Privacy Policy

Sdtrades.com (our website) is provided by S&D Trade OÜ, an Estonian limited liability company (“we”, “our” or “us”). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation that is legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to individuals and our wider operations in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Given the nature of our website, we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 18 years of age. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 18 years of age has been shared with our website please let us know so that we can delete that data.

This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:

  • What this policy applies to
  • Personal data we collect about you
  • How your personal data is collected
  • How and why we use your personal data
  • Marketing
  • Who we share your personal data with
  • How long your personal data will be kept
  • Transferring your personal data out of the EEA
  • Cookies and other tracking technologies
  • Your rights
  • Keeping your personal data secure
  • How to complain
  • Changes to this privacy policy
  • How to contact us
  • Do you need extra help?

What this policy applies to

This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain third parties. Those other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.

Personal data we collect about you

The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you, if you choose to give it to us:

  •  your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number
  • details of any information, feedback or other matters you give us by phone, email, post or via social media;
  • your activities on, and use of, our website, if you choose to give it to us;
  • information about how you use our website and technology systems;
  • your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions.

If you do not provide personal data we, then no personal data will be collected and processed.

We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section “How and why we use your personal data” below.

How your personal data is collected

We collect personal data from you:

  • directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you contact us (including via email), send us feedback, purchase products or services via our website, or complete customer surveys or participate in competitions via our website, and
  • indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website; we will usually collect information indirectly using the technologies explain in the section on “Cookies” below

How and why we use your personal data

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:

  • where you have given consent,
  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations,
  • for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
  • for our legitimate interests or those of a third party

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see “How to contact us” below).

The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.

What we use your personal data for

Our reasons

Providing products and/or services to you

To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings

Depending on the circumstances:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

In other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to protect our business, interests and rights or those of others

Customise our website and its content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our website

Depending on the circumstances:

Your consent as gathered by acceptance of the Cookie Policy—see “Cookies and other tracking technologies” below

Where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price

Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended

Depending on the circumstances:

Your consent as gathered by acceptance of the Cookie Policy—see “Cookies and other tracking technologies” below

Where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price

Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products and/or services or other important notices

Depending on the circumstances:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

In other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price

Protecting the security of systems and data

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us

Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, eg in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price

Updating and enhancing customer records

Depending on the circumstances:

To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products

Marketing our services to existing and former customers

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers

See ‘Marketing’ below for further information

External audits and quality checks, eg for the audit of our accounts

For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, ie to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards

We may need to share your personal data with members of our group and third parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency

In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary

Depending on the circumstances:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

In other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, ie to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets

In no case we collect personal data that may be treated as a special category.

See “Who we share your personal data with” for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where it needs to be shared with others.

Marketing

We may use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our products and/op services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and/or services.

We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you marketing information. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.

You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:

We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it with other organisations outside our grout for marketing purposes.

For more information on your rights to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see “Your rights” below.

Who we share your personal data with

We routinely share personal data with:

  • third parties we use to help deliver our products and/or services to you, eg payment service providers, warehouses and delivery companies,
  • other third parties we use to help us run our business, eg marketing agencies or website hosts and website analytics providers,
  • our bank(s).

We or the third parties mentioned above may occasionally also need to share personal data with:

  • external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
  • professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
  • law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
  • other parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible, however, the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations

If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see “How to contact us” below).

How long your personal data will be kept

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used.

Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data.

Transferring your personal data out of the EEA

Countries outside the EEA have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.

It is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data to countries outside the EEA. In those cases we will comply with applicable and EEA laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the EEA or to an international organisation where:

  • in the case of transfers subject to EEA data protection laws, the European Commission has decided that the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an “adequacy decision”) further to Article 45 of the EU GDPR;
  • there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you, or
  • a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law.

Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we use to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on “Change to this privacy policy” below.

For further information about such transfers and the safeguards we employ, please contact us (see “How to contact us” below.

Cookies and other tracking technologies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website.

For further information on cookies, our use of cookies, when we will request your consent before placing them and how to disable them, please see our Cookie Policy.

Your rights

You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:

Access to a copy of your personal data

The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data

Correction (also known as rectification)

The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data

Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)

The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations

Restriction of use

The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data

Data portability

The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations

To object to use

The right to object:

at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling)

in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, eg where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests.

Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement

The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you

We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply and circumstances in which they do not apply, please contact us (see “How to contact us” below).

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email or write to us—see below: “How to contact us”. When contacting us please:

  • provide enough information to identify yourself and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
  • let us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates

Keeping your personal data secure

We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

Please contact us if you have any query or concern about our use of your information (see below “How to contact us“). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with:

  • the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate, and
  • a relevant data protection supervisory authority in the EEA state of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of data protection laws in the EEA.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time—when we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example by including a prominent link to a description of those changes on our website for a reasonable period or by other means, such as email.

How to contact us

You can contact us by post or email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.

Our contact details

Harju maakond, Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Vesivärava tn 50-201, 10152

info@sdtrades.com