China Brands Factory ("CBF") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [Insert Website URL here] (the "Site") and use our services.
This policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and other applicable data protection laws. We are a data controller for the purposes of the GDPR. Our registered company in Hungary is China Brands Factory Ipari Termékek Kft.
By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, job title, company name.
Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Site.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Create an account on our Site.
Submit an inquiry via our "Inquiry" form .
Request marketing to be sent to you.
Request a quote for our sourcing services.
Give us feedback or contact us.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Site, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including analytics providers such as Google Analytics, and partners in our supply chain.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
To fulfill a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., to provide sourcing, logistics, and customs services) .
For our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., to improve our Site and services, for marketing purposes, to detect and prevent fraud).
To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (e.g., to comply with customs, tax, and trade regulations).
With your consent (e.g., to send you direct marketing communications about our services).
Specifically, we use your data to:
Manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and providing customer support.
Process and deliver your orders, including managing payments, fees, and charges, and collecting and recovering money owed to us.
Provide you with information about similar goods and services we offer that are like those you have already purchased or enquired about.
Administer and protect our business and this Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
Deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4:
Internal Third Parties: Other companies within the CBF corporate group.
External Third Parties:
Service providers who provide IT, system administration, payment processing, and hosting services.
Our logistics partners (e.g., railway, sea freight, and air express carriers) and customs brokers to facilitate the delivery of goods.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
Regulatory authorities and government bodies (e.g., China Customs, Szentes Trade Office, Hungarian Customs) as required by law.
Cross-Border Data Transfers
Many of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and may be located in China, the United States, or other countries. The laws in these countries may not provide the same level of data protection as within the EEA.
If we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we will ensure at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses) .
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
Right to access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we are processing about you.
Right to rectification: You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we hold about you corrected.
Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten): You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it -15.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Right to complain: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in section 10. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.
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If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on the date stated at the top of this policy. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting a prominent notice on our Site, and where appropriate, by email.