We take your privacy seriously and we handle your private information with care. Please note that we are collecting only the information needed for transactions and sales evidence and nothing more. Please read our policy carefully.
QB-GON offers you an online e-shop and the store is hosted by Woocomerce. They provide us with an online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through our hosting provider data storage, databases, and the general Woocomerce application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
1. Consent & Information We Collect
Please note that by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679, any personal information we have collected, will be disclosed to you upon request.
If you want to purchase products from our e-shop you should complete a form after making your choice from our product list. There is no need to create an account because we minimize the personal information we collect and store. In order to complete your purchase you should complete the given form with:
• your name and surname/ company name
• your delivery address / contact information/ email
• credit card information/ pay pal information
• payment information
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you are giving us your consent regarding the collection and use of your personal information. We may engage third party payment providers to administer and process your payment card details in order to complete any purchase that you make through the web site. Please note that no interference, association, affiliation, or approval can be drawn from the distribution of web site information. We are safeguarding your privacy thus we are collecting information strictly for the aforementioned reasons.
For marketing reasons or for any other reason, we will, beforehand, ask directly for your consent. If you want to withdraw your consent, for any reason, please send us an email specifying your reasons at info@qb-gon.com. Please note that if we are required by law to disclose any of your personal information we will. The same actions will occur if you are by any means violating the Terms & Conditions of Use. The customer has the right to see upon demand any private information stored by the company or any evidence of sale and invoices upon request.
We also provide you with newsletter services and this is the only case your email will be used but only if you chose to receive newsletters from us, otherwise if you give us your explicit consent.
2. Data Collection
QB-GON will use your personal information once you want to place an order with us and mainly for procedural reasons. We will use any details provided by you to communicate with you regarding your purchase and to send over your purchased products. In order to complete your purchase, we will process payments made by you and if you are opt-in we will contact you via a newsletter for any offers, new products, or news. Please note that if our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
As a part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address, and email address. When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (I P) address, this information is not used by QB-GON and it is neither stored on any database nor analyzed and used for any marketing or company purposes.
Please note that we will never share, lend, or sell your personal information to third parties. Your personal information will never be entered into a mailing list, except if you opt for news updates from QB-GON. Communication, in this case, will be by email only and your email address will never be passed on to any third party.
3. Cookies
For the collection of (personal) data and web browsing preferences, qb-gon.com uses cookies. Cookies are small text files used by a large percentage of web sites to assist a web site in providing high quality, fully functional services. They are an integral part of online shopping therefore the QB-GON.com e-shop wouldn’t be able to operate without them. Some cookies also collect information about how you use our web site and your buying behavior so that we may improve how people experience the QB-GON e-shop. While using and browsing our web page you are consenting to cookies being used in accordance with this policy. If you do not consent you can disable cookies from within your browser settings, however, this may adversely affect the user experience of this website.
• The Session (Transient) cookies: these cookies are erased when you close your browser and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user and
• The Persistent (Permanent/Stored) cookies: these cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e based on the set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.
On the whole, we only keep cookies for the duration of your visit to our website unless it is stated otherwise in the cookie policy. Cookies do not contain confidential information such as your home address, telephone number, or credit card details.
4. Third-Party Services
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use, and disclose your information proportionally in order to allow them to perform the services they provide to our website and e-shop. However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies with respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by them. Find information about the PayPal privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/gr/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. Please keep in mind that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are governed by a different jurisdiction than either yours or ours. So if you select to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms & Conditions of Use. Also note that when you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
5. Security & Security of transactions
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
6. Changes In Privacy Policy
We would like to inform you that our website and company conforms and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the web site. Therefore It is possible for the Privacy Policy to be amended in the future. That would then be mentioned on this page. It is therefore recommended to regularly have a look at this page.