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Cookies are small text files that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment (usually to the user’s browser) by visited websites; they are stored in the user´s terminal equipment to be then re-transmitted to the websites on the user´s subsequent visits to those websites.

We mostly use them to offer you a proper or enhanced browsing experience and collect statistics to optimize site functionality. Any additional information, including that allowing us to deliver marketing based on your interests, shall only be stored upon your prior consent.

Cookies can be installed directly by us, with our website domain (“Bally’s cookies”) or by third-party providers (“third-party cookies”).

Some cookies can be persistently stored in the user’s device until their expiration or deletion by the user and other can be automatically eliminated any time the website browsing session ends or when the browser is closed (“session cookies”).

Depending on their purpose, cookies may be distinguished into two major groups: “technical” cookies and “profiling” cookies, as better illustrated below:

Technical cookies are those used exclusively with a view to carrying out the transmission of a communication on a digital/electronic network, or insofar as this is strictly necessary to the electronic service provider that has been explicitly requested by the user to provide the said service. These cookies can be divided into:

• browsing cookies, which guarantee a regular browsing experience on a website (e.g. allowing the access to restricted areas); disabling these cookies may impair the user’s browsing experience and prevent some web page to be displayed properly;
• analytics cookies, which anonymously analyse the use of a website (e.g. the number of visitors of clicks for each webpage) for statistical survey and optimization purposes; disabling these cookies will not impair the user’s browsing experience;
• functional cookies, which enable additional functionalities such as saving the user’s preferences and settings, such as language, so as to enhance the quality of service; disabling these cookies will not impair the user’s browsing experience, but will prevent the user to benefit of the functionalities offered by these types of cookies.

Profiling cookies are aimed at creating user profiles. They are used to send ads messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during navigation. A website can operate without them without impairing in any way the user’s browsing experience.

These cookies require the users’ informed consent to be installed.

Below you may find a list of the cookies that are most commonly used by Bally, along with an explanation of how they are each used.

Bally also uses third-party cookies from other providers as listed and described below.

The installation of profiling, retargeting, analytic and social media cookies belonging to third parties, as well as any other activity relating to such cookies, including collection and processing of information, shall be the responsibility of such third parties.

As indicated on the banner that appeared upon your first visit to our website, your consent to the use of cookies shall be collected when you click on the I ACCEPT button or close the banner.

Please note that we may keep record of your consent by means of a technical cookie, so that the aforementioned banner may not be displayed in your subsequent visits. Notwithstanding, we shall ask you to renew your choice (by the appearance of a new banner) every 12 months and keep record of your previous consents only to prove compliance with the law for so long as the applicable statute of limitation will require.

In any case and at any time, you may freely decide to block the setting of third-party and profiling cookies or to withdraw any previously given consent without affecting your ability to visit the website and avail of the relevant contents.

You may decide whether you want to allow cookies to be installed or not also by using your browser’s setting area.

However, please be reminded that disabling one or more technical cookies may impair certain features of this website (in particular, browsing cookies are necessary for the proper operation of the basic features of the website).

It is possible to disable/enable or delete the cookies at any time by using the settings of your Web browser. In particular, if you do not wish to receive cookies, it is possible to set your own browser to inform you of the presence of a cookie, thus allowing you to decide whether to accept it or not; you may also automatically refuse all the cookies by enabling the specific browser option. You may also delete specific cookies already stored in the browser or block the storage of cookies on your computer by specific websites, or block third party cookies.

Below, find the methods provided by the main browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari

Following the disabling of all cookies, some functions of the website pages may not operate correctly.

Moreover, you may manage your cookie preferences at http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

Social plugins for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and others are used on our website, which displays an icon for each of these social networks or other external platforms.

This type of service allows interaction with social networks, or with other external platforms, directly from the pages of our website, by clicking on the relevant icon. The interactions and information acquired by our website are in any case subject to the user’s privacy settings related to each social network or external platform.

If an interaction service with social networks is installed, it is possible that, even if the users do not use the service, the same collect traffic data relating to the pages in which it is installed. Please be aware that we have no influence on the extent of the data that these social network or external platform collect through these plugins.

