effective from May 2018 gives all EU citizens more rights and protections for their personal data, to minimise the possibility of theft and fraud.
These regulations include provisions for the following areas:
Alongside our business and internal computer systems, this redpark.eu website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all elements of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0 below) for clarification.
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Should you choose to contact us using an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to/be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0 below.
Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP server is protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
If you have made a purchase from this website, then your details (not including any financial details) are stored in our database in order that we can fulfil your order(s) and also to refer back to your email and/or postal details in order that we may track any orders you have queries on.
If you decide to pay with PayPal or credit card (PayPal Plus), then financial information is not stored or used by us as all our transactions are made within the PayPal platform which does not retain any financial information once the transaction has been processed.
These are the only occasions where personal data will be stored on this website.
This website is hosted on our local server located at our operating office in Germany (address -> see 9.0).
All traffic between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
We use two third parties to process personal data on our behalf. The third parties we use are PayPal and DHL.
If you decide to pay with you Paypal account or by credit card, then PayPal processes payments for any products purchased from our website. Neither us or PayPal retain any financial information you may submit as part of the purchasing process. PayPal monitors every transaction, 24/7 to prevent fraud, email phishing and identity theft. Every transaction is heavily guarded behind PayPal's advanced encryption. If something appears suspicious, their dedicated team of security specialists will identify suspicious activity and help protect you from fraudulent transactions. PayPal will never ask for any sensitive information.
Your data as mentioned below is encrypted before transmission to prevent misuse of the transmitted data by third parties. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a security technology which guarantees that your personal data, including credit card information, login data and payment method, are securely transferred via the Internet. The data is encrypted so that is only readable by the PayPal payment system.
Your data which is encrypted, is as follows:
When you complete a purchase order on our site, then we will forward your email address, phone number and shipping address to DHL, so that DHL can get in contact with you to announce a delivery and deliver your ordered products.
Your data as mentioned above is encrypted before transmission to prevent misuse of the transmitted data by third parties. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a security technology which guarantees that your personal data (address, email address and phone number), are securely transferred via the Internet. The data is encrypted so that is only readable by the DHL server.
DHL contact information:
DHL Paket GmbH, Sträßchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany
PayPal and DHL have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0.
When you order as a company from an EU country and provide an EU VAT ID with your order, then we will validate this EU VAT ID with the EU VAT Information Exchange System (VIES).
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach, if it is apparent, that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
The data controller of this website is:
format.de Distribution GmbH
Mr. Juergen Floehl
In der Dell 28
56593 Horhausen/Westerwald
Germany
phone: +49-2687-91700
email: jf@format.de
registered and operating office is at:
format.de Distribution GmbH
In der Dell 28
56593 Horhausen/Westerwald
Germany
We keep this Policy under regular review.
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.
Policies updated: 2022-02-02