Privacy

Store Lantern (“we”, “us”) is a sole-trader business registered in the Netherlands. We are the controller of the personal data described here.

Store Lantern, Torenlaan 5, 1402 AT Bussum, The Netherlands, KvK 88291308. Email: hello@storelantern.com.

What this website itself collects

This website does not use advertising cookies, analytics scripts or other third-party trackers. We do not run a marketing pixel here. The server that hosts the site may keep ordinary technical logs (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for security and to keep the site running. Those logs are not used to profile you for advertising.

The contact form and email

If you use the contact form, we receive the name, email address and message you send, and any optional details such as your business name, city or current website. The form is set up to be processed by Netlify Forms (Netlify, Inc., United States). Netlify handles the submission on our behalf as a processor.

If you email hello@storelantern.com, we receive whatever you include in that message, and we keep the correspondence so we can reply and, if we work together, carry out the work.

We use this information to answer you, to prepare or send a preview and an offer, to perform a contract if you accept, and to keep basic business records. The legal bases under the GDPR are, as the case may be: taking steps at your request before a contract, performing a contract, our legitimate interest in running and documenting a small business, and any legal duty to retain records.

If we contact a business first

We sometimes write to a local business because its public website is missing or hard to use. In that case we use contact details the business has already made public, and we write about a website preview for that business. You can ask us to stop and we will. We do not buy or sell marketing lists.

Where data is processed

We are based in the Netherlands. Some tools we use, including Netlify for this form, may process data in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area. Where that happens we rely on an appropriate transfer tool, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, as provided by that supplier.

How long we keep it

Enquiries that do not lead to work are kept only as long as we need them to finish the conversation and for a short period afterwards, unless the law requires longer. If we do work for you, we keep the records needed to deliver the project, to invoice, and to meet bookkeeping and legal duties in the Netherlands.

Your rights

If the GDPR applies to you, you may ask us to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to certain processing, and, where applicable, to receive your data in a portable form. You can write to us at the email above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in the Netherlands, or with your local supervisory authority in the EU.

Children

This site and our services are meant for businesses, not for children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update this page and the date above.