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The Privacy and Cookie Policy

The Privacy and Cookie Policy


PRIVACY POLICY

Last update: 04 September 2025

The purpose of this policy is to inform visitors to the website of that the company KIND TO BIOME AB (hereinafter referred to as "Kind to Biome" or "us, we"), which owns and operates this website, collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes personal data of visitors to the website. We assure you that we are committed to protecting the security of the personal data of our website visitors. The purpose of this notice is to describe how we process your personal data and for what purposes. We reserve the right to update and amend this notice at any time, so we encourage you to check this page regularly for any changes.

1.           What kind of personal data do we collect about you? 

 In principle, you do not need to provide us with any personal information to browse our website. However, you may disclose your personal information to us if you choose to subscribe to receive our news or if you decide to contact us (via the relevant form or by email). In these cases we will collect and process the following personal data about you for the purposes set out below:

α)          Subscription to our newsletter delivery service and other promotional activities

If you decide to subscribe to our newsletter delivery service or consent to receive promotional materials from us, we will collect your email address and/or phone number (depending on the collection platform) and use it to send you our newsletters via email, SMS or digital messaging platforms (Viber, WhatsApp) to keep you up to date with our news and events. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent, which we ask for when you subscribe to our newsletter and which you can easily and quickly withdraw in any subsequent communication.

β)          Contact us

Our website gives you the opportunity to contact us by sending an email or filling in the relevant form or by mail to our postal address. If you contact us for any reason, we will process the information you provide in order to contact you and handle your message, request, information or query. The personal data we will process for this purpose is your first name, last name, email address, telephone number and the contents of the message you sent us. In this case, the legal basis for the processing of your personal data will be our overriding legitimate interest in handling appropriately the messages, requests, information or queries submitted by users of our website.   


Also, you should be aware that, regardless of the category of our services you use, our systems automatically collect certain data from your device for your browser to function properly:

        i.            Device identifiers (device ID, IP address, MAC Address)

       ii.            Software identifiers (browser and version)

     iii.            Navigation data on our website

2.           Who has access to your personal data?

As a rule, we do not share your personal data collected through our website with any third party.

Exceptionally, your personal data may be accessed by trusted external service providers who provide services to us, such as IT and hosting and advertising service providers, only to the extent necessary to provide their services to us. These service providers act as processors in relation to your personal data and are committed to processing it solely on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions and adhering to strict security measures to protect your personal data.

We assure you that in any case where we transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA, including the transfer of your personal data to third party service providers established outside the EU/EEA, we ensure that the country to which your personal data is transferred ensures an adequate level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission or that appropriate safeguards for the protection of personal data are in place, including standardised data protection measures.

3.           How do we process your personal data and for how long do we keep it?

We will only process your personal data that is reasonably necessary and relevant to the purposes of processing, as set out above, and will not retain it only for as long as necessary to fulfil those purposes.

Your personal information that you disclose to us when you contact us by submitting a message, request, information or query will be stored in our records until we can appropriately handle the relevant matter and can review and respond to your request, message, information or query.  Your personal data that you have shared with us so that we can send you our newsletter and keep you informed about our news and events will be stored on our mailing list until you decide to unsubscribe from it. Should you request to unsubscribe, we will ensure that you are immediately removed from the list and we will no longer send you newsletters or other promotions.


4.           Additional social plug-ins and cookies

Our website uses additional social media for the purpose of linking to our Instagram and LinkedIn pages. These additional social media allow your personal data to be transmitted to the provider of the additional media, namely Meta and Microsoft. Also, our website uses google analytics cookies which allow us to measure website traffic. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data through the social media add-ons and cookies is your consent. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy below.

5.           Your rights 

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, opposition and restriction to the processing of your personal data held in our records. In some cases, you have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request its transfer to a third party. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter by sending a request or by selecting the "Unsubscribe" link in each message we send you. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority if you believe we are in breach of data protection legislation

6.           Contact details

To exercise your rights and any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by us, you can contact us in the following ways:

By postal letter to our headquarters:

KIND TO BIOME AB

Box 7782, SE–103 96 Stockholm

By sending an email to the email address: hey@kindtobiome.com



COOKIE POLICY

Last modified: 04 September 2025

1. What are cookies?

"Cookies" are small pieces of text files that are stored in the User's browser when visiting a website. The information that is stored on the User's computer may contain information such as which pages the User has visited, the date and time of the visit and a random and unique number identifying the User. Under no circumstances do cookies contain personal information or information that would allow anyone to contact the website visitor by telephone, e-mail, etc. In addition, by using cookies there is no access to documents or files on your computer.

