Support, Privacy & Terms
Support & Legal
Privacy conditions, terms of service and data handling
Questions about the service, billing or your account: support@chempac.uk. Questions about personal data, retention or erasure: privacy@chempac.uk. This page is maintained by the operator of CHEMPAC Inventory System and is not an independent audit, certification or legal advice.
Zero-Knowledge Encryption
How inventory records are protected
Inventory records — establishment identity, contacts and the full substance register — are encrypted inside your browser before they reach our servers. The encryption key is derived from your vault passphrase with PBKDF2-SHA256 (600 000 iterations) and the record is sealed with AES-256-GCM. The passphrase and the derived key are never transmitted, logged or stored.
As a result, we store ciphertext only. Nobody operating this service, and nobody with access to the underlying database or its backups, can read your record contents. Only billing and routing metadata stays readable: record identifier, region, reporting year, substance count, tier and payment status.
There is no key escrow and no recovery path. If you lose your vault passphrase, your stored records become permanently unreadable. Keep it in a password manager or a controlled document register, and export finished reports to your own document control system.
Privacy Conditions
What we process, why, and for how long
1. Who we are
CHEMPAC Inventory System operates this service and acts as data controller for account and billing data. For encrypted inventory content we act as a processor of data we cannot read.
2. What we process
Account data: email address, optional name and company, authentication timestamps. Billing data: tier, amount, currency, payment status and the payment provider's transaction reference. Card details are handled by the payment provider and never reach us.
Inventory records: stored as ciphertext plus the readable metadata listed above. Operational logs: request routes, status codes and timestamps used to run and secure the service.
3. Why we process it
To provide the service you asked for (contract), to take payment (contract), to keep the service secure and prevent abuse (legitimate interests), and to meet accounting obligations (legal obligation).
4. Retention and deletion
Inventory records are kept until you delete them or close your account. Deleting a record destroys its ciphertext. Billing records are retained for the period required by applicable accounting law. Operational logs are short-lived.
5. Your rights
You can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection by writing to privacy@chempac.uk. Because inventory content is encrypted with your key, an access request can only return ciphertext and metadata from our side — the readable copy is produced by you in your browser or by exporting your report.
6. Sub-processors and hosting
We use infrastructure providers for hosting, database storage, transactional email and payment processing. They process the data described above under contract; the inventory content they hold is ciphertext.
7. Cookies
We set only what the service needs: a session cookie to keep you signed in and a preference cookie remembering your regional edition. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies are used.
Terms of Service
The agreement covering your use of this service
1. What the service does
The service formats operator-provided data into a standardised European hazardous substance inventory layout and applies CLP classification and Seveso III Annex I summation logic to that data. It does not submit anything on your behalf.
2. Your responsibilities
You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the data you enter, for verifying every output against ECHA and your national competent authority, and for filing with the authorities that apply to your site. You must hold the rights to any data you upload.
3. No professional advice or certification
Outputs are informational and for internal record-keeping. They are not legal, environmental, safety or regulatory advice, and they are not a certification of compliance.
4. Fees
Report tiers are charged per record at the price shown at checkout. Enterprise access is billed annually. Because a generated report is delivered immediately on payment, fees are non-refundable once the report has been generated, except where required by law.
5. Acceptable use
Do not attempt to break the service's security, access other operators' records, resell access without an Enterprise agreement, or use automated access outside the documented API and its rate limits.
6. Availability
The service is provided on an as-available basis. We may perform maintenance and change features. No uptime guarantee applies unless agreed in writing in an Enterprise contract.
7. Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability is limited to the fees you paid for the record or subscription giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for regulatory penalties, business interruption or indirect loss arising from your use of the outputs. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. Encryption and lost passphrases
You acknowledge the zero-knowledge design described above and accept that a lost vault passphrase makes your stored records permanently unrecoverable, with no liability on our part for that loss.
9. Termination
You may stop using the service and delete your records at any time. We may suspend access for breach of these terms or non-payment.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which the service operator is established. Mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence are unaffected.
Mandatory Legal Notice — ECHA / SEVESO III / REACH
LEGAL NOTICE: CHEMPAC INVENTORY SYSTEM formats operator-provided data into a standardised European hazardous substance inventory layout for informational and internal record-keeping purposes. It does not constitute legal, environmental, or regulatory certification, and it does not file anything on your behalf. Quantities, CLP classifications, and Seveso III (Directive 2012/18/EU) qualifying quantities must be verified against ECHA guidance, Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH), Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP), and the applicable national implementing legislation. The operator is solely responsible for submitting this inventory to its national competent authority.