Privacy Policy
At www.vdsshop.com, accessible from http://www.vdsshop.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by www.vdsshop.com and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
All traffic (transfer of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
Relevant Legislation
This website’s compliance with the above legislation, all 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.
Site visitation tracking
We protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We will keep your information for as long as we need it for the purpose it is being processed for. For example, when you buy on this website, you can create an account or checkout as a guest. In both cases, we will keep the information related to your purchase for a period which enables us to handle or respond to any complaints, queries or concerns. The information may also be retained so that we can continue to improve your experience with us.
Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
* EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) – (https://www.eugdpr.org/)
Google Analytics. Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor.
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Our blog | blog.vdsshop.com. Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website.
Contact forms and email links. Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or an email link like this one, 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 this Privacy Policy. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are 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.
Email newsletter. If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to subscribe will be forwarded to Mailchimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider Mailchimp to be a third-party data processor. The email address that you submit will be stored within this website’s own database but not in any of our internal computer systems.
Your email address will remain within Mailchimps’s database for as long as we continue to use Mailchimp’s services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to hello@vdsshop.com using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.
Account deletion. When deleting your account, if you made orders with us in the past that order information will still be available to us for administrative purposes.
Log Files. www.vdsshop.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Payment information. All our payments are done externally via Pay.nl to ensure the highest security for your data. Please see their own privacy policy at: https://www.pay.nl/en/privacy-cookies.
Cookies and Web Beacons. Like any other website, www.vdsshop.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. Our ‘cookie’ message shows you exactly which cookies are being stored: Facebook-tracking, Google Analytics , Cart & customer. The customer cookie is encrypted.
Third Party Privacy Policies. www.vdsshop.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?
Children’s Information. Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. www.vdsshop.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in www.vdsshop.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.