PRIVACY POLICY
Legal Basis for Processing:
By using the services of SmokingHotXL, your personal data is utilized. SmokingHotXL only uses data that we deem necessary for (improving) our services and handles the information we have collected about you and your use of our services with care. The legal basis for processing this data is the agreement you have entered into with SmokingHotXL. Additionally, personal data may be processed if you have given consent by visiting the website www.SmokingHotXL.com.
Acquisition of Personal Data:
When you use the services of SmokingHotXL, you provide certain personal data to SmokingHotXL or personal data is acquired from you in the context of the agreement. Personal data refers to ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person’.
Categories of personal data:
- Contact and address information
- Location data
- Email address
- IP address
- Financial data
- Order history
Necessity of Processing:
The processing of your personal data is necessary to carry out the services. The services provided by SmokingHotXL cannot be fully executed without processing your personal data. If explicit consent is required for specific purposes related to your data, you must provide separate consent for this.
The personal data processed by SmokingHotXL serves the following purposes:
- Contacting you to provide information about the purchased products and their execution
- Carrying out its services
- Conducting payments
- Data exchange with third parties for the purpose of service delivery
- Improving the website through analysis of visitor behavior
- Compliance with legal obligations
Retention Period:
The personal data used by SmokingHotXL is retained in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. SmokingHotXL retains data as long as you are a customer. This means that SmokingHotXL keeps your customer profile until you indicate that you no longer wish to use our services. If you inform us of this, we will also consider it as a request for erasure. If a longer retention period is necessary based on legal or regulatory requirements, the personal data will be retained in accordance with these requirements. Based on applicable administrative obligations, we are required to retain invoices with your (personal) data, and SmokingHotXL will keep this data for the duration of the applicable period.
Processing by Third Parties:
SmokingHotXL only shares personal data with third parties if strictly necessary for the execution of a contract and to comply with relevant laws and regulations. The third parties with whom personal data is shared are:
- WordPress processes the data to improve the service. The category of personal data processed includes contact and address information, IP address, email address, order history, and/or financial data.
- Payment Provider for the execution of the agreement. The category of personal data processed includes financial data.
- Webshop software for the execution of the agreement. The category of personal data processed includes contact and address information, email address, IP address, order history, and/or financial data.
- Delivery service, for compliance with and/or execution of an agreement. The category of personal data processed includes contact and address information.
- Administrator/Accountant for handling financial administration. The category of personal data processed includes contact and address information and/or financial data.
- Other financial institutions, for the execution of the agreement and handling financial administration. The category of personal data processed includes contact and address information, email address, and/or financial data.
Security of Personal Data:
SmokingHotXL considers the protection of your personal data important and takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security that is appropriate to the risk, taking into account the state of the art, implementation costs, the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
Website:
By using the website www.SmokingHotXL.com, you agree to the disclaimer. SmokingHotXL reserves the right to adjust the content of its website and/or this disclaimer at any time without informing its customers and/or users of the website about these changes. The content of the website has been compiled with the utmost care but may still contain possible errors or be incomplete. SmokingHotXL does not accept any responsibility for damages arising from or related to the use of the website. The use of this website is entirely at the user’s own risk and expense. No rights can be derived from the content of the website. All texts on www.SmokingHotXL.com SmokingHotXL’s copyright-protected content and ownership.
Cookies:
SmokingHotXL uses cookies to optimize the website. Cookies are small text files sent during a website visit to make visitor experiences more efficient and measurable. SmokingHotXL may store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website. Your consent is required for other types of cookies. We recommend accepting cookies for the convenience of website usage.
The cookies used by SmokingHotXL are functional cookies that ensure the proper functioning of the website. These cookies do not have any further impact on privacy, so no additional consent is required. For example, these cookies store your browser settings to enhance website usability or ensure accessibility (load balancing), and there are also cookies that prevent other cookies (no-follow).
Social media cookies: third-party cookies from platforms like Instagram or Facebook. These cookies are placed by the websites themselves. For example, when you click the social media button on the website, a cookie is placed. This allows the social media website to recognize your IP address when you share an article from the website. For the cookies used by the websites and any data and/or personal information they collect, please refer to the privacy and cookie statements of these parties.
Browser settings:
If you do not want websites to place cookies on your device while browsing the website, you can adjust your browser settings. You will receive a warning before a cookie is placed and need to give consent for the cookies. Failure to do so may result in the website not functioning properly. You can modify your browser settings to refuse all cookies and also reject cookies from any third parties. You can also delete placed cookies. To do so, you need to adjust your browser settings through preferences, and then you can customize the privacy settings according to your preferences.
Rights of data subjects:
- Right to access: As a data subject, you have the right to receive an explanation of whether or not your personal data is being processed and, if so, to obtain access and information regarding the processing.
- Right to restriction of processing. As a data subject, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Right to rectification. You have the right to obtain rectification and supplementation of inaccurate data. – Right to erasure. Without undue delay, a data subject has the right to obtain erasure of personal data concerning them.
- Right to data portability. A data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning them that they have provided to SmokingHotXL in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the initial controller.
- Right to object. A data subject has the right, based on their particular situation, to object to the processing of their personal data, including profiling based on those provisions. SmokingHotXL will cease processing the personal data unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Changes to the privacy policy:
SmokingHotXL can always make adjustments to the privacy policy. The most recent version is published on the website. If the new privacy policy affects the handling of your data, you will be notified accordingly.