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Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Policy explains how Ciclonex (“Ciclonex,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and protects the information you provide when you apply for a dealer account, request a quote, or otherwise interact with us. Ciclonex serves businesses, not consumers; the information we handle is primarily business contact and order information.

1. Information we collect

When you submit a dealer application or a request for quote (RFQ), we collect the information you choose to give us, which typically includes:

  • Business name and, where applicable, tax or registration identifiers
  • Contact name and role
  • Email address
  • Phone or WhatsApp number
  • Country and shipping location
  • Order details — products, quantities, and notes you include in a quote or order

Beyond what you send us, the only information gathered automatically is what our web server records in its standard access logs — your IP address, browser type, and the pages requested. These logs exist to keep the site running securely and to diagnose faults; we do not use them to build a profile of you. See Cookies & analytics below, which explains what the site does and does not store in your browser.

Note that our dealer application, contact, and quote forms currently hand your message to WhatsApp or your own email program to send — so those submissions reach us through that channel rather than being stored on this website.

2. How we use your information

We use the information you provide only for legitimate business purposes, including to:

  • Evaluate and approve dealer applications
  • Prepare and send price quotes
  • Process and fulfill orders
  • Provide customer support and respond to your inquiries
  • Send account, order, and service-related communications

3. Legal basis and consent

We process your information based on your consent and on our legitimate interest in operating a wholesale supply business and fulfilling the agreements we have with you. By submitting a form or placing an order, you consent to the processing described in this policy.

Where you give consent, you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us — this does not affect processing already carried out, and we may still need to keep records of completed transactions to meet legal and tax obligations. Most of the information we hold is business contact information given to us in a commercial context rather than personal information about you as an individual.

4. We do not sell your data

Ciclonex does not sell, rent, or trade your business or personal information to third parties for their own marketing.

5. Who we share information with

We share your information only as needed to operate our business and fulfill your orders, for example with:

  • Shipping, freight, and customs partners who deliver your order
  • Payment processors and banks that handle transactions
  • Service providers that host our systems and support our operations
  • WhatsApp (Meta), when you choose to send us a form or message through it — your message passes through WhatsApp under their own privacy policy, not ours
  • Cloudflare, which provides the cookie-free analytics described below and processes the page-view data on our behalf
  • Authorities, when required by law or to protect our legal rights

We ask the partners who handle your information to protect it and to use it only for the purpose we share it.

6. Cookies & analytics

This site sets no cookies at all, and we do not run advertising, tracking, or profiling scripts of any kind. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.

The site stores a few small preferences in your browser’s local storage. These stay on your device, are never transmitted to us, and are not used to identify you:

  • cic_lang — the language you chose (English or Spanish)
  • cic_theme — the colour theme you chose
  • cic_rfq — the list of items you added to your quote request, so it survives a page reload
  • ciclonex_led_lang — the language preference on our Transparent LED pages

You can clear these at any time through your browser’s “clear site data” setting; the site will simply return to its defaults.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see, in aggregate, which pages are visited. It is cookie-free: it sets nothing on your device, does not fingerprint you, does not follow you to other websites, and does not build a profile of you. It records page views and basic technical details such as browser type, referring site and country — never anything that identifies you personally. We use it only to understand which parts of the site are useful.

7. Data retention

We keep your information only as long as needed to provide our services, maintain our business records, and meet legal and tax obligations. When information is no longer needed, we delete or anonymize it.

In practice this means transaction and accounting records are kept for the period required by Panamanian commercial and tax law; dealer account records are kept while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards; enquiries that do not lead to an account are kept only as long as needed to deal with them; and web server access logs are kept for a short period for security and troubleshooting. You can ask us what we hold about you at any time — see Your rights below.

8. Your rights

You may request to access, correct, or delete the information we hold about you. To make a request, contact us at the address below. We may need to verify your identity and the business you represent before acting on a request.

9. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. International transfers

Ciclonex operates from Panama, and our systems and partners may process your information in Panama and in other countries. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions outside your own.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, notify dealers of significant changes.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy or your information? Email us at sourcing@ciclonex.com.