Privacy Policy to meet data protection standards in the USA, Europe (GDPR), Australia, and South Africa (POPIA):
Effective Date: 31 January 2025
Last Updated: 31 January 2025
At Kinetic Energy, your privacy is a priority. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information in compliance with global privacy standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), and Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
By using our website or services, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We collect and process the following types of personal information:
Personal Identifiable Information (PII): Name, email address, phone number, shipping address, and billing information.
Account Information: Username, password, and purchase history.
Payment Information: Credit/debit card details or other payment methods.
Device Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, and usage data.
Communications: Messages, feedback, and queries sent via our website or customer service channels.
Marketing Preferences: Preferences for receiving promotional content.
We use your data to:
Fulfill orders, process payments, and deliver products.
Respond to inquiries and provide customer support.
Personalize your shopping experience.
Send updates, promotions, and newsletters (with your consent).
Improve website functionality and optimize user experience.
Comply with legal obligations or enforce our terms and policies.
Under the GDPR, our legal bases for collecting and using your personal data include:
Consent: When you have given explicit consent (e.g., subscribing to newsletters).
Contractual Necessity: To fulfill a contract with you (e.g., processing orders).
Legal Obligation: To comply with legal requirements.
Legitimate Interests: For business purposes that do not override your privacy rights.
We take data protection seriously. Your personal data is:
Securely Stored: All data is encrypted in transit and at rest using industry-standard protocols.
Access Controlled: Access to your data is restricted to authorized personnel only.
Verified: We verify the accuracy of collected data to maintain its integrity.
Regularly Monitored: Our systems are routinely audited to identify and mitigate risks.
If a data breach occurs, affected users will be notified within the timeframes required by applicable laws.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. However, we may share your data with:
Service Providers: Third-party partners who assist with payment processing, shipping, or marketing.
Legal Authorities: When required by law or in response to valid legal requests.
Business Transfers: In case of mergers, acquisitions, or asset sales.
Your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your jurisdiction. When doing so, we comply with GDPR, POPIA, and other regional requirements by ensuring adequate safeguards are in place. mk
(1) If you contact us by email or via our contact form, the data disclosed by you to us (email address, if necessary, your name and your telephone number) are stored by us to allow us to answer your questions. We erase the data collected in this context after storage is no longer necessary or if processing is restricted, unless legal retention obligations exist. This data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in connection with the consent you have given.
(2) If you buy products via our website or if you open a customer account for the administration of your current or future orders, we collect for this purpose, the data that we need for the performance of the contract. These can be seen in the respective input fields for registration (customer account) or the purchase order form. When you place an order, we need as a minimum, the obligatory data marked with a star (*). We use this data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR to process the contract and to process your inquiries.
(3) Aside from payment by credit card, we also offer other payment methods for the use of our cybershop and for this purpose avail ourselves of various other payment service providers with whom we have signed third-party data processing agreements. We disclose different data to the various payment service providers depending on which payment method you have chosen. The legal basis for the transmission is – depending on the payment provider – Art. 6 (1) (a, b, or f) GDPR (see below).
If you pay for your purchase from us with PayPal, your personal data will be transmitted to PayPal. If you have not yet opened a PayPal account, you will be asked by PayPal to do so in the course of the payment process. When using or opening a PayPal account, you must provide PayPal with, among other data, your name, address, telephone number and email address. The legal basis for the transmission of the data is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
The operator of the PayPal payment service is:
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.
22-24 Boulevard Royal
L-2449 Luxembourg
Email: impressum@paypal.com
When choosing the PayPal payment option, you consent to the disclosure of your personal data such as name, address, telephone number and email address to PayPal. PayPal's privacy policy will indicate what other data will be collected by PayPal. It can be found under: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
When choosing payment via Klarna, your personal data are disclosed to Klarna Bank AB, which is the operator of the Klarna payment service provider. The legal basis for the disclosure of the data is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
Klarna AB can be reached as follows:
Klarna Bank AB (publ)
Sveavägen 46
111 34 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: 0046 8-120 120 00
Fax: 0046 8-120 120 99
Contact: info@klarna.de
Klarna collects the following data while handling the payment of orders in our online shop:
Name, date of birth, title, billing and ship-to-address, email address, cellphone number
Information about the ordered goods and services
Information about income, debts, and payment notices
Location-related information
IP address
Klarna also carries out an identity and creditworthiness check. In this process, the data provided by you for the purchase are compared with the existing data of a credit rating agency. These data are processed based on an explicit consent granted by you, the legal principle being Art. 6 para. 1 clause 1 point (a) GDPR. In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, you may withdraw the granted consent effective for the future at any time and for any reason.
You will find detailed information about the privacy policy of Klarna Bank AB (publ) under https://www.klarna.com/uk/privacy/
The use of one of our Afterpay payment methods is offered to you by:
Arvato Payment Solutions GmbH
Gütersloher Str. 123
33415 Verl
Contact: APS@arvato.com
(hereafter: Afterpay). As data controller under the General Data Protection Regulation within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ('GDPR') it is responsible for the storage and processing of your personal data collected from you in the context of its services as well as for compliance with the applicable rules and regulations.
