Privacy Policy

Feathr Oy (“Feathr”) values the privacy and trust of the users and visitors (the “Users”) of Feathr.com (the”Website”). This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and Websites offered by Feathr, and describes the use, collection and disclosure of User information collected on the Website.

By using the Website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Any personal information you provide on the Website is subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Feathr Terms of Use.

Feathr Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned and operated by Feathr. Other Websites that may be displayed as links from within Feathr Website are owned and operated by others, and they may have different privacy policies.

This Privacy Policy is for the website https://www.feathr.com, all its sub-domains, and is served by Feathr Ltd, a company organized under the laws of Finland, with registration number 2623451-8 and its registered address at Peltorivi 9 B 12, 10470 Fiskars, Finland.

Principles

This Policy is based on the following principles:

• Personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently;
• Personal data shall only be collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
• Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for processing;
• Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date with every effort to erase or rectify without delay;
• Personal data shall be kept in a form such that the data subject can be identified only as long as is necessary for processing;
• Personal data shall be processed in a manner that ensures the appropriate security;
• Personal data shall not be shared with third parties except when necessary in order for them to provide services upon agreement;
• Data subjects must easily exercise their rights.

What type of information does Feathr collect?

Personally Identifiable Information. Feathr collects Personal Information that Users provide to us, such as name, mailing address, phone number, email address, credit card number, and financial information (“Personal Information”).

Personal information is data that can be used to identify or contact you.

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data is defined as: “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.

If we do collect personal data, we will nevertheless never collect sensitive personal data about you. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines sensitive personal data as “categories of personal data related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.”

When you use the Website and/or purchase from us, we may gather various information. In any event, we are committed to ensuring that the information we receive and use are appropriate for the below purposes.

Non-Personal Information. Feathr collects non-personal information from Users, such as IP address, browser type and operating system (“Non-Personal Information”). Feathr uses Non-Personal Information to improve our services and the Website.

How and when Feathr collects information?

Feathr collects Personal Information from the Users at several different points on the Website:

Information collected on Registration

Certain features such as posting comments, receiving email notifications, participating in the blog discussions, submitting designs and purchasing products, require registration. Upon registration you will need to create a user name and password and provide your email address. You can also submit your location information so we can provide you a more personalized experience of the Website. You are not anonymous to us when you register with Feathr Website and sign in to our services.

Information collected on Purchases

If you order a product or service from us, you are asked to submit certain personally identifiable information via our order form, such as contact information and financial information. Feathr uses this information for billing your order and to fill your order. We also use this information to inform you about the status of the delivery and to contact you if there are problems with filling the order.

When purchasing, rest assure that your payments are secure. Feathr does not collect your payment data but only payment identifiers. All of your bank details are collected only by our payment service providers that are all certified for their security standards.

We use the above information from the following purposes:

• So you can purchase and receive your order
• So we can prevent and detect fraud
• So you can receive updates about your order via e-mail
• So you can receive marketing communication via email or SMS
• So we can send you surveys and contact you to know what you think about our services
• So we can notify you about changes to our services
• So you can receive your refund, and we can manage the whole return process

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is necessary for the contract between you and Feathr (to fulfill and deliver your purchases), for compliance with our legal obligations and our legitimate interests.

Information collected when you interact with our Website

We may collect and process the following information:

Contact information, purchase history, information gathered when you visit our website

We use the above information from the following purposes:

• So you can sign up to our newsletters and receive information, news and offers about our products
• So we can inform you and remind you of any task which remains uncompleted (incomplete orders, abandoned baskets)
• So we can inform you when a product is back in stock
• So we can provide, update, maintain, improve and protect our website, business and services
• So we can deliver relevant website content and online advertisements.
• So to prevet misuse, crime and fraud

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is based on your consent (when you sign up for our newsletter and ask to be reminded when a product is back in stock) or based on our legitimate interests.

Information collected when you contact us

We may collect and process the following information:

Name, Email address, Telephone number, Correspondence history, order information, shipping address.

We use the above information from the following purposes:

• So you contact, communicate with us
• So we can manage, administrate all your queries
• So we can verify your identity when you request further information based on your rights

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is necessary for the contract betwwen you and us, and based on our legitimate interests.

