Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
Last revised: 20th March 2025.
General Information
Welcome to Galer’s Privacy Policy. Galer respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data and making sure you understand our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy describes the personal data we collect through our website www.galerjewelry.com (“Site”), how it is used, and your choices regarding this data, compliant to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU/2016/679), Romanian laws and in conformity with the applicable legislation.
SSZ INVESTMENTS SRL (referred to as “GALER”, "we", "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy) is the controller and responsible for your personal data.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below:
SSZ INVESTMENTS SRL
15 B/C, TRIUMPH BUSINESS CENTER, BLV. MARESAL ALEXANDRU AVERESCU, S1, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
office@galerjewelry.com
+ 40 724 279 968
Galer (‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘our’) take data protection very seriously. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data in accordance with data protection law.
This privacy notice (which from now on we will refer to as our privacy policy) explains:
It is our intention to only collect the minimum information required from you. If you believe we have collected excessive information about you, please contact us to raise any concerns you may have.
The purpose of using your Personal Information
When you provide personal information to us, we may use it for any of the purposes described below or as stated at the point we collect it from you (or as may be obvious to you from the context of collection), including:
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We also collect and process data about how you interact with the emails you have consented for us to send you using tracking pixels. This includes where and when you open the emails and what content you click on.
We do not collect personal information for sale to third parties.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is anything that enables you to be identified or identifiable, such as your:
Information provided by you through our website, https://galerjewelry.com/. This information includes your first and last name, your email address, billing address, shipping address, company name, country, apartment, suite or unit, town/city, county, postcode, telephone number.
What information we collect
Specifically, we collect and process the following categories of personal data concerning you:
First and last names
Postal and email addresses
Telephone number(s)
Date of birth
Date of wedding anniversary
Identity documents (e.g. passport & driving licence)
Identity numbers (e.g. bank accounts)
Career & educational documents (e.g. CVs & qualifications)
Contact information
The history of your orders as saved in ‘My Account’ and your ‘Wishlist’
The history of your communication with us; either via phone, email, Facebook or Instagram
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address, as well as information from cookies, provided that you accept cookies to be stored on your device. For more details, read our Cookies Policy below.
Your personal information is sometimes called ‘personal data’. We collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting or storing your personal information as ‘processing’.
Collecting Your Personal Information
Below are just some examples of how you may provide personal information to us:
Contacting us
Asking us to provide information, items or services to you or someone else
Searching and browsing our website
Subscribing to our newsletters
Submitting CVs or work history information to us
Providing us with business cards or other contact information
Registering for or attending our events
We may also obtain personal information about you from third parties (other individuals or organisations) or from publicly available sources.
We collect the above described personal data:
Directly by our website users via our website and social media applications linked to our website;
Through cookies that may collect personal data.
Legal Grounds for Processing Your Personal Information
We rely on one or more of the following legal grounds when processing your personal information:
To perform our contractual obligations to you; and/or
To satisfy any legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject; and/or
To satisfy our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you and in the effective and lawful operation of our businesses (where this does not interfere with your rights); and/or
When you have agreed (consented) to us processing your personal information.
Security of Your Personal Information
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect your personal information from loss and misuse.
Only authorised persons are provided access to personal information we have collected, and such individuals have contractually agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure.
We endeavour to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or by us.
Transfer and processing of your personal data to third parties
We may transfer, share or disclose the personal information we collect from you to third parties (other organisations or individuals) for:
The purposes for which that personal information has been submitted
The purposes listed above under ‘Using Your Personal Information’
Other internal or administrative purposes
As agreed between you and us.
We may transfer share or disclose personal information to third party service providers in the following categories: internet providers, companies specialising in IT and telematics services; companies that carry out marketing activities, including social media organisations (purely to enable us to provide our services and not for any third party marketing activity); companies specialising in market research and data processing; companies providing publishing and distribution services.
These third parties may use subcontractors (known as sub-processors) that have access to your personal information.
We only use third parties that are legally and contractually bound to maintain what we consider to be appropriate levels of security and confidentiality.
The third parties we are most likely to transfer, share or disclose the personal data we collect from you include, but are not limited to:
Mailchimp
SAP
Where we use third parties to process personal information on our behalf, we ensure that they are legally and contractually obligated to maintain the same level of security and confidentiality as us and to impose the same level obligations on their subcontractors (if any).