If you place an order on the website and want to use one of our Afterpay payment methods, or if you wish to contact us in the context of the payment process, Afterpay will collect the following information about you (either directly from you or via us):
Information about the goods and services, such as information about the ordered articles (e.g. the purchase order value, product group, merchandise value, if necessary the source of the inquiry and delivery mode)
Financial information such as your income, any credit obligations, notes about a negative payment history
Historical information such as information about the progress of your order, the payment process and past creditworthiness
Information about the interaction between you and Afterpay, such as the way you used the services, including information about unpaid and current liabilities and your (re-) payment history in case of Afterpay, your personal preferences as well as your interaction with the Afterpay customer service
Information about the interaction between you and us, such as your communications with us, e.g. whether the goods were delivered
IP address
Device information ('User Agent')
Afterpay also might carry out an identity and creditworthiness check. In this process, the data provided by you for the purchase are compared with the existing data of a credit rating agency. These data are processed based on an explicit consent granted by you, the legal principle being Art. 6 para. 1 clause 1 point (a) GDPR. In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, you may withdraw the granted consent effective for the future at any time and for any reason.
You will find detailed information about the privacy policy of Afterpay under: https://documents.myafterpay.com/privacy-statement/en_se/
If you use the payment processing by our payment service provider
Clearpay Finance Limited
22 Long Acre
London, UK
WC2E 9LY
(hereafter: Clearpay), Clearpay will process the following personal data:
Contact information such as name, address, telephone number, email, and other similar information.
Payment information such as credit card numbers linked to your Clearpay account or transmitted by you to Clearpay.
Other personal information such as date of birth, driver's license number or other identification information or documents.
Clearpay also might carry out an identity and creditworthiness check. In this process, the data provided by you for the purchase are compared with the existing data of a credit rating agency. These data are processed based on an explicit consent granted by you, the legal principle being Art. 6 para. 1 clause 1 point (a) GDPR. In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, you may withdraw the granted consent effective for the future at any time and for any reason.
You will find detailed information about the privacy policy of Clearpay under: https://www.clearpay.co.uk/en-GB/privacy-policy
On our website, we offer payment via Stripe and the associated payment methods. The provider of this payment service is
Stripe Payments Europe Ltd
The One Building
Lower Grand Canal St
Dublin 2
Ireland
Contact: support@stripe.com
(hereafter: Stripe).
If you choose payment via Stripe, the payment data entered by you are disclosed to Stripe. The disclosure of your data to Stripe takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract). You have the option to withdraw your consent to the data processing at any time. A withdrawal does not affect the validity of past data processing operations. All data necessary for payment processing will be used exclusively for the execution of the payments and transmitted following 'SSL' procedures.
Stripe also might carry out an identity and creditworthiness check. In this process, the data provided by you for the purchase are compared with the existing data of a credit rating agency. These data are processed based on an explicit consent granted by you, the legal principle being Art. 6 para. 1 clause 1 point (a) GDPR. In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR you may withdraw the granted consent effective for the future at any time and for any reason.
Detailed information on Stripe's privacy policy can be found here: https://stripe.com/en-gb-at/privacy
(5) We will also disclose your contact data to the responsible shipper if this is necessary for processing your order (here: delivery of the goods).
(6) Based on the rules and regulations of commercial and fiscal law, we are obligated to store your address as well as your payment and order data for the duration of ten years. However, we restrict processing after two years, i.e. your data will be used only in order to comply with legal obligations. Your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR.
Depending on your location, you have specific rights regarding your personal data:
For EU Residents (GDPR)
Right to Access: Request a copy of your personal data.
Right to Rectification: Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your data (“Right to be Forgotten”).
Right to Restrict Processing: Limit how your data is processed.
Right to Data Portability: Receive your data in a portable format.
Right to Object: Object to data processing for marketing purposes.
For California Residents (CCPA)
Right to Know: Request details about data collected, shared, and its purposes.
Right to Delete: Request the deletion of personal information.
Right to Opt-Out: Opt-out of the sale of personal information.
For South African Residents (POPIA)
Right to Access: Request information about personal data held and processed.
Right to Correction or Deletion: Correct or delete inaccurate, irrelevant, or excessive data.
Right to Object: Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
For Australian Residents (APPs)
Access and Correction: Access and correct your personal data upon request.
Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Request to remain anonymous where possible.
Exercising Your Rights:
To exercise your rights, please contact us at kinetic-energy-fitness@protonmail.com. We may verify your identity before processing your request.
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Remember your preferences.
Analyze website performance.
Deliver targeted advertisements.
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We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law. Once data is no longer needed, it is securely deleted or anonymized.
Our website is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we discover such data, it will be promptly deleted.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal obligations. Updates will be posted on this page, and we recommend reviewing it periodically.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please reach out to us:
Email: kinetic-energy-fitness@protonmail.com
Mailing Address: Surinamestraat 38-1, 1058GK, Amsterdam, Noor-Holland, Netherland.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and appreciate your trust in Kinetic Energy. This Privacy Policy ensures compliance with major privacy laws.
Thank you for trusting Kinetic Energy with your personal information. We are committed to ensuring your privacy and security.
