Data controller
[REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY] trading as A&K Customs, Old Kilmainham Road, Dublin 8, D08 WC2X, Ireland, akautomotivegrowth@gmail.com.
What we collect
- Contact and delivery details you give us (name, email, phone, address).
- Vehicle details you choose to provide for fitment checks.
- Order history and correspondence.
- Technical data needed to run the website (essential browser storage for your cart, chosen product options and cookie choices). This stays on your device.
- Staff accounts: email address and sign in details of A&K Customs staff who manage the store.
- Optional customer accounts: your email address, password (stored encrypted, we cannot see it), name, phone number, saved delivery addresses and your marketing choice. If you sign in with Google, we receive your email address and name from Google. You can check out as a guest without an account.
We do not store payment card details on this website. Payments will be processed by [PAYMENT PROVIDER].
Why we use it and lawful basis
- Processing and delivering orders: [LAWFUL BASIS TO BE CONFIRMED, e.g. contract].
- Answering enquiries and fitment questions: [LAWFUL BASIS TO BE CONFIRMED].
- Meeting accounting and tax obligations: [LAWFUL BASIS TO BE CONFIRMED].
- Customer accounts and saved addresses: contract (providing the account you ask for). You can delete your account at any time.
- Marketing emails: only with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time in your account.
- Optional analytics/marketing: only with your consent, if used.
Who receives your data
- Payments: [PAYMENT PROVIDER]
- Hosting and database: Lovable Cloud (website, product catalogue, staff and customer accounts, saved addresses). [CONFIRM HOSTING REGION AND DATA PROCESSING AGREEMENT]
- Product images: photos for our Carbon Performance Collection are copied to and served from our own hosting, so viewing them shares nothing with the supplier. In addition, some product photos are currently loaded from our supplier's image servers (Alibaba Cloud CDN). When you view them, your browser sends your IP address and basic device information to that provider, which may be outside the EEA. [TO BE REMOVED BEFORE LAUNCH: images will be moved to our own hosting.]
- Delivery: [DELIVERY PROVIDERS]
- Google: only if you choose "Continue with Google" to sign in.
- Email: [EMAIL PROVIDER]
- Analytics: [NONE CURRENTLY / PROVIDER]
International transfers
Product images loaded from our supplier's image servers may involve a transfer of your IP address outside the EEA, including to China. [DESCRIBE SAFEGUARDS, or confirm images are moved to EEA hosting before launch.] [DESCRIBE ANY OTHER TRANSFERS AND SAFEGUARDS, e.g. adequacy decisions or Standard Contractual Clauses]
Supplier information
We do not share your personal data with our product suppliers unless needed to fulfil your order, and only the minimum required. [CONFIRM ORDER FULFILMENT PROCESS]
Retention
[RETENTION PERIODS OR CRITERIA TO BE CONFIRMED]
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, to restrict processing, to data portability where applicable, to object to processing, and to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. Contact us at akautomotivegrowth@gmail.com to exercise these rights. If you have an account, you can also download your data or delete your account yourself from the My account page.
Complaints
You have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission (Ireland) at www.dataprotection.ie.