Privacy
Champion Europe
Consumer Privacy and Cookie Notice
Champion is an American manufacturer of clothing, specializing in sports, athletic wear. The brand is a subsidiary of HanesBrands, Inc. Champion was established in 1919 by the Feinbloom brothers.
Data controller – Data protection
The data controller and data processor is:
Champion Europe S.r.l.
Via dell'Agricoltura 51, 41012 Carpi (MO), Italy
VAT IT02710320363
Phone: +39-059-6259001
Fax: +39-059-6259499
Email: privacy.chpeu@hanes.com
At Champion, we respect our consumers (“visitor”, “you”, “your”) and recognize the importance of protecting the privacy and security of your information. This Consumer Privacy and Cookie Notice (“Notice”) provides an overview of the practices of Champion and its affiliates, subsidiaries and associates (“Champion”, “we”, “our”, “us”) with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data about consumers. Personal data is any information that can identify you as an individual, such as your name and contact information.
The term “consumer”, “your” and “you”, as used in this Notice, in intended to refer to Champion consumers and visitors to the Site. This Notice applies to information collected on this Site. If you have provided you information through one of our US based Sites, you should consult the privacy policy provided on that Site as these may be governed by different terms. This Notice does not apply to or govern:
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Our Champion Corporate Site; or
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Our collection and use of information in connection with purchases made at our retail locations; or
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Third party companies (including, without limitation, their websites, platforms, or applications) which we do not own or control. These sites may have their own privacy notices and terms and conditions that you should consult.
Champion will seek to obtain your consent about the collection and use of your personal data where required by applicable law. Champion respects your decisions about the collection and use of your personal data. You have the ability to revoke your consent at any time subject to applicable legal obligations, and you may do so by clicking an "unsubscribe" link included in a communication or by contacting Champion using the contact information provided in this Notice.
Information collection
Champion will collect information directly from you when you visit our website or use our other online services. We may also collect information from other commercially available sources, where we are permitted to do so by applicable law. Examples of the types of information we may collect from you includes:
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Your name
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Contact information such as your email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number
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IP address
If you choose not to provide Champion with your personal data, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services that you have requested, or inform you about our products and offers from Champion.
Information use
We use the information that you share with us to provide you with the products or services that you have requested, to manage and improve our websites and the services we offer you, and to provide you with information about other Champion products or offers and those offers from our carefully selected business partners.
Sharing your information
Champion respects your privacy and, accordingly, only shares your personal data in a limited number of circumstances. We may share your information with our trusted third parties who provide services on our behalf (such as service providers, system administrators, other IT providers). We may also share your information with our carefully selected business partners where we have your consent to do so, and when we are required to do so, with government authorities to fulfil a legal obligation.
Protecting your information
Champion has implemented administrative, physical, and technical measures to protect your information from loss or unauthorized use or alteration. We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes stated when collecting your information or as stated in this Notice, unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by applicable law.
Your rights and how you can contact us
As permitted by applicable law, you have a right of access, rectification and deletion of information collected about you, and the right to oppose, for legitimate reasons, the processing of this information. You can also choose how Champion communicates with you.
Cookies and other technologies
Champion and our third party service providers will use a variety of technologies such as cookies and web beacons, to better understand how our sites are used, personalize your experience, and deliver you with advertising and online content tailored to your interests. You are able to accept or reject cookies through the settings on your browser. By using our sites, you are providing your consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this Notice. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should set your browser settings accordingly.
Information Collection
In accordance with applicable law, Champion will collect information about you in different ways, such as:
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When you register, visit and use our Sites; or
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Through third parties such as our business partners or commercial available sources.
We will only collect the information needed to fulfil the purposes described to you when requesting this information. If you choose not to provide certain information, we may not be able to provide you with the products or services that you have requested, or inform you about our products and offers from Champion.
As permitted by applicable law, the information that Champion collects about you may be combined to help improve your user experience and to enhance our products and services that you may be interested in.
