Alza.cz a.s. is registered at the office at Prague 7, Jankovcova 1522/53, postcode 170 00, company identification No. 27082440, incorporated in the Companies Register kept by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, Insert 8573, as a data controller shall process your personal data.
We process personal data provided by you.
If you order goods or services from us, we need the information which is referred to as mandatory in the ordering process (in particular your first name and surname, and delivery address, in case of the Send it by AlzaBox service the name and phone number of the recipient). If we did not have this information we would not be able to deliver the goods / provide the service. For the purposes of sale of goods or services, we also need your e-mail address, to which we shall send the order confirmation which serves as a confirmation of entering into the purchase agreement, as well as a copy of Terms and Conditions and Complaints Policy. Depending on the chosen method of delivery of the goods, we also need your telephone number, to which we will send information about the possibility of collecting your order.
You can also fill in optional information when ordering goods or services. Such information helps us fulfill the concluded purchase agreement more efficiently. Providing optional information is voluntary.
After the goods are delivered, you may get an e-mail message with the request to evaluate the goods purchased.
If you contact us via the customer line or you send us a message, we shall also process your personal data stated in such communication.
You may also provide us with some personal information before you order goods or services - for example, if you use the "Price Watch" feature, we will ask for your email address so that we can send you an email when goods are available or when goods are available at the price you have specified. Other services, such as the Best Price Guarantee, work in a similar way.
For some services (e.g. One Third or AlzaNeo), you may be required to provide additional personal information (e.g. a copy of your national ID card), which is used to verify your identity remotely as well as your ability to pay for the order.
In case you purchase an electronic book (or other electronic content such as journals) from our online shop, your first name and surname are displayed in the electronic book or journal. This is for the protection against illegal distribution and disclosure of the book you purchased.
By filling in the optional information in your user profile, you may also provide us with other personal data, such as frequently used delivery addresses.
If you have your payment card saved to speed up your future purchases in our online shop, we only store incomplete details of your payment card (only a few first and last digits of the card number linked to your user account). If you wish to delete these details as well, simply go to your user profile settings and delete the card details there (Account settings > Payment cards > Remove).
When paying by card from a mobile phone, you will be redirected to the secure server of the payment gateway. When paying by card from a computer, the communication with the payment gateway server takes place via an iframe (i.e. the payment gateway page is displayed directly on our website without the need for redirection). Your payment card details are therefore not sent to our company but are transmitted directly to the provider of our payment gateway within a secure transfer. The payment gateway then transmits the data to the relevant banking institution, again within a secure data transfer.
As part of joint marketing campaigns organised together with our business partners, we are entitled to process your personal data and we may combine them for the purposes of campaigns or of due performance of the agreement, as the case may be.
In the event that your personal data is disclosed to a third party, we shall inform you in advance including informing you of the identity of such third party. If anyone discloses your personal data to us, you will have to be informed as well.
In the event you provide us personal data of third persons, you are obliged to inform the person concerned and procure his/her consent to this Personal Data Protection Policy.
It may happen that you purchase goods from us, but you do not wish to collect them or make a complaint regarding such goods. You can define authorised persons in your user profile, who shall be entitled to collect or claim your goods. Thereby, you provide us their personal data.
When you visit our website, we may collect certain information such the IP address, date and time of the visit to our website, information about your Internet browser, operation system or language settings. We may also process information about your conduct on our website, such as links opened or goods displayed.
If you access our website from your mobile phone or a similar device or through one of our mobile applications, we can process information about your mobile device as well (mobile phone details, records of any application crash etc.).
We process cookies automatically. Personalisation and targeted advertising can be disabled anytime in Privacy settings.
A cookie is a small text file created upon a visit to a website. It serves as a standard tool for the storage of information about visits to our website and how our website is used.
Thus we can distinguish (but not identify) individual users and customise the content to individual preferences. Cookies are important and web browsing would be far more difficult without them.
