TANK4SWAP Privacy Policy

TANK4SWAP INC. (referred to as “We” or “TANK4SWAP” hereunder) would like to express its gratitude for your interest in the company.

TANK4SWAP undertakes to protect your personal information and handle it confidentially. Personal information is processed within the framework of the statutory provisions of data protection law in the European Union, particularly the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other relevant rules and regulations.

We, therefore, inform you hereby with this Privacy Policy how your personal information is processed on our website www.TANK4SWAP.com and what your rights are according to the GDPR.

  1. The name and contact details of the person/entity responsible for this, as well as the company’s data protection officer.

This data protection regulation applies to the processing of data by the following person/entity:

TANK4SWAP INC.,
Address: 8185 Yonge St. Unit 201 Thornhill ON  L3T 2C6, Toronto , Canada
Tel: +1 (647) 797-0097
E-mail: info@TANK4SWAP.com

The company’s Data Protection Officer may be contacted via the contact details below:

TANK4SWAP INC.,
Address: 8185 Yonge St. Unit 201 Thornhill ON  L3T 2C6, Toronto , Canada
Tel: +1 (647) 797-0097
E-mail: info@TANK4SWAP.com

Subject of data protection

Data protection includes safeguarding all the information which relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (referred to as “person concerned”) such as their name, postal address, email address or phone number.

Personal data and the specific details thereof will be processed by us for every single identified data processing operation.

  1. The collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of its processing.
  2. When visiting the Website

      Upon your accessing our website, the browser used by your device automatically sends us information, which is temporarily saved in a log-file. Afterwards, without your intervention, this information is collected and stored for a period of a year before it gets automatically deleted.

This information includes:

  • IP address of the accessing computer,
  • Date and time of access,
  • Name and URL of the retrieved file,
  • The website from which the access occurred (Referrer URL),
  • Any other websites accessed through ours;
  • Browser/s used and possibly your computer’s operating system, as well as the name of your access provider.

For the following purposes, the data above will be processed by us:

  • To ensure a smooth connection set-up of the website
  • To provide a user-friendly experience when using our website
  • To evaluate the system security and stability, and
  • To perform further administrative tasks.

According to article 6, Para. 1, page 1 lit. f of the GDPR, which is the legal basis for data processing, we legally and lawfully collect personal data for the reasons and purposes listed above. At no time is the collected data used to identify you as a natural person. Furthermore, there are analysis services we work with, which are in operation whenever you visit our website.

  1. When registering for a Newsletter

In case you have given your consent in accordance with art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. a, your email address will be used for the regular mailing of our newsletter. Submitting your email address will simple suffice for receiving the newsletter.

During the process of visiting our website, purchasing goods and services, the email address provided by you will be used by us to mail the newsletters.

The newsletter will exclusively direct marketing for our own similar goods and services, in accordance with § 7 Para. 3 case.3 of the Act Against Unfair Competition as well as 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit.f of the GDPR.

You can de-register or un-subscribe at any time regardless of whether the newsletter was transmitted to you with your prior consent or through regulatory authorization, for instance, via a link at the end of every newsletter.

Or, your “un-subscribe request” may be sent at any time to: info@TANK4SWAP.com, for which you won’t be charged over and above the transmission costs  according to the basic tariffs.

All the information required for the transmission of the newsletter will be deleted immediately afterwards when it is not needed or when there are no other statutory purposes for further processing.

As soon as you withdraw your consent or object to receiving the newsletter, your email address will be deleted, as it is no longer required for the transmission of the newsletter.

  1. When using our contact form and e-mailing contact details

You are provided with the opportunity to contact us using the contact form on our website in order to inquire further, for which purpose you are needed to specify a valid e-mail address, so that we’re able to know who the e-mail is from and respond accordingly. Other additional information on the form can be provided of your own accord.

You can also contact us via our e-mail address, in which case your personal information as well as your e-mail address will be stored.

Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR is the basis for data processing for the purposes of making contact, while Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b of the GDPR comes into effect when the contact details are needed for the conclusion of a contract.

After the completion of your request, all the personal data we’ve collected will be deleted.

Purpose of the collection of personal information

  • Purchase and delivery of products and services:your personal information is used by us to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments and contact you about orders, products, services, and promotional offers.
  • Provide, troubleshoot, and promote TANK4SWAP services: in order for us to provide practicality, inspect performance, fix errors, and improve usability and effectiveness of the services we provide, we need to use your personal information.
  • Act in accordance with legal obligations: we are legally obliged, in some certain cases, to collect and process your personal information. As a case in point, the sellers’ information regarding place of establishment and bank account information is collected to verify their identity and other similar purposes.
  • Interact with you: your personal information is used to interact with you regarding Amazon Services through various means ( such as by phone, e-mail, chat).
  • Advertise: your personal information is used to provide you with interest-based ads for products, services and features which might appeal o you. To get further information, we suggest you read our Interest-Based Ads Notice.
  • Prevent fraud and credit risks: in order for us to safeguard the security of our customers, TANK4SWAP, and others, and detect fraud and abuse, all personal information is processed. Besides, scoring methods may also be used to evaluate and handle credit risks.
  • Seek and obtain your consent: for specific purposes, we may require your consent to process your personal information; however, you may withdraw your consent at any time in which case the processing of your personal data will be stopped at once.
  • Write-up reports:our members may be provided with various type of reports which could include information, regarding trends, prices, and locations.
  1. Disclosure of data

