// Privacy Policy

LEGAL / LAST UPDATED AS OF: 22/06/18

Suede Guerrillas, Puma Middle East FZ-LLC and its affiliates (together, which we may refer to as “Suede Guerrillas,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms of Use) and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

By visiting suedeguerrillas.com (the “Site”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. The data controller is PUMA Middle East FZ-LLC (“PUMA”). We operate in the Middle East and have our registered office at Design District, Building 7, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“UAE”).

The Site is solely a platform for users based in the Middle East region to submit and share content and collaborate on creative projects.

Information we collect from you:

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us: You may give us information about you by filling in forms on the site suedeguerrillas.com (“Site”), by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise or by making submissions of ideas, inventions, designs, opinions, remarks, comments, suggestions, questions, information and other materials related to the Suede Guerrillas business (including without limitation footwear, apparel, sporting goods and services) whether consisting of texts, artwork, graphics, videos, photographs, sounds, software, links or otherwise (“Submissions”). This includes information you provide when you register to use the Site, subscribe to our service, provide submissions and content to our Site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on the Site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with the Site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.

Information we collect about you: With regard to each of your visits to the Site we may automatically collect the following information:

Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Information we receive from other sources: We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case it is possible when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this Site.

We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub- contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

Information about our use of cookies

This section explains how and why we use cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies to recognise you and your preferences, to enhance the performance of our website and collect analytical information for the benefit of our subscribers and business partners. The term "cookies" includes similar technologies for collecting and storing information, such as Local Shared Objects (commonly referred to as "flash cookies") and web beacons or web bugs (including transparent or clear gifs).

Session cookies allow us to track your actions during a single browser session, for example to remember the items returned from a search. They do not remain on your device beyond your session.

Persistent cookies remain on your device between sessions and allow us to authenticate you and to remember your preferences. We also use them to balance the load on our servers and thus to enhance your experience on our website.

Session and persistent cookies can be either first or third-party cookies - a first-party cookie is set by the website being visited. A third-party cookie is issued by a different website to that being visited.

The Site uses a mixture of first-party, session and persistent cookies to deliver its services efficiently and to enhance your experience. The only third-party cookies used by us gather anonymised information. [We do not use behavioural targeting cookies. All our cookies fall within the ICC classifications Strictly Necessary, Functionality and Performance and none within the classification Behavioural Targeting.]

We regard those cookies that we use to be necessary to operate our Site efficiently and beneficial to you to get the most out of our services.

If at any time you wish to disable our cookies you may do so through the settings on your browser, but if you do so you will not be able to use certain important features of our service.

Uses made of the information

Information you give to us. We will use this information: To provide you with information on our Site;

To consider your Submissions, if applicable. Users are given a chance to collaborate with PUMA on a project. If chosen by PUMA, in their sole and absolute discretion, the applicable users will be provided a brief, a scope of work, guidance and other information depending on the specific project.
The user may be featured on the Site as well as on other PUMA social media and marketing channels, at PUMA’s sole and absolute discretion;
To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar or related to activities on the Site;
To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form);
To notify you about changes to our service;
To ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

To administer the Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
To improve the Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
As part of our efforts to keep the Site safe and secure;
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of the Site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information with any of our affiliates or any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may share your information with selected third parties including:

Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;
Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others;
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of the Site;
Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score, where available and where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
If Suede Guerrilla assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of PUMA Middle East FZ-LLC, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Where we store your personal data PUMA Middle East FZ-LLC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Site; any transmission is at your own risk.

Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.
You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@suedeguerrillas.com.

The Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.

If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

You may have the right to access information held about you in accordance with applicable law in the UAE.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where we deem appropriate, notified to you by e-mail, and in each case shall be deemed to apply to you. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.