Paiste Privacy Policy

We are firmly commited to your privacy and the protection of your information.

Any information collected through this website and associated digital channels is solely intended for the purpose of facilitating the function and use of, and your interaction with, the website and associated digital channels.

We believe in transparency, and we’re committed to being open about how this website operates, and how we treat your personal information. Please review the following for further details.

Newsletter / Email Marketing

Our email marketing is permission based. If you receive a mailing from us, our records indicate that you have expressly shared your contact information for the purpose of receiving information in the future ("opt-in" through this website), or you have an existing relationship with us where you voluntarily provided your contact information to us, including for the purpose of receiving information from us.

We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

If you believe you have received unwanted or unsolicited email sent via our system or email purporting to be sent via our system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to privacy@paiste.com for review and action.

Opting Out and Unsubscribing: Each email sent contains an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving email from us, or to change your expressed interests. If you wish to do this, simply follow the Unsubscribe links at the end of any email.

Security of your Personal Information

We do not store personal information on our servers. We may contract the services of reputable third party companies, such as to facilitate the Newsletter feature, who use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. These third parties secure the personal information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When Personal Information collected on our Websites is transmitted to other sites or servers, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Sharing and Usage

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone for their promotional or any other use without your advance permission (or unless ordered by a court of law). Any information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information, and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.

Website Analytics

We use web analytics tools provided by service partners such as Google Analytics, Buffer or Onlypult to collect information about how you interact with our website, including what pages you visit, what operating system and web browser you use and the related network and IP information. We use the information provided by these tools to understand how our online services are used and to improve them.

These tools place persistent cookies in your browser to identify you as a unique user for the next time you visit our website. Such cookies cannot be used by anyone other than the service provider (example: Google for Google Analytics). The information collected from the cookie(s) may be transmitted to and stored by these service partners on servers in a country other than the country in which you reside. The information collected is used and shared by these service providers in accordance with their individual privacy policies. You can control the technology by utilizing settings in your browser or other third-party tools you use.

The information collected through web analystics does NOT include any personal data such as name, address, billing information, etc.

Social Media Features

Our website, and blogs and emails may contain links that include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like Button and Widgets such as the “Share This” button, and other similar interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a reputable third party or hosted directly on our Websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy and other policies of the companies providing them.

User Generated Content (UGC)

From time to time, social media fans and followers may be encouraged to provide user generated content (UGC). Should you provide text, photos, videos, product suggestions or any other UGC to us via any of our direct uploads or #hashtag campaigns, you give us the right to develop, manufacture, reproduce, redistribute, or create derivative works from that content for any purpose without further obligation to you.

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

Paiste is expressly committed to compliance with the EU GDPR regulations in effect since May 2018. Because we respect the privacy of all our website visitors, customers, retailers, and distributors, our compliance measures are in effect for all global citizens (whether they reside inside and outside of the EU).

Questions, Concerns and Removal Requests

Please contact us with any questions or concerns you have with our Privacy Policy and how it relates to the use of this website.

We will always honor any requests for removal of your data from our system.

Please email privacy@paiste.com to share questions and concerns or to request removal of any information relating to you.