Privacy by design
We collect as little personal data as possible.
You can search, compare deals, view retailer information and click through without creating an account. Hikeventory is responsible for the personal-data processing described in this notice. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to info@hikeventory.com.
1. What we process and why
Hikeventory processes personal data only for defined purposes: operating and securing the service, measuring whether retailer redirects work, providing requested alerts or account features, handling support or correction requests, and — only after consent — measuring optional first-party analytics. We do not use these data to sell personal profiles or to let commercial relationships determine deal ranking.
2. Legal bases
- Necessary service, security, abuse prevention and privacy-minimised redirect measurement: Hikeventory’s legitimate interests in operating a reliable and secure comparison service, balanced against the limited impact of the processing.
- Price alerts and account functions you request: performance of the requested service or steps taken at your request before providing that service.
- Optional analytics: your consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
- Financial, tax or other records if monetisation becomes active and the law requires retention: compliance with a legal obligation.
3. Essential retailer click logging
When you click through to a retailer, Hikeventory can record a one-time click ID, date and time, retailer, the Hikeventory page you came from, limited context such as category or button position, device class, browser family, operating-system family, language, a broad country or region code when supplied by the hosting platform, bot classification, redirect status and redirect latency.
Without optional-analytics consent, this click logging does not create a persistent visitor or session profile. Hikeventory does not intentionally store full IP addresses, precise locations, full user-agent strings, browser fingerprints or cross-site advertising identifiers in the click log.
4. Affiliate links
A retailer relationship never determines whether a deal is shown or how it ranks. If an affiliate programme has been separately approved and activated, an exact product click may be routed through that affiliate network. The network can then receive the information technically required for attribution, such as the retailer/programme identifiers, the exact destination URL, a one-time Hikeventory click reference and the consent signal required by the integration. The affiliate network’s own privacy information also applies to its processing. If no safe affiliate route is active, Hikeventory uses the exact direct product link instead.
Read the affiliate disclosure.
5. How visitors reach Hikeventory
To understand whether visits come from search engines, social media, email, referral sites or campaign links, Hikeventory can record a privacy-minimised acquisition event. We keep the Hikeventory landing path, the referring domain when available, a broad acquisition channel and bounded UTM source, medium and campaign values. We do not intentionally store the full external referrer URL, search terms, gclid, msclkid, fbclid or similar advertising click identifiers.
A one-time acquisition ID may be held in browser memory during that visit and sent with a retailer click so that incoming and outgoing events can be connected. It is not intended as a persistent visitor identifier.
6. Optional analytics
Only after explicit consent may a pseudonymous first-party session ID be used for up to thirty days to measure returning visits and funnels. An internal account ID is only linked to click analytics when you are signed in and that consent is active. Names and email addresses are not stored in the click log.
7. Price alerts and accounts
For a product alert, we store the email address you provide, the product you want to follow and the alert settings. We may also keep the price and stock status when you sign up and later observations needed to decide whether the requested change occurred. An alert does not subscribe you to a general newsletter. Every alert has its own unsubscribe mechanism.
If account features are used, Hikeventory processes the account identifier and information necessary for authentication, account security and the features you request. You do not have to provide optional data, but without required contact or authentication data the requested alert or account function may not work.
8. Support and correction requests
If you contact Hikeventory or report incorrect information, we process the information you provide and the technical/context information needed to investigate and respond. Please do not include personal data that are not necessary for the request.
9. Recipients and service providers
Personal data can be processed by service providers that Hikeventory uses to operate the site, database, authentication, transactional email, security and related infrastructure. They receive only the data needed for their role and act under the applicable contractual and legal safeguards. Exact product-click data can also be sent to the destination retailer or, where an affiliate route is active, the relevant affiliate network as described above. We do not sell personal data to advertisers.
10. International transfers
Some technical service providers or affiliate networks may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where that involves an international transfer of personal data, Hikeventory uses the transfer mechanism required by applicable data-protection law, such as an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards where relevant. You can ask us for more information about the safeguards applicable to a specific processing activity.
11. Retention periods
- Raw retailer-click records: designed for a maximum of 90 days, after which only aggregated statistics without account or session references may remain.
- Optional analytics session ID: up to 30 days after consent, unless you withdraw consent sooner.
- Price-alert data: while the alert is active and afterwards only as long as reasonably needed to process unsubscribe, security and abuse-prevention requirements.
- Support/correction records: as long as needed to handle and document the request, taking account of follow-up, security and legal requirements.
- Financial or legally required records: for the statutory retention period that applies if and when such records exist.
12. Your privacy rights
Depending on the circumstances, you can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing or data portability, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Hikeventory may ask for information necessary to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
Send a request to info@hikeventory.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). Dutch Data Protection Authority
13. Automated decisions and profiling
Hikeventory does not use personal data for automated decision-making that produces legal effects or similarly significant effects for visitors. Deal eligibility and ranking are based on product, retailer, price, stock and evidence rules rather than a visitor’s personal profile.
14. Security
Hikeventory applies technical and organisational controls intended to limit access, reduce data collection, separate public and administrative functions and detect misuse. No internet service can promise absolute security, so credible security or privacy issues should be reported promptly.
15. Changes to this notice
This notice may be updated when Hikeventory’s features, service providers, commercial integrations or legal obligations change. The current version and update date are published on this page. If a materially new purpose requires fresh information or consent, Hikeventory will provide that before the relevant processing begins.