Privacy Policy
At Blackberry Hearing (“we”, “us” or “our”), we want to ensure that your visit to our website is smooth, reliable and as useful to you as possible. Subject to your consent where required by applicable law, we use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) to help us improve the use and functionality of the website and to understand how visitors use the website and the tools and services offered on it.
Please also see our Personal Data Protection Notice for further details about the ways in which we collect and use your personal data.
Please also see our Personal Data Protection Notice for further details about the ways in which we collect and use your personal data.
Cookies are small data files that are stored in your web browser on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit a website. Cookies serve a number of purposes like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, interests or log in details, and generally improving your experience.
Yes, we use cookies to make the website work and enhance the visitor experience. On the website only cookies necessary for the website to function are turned on. All other cookies are turned off by default and require your consent to be activated. It is important to note that by disabling certain categories of cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our websites. Please see section 5 for information on giving consent / opting out of the use of cookies on this website. Please view the Cookie List on this website.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To make the website work.
- To customise your visit.
- To improve our website.
- To save a visitor’s recent searches to save them time when revisiting our Website.
- To provide visitors with advertising that is relevant (third parties are involved in providing this).
- To analyse and compile collected data to build a profile about visitors.
General Information
Source (Where cookies come from)
First Party Cookies
These cookies are provided by us and used by various features on our Website. Examples may include customising a visitor’s visit, providing statistical information, and verifying a visitor’s identity for security purposes.
Third Party Cookies
These cookies are provided by “Third Party” vendors who provide products and features we have integrated into our Website. Examples include social media sites, ad networks, and security systems.
Expiration (How long cookies last)
Session Cookies
These cookies are added when a visitor starts to browse our Website or interacts with a specific feature and are deleted when the browser is closed.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies are added when a visitor starts to browse our Website or interacts with a specific feature, but may remain stored on your Device until a certain termination date is reached (in terms of minutes, days or years from the creation/update of the cookie).
Type (What application uses the cookie)
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are required in order to ensure the website functions properly. These cookies do not collect information from your computer and they typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify you.
User Experience
These cookies to help improve your experience on this website. These cookies are often set to remember user preferences especially between visits on the website.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone.
Marketing cookies
These cookies are generally set as a result of some embedded content such as a video, a social media share or a like button. These cookies are set to help improve the user experience on the website. These are often set to remember user preferences especially between visits on the website.
You can control the cookies placed and retained on your device. The Data Protection Notice and this Cookie Policy are provided to be transparent about our practices regarding the use of cookies and to allow you the opportunity to make an informed choice.
On the website only cookies necessary for the site to function are turned on.
All other cookies are turned off by default and require your consent to be activated. Where applicable, we will obtain your prior informed consent to use these cookies and other tracking technologies which store or access information on your device.
Upon your first visit to the website, our cookies management tool will be activated.
You will be asked to set your cookies preference for the website. Your selected preference will be stored for 6-month before you will be asked again to confirm your cookie preferences.
You can withdraw / change this consent at any time by clicking on the ‘Manage Cookies’ icon located on the footer of each of our website pages. You can then adjust the available sliders to left ‘Reject’ or to the right from ‘Accept’ and click ‘Confirm my Choices” to save the changes. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Please note if you limit the ability of the Website to set cookies, this may prevent you from using certain features of our website properly and your user experience – which will no longer be personalised for you – may deteriorate.
Based on your freely granted consent (according to Art. 6 Para 1 a GDPR) – that we collect separately when you subscribe to our newsletter, made an enquiry to us or are a current customer – you agree that we may use your email address to show you adverts on your social media newsfeed/channels or in your emails (Gmail).
We do this by sharing your email address with the social media platforms Google, Gmail, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram (for details please see the respective links to the legal documents of the social media platforms in section 3 of this Privacy Policy) and matching it with information you have supplied to these platforms.
We use ‘Facebook Ads’ and ‘Google Customer Match’ for that purpose. We only use your data to match you to your Google and/or Facebook/Instagram accounts. Please note that your personal data (email address) is converted into fixed character strings using a hash process before it is transmitted to Facebook & Google.
Facebook Inc. and Google LLC, located in the U.S., are both certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC
You may opt out of this marketing communication and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future without specifying the reasons (for example, via an unsubscribe link at the end of every newsletter or via e-mail at information@blackberryhearing.com.
In this case we will no longer share your data with social media platforms.
Furthermore please note that you can change your advertising preferences on the websites of the respective social media platform (e.g. for Google via https://adssettings.google.com.