Information you provide
Champion will collect information from you when you visit the Site. Below are examples of the information we may collect directly from you:
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Contact information such as your email address, postal address, and telephone or mobile number
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Website account log-in details
When collecting personal data directly from you, those fields that are mandatory or optional will be clearly indicated. If you do not wish to provide the information requested within mandatory fields, we will be unable to process your request or order.
Information collected when you visit Champion websites or use our other online services
Champion and service providers acting on our behalf, use cookies, web beacons, Flash cookies (also known as locally shared objects) and cookie technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) to receive and store certain types of information whenever you use our online services. This information may include the web address from which you came, the type of browser / device / hardware you are using and mobile geographic location, and the Champion emails you open.
Information collected from other sources
As permitted by applicable law, Champion may collect information about you from other sources, such as our business partners and through commercially available sources. Examples of the information we may collect from other sources include your name, contact information such as your email address or postal address, your date of birth, consumer and market research data including purchase behavior, and any publicly observed data or activities, such as blogs, videos, internet posting, and other user-generated content.
Using your information
Champion uses the information it collects about you and your use of our Site for a variety of reasons related to our business operations and as set forth in this Notice, and we may combined information about you that we collect online, in our stores, via mobile applications and from third party sources. Below are some examples of how your information may be used.
Business communications: To communicate with you for business reasons with your consent or as permitted by applicable law, including, for example:
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sending orders confirmation, invoices, debit and credit notes;
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sending catalogues, product information and any other marketing materials.
Legal and regulatory compliance: Compliance, internal control evaluations and audits (conducted by Champion and external audit service providers), and, to the extent permitted in this Notice and by the applicable law, providing assistance to law enforcement.
How your information may be shared
Champion respects your privacy and, accordingly, shares personal data in a limited number of circumstances.
Within Champion
We may share your personal data within Champion for marketing and other administrative purposes, in accordance with applicable law. If you do not want to receive marketing information from Champion, you contact us on the information provided below.
With our third party service providers
As a global organization, Champion relies on third party service providers to perform various business operations on our behalf. When sharing your personal data with our third party service providers, we will only share the information they need to perform the services we request, and we require that they protect this information and not use it for any other purpose. For example, we may use services provides for the following purposes:
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Manage promotions or competitions
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Analyze our data, sometimes along with data from other sources, to send you communications
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Conduct market research and analyses data to improve our products, services and sites
In the event that Champion or any of its affiliates are all or part acquired by a third party, your information may be included in the transferred assets. Subject to the exceptions described below, Champion does not sell, rent, or make available to any third party whatsoever the personal data collected on the Site.
Other situations where your information may be shared
We may disclose your personal data, if we believe that doing so is necessary to protect and defend the right and property of Champion including enforcing our Terms and Conditions, or where we are required to do so by law and / or government authorities.
We may share aggregated or anonymous information that does not identify you for Champion business purposes. For example, we may disclose the number of visitors to our websites. We may also share aggregated or anonymous information with our business partners for their own business purposes, in accordance with applicable law.
Information Transfer
As a global organization, your information may be transferred within the Champion organization located in a country that is different in which you live, or to our trusted third parties based in other countries so that they can process your information on our behalf. This may include the transfer of your information to the United States. By using this website or providing information to Champion, you consent to us transferring this information in accordance with the terms of this Notice and as permitted by applicable data protection law.
Champion will comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring your information to another country, and has taken appropriate safeguards to ensure that the transfer of data to our affiliates and suppliers outside of the EU/EES is adequately secure and protected. This has been done through the execution of standard data protection clauses adopted by the EU Commission.
Protecting your information
Champion has implemented administrative, physical, and technical measures to protect your information from loss or unauthorized use or alteration. Your information is stored in a secured environment and access to your information is restricted to prevent against unauthorized access, modification or misuse and permitted to only those employees or third parties working on our behalf, on a need to know basis.
