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Privacy notice

Summary

Last modified 2023-11-15

  • The website of Aura Group (we, us) www.aura.group, or any other domain as instructed (“Website”) is operated by Aura Group AB, a company incorporated under Swedish law whose principal place of business is at Sveavägen 20, SE-111 57 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • You will be able to access most parts of the Website without registering any personal data with Aura Group.
  • Via our Website you have access to several Third Party Links, this Privacy notice does not apply to any personal data that you provide to another legal or natural person through the Website or through any other means.
  • As we are an international group of companies and share administrative systems, we may share your personal data with affiliates for administrative purposes only.
  • If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at privacy@aura.group.

Privacy notice full text

Last Modified: 2023-11-15

1. Introduction

We understand that you are aware of your and value your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This privacy policy (this “Policy”) describes AuraGroup AB’s policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and so we will from time to time update this Policy as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.

The website of AuraGroup AB ("Aura") www.aura.group, or any other domain as instructed (“Website”) is operated by is operated by Aura, a company incorporated under Swedish law whose principal place of business is at Sveavägen 20, SE-111 57 Stockholm, Sweden.

2. Personal data that we collect

Introduction

We collect cookies which are necessary for running the website, providing its functions and managing external communi­cations across platforms.

We do not sell personal information to anyone and only share it with third parties who are facilitating the delivery of our services.

Information we collect from other sources

We may receive information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us: update, expand, and analyse our records; identify new customers; or prevent or detect fraud. We may also receive information about you from social media platforms including but not limited to when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. The information we may receive is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the applicable social media platform, and we encourage you to review them.

Your correspondence with Aura

If you correspond with us by email, the postal service, or other form of communi­cation, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it (such as name, e-mail, contact information and any personal identifiable information you provide in free text form) and use it to respond to your inquiry; to notify you of Aura events, publications, or other services; or to keep a record of your complaint, accommodation request, and the like.
If you wish to have Aura delete your personal information or otherwise refrain from communi­cating with you, please contact us at privacy@aura.group

Note: if you ask Aura not to contact you by email at a certain email address, Aura will retain a copy of that email address on its “master do not send” list in order to comply with your no-contact request.

What happens if you don’t provide us with your data

You can enjoy many functions of our Website without providing with us your personal data. Much of the information on our website is available without providing personal data. Some personal information is necessary so that Aura can supply you with the services you have requested. You may manage your preferences and you may opt-out of receiving communi­cation at any time.

3. How and why we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the purposes described below.

Making our Website function smoothly. We use strictly necessary cookies to enable you to navigate the Website and use the functions and features it provides. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain features, such as automatic forwarding to the least busy server. You will not be able to turn these cookies off, as they are needed for the functioning on the Website. For more information on exactly what type of cookies we use, what type of information they gather, and why, please visit our Cookie policy.

Customer support/Communi­cation with you: As is mentioned above in section 2, certain information that you provide to us when you contact us is stored and processed in order to best manage your inquiry with us. Additionally, when you place an order with us, your contact information will be stored in order for us to quickly gain access to your order details, so we can help you with your inquiry as effectively as possible.

Marketing and communi­cation: We use personal data to direct communi­cation and marketing to our customers, potential customers and potential employees.

Security: We use data to protect the security of our products, services and customers, to detect and prevent fraud and to resolve disputes and to enforce our agreements.

4. When and how we share information with others

We share your personal data when it is necessary for the completion of any transaction or for the performance of any contract, or when we have sensible business reasons for doing so.
For the purpose of managing your request, or managing the functioning of our Website, we may disclose your personal information to our affiliates in the Aura and service partners (i.e. companies we've hired to provide customer support, hosting our Website and systems, assist in protecting and securing our systems, or assist us in the administration of our newsletter or reports) that are entrusted to process your information on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, this Policy and other appropriate measures for privacy and security.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we have good reasons to believe that access, use, retention or disclosure of such information is reasonable necessary to:

  • comply with any court order, administrative decision or other legal obligation; enforce or apply our agreements and terms;
  • manage and maintain the security of our Website, including preventing or stopping an attack our computer system or network, and
  • protect the rights, property, or safety of Aura, its affiliates, or others.

