Compliance & certifications

This page brings together, for our retail clients, professional clients, banking partners and authorities, the compliance elements of AB1 PLUS's activity.

1. Identity and registered activity

Registered activity (English translation)

“Distance selling via specialised catalogue, wholesale, semi-wholesale and retail trade of computer hardware and components, peripherals and software, computer systems and software consultancy, computer programming.”

Registered activity (verbatim French original)

« Vente à distance sur catalogue spécialisé, commerce en gros, semi-gros et au détail de matériel et composant informatique, périphérique et logiciel, conseil en systèmes et logiciels informatiques, programmation informatique. »

All of our activities (retail and distance sale of refurbished equipment, semi-wholesale sale of fleets, buyback and resale of equipment, consultancy and system preparation) fall strictly within this registered corporate purpose.

2. Certified data erasure policy

Principle: no storage medium (hard drive, SSD, eMMC) leaves our workshops or is resold without having undergone secure, certified erasure.

• Method: erasure by complete overwriting according to current standards (multiple passes), with post-erasure verification.
• Certificate: a certificate of erasure is drawn up per device (serial number, method, date, result) and provided to the client — notably in the context of fleet buyback and ITAD.
• Non-reusable media: physical destruction with attestation of destruction.
• Obligations: this policy meets the requirements of the GDPR and the data security obligations of our professional clients.

3. Environmental compliance — DEEE / WEEE

As an operator in the waste electrical and electronic equipment (DEEE, European WEEE directive 2012/19/EU) channel, AB1 PLUS :

• favours reuse and refurbishment before any recycling ;
• directs non-recoverable equipment to approved collection and treatment channels ;
• keeps a traceability register (intake, reuse, recycling) and provides treatment attestations on request.

4. CE marking and product documentation

Refurbished equipment retains its conformity to the original manufacturer's CE marking. During refurbishment, AB1 PLUS verifies the integrity and conformity of the equipment put back into circulation (electrical safety, compliant adapters) and keeps the associated documentation.

5. Legality of software licences on refurbished equipment

The operating systems and software installed on our refurbished devices are provided under a legal, valid licence :

• Preinstalled licences comply with the publisher's conditions and the rules applicable to the resale of second-hand software (European case law).
• Each device is delivered with its activated licence or its documented licence key.
• No counterfeit, cracked or unlicensed software is installed.

6. Trade & consumer compliance

• Distance selling compliant with the French Consumer Code (14-day right of withdrawal, pre-contractual information) — see our consumer terms.
• Professional and ITAD terms — see our Terms Pro.
• Personal data processing compliant with the GDPR — see our privacy policy.
• Identity of the publisher and publication director — see the legal notice.