Cookies serve several purposes. We use the following cookies on our e-shop website and in our mobile applications:
Technical cookies: We use technical cookies to ensure our e-shop works properly (e.g. for you to create a user profile, log in, and buy goods and services). The e-shop would not work without these cookies.
Functional cookies: These help so that you do not have to log in and set your preferences repeatedly (e.g. setting the language in which our e-shop will be displayed).
Social network cookies: These cookies allow us to connect you comfortably with your social network profile and for example share products and services with friends or family.
Personalization of content: these cookies allow us to display content and advertisements based on the data available about you in such a way that we can best tap into your needs. This is particularly about what content you have viewed, or what device you are accessing on our site. It does not concern the personalisation of content on the e-shop www.alza.cz.
Unpersonalised advertising: these cookies allow us to show you general advertising for products and services.
Personalized advertising: thanks to these cookies, we and our partners can offer you relevant products and services on a tailored basis based on your purchases, your behavior and your preferences. It does not apply to the personalized e-shop advertisement www.alza.cz.
Audience measurement: These cookies allow us to optimise our website for your comfort of use, based on how you use it (e.g. functions used, their placement, behaviour on the site). The aim is to remember or anticipate your choices.
Third-party cookies: These cookies are provided by third parties. You can learn more about them and about our partners here.
You can use one of the common browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome) with anonymous browsing switched on. This shall prevent storage of data concerning the sites visited. You can also block the storage of cookies in the browser. However, if you block the processing of technical and functional cookies, you will disable certain useful website functions.
You can easily control the processing of analytical cookies by us if you use this add-on program from Google (can only be run on a computer). However, switching off analytical cookies makes it difficult for us to improve our online store experience.
To change your cookie settings (except for technical cookies), click here.
Your consent to the processing of cookies applies to websites for which Alza.cz a.s. is the controller of these data and which have the “alza” domain root. This includes, in particular, the websites alza.cz, alza.sk, alza.at, alza.de, alza.hu and other related subdomains.
We automatically process camera recordings at our premises, including our self-service boxes, the so-called AlzaBoxes.
Our stores and our self-service boxes, the so-called AlzaBoxes, are monitored by camera systems with online transmission and recording. Only image is recorded (no sound). The stores are equipped with cameras for the sake of prevention and also of investigation of potential illegal activities. The camera systems are operated by us, Alza.cz a.s.
If you access our website from a phone, tablet or similar device, you access the version optimised for such devices. Your personal data is processed similarly to the computer access.
You can also download the Alza application (e.g. Alza.cz, Alza.sk etc.), which will make your shopping easier, or Alza Media, which is designed for your electronic content purchased in our online store.
If you grant the app location permission, we can use the location of your device to provide you better user comfort and relevant offers of goods and services (e.g. we can show you the closest Alza store). We may also use the data collected to send you customised newsletters. If you are not comfortable with this, you can easily unsubscribe (see here). The personalised content may be similarly displayed on our website. In this case as well, you have the option to raise an objection to such processing (see Contacts page > Other > Personal Data > Raise an Objection).
Your personal data is processed for the following reasons:
A large part of your personal data are needed by us in order to conclude the purchase agreement or another contract for goods and services you intend to purchase. After the agreement is concluded, we process your personal data in order to duly deliver the purchased goods, or to render the purchased services. We have to process contact, billing, and delivery details in particular due to the above-mentioned legal grounds. Due to the above-mentioned legal grounds, we have to process in particular contact, billing and delivery details, or your ISIC / ITIC card number, if you are a member of Alza student program.
We also use your personal data to provide you the relevant content, which may be of interest to you. On the grounds of legitimate interest, we process particular personal data, which is processed automatically, and cookies.
We may also send you commercial communication such as e-mails, text messages and so-called push notifications via mobile applications, or call you on the same legal grounds. Processing of personal data related to monitoring via camera systems in our stores is based on the above legal grounds as well.
Due to the protection against illegal distribution and disclosure of the electronic book you purchased (or other electronic content), your first name, surname and address are displayed in the electronic book.
