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Privacy policy

Introduction

At Finer Knives, I am committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit my website or purchase my products, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Dutch privacy laws.

Who is Responsible for Your Data?

I, the sole proprietor of Finer Knives, am responsible for the collection, use, and protection of your personal data. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or my data practices, please contact me at:

What Data Do I Collect?

I may collect and process the following personal data about you:

  • Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: Email address, postal address, phone number.
  • Financial Data: Payment card details.
  • Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from me.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
  • Profile Data: Your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use my website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from me and your communication preferences.

How Do I Collect Your Data?

I collect data from and about you through:

  • Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms or by corresponding with me by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with my website, I may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. I collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources: I may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

How Do I Use Your Data?

I use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To manage and operate my website
  • To process and deliver your orders, including managing payments, fees, and charges
  • To manage your relationship with me
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from me
  • To manage your requests, complaints, and queries
  • To provide you with marketing communications
  • To improve my website, products, and services
  • To comply with legal obligations

Legal Basis for Processing

I will only use your personal data when the law allows me to. The most common legal grounds for processing your personal data include:

  • Performance of a contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
  • Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for my legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Compliance with a legal obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which I am subject.
  • Consent: Where you have given your consent to the processing.

Sharing Your Data

I do not share your personal data with third parties except as necessary to comply with legal obligations, to protect and defend my rights and property, to act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of my website, or as required by law. In some instances, I may share your data with:

  • Service providers: Who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Government bodies: Where required to comply with legal obligations.

International Transfers

Your personal data will not be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Data Security

I have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, I limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

Data Retention

I will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes I collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data I hold about you and to check that I am lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the personal data that I hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data I hold about you corrected.
  • Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask me to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for me continuing to process it.
  • Object to processing of your personal data where I am relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
  • Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask me to suspend the processing of personal data about you.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where I am relying on consent to process your personal data.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in my practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

Contact Me

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or my data practices, please contact me at:

Finer Knives

Email: info@finerknives.nl

By using my website, you consent to my use of your personal data as outlined in this Privacy Policy.