I’m so happy I purchased the monthly subscription! I love the matcha rotation I receive every month.
Thank you Silva & Team!
At SORATE we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice describes what personal data we collect, how we will use that data and how we keep your data safe. For additional information on how we use cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy. For all other information regarding our services, please refer to our Terms & Conditions.
If you have a question that is not answered here, or if you would like more information about how we collect, use and store your personal data, you can contact us at any time by emailing hello@sorate.co 240 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, 11249, NY
Under the data protection law, the data controller is responsible for ensuring that your data is held securely, that you are given accurate information about how your data is used, and that your rights regarding your data are respected.
The SORATE website is owned and run by SORATE LLC.
We collect and process only the data that is required to allow us to provide our services to you. We collect the following data when you browse or shop at www.net-a-porter.com:
We collect and process your personal data for the following purposes:
Under the Law we must have a valid reason for using your personal data and we may not collect, store or use data about you that is not compatible with that reason. There are four valid reasons for our use of your personal data:
The legal basis for each of the ways in which we use your personal data is as follows:
Our use of your data
a) When you purchase a product from www.sorate.co we ask you for the personal data necessary to allow us to fulfil our contract with you including taking payment, completing any related anti-fraud checks if you choose to pay by credit/debit card, billing, shipping and delivery of the product and possible handling of the return.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data
b) When you visit www.sorate.co, we will collect the personal data necessary to allow us to provide you with the services of the website, such as placing and holding items in your shopping bag.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that the service we provide to you is managed correctly.
Our use of your data
c) When you visit www.sorate.co, we will use some data about your use of the website to help us improve the website and our promotion of the website. This will include data about how you came to the website; the date and time of your visit; products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction data (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that the service we provide to you is managed correctly.
Our use of your data
d) We also collect data about your use of www.sorate.co by using cookies. More information about how we use cookies and how you can, if you wish, turn off cookies is included in our Cookie Policy.
Our legal basis for processing
You have given your consent to our use of cookies via the cookie banner that appears on the website. You can choose which cookies to accept via our Cookie Policy. Some cookies are necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that the service we provide to you is administered correctly e.g. retaining items in your shopping bag.
Our use of your data
e) When you register on www.sorate.co, we will collect the data necessary to ensure that we can recognize you on return visits and provide you with the services registration offers, such as creating a Wish List or subscribing to emails about your favorite designers. If you would prefer not to continue receiving these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link on the bottom of the email, or by contacting our Customer Care team.
Our legal basis for processing
The provision of your personal data for these activities is a contractual obligation. You are free to communicate your data or not, but in the absence of the requested data it will not be possible to finalize or execute the contract and your requests. This means that while you will continue to be able to browse www.sorate.co, you will not be able to use the services of our website such as the Wish List or alerts about deliveries from your favorite designers.
Our use of your data
f) When you sign up for our marketing communications, we will ask you for your email address to enable delivery of our marketing communications. If you would prefer not to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link on the bottom of the email, or by contacting our Customer Care team.
Our legal basis for processing
You have given your consent and asked us to send you our marketing communications.
Our use of your data
g) If you have purchased from www.sorate.co, we will use the personal data we hold about you, including your purchase history, to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you. This contact will normally be via email, but in certain circumstances we may contact you via other methods e.g. we may call you if an item you have been eager to purchase comes back into stock. If you would prefer not to be contacted in this way, you can unsubscribe from emails at any time using the link on the bottom of the email, or update your preferences via www.sorate.co or by contacting our Customer Care team.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that you receive information about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Our use of your data
h) We process contact data, purchase histories, web browsing data and lifestyle data to tailor our marketing communications, web site presentation and the internet advertising of our website and/or products sold thereon to meet your preferences. For example, if you have been browsing or have previously purchased a particular shoe designer, we may send you an email to tell you that these are now on sale or display similar products to you on our website or as part of our advertising on other websites.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that you receive information about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Our use of your data
i) When you contact our Customer Care team, we will use the personal data you provide and that we have collected to respond to your requests for help or information.
Our legal basis for processing
The provision of your personal data for these activities is a contractual obligation. You are free to communicate your data or not, but in the absence of the requested data it will not be possible to finalise or execute the contract and your requests.
Our use of your data
j) When you use the App version of our website, we will collect data regarding your use of the App and your IP address, in order to send you push notifications about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.
Our legal basis for processing
You have given your consent to push notifications.
Our legal basis for processing
The provision of your personal data for these activities is a contractual obligation. You are free to communicate your data or not, but in the absence of the requested data it will not be possible to finalise or execute the contract and your requests. You have volunteered your birth day and month. In sending our marketing communications, our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that you receive information about goods and services that may be of interest to you. You have given your consent to receiving marketing communications from our partners.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in helping you find the specific product which you are interested in purchasing.
Our use of your data
m) When you call our Customer Care team, your call will be recorded for training and fraud prevention purposes.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that our employees receive adequate training and for fraud prevention.
