Privacy Policy & Cookies

Privacy-sensitive data, or personal data, are processed through our online store.

Sweetlake Customs considers the careful handling of personal data to be of great importance. We therefore process and secure your personal data with care.

In our processing we adhere to the requirements set by privacy legislation.

This means, among other things, that:

  • We clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this through this privacy statement;
  • we first ask you for your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases where your consent is required;
  • we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
  • We respect your right to access, correct, or delete your personal data upon your request .

Sweetlake Customs, registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 91252725, is responsible for data processing. This privacy statement explains what personal data we collect and use, and for what purpose. We recommend that you read it carefully.

This privacy statement was last modified on 26-01-2021

Use of personal data
When you use our online store, we obtain certain information from you. This may include personal data. We only store and use personal data that you provide directly, in connection with the service you request, or that is clearly provided to us for processing.

We use the following data for the purposes stated in this privacy statement:

  • Name and address details including first name
  • Phone number
  • Billing address
  • Email address

Register
Certain parts of our online store require you to register first. After registration, we store the personal data you provide under your chosen username. We store this information so you don't have to re-enter it each time and so we can contact you regarding the execution of the agreement.

Access portal
Our portal provides you with access to a management environment where you can set, specify, change or delete data yourself.

Process order
When you place an order with us, we use your personal data to process it. If necessary for proper processing, we may also share your personal data with third parties. You can read more about this later in this privacy statement.

Contact form and newsletter
We offer the option to ask questions through a contact form in our online store, where you'll be asked to provide various details to process your inquiry. You choose which information you provide. The information you provide will be retained for as long as necessary to fully respond to and process your inquiry, based on the nature of the form or the content of your email, and for at least as long as legally required.

We offer a newsletter to inform interested parties about our products and/or services. Each newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. Your email address will only be added to the subscriber list with your explicit consent. You can also opt out of receiving the newsletter at any time through our portal by logging in.

Publication
We do not publish your customer data.

Advertisements
Our online store displays generic advertisements, which do not collect personal data.

Disclosure to third parties
Your data may be shared with third parties if this is necessary for the proper execution of the agreement you conclude with us, by explicit instruction from you as the data subject, based on a legal obligation, or by order of a judicial or administrative authority. If your personal data is shared with a third party, we will ensure that we have a processing agreement with that third party that complies with the requirements of the relevant laws and regulations, including the GDPR.
Some third parties with whom data can be exchanged have some of their data stored outside the EU.

Cookies
Our online store uses cookies. Cookies may also be placed by third parties engaged by us.

When you first visit our online store, a message will appear explaining why we use cookies. You can indicate here whether you accept or reject these cookies.

You are free to disable cookies through your browser.

Please note that if you do not accept our cookies, our website may no longer function optimally.

We have agreements with third parties who place cookies regarding the use of cookies and applications. However, we do not have full control over what the providers of these applications do with the cookies when they read them. For more information about these applications and how they handle cookies, please refer to the privacy statements of these parties (note: these may change regularly).

Remarketing
We use Google Ads Remarketing to advertise online, specifically on the Google Display Network. Ads Remarketing displays ads based on which parts of the website you've viewed by placing a cookie in your web browser. This cookie does not identify you in any way and does not provide access to your computer or mobile device. The cookie is used to tell Sweetlakecustoms.nl that "this person visited a specific page, so show them ads related to that page."

Google Ads Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to your needs and only show ads that are relevant to you.

If you don't want to see ads from Sweetlakecustoms.nl, you can opt out in several ways:

  1. To opt out of Google's use of cookies, visit Google's Ads Settings .
  2. To opt out of the use of cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page .

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track how visitors use our online store. We have a data processing agreement with Google to govern how our data is handled. Furthermore, we have not authorized Google to use the Analytics information obtained for other Google services.

Security
We implement security measures to limit misuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. In particular, we take the following measures:

  • Access to personal data is protected with a username and password
  • We use secure connections (Secure Sockets Layer or SSL) that protect all information between you and our website when you enter personal data.

Retention periods
The personal data described above will be retained for as long as necessary to process your orders, including warranty and service provision. We will then retain the data for a maximum of two years for the statistical purposes described. The data will then be deleted unless there is a legal obligation requiring longer retention (such as the seven-year tax retention obligation for financial records, including relevant correspondence, etc.).

Third party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites linked to our online store. We cannot guarantee that these third parties will handle your personal data reliably or securely. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these websites before using them.

Changes to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy statement. We recommend that you consult this privacy statement regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes.

View and change your data
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or questions regarding access to and changes to (or deletion of) your personal data, you can contact us at any time using the details below.

You can also send us a request to access, change, or delete this data. You can also submit a request to export data we use with your consent, or indicate with reasons why you want us to limit our processing of your personal data.

To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself properly. If you wish to access personal data linked to a cookie, you must include a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings. If the information is incorrect, you can request that we change or delete it.

Dutch Data Protection Authority
We are happy to assist you if you have any complaints about the processing of your personal data. Under privacy legislation, you also have the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority against this processing of personal data. You can contact the Dutch Data Protection Authority for this purpose.