You may find detailed information about the scope, type, purpose and further processing of your data and your rights to protection of your privacy by consulting the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform. You may also directly click on the links provided below:

• Twitter, Inc.’s privacy policy;
• YouTube’s privacy policy;
• Facebook, Inc.’s privacy policy;
• LinkedIn Corporation’s privacy policy;
• Pinterest, Inc.’s privacy policy;
• Snap, Inc.’s privacy policy.

By first logging out from the pages of your social networks and deleting the cookies that have been set, you can prevent these third parties from collecting information about you during your visit to our website.

1.1 This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") is applicable to the website www.ballyofswitzerland.com (the "Website") and refers to the processing of personal data during both the Website navigation by users who only consult the Website and the interaction with the services and features offered through the Website (including the online store) by users who freely provide their information by filling in specific forms and/or via email in order to access reserved sections within the Website or receive newsletter and/or commercial and promotional information.

1.2 The Privacy Policy specifies the identity of the data controller that controls and manages the personal data collected and processed through the Website, and indicates which personal information is to be collected, the purposes and ways of processing and communicating to third parties the user's personal data, the security measures adopted in order to protect said data and the ways in which the user may check the data processing regarding his/her person and exercise his/her rights.

1.3 By using the Website the user consents to our collection, use, disclosure, retention, storage and transfer of his/her personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, and in the General Terms and Conditions of Use. We may amend this Privacy Policy and the new terms shall be effective as of the date of publication on the Website.

1.4 This information is provided solely for the Website and does not extend to other websites which the user may be able to consult via a link and/or activities offered by third parties.

2.1 The data controller of the Website is Bally Schuhfabriken AG ("Bally", "we", or "us"), with registered office in Via Industria 1, 6987 - Caslano (Switzerland).

3.1 User can browse our Website without telling us who he/she is or revealing any personal information about himself/herself. If user chooses to provide us with personal information for the use of our services and features offered through the Website, he/she is no more anonymous to us.

3.2 We collect the following types of personal information (collectively "Data") in order to provide you with the use of and access to our Website and/or the relevant e-commerce services and to help us to personalize and to improve your experience on the Website:

(a) Information we collect automatically: the computer systems and processing programs required to run the Website log, during their normal operation, certain data whose acquisition is automatic and inevitable (whenever Internet protocols are used) and which, for their own nature, may allow the identification of the users if they are processed and associated with other data owned by third parties, including, but not limited to, device ID or unique identifier, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the Website, referral URL, IP address, and standard web log information, anonymous information collected through our use cookies and web beacons (collectively, " Surfing Data"). Bally collects Surfing Data exclusively for statistical purposes and in anonymous form in relation to the access of the Website and for purposes of monitoring the correct functioning of the Website and of enhancing the Website functioning and content.

(b) data provided voluntarily by users: personal information provided voluntarily by users via email, user interaction with the Website's features, requests for services offered by the Website, completion of specific forms to access reserved sections of the Website and to be provided with e-commerce service offered through the Website, including name, gender, email address, phone number, physical contact information, (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as credit card and/or or bank account numbers, postage, billing and other information user provides to purchase products through the Website, as well as, additional personal information we may ask you to provide our services.

3.3 Minimum age limit
It is very important for Bally to protect the personal information of children. Although local laws and regulations have different definitions of children, we regard anyone under 16 years as a child. Children are not allowed to create their own user accounts without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. If you are under 16 years old, please purchase our products directly or indirectly through your guardian's account with the consent of your guardian. If we find that we have collected personal information about a child without the prior consent of a verifiable parent, the data will be deleted as soon as possible. If you have concerns about your child's privacy, or if you think your child may have entered personal data, please send an email to privacy@bally.ch

4.1 The Website uses automatic systems of data collection such as cookies. A cookie is a device transmitted to the hard disk of an Internet user: it does not contain intelligible information but it allows linking between an Internet user and his/her personal data (such as, by way of example, user's IP address and other information about user's experience on the Website and his/her preferences expressed while choosing services and purchasing products offered by the Website) provided by the user on the Website. Cookies are disseminated by servers and no one may gain access to information contained therein. These information and data are gathered directly and automatically by the Website and are processed in a collective and anonymous way.

4.2 You can review our Cookie Policy for more information.

5.1 The submission of Data by the user is necessary to subscribe to the Website and to access the services and features offered by the Website and in the reserved areas, including the online store and the relevant e-commerce services. Failure to provide Data will prevent the user from accessing and using said services and features.