By using this, our websites are able to store useful information about the User's browsing on the Site, as well as read this information in order to provide the User with a unified browsing experience.

In addition, cookies help us to monitor the performance and traffic of our website, improving its presentation and content according to the preferences of our visitors.

2. What cookies do we use on our Site?

We use cookies to compile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how the public uses our websites and help us to improve their structure and content. You can modify your browser settings to reject some or all cookies, except those that are strictly necessary. You should be aware that some features are only available through the use of cookies and if you choose to reject cookies, these features may not be available. In general, there are the following categories of cookies used on our Sites.

  • Necessary cookies
    Necessary, otherwise absolutely necessary cookies, are essential for the proper functioning of our websites, allowing you to browse and use their functions, such as access to secure areas or use of the shopping cart. These cookies do not recognize your individual identity. Without these cookies, we cannot provide effective operation of our Sites.

  • Functionality cookies
    These cookies are used to provide services requested by the user, such as viewing videos or using social media. The information collected by these cookies can be anonymised and it is not possible to track browsing activity on other websites. If you do not accept these cookies, the performance and functionality of the Sites may be affected and your access to its content may be restricted.

  • Analytics cookies

These cookies are used to track your behavior when navigating the website and provide us insights on how our users interact with our content.

Cookie Table

Cookie

Type

Description

Lifespan

CookieConsent

Necessary

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

1 year

1.gif

 

Pixel Tracker

Used to count the number of sessions to the website, necessary for optimizing CMP product delivery.

0 days

framerCookiesConsentMode

Functional

Stores the visitor’s cookie consent mode or preferences (e.g., whether the visitor has granted or declined categories such as analytics, marketing, or functional cookies). This allows the site to respect the visitor’s consent choices across pages and visits.

Persistent

framerCookiesAutoAccepted

Functional

Indicates whether the site automatically accepted cookies (for example, when auto-accept is enabled or when a previously saved preference is applied). This prevents the cookie banner from being shown repeatedly and helps preserve a consistent user experience.

Persistent

_ga

.kindtobiome.com

Analytics

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.

2 years

_gid

.kindtobiome.com

Analytics

Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

1 day

_gat_gtag_UA_233255123_1

.kindtobiome.com

Analytics

Set by Google to distinguish users.

1 minute

ln_or

www.kindtobiome.com

Analytics

Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website for internal analytics.

1 day

UserMatchHistory

.linkedin.com

Functional

LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.

1 month

AnalyticsSyncHistory

.linkedin.com

Analytics

Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie.

1 month

bcookie

.linkedin.com

Functional

LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID.

1 year

lidc

.linkedin.com

Functional

LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection.

1 day

bscookie

.www.linkedin.com

Functional

LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website.

1 year

li_gc

.linkedin.com

Functional

Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes.

5 months 27 days

 

 

3. How to control cookies?

It is at your discretion to withdraw your consent or object to the use of cookies on your computer or device, to control and/or delete cookies using the cookie settings above.

4. What are your rights?

You have the rights:

  • Access to your data

  • Correction or Deletion of your data

  • Portability of your data

  • Restriction of processing of your data

  • Sensitivity to the processing of your data

  • Withdraw your consent for the use of some or all of the cookies and, by extension, for the processing of your data.

5. Where can you find more information about the protection of personal data collected by cookies?

Information about the protection of your personal data and your rights can be found in our Privacy Policy. 

6. Where can you find more information about the general use of cookies?

More information about the general use of cookies, and the methods of blocking or restricting them, can be found at //cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies and www.allaboutcookies.org/.

In case you wish to enable or disable the use of cookies from your browser settings, you can visit the following websites and be informed about the necessary actions you need to take

 

 

 

7. Changes to the Cookie Policy.

This Cookies Policy may be modified at any time. We therefore recommend that you refer to this Policy regularly. If it is amended, the date on which it was amended will be indicated at the top of the page. The Cookies Policy, as formulated by the most recent modification, shall always be deemed to be valid.