We may also disclose personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:
When explicitly requested by you
When required to deliver goods or services requested by you
When required to facilitate our events that you have asked to attend which are hosted by a third party
As otherwise set out in this policy.
We may also disclose your personal information, without your knowledge or consent, to law enforcement and other government agencies and other third parties, as required by and/or in accordance with applicable law.
Retention/Storage of Your Data:
We will retain your personal information only for as long as we need to use it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law. For example, this means:
If you purchase an item from us, we will keep your personal information related to for the estimated lifetime of the product. This may vary depending on the nature of the item you have purchased.
When you provide us with personal information to subscribe to marketing communications, we will keep your personal information data for this purpose until you cancel your subscription.
Our information will be retained for as long as the relevant activity or offered service dictates. With regards to our accounting records, we retain all relevant information (including invoices etc.) for a period of 5 years, pursuant to the Romanian tax code as in force. We might be obliged to keep our accounting books and records for an additional period if we are obliged to do so in order to fulfill other obligations or to substantiate outstanding cases of a non-tax nature (such as employment and insurance law issues, special obligations arising from investment / development laws or programs likely to the business has been incorporated, any litigation, etc.
Regarding the Information we receive for recruitment purposes, if the application is not successful or if the employment proposal is not accepted, we will delete your personal data and any other relevant information, from our physical and/or electronic records, within 6 months from the date of the applicable closing event.
If your application for employment is successful, we will be obliged to use your information as long as the employment agreement is in force and the law provides for after its termination, or for as long as eventual court or extra judicial proceedings last to defend against legal claims. We can delete your data earlier from our records, upon your request, only to the extent allowed.
Your Rights
You have a series of rights on the personal information that you have shared with us. More explicitly:
1) You may obtain access to and copies of your personal data from our archive.
2) You may demand that we cease processing your personal data.
3) You may demand that we cease sending you marketing communications.
4) You may demand that we erase your personal data.
5) You may demand that we minimise or restrict our data processing activities.
6) You may demand that we correct your personal data which we have in our possession if it is incorrect or complete it.
The above rights are not restrictive or absolute. We are obliged to answer to the relevant request(s) within one month from the submission of the said request, however, we may have the right to refuse any request if the law permits/obliges us so. If the request does not meet the requirements of applicable law, we reserve the right either to: (a) impose a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communicating or executing the requested action, or (b) reject your request.
If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please contact us at: office@galerjewelry.com.
Marketing
Where we are legally required to obtain your consent to provide you with marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials if you have given us your consent to do so.
If you opt into any subscriptions, you will receive emails known as newsletters. If you want to unsubscribe from any subscriptions, you should look for and follow the instructions that are provided in the relevant communications to you.
If you choose to unsubscribe from any or all mailings, we may retain some of your personal information sufficient to identify you, so that we can honour your request.
Children
We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy. We adhere to laws regarding marketing to children.
Our Website
We collect personal information from you when you use our website www.galerjewelry.com. Our website links to third-party websites not controlled by us and which do not operate under our privacy practices. When you link to third-party websites, our privacy policy no longer applies. We encourage you to review each third-party website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personally information.
Cookies Policy
We use cookies when you visit our site. There are four main types of cookies – here’s how and why we use them.
Site functionality cookies – these cookies allow you to navigate the site and use our features, such as “Add to Cart” and “Wishlist”.
Site analytics cookies – these cookies allow us to measure and analyse how our customers use the site, to improve both its functionality and your shopping experience.
Customer preference cookies – when you are browsing or shopping on GALER, these cookies will remember your preferences (like your language or location), so we can make your shopping experience as seamless as possible, and more personal to you.
Targeting or advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver ads relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
By using our site, you agree to us placing these sorts of cookies on your device and accessing them when you visit the site in the future. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, the “Help” section in your browser should provide instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, your user experience may be affected and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site, and the complete GALER user experience that we pride ourselves on providing our customers.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator.
Updating this Policy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time by publishing an updated version here. So that you know when we make changes to this Privacy statement, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The modified or amended privacy policy will apply from that revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information