This Privacy Policy describes how
your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit
or make a purchase from https://carculture-store.com (the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When
you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about
your device, including information about your web browser, IP address,
time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the
individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search
terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact
with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as
“Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer
and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information
about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit
http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Additional information about the cookie usage on this website is provided in the next chapter.
- “Log files” track actions
occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address,
browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and
date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally
when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the
Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name,
billing address, shipping address, payment information (not including credit
card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this
information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal
Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device
Information and Order Information.
COOKIE USAGE AND PRIVACY POLICY
This website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, provide personalized content, and analyze site traffic. By using our site, you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.
How We Use Cookies
Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our website and see how visitors move around when using it. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (such as your choice of language or region).
Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Managing Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.
Your Consent
By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Usage and Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Policy
We may update our Cookie Usage and Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Usage and Privacy Policy, please contact us.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We
use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any
orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment
information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices
and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order
Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud and
when
in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with
information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We
use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for
potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more
generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating
analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and
to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We
share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your
Personal Information, as described above. We also use Google Analytics
to help us understand how our customers use the Site - you can read more
about how Google uses your Personal Information here:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out
of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally,
we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable
laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other
lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our
rights.
BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
As
described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with
targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of
interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising
works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”)
educational page at
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
Google - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally,
you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital
Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
DO NOT TRACK
Please
note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices
when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
If
you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal
information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information
be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this
right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally,
if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your
information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for
example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue
our legitimate business interests listed above.
DATA RETENTION
When
you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order
Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this
information.
CHANGES
We may
update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for
example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or
regulatory reasons.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We ensure that all administrative, technical, and physical measures are taken to protect your personal data from accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized processing, destruction, loss, access, disclosure, or use.
DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION FOR NEWSLETTER DATA
If
you would like to receive the newsletter offered on this website, we
need an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to
verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that
you agree to receive the newsletter . Further data is not collected. We
use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do
not pass it on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent to
the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending
the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in
the newsletter.
CONTACT US
For
more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or
if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at
sales@carculture-store.com