Privacy Statement

The protection of your personal data is very important to Kørt. Therefore, Kørt will only collect, process and use your personal data in compliance with the provisions of this Privacy Statement and the applicable data protection legislation.

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email marketing: With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at info@kort-handmade.com or mailing us at:

Kørt AS

Sigdalsveien 390

Åmot, 3340

+47 908 62 601

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

Our store is hosted on wordpress.com. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through squarespace.com data storage, databases and the general WordPress application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then stipe.com stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

For more insight, you may also want to read our Terms of Service.

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Kørt offers to ship orders with help of the returnable and reusable packaging service RePack (a brand of the Finnish company Plan B from Outer Space Ltd.). This service includes the delivery of the order in a reusable packaging (the Packaging) and the delivery of a reward for returning the Packaging to RePack. To deliver the reward Kørt shares with RePack the customer’s email address and the individual identifier of the Packaging. RePack provides a personalised web link directing at an online marketplace where the customer can select a personal shopping voucher or similar offering. RePack provides the delivery of the reward web link and of the shopping voucher as a processor on behalf of Kørt. Legal basis for the reward communication is fulfilment of a contract as the reward is part of the services by Kørt. RePack is obliged on data protection by a data processing agreement in accordance with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

Third-party links on this site may direct you to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any third-party materials or websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third-parties.

We collect information to provide better services to all of our users. By using this page you are accepting cookies that we use.

• Session (Transient) cookies: these cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
• Persistent (Permanent/Stored) cookies: these cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific site.

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your country, state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

You have a right to obtain information regarding the personal data stored about you free of charge. Furthermore, you have the right to correct your personal data or have it blocked or deleted. You may, at any time, revoke any given consent to the collection, processing and use of data with future effect. If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact us info@kort-handmade.com or by mail at:

Kørt AS

Sigdalsveien 390

Åmot 3340 NO