Privacy Policy for whizcut.com
Effective Date: 17 June 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how WhizCut ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit our website, whizcut.com, and use our services. We are committed to ensuring your privacy is protected and your personal data is handled in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Swedish data protection laws.
1. Data Controller
The data controller for the personal data processed on this website is:
WhizCut AB
Rundgången 12C
254 52 Helsingborg
Sweden
556540-5270
Email: privacy@whizcut.com
2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why
We collect different types of personal information for various purposes to provide and improve our services to you.
a) Website Tracking with Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our website. This helps us to improve our website and provide a better user experience. Google Analytics collects information such as:
- Your IP address (in an anonymized form)
- The pages you visit on our site
- The time and date of your visit
- The time you spend on each page
- The type of browser and operating system you use
- The website you came from before visiting ours
Legal Basis for Processing: We process this data based on your explicit consent, which you can provide or withdraw at any time through our website's cookie banner.
b) Email Newsletter Sign-up:
When you sign up for our email newsletter, we collect:
- Your email address
- Your country
Legal Basis for Processing: We collect this information based on your explicit consent to receive marketing communications from us. You can withdraw this consent at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any of our newsletters.
c) Contact Forms:
When you contact us through a form on our website, we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your phone number
- The company you work for
- Your message
Legal Basis for Processing: We process this information based on our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiries and providing you with the information you have requested.
d) Preliminary Order Forms:
When you make a preliminary order through our website, we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your phone number
- Your shipping and billing address
- Information about the products you are interested in
Legal Basis for Processing: We process this data for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. This information is necessary for us to process your preliminary order and contact you regarding it.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
Your personal data is used for the following purposes:
- To operate and maintain our website: Ensuring the security and functionality of our site.
- To improve our website: Analyzing user behavior to enhance our services and user experience.
- To send you marketing communications: Providing you with our newsletter and other promotional materials, if you have consented to this.
- To respond to your inquiries: Answering your questions and providing customer support.
- To process your orders: Fulfilling your requests for products and services.
4. Data Sharing and Transfers
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties, except in the following cases:
- Google Analytics: As mentioned, we use Google Analytics for website tracking. Google may transfer this data to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Due to the use of Google's services, your data may be transferred outside of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). We have taken steps to ensure that your data is protected by implementing Standard Contractual Clauses as a safeguard for such transfers.
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential and comply with GDPR.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
- Google Analytics Data: Retained in an aggregated and anonymized form.
- Newsletter Subscription Data: Retained for as long as you remain subscribed to our newsletter.
- Contact Form Data: Retained for a reasonable period to address your inquiry.
- Preliminary Order Data: Retained in accordance with our legal and contractual obligations.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. -
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where WhizCut relied on your consent to process your personal information.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Your Privacy Contact Email Address].
7. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. For more detailed information on the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
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8. Security of Your Data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
10. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
WhizCut AB
Rundgången 12C
254 52 Helsingborg
Sweden
556540-5270
Email: privacy@whizcut.com
11. Right to Complain
If you are not satisfied with our response to your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten - IMY), which is the Swedish supervisory authority for data protection issues.
Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten
Box 8114
104 20 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: imy@imy.se
Phone: +46 (0)8 657 61 00