Privacy Policy

At Brands&Prices, we protect your personal privacy and always strive to ensure a high level of data protection. This privacy policy explains how we collect and use your personal data. It also describes your rights and how you can act on them.

It is important that you understand the privacy policy and feel secure with our processing of your personal data. You are always welcome to contact us if you have any questions. For questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact Brands&Prices by emailing pricesbrands@gmail.com


What is personal data and what is processing of personal data?

Personal data is all kinds of information that can be directly or indirectly associated to a physical living person. For example, images and sound recordings that are processed in a computer can be personal data even if no names are mentioned. Encrypted data and different types of electronic identities (such as IP numbers) are personal data if they can be linked to physical people.

Processing of personal data is everything that occurs in terms of handling personal data. Any action performed with personal data counts as a form of processing, regardless of whether it is automated or not. Examples of common processing are collection, registration, organising, structuring, storing, revising, transfer and deletion.

What personal data do we collect about you as a customer and for what purpose (why)?

Purpose: In order to process service issues.

Processing performed: Communication and answering any questions via phone or via digital channels, including social media. Identification. Investigating any complaints and support cases (including technical support).

Categories of personal data: Name or company name. Contact details (e.g. address, e-mail or phone number). Your correspondence. Data about event occurrence, retailer involved, any errors/complaints. Technical data about your equipment. User data for members.

Legal basis: Legitimate interest. The processing is necessary to meet our and your legitimate interest in processing service matters.

Storage period: Until the service case has been completed. Valid personal data for retailers - so the data will be saved as long as the company is a customer of Brands&Prices.

Purpose: In order to evaluate, develop and improve our services, products and systems for customers and users.

Processing performed: Adaptation of services to be more user-friendly (e.g. change the user interface to simplify the flow of information or to highlight features commonly used by customers in our digital channels). Analyses of data in order to improve features and tools. Analyses of data to develop, broaden and change product categories and product data to make the service more relevant to users and customers. Analyses of data in order to develop and improve our resource efficiency from an environmental and sustainability perspective (e.g. by informing about efficient resource utilisation per category, environmentally-friendly products and more efficient deliveries). Analyses of data in order to prioritise and plan the choice of retailers on the site. Analyses of data to enable our users and customers to influence the appearance and contents of our services. Analyses of data to improve IT systems in order to improve performance or enhance security for Brands&Prices, its users and customers. Based on the data we collect (e.g. clicks to retailers, age and gender) you can be sorted into a user group, upon which analyses are then performed on an aggregate level using non-identifiable or pseudonymised data without any link to you as an individual. The insights from the analyses form the basis for which products, product categories, and the design of tools for which users and customers have access to.

Categories of personal data: Age. Gender. City. Correspondence and feedback regarding our services and products. Purchase and user-generated data (e.g. clicks and visit history). Technical data pertaining to devices used and their settings (e.g. language setting, IP address, browser settings, time zone, operating system, screen resolution and platform). Information about how you interacted with us, in other words how you used the service, login method, where and how long different pages were visited, response times, download errors, how you access and leave the service, etc.

Legal basis: Legitimate interest. The processing is necessary to meet Brands&Prices's, the users' and our customers' legitimate interest in evaluating, developing and improving our services and systems.

Storage period: From the time of collection and for a period of 36 months thereafter.

Purpose: In order to prevent abuse of a service or to prevent, avoid and investigate crimes against the company.

Processing performed: Prevention and investigation of possible fraud or other crimes (e.g. clicks to retailer manipulation). Prevention of spam, phishing, unauthorised retrieval of price or product data from our services, harassment, unauthorised login to user accounts, or other actions prohibited by law or by our membership, service or customer agreement. Protecting and improving our IT environment against attacks and intrusions.

Categories of personal data: Purchase and user-generated data (e.g., clicks and visit history). Technical data pertaining to devices used and their settings (e.g. language setting, IP address, browser settings, time zone, operating system, screen resolution and platform). Data about how our digital services are used.

Legal basis: Compliance with legal obligation (if any) or legitimate interest. If no legal obligation exists, processing is necessary to meet our legitimate interest in preventing abuse of a service or preventing, avoiding and investigating crimes against the company.

Storage period: From the time of collection and for a period of 36 months thereafter.

What personal data do we collect about you as a member of Brands&Prices (why)?

Purpose: To manage your membership and provide the member service with personalised features such as favourite lists and price alerts.

Processing performed: Creation of login feature. Checking your identity. Maintaining correct and updated information. The possibility for you to save favourites and similar features which make the user experience better.

Categories of personal data: Name. E-mail address. Display name (for members). Phone number. Address. Historical user data such as clicks to retailers, favourite products, price alerts, visits to product and category pages, comments, reviews and interest notifications. Username and password. Settings and your personal choices.

Legal basis: your registration on Brands&Prices's website.

Storage period: Until membership is terminated under ‘My pages’ on Brands&Prices's website.

Purpose: In order to deliver a personalised experience of our services.

Processing performed: Creation of personalised content for you, e.g. via relevant product recommendations, presentation of your specific benefits and offers, custom tools, segmented samples and tips content, and other similar measures that involve an easier user experience for you. Simplification of your use of our services (e.g. by saving favourites to facilitate future purchases or reminding you of forgotten/abandoned virtual shopping carts). Personal communication based on your behaviour as a logged in member. Analyser of the data we collect for the purpose: Based on the data we collect (e.g. membership level, visited product categories, settings, reviews, and clicks history), we perform an individual-level analysis. The insights from the analyses form the basis for our communication with you and what offers, benefits and information about e.g. tips or new products is presented to you.

