Here at store.minisforum.com (referred to as "we," "us," "our," or "MINISFORUM," the "Site"), we are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of your personal information; we also comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Privacy Policy explains how your information is collected, used, transferred, and shared by MINISFORUM. It applies to information collected when you use our websites; when you interact with us via social media, email, or telephone; or when you participate in our competitions or events.
Privacy Policy-EU
Our commitment to you
What information do we collect?
By visiting our website to complete registration, ordering and notification, we collect and store information for legal use, including but not limited to:
a. Email address, including email address provided through approved affiliated third parties.
b. Shipping and billing address(es), including name, address line, telephone number.
c. Specific information on payment verification and customs matters.
d. Technical data, including IP address, date and time, browser and operating system, the URL you requested, etc.
We also protect any personal information collected from you offline, such as through telephone calls.
How do we secure your data?
We have taken appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures to protect your data from accidental loss, use, or unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
Communication between your browser and our website, wherever your personal data is involved, occurs over a secure encrypted connection. We encrypt your data and store it on secure servers hidden behind a firewall.
We require any third party that processes your personal data on our behalf to implement security measures to protect your data and to treat this data in accordance with the law.
In the unfortunate event of a personal data breach, we will notify you and any applicable supervisory authority if we are legally required to do so.
What is the purpose of collecting information?
We will only collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
a. Complete your order(s),
b. Provide you with a better shopping experience,
c. Improve our services,
d. Comply with our legal obligations.
Your rights regarding your personal data:
You have several rights under data protection law. This includes, under certain circumstances, the right to:
a. Request access to your personal data,
b. Request rectification of your personal data,
c. Request erasure of your personal data,
d. Request restriction of processing of your personal data,
e. Request portability of your personal data,
f. Object to processing of your personal data,
g. Object to automated decision-making,
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or have any questions, comments, or requests for further information, please email us at INFO@MINISFORUM.com.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If there are material changes, we will post updates on our website, in the applications, or notify you via email.
Will Minisforum share your data?
We do not sell, rent, trade, license, or otherwise disclose your personal or financial information to third parties, except in the following specific situations:
1. Third-party service providers: Like most online retailers, we sometimes use third-party service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf. Any information disclosed to them is solely for the purpose of providing their services. For example, we share your name, shipping address, and phone number with partners like DHL to guarantee the delivery of your orders, and we may use relevant customer information to monitor the quality of the third-party service provider.
2. Legal Obligation to Disclose Information: We may be required to disclose information if we are subpoenaed, served with a court order, requested by law enforcement officials conducting an investigation, or otherwise required by law to disclose such information. We will also release personal information when necessary to protect our legal rights or enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements. For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or prevent fraud by users attempting fraud or other illegal activities on our website.
3.Merger and/or Sale of Assets: We do not normally sell, trade, or lease personal information to other companies as part of our business operations. However, it is possible that we might acquire, merge, or be acquired by another company, or that we might sell some or all of our assets. In this case, your personal information could be transferred to another company in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect.
4. Non-Personally Identifiable Information: We may share information that does not identify you or a user, such as the number of daily visitors to a particular page or the size of an order placed on a particular date, with third parties such as advertising partners.
About cookies
a. We use "cookies" to store specific information about you and to track your visits to the website, whether via a computer or mobile device. It is not uncommon for websites to use cookies to enhance the identification of their visitors.
b. A "cookie" is a small amount of data sent to your browser and stored on your computer's or mobile device's hard drive. Unless you disable or delete the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Site, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Site, and we, in turn, may be aware of your visit and your usage pattern. Cookies allow us to remember your information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you use the Site.
c. We also use cookies to manage the security of our website; to collect information about user usage; to study visit patterns and deliver interest-based advertising; to help our partners track user visits to the website and process orders; and to track progress and participation in promotions.
d. For these additional purposes listed above, you can determine whether and how a cookie is accepted by configuring the privacy settings of the browser you use to access the Site or the privacy settings of your mobile device. If you adjust the privacy settings in the browser, your mobile device will continue to collect data unless you adjust the device's privacy settings, and vice versa.
e. Certain features of the website depend on cookies. Please note that if you block cookies, you may not be able to log in or use these features, and you may lose settings that depend on cookies.
f. We use a variety of analytics and targeted advertising tools to show you relevant website content on our website and online advertising on other websites and apps (as described above), to provide you with relevant content in marketing communications (where applicable), and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising provided. For example, we use tools such as Google Analytics to analyze interest-based advertising data from Google and/or third-party audience data (such as age, marital status, life event, gender, and interests) to better target our marketing campaigns and improve strategies and website content. We may also use tools provided by other third parties, such as Facebook.
g. Our website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates, or to social media platforms. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please review these policies before submitting any personal information to their websites.