Privacy Policy – skippergear.eu

Last updated: January 22, 2026

The privacy of your personal data is one of the main concerns of SC SARMIS COLUMNA FIRE SRL, headquartered in Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania, as the data controller.

This document aims to inform you about the processing of your personal data in the context of using the website skippergear.eu, hereinafter referred to as the "website".

Table of Contents

1. Categories of Personal Data Processed

2. Purposes and Legal Basis of Processing

3. Retention Period of Your Data

4. Disclosure of Personal Data

5. Transfer of Personal Data

6. Your Rights

7. Children’s Privacy

8. Changes to the Privacy Policy

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1. Categories of Personal Data Processed

A. If you are a website customer:

We process your personal data such as:

• Full name

• Phone number

• Email address

• Billing address

• Shipping address

• Information regarding your usage of the website (e.g., behavior, preferences, or habits on the site)

• Any other data you provide directly when creating an account, placing an order, or otherwise interacting with the website

If you create an account using your Facebook or Google account, we process the public profile information provided by those platforms: username and email address.

If you create an account only when placing an order, your email address will be used to automatically create an account.

If the order is not completed, your email and other data will not be stored, and the account will be automatically deleted.

B. If you are a website visitor:

We process personal data you provide:

• Directly, e.g., through contact forms, inquiries, or complaints

• Indirectly, e.g., IP address, browser type, navigation duration, search history, operating system, language, pages visited, complete URLs, click sequences, viewed/searched products or information, page interaction data (scrolling, clicks, mouse movements), and user behavior

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2. Purposes and Legal Basis of Processing

A. For website customers:

• To manage contractual relationships (e.g., order processing, validation, shipping, invoicing, order status updates, product returns)
  Legal basis: Processing is necessary to perform the contract between you and SC SARMIS COLUMNA FIRE SRL, as defined in the Terms and Conditions.

• To comply with legal obligations, including tax and record-keeping obligations
  Legal basis: Necessary for compliance with legal requirements.

• For marketing purposes, e.g., sending commercial communications via email or SMS about products and services
  Legal basis: Your consent, which you may provide when creating an account or via your account settings. Consent is voluntary and withdrawal of consent does not affect previous processing. You can unsubscribe via the opt-out link in communications or through "My Account" settings.

• For website analysis and improvement, including user preference profiling
  Legal basis: Legitimate interest to improve user experience. Data provision is voluntary.

B. For website visitors:

• For marketing purposes, e.g., sending commercial communications via email or SMS
  Legal basis: Your consent, provided through newsletter subscription forms.

• For complaints resolution and traffic monitoring, to improve user experience
  Legal basis: Legitimate interest to ensure proper website functioning and improve user experience

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3. Retention Period

We process your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described above.

• Customers: Data is kept for the duration of the contractual relationship and afterwards according to legal obligations (e.g., accounting documents retained for 10 years).

• Deleting your account does not automatically delete personal data; requests for deletion are handled as per your rights under GDPR.

• Active orders may prevent immediate deletion of account data until completion of the order.

• Marketing data will cease processing if you withdraw consent.

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4. Disclosure of Personal Data

We do not rent or sell your personal data.

Data may be shared with:

• Service providers, transport operators, hosting providers, IT companies acting on our behalf

• Public authorities if legally required (e.g., for site administration, promotions, marketing, legal compliance)

All third parties are contractually obliged to keep your data confidential and use it only for the intended purpose.

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5. Transfer of Personal Data

Personal data may be transferred outside Romania, but only to countries within the European Union.

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6. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right to information – details about how your data is processed

• Right of access – confirmation and information about data processing, purpose, recipients

• Right to rectification – correct inaccurate or incomplete data

• Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") – in certain conditions, with possible anonymized data retention for statistical purposes

• Right to restriction of processing

• Right to data portability – receive data in structured format and transmit to another controller

• Right to object – to processing based on legitimate interest or for direct marketing

• Right not to be subject to automated decisions, including profiling with legal or significant effects

• Right to lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing or courts

For exercising these rights or any questions, contact us at: [your email address]

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7. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If such data is collected by mistake, parental consent will be obtained or the data will be deleted.

Report concerns regarding underage data at [your email address]

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8. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy. Significant changes will be communicated via email (if possible) or a notice on the website.