Your personal data will be disclosed to any third party (recipient) only in compliance with the provisions of data protection law. The circumstances under which your personal data will be disclosed to a third party (recipient) are listed as follows:

  • We’ve been given consent by you for one or more specific purposes (Art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. a of the GDPR);
  • The processing of your personal data is required for the fulfillment of the contract which has been concluded with you or for measures needed for the execution of a pre-contract requested by you. (Art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. b of the GDPR);
  • The processing of your personal data is required to act based on a legal obligation that we are subject to (Art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. c of the GDPR);
  • The processing of your personal data is required for the protection of our or a third party’s lawful interest unless your interests or fundamental rights which require protection are considered more important. (Art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. f of the GDPR).

Moreover, we collaborate with service providers also called external job processors who are provided with your personal data and responsible for processing your personal data on our behalf and under our instructions, within the context of Art. 28 of the GDPR. The service providers have scrupulously been assigned and delegated by us and work in compliance with our instructions and are regularly controlled and supervised. We refer to the following service providers, specifically:

Zendesk, 1019 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, Tel: 888-670-4887 , +1 (415) 418 7506.
Sendinblue, 55 rue d’Amsterdam, 75008 Paris
Stripe, Stripe, Inc., 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

  1. Cookies

Cookies are used by our website. When you visit our website, cookies, which are small files, are automatically created by your browser and stored in your device (your laptop, tablet, smart phone,..). cookies do not contain viruses, trojans, or any other malware, and therefore do not harm your device.

Depending on the device which is used, cookies store information. This, nonetheless, does not imply that we directly access identity.

The use of cookies helps create a more user-friendly access to our services. There are session cookies, which identify the pages you have already visited on our website and are automatically deleted once you leave our website.

There are also temporary cookies, which are saved in your device for a certain period of time. They help promote the user-friendliness of our website, by automatically recognizing your prior visit to our website and identifying the previously entered settings, thus you do not need to reenter the input details.

As well as that, there are cookies to collect statistical information on your use of the site, enabling us to evaluate the improvement of the services we provide. Using these cookies, we automatically recognize that you have visited the site before. These cookies are deleted after a period of 365 days.

The data which is processed by cookies is necessary to protect our lawful interests and the interests of third parties according to Art. 6, Para. 1 p. 1 lit. f of the GDPR.

Cookies are automatically accepted by most browsers. Nevertheless, you can set up your browser in order that no cookies are stored on our computer, or that you receive a message of consent before cookies are created. In case you decide to completely disable cookies, you might consequently not access all the functions of our website.

  1. Analysis tools

We utilize the following tracking measures on the basis of Art. 6. 1 p. 1 lit. f of the GDPR. Using such tracking measures, we ensure a needs-oriented design, continuous improvement of our website as well as a record on the statistical usage of our website, all for the purpose of bettering the services we offer you. These interests are considered lawful within the concept of the aforenamed provisions.

In this section, we reference the respective data processing purposes, and data categories by the appropriate data tracking tools.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; henceforth referred to as “Google”) in order to provide a needs-oriented design and continuous improvement of our web pages. In this context, we create incognito user profiles, and we use cookies. The following lists the information which is generated by the cookies in reference to your usage of this website:

  • The version or type of the browser
  • The operating system which is used
  • Referrer URL i.e., the website visited previously
  • Hostname of the computer (IP address)
  • Time of the server request,

The abovementioned information will be sent to and stored in a Google Server in the USA in accordance with the scheme of the agreement on commissioned data concluded with Google by us. This information will assist us to evaluate the usage of the website, to collect records about website activity, provide information for other internet related services which come about the usage of this website, market research, and a needs-oriented structure of this website.

If required by law, or in case the contracted third parties require this information for processing purposes, it (the information) may also be transferred to third parties. However, your IP address will not be together with other data which is held by Google. All IP addresses are undisclosed in order to render IP masking impossible. There is a time limit for sessions and campaigns by default, that is sessions end after 30 minutes of inactivity, and campaign after six months.

The specific time limit of campaigns is a maximum of two years. You can configure your browser to prevent the cookies from being installed, in which case you may not be able to make the most of all the features of this website.