Champion will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Policy, unless a longer period of retention is required or permitted by law.
Your rights and how you can contact us
Champion respects your right to choose how we may contact you. If you would like to stop receiving information from Champion, you can follow the opt-out instructions provided in any communication message you receive. Champion will honor your request to stop receiving promotional messages from us, in accordance with your opt-out instructions. However, we may continue to send you service-related communications such as emails confirming purchases through our websites. We may also retain your information for recording keeping purposes, for example, to make sure that we fulfil your request not to send any particular type of messages.
As permitted by applicable law, you have a right of access, rectification and deletion of information collected about you, and the right to oppose, for legitimate reasons, the processing of this information. To exercise these rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) at privacy.chpeu@hanes.com
Right of access
You have the right to obtain confirmation of whether personal data concerning yourself are being processed and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and information regarding, inter alia, the purpose of processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, and the envisaged period of time for which personal data will be stored (or the criteria for determining this).
Right of rectification
You have the right to request rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself, and to complete incomplete data.
Right of erasure
Under certain circumstances you are entitled to request that we erase your personal data or restrict our processing of your data, for example when it is no longer necessary for us to process your data taking into consideration the purposes for which they were collected.
Right to objection - direct marketing and profiling
You have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data for direct marketing, which includes profiling, to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, we will cease such processing of your data.
Right to data portability
You have the right to data portability if the processing is based on consent or on a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means and where technically feasible. The exercise of this right shall be without prejudice to the right to be forgotten.
The right to data portability shall not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authority
Please note that if you consider the processing of your data to be in violation of applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence or the place of the alleged infringement.
To exercise these rights or should you wish to object to any of our processing, or withdraw your approval please contact us using the contact information above. Please note however that such withdrawal will not affect our right to process your data when such processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations to you, and/or to the extent we are required to process your data by law or to defend ourselves in a dispute, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to enforce our Terms and Conditions. If you withdraw your approval of this policy, we will however not process your data for any marketing purposes, since we will consider such withdrawal as an objection against such processing.
Cookies and other technologies
Champion uses cookies and other online technologies to support our websites and online services, and to help collect data. Cookies are small text files that can uniquely identify your device (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone), but can contain other information as well.
By using our sites, you are providing your consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this Notice. Cookies we issue are used for the purposes described in this Notice, subject to your choices made via your settings on your browser, which can be changed at any time. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should set your browser settings accordingly. If you disables the cookies that we use, this is likely to impact your user experience while using the website.
We may use cookies to adapt the offers and advertisements you see, based on data relating to the navigation of your device on our site or within sites or services published by third parties on which we issue cookies. If you have previously chosen to provide Champion with your personal data, we may, subject to your choices, combine navigation data on your device and process cookies we issue with your personal data to send you, for example, personalized advertising messages that are specifically targeted, you may be interested personally. At any time, you can request not to receive advertising tailored to the navigation data from your device, by contacting us directly for free, or using the unsubscribe link included in any email correspondence you may receive.
Cookies we issue
When you visit our Site, we will, subject to your choices made via your browser setting, installing cookies on your devices that will allow us to recognize the browser on your device for the duration of the cookie session. Cookies we issue are used for the following purposes, during your visit to our site:
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Compile statistics such as volume of traffic and use of the various components of our Sites (including the sections, content, and pages visited), to enhance the usability of our services;
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Adapt the layout of our website and display preferences (such as language, resolution, operating system) of your device when you visit our Site, depending on the hardware and software of your device;
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Store information you provided through our websites forms (such as account registration) or to products, services or information you selected on our website (such as the contents of your shopping cart);
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Allow you access to restricted or private areas on our site such as your account, through identifiers or data that you have previously provided;
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To implement security measures, such as when you are asked to log in again to a content or service after logged out after a certain period of time.
