Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 10, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how AdSea Innovations S.L. (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from www.thomaseccel.com (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.


 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.


 

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, to provide or improve the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.


 

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information", we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you.

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Contact details including your name, phone number, and email address.
  • Order information including your name, billing address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
  • Account information including your username, password, security questions and other information used for account security purposes.
  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.
  • Newsletter subscription information including your email address and any preferences you indicate when subscribing.

Please note that thomaseccel.com sells exclusively digital products. We do not collect physical shipping addresses and do not offer physical goods, shipping, or physical returns.


Information We Collect about Your Usage

We may automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.


Information We Obtain from Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as companies who support our Site and Services (including Shopify) and our payment processors, who collect payment information to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested.

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. GA4 collects data via cookies and similar technologies to track user interactions, such as page views, events, clicks, and session durations. It may also collect approximate location data, browser type, and device identifiers. In the EEA, GA4 is configured to anonymize IP addresses and respects your cookie consent settings. GA4 is only activated with your prior consent via our cookie banner. You can also opt out by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy.


 

How We Use Your Personal Information

Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to your account and purchases, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, and other features and functionalities related to your account. The legal basis is the performance of a contract with you pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Email Marketing and Newsletter. We send marketing communications, including our paid newsletter, only to users who have given their explicit prior consent. The legal basis for these activities is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or contacting us directly. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. The legal basis for these activities is our legitimate interest in keeping our website secure, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Communicating with You and Service Improvement. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship with you, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Compliance with Legal Obligations. We may process your personal information where necessary to comply with applicable legal obligations, including tax and accounting obligations. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.


Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Specifically:

  • Order and transaction data is retained for 10 years from the date of the transaction in order to comply with Spanish and EU tax and accounting obligations (Ley 58/2003 General Tributaria).
  • Account data is retained for the duration of your account and for 2 years following closure or deletion of the account.
  • Marketing and newsletter data is retained until you withdraw your consent or unsubscribe, whichever occurs first.
  • Customer support communications are retained for 3 years from the date of the last interaction.
  • Cookie and analytics data is retained in accordance with the individual retention periods disclosed in our Cookies section below and in our cookie banner.


 

Third-Party Processors

We share your personal information with the following categories of third-party data processors who act on our behalf. Each processor is bound by appropriate contractual data protection obligations.

Processor Purpose Data Shared Privacy Policy
Shopify Inc. E-commerce platform and store infrastructure Name, email, billing address, order data, account data shopify.com/legal/privacy
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. Payment processing Name, email, billing address, payment details paypal.com
Mollie B.V. Payment processing Name, email, billing address, payment details mollie.com/en/privacy
Cookiebot / Cybot A/S Cookie consent management IP address (anonymized), cookie consent preferences cookiebot.com
MailerLite Email marketing and newsletter delivery Email address, name, subscription preferences mailerlite.com
Google LLC Analytics (GA4) and advertising (Google Ads) Usage data, IP address (anonymized), device information policies.google.com/privacy


 

Cookies

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. They help us provide a better browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and deliver personalized content.

We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services, to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services. We may also permit third-party service providers to use Cookies on our Site.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services to work incorrectly or no longer be available.

Our website recognizes the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If you notify us of your preference through GPC, we will treat such signal as a valid request to opt out of sharing and targeted advertising for the associated browser or device.

2. Categories of Cookies We Use

A. Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary)
These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They cannot be disabled.

  • CookieConsent — Stores user consent preferences.
  • cart_currency — Saves the user's selected currency for transactions.
  • localization — Identifies the user's location for localizing store settings.
  • secure_customer_sig — Maintains login security for customer accounts.
  • shopify_pay_redirect — Used in connection with payment processing.
  • keep_alive — Ensures the session remains active for users browsing the site.

B. Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us track visitor behavior and improve website performance. They are only set with your prior consent.

  • _shopify_s, _shopify_y, _shopify_sa_p, _shopify_sa_t — Shopify analytics and session tracking.
  • _landing_page, _orig_referrer — Tracks visitor navigation and referrer sources.
  • _ga — Google Analytics 4, used to distinguish users.
  • _ga_<container-id> — Google Analytics 4, used to persist session state.

C. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
These cookies help us deliver targeted advertising and measure campaign effectiveness. They are only set with your prior consent.

  • _gcl_au — Google Ads conversion tracking.
  • test_cookie — A DoubleClick cookie that checks if the user's browser supports cookies.

Users in the EEA and UK will be presented with a cookie consent banner where they can accept or manage cookie preferences before non-essential cookies are set. Non-essential cookies, including those used for Google Analytics 4 and marketing purposes, will only be set after you provide consent via our cookie banner.

3. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage or disable cookies via our cookie banner or through your browser settings. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for website functionality.


How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for contract fulfillment purposes, legitimate purposes and other reasons subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (including IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, and cloud storage) as listed in the Third-Party Processors section above.
  • With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you, where you have given consent.
  • When you direct, request us, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your consent or for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.


User Generated Content

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available.


 

Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.


 

Children's Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.


 

Data Protection Officer

AdSea Innovations S.L. has assessed its data processing activities in accordance with Article 37 of the GDPR. Based on the nature, scope, context, and purposes of our processing, we are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer. For any data protection queries, please contact us directly using the details in the Contact section below.


 

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee perfect security. In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us. Retention periods are described in the Data Retention section above.


 

VAT Number Responsibility and Liability

If you enter a VAT number during checkout, you are solely responsible for ensuring its accuracy. thomaseccel.com does not verify the correctness of VAT numbers entered by customers. If a customer claims VAT exemption, it is their responsibility to provide both a valid company name and a valid VAT number. thomaseccel.com is not liable for any incorrect VAT charges, tax reclaims, or issues arising from invalid VAT numbers. We reserve the right to request additional documentation or deny VAT exemption if the provided information is incomplete or incorrect.


 

Your Rights

If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Spain, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

  • Right to Access / Know: You may request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
  • Right to Delete: You may request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Correct: You may request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right of Portability: You may receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You may ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
  • Right to Object: Where we rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal.
  • Managing Communication Preferences: You may opt out of receiving marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails about your account or orders.

You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required under applicable law (generally within one month). We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.


 

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Users in Spain can file complaints with the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) at www.aepd.es.

A list of EEA data protection supervisory authorities is available at edpb.europa.eu.


 

International Users

We may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in. If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.


 

Legal Information (Spain — LSSICE)

In compliance with Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE), the following business information is provided:

  • Legal Full Name: AdSea Innovations S.L.
  • VAT Number (NIF/CIF): B23945652
  • Registered Address: Calle La Paz 9BJ, 46114, Vinalesa (Valencia), Spain
  • Email: contact@thomaseccel.com


 

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact us:

AdSea Innovations S.L.
Calle La Paz 9BJ, 46114, Vinalesa (Valencia), Spain
Email: contact@thomaseccel.com

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, and if not explicitly stated otherwise, we are the data controller of your personal information.