5.2 The submission of Data for marketing purposes is always voluntary and optional. Any non-submission of Data for such activities will have no consequence on the user's possibility to use the services and features offered by the Website.

6.1 Data shall be processed manually or with the aid of electronic tools for the following purposes:

(a) operations management of Website navigation and relevant access data;

(b) data security and Website security management;

(c) to provide e-commerce services offered through the Website;

(d) to provide other services requested by users as described when we collect the information;

(e) to prevent, detect, and investigate, fraud, security breaches, potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our General Terms and Conditions of Sale and General Terms and Conditions of Use

(f) for market research and statistical processing;

(g) to contact users for other purposes authorized by the applicable law.

6.2 Furthermore, with the user's consent that is free and optional, Bally may also process Data for purposes of defining individual or group profiles (user profiling) and for marketing purposes, notably to send to user, by electronic and other means, including but not limited to through newsletters, emails, text messages (SMS), multimedia messages (MMS) and/or instant messages (e.g. via applications such as WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.) information and updates on Bally products or initiatives, offers, exclusive sales, promotional campaigns and on the events, shows and similar events organized by Bally or to which Bally takes part to, including invitation to such event. The user has always the possibility to object the processing of his/her Data for marketing purposes and/or the delivery of promotional information through email at privacy@bally.ch.

6.3 We do not sell users' Data to third parties for their marketing purposes without users' explicit consent. We may combine users' Data with information we collect from other sources and use it to improve and personalize our advertising and marketing to users.

7.1 Data collected will be stored and processed via an electronic system located in Bally and elsewhere in the world.

7.2 We protect user's Data using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls.

7.3 We take steps to ensure that the users' Data we collect is accurate and up to date, and we provide users with the opportunity to update their information as specified in this Privacy Policy.

8.1 Data will be accessible within Bally organization by the internal and external personnel.

8.2 We may also share users' Data with:

(a) any other company within the Bally Group located in countries inside and/or outside of China. All security and privacy measures have been put in place at Group level in order to ensure an adequate level of data protection irrespective of the geographical location of each Bally Group company that is the receipt of the above mentioned Data. Members of Bally Group may use users' Data to send marketing communications only if users have consented to their services and will use users' Data in compliance with their respective privacy policies and applicable law;

(b) professionals, independent consultants, credit bureaus, banks and financial institutions, third party companies to which Bally may revert to in relation to performance of technical and organizational services as well as service providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as, but not limited to, Website operations, payment services, shipments, fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs);

(c) other third parties to whom users explicitly ask us to send their information; this is the case for example when you make a direct request for customer support via our official social media and other digital communication channels; in such case your Data will be disclosed with other third party business entities responsible for such third party platforms (such as WhatsApp, WeChat etc.) and their terms and conditions and privacy policies will apply to the processing of your Data by them. Make sure you read and understand the applicable terms and conditions and privacy policy of each such entity, before choosing to use these communication channels.

(d) law enforcement or regulatory agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity or any other activity through the Website that may expose us and/or the user to legal liability;

(e) other business entities, should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity. Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to users' Data.

8.3 The aforementioned subjects that receive user's Data will process them as data controllers or co-data controllers, data processors and/or persons in charge of processing Data as the case may be, for the same purposes above specified and according to applicable data law protection. The list of data processors and the subjects to which Data may be communicated will remain at user disposal upon request at Bally.

8.4 If users' Data will be used or disclosed for any purposes not set out in this notice, they shall receive prior notification. Data will be transferred to extra EEA companies of Bally Group with the user's consent which id free and optional.

9.1 User is entitled to obtain, at any time, a copy of their information and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Where appropriate, the user may have their personal information erased, rectified, amended or completed. Please write to us at Bally (Shanghai) Commercial Co., Suite 05-09, 30/F, Tower 2, Hang Lung Plaza 66, No. 1266 West Nanjing Road, Shanghai, 200040, China or send an email to privacy@bally.ch.

9.2 User may revoke, at any time, consent to the delivery of commercial and promotional material via email by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in every commercial communication sent by Bally and/or other companies of Bally Group.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 27/11/2020.