5. Data subjects rights

General information

Aura complies with current data protection laws in the European Union, which, when applicable, include the following rights:

  • You are free to request access to a record of your processing (as defined in the law), and you have the right to access to a copy of your personal data, request a correction and, in certain circumstances, deletion of your personal data,
  • You are entitled to request restriction, and object to the processing, of your personal information which has as its basis our legitimate interests,
  • You have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority. In Sweden it is the “Datainspektionen” that is the authority overseeing how we as a company comply with relevant data protection legislation.

If processing of personal data is based on your consent, you are entitled to withdraw your consent for future processing of your personal information at any time.

You will have reasonable access to your personal information at no extra cost, if you request this via privacy@aura.group. If we cannot provide you with this within a reasonable time frame, we will provide you with a date for when the information can be provided. If such access is denied, we will explain to you why access has been denied.

When processing your personal information, we will do so in cooperation with our affiliates in Aura in order to offer you the products and services you use and have ordered, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect our systems and customers, or meet the legitimate interests as described in detail in the sections "How and why we use your personal data" and "When and how we share information with others" above. When we transfer personal data from the European Union, we make it based on a number of legal mechanisms, as described in the section "Data storage and retention".

Information on your right to object under article 21 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

1. Right to object to processing which based on our legitimate interests.

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on article 6 (1) f) GDPR (processing for the purposes of safeguarding legitimate interests); this includes any profiling based on those provisions within the meaning of article 4 (4) GDPR. If you lodge an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or unless the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

2. Right to object to the processing of data for marketing purposes.

In certain cases, we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes. You have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning yourself for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer processes your personal data for such purposes. There are no formal requirements for lodging an objection; where possible it should be made by [insert link to webpage for objection, or relevant email].

Note: If you ask Aura to not contact you you by email at a certain email address, Aura will retain a copy of that email address on it’s master “do not send list” on order to comply with our no-contact request. This only applies to communi­cation from Aura and will not be applied by any of our subsidiaries.

6. Security of your information

To help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of our website, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis.

We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know this information to provide services to you or to administer our systems. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information.

We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees' privacy responsibilities.

7. Data storage and retention

Personal data handled by Aura is stored and processed in the region in which you live, in Sweden or in other countries where Aura , its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners or suppliers are active. We take steps to ensure that the information we collect in accordance with this Policy is dealt with in accordance with the provisions of this Policy and in accordance with applicable laws where the information is available.

If we were to transfer your personal data to third countries, i.e. countries outside the EU / EEA, we will enter into agreements and take other measures in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Aura retains personal data for as long as necessary to be able to provide you with our services, and to fulfil the purposes set out in section 3 above. Different types of data may be stored different amounts of time, due to certain criteria.

The criteria that determines how long we store your personal data may be:

How long is the personal data needed for us to be able to provide you with products and services? For example: If you have had continuous communi­cation with us, we will store the information you’ve provided for as long as is necessary to manage your inquiry.

Do we have legal, contractual or other similar obligations to store the data? Examples of this may include mandatory legislation on retention of information, such as for accounting reasons, government orders to store data which is relevant for surveys or data that must be retained for resolving a possible dispute.

For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure ad portability, please contact privacy@aura.group.

8. Exclusions

Aggregated data: Aggregated data is collected and processed via the use of cookies to monitor and evaluate user trends on the website. This means that information about your actions on our website is collected and then anonymised in a way that means we cannot link the information back to you any longer. We use this anonymous information about how our users use our website and services for statistics, service improvement and product development. This data will be completely anonymous and does not constitute personal data. It may therefore be stored a longer time than your personal data.

Anonymisation means that data which was once personal information is stripped away of anything that may connect it to an individual, as well as being severed from anything that in the future might make it possible to reconnect this data to an individual. This de-personalisation treatment of data is one step further than the process of pseudonymisation, which means keeping certain information apart, to make it harder to identify an individual using this data.

Third Party Links: This Policy does not apply to any personal data that you provide to another legal or natural person through the Website or through any other means, such as when you access our social media accounts (such as Instagram), for which separate privacy policies apply.

9. Changes and updates to the Privacy Notice

We will update our Policy when needed to reflect customer feedback, and changes to the Website. When the Policy is updated, the latest update date is shown at the top of the Policy and the changes are described on the Change History page. If there are major changes in the Policy or how Aura uses your personal data, you will be notified via web or email before the changes come into force to the extent required by law.

Please read this Policy from time to time to keep you informed about how Aura protects your personal data.