Welcome to minifurnish (operated under minifurnish.com). We are committed to safeguarding your personal data and respecting your privacy in strict accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable laws of the Netherlands and the European Union.
This Privacy Policy outlines how minifurnish.com collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you visit our website and purchase our compact furniture products.
1. Data Controller Information
The data controller responsible for your personal data is minifurnish.com, located in the Netherlands. For any inquiries, requests, or concerns regarding your data privacy, you may contact us directly via email at furniture@minifurnish.com.
2. Information We Collect
We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when placing an order, contacting our support team, or browsing our website. This information may include:
- Full name and shipping/billing address
- Contact details, including email address (e.g., furniture@minifurnish.com) and phone number
- Transaction and order history details
- Communication records when you contact our customer support
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
We process your personal data strictly under lawful bases pursuant to European and Dutch data protection laws, specifically for the following purposes:
- Order Fulfillment: Processing, packing, and dispatching your purchased compact furniture items.
- Customer Support: Responding to your inquiries and managing correspondence.
- Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Fulfilling tax, accounting, and mandatory legal obligations under Dutch and EU law.
4. Payment Processing via Stripe
To ensure secure and reliable transaction processing, we use Stripe as our payment service provider. When you make a purchase on minifurnish.com, your payment details (such as credit or debit card information) are transmitted directly to Stripe. Stripe processes your financial data in compliance with rigorous industry security standards (PCI-DSS).
minifurnish.com does not store complete credit card or sensitive financial information on our servers. For more information regarding Stripe’s privacy practices, please consult Stripe’s official privacy policy.
5. Data Retention Period
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, tax, or reporting requirements.
- Transaction and Invoicing Records: In compliance with Dutch statutory tax and commercial record-keeping obligations (such as the Dutch State Taxes Act / Algemene wet inzake rijksbelastingen), financial records and associated customer data are retained for a period of 7 years.
- Customer Communication Records: General correspondence and support inquiries are retained for a period of 2 years following the resolution of the inquiry, unless a longer retention period is required for legal defense or dispute resolution.
Once the applicable retention period expires, your personal data is securely deleted or anonymized.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Under the GDPR and Dutch data protection legislation, you hold specific rights concerning your personal data, including:
- Right of Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data held by us.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data, subject to legal retention obligations.
- Right to Restriction: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under specific conditions.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your data based on legitimate interests.
To exercise any of these rights, please submit a formal written request to furniture@minifurnish.com.
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. While we employ robust safeguards to protect information within our operational environment, no method of transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be entirely immune to risk.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our legal obligations, business practices, or European regulatory standards. Any revisions will be published directly on minifurnish.com with an updated effective date.