In order to prove who was the receiver of the goods purchased with the One Third service or provided via Alza NEO, we may take a photo of the person in question when handing them over.
If you are listed as a so-called authorised person of our entrepreneur customer, your orders and other actions will be attributed to this entrepreneur customer. If you do not consent, please fill in an e-mail address other than the one listed with the authorised person of this company customer when making your order. Alternatively, you can request to be deleted as an authorised person of this entrepreneur customer. For entrepreneur customer or company representatives, we may also share tax documents issued in the name of the corporate customer or basic information about user accounts associated with the identification number or business name of such customer for the purpose of fraud prevention.
In case we process your personal data on these legal grounds, you are entitled to raise an objection to such processing (see Contact us > Other > Personal data > Raising objection) on our website.
For the purposes of e-mail marketing and telemarketing, we process your personal data upon your consent. If you do not grant your consent and you are our customer, we can send you commercial newsletter (or give you telemarketing calls) even without your consent. In any case, you are entitled to reject such marketing communication simply by (a) adjusting you user profile settings, (b) using our contact form, or c) calling our hotline at +44 (0)203 514 4411 (when prompted by the robot, please choose "other" as the reason for the call).
We also ask for your consent if we need to verify your ability to pay for the goods delivered to you without your paying the full purchase price in advance (e.g. the One Third service, when you pay 1/3 of the purchase price upon collecting the goods and the remaining 2/3 within 3 months, or the service Alza NEO, when we loan you the selected device).
We also ask for your consent when, in cooperation with Home Credit, we display an estimate of the amount that Home Credit could lend you for your purchases on installments. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please let us know at [email protected] or call our customer service line. You can find the full text of the consent here.
We also ask for your consent when you sign, for example, the receipt of a claim using the Signosoft s.r.o. signpad, ID No.: 24307190. If you do not agree with the biometric signature using the signpad, you can sign the relevant document in the wet ink.
If you grant your consent to the personal data processing, you are entitled to withdraw it at any time through our contact form (see Contact us > Other > Personal data > Other).
Your personal data is transferred to third parties in the following cases:
We shall process your personal data for the entire duration of the contractual relationship between you and us.
In case your personal data processing is based on consent, your personal data shall be, in general, processed for 7 years or until such consent is withdrawn.
In case you subscribe to commercial communication, your personal data shall be processed for 7 years or until you express your disapproval of such communication. You can easily express your disapproval by adjusting your user profile settings, using our contact form, or calling our hotline at +44 (0)203 514 4411 (when prompted by the robot, please choose "other" as the reason for the call).
Please note that the personal data necessary for the due rendering of services or for the fulfillment of all our duties, ensuing either from the contract between us or from generally binding legal regulations have to be processed regardless of whether you granted your consent for the period set out in the relevant legal regulations and in compliance therewith (e.g. tax documents must be processed for at least 10 years).
The data obtained through the user account or in a similar way are processed for the period of using our services and then usually for 5 years after cancellation. Basic identification data and the information why the user account was cancelled or information which is a part of operational advance deposits are usually stored for the relevant period.
Cookies: Cookies reflecting user behavior are deleted after 30 days, with older data being available only in anonymized form within Google Analytics.
The recordings of phone calls from and to the call center are archived for a short period, not exceeding 1 year, unless it is necessary for us to store them for a longer period due to a legitimate interest (e.g. suspicion of data misuse, fraud etc.).
The camera records are usually stored for 90 days. If illegal conduct occurs in the monitored area, we can call the police and give the records to the relevant authority (police, court etc.). In such case, the records are not deleted after 90 days; we keep them for the sake of evidence until the issue is finally decided.
CCTV footage records at AlzaBoxes are normally stored for 21 days.
Your personal data is safe with us. We have adopted adequate technical and organisational measures in order to prevent unauthorised access and misuse of your personal data.
