PRIVACY POLICY
AmS Amplifiers takes your privacy very seriously. This is why we have developed this policy to inform you about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data and your choices related to it.
We collect information for order management and use it anonymously to improve our site's performance and our commercial communication.
TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal data are facts or information that can be linked to an individual person ("personal data"). We may process the following personal data:
• Email address
• Name
• Address / Phone number
• Purchase information (including payment method used when applicable law permits)
• Location data
• Usage data
Usage data ("usage data") are data that we collect indirectly when you visit our websites and tell us more about how you use and interact with the website content. Usage data may include:
• Your computer's Internet protocol address (e.g., IP address)
• Your browser type
• Your browser version
• The pages of our website that you visit
• The date and time of your visit
• The time spent on these pages, device unique identifiers
In some cases, usage data can be personal data if it allows us to know who you are.
Your location data ("location data"), which are data about your whereabouts. We will only use and retain location data with your explicit prior consent for this purpose.
COOKIES
We may also process your personal data through cookies. Cookies are files containing small amounts of data, sometimes including an anonymous unique identifier ("cookies"). Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for you as a website visitor.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow you to customize the website according to your needs and preferences. If you choose to return to the website at another time, functional cookies will recognize that you have visited the site before and the website settings will be adjusted according to your needs.
Analytical Cookies, also known as "performance cookies"
Analytical cookies are necessary to help us offer you a better experience as the information we receive via the placement of analytical cookies allows us to optimize our services, as well as the features and performance of our website. Consent is not necessary for the placement of analytical cookies if these analytical cookies are anonymous. The IP address must therefore be anonymized.
If the analytical cookies are not anonymous, we will ask for your consent before placing non-anonymous analytical cookies.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies
Advertising or targeting cookies allow our business partners to offer you personalized advertisements. These cookies may be placed by third-party ad networks or by the website operator of AmS Amplifiers SRL. We will only place advertising cookies after receiving your consent.
You are not legally or contractually obliged to provide your personal data. However, it is possible that some features of our websites depend on the availability of personal data. If you do not provide personal data in these cases, the features may not be available or only to a limited extent. For example, if you wish to allow us to contact you to send newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may interest you, you will need to provide your personal data and give us your consent to process them.
PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Now that you know what types of personal data we may obtain from you, you are probably curious about what we do with it. Depending on the case and the nature of our relationship, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:
• Performance of a contract (or pre-contractual steps): the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance or conclusion of a contract to which you have consented.
• Your consent: you consent to the processing of your personal data through express consent. You can revoke this consent at any time.
• Our legitimate interests: we may have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data. When we invoke such a basis, we ensure that our interests are justified, balanced, and do not infringe on your privacy.
• Compliance with our legal obligations: the processing of your personal data is made mandatory by a legal text.
Example cases:
• Providing you with our products and/or services, including customer support – Performance of a contract, legitimate interest.
• Carrying out and/or executing an agreement – Performance of a contract, legitimate interest.
• Conducting marketing activities and related activities – Consent, legitimate interest.
• Providing you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer and that are similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about, or informing you of changes to our services – Consent, legitimate interest.
• Detecting, preventing, and resolving technical issues, as well as analyzing and optimizing the (use of) our website and associated technologies – Legitimate interest.
• Conducting market research – Legitimate interest.
• Complying with applicable laws and regulations – Compliance with legal obligation, legitimate interest.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your personal data to comply with applicable laws), to resolve disputes, and to enforce our legal agreements and policies.
AmS Amplifiers also retains usage data for internal analysis purposes.
Personal data that is no longer necessary after the expiration of legal or business-related periods will be deleted. In particular, we set our retention periods carefully considering various general principles, including:
• If we are obliged to retain your personal data (for example, for tax purposes);
• If you have asked us to stop using your personal data or have asked us to retain it;
• If we maintain a business relationship with you;
• If we are likely to use your personal data in the future;
• If your personal data is relevant to future legal claims;
• If your personal data is particularly sensitive; or
• If retaining your personal data would have a significant impact on you.
After the expiration of such a retention period, we will destroy or anonymize all personal data.
MANAGING YOUR DATA
AmS Amplifiers allows you to correct, modify, delete, or limit the use of your personal data. If you have authorized us to process your personal data, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. If you wish to be informed of the personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us as indicated below.
You always have the following rights regarding your personal data:
• The right to access, update, or delete your information that we hold. Whenever possible, you can access your personal data, update it, or request its deletion; please contact us to assist you.
• The right to correct. You have the right to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
• The right to restrict. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data or specific aspects of your personal data.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to receive a copy of your information that we hold in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
• The right to revoke consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time regarding the collection and processing of your personal data.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to these requests.
If you are an EU/UK resident/citizen and believe that we have not complied with data protection regulations when processing your personal data, you can file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA AND THIRD-PARTY RECIPIENTS
We may sometimes need to disclose your personal data without your consent, for example, when we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to:
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of AmS Amplifiers.
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing related to our services.
• Protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public.
• Protect against legal liability.
PAYMENT PROCESSORS
We may provide paid products and/or services on our websites. In this case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors). AmS Amplifiers does not store or collect your payment card details. This information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors. The use of your personal information by these processors is governed by their privacy policies. However, all payment processors we use adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS, which helps ensure the secure handling of payment information.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our websites may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our services are not intended for persons under 18 years of age ("children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you know that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we realize that we have collected personal data from children without verifying parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will inform you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and providing you with the opportunity to opt-in. We will notify you by email and/or a prominent notice on our websites, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this privacy policy. We advise you to review this privacy policy regularly for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when posted on this page.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please do not hesitate to use our contact form available on our site.