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Last update: 04 September 2025

The purpose of this policy is to inform visitors to the website of that the company KIND TO BIOME AB (hereinafter referred to as "Kind to Biome" or "us, we"), which owns and operates this website, collects, uses, stores and otherwise processes personal data of visitors to the website. We assure you that we are committed to protecting the security of the personal data of our website visitors. The purpose of this notice is to describe how we process your personal data and for what purposes. We reserve the right to update and amend this notice at any time, so we encourage you to check this page regularly for any changes.

1.           What kind of personal data do we collect about you? 

 In principle, you do not need to provide us with any personal information to browse our website. However, you may disclose your personal information to us if you choose to subscribe to receive our news or if you decide to contact us (via the relevant form or by email). In these cases we will collect and process the following personal data about you for the purposes set out below:

α)          Subscription to our newsletter delivery service and other promotional activities

If you decide to subscribe to our newsletter delivery service or consent to receive promotional materials from us, we will collect your email address and/or phone number (depending on the collection platform) and use it to send you our newsletters via email, SMS or digital messaging platforms (Viber, WhatsApp) to keep you up to date with our news and events. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent, which we ask for when you subscribe to our newsletter and which you can easily and quickly withdraw in any subsequent communication.

β)          Contact us

Our website gives you the opportunity to contact us by sending an email or filling in the relevant form or by mail to our postal address. If you contact us for any reason, we will process the information you provide in order to contact you and handle your message, request, information or query. The personal data we will process for this purpose is your first name, last name, email address, telephone number and the contents of the message you sent us. In this case, the legal basis for the processing of your personal data will be our overriding legitimate interest in handling appropriately the messages, requests, information or queries submitted by users of our website.   


Also, you should be aware that, regardless of the category of our services you use, our systems automatically collect certain data from your device for your browser to function properly:

        i.            Device identifiers (device ID, IP address, MAC Address)

       ii.            Software identifiers (browser and version)

     iii.            Navigation data on our website

2.           Who has access to your personal data?

As a rule, we do not share your personal data collected through our website with any third party.

Exceptionally, your personal data may be accessed by trusted external service providers who provide services to us, such as IT and hosting and advertising service providers, only to the extent necessary to provide their services to us. These service providers act as processors in relation to your personal data and are committed to processing it solely on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions and adhering to strict security measures to protect your personal data.

We assure you that in any case where we transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA, including the transfer of your personal data to third party service providers established outside the EU/EEA, we ensure that the country to which your personal data is transferred ensures an adequate level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission or that appropriate safeguards for the protection of personal data are in place, including standardised data protection measures.

3.           How do we process your personal data and for how long do we keep it?

We will only process your personal data that is reasonably necessary and relevant to the purposes of processing, as set out above, and will not retain it only for as long as necessary to fulfil those purposes.

Your personal information that you disclose to us when you contact us by submitting a message, request, information or query will be stored in our records until we can appropriately handle the relevant matter and can review and respond to your request, message, information or query.  Your personal data that you have shared with us so that we can send you our newsletter and keep you informed about our news and events will be stored on our mailing list until you decide to unsubscribe from it. Should you request to unsubscribe, we will ensure that you are immediately removed from the list and we will no longer send you newsletters or other promotions.


4.           Additional social plug-ins and cookies

Our website uses additional social media for the purpose of linking to our Instagram and LinkedIn pages. These additional social media allow your personal data to be transmitted to the provider of the additional media, namely Meta and Microsoft. Also, our website uses google analytics cookies which allow us to measure website traffic. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data through the social media add-ons and cookies is your consent. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy below.

5.           Your rights 

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, opposition and restriction to the processing of your personal data held in our records. In some cases, you have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request its transfer to a third party. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter by sending a request or by selecting the "Unsubscribe" link in each message we send you. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority if you believe we are in breach of data protection legislation

6.           Contact details

To exercise your rights and any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by us, you can contact us in the following ways:

By postal letter to our headquarters:

KIND TO BIOME AB

Box 7782, SE–103 96 Stockholm

By sending an email to the email address: hey@kindtobiome.com

KIND TO BIOME offers independent and accessible product-microbiome testing. KIND TO BIOME also offers a new quality mark that assures skin microbiome-gentleness of products and ingredients.

KIND TO BIOME offers independent and accessible product-microbiome testing. KIND TO BIOME also offers a new quality mark that assures skin microbiome-gentleness of products and ingredients.

KIND TO BIOME offers independent and accessible product-microbiome testing. KIND TO BIOME also offers a new quality mark that assures skin microbiome-gentleness of products and ingredients.