Privacy Policy
KINZ
Version of the 05/09/2023
At KINZ, we attach particular importance to your personal data, because if you entrust them to us, we must take the utmost care of them and, above all, explain to you in a transparent manner how we collect and use them.
This Privacy Policy is addressed to You, as a user or Customer, who accesses the website: https://My-American-Store.com/
The purpose of this document is to inform you of the way in which your personal data may be collected and processed by KINZ.
What is a personal data ?
A "personal data" is any information concerning You and which allows You to be identified directly or indirectly. For example, your first and last name or a photo may allow you to be identified directly. Your email address can identify You indirectly.
What is a processing ?
The word "processing" refers to any operation, or set of operations, concerning personal data, whatever the process used (collection, recording, organization, conservation, adaptation, modification, consultation, use, communication by transmission, dissemination or any other form of provision, reconciliation or interconnection, blocking, deletion or destruction...).
Respect for your privacy and your personal data is a priority for us and we undertake to process your data in strict compliance with The Privacy Act of 1974 (5USC 8552a).
In any case, we are committed to respection the following two essential principes:
- You remain in control of your perdonal data
- Your data is processed in transparent, confidential and secure manner
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUR DATA ?
The company responsible for processiong yor data is KINZ, 25 rue de Ponthieu, Paris 75008, France
More information and our contact details
Legal reminder: The data controller is in the sense of the Data Protection Act, the person who determines the means and purposes of the processing. When two or more data controllers jointly dertemine the purposes and means of the processing they are called join data controllers (or co-controllers). The processor is a person who processes personal data on behalf of the controller and acts under the authority and the instructions of the controller.
KINZ, 25 rue de Ponthieu, Paris 75008 France, with a share capital of $8.13 registered at 894 148 154 R.C.S. Paris with its registered office at 25 rue de Ponthieu, Paris 75008, France.
For any question relating to the management and use of your personal data, you can contact us:
- Either by email, at contact@My-American-Store.com
- Or by post at 25 rue de Ponthieu, Paris 75008 France
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA?
All of your personal data is collected directly from you, either when you place an order on the Site or during exchanges with our services.
In addition, data relating to your navigation on the Site may be used to target your needs and interests and to target our commercial and advertising offers accordingly.
WHY AND ON WHAT BASIS DOES KINZ PROCESS YOUR DATA?
When the legal basis used for the processing operations carried out by KINZ is based on the pursuit of a legitimate interest, the persons concerned have the possibility, on request, of obtaining additional information relating to the balancing of interests.
Your personal data are collected by KINZ to ensure:
- The management and follow-up of your contracts, orders, deliveries and invoices
Legal basis
Contractual, the processing is necessary for the execution of a contract or pre-contractual measures
- To answer your requests for information on our products or on our delivery conditions
More details & legal basis
Legal basis:
-Your consent
- To send you our newsletter and our commercial offers
More details & legal basis
Legal basis:
-Your consent
- To manage and respond to your requests to exercise your "Data Protection" rights
More details & legal basis
Legal basis:
-Legal obligation (RGPD and Loi Informatique & Libertés)
- To ensure the proper functioning and the permanent improvement of our Site and its functionalities More details & legal basis
Legal basis:
-Our legitimate interest in guaranteeing the best level of operation and quality of the site thanks in particular to visit statistics;
-Your consent when it is required.
KINZ will also be authorized to use this data in order to fulfill a legal or regulatory obligation.
In any case, and for each defined purpose, KINZ will do everything in its power to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal data entrusted to them, in compliance with the laws and regulations in force.
WHAT DATA IS PROCESSED?
The compulsory or optional nature of the personal data requested and the possible consequences of a failure to reply to you are specified at the time of their collection.
You can consult the details of the personal data that we are likely to have on you by clicking here: the details of the data:
For the management and follow-up of your contracts, orders, deliveries and invoices
- Name, First name ;
- e-mail address ;
- Telephone number;
- Postal address of delivery;
- Postal address of invoicing;
- Data relating to the means of payment: bank card number, expiry date, cryptogram, bank details.
To answer your requests for information on our products or on our delivery conditions
- First name, last name ;
- e-mail address
To send you our newsletter and commercial offers
- e-mail address
For the management of your requests for exercising your rights to information technology and freedom
- Name, first name,
- e-mail address
To ensure the proper functioning and permanent improvement of our Site and its features
- Data relating to your navigation on our site via Cookies
WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF YOUR DATA?
