Privacy Policy

When accessing the website www.matti-yarns.com, a brand of the company Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA, you may be asked to provide us with personal information. Providing this data or filling out the forms will always be voluntary. Matti Yarns strives to protect your privacy when you use and browse its website. In this policy, you can see what data we capture, why, how it is used, for how long, where it is kept, and under what security measures. By using this website, you will consent to the terms described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information about the person responsible for using your data.
This website is owned by Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA, NIPC 519 913 385, with headquarters at Rua Fábrica de Bairro, nº 230, 4765-690 Bairro Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. The personal data you provide here will always be managed by this company as its controller and responsible for its processing under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 – from now on, referred to by GDPR.

2. What personal data will be requested?
The personal data collected and processed by Matti Yarns will be those you voluntarily, expressly, and unequivocally provide through the forms available on this website and those resulting from their use.

3. For what purpose do we capture this data?
The data collected in the form available on our website will be used exclusively to respond to your contact, follow up on your request, and for commercial and marketing purposes.

4. When do we capture this data?
Your details will be requested when filling out the contact form on the www.matti-yarns.com website.

5. Entities to whom you provide your personal data.
Your data is captured and maintained by Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA, the person responsible for the treatment. This data will not be revealed to third parties except in cases where, by legal requirement, Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA is obliged to do so. Furthermore, Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA may hire other companies to provide you with services whose scope relates, in whole or in part, to processing your personal data. However, these subcontracted entities, whether natural or collective (subcontractors), will be carefully selected by Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA, which will only contract entities that guarantee full compliance with regulations related to Data Protection and Privacy, and they will always act under the instructions of Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA, not having the autonomy to, on its own, change any of the commitments with our Data Protection Policy informed here. Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA does not sell and/or disclose personal information to other entities and can only share this information with other brands that belong to the company Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA. If another entity acquires Matti Yarns, all information will be available to that new entity.

6. Where is this data stored?
The personal data you provide to Matti Yarns will be stored in the European Economic Area. If Matti Yarns archives your data outside this space, it will only do so in territories that offer the same type of protection as required in the European Union. In any case, Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA will always be the Controller and, therefore, responsible for guaranteeing the security of your data.

7. Period of storage of personal data.
Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA will keep your data for the time necessary to fulfill your request, respond to your contact, and/or provide proof of any transaction originating there. We may also have to keep your data for a law-impaired period. After this period, your data will be anonymized or deleted from our database.

8. Security of your personal data.
Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA employs appropriate technical, organizational, and administrative security measures to protect the data it stores against loss, misuse, and/or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

9. Rights of the data subject.
As the data holder, the user can always choose not to disclose information, given that some of it may be necessary to take advantage of some of our resources. As the data holder, the user has the right to request information about their data to understand what Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA keeps or knows about the user at any time, reasonably and free of charge. Access, rectification, erasure, opposition, limitation of processing, or portability of your personal data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be requested by sending an email with a description of your request to mail@matti-yarns.com. Matti Yarns will analyze your request and respond as quickly as possible, but always within no more than 30 days (or 60 if the request is exceptionally complex). Finally, Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA reserves the right to use aggregated and de-identified Personal Information so that the unequivocal identification of its holder is not possible.

10. Cookies.
The Matti Yarns website uses small information files stored on your internet access device through your browser. These files are called cookies or connection cookies. These files collect and store data relating to your browsing, aiming to improve your browsing experience, for example, by making it possible to remember information you entered, preventing you from re-entering it every time you access this website. Only your own and session cookies are used on this website and serve to improve the functionality of our website, adapting them to your usage preferences and, therefore, improving your browsing experience. You can turn off these cookies in your browser options/settings or by changing your Anti-Virus program tools. However, please be aware that this may affect how you interact with our website and may even prevent you from logging into certain programs, websites, or forums on our and other networks.

11. Hiperligações externas.
The Matti Yarns website contains links to external locations owned by third parties over which Marco Gomes Ferreira Unipessoal LDA has no control or responsibility, such as Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps, and Ravelry. When you click on these links, you will leave the Matti Yarns website and be subject to the privacy policies and terms of use and conditions imposed by these third parties.