Privacy Policy
motogear.am is not open yet. Right now this site does one thing: it collects the email addresses of people who want to hear when the catalog launches. This policy covers only that. When the catalog opens, we will publish a new policy, and we will not use your address for anything new without asking you first.
Who is responsible for your data
Georgii Timchenko, a private individual who runs motogear.am.
Contact address: privacy@motogear.am
We are the “processor of personal data” under Armenian law (in EU terms, the “controller”). “We” in this policy means Georgii Timchenko.
To contact us about your data, use the form at motogear.am/en/privacy/request/. We do not use email for this. See “Your rights” below.
What we keep
When you sign up, we keep:
- your email address;
- the language of the page (English, Russian or Armenian);
- the date and time you ticked the box;
- the version of the consent text you agreed to.
That's all. We don't ask for your name, we don't store your IP address, and we don't use cookies, analytics or anyone else's scripts on this site.
To stop spam, our server briefly remembers a scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address in memory. It is never written to disk or to logs, it is not linked to your email, and it disappears within 24 hours. Our server logs don't record IP addresses.
Why we keep it
To send you one email when the motogear.am catalog launches. Nothing before that, no newsletter, no ads. In that email we will ask whether you want to hear from us again. If you don't say yes, we delete your address.
The only other reason we would ever write to you is if your data leaked from our systems, because the law requires us to warn people in that case.
We don't make any automated decisions about you.
Legal basis
Your consent, given by ticking the box under the form (Article 9 of the Armenian Law “On Protection of Personal Data”; for visitors from the EU, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Signing up is voluntary. If you don't sign up, the only difference is that we can't tell you about the launch.
You must be 16 or older to sign up. If you are younger, please don't use the form. If we learn that someone under 16 has signed up, we delete the address.
Who else handles it
Nobody gets your address for their own use. We don't sell it or share it with shops, brands or advertisers.
- Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) runs our servers and stores our encrypted backups, in data centres in Finland and Germany. It processes data only on our instructions.
- For the launch email only, we will use an email delivery service based in the EU. We will name it on this page before that email is sent.
Our domain's DNS is run by DigitalOcean. DNS only points browsers to our server; it never receives anything you type on this site.
We may have to disclose data if Armenian law requires it, for example at a lawful request from a court.
Where it is stored
In the European Union. Finland and Germany are on the official Armenian list of countries that protect personal data adequately, so storing it there needs no special permission.
How long we keep it
- Until 60 days after the launch email, unless you tell us in reply that you want to hear more.
- If the catalog hasn't launched within 24 months of your sign-up, we delete your address without writing to you.
- When you ask us to delete it, we delete it straight away.
Encrypted backups are kept for up to 12 months and are used only to restore the site after a failure. To make sure a deleted address doesn't come back from a backup, we keep a one-way scrambled code (hash) of it, from which the address can't be read back. We keep that code for 12 months and use it only to delete the address again if we ever restore a backup.
Your rights
You can, for free:
- ask whether we hold your data and what it is;
- have it corrected or deleted;
- withdraw your consent at any time. This doesn't make what we did before unlawful; afterwards we delete your address and nothing else happens;
- complain to the Personal Data Protection Agency of Armenia (pdpa.am) or go to court. If you live in the EU, you can also complain to the data protection authority in your country.
How: use the form at motogear.am/en/privacy/request/.
- To delete your address, enter it and press “Delete”. It is deleted at once, and this also withdraws your consent. We don't send a confirmation email. The page shows the same answer whether or not the address was on our list, so nobody else can use the form to find out whether you signed up.
- For anything else (a question, a copy of your data, a correction), describe your request in the form. We answer within 5 days, and only to the email address the request is about, so your data doesn't go to anyone else.
We keep the request itself for 12 months after we answer it, to show that we handled it, and then delete it. For a deletion we keep only the date, not your address.
Security
The site uses HTTPS only. Backups are encrypted. Only the operator has access to the list, and signing in requires two-factor authentication.
If personal data ever leaks from our systems, we will publish a notice on this site and report it to the Police of the Republic of Armenia and to the Personal Data Protection Agency, as Armenian law requires. We will also tell the people affected.
Changes
Each version of this policy has a date, and earlier versions stay available at the link at the top. If we want to use your data for anything new, we will ask for your consent first.
Languages
This policy is written in English and translated into Russian and Armenian. If the versions differ, we will follow whichever one is more favourable to you.