GDPR Introduction
On May 25th, 2018, the European Union’s (EU) new data protection framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),came into effect. It is the most significant piece of data protection legislation to date and will impact any organization that processes personal data in connection with goods/services offered to an EU resident or monitors the behavior of persons within the EU. The GDPR strengthens individuals’ privacy rights through tighter limits processing of their personal data, significantly expanding their rights over their data, and providing increased transparency into the nature, purpose, and use of it.
GDPR Overview
As a regulation instead of a directive, the GDPR becomes enforceable as law in all EU member states simultaneously on this date and replaces the separate member state implementations of data protection law, streamlining compliance by providing a single set of principles to follow.
The scope of this new regulation encompasses all organizations that process the personal data of EU residents or monitor individuals’ behaviors conducted within the EU, regardless of the entity’s location. The terms processing and personal data are defined broadly: processing involves “any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data” and personal data means “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).” The GDPR outlines different requirements for Controllers (entities who determine the purposes and means of the processing of personal data) and Processors (entities who process personal data as directed by a Controller).
Our Commitment to Data Protection
Torque King 4x4 has always taken our EU based customers security and regulatory rules seriously. We only ask for and retain in our database personal information essential to completing a transaction you initiate on our website. This information could include name, address, phone number, and email address. Payment information is directly handled by the GDPR compliant 3rd party payment processor you chose at checkout. When you order online from our website, we do not receive nor retain any of your account information.
We do use Cookies, which are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. The GDPR law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of our site. We also use Preference and Statistic Cookies such as Google Analytics on our web site. If you do not want to accept the Preference and Statistic Cookies, you have the option of not accepting cookies when you first visit our webpage.
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