At Alza we are concerned about the protection of your personal data. Therefore we regularly check and improve our security. All communication between your device and our web servers is encrypted. Logins are hashed and your data is only stored on servers in secure data centers with limited, carefully controlled and audited access.
We try to use such safety measures that provide sufficient security based on state-of-the-art technology. The safety measures adopted are regularly updated.
This is why we use 2-step verification when you sign in to your user account.
We do not have your passwords saved to our system or any database. We work with special calculated hash keys generated by the BCRYPT hash function with work factor/cost 12. This hash function is currently the most powerful and safest to use.
Our on-line store is not intended for children under 16. A person under 16 is allowed to use our on-line store only upon consent of his or her parent or guardian.
In relation to your personal data, you have in particular the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time, the right to correct or supplement your personal data, the right to request restriction of processing, the right to raise an objection to or a complaint of the processing of your personal data, the right to access your personal data, the right to request the transfer of your personal data, the right to be informed of a breach of security of your personal data and, under certain conditions, the right to the deletion of certain personal data we process about you ("the right to be forgotten").
You control your personal data mainly through your user account (My Alza > Account Settings > My account). Here you can delete or change the basic information about yourself and change the settings concerning commercial communication (or unsubscribe), etc.
You can also contact us through the our contact form (section Personal Data, subsection Other).
In case you believe that your personal data has been processed incorrectly, you can contact us through the contact form. However, it will be faster and more efficient for you to correct the personal data by yourself in your user profile.
Pursuant to the amendment to Act No. 235/2004 Coll., On Value Added Tax, it is not possible to change data in an already issued invoice as of 1 January 2013. The invoice details can only be changed if you have not yet received and paid for the goods.
You can ask us to send you an overview of your personal data. If you have an account with us, please log in and proceed as follows: My Alza > Account Settings > My Account > Basic Information. Then click the button that says "Request my personal data". If you do not have your user account with us, please contact us using this contact form.
You also have the right to access the following information concerning your personal data:
You may also claim the deletion of your personal data (this shall not apply to data in documents that are subject to the obligation of archiving under the law (e.g. invoices or credit notes). In case we need your personal data to determine, execute or defend our legal claims, your request may be rejected (e.g. if we have an overdue invoice in your name or if the complaint procedure is in progress).
Please note that the essential details of your payment card are not stored by our company; they are stored at the payment gateway. Therefore, we are not able to delete such data; you have to address the payment gateway which mediated the payment (see section Transfer of personal data to third parties > Payment Cards > More information). Only in case you choose to store your payment card with us, we will keep basic information about your card within our company (see section What Personal Data We Process > Personal Data You Provide to Us > More information).
You are entitled to the deletion of data in the following cases:
How to exercise your right to deletion? If you have an account with us, please log in and proceed as follows: My Alza > Account Settings > My Account > Basic Information. Then click on the button with the text "Request for deletion of personal data" and follow the displayed instructions. If you do not have a user account with us, please contact us using this contact form.
Certain personal data is processed on the grounds of our legitimate interest (see section “Legal grounds for processing of personal data”). In case you have concrete reasons, you are entitled to raise an objection to the processing of this personal data. The objection can be raised through the contact form.
In case (a) you deny the accuracy of your personal data, (b) your personal data is processed unlawfully, (c) we do not need your personal data for processing purposes, but it is needed to determine, execute or defend your legal claims, or (d) you raised an objection under the preceding paragraph, you shall be entitled to us restricting the processing of your personal data.
In such cases, we may process your personal data only upon your consent (except for the storage or backup of the personal data concerned).
If you believe that your personal data has been processed unlawfully, you are entitled to lodge a complaint at the Office for Personal Data Protection. However, we will appreciate if you address us first and we can try to resolve your concerns. You can always easily contact us through our contact form (Personal data > Other) or through our hotline at the number +44 (0)203 514 4411.
This Privacy Policy is valid and effective from January 7, 2026 and it is available in electronic form at www.alza.cz. If you use the mobile application, you can find it in the "Contact Us" section.