By downloading and installing a browser add-on, you can also deter the use of the data which is generated by the cookies, and collected when using the website, including your IP address, and the processing of this information by Google.

By sending an email to hello@TANK4SWAP.com, you can provide yourself with a substitute for the browser add-on preventing Google Analytics from collecting data, especially when using browsers on mobile devices. We will then send you an opt-out cookie, which will stop the collection of any of your data when you visit the website.

The opt-out cookie will only be applied in this browser and for our website, and is saved on your device. You will have to set the opt-out cookie once more in case you delete the cookies in this browser.

To get more information about data protection related to Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics Help Center
(https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de)

  1. social media
    • Shariff Solution

For social media networks on our website [LinkedIn, WeChat, WhatsApp, twitter, Instagram, Pinterest] Shariff button are designed. These buttons, which are simple HTML links, are used in the context of Shariff solution.

Using the Shariff solution, the script is retrieved, disclosing information such as the frequency with which the share button on a page is pressed. To execute this, the programing interfaces are used by the script to contact the social network and retrieve the data. In this process, no personal data is transferred, and instead of your IP address, it’s only our server address which is transmitted to Facebook, Google, and Twitter and once you become active, you will directly be in contact with Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Your personal information will not be collected by social networks before you become active. You will also remain incognito/invisible to the social networks, so long as you do not share content by pressing a link.

Upon clicking on the link, we will no longer have the legal right to collect and process the data and it will be vested with the operator of the social network.

  1. Affected party rights

You are entitled to:

  • According to Art. 15 of the GDPR, demand data regarding your personal information processed by us, the purposes of the processing, the kind of personal data, as well as the kind of recipients who have been or will be transferred your personal information, the period of time the personal data is scheduled to be stored, whether you have to right to rectify, delete, restrict, or object to processing, whether you have the right to objection, the origin of your data, as far as such data was not collected by us, in addition to whether there exists any automated decision-making processes, which include profiling. You can also request descriptive information concerning the details if required;
  • In accordance with Art. 16 of the GDPR, demand to immediately rectify and complete any personal data stored by us which is inaccurate or incomplete;
  • In accordance with article 17 of the GDPR, demand to delete your personal data stored by us, as long as this information is not needed to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, when it is not required according to any legal obligations, when there are no reasons of public interest, or when there are no legal claims to defend;
  • Pursuant to article 18 of the GDPR, request that the processing of your personal data should be restricted, since you do not confirm the accuracy of the data, or because the processing is illegal, or as you have disapproved of the deletion of the information, as well as when your personal data is no longer required by us, or when you need this data to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or when you have made a formal objection according to Art. 21 of the GDPR;
  • In accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR, ask for the personal data you have provided to be submitted to you in a structured, current, and machine-readable format, or have such data be transferred to a third responsible party;
  • In accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 of the GDPR, invalidate a previously granted consent at any time, which will lead to us not being able to process your data;
  • In accordance with Art. 77 of the GDPR, complain to a regulatory body. You will be able to do this, contacting a regulatory body at your place of residence, workplace, or our company offices.
  1. Right to objection

Since your personal data is processed based on lawful interests, pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 p. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, you are entitled to formally object to the processing of personal data because you have particular reasons or circumstances, or because there are marketing concerns. In the latter case, you are generally entitled to objection and we ensure that we will take all the necessary measures, without needing to know what the particular circumstances of yours are.

In case you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an email to Rodrigo.Alas@TANK4SWAP.com

  1. More information

In accordance with Art. 13, Para. 2 lit. e of the GDPR, we would like to call your attention to the following:

You are neither by law, nor due to contractual conditions are obligated to submit your personal information to us. In other words, not transferring your personal data will in no way lead to complications.

In accordance with Art. 13, Para. 2 lit. f of the GDPR, your personal data is not processed for the purposes of automated decision-making.

In accordance with Art. 13, Para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, your personal data will not be transferred to a third country or an international organization.

  1. Data security

As you visit our website, the widely applied SSL process (Secure Socket Layer) is used together with the highest level of encryption which is supported by the browser you use. Generally, this refers to a 256-Bit encryption. 128-Bit v3 technology will be used in case 256-Bit encryption is not supported by your browser. The appearance of a key or lock symbol on your browser’s lower status bar, will show whether a specific website representing our internet presence is encrypted or not.

Furthermore, we take corresponding technical and organizational measures, to make sure your data is protected from accidental or deliberate misuse, partial or total loss, damage or unauthorized access by third parties. We make a point of improving our security measures to keep up with latest technological developments.

  1. Validity and amendments to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is valid currently and is present from 04.11.2021.

It might be necessary to make amendments to this Privacy Policy owing to the development to our website and offerings, and due to alterations in statutory or regulatory necessities. You can access or print the current version of the Privacy Policy on our website at TANK4SWAP Privacy Policy, at all times.