Our use of your data
n) We will use the contact information that you provide to deliver service messages such as any change to our Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy, delivery updates or other non-marketing communications such as fraud preventation checks.
Our legal basis for processing
Our use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interest in ensuring that you receive information relating to our contract with you.
Our use of your data
o) When you participate in a prize giveaway/contest to which we are a partner or provider, we may use the data provided or created upon purchasing a product from us in order to identify the winner(s) (i.e. order number).
Our legal basis for processing
Depending on the jurisdiction, you have given your consent to the processing of your data for purposes related to prize giveaways/contests, when required under applicable laws, or the provision of your personal data for these activities is a contractual obligation (in this case, you are free to decide whether to communicate your data, but in the absence of the necessary data it won't be possible to finalize or execute the contract and your requests).
Your personal data will be processed by the internal staff of SORATE LLC who have been specifically trained and authorized for this processing.
Your personal data will also be transmitted to third parties that we use to provide our services; these parties have been rigorously assessed and offer a guarantee of compliance with the legislation on the processing of personal data. These parties have been designated as data processors and carry out their activities according to the instructions given by SORATE LLC and under our control
The third parties in question belong to the following categories: banking operators, internet providers, companies specializing in IT and telematics services; couriers; companies that carry out marketing activities, including social media organizations; companies or our partners organizing special events for SORATE LLC customers that may be of interest to you.
Furthermore, when you participate in a prize giveaway/contest to which we are a partner or provider, we may transfer some of your data (i.e. order number) to companies assisting us in identifying a winner in accordance with the prize giveaway/contest rules and/or share it with the partner(s) or provider(s) to this prize giveaway/contest for the sole purposes related thereto. Such parties are subject to the same requirements on data protection compliance as the third parties that we use to provide our services specified above.
Under some circumstances we may be required to disclose or share your data without your consent, for example if we are required by the police, the courts or for other legal reasons. Your data may be transmitted to the police, judicial and administrative authorities, in accordance with the law, for the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the prevention of and protection from threats to public security, to allow SORATE LLC to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in court, as well as for other reasons related to the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
We may also transfer your personal data to a buyer or potential buyer in the event that our assets are acquired by another organization. The purchaser will be required by law to use your personal data only as described in this Privacy Policy.
We keep your personal data for a limited period of time in line with our data retention policy. The specific retention period will vary according to the reason for processing your personal data. After this period, your data will be permanently erased or otherwise irreversibly rendered anonymous.
Your personal data are retained in accordance with the following criteria: When you have purchased goods from www.sorate.co, we will retain the billing data until the end of the relevant accounting period, normally seven years from the billing date;
When you make a payment, we will retain your payment details up to the certification of the payment and the completion of the relevant administrative-accounting formalities regarding your right of withdrawal and the terms applied for the disputing of the payment;
When you provide us with personal data in order to use the services of www.sorate.co, such as marketing communications, we will keep your data for this purpose until the termination of the service or until you cancel your subscription to the service;
When you give us your consent to send you marketing communications, you can withdraw your consent at any time. We will consider your consent to be current for five years from your last interaction with any email that we send you, with our App or with www.sorate.co In any case, we will reduce the number of marketing contacts after six months if you don't interact with us;
When we use your personal data and browsing history to analyze your behavior in order to customize the website and to show you personalized sales offers, we will keep the data for analytical purposes until you ask us to delete it;
When we use personal data for market research and satisfaction surveys, we will keep the data until you ask us to stop.
When you contact our Customer Care team, we will keep any additional personal data you provide that is specific to your inquiry for as long as you remain an active customer of www.sorate.co
When you contact our Customer Care team, we will keep the call recording for six months. Credit card details are not recorded as part of the call.
You have the right to request a copy of the data that we hold about you (and we will provide this to you free of charge once we have confirmed your identity).
If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal data, please email or write to us using the contact details in this policy.
If we do hold data about you we will:
You have the right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you and to stop us using your data until it has been corrected. We want to make sure that your personal data is accurate and up to date and we will be happy to correct or remove data you think is inaccurate.
If you have given us your consent to use your personal data for marketing, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by calling our Customer Care team, clicking "unsubscribe" on a marketing email or replying STOP to a text message. Alternatively, you can sign into your account on www.sorate.co and update your requirements in our Email Preference Centre. You may receive a small number of further communications immediately after unsubscribing but we will implement your request as quickly as possible.
You have the right at any time to oppose our processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest. You will need to explain the reasons behind your request and allow us to consider your request and respond.
We protect your personal data with specific technical and organisational security measures aimed at preventing your personal data from being used illegitimately or fraudulently.
In particular, we use security measures that guarantee: pseudonymization or encryption of your data; the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data as well as the resilience of the systems and services that process them; the ability to restore data in the event of a data breach. Furthermore, SORATE LLCD undertakes to test, verify and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures in order to guarantee continuous improvement in the safety of processing.
I’m so happy I purchased the monthly subscription! I love the matcha rotation I receive every month.
Thank you Silva & Team!