Cookies issued by third parties
In addition to those cookies set by Champion when you visit our Site, third parties may also set cookies on your device. This may be because they are providing a service to Champion such as Site analytics or maintenance, or because our Site contains content or advertising from those third parties. The issue and the use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. We will inform you of the purpose of cookies that we are aware of to allow you to make an informed choice about cookies.
Cookies issued by third parties may allow them, during the cookie session for the following purposes:
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To count the number of times advertising content is displayed and delivered via our advertising space
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To identify the advertisements displayed and the number of users who clicked on each advertisement to calculate statistics
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To recognize your device upon subsequent browsing of any other site or service on which these advertisers or third also emit these cookies and where appropriate, adapt these third party sites and services or advertisements they display.
Interest-based advertising
Interest-based advertising uses information about you to provide relevant, targeted advertising likely to be of interest to you. These advertising messages will display on a Champion site, or elsewhere on the Internet. You can limit your receipt of interest-based ads on websites or in mobile applications by:
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Deleting and declining cookies on your browser(s)
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Opting out from receiving interest-based advertising on websites from companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance (http://www.aboutads.info/choices/#completed) or the Network Advertising Initiative (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/).
Some mobile device operating systems will allow you to limit the use of information to deliver interest-based advertising in mobile applications. You can check the settings on your device for such options that are available through your device’s operating system. Please note: if you choose opt-out of Champion' interest- based advertising, you may continue to see or receive online advertising from us, but such ads may not be as relevant to you.
How you can control cookies
There are several options available to help you to manage cookies on your device. At any time, you can change your browser settings on your device that will likely change your conditions of access to certain services that require the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
Cookie consent
Saving a cookie on a device is dependent upon the choice of the user and the device browser they use to exercise their choice. If you allow cookies on your device, these may be saved on your device, integrated into the pages you view, and can be stored temporarily in a dedicated area on your device. These cookies will only be readable by the issuer.
Rejecting cookies
If you reject cookies on your device, or if you delete previously stored cookies, you may not be able to benefit from a number of features that require cookies to navigate some areas of our site, such as the default language you have requested or the country from which your device is connected Internet. We are not liable or responsible for the consequences related to impaired operation of our services due to the impossibility for us to record or read the cookies needed to operate which you have rejected or deleted.
You can set your browser so that cookies are stored on your device, or rejected either systematically or by the issuer. You can also set your browser so that you will need to accept or reject cookies, before the cookie is likely to be stored in your device.
Each browser is different, and your ability to manage cookies is often described within the browser’s Help menu. To help you, we have provided some additional guidance below. Please note that this will not prevent advertisements from displaying on your device. It will only block technologies that tailor advertisements to your navigation and your interests.
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Privacy
Our sites also use Google Analytics to better understand how you interact with our site. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en
We also suggest that you visit the following sites for further guidance about how you can manage your browser settings:
http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/browser-settings
http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
http://www.aboutcookies.org/DEFAULT.ASPX?page=1
If several people use your device, or your device has multiple browsers, we cannot ensure that the services and advertisements for your device correspond to your use of this device and not to that of another user of this device. When sharing your device with other people it is your responsibility to configure your choices via your browser settings regarding cookies.
Other technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use other technologies such as web beacons and JavaScript, to help us enable features on our Site. Our Sites may also include plugins from social networks or other third parties, such as the Facebook “Like” button, as permitted by applicable law.
With your consent or as permitted by applicable law, these plugins may send information to the party that provided the plug in, even if you do not click on the plugin. The types of information that may be transmitted include your IP address, information about your browser and device, and the address of the web page you are visiting on our site.
Clicking, using, or loading plugins may also allow place, read, and transmit cookies on your device. These cookies may contain a unique identifier the social network or third party assigns to you. The loading, functionality and use of the plugins are governed by the privacy policy and terms and conditions of the party that provided the plugin.
Changes to this Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice, by posting the updated version on our websites. We will give you reasonable notice of any materials change, but recommend that you regularly visit this page to stay information about how we may use the information collected about you.
Last Updated: September 2019