Domain: www.binderfold.com
Brand Name: binderfold
Contact Email: storage@binderfold.com

1. Introduction

Welcome to www.binderfold.com (operated under the brand name binderfold, referred to as “we”, “our”, or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for your personal data is binderfold.
Contact Email: storage@binderfold.com
Location: Germany

3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data: includes payment card details. Please note that payment transactions are processed through our payment service provider, Stripe. We do not store complete payment card numbers on our servers.
Transaction Data: includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and environment, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

4. How Your Personal Data is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

6. Payment Processing via Stripe

To process payments made on www.binderfold.com, we use Stripe. When processing payments, certain data will be transferred to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. The processing of this data is governed by Stripe’s privacy terms.

7. Data Retention

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.
In accordance with German commercial and tax laws (such as the German Commercial Code – HGB, and the German Tax Code – AO), we are legally obligated to retain contract and accounting data (such as invoices, transaction records, and correspondence) for a period of 6 to 10 years.
Where no statutory retention period applies, personal data is erased or anonymised once the specific purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled.

8. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with external third parties strictly where necessary for business operations, including:
Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
Government bodies, regulators, and law enforcement agencies where required by law.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and German data protection laws, you have rights including:
Right of access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
* Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at storage@binderfold.com.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any updates will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.