Privacy Policy

 

Date: June 2022

 

CARPETLIGHT will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you have requested from us. We will never sell, share or use your personal information other than as described here. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information in accordance with our website.

 

Contact Details:

 

CARPETLIGHT GmbH

Friesenweg 5f

22763 Hamburg

Tel: 040-43096222

www.carpetlight.com

dataprotect@carpetlight.com

 

Sensitive data

We do not collect any sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 

Scope of information

This policy describes the basis for processing your data and applies to the information about yourself that you choose to provide us with, or that you allow us to collect. This includes:

·       Information you provide during any registration process

·       Information we collect about how you use the website

·       Information relating to purchases and other transactions

·       Information given and stored as part of our ongoing relationship

 

Scope of consent

By submitting your personal data e.g. by filling out an online form, you are affirming your explicit consent for such information to be used in accordance with this privacy policy. You will be able to withdraw that consent at any time by the methods described.

 

Opting out at a later date

Once you have given your consent, you can amend or withdraw your consent at any time. We adhere to all user rights as defined in GDPR. Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

·       Request access to your personal data

·       Request correction of your personal data

·       Request erasure of your personal data

·       Object to processing of your personal data

·       Request restriction of processing your personal data

·       Request transfer of your personal data

·       Right to withdraw consent

 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us (dataprotect@carpetlight.com). We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request, to speed up our response.

 

Storage of data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

 

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including contact, identity, financial and transaction data) for six years after they cease being customers, for tax purposes. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information. We may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you. Your data will be stored as described here or until you request removal of your personal data from our system.

 

Please note that we will be unable to carry out your request to be removed if there are still any open transactions against your account.

 

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

·       Where we need to perform the contract between us

·       Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests, and fundamental rights do not override those interests

·       Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation

 

Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant. We may process your personal data for more than one lawful reason, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

 

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal grounds of processing.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

 

Protection of information

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

 

Marketing communications

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:

·       requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us; or

·       if you provided us with your details and ticked the box at the point of entry of your details for us to send you marketing communications; and

·       in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

 

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing us. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time. When you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

 

Company obligations

We are a data controller. In relation to the information that you provide to us, we are legally responsible for how that information is handled. We will comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR [2018] in the way we use and share your personal data. Amongst other things, this means that we will only use your personal data:

 

Fairly and lawfully

·       as set out in the legislation and this policy

·       to the extent necessary for these purposes

 

We will process your personal data ourselves as the data processor. We will take reasonable precautions to safeguard the personal information that you supply.

CARPETLIGHT will from time to time use your information for marketing, account management or relationship management purposes. The main purpose of this is to provide you with information about goods and services which we think may be of interest to you and/or to maintain any existing relationship we may have with you.

 

Third parties

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

 

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above:

·       Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.

·       HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

 

Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Our websites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications such as social media links. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. If you have any queries or concerns about your data usage please contact us.

 

Legitimate interests

Under the Data Protection Act, we are also permitted to share some information with third parties who use such data for non-marketing purposes (including credit and risk assessment and management, identification and fraud prevention, debt collection and returning assets to you).

 

Google

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

We have implemented the following:

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

 

Opting out:

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

 

 

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your information rights in connection with the personal data you have shared with us or wish to complain, please contact: dataprotect@carpetlight.com.