opt-out instruction https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Pinterest Privacy Policy https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy, Pinterest opt-out instruction https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/do-not-track
Hotjar https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/, Hotjar opt-out instruction https://www.hotjar.com/policies/do-not-track
Simplify https://www.simplifyvms.com/privacy-policy/
Impact https://impact.com/privacy-policy/
Adform Privacy Centre https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/overview/, Adform Opt-out instruction https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/platform-privacy/opt-out/
How can I manage cookies in my browser?
Most web browsers permit to delete or block cookies and to warn you and ask for your consent before cookies are stored. You can find help in your internet browser on how to set your internet browser to handle and possible block cookies. If you do not wish to use cookies when visiting our online store this will affect your shopping experience, as we among other things use cookies to keep your shopping cart updated. The use of cookies is also necessary if you want to be able to place an order.
You can modify your browser to turn off certain or all cookies. This is very easy to do but please note, if you disable all cookies, you will not be able to make a purchase on vagabond.com.
The following links provide information on how to adjust the cookie settings on some popular browsers:
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Chrome
• Safari
By visiting www.youronlinechoices.eu you have the possibility to remove certain cookies individually.
Your Rights
Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise the rights described in this section. Some of the rights may vary depending on your jurisdiction.
You may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it; update and correct inaccuracies; get a copy of; or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.
You can submit a request by:
- Emailing [X]; or
- Calling [Y]
Please note sometimes we must retain all, or a portion, of your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or protect against fraudulent, deceptive or another one of our business purposes.
For us to process some requests, we will need to verify your identity to confirm that the request came from you. We may contact you by phone or e-mail to verify your request.
Contact
Our contact details
Vagabond International Aktiebolag
Box 521
432 19 Varberg
Visiting address
Birger Svenssons Väg 36
432 40 Varberg
Phone: +46 (0)340-541200
You can contact us by filling out our web Contact form here.