Categories of personal data: Name. Username. Age. Gender. Town/City. Membership level. Purchase history. Purchase and user-generated data (e.g. clicks and visit history). Specified customer choices regarding e.g. communication channels or tools on the website.

Legal basis: your registration on Brands&Prices's website.

Storage period: Until membership is terminated under ‘My pages’ on Brands&Prices's website.

From what sources do we retrieve your personal data?

In addition to the data you provide us, or which we collect from you based on your purchases and how you use our services, we may also collect personal data from someone else (a so-called third party). Examples of data we collect from third parties may be address data from public records (to ensure our retailers deliver to the correct address) or information from signing in with Facebook or another social network to facilitate your experience as a user. Such retrieval never happens without explicit consent from you as a user.

Right to rectification

You may request that your personal information be corrected if the information is incorrect. Within the framework of the stated purpose, you also have the right to supplement any incomplete personal data. Keep in mind that you as a member of Brands&Prices can edit a great deal of submitted data when logged in on Brands&Prices’s website.

Right to deletion

You may request the deletion of personal data we process about you if:

  1. The data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they have been collected or processed.
  2. You oppose a weighing of interests we have performed based on legitimate interest and your objection weighs more than our legitimate interest.
  3. You oppose processing for direct marketing purposes.
  4. Personal data is processed illegally.
  5. Personal data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation we are subject to.
  6. Personal data which has been collected for a child (under the age of 13) for which you have parental responsibility and collection has been made in connection with an offering via information society services (e.g. social media).

Right to limitation

You have the right to request that our processing of your personal data be limited. If you disagree that the personal data we process is correct, you may request limited processing during the time which we need to check if your personal data is correct or not. If we no longer need your personal data for the stated purposes, but you need the data to determine, enforce or defend legal claims, you may request limited processing of the data by us. This means that you can request that we do not delete your data.

If you have objected to a weighing of interest of legitimate interest that we have performed as a legal basis for a purpose, you may request limited processing during the time which we need in order to check if our legitimate interest outweighs your interest in having the data deleted.

If the processing has been limited in accordance with any of the above situations, we may, in addition to the actual storage, process the data to determine, enforce or defend legal claims, to protect someone else's rights or if you have given your consent.

Right to object to certain types of processing

You always have the right to avoid direct marketing and to object to all processing of personal data based on a weighing of interest.

Legitimate interest

In cases where we use a weighing of interest as a legal basis for a purpose, you have the possibility to object to the processing. In order to continue processing your personal data after such objection, we need to demonstrate a compelling legitimate reason for the current processing that weighs heavier than your interests, rights or freedoms. Otherwise, we may only process the data to determine, exercise or defend legal claims.

Direct marketing (including analyses performed for direct marketing purposes)

You may object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing. The objection also includes the analyses of personal data (so-called profiling) performed for direct marketing purposes. Direct marketing refers to all types of targeted marketing actions (e.g. e-mail and text messaging).

Marketing actions - where you as a customer have actively chosen to use one of our services or otherwise initiated contact with us to know more about our services - do not count as direct marketing (such as product recommendations or other features and offers on Brands&Prices's website).

If you oppose direct marketing, we will discontinue the processing of your personal data for that purpose and terminate any direct marketing actions.

Keep in mind that you are always able to influence which channels we will use for communicating personal offers. E.g. you can choose to receive only e-mails from us, but not text messages. In this case, you should not object to personal data processing as such but limit our communication channels

What are cookies and how do we use them?

Cookies are a small texts consisting of letters and numbers sent from our web server and stored on your browser or device.

On Brands&Prices’s website, we use the following cookies: 1. Session cookies (a temporary cookie that terminates when you close your browser or device). 2. Sustained cookies (cookies that remain on your computer until you delete them or they expire). 3. First party cookies (cookies set by the website you visit). 4. Third party cookies (cookies set by a third party site). 5. Similar technologies (technologies that store information in your browser or device in a manner similar to cookies).

The cookies we use are intended to improve the services we offer. Some of our services need cookies to work properly, while others improve the services for you. We use cookies for overall analytical information regarding your use of our services and for saving functional settings such as language and other information. We also use cookies to provide relevant targeted marketing to you.

You can read more about our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy. You can always contact us for more specific information, or if you have questions about our cookies, by e-mailing pricesbrands@gmail.com

Can you yourself control the use of cookies?

Yes. Your browser or device allows you to change the settings for the usage and scope of cookies. Go to the settings of your browser or device to learn more about managing the settings for cookies. Examples of things you can manage are blocking all cookies, only accepting first party cookies, or deleting cookies when you close your browser.

Keep in mind that some of our services might not work if you block or delete cookies.

How is your personal data protected?

We use IT systems to protect the privacy, integrity and access to personal data. We have adopted security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or illegal processing (such as unauthorised access, loss, destruction or damage). Only those persons who actually need to process your personal data to meet our stated purposes have access to them.

What does it mean that the Data Protection Authority is the supervisory authority?

The Data Protection Authority is responsible for monitoring the application of the law, and a person who deems that a company processes personal data in an incorrect manner is able to file a complaint through the Data Protection Authority.