Information collected when you enter our contests

We may collect and process the following information:

Contact details such as email address, full name, telephone number, shipping address, country, your written replies and information submitted in the contest

We use the above information from the following purposes:

• So we can smoothly and perfectly manage the competitions (contact contestants, identify contestants, deliver prize deliveries)

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is necessary for the contract between you and us

Information collected via Instagram #wearefeathr

We may collect and process the following information:

Instagram account name, photo and video

We use the above information from the following purposes:

• To upload above information you submit to us on some of our platforms (ie product gallery)

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is based on your consent

Information collected on Submitting Designs

If you submit a design to Feathr, you are asked to register and submit certain personally identifiable information. You also have an option to provide personally identifiable information that becomes publicly available in your profile (such as links to your social media accounts). You may share this information at your own will, but please note that other users or companies may use this information to contact you and Feathr can’t be held responsible for this. You may remove and edit information on your profile at any time.

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is based on your consent

Information collected on earning payments from Feathr

If you receive royalty or prize payments from Feathr we are required by Finnish Tax Administration to collect the following information from you: your name, date of birth, your personal identification number or tax identification number and your address in your country of residence. Information collected will be submitted to the Finnish Tax Authorities together with the information on the amount of royalty or prize payments and, if applicable, the amount of tax withheld at source. This information is used solely to fulfill the Finnish Tax Authorities’ requirements and will not be used in any other manner.

The legal grounds to process your personal data are:

• The processing of your personal data is based on your consent

Your Choice to Opt-out

Users can choose to ‘opt-out’ of having your Personal information used for marketing purposes. For example, you can indicate on our registration form if you do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from Feathr. You may opt-out of receiving newsletters and promotional emails from Feathr by following the instructions included in each newsletter or by contacting us at .

You can use Feathr email referral service to tell your friend about the Website and products. Your friend’s email address is stored  only for sending an one-time email and tracking the success of this referral program. Your friend can send us an email at to ask that we remove the email address from our database.

Feathr automatically collects other Non-Personal information on our server logs from your browser even if you do not sign up to Feathr, for example, your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and helps us to provide you with an optimized Website experience. This information is not used to identify any individual.

How does Feathr share and disclose information?

Feathr is the sole owner of the information received and recorded on Feathr.com. Feathr does not share, rent or trade your Personal Information with third parties for their promotional purposes. Feathr shares Personal Information with third parties to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

Disclosure to Successors. In the event Feathr goes through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by or with another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or by a notice on our Website of any such change in ownership or control of your Personal Information.

Disclosure to Third Party Service Providers and Online Partners. We use third parties such as production subcontractors and shipping companies to fulfill and deliver orders, payment service provider to process transactions, and an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. When you make a purchase on our website or sign up for our email list, we will share the amount of Personal Information that is necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Each of our service providers have been selected by us for their ability to provide the particular services needed, including their ability to handle your personal information. All those providers provide sufficient guarantees to implement the technical and organizational measures necessary to meet the requirements of the GDPR and our own.

We may use third-parties to help manage, monitor and analyze the Website, for example to track the effectiveness of content. These companies may use Non-Personal Information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number).

Paypal and Stripe

We work with PayPal, Stripe and Splitit to offer our customers more convenient methods of payment. PayPal and Stripe enable you to send payments quickly and securely online using a credit card. All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy, available to view here. Stripe Privacy Policy can be found here. Splitit Privacy Policy is available here.

Disclosure to Unaffiliated Third Parties. We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to prevent an emergency or harm to others, investigate and take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of Feathr’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. In particular, if you have submitted a design to Feathr.com, we may disclose your information to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights. Similarly, if you allege that a design on Feathr.com is infringing upon your intellectual property rights, we may disclose your information to the owner of that Design.

Any comments and personal information you voluntarily publish on the Website, for example on comment sections, on your profile page, or on the blog, becomes publicly available and is not considered Personal Information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other information you make available in public areas of the Website will be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by Feathr and may be used by others to contact you. Feathr is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit to public sections of the Webpage

How does Feathr use Cookies?

A cookie is a small file that is placed on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes.  If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but you may have a limited ability to use some features of the Website.  Some cookies come directly from the website or application you are browsing and others come from third parties which place cookies. Such types of cookies are commonly categorized as “First Party Cookies” and “Third Party Cookies”.

We use cookies for various reasons, such as website navigation, allowing you to add items to your shopping bag, analysing the number of visitor on our site, assessing the success of our advertising campaigns, offers and communications or making our website work efficiently and secure.

We use for example Google Analytics and Lucky Orange which provides us with Non-Personal information that helps us to understand, measure and analyse the use of the Website better and improve the Feathr services.