Within the limits of their respective attributions and for the purposes mentioned above, the main persons who are likely to have access to your data are the following
- The authorized personnel of the various KINZ departments (administrative, accounting, marketing, sales, logistics and IT departments);
- The companies in charge of the management of the Site;
- The companies in charge of the transport of the Products;
- The authorized personnel of our subcontractors (if any) such as banking partners;
- If necessary, the courts concerned, mediators, chartered accountants, auditors, lawyers, bailiffs, collection companies, police or gendarmerie authorities in the event of theft or judicial requisition, rescue;
- Third parties likely to place cookies on your terminals (computers, tablets, cell phones...) when you agree to this. Your data is not communicated, exchanged, sold or rented to any other person than those mentioned above.
HOW LONG DO YOU KEEP YOUR DATA?
We keep your data only as long as is necessary for the purposes described above and summarized in the table below:
For the management and follow-up of your contracts, orders, deliveries and invoices For the entire duration of the relationship and for 3 years from the end of the commercial relationship.
To answer your requests for information on our products or on our delivery conditions
3 years from the end of the commercial relationship Or 3 years from the day of your last contact with KINZ
For sending our newsletter and commercial offers
3 years from the end of the commercial relationship Or 3 years from the day of your last contact with KINZ
For the management of your requests to exercise your rights under the Data Protection Act
1 year in case of exercise of the right of access or rectification 3 years in case of exercise of the right of opposition
To ensure the proper functioning and permanent improvement of our Site and its functionalities
13 months after this period, the raw traffic data associated with an identifier is either deleted or anonymized.
The information collected through cookies and tracers are kept for a period of 25 months. After this period, this data is deleted or anonymized.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
In accordance with the applicable law about the Data Protection, you have the following rights:
- Right of access (i), rectification (ii), update, completeness of your data (read more)
- Right to block or erase your personal data (iii), when they are inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated, or whose collection, use, communication or storage is prohibited (more information)
- Right to withdraw your consent at any time (iv)
- Right to limit the processing of your data (v)
- Right to object to the processing of your data (vi) (read more)
- Right to portability of the data you have provided to us, where your data is subject to automated processing based on your consent or on a contract (vii) - Right to determine what happens to your data after your death and to choose whether or not we disclose your data to a third party that you have designated (more information).
In the event of your death and in the absence of instructions from you, we undertake to destroy your data, unless its retention is necessary for evidential purposes or to meet a legal obligation.
These rights may be exercised by simple request by e-mail to contact@My-American-Store.com or by post to the address: KINZ 25 rue de Ponthieu, Paris 75008, FRANCE
Finally, you can also file a complaint with the supervisory authorities, in particular the CNIL (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes).
WHAT ABOUT CONNECTION DATA AND COOKIES?
KINZ uses connection data on its Site (date, time, Internet address, protocol of the visitor's computer, page consulted) and cookies (small files saved on your computer) to identify you, to memorize your consultations, and to benefit from measures and statistics of the Site's audience, in particular relating to the pages consulted.
You can consent, refuse or choose the type of cookies that you accept to be deposited on your computer terminals.
To find out more
To learn more about cookies (how to manage them, delete them, identify them), you can consult the CNIL website: http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/#c5554
IS YOUR DATA TRANSFERRED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES ?
KINZ processes your data within the United States.
Nevertheless, in view of the nature of its activity, and subject to informing you in advance, KINZ may transfer your data outside the United States. In this case, KINZ will inform you of the measures taken to control this transfer and to ensure compliance.
WHAT SECURITY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT YOUR DATA?
KINZ and its possible subcontractors undertake to implement all technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of our processing of personal data and the confidentiality of your data, in accordance with the Data Protection Act and the GDPR.
In this respect, KINZ takes the necessary precautions, with regard to the nature of your data and the risks presented by our processing, to preserve the security of the data and, in particular, to prevent them from being distorted, damaged or accessed by unauthorized third parties (physical protection of the premises, authentication process for our customers with personal and secure access via confidential identifiers and passwords, logging of connections, encryption of certain data, etc.).