• Information collected through the Website by the use of cookies includes:
  • Information about your operating system and device;
  • Webpages accessed within the Website and Services, the link that led you to there, dates and times you accessed the Website and Services, event information (e.g. system crashes) and general location information (i.e. city or region).
  • Information provided on the Website and Services by users in order to streamline the user’s experience and prevent user from having to re-enter information during the next visit to the Splitit’s Website and Services;
  • Number of visitors on the Website and Services and which webpages have been viewed, how the visitor is using the webpage;
  • To the extent we are using cookies for advertising purposes, we may collect advertising user ID and information associated with targeted advertising
  • an affiliate tracking cookie if the user clicks an external link without changing their browser cookie settings.

Cookies can be enabled/disabled through your browser settings or via our cookies settings. You can also use the following links to opt out of Google Analytics (Opt out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) and Lucky Orange (Opt out: https://privacy-classic.luckyorange.com/)

• Strictly Necessary Cookies– These cookies are necessary to enable the communication between the user’s device and the website or application, or to provide the user with services requested by him/her, such cookies are used for the sole purpose of carrying out a transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to allow the provider of an online service to provide its services as explicitly requested by users.
• Functionality Cookies– These cookies allow the website or application to remember choices the user made (such as username, password, language preferences, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features, to improve the user’s experience on the website or application.
• Performance (Analytic) Cookies– These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website or application, such as which pages visitors go to most often and if they are likely to get error messages from certain pages. These cookies collect aggregate information that does not identify a specific user personally. These cookies are used to improve how a website or application works, analyze use patterns of the website or application, and assist the provider to maintain and improve its services.
• Advertising (Targeting) Cookies– These cookies are used to deliver personalized advertisements to the user. Such cookies may be used to analyze a user’s preferences in accordance with the contextual information about the user’s activities on the website or application (for example, if a user is surfing a webpage displaying an article about a sporting event, cookies may be used to display to the user an advertisement associated with sports fans), or to correlate between a user and information about such user collected from other website or applications (for example, to display to the user an advertisement associated with sports fans based on the user’s profile in other website or applications). These cookies are used to promote advertising campaigns of website and application owners or those of third parties, as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. Advertising cookies are usually placed by advertising networks, which connect between the relevant advertiser and the location of publication of the advertisement.

Information storage and security

Feathr will use all reasonable efforts to protect your personal information. We are using the latest industry standards and security measures such SSL/TLS encryption for protection of user data and personal information. This means that when you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, that information is encrypted by using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We will hold your personal data for as long as you are you have an account and for as long as is necessary to comply with our legal/ regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse or enforce our terms and conditions.

When we no longer need to retain your personal data, it will be deleted or be anonymised so that you can no longer be identified from it.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

Where a third-party provider is located outside the European Economic Area, we will always ensure that the transfer of personal data will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission where the data protection authority does not believe that the third country has adequate data protection laws or with companies that are Privacy Shield Certified.

How can users review and make changes to their account information?

As a customer of Feathr, you have rights with regards to how we use and hold your information. This includes:

–          The right to be informed (i.e. via this privacy policy).

–          The right to access the personal information that we hold about you.

–          The right to change or rectify the personal information that we hold about you (if you have an online account you can do so on your account profile page).

–          The right to erasure or restrict the processing of personal information that we hold about you. This includes automated decision-making programmes or profiling.

–          The right to stop direct mailings or email marketing.

Where you request access to your information, we are required to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so. These measures only exist to protect your information and to reduce risk of identity fraud, theft or unauthorized access to your information.

We therefore kindly ask you to send us original or certified copies of the following documentation: passport, identity card, birth certificate or driving licence. One of those above documents is required in order to request personal information.

We will endeavour to respond within one month. If you want to exercise one of the above rights, please contact us at [email protected].

Notice to international users

If you are visiting and using the Website from any other country than Finland with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from the laws of Finland, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by the laws of Finland and this Privacy & Cookie Policy and Feathr Terms of Use, you will be transferring your Personal Information into Finland and you consent to that transfer.

Changes to this Privacy & Cookie Policy

Feathr may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice. We will strive to notify you about significant changes by sending a notice to the email address in your Feathr account and/or by placing a notice on the home page of the Website. If you receive notification of a change in our Privacy & Cookie Policy please review the Privacy Policy carefully.

Feathr contact information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy & Cookie Policy, you can contact us at

Feathr Oy
Peltorivi 9B
Fiskars 10470
Finland

The Privacy Policy